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COMBAT COMMANDER AND DOMINANT SPECIES DESIGNER!
We are happy to announce that the designer of the Combat Commander series of strategy war games, and the well received Dominant Species board game, Chad Jenson, will be our exclusive Special Guest at Pacificon Game Expo 32 this year! Come on down, and play a game with Chad and Kai!
BIG ROLE PLAYING FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENTS!
Joseph Goodman from Goodman Games named Guest of Honor! Patrick Kapera from Crafty Games to appear and sponsor a series of great role playing adventures! Chris Rutkowsky from Basic Action Games will also be appearing as an Industry Guest at Pacificon Game Expo 32 this year!
More details on our Role Playing Festival page!
GAME SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!
Just head on over to the ‘event submission’ page under ‘events’ and start submitting the games you want to play at the show. Remember, you only have to run six hours in games to get your weekend pass for free! Our event coordinators are ready to approve your events!
(L to R) Darin Leviloff, Joseph Miranda, Steve Carey, John Welch
LOTS OF GREAT GUESTS!
Our growing list of guests at the Pacificon Game Expo is exciting, and includes Joseph GOODMAN—GOODMAN GAMES CEO, Joseph MIRANDA—ORIGINS AWARD Designer. Patrick KAPERA—CRAFTY GAMES Co-Founder, Alex FLAGG—CRAFTY GAMES Co-Founder/MISTDAWN Designer, Alan EMRICH—Victory Point Games CEO, Kevin ZUCKER— OSG Founder, Curtis & Sarah LYON—SAVAGE MOJO Writers, Greg A VAUGHAN—PATHFINDER Writer, Steve CAREY—ORIGINS AWARD Winner, John WELCH—Game Designer, Darin LEVILOFF—Game Designer, Chris RUTKOWSKY – Basic Action Games Industry Guest, Chad JENSON – Game Designer, Michael Azzolino – Venture Captain Northern California Paizo Organized Play, Anthony GALLELA—KublaCon Co-Founder/Guest Moderator
Curtis and Sarah Lyon
SAVAGE ADVENTURES
We are happy to announce the addition of Curtis and Sarah Lyon, role playing adventure writers published by Savage Mojo, as our role playing industry guests to Pacificon! We will have one of our many individual role playing rooms set aside for a weekend of their adventures, as well as hosting them on a few panels and discussion sessions. Also, they will be available at some point during the weekend to autograph and greet their fans in the dealers room at Michael’s Games and Collectibles, which is presenting many elements of the Savage Mojo line of role playing products!
Greg A Vaughan
PATHFINDER SOCIETY (PFS) SPECIAL GUEST
We are proud to announce Greg A. Vaughan as a special Pacificon guest. Greg’s role-playing credits for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game include Drow of the Underdark, Scepter Tower of Spellguard, Anauroch: The Empire of Shade, and The Twilight Tomb. He was written several adventures for Dungeon Magazine and Paizo’s Pathfinder and GameMastery lines. His Pathfinder work includes Pathfinder #11: Skeletons of Scarwall and Pathfinder #6: Spires of Xin-Shalast.
PRE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Pre Registration is now open! Only $40 for a weekend pass through May 31, 2012. Also – the prices on Family Passes have been dropped significantly. One adult and up to two children 12 and under is only $55. We run a very special program called Camp ConQuest for Kids with many wonderful games run for the kids. Register for the convention by following this link!
PACIFICON SIGNS HOTEL AGREEMENT THROUGH 2016
The Santa Clara Marriott Hotel is fast attaining legendary status (as did the Dunfey years earlier) as the best Labor Day weekend gaming convention hotel in the SF Bay Area. We are happy to report that we will be hosting our show there through 2016, and likely beyond. Pacificon Forever.
THANKS TO ALL FOR OUR 2011 SHOW!
Many thanks to the 1,134 unique attendees who graced the halls of Pacificon this year! We are already underway building an even better show than last year! To this effect, we have signed up James Ernest as our “Non-Legandary” Guest of Honor! Also returning as our Special Guest Auctioneer and Seminar Panelist is Alan Emrich, CEO of Victory Point Games, and Kublacon Co-Founder Anthony Gallela as our Special Guest Moderator.
We’re also pleased at the return of the role playing GMs from Studio Radd Presents (SRP), to the delight of our RPG players. Additionally, local Pathfinder Society Poohbah, Michael Azzolino has promised that he will be running a better, bigger, and more centralized event next Labor Day Weekend at Pacificon.
