My senior year of college, I found the best web design course I have ever taken by accident. It wasn’t the best because we created supremely technical websites or anything. The class wasn’t even in the IT department’s listings. No, the best web design class was in the English department and was labeled as a course in web authoring.

Every year I go to at least one, if not two tabletop gaming centric conventions. A gaming convention is very different from the sort of convention where you are walking from panel to panel or browsing a merch hall for hours. Instead, gaming conventions will have you sitting for two to six hours at a time, with maybe an hour between sessions to plan food, drink, and a god stretch of the legs. My “go bag” that I bring around the convention floor is my lifeline for the event, and a lot of thought goes into what I pack in it. As I’m getting set up for SCARAB this weekend, I thought I’d give you some insight into what I am packing to help with your next con experience.