A page for gaming convention & meeting reports.
Photos from Trumpeter Salute 2023
Brian and I (plus friends) attended Trumpeter Salute 2023 last weekend. No, not the UK one, the smaller one in Vancouver, Canada. We all had a great…
Trumpeter Salute 2023 Done and Dusted
My first gaming weekend since 2019 has come and gone and it was good. And as is often the case, I took far too few photos, including exactly none…
2020 In Review
Well, that was quite a year, wasn't it? No conventions, no in-person gaming at all for a good part of the year thanks to our local COVID…
Interesting Times
Well. One minute I was too busy getting ready for a local SCA event mid-March and then Trumpeter Salute 2020 in mid-April to blog about what I was…
The Trumpeter Salute 2019 Haul
Trumpeter Salute 2019 has come and gone. This was the first Trumpeter in many years where I didn't run a game which felt kind of strange, but that…
Back From Trumpeter Salute 2018
It was an excellent weekend. I was under-prepared for my Pulp Alley games but managed to get enough done to pull them off. The table, at least,…
The Trumpeter Salute 2017 Loot Haul!
I managed to escape from Trumpeter Salute 2017 at the start of April without buying a single actual figure, but I brought home a batch of scenery…
Trumpeter Salute 2017 Photos
I headed over to Vancouver for my annual pilgrimage to Trumpeter Salute again at the very end of March. My girlfriend and I decided to tie it in with…
LANtasy 2017 Photos!
Our local "big" convention, LANtasy, was a couple weeks ago now. I participated in the Blood Bowl & Infinity tournaments all weekend, and my Infinity…
Trumpeter Salute 2017 This Friday!
Bit quiet around here but I've been busy painting up a storm for my Trumpeter Salute 2017 game! "The Faithful of Dagon" will feature several…
Trumpeter Salute 2016 Photos
Finally got my Trumpeter Salute 2016 photos off the phone and onto Flickr a few days ago. The full collection is over on Flickr but here's a few…
Heading Home From Trumpeter Salute 2016
Heading home from Vancouver and an excellent, exhausting weekend at the Trumpeter Salute show! Good to see most of the Trumpeter regulars, many of…
Off to Trumpeter Salute 2016!
Heading off to Vancouver today for the always excellent Trumpeter Salute wargaming show this weekend. I've finally gotten around to setting up the…
Infinity in the Jungle
Somewhere along the way the default tabletop setting for a game of Infinity became "futuristic urban/quasi-urban environment", which is as true of…
Finally, Trumpeter Salute 2015 Photos!
Realized a few days ago that I hadn't even taken my photographs from the Trumpeter Salute 2015 wargame show off the camera, never mind looking at…
Martin’s Photos From Trumpeter Salute
My own photos from the Trumpeter Salute show over in Vancouver at the end of March are still unsorted and unedited, but Martin has gotten his photos…
Back from Trumpeter Salute 2015
Just got back this evening from a fantastic weekend over in Vancouver for the Trumpeter Salute 2015 convention. Lots of great games, I got 2nd Place…
Another GottaCon Gone
So GottaCon 2015 was last weekend; I managed to be at the whole convention, and it (mostly) good. Friday night I ran a Pulp Alley game. The…
Eight Days to GottaCon 2015!
Just over a week until our local convention, GottaCon 2015 starts! I've got a ticket already, and I'm doing something I've never done before, which…
The Year of Missing Conventions…
Victoria's GottaCon is running this weekend, and as I've just flown back into town from a work assignment elsewhere in the province, I'm missing the…
Martin’s Trumpeter Salute 2013 Photos
Martin, an long-time friend who now lives in Vancouver, has been slowly posting his photos from the recent Trumpeter Salute gaming convention. As I…
Trumpeter Salute 2013 After-Action Report
Corey has already done a nice report from the field on his gaming Friday evening, with some great photos, but here's the rest of the weekend from my…
An evening in the air at Trumpeter Salute 2012
Trumpeter Salute, the best annual miniatures convention on the west coast of Canada (sorry, Gottacon. Your relentless focus on GW turns me off) is…
GottaCon 2013 Photos
As is often the case at conventions, I got too involved in actually running or playing games to take many photos, but here's a few pics from GottaCon…
GottaCon 2013, Sunday
Short and frankly lazy day of gaming today. Corey and I re-ran our pulp racing homebrew from Friday evening, roping one person in. We'd tweaked the…
GottaCon 2013, Saturday
Wound up running my Russian Civil War game twice, after interested spectators asked during the afternoon game if I was running it again during the…
GottaCon 2013, Friday
Spent the morning doing a few bits of last minute prep for my Russian Civil War game, mostly putting the finishing touches on the field gun and crew.…
Full Production Mode
A quick look at my painting bench as a I get ready for Saturday's Russian Civil War game at GottaCon. On the right, 15 Bolsheviks, a mix of regulars…
Prepping for GottaCon 2013
In just under three weeks our local big convention kicks off - GottaCon 2013 is February 1st, 2nd & 3rd at the Pearkes Recreation Centre. I'll be…
Always Good Advice
The Known Rule NGR contains a large number of rules, and in the end it is not likely someone will have them all memorized. The rules of this game…
Even Whites Bleed Red, A RCW Encounter
The Trumpeter Salute convention last weekend saw the first full outing of my Russian Civil War forces, in a scenario I called Even Whites Bleed Red.…
Trumpeter Salute 2012 After-Action Report
So, Corey and I spent the weekend over in Vancouver at the always-excellent Trumpeter Salute 2012 gaming convention. We saw a lot of people we really…
Russian Civil War at Trumpeter Salute 2012
Ran my RCW game Saturday afternoon at the convention. Short version: everyone had a good time, but unlike our playtest a few weeks ago, the Whites…
Off to Trumpeter Salute 2012!
Off to Vancouver Friday morning for two and a half days of miniature gaming goodness at Trumpeter Salute 2012! The Russian Civil War figures and…
Belated GottaCon Report
Never did write that post-GottaCon post, did I? Ran a very good game of .45 Adventures, lots of dinosaurs and mayhem. Four cars started the…
GottaCon, Today!
... it's past midnight, so yes, technically it is today as I write this. Anyway, Victoria's big gaming convention started last night (Friday) and…
BottosCon
Off overseas (ie, to Vancouver) Friday afternoon to spend the weekend at one of the area boardgame conventions, BottosCon. Boardgames? It's likely…
Trumpeter Salute 2011 Photos & More!
Took a fair number of photos while having a great time attending Trumpeter Salute 2011 this last weekend, and a surprising number of them actually…
Back From Trumpeter Salute!
Just a very short post to say Trumpeter Salute was awesome, lots of fun games and great people. Good to see friends and regulars again, and meet new…
Photos from the Amulet of Fire game at Dak’Kon
I have finally got the pictures from the Amulet of Fire game at Dak'Kon. This is the second time the game has been run (the first was GottaCon in…
Trumpeter Salute Countdown II
Amulet of Fire characters all converted to .45A 2nd Edition. With a certain amount of cut'n'paste magic in Open Office, but whatever. Grade One mooks…
Prepping For Trumpeter Salute 2011
Alongside the Lead Painters League over on LAF, the other thing keeping me amused this week is getting ready for Trumpeter Salute 2011 over in…
GottaCon Gone
I only made it to Saturday's sessions at GottaCon - busy Friday night and working Sunday - but it was good. Had a decent RPG session Saturday morning…
Convention Checklist
Under 24hrs to go until my Gottacon game... checklist time. Figures, Scenery & StuffGlue drying on the bases of the last figure needed.…
Dragonflight 2000 convention report
This is a repost of an old article from the old Warbard pages - Corey I went to DragonFlight 2000 in Seattle, WA at the end of August, same as …
Dragonflight 1999 convention report
August 27th, 28th, and 29th 1999 I was down in Seattle, WA for the DragonFlight convention, held on Seattle University's parklike campus just east…