Welcome to the 6th Annual North Texas RPG Convention! The NTRPG Con focuses on old-school Dungeons & Dragons gaming (mainly OD&D, 1E, 2E, or Basic/Expert) as well as any pre-2000 type of RPG produced by the classic gaming companies of the 70s and 80s (TSR, Chaosium, FGU, FASA, GDW, etc). We also support retro-clone or simulacrum type gaming that copies the old style of RPGs (Swords & Wizardry and others). All RPG games are welcome at the Con, but we do not schedule card or board games except in special circumstances...unlike most other cons we are primarily old school RPG focused!

Our convention dates are: Thursday June 5, 2014 @ noon until Sunday June 8, 2014 @ 1800. You can register for the convention now at Ntrpgcon.com. Registration for events begins at 12:01 am April 15th, so please make sure you have registered and paid your fees beforehand at the ntrpgcon.com site!

It is our second year at the DFW South Marriott, with lots of space for all sorts of gaming activities (we have the entire grand ballroom and several boardrooms, accommodating almost 30 tables of gaming), it is only a couple of minutes south of DFW airport and easily reached by shuttle. This venue also features a full restaurant and bar, as well as being right in the center of an area with many restaurants and coffee shops within walking distance.

We have many, many confirmed special guests from the early days of the hobby attending in 2014; returning are Erol Otus, Sandy Petersen, Jeff Dee, Tim Kask, Dennis Sustare, Steve Winter, Frank Mentzer, Jennell Jaquays, Steve Marsh, Jim Ward, Doug Kovacs, Zeb Cook, Dennis, Jason Braun, Diesel Laforce, and Jeff Easley. New guests include Kevin Hendryx. Chris Clark and Lawrence Schick. The lineup includes several of the more important figures in the history of RPGs as a whole and Dungeons & Dragons in particular.

This year games include AD&D, Gamma World, Metamorphosis Alpha, Swords & Wizardry, OD&D, Basic D&D, GURPS, Recon, Call of Cthulhu, Adventurer/Conqueror/King, Tunnels & Trolls, Runequest, DCC Rpg, Castles & Crusades, Cavemaster, Classic Battletech, and many more! Included will be our 5th annual Mythrus Tower game run by Matt Finch and Bill Webb; Also this year we will feature our 5th annual chariot racing classic Circus Maximus with the finals run by Tim Kask, an Aliens boardgame run by Allan Grohe with large scale miniatures, Avalon Hill's classic man-to-man combat game Gladiator (2nd year), and more. Included is the 4th Annual NTRPG Con AD&D tournament (run once again by Pacesetter Games). We also will have a lot of gaming goodness for sale and several dealer's tables set up (this year expanded to 14 tables) along with a raffle and auction.

Several seminars are scheduled including an art panel featuring Otus, Dee, LaForce, Braun, Easley Jaquays and Kovacs. Bill Meinhardt (aka "Stratochamp") has one of the largest and most complete collections of D&D in the world, and will be exhibiting and telling the history of several rare items in a Q&A session; there will be others including the first annual NTRPG con Trivia contest! Besides Garycon, this is the premier old school style convention in the country with more classic gaming available than any other con in the south, run by some of the giants of the industry.

Game Event registration won't be open until April 15th, 2014! You must register for the con and pay your fee (either daily or weekend) before you are able to register for games.

Rooms at the beautiful Marriort DFW South are only $107 a night!  A bargain!!!

http://www.marriott.com/meeting-event-h ... p_mobi=yes

If you are running an event at the con, please feel free to post the details in this thread (along with any questions you might have about this con or past NTRPG cons)

Mike B.

That would be 129 days to go, but who's counting?  

Badmike wrote in North Texas RPG Convention 2014: June 5-8:Bill Barsh has kindly (?) reminded me that Pacesetter will be holding the 4th annual AD&D tournament at the con!  I'm going to add that to the general spiel, thanks for the remind!

Mike B.

You are a scholar and a gentleman!

If you don't have access to Facebook, you might not know, but Doug has signed up our latest Artist's Alley guest and she's a doozy.....

DARLENE, responsible for the original World of Greyhawk map and many other early D&D illustrations, will be at NTRPG con!

Looks like the first year of the Artist's Alley will be greatness!

Mike B.

First, a little bit of an explanation, the Knights and Knaves Social has been moved from Thursday Night to Saturday Night due to popular demand. Moved to Saturday night due to many suggestions from the faithful that starting off the weekend with a skull-crushing hangover is worse than ENDING the weekend with a skull-crushing hangover......

And another event for Saturday night (more properly, Sunday morning), I'm going to pimp the Midnight Auctions, this is the first year of such....hopefully you guys can segue from massing drinking to massive auction bidding. The First Annual Midnight Auctions will premiere after the stroke of midnight on Saturday. The Midnight Auction will consist of items not quite rare/expensive enough to make the "regular" auction...most items will start bidding at a buck, and if anything goes for under 10 bucks, the amount goes to charity. If you have seen/attended the TOVA auctions at Gencon, this is much the same, I will be auctioneer/master of ceremonies, and since it's after midnight, we may get a little off the beaten path, and a little, shall be say, more "uncouth". I am already building a small pile of interesting curios and some common items that will possibly attract a bid or two (for example, a pile of DC AD&D comics, some books owned by Rob Kuntz, some wacky bumper stickers, some classic Grenadier miniatures inexpertly painted, you get the idea). I will throw in a rare suprise or two just to make it worthwhile and keep everyone on their toes. Hope to see everyone there!

Mike B.

Oh, and we now have a "Beer Poll" up.....the restaurant manager at the hotel (thanks, Nick!) is allowing us to choose what beers to stock the weekend of the con.  You can vote up to three times.....

Mike B.

What beer do you want ?

dbartman wrote in North Texas RPG Convention 2014: June 5-8:Hope you throw out the rodents first.  They love to eat paper.

dbartman wrote in North Texas RPG Convention 2014: June 5-8:Hope you throw out the rodents first.  They love to eat paper.

testing

Part of a new antirodent mod.  Not ready yet.

Foul

Hope their are no giant cockroaches like at the last hotel