Origins Game Fair

The options were: Scary Fun, Games Around the World, Adventure, Futuristic, and Top Secret.

The Interest Group Baltimore, a local wargaming club, worked with the Baltimore-based Avalon Hill game company to put on the first show that year at Johns Hopkins University.

In a nod to Baltimore's position as the home of Avalon Hill and the birthplace of the commercial wargame hobby, Don Greenwood, a game designer with Avalon Hill and founder of the convention, suggested calling the show "Origins".

RuneQuest debuted as Chaosium's first RPG at the Origins convention in Ann Arbor, Michigan in July 1978.

[2][3] In April 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced that Origins would be postponed from its usual mid-June date to October 7–11.

"[4] In June, due to a lack of response by GAMA concerning Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd Protests, some members of the community who were intending to run or participate in Origins Online events stepped down, and others joined them in solidarity.

Several reports of sexual harassment emerged after 2018 Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio.

[34][35][36] After multiple first hand accounts were published on social media [37] and Reddit,[38] GAMA, released a public statement[35] regarding the complaints and has since then updated its anti-harassment policies.