Saturday, July 01, 2006
2006 Origins Report
Conventions
I took a trip down to Columbus on Friday to wander through Origins and see what’s going on in gaming today. You can see the photos I took in the gallery at:
http://www.miniaturewargaming.com/index.php/gallery/category/C17/
For those of you who don’t know, Origins is held in the very large and modern Columbus Convention Center. The convention is four days long and attracts many thousands of gamers, from role playing gamers, to board gamers, collectable card gamers and, of course, miniatures gamers. Thanks to a games in education initiative by GAM, I got in free with my teacher’s ID. Many booths also were offering teacher freebies and discounts.
Woo Hoo!!
Miniatures games were prominently featured almost from the moment you arrived. Just to the left of the registration booths, legendary miniature wargamer Duke Siegfried had five very large (5 x 20?) table set up to showcase four of his games: Gordon in the Sudan, A Viking Raid, David and Goliath bibicals, Hannibal against Rome and a Lord of the Rings fantasy game. As is usual with his presentations, they were spectacular, representing the best of the visual aspect of miniature wargaming.
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