Today on Facebook I ran across an encouraging anecdote / testimonial from GenCon. The author is Rusty Zimmerman, who's freelanced for Catalyst Game Labs (which features in the story), among other RPG-related activities. Here's the pull quote, insofar as the piece relates to us:
-- It's just a little swag. It's just a small thing. It's just a few more boxes of GenCon loot going home with four happy geeks, but it -- no joke -- it almost chokes me up. Thinking about how far the hobby has come that we've got teachers doing afterschool programs, thinking about how far from Satanic Panic we've gotten that a rural community will all pitch in to send two of their kids off to a gaming convention, and thinking about how small and tightknit the gaming community still is, even amidst the corporate displays and ad banners and professionalism of GenCon, that we could hook these guys up with some swag (what little swag they were certain would fit in their overpacked car).
I love this hobby. I love how time has changed it, smoothed over the rough edges, normalized it. I love how many female gamers I saw, how many rainbow ribbons I saw on badges, how many "gaymer" tshirts I saw. I love that a major US city gets turned into a geek mecca for the better part of a week, and that Indianapolis welcomes us back home every year.
(A PDF is attached for archival purposes.)
—Alan
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