#fall-in!

One of the larger annual historical conventions in the US is in Pennsylvania this weekend, Fall In! in Lancaster, PA, Thurs-Sun, Nov 6-9, 2025. That should have a lot of PA area people in attendance.

A tour through Fall IN! 2022's Guidebook App for this show.

Notes for this guidebook. Read carefully, please. A guide book or travel guide is “a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists”. It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities. Maps of varying detail and historical and cultural information are often included Wikipedia Think of Guidebook, the App,…

Fall-IN! 2018: The Sinkhole that wasn’t

Or: the toilet that got ideas above its station and tried to be a bidet

Standard disclaimer.  I’m not a member of the HMGS BoD.  If I say anything in this post about HMGS plans or policies, it’s just me saying it, and not officially from anyone but me.

So another early November dawning, and a cold and kind of rainy drive Northward to Lancaster for FALL IN!  The new pickup truck packed up pretty…

So I went to Fall-IN! 2016…

Last week was FALL-IN! the Fall show of the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society. My son Gar and I both attended.  I apologize for the late posting, but well, you know, there was that National electing the Moron in Chief thing we did directly after… Fair Warning: This is my convention post for Fall-IN!, much like the other convention reports I’ve been writing for almost two decades. One thing I…

Event Counts by Category, Fall-IN! 2016

As often happens once a convention concludes, self-styled experts will claim a certain genre is overtaking this or that genre, it’s a general sign of decline of HMGS and et cetera, et cetera.  Those of us who have been attending for years have seen the same old argument restated every year.  Well, as I have done for 12 previous conventions, I have created a Guidebook App module for Fall-IN! 2016.…

GUIDEBOOK App for FALL-IN 2016, published

I have just received notification that the Guidebook app I’ve been working on for HMGS’s Fall convention, FALL-IN! has passed publication review and now can be downloaded. I don’t intend to write up how to actually use Guidebook in one of these posts for every convention; the interface doesn’t change that quickly. I wrote a decent overview for COLD WARS 2016, check that post for an overview of…

Fall-IN! 2015: More like a Whimper than a Bang!

Once again, another fun Convention Recap by yours truly. In this instance, Fall-IN! 2015, from the warm, yet leaky embrace of the Lancaster Host resort, Lancaster PA. The Host went all out on the roof repair for our benefit! Thursday’s child has far to go, I didn’t have a game to run (though now I wish I had). So I checked in and started to deal with an immediate problem with Guidebook for FALL…