Meeple Mountain Does PAX East 2025!

“Daddy, I want to go to one of your board game conventions. Is there one that has board games AND video games?”

This conversation, a chat with my eight-year-old son that took place near the end of 2024, kicked my convention planning into high gear. I love board games, I love video games, and I love my kids. Using the powers of the content creation space, I combined these passions into my first trip to PAX East, which takes place in Boston every year.

I left my wife and older child behind to make PAX East a bit of a boys trip. Once my son received his attendee badge by mail, our plan was simple: hit the convention, play dozens of games, eat doughnuts, watch NBA playoff games at our hotel, and generally do the things that people do when they are armed with a convention badge and too much time to stroll the halls.

As a tabletop media event, PAX East was a strange bird. As a video game media event, PAX East was a blast. And as a chance to spend 48 hours with my son doing…well, just about anything, PAX East was out of this world.

PAX East: Tabletop

I couldn’t have my son miss any school,…

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