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Ziggurat Con: Gamers In Iraq
I have to thank Cat MacDude for posting this to the Clan mailing list, otherwise I would not have learned about it. Ziggurat Con is approaching, and they need your help. The tag line is:
Which Con are you going to this year? GenCon? Origins? Dundracon? How about Ziggurat Con? The latter is brand new this year, and is being held at Camp Adder/Tallil Airbase on June 9. In Iraq.
That's right, Iraq, in the war zone. GameGrene has the skinny on it on.
When President Bush ordered troops to Iraq, he probably never imagined that he would be ultimately be responsible for what very well could be the very first D&D convention/game day ever held in a war zone. Ziggurat Con, being held June 9 from 1200 to 2100 hours at Camp Adder/Tallil Airbase, is open to all allied military personnel and civilian contractors in Iraq."Here in Iraq, we do many things on the different Forward Operating Bases to help keep our spirits up," said SPC David Amberson, the Con's organizer. "Here at Camp Adder/Tallil Airbase, we have lots of sports activities -- baseball, football, dodgeball, kickball -- and we work with many marathons across the US like the Boston Marathon. This is a great way to improve morale among the troops, but what about those who prefer Role-Playing Games?"
Some important things to note about the event; the Morale, Welfare and Recreation Department is providing facility space for the event, which will include DandD as well as other RPGs (Role Playing Games, not the kind that go "boom"), plus an anime video room with ongoing film support. Even better is the list of game companies who have donated to the even: aethereal FORGE, Sovereign Press, Final Redoubt Press, Goodman Games, Paizo Publishing and Steve Jackson Games.
They are, however, short of dice. With that being the case, I am committing to send these guys and gals some dice appropriate for DandD as well as a few other items. The article at Game Grene has info on how to contact SPC Amberson in Iraq.
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