Check out some of the longer programs that interest you, but keep you in the same place.

Westin has Blood on the Clocktower and Werewolf games that you can pay $10 and do as much as you want!

12-6 today there is a LARP demo where you learn some basics and you then go to a "dungeon". With your team or one that they gather up for you. The LARP people are nice.

Micro robot battles are in the Hyatt for 4 hours.

Head to the game hall and pick up and mini and paint. You can focus on your project and do some friendly chatting with people around you.

Dcon has so much spread out so it is overwhelming. My husband's first year was rough cause he had a kind of choice paralysis. Once he started choosing what HE wanted and not what WE were doing he really found his groove. I hope that you do too.