The link for Concinnity in the comic is no longer valid. Their current website seems to be http://concinnitycon.weebly.com/, if you’re interested. Maybe I’ll update the link the comic… One of my friends went to MSOE (Milwaukee School of Engineering) and helped run Concinnity at this point of time. I thought I’d help her out by mentioning… Continue reading 0081

Liking games is a good reason to go to a gaming convention, though not required. Back in the day, the ‘coolest’ game was the Pokemon Trading Card Game (which is pretty much a simplified version of Magic). I played a lot of it, so much that me, my husband-to-be, and my friend would have our… Continue reading 0082

Pokemon TCG — the gateway card game. First you start playing Pokemon, then you move onto Magic… and then you never stop playing Magic. (Actually, I never really got into Magic myself, but I did start playing a lot of the World of Warcraft TCG later, so maybe that’s related).

The board game HeroQuest, which is vaguely a dungeon crawl board game, has an action to search for treasure. Usually there isn’t any, which leads to a random card drawn, which usually turns out to be a powerful wandering monster. But that doesn’t stop anyone from constantly searching.

Apparently using a hypnotic wheel makes the background change color. Yes, that’s it… >_>