I took quite a few photos at Origins 2008, both to document some of the more interesting things I saw and to share with those who couldn’t or didn’t attend the convention a sense of what they missed.

As you walk around Origins, you’ll find gamers setting up everywhere, at all hours of the day and night.  Pick-up games, demos, and planned events can be found everywhere, like these tables in the walkway between the convention center and hotel:

Here are a couple of players setting up a Heroscape table:

And here are just a few of the board games in progress as I walked around the convention center:

It’s possible to check out games from the Origins library to play, even if there is no specific instance of that game scheduled at the time:

If you’re into train-oriented board games, you can join in the fun and even win some awards:

At the back of the room were some intense CCG championships:

In the Mayfair Games room you could play a “giant” Settlers of Catan game:

You could also have joined in on any of these other games:

As you look at these photos, you should notice that Origins attracts young and old, tall and short, slim and “not so slim”, men and women, the costumed and the plainclothed, etc.  It’s a pretty good cross section of society, all in one place to have fun.