I don't think it is just a case of apathy this time. Apparently there were some issues getting The BIG Weekend running, and as a result it is greatly reduced in scope. There are only six non-Living tabletop games being presented, one of them halloranelder's and another one of them mine. I have a total of three players signed up for mine. Three more out of the six are a trilogy of D&D games set in the world of The Princess Bride. There is also one freeform, that being halloranelder's.

So, to say that the choice of roleplaying games is limited is quite an understatement. Under those conditions, I have been expecting either halloranelder and I to be swamped all weekend, or for virtually nobody to bother turning up at all.

Given that around 50 players have signed up in total, and there is no miniature gaming happening at all, I'm guessing that a lot of those players are Living gamers. The Living games will be as good as ever, due to the nature of Living campaigns (ie available to be played whenever you can persuade an authorised GM to run them for you, not written specifically for a convention).

Hmmm... Looks like I've not stayed up to date. I hadn't looked at the website in months. A couple of months ago, I was contacted about running my game, and informed that TBW was being stripped down and there would be no miniature events. I guess they changed their minds (perhaps after learning that there would be bugger-all in the way of non-Living roleplaying).

How so? I haven't actually been dicked around organisationally myself, but that could well be because I have just informed them I would run my game, then pretty much ignored the whole deal until now.