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Texicon

Texicon is a general gaming convention that hosts Board Games, Miniatures, and Role-Play games. It also has open gaming, which is non-scheduled games and Seminars. The first Texicon was held on 2010. It occurs every third full weekend in May. A full weekend is a weekend that includes Friday. Each year the convention focuses more heavily on one of the three types of gaming. The first year it focused on miniatures with a specific focus on Historical miniature gaming. In 2011, Texicon focused on Role-Play. In 2012, Texicon will focus on Board Games.

Each Year Texicon also produces a poster and has at least one special guest. The first year it had Rick Loomis from Flying Buffalo as the special guest. In 2011, Texicon had the co-creators of Villains and Vigilantes, Jeff Dee and Jack Herman, as special guests. Also included as a special guest was Paul Cardwell, the President of CAR-PGa (a Role-Play activist group designed to educate society about the benefits of Role-Playing.

Texicon was created to help foster community in society and to provide a platform wherein gamers from all regions of the United Stats could gather to meet and play tabletop gaming. The co-founders Kevin Pajak and Karl Pajak are twins. They state that they believe tabletop gaming conventions are only one part of the integrated tabletop gaming community. The three parts are game companies, brick-and-mortar stores where gaming occurs, and general gaming conventions. Without all three parts, tabletop gaming popularity will dwindle. Thus, they created Texicon to help all three portions of the tabletop gaming industry to strengthen and grow.

Karl and Kevin chose Fort Worth, Texas, as the place to host their tabletop gaming convention because there seemed to be a lack of representation in this area with regards to tabletop gaming conventions. Moreover, they did research into the stability of the brick-and-mortar stores and found no lack of faltering businesses, closed businesses, and isolated businesses. So, to strengthen this region of the country, they are attempting to do their part by hosting Texicon. It appears to be all inclusive as far as what games are allowed and the only limit on what is run is by who tells them what game they want to run.