Best California Cons to Play Pathfinder? (and maybe Call of Cthulhu)

[Applied_People]

I'm looking at DunDraCon in NorCal in February, but are there others I should consider?

[thistledown]

Good timing. I'm the organizer for DunDraCon, and I'll be making the warhorn public in a few days. Glad to have you.

There are several conventions in the Bay Area. The largest are:
February: DunDraCon (San Ramon)
May: KublaCon (Burlingame)
Aug/Sept: Pacificon (Santa Clara)
November: Gobblecon (Burlingame)

There's also some cons up in Sacramento on occasion. In June there's Polycon down in San Luis Obispo, which normally gets 2 or 3 games.

There's probably games down south too, but I'm not familiar with them.

[Jesse Heinig]

That's an extensive list, you beat me to it! I love going to DunDraCon and Pacificon when I can. There's also one up in the north-north California area, but I can't find or remember the name of it right now. Smaller one. Seen the flyers but never been able to attend. :/

[Applied_People]

thistledown wrote:

Good timing. I'm the organizer for DunDraCon, and I'll be making the warhorn public in a few days. Glad to have you.

There are several conventions in the Bay Area. The largest are:
February: DunDraCon (San Ramon)
May: KublaCon (Burlingame)
Aug/Sept: Pacificon (Santa Clara)
November: Gobblecon (Burlingame)

There's also some cons up in Sacramento on occasion. In June there's Polycon down in San Luis Obispo, which normally gets 2 or 3 games.

There's probably games down south too, but I'm not familiar with them.

Thank you for the info on the NorCal cons! Though I'm LA-based, I travel to SF frequently. That being said, if anyone has recommendations for SoCal, I'd be interested in those as well.

[Zeugma]

We have Strategicon down here in Los Angeles. They put on 3 cons a year: Orccon, GameX, and Gateway. Next one is in February 2018.

[Applied_People]

Zeugma wrote:

We have Strategicon down here in Los Angeles. They put on 3 cons a year: Orccon, GameX, and Gateway. Next one is in February 2018.

Looking at OrcCon, I don't see any Pathfinder or Call of Cthulhu. In your experience, are those played informally?

[Jesse Heinig]

The three Strategicons have historically had Pathfinder Society at them every year that I've gone.

[Zeugma]

There are usually a few Pathfinder games at each con. You can check on Warhorn.net for what PFS games will be there.

[JohnF]

Our three large NorCal cons (DunDraCon, KublaCon & PacifiCon) each run about 100 tables of PFS/SFS; GobbleCon is smaller (around 30 this year, but we expect it to continue to grow next year). There are other cons (Sacramento, Fresno, etc.) as well; I believe they are in the 30-50 table range, but that's just a guess - I don't have exact figures.

[Applied_People]

Zeugma wrote:

There are usually a few Pathfinder games at each con. You can check on Warhorn.net for what PFS games will be there.

Very helpful comment. Thank you! I see now that there is lots of Pathfinder available at OrcCon.