by PrairieCon | Apr 11, 2022 | Newsfeed |
Greetings PrairieCon community!
After a long drought, it appears that the 5e D&D Tournament will finally be returning to PrairieCon this year! I wanted to take a moment to detail the format of the tournament. Once again this year, you can register for the tournament as an individual or as a team! Teams should be between four and five players; if you don't have the full five players, then individuals may be added to your team to round out the groups. This means that we will once again have a winning group rather than a winning individual this year! There will be a maximum of four groups for each day.
The tournament will be a two-round (4-slot) affair and include pre-generated characters which you will play in both rounds. We will run the tournament once on Saturday (morning/afternoon) and once on Sunday (morning/afternoon) so that you can have a bit more flexibility when working out your gaming schedules for the weekend - winners will be announced at the conclusion of the Sunday games.
If you have any questions there's a post on the community page where you can ask questions to Perry directly.
by PrairieCon | Apr 3, 2022 | Newsfeed |
Hello PrairieCon Gamemasters!
PrairieCon is on! May 28-29 in Brandon! Get excited!
I am reaching out to ask if you will help make PrairieCon a successful convention once again and run some games!??
How the games submission system will work is... well... still in the works. All I know right now is that it will not be the same as it was in previous years. But, start thinking about what you want to run and start collecting the basic info (titles, description, links, publishers, etc.), this way, you’ll be ready when the submissions open!
No matter the challenges of the past two years, it’s time to game!
Please contact games@prairiecon.com if you are interested in running a game!
We’ll be in touch with you soon with the exact info required and the game submission links.
by PrairieCon | Mar 27, 2022 | Newsfeed |
As many things have changed with the pandemic, so is our venue!
We've had many, many great years at Assiniboine Community College, and we want to thank the administration over there for being such great hosts, but PrairieCon will be moving to the Keystone Centre for this next year.
Most of us in Brandon are very familiar with the Keystone Centre, however, for the out-of-towners, the Keystone is located right on 18th street and is right near hotels and restaurants, making it easier to get your food and rest and get back to gaming that much sooner!
Further details will come out as we get closer to the event, we look forward to seeing you all soon!
by PrairieCon | Mar 15, 2022 | Newsfeed |
That’s right, folks, PrairieCon is ready to return for 2022!
There will be a lot of changes, starting with our date. Please plan your vacation time for May 28th and 29th (we will be going back to a two-day event for this year). We haven’t signed all the contracts and paid all the down-payments, so we can’t announce a whole lot else just yet, but that information will be coming to you soon. Very soon. We are excited about some of the new (and, honestly, maybe a bit terrified of some too), but we have two months to make it work.
Think about that. Two months. Well, two and a half, but in the convention-planning world, it’s a really tight timeline. Be prepared for us to ask you for help because if ever we needed it, we need it this year. Dust off the books and boxes and get ready to game because that part isn't changing: PrairieCon is about a community playing games, and we have missed you these last two years!
Most sincerely,
Your PrairieCon Convention Board of Directors
by PrairieCon | Jan 25, 2022 | Newsfeed |
Hello PrairieCon Family!
We know you are wondering if we will finally be able to get together in June, play all the new games that have come out in the last couple of years, and resurrect some golden oldies (this is not a reference to our older players, although we are pleased to welcome Kevan back as Venue Coordinator on the organizing committee!). We are wondering the same things. Currently, members of the committee are engaged in discussions with two potential venues, so there is hope! However, we are still faced with the reality that we are living in truly unpredictable times. There is nothing more we want than to send out a save-the-date and start ramping up to the most amazing event we have had in at least two years (I hope someone gets that joke), but we are committed to following all public health guidelines in the interest of protecting the health of our community.
Uncertainty sucks. Some of you need to book vacation time well in advance. Some aspects of convention planning should have started already but have had to wait until we know if we have a green light. Some of you may have already given up and planned a trip to some exotic location like Winnipeg. We hear and share your frustration. At the most recent organizing committee meeting, we set March 15th as our deadline for a decision. On March 15th, we will let you know if we are moving ahead with planning an event or if we are going to postpone again.
With that information in mind, please start thinking about games you would like to run! If we are a go, there will be very little time to organize the game schedule, so it will be really, really important for James’ sanity to hear back from our many DMs and GMs of the past (or others who want to try running for the first time) as soon as you can.
On a more personal note, I have been mostly a shut-in for the last couple of years. Gaming is a big part of our community, but I kinda like hearing about the other fun things people have had going on too. I hope others just want to sit around and catch up as much as I do, share cat and/or baby pics, tell the old stories over again (ask me why Perry was nicknamed Perry the Liar for years!), drink too much Mountain Dew, all that stuff. We want to play games with each other again, absolutely, but there is more to our community than just games. I miss you guys!
Alex (on behalf of the PrairieCon organizing committee)
