03-25-2011, 03:27 PM
There really weren't very many PBM conventions. Flying Buffalo runs a convention every year where you can play some of the games they offer. At the peak, you could play Starweb, Illuminati, Battle Plan, and Heroic Fantasy. Of course, going to Arizona in July, I played them all. I focused on Starweb and Illuminati, won quite a few. Battle Plan i was content to be a supporting player since I didn't play it very often. HF i just played for pure fun, never worried about results.
One year in an Illuminati game, I killed a player twice in 30 minutes - first I killed him, then went after another player. Turns out that was his buddy who gave him his position to play so he would have something to do. We got quite a laugh out of it.
We would play from around 10 AM to 9 or 10 PM. The best part of it was seeing people you played with and talked to all the time on the phone. I remember going to the pool and the concrete still being hot from the sun at 10 PM.
The only other convention with any PBM presence I went to was AndCon, run by Andon Games. It was more of a general gaming convention, but had a good sized PBM presence - half a dozen companies attended and ran games. I had several conversations with Gary Smith, and it was what inspired me to create PBMCon.
One year in an Illuminati game, I killed a player twice in 30 minutes - first I killed him, then went after another player. Turns out that was his buddy who gave him his position to play so he would have something to do. We got quite a laugh out of it.
We would play from around 10 AM to 9 or 10 PM. The best part of it was seeing people you played with and talked to all the time on the phone. I remember going to the pool and the concrete still being hot from the sun at 10 PM.
The only other convention with any PBM presence I went to was AndCon, run by Andon Games. It was more of a general gaming convention, but had a good sized PBM presence - half a dozen companies attended and ran games. I had several conversations with Gary Smith, and it was what inspired me to create PBMCon.