The ArcaneCon 2026 Debrief
Hey team! Winter is my busy season so I never wrote my ArcaneCon postmortem. Two goth clubs, budding romance, new connections, medical woes and a maid party will do that to you! Nearly a month after ArcaneCon (to the day), the sudden onset of a sinus infection has now bestowed me with the time to meaningfully debrief about it so let's dive right in! What is ArcaneCon? Over the past three years ArcaneCon has become the tabletop convention in Western MA, especially for the OSR crowd. Hosted in beautiful neighboring Northampton, the con is hosted by Arcane Sword Press, an OSR publishing label that is functionally synonymous with local indie darling and Certified Awesome Dude(TM) Bryan Larkin . It's also becoming something of a sister con to Under The Dice Fest , a much more skirmish-focused con headed by friends of the Arcane team, Under the Dice (similarly headed by a local indie darling Stephen Hupfer - There's actually pictures of Steve and Bryan playtesting Flames of Or...
