It's time to grab your "gorram" brown coats and witty quips about "ruttin" and start ridin' into town for the largest, multi-genre fan convention in the U.S., DragonCon. If you've never been to this Atlanta-based convention, choose your character for a LARPing of the DragonCon world. In this roundup, we're traveling through the history of this convention like a half-drunk Tolkien rambling about Orcs, with a few attempts at humor and entertainment while we're at it.