Nuke(m)Con – Nuketown

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Game Day: Prepping for Nuke(m)Con 2017

September 24, 2017 Ken Newquist Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

Nuke(m)Con 2017 is a week away and I’m scrambling to pull together my events. My gaming group’s homegrown convention is being held September 27-30 at a friends house. We expect 10-12 people to attend over the course of the weekend,[…]

Plastic miniatures of the frog-like monsters known as slaadi stand on a battlemap. In the background can be seen several figures representing player characters.

Nuke(m)Con 2016

February 12, 2017 Ken Newquist Blog, Events, Games, Role-Playing Games

Nuke(m)Con. It’s my gaming group’s homegrown convention which was first held in 2004 as an alternative to going to GenCon. It’s schedule was never formally defined, but for a while we had an every-other-year schedule going with conventions in 2006,[…]

Nuke(m)Con 2012: Lessons from a homegrown convention

March 18, 2012 Ken Newquist Blog, Events, Games

The Blackrazor Guild held its semi-annual homegrown convention in late February 2012. About 18 people attended Nuke(m)Con 2012, some long-time members of the gaming group, others friends who join us from time to time. Nuke(m)Cons have become a standard part[…]

The cast of the movie Serenity stands in a desert, ready for battle.

Nuke(m)Con 2008: The Wild, Weird West

September 22, 2008 Ken Newquist Blog, Events, Games, Role-Playing Games

Like a twister carving its way through a Midwestern cornfield, Nuke(m)Con has come and gone. My gaming group held its annual (well, almost annual) home-grown convention over the weekend. In a break from previous years, which typically saw a mix[…]

Game Day: Shoot’em, Nuke’em

September 12, 2008 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Game Day, Games, Role-Playing Games

Nuke(m)Con is coming back with guns blazing. After a one-year hiatus, my gaming group’s homegrown convention returns September 19-21 with a slate of western-themed role-playing games. We’ll be playing Serenity, Dogs in the Vineyard, Aces & Eights and Deadlands: Reloaded. We’re[…]

Radio Active #39: Nuke(m)Con 2012, Doom, Geeky Media

October 13, 2006 Ken Newquist Nuketown Radio Active, Podcasts

The gaming world has GenCon. My gaming group has Nuke(m)Con. Radio Active #39 starts with a look at our home grown convention and then takes a look at a couple of new geeky media outlets in the form of the[…]

The Other NukeCon

September 24, 2004 Ken Newquist Uncategorized

Back in July, my gaming group held a private, at-home game day we called NukeCon. Well, it turns out there is another NukeCon, one that’s been running for 13-odd years in Nebraska, and they were none to thrilled about our[…]

Grey and white robot-like figurines battle on a hexagonal map.

NukemCon: Afterthoughts

July 22, 2004 Ken Newquist Blog, Events, Games, Role-Playing Games

NukemCon has come and gone, and now that I’ve caught up on my sleep and my caffeine twitches have faded, it’s time to evaluate our first-ever home-grown convention. Overall, I think it went quite well. We got to play a[…]

A close-up view of small fantasy figures on a gridded battle map.

NukemCon: Day 3

July 19, 2004 Ken Newquist Blog, Events

The sun rose on NukemCon to find many a bleary-eyed gamer driving through Phillipsburg looking for breakfast. After snagging sustenance at McDonald’s and Manhattan Bagel, the stalwart dice-throwers returned to Easton and the first session of the day: Dungeons &[…]

Gamers gathered around a table playing a card game.

NukemCon: Day 2

July 18, 2004 Ken Newquist Blog, Events, Games, Role-Playing Games

The Blackrazor Motor Pool was forced into action on Day 2 of NukemCon, as car troubles harried our otherwise excellent day of gaming. It started with Bill’s car; when we went to get the third television out for our Xbox[…]