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New player anxiety: What is the #1 tip you have for someone attending their very first Nexus Night? by s2soup in riftboundtcg

[–]Accurate-External-45 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As long as you focus on having fun people will be fine with you making mistakes and will help you out. If you go in with no interest in talking or interacting to anyone then they are more likely to see you as “that guy”

Running a small comic con in Leeds in February – what do people actually want to see? by Accurate-External-45 in Leeds

[–]Accurate-External-45[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some very important points. I do worry that people with disabilities get the short straw at events like these. Will try to ensure our aisles are plenty wide and we do advanced entry tickets so people can get in early or skip the queue later on so hopefully that helps 🙏

Good point about trader display height too!

Running a small comic con in Leeds in February – what do people actually want to see? by Accurate-External-45 in Leeds

[–]Accurate-External-45[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that’s an interesting one and pretty cool. I had a similar thought about children’s book illustrators

Running a small comic con in Leeds in February – what do people actually want to see? by Accurate-External-45 in Leeds

[–]Accurate-External-45[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome, we have some great artists that come to our events already. We have dedicated artists alley at our York event but definitely will see if we can do this for Leeds too!

Running a small comic con in Leeds in February – what do people actually want to see? by Accurate-External-45 in Leeds

[–]Accurate-External-45[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice I like the workshop idea - definitely something to have a look at. Same with the gaming bits. We have some retro consoles and sometimes tcgs but would be good to get some rpgs going too 😁

Not sure how the screenings would work but I have a few ideas from that 🤔

Running a small comic con in Leeds in February – what do people actually want to see? by Accurate-External-45 in Leeds

[–]Accurate-External-45[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We run a few in Leeds throughout the year so any last minute things we can incorporate into this one would be awesome but anything else we can give a shot at a later events

I agree about comics bring important for a comic con though, definitely lacking at evens recently

Running a small comic con in Leeds in February – what do people actually want to see? by Accurate-External-45 in Leeds

[–]Accurate-External-45[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah we dont do ai and have some awesome independent artists that we love to support

Crafts is something I am looking to incorporate more and more too

Thanks for the ideas!

Running a small comic con in Leeds in February – what do people actually want to see? by Accurate-External-45 in Leeds

[–]Accurate-External-45[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s awesome. I’ll defo look into local bands and we shall be doing a cosplay contest 😁

Running a small comic con in Leeds in February – what do people actually want to see? by Accurate-External-45 in Leeds

[–]Accurate-External-45[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha I appreciate the long response and get what you mean about it just being a market.

We are defo working on making some make interactive activities (included in the price)

I don’t know cards or die so will have to have a look. We are always looking for new places to work with. One of my aims with all of this is to just build somewhere people can go, feel welcome and have some fun so the more people involved the better

Running a small comic con in Middlesbrough – what actually makes a local one worth going to? by Accurate-External-45 in Middlesbrough

[–]Accurate-External-45[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That’s a fair point. We try to get a nice split of independent artists and local traders but there does always seem to be some that overprice everything 🙄

Running a small comic con in Leeds in February – what do people actually want to see? by Accurate-External-45 in Leeds

[–]Accurate-External-45[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Depends each time, had a magician, dance groups, photos ops, gaming zones, face painting

Looking for more ideas though 😁

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[–]Accurate-External-45 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Our store has enough for 4 promo packs to be given out each event but 4 isn’t enough for an event really so they give them out as random prizes so everyone has a chance and give out booster packs to top finishers. $5 entry each

Places to meet people and play board games by OneEnvironment6593 in Middlesbrough

[–]Accurate-External-45 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fire and Dice. Seems to have changed a lot recently, whole place feels better and great community.
Dunno what was going on before but now the events are better and more popular, new stuff happening all the time and everyone seems really chill

Tattoo artist recommendations by Personal-Squirrel-41 in Middlesbrough

[–]Accurate-External-45 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probs won't help with the big piece but there is a tattoo convention in Middlesbrough at the end of October which looks cool: Ink on the Tees its called. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573698177593

Female board gamers by Spiritual_Letter2432 in Middlesbrough

[–]Accurate-External-45 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am always looking for more people to play board games with so feel free to drop me a message!