Con of the North

Con of the North is Minnesota's longest-running volunteer-organized gaming convention. Founded in the early 1990s, it has long offered a winter mix of tabletop RPGs, board games, card games, miniatures, LARPs, and other hobby programming in the Twin Cities area.

The convention's official site emphasizes its volunteer roots and breadth of formats, which helps explain its staying power. It reads less like a trade event and more like a regional all-purpose gathering built by and for local gamers.