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unusual facts about gaming convention



Communauté de communes de Parthenay

Amongst its other responsibilities, the communauté de communes organises the Festival Ludique International de Parthenay, a major games festival held in Parthenay every July.

Enduring Valor: Gettysburg in Miniature

Inspired by the scenarios in the classic board game Terrible Swift Sword, Volume 1 of Enduring Valor was first published in 2002 by Marek/Janci Design of Wheaton, Illinois, and debuted at the Historicon gaming convention.

Fan convention

Anime conventions, gaming conventions, filk-music conventions and furry conventions may all be considered derivatives of science-fiction conventions, which began in the late 1930s.

Hero Games

In 1981, George MacDonald and Steve Peterson, from San Mateo, California, printed 1000 copies of a 64 page rulebook for Champions, their super-hero role-playing game, to take to a Bay Area gaming convention.


see also

Fanaticon

Fanaticon is a multi-genre, science-fiction, fantasy, comic book, anime, and gaming convention held in Dothan, Alabama.