Saturday 31 March 2007

My HeroQuest games at Tentacles Untapped

Here are my games I’ll be running at Tentacles Untapped.

0 Tentacles Untapped. Castle Stahleck, Bacharach, Germany.
Friday 25th - Monday 28th May 2007.
http://www.tentacles-convention.de/
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Serenity/Firefly:HeroQuest.
I am running a game based on the series FireFly and the film Serenity by Buffy's Joss Whedon. The crew will be the crew of The Betty from Alien: Resurrection; Joss Whedon's first stab at a misfit crew of smugglers onboard an old, broken-down ship. The first game, 'Echoes in the Black', has been ran sixteen times now at various conventions and has always been over-subscribed. The sequel, 'The Quick and the Dead', has only been ran six times and has now been extended with extra dilemmas especially for tentacles Untapped. 'Dead Reckoning' is the third in the series of Serenity:HeroQuest games and is completely brand new [though certain parts of the plot my be similar to the other games!]. It still uses the crew of The Betty but puts them in more perilous and immoral situations. Included with more silly props! Due to the popular demand of these games a seventh player character has been added to all three games. The games can be played in order to experience the full epic narrative arc but each game is also complete in itself and can be played as a one-off.

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'Echoes in the Black' by Darran Sims narrated by Darran Sims.
Serenity: HeroQuest adventure for 7 players.
Newcomers very welcome. Maturity preferred.

"Ta Ma Duh! Why can't we stick to the gorram plan!
I wanted simple, in and out and everything shiny. The job was good, the idents were perfect and the feds were away from the Skyplex. Then everything has gone south.
Something has been following The Betty. They are keeping their distance, so they aint purple bellies and everytime time we avert course they disappear like echoes in the black.
The question is who are they, what do they want and why are they messing up my gorram job?"

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'The Quick and the Dead' by Darran Sims narrated by Darran Sims.
Serenity: HeroQuest adventure for 7 players.
Newcomers very welcome. Maturity preferred.

"Emergency! Emergency! This is the Passenger Liner 'BHS Orisis'. We have lost all power, our engineering team is incapacitated and we are adrift in space. Any available craft please respond. Emergency! Emergency! This is the Passenger Liner 'BHS Orisis' ... ... ..."
[Sometime later]
"Oh thank the gods! How shiny you look. Civilian vessel, ... err? ... 'The Betty' please dock in our main hanger deck, you may be able to assist us in restoring power to our engines. Do you have an engineer on board?
"It is fortunate that you are in this empty, quiet sector of the black, we thought we were lost for good. Hello? Hello? Are you there?"

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'Dead Reckoning' by Darran Sims narrated by Darran Sims.
Serenity: HeroQuest adventure for 7 players.
Newcomers very welcome. Maturity preferred.

"Feh Feh Pi Goh! This job should have been shiny!
Here we are floating in the black about to make a move on the ‘verse’s easiest mark, a Research & Rescue vessel doing ‘science’ well away from civilisation. The Guay Tuh Guay Nown patron said it would be like taking candy from a baby.
“Just don’t use sensors as you approach,” he said, “use dead reckoning to get in close.” Not only have we just seen what they are actually doing the ‘science’ on but we have just learnt who the Lao Buhn is who is bankrolling this caper.
A certain Crime Lord with his own Skyplex and a very nasty rep.
Dead Reckoning indeed!"

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Gloranthan HeroQuest.
Here is another game I will be running at Tentacles Untapped. A HeroQuest game set in Glorantha, a first for me in two years at a convention.

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'Winters Warriors' written & narrated by Darran Sims.
HeroQuest adventure for up to 6 players.

As initiates of Inora, Goddess of the Mountain Snow, normally you are on the fringes of society as solitary hunters or warriors of the mountains.
But now Orlanth is Dead! The land is locked in winter. Suddenly the Winter Warriors are require to save the clan and its tula in the mountains. The dangers of winter are magnified as ice demons roam the peaks, snowfall cuts off all the lodges and the food stocks are running low. On top of that vast columns of smoke rise from the flat lands and they are getting closer and closer. Villages are being burnt down and destroyed.
Are the Lunars responsible? Can the winter warriors stop their advance?

Friday 30 March 2007

Nearby Gamers

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Here's a new resource which needs a lot more gamers to sign up:

http://nearbygamers.com/

I have added myself here:
http://nearbygamers.com/gamers/DarranSims

While Furnace 2007 is located here at http://nearbygamers.com/gamers/Furnace and Continuum 2008 has its own place here http://nearbygamers.com/gamers/Continuum2008.

Wednesday 7 March 2007

Up & Coming RPG Conventions [UK & Europe]

March Update.

Please check for any I have missed please?

Up & Coming conventions.

0 Itzacon III. NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Friday 9th - Sunday 11th March 2007.
http://www.itzaconeire.com

0 CONcrete Cow '07. Old Bath House, Wolverton, Milton Keynes, UK.
Saturday 10th March 2007.
http://www.mk-rpg.org.uk

0 Conpulsion 2007. Teviot Student Union, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
Saturday 24th - Sunday 25th March 2007.
http://www.conpulsion.org

0 Student Nationals RPG Championships. Teviot Student Union, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
Friday 30th March - Sunday 1st April 2007.
http://www.studentnationals.org.uk/index.php

0 Sillicon 9. The HUB, Dublin City University, Ireland.
Friday 30th March - Sunday 1st April 2007.
http://sillicon.redbrick.dcu.ie

0 Salute Zero Seven. ExCel, London, UK.
Saturday 21st April 2007.
http://www.salute.co.uk/

0 Excaliber 2007. Honicombe Manor Holiday Village,St Annes Chapel, Callington near Plymouth, Cornwall. UK.
Friday 4th - Monday 7th May 2007.
http://www.horsemenevents.com/

0 Beer & Pretzels XVIII. Town Hall, Burton-upon-Trent, UK.
Saturday 12th - Sunday 13th May 2007.
http://www.spiritgames.com/bnpdetails.php

0 Tentacles Untapped. Castle Stahleck, Bacharach, Germany.
Friday 25th - Monday 28th May 2007.
http://www.tentacles-convention.de/

0 UK GAME EXPO 2007. The Clarendon Suites, Stirling Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
Saturday 2nd - Sunday 3rd June 2007.
http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk

0 Vaticon 2007. Student Centre, UCD Belfield, Dublin 4. Ireland.
Saturday 9th - Sunday 10th June 2007.
http://www.ucd.ie/gamesoc/vaticon/

0 Q-CON XIV Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland.
Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th June 2007.
http://www.q-con.org.uk/

0 Game '07. New Century House, Manchester, UK.
Saturday 23rd - Sunday 24th June 2007.
http://www.game07.eu/

0 Summer Stabcon 2007 Britannia Hotel, Stockport
Friday 6th - Sunday 8th July 2007
bookings@stabcon.org.uk

0 Ludicrus '07. Rushmere Sports Centre, Ipswich, UK.
Saturday 7th - Sunday 8th July 2007.
http://www.ludicrus.org/

0 Recombination, New Hall, Cambridge, UK
Friday 10th - Sunday 12th August 2007.
http://www.recombination.org.uk/

0 Gen Con UK 2007. University of Reading, Berkshire. UK.
Thursday 30th August - Sunday 2nd September 2007.
http://www.horsemenevents.com/

0 Furnace 2007. The Garrison Hotel, Sheffield. UK
Saturday 20th - Sunday 21st October 2007.
http://www.rpgfurnace.com/

0 Consequences 2007. Naish Holiday Village, Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset, UK.
Friday 16th - Sunday 18th November 2007.
http://www.consequences.org.uk

0 Dragonmeet 2007. Kensington Town Hall, London, UK.
Saturday 1st December 2007.
http://www.dragonmeet.com/

0 Warpcon XVIII. University College Cork, Ireland.
Friday 25th - Sunday 27th January 2008.
http://www.warpcon.com/

0 Conception 2008. Naish Holiday Village, Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset, UK.
Wednesday 30th January - Sunday 3rd February 2008.
http://conception.modus-operandi.co.uk/

0 Continuum 2008. New Hall, Leicester University. UK.
Friday 1st - Monday 4th August 2008.
http://www.continuum.uk.net