Glad at least some of you were able to get together for Origins! Here's hoping next year will be back to normal and I'll be able to make it!
My local convention, CinCityCon, was lighter attendance than in the past. But given Covid, GenCon two weeks ago, and overlapping with Origins an hour north... That was kind of expected. Not much in the way of war gaming, but did get to play a few new (to me) games over the weekend. Furnace stood out as a good, quick little auction/engine builder. Dune Imperium was a good deck builder/worker placement. Raiders of the North Sea was a good worker placement for those who don't want to deal with deck building. Unsettled was fun, but a bit pricier than I'd be willing to pay. Star Wars Outer Rim was fun, but a bit slow. And I got to teach three new folks SpaceCorp, which has been one of my favorite games over the past two years.
So I definitely missed all of you (I seriously didn't win a single free game, it felt so dirty and wrong!), but I still had a great time. It was just so nice to be with people again!