UnCon was an online gaming convention. The name stood for Unconventional Convention (as I recall). It typically ran for a week, during which time there would be events throughout the site. There were special chat rooms set up with game designers and authors; there were contests and games; there were designer Q&A threads; and so on. In a lot of cases, the games took you through various other places of the board that you might not normally visit. For example, one year the play-by-post GMs set up a massive scavenger hunt where the list contained one or two items unique to the specific pbp forum. The idea was to get members of different pbp groups (Castle of Fun, Px2, etc) looking at the content in the other areas, and maybe they would find something else they enjoyed.

On the D&D side, there were often "easy" contests, such as "design a feat" that took very little time to enter. There were also more involved contests, such as the Char Ops board running a "best character" contest. Others can speak as to what went on over on the Magic side.

We obviously can't really get the designer or author access WotC could (though you have me - that's better, right? *crickets* - and you have Zammmmm as a magic judge) but we can certainly put together games, contests, etc.

... Smoke_stack is usually the nom de plume of Igor Kieryluk.

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What.

I understand what you mean, and I'd be moderately willing, but that has zero relevance to... I'm pretty sure anything Hasbro-related, much less Wizards-related, which is what we're technically supposed to be about.

He's just saying he wants a totally hardcore Vintage tournament.

He's just saying he wants a totally hardcore Vintage tournament.