Gary Con 2022

Gary Con 2022 was held in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin on 24-27 March 2022. It is the premier gaming convention for "old school" players, where you will meet the people who originally created role-playing games.

The badge line. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même.

The Table of Honor, in memory of Gary Gygax.

We start 'em young around here.

Gary Con is very conscious of its origins, like wargaming on a sand table.

A milestone for Chainmail, the combat rules used most often in early Dungeons & Dragons.

Dawn Patrol is another very old game.

If you want to play the jousting game, you have to make clippety-cloppety sounds with coconut shells.

The Minister of the Treasury in Dave Weseley's Braunstein game.

Dave Weseley executes orders in "Braunstein IV: Banania".

The Chronicles of Ungavar, Part 1, in which I got the nickname "Glenn Zero" for my spellcasting...

...like this Fireball. You see, it's "Glenn Zero" as in "ground zero".

Another of the Ungavar Castles & Crusades games run by the expert Shane Bradley (left rear).

You know your CK's well known when Steve Chenault drops by the table.

This referee is dressed as Kolchak The Night Stalker.

What every bathroom needs.

Darlene was kind enough to sign one of her drawings from the Dungeons & Dragons first edition rulebooks.