I spoke with a friend that is a long time 40k player and attendee, and he told me that he spoke with Marc about it recently and that Marc still plans on running the Adepticon Primer as usual. He did say that Marc hadn't gotten with the Bashcon registration folks about registering any of Warhammer events yet though. Given how close we are to the actual convention, wouldnt this cause problems? As in the 40kers and Fantasy folks not getting a room/space to run their events this year? Just has me curious given that this year was supposed to be the big year for Bashcon.
In regards to merchants, the last time I spoke with Darrel from the Toledo Game Room about the convention, he had largely pulled out of Bashcon. He still brings some goods with him, but from what I saw at his tables last year, it was nothing close to what he brought with him in previous years. From what I understand he takes most of his business to Origins these days because he stands to gain more in the way of profits than attempting to haul a bunch of gaming materials to Bashcon and maybe break even (due to having employees manning his merchant booth.) Past that, given the relatively small area that merchants had last year, I wouldnt even attempt to guess at who else is coming back and who else has pulled out from the convention altogether.
Please understand, I'm not trying to be a doomsayer. These are just observations that I have made over the last couple years. I like Bashcon, although if my wife had her way this year myself and Stardust Publications (my company) would not be present. I wanted to give it one more chance before we drop Bashcon altogether (because we have a schedule of other conventions that we plan to be running demos at).
