[June 2024 Update] UK RPG Conventions Listing

This is the June 2024 update for the UK RPG conventions for 2024 and beyond.

Each has a website (though a few have Facebook pages) for information and details.

I am waiting on news on a few regular events so I may update this list.

If you know of any that have been missed please mention them in the comments below.

There are a few clashes of cons over a few weekends.

Please note, a few conventions have asked to be removed from this list.

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UK Games Expo 2024, NEC, North Ave, Marston Green, Birmingham B40 1NT & Hilton, Pendigo Way, Marston Green, Birmingham B40 1PP

Friday 31st May - Sunday 2nd June 2024.

http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk

Summer StabCon 2024, The Guildhall, 169-171 Wellington Rd South, Stockport, SK1 3UA

Friday 28th - Sunday 30th June 2024.

https://facebook.com/events/s/summer-stabcon-2024/1286003025672124/

Dungeons & Flagons Tabletop Games Weekender June 2024, The Union, 21 Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6AD

Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th June 2024.

https://facebook.com/events/s/df-weekender-june-2024/1035567924194099/

LongCon 2024, Garrison Hotel, 635 Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2GB

Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th June 2024.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSculrEUCocT2CK6vv1By617vUsZfj3YVP_gUvKgnnm1CFqhUQ/viewform

Dahn Sarf 2024, Brewdog Chancery Lane. London. EC4A 1DE.

Saturday 13th July 2024. 11:00am - 9:00pm.

https://warhorn.net/events/dahn-sarf-a-day-of-london-osr-gaming

Venue Change

Continuum 2024, Cranfield CMDC Conference Centre, Wharley End Cranfield, Cranfield, Wharley End, Bedford MK43 0HG

Friday 26th - Monday 29th July, 2024.

http://continuumconvention.co.uk/

Grand Tribunal 2024, Gas Green Community Centre, Baker Street, Cheltenham GL51 9HQ

Friday 9th - Sunday 11th August 2024.

http://www.grandtribunal.org/wiki/Main_Page

HandyCon Lucky 13, Delta Hotel, Kents Hill Park, Timbold Dr, Kents Hill, Milton Keynes MK7 6HL

Friday 9th - Sunday 11th August 2024.

https://www.handycon.co.uk

Field of Games 2024, Silverstone Farm Campsite New Rookery Farm, Little London, Silverstone, Northants. NN12 8UP

Monday 12th - Monday 19th August 2024.

http://fieldofgames.co.uk

Strange Games Festival 2024, Bushy Wood Activity Centre, Main Road, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 3LZ

Friday 23rd - Monday 26th August 2024.

https://strangegamesfestival.co.uk

Dungeons & Flagons Tabletop Games Weekender August 2024, The Union, 21 Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6AD

Saturday 24th - Sunday 25th August 2024.

https://facebook.com/events/s/df-weekender-august-2024/687372176814294/

Norwich Games Con 2024, St Andrews & Blackfriars Hall, St Andrews Hall Plain, Norwich NR3 1AU

Saturday 24th August 2024, 10:00 - Midnight

https://www.norwichgames.uk

Tabletop Scotland 2024, Highland Hall at the Royal Highland Centre Ingliston, Edinburgh, EH28 8NB,  Scotland.

Friday 6th - Sunday 8th September 2024.

http://tabletopscotland.co.uk/

Furnace XIX, Garrison Hotel, 635 Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2GB

Saturday 12th - Sunday 13th October 2024.

http://furnace.org.uk

HandyKon 14, Delta Hotel, Kents Hill Park, Timbold Dr, Kents Hill, Milton Keynes MK7 6HL

Friday 25th - Sunday 27th October 2024.

https://www.handycon.co.uk

Dungeons & Flagons Tabletop Games Weekender Halloween 2024, The Union, 21 Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6AD

Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th October 2024.

https://facebook.com/events/s/df-weekender-october-halloween/1783222635531306/

Dungeons & Flagons Tabletop Games Weekender Festive Special 2024, The Union, 21 Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6AD

Saturday 14th - Sunday 15th December 2024.

https://facebook.com/events/s/df-weekender-december-festive-/744127557762545/

Dragonmeet 2024, Novotel London West, Hammersmith, London, UK

​Saturday 30th November 2024, 9.00am - Midnight

https://www.dragonmeet.co.uk

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GrogMeet 2025, Manchester Venue TBC

Friday 17th - Sunday 19th January 2025.

https://thegrognardfiles.com/grogmeet-2024/

ConTingency 2025, Searles Leisure Resort, South Beach, Hunstanton, Norfolk. PE36 5BB

Wednesday 27th January - Monday 3rd February 2025.

http://www.con-tingency.uk/

Dudley Bug Ball 2025, Station Hotel & Banqueting, Castle Hill, Dudley DY1 4RA

Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd February 2025.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100081059031001

AireCon TEN, Harrogate International Centre, King's Rd, Harrogate HG1 5LA

Thursday 14th - Sunday 16th March 2025.

https://airecon.uk

North Star VIII, Garrison Hotel, 635 Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2GB

Saturday 10th - Sunday 11th May 2025.

http://www.northstarcon.org.uk/

My Fria Ligan Games for UK Games Expo 2024

So I am running six Fri Ligan games at UK Games Expo 2024 using the Year Zero Engine. I am quite excited as I am using some very different settings and genres. And of course the games will be blinded up! The settings I’m using are Swedish Uppsala in the 19th Century as the investigators look into a curious case of Norse curses, a fallen star in Derby, UK in an alternate 1984 as Kids see what’s inside the crater, Star Trek: Legacy in the 25th Century as the crew of the USS Enterprise-G are sent on a secret mission (this will run three times), and last but not least is Alien where the crew of the Lewis & Clark investigate a strange signal. There are still some spaces for a few of the games so check them out.

Friday 31st May 2024

‘Vaesen - Those That Fight Alone’

Vaesen RPG

Friday Morning Slot

For up to six players. New players welcome!

A student and gentleman of the esteemed Swedish historian and poet, Professor Erik Gustaf Geijer, the poet that brought the word “Viking” into common parlance, has written to the Society pleading for help. This young student, Baron Gustaf Wilhelm Leuhusen, feels he has a Doom upon him. Men who worked on the archeological dig at the old Norse burial mounds at Old Uppsala have all been violently slaughtered and he believes he is next.

Can the Society help? Does it have to do with the strange cuts on the Baron’s arm? And why are there soldiers wandering the streets of Uppsala dressed in the old uniforms of the Napoleon Wars?

Tags: Player-led, Investigation Horror (Alt-History), Horror, Supernatural, Magic, Dead, No Pre-gens, Rules-lite, Newbie Friendly, Fria Ligan, Flashing Lights, Musical Accompaniment.

https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/1947-vaesen-those-that-fight-alone/

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Fallen Stars and Furious Pterosaurs

Tales from the Loop RPG

Friday Afternoon Slot

For up to six players. New players welcome!

Autumn is here; the dark evenings are drawing in, the smell of bonfires fill the cold air, the leaves are brown and gold, and birds fly and swoop over the fields.

But there are spooky goings on as livestock has disappeared, there are strange shrieks and noises in the dark nights, and a fallen star has crashed in the fields at Oak Flats. The Feral Buddleia isn’t back so what’s going on, is it all about Halloween?

Tags: Player-led, Sci-Fi (Alt-History), Nostalgia Play, No Pre-gens, Rules-lite, Newbie Friendly, Fria Ligan, Musical Accompaniment.

https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/1949-fallen-stars-and-furious-pterosaurs-tales-from-the-loop/

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‘Star Trek Legacy: Conspiracy’

Year Zero Engine

Friday Evening Slot

For up to six players. Newbies welcome!

Captain’s Log Stardate 79766.17

We were on route to Pacifica when we were interrupted by a Code 47 (Captain’s Eyes Only) call from Starfleet Admiralty. I’ve been ordered to take the Enterprise to the Perintha system, site of the Iconian Research Taskforce. There are no further details to the orders but my intuition is that they are wanting to send the Enterprise through the ancient Iconian Catapult Device in orbit of Perintha Prime to be thrown instantaneously beyond the known Galaxy to the distant outreaches of deep space.

Nothing new for me then!

Captain Seven of Nine.

Tags: 18+, Star Trek, Picard Season 3, Hidden Agendas, Horror, Player-Led, Pre-Gens, Sci-Fi, PvP, Harsh Language, Spaceships with Carpets, Fria Ligan, Flashing Lights, Musical Accompaniment.

https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/1948-star-trek-legacy-conspiracy/

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Saturday 1st June 2024

‘Star Trek Legacy: Conspiracy’

Year Zero Engine

Saturday Morning Slot

For up to six players. Newbies welcome!

Captain’s Log Stardate 79766.17

We were on route to Pacifica when we were interrupted by a Code 47 (Captain’s Eyes Only) call from Starfleet Admiralty. I’ve been ordered to take the Enterprise to the Perintha system, site of the Iconian Research Taskforce. There are no further details to the orders but my intuition is that they are wanting to send the Enterprise through the ancient Iconian Catapult Device in orbit of Perintha Prime to be thrown instantaneously beyond the known Galaxy to the distant outreaches of deep space.

Nothing new for me then!

Captain Seven of Nine.

Tags: 18+, Star Trek, Picard Season 3, Hidden Agendas, Horror, Player-Led, Pre-Gens, Sci-Fi, PvP, Harsh Language, Spaceships with Carpets, Fria Ligan, Flashing Lights, Musical Accompaniment.

https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/1948-star-trek-legacy-conspiracy/

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‘Star Trek Legacy: Conspiracy’

Year Zero Engine

Saturday Afternoon Slot

For up to six players. Newbies welcome!

Captain’s Log Stardate 79766.17

We were on route to Pacifica when we were interrupted by a Code 47 (Captain’s Eyes Only) call from Starfleet Admiralty. I’ve been ordered to take the Enterprise to the Perintha system, site of the Iconian Research Taskforce. There are no further details to the orders but my intuition is that they are wanting to send the Enterprise through the ancient Iconian Catapult Device in orbit of Perintha Prime to be thrown instantaneously beyond the known Galaxy to the distant outreaches of deep space.

Nothing new for me then!

Captain Seven of Nine.

Tags: 18+, Star Trek, Picard Season 3, Hidden Agendas, Horror, Player-Led, Pre-Gens, Sci-Fi, PvP, Harsh Language, Spaceships with Carpets, Fria Ligan, Flashing Lights, Musical Accompaniment.

https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/1948-star-trek-legacy-conspiracy/

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‘Alien - Empty Vessels Make No Noise’

Alien RPG

Saturday Evening slot

For up to seven players. Newbies welcome!

“Damaged vessel UPPS Gromkiy, please respond, this is USAC Lewis & Clark, a rescue ship acknowledging your distress beacon, please respond. The breach in your hull is bleeding oxygen. Your radio silence isn’t helping you as your reactor looks it will blow in twelve hours. Do you want to be rescued?”

Tags: 18+, Alien, Hidden Agendas, Horror, Player-Led, Pre-Gens, Sci-Fi, Spaceships with Ashtrays, Fria Ligan, Flashing Lights, Musical Accompaniment.

https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/1950-alien-empty-vessels-make-no-noise/

[May 2024 Update] UK RPG Conventions Listing

This is the May 2024 update for the UK RPG conventions for 2024 and beyond.

Each has a website (though a few have Facebook pages) for information and details.

I am waiting on news on a few regular events so I may update this list.

If you know of any that have been missed please mention them in the comments below.

There are a few clashes of cons over a few weekends.

Please note, a few conventions have asked to be removed from this list.

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Here For Games 2024, The Core, 32 Foley Trading Estate, Herefordshire, HR1 2SF

Friday 10th - Sunday 12th May 2024.

https://herefor.games/con/

North Star VII, Garrison Hotel, 635 Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2GB

Saturday 11th - Sunday 12th May 2024.

http://www.northstarcon.org.uk/

Dungeons & Flagons Tabletop Games Weekender May 2024, The Union, 21 Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6AD

Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th May 2024.

https://facebook.com/events/s/df-weekender-may-2024/900145324466883/

UK Games Expo 2024, NEC, North Ave, Marston Green, Birmingham B40 1NT & Hilton, Pendigo Way, Marston Green, Birmingham B40 1PP

Friday 31st May - Sunday 2nd June 2024.

http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk

Summer StabCon 2024, The Guildhall, 169-171 Wellington Rd South, Stockport, SK1 3UA

Friday 28th - Sunday 30th June 2024.

https://facebook.com/events/s/summer-stabcon-2024/1286003025672124/

Dungeons & Flagons Tabletop Games Weekender June 2024, The Union, 21 Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6AD

Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th June 2024.

https://facebook.com/events/s/df-weekender-june-2024/1035567924194099/

LongCon 2024, Garrison Hotel, 635 Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2GB

Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th June 2024.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSculrEUCocT2CK6vv1By617vUsZfj3YVP_gUvKgnnm1CFqhUQ/viewform

Dahn Sarf 2024, Brewdog Chancery Lane. London. EC4A 1DE.

Saturday 13th July 2024. 11:00am - 9:00pm.

https://warhorn.net/events/dahn-sarf-a-day-of-london-osr-gaming

Venue Change

Continuum 2024, Cranfield CMDC Conference Centre, Wharley End Cranfield, Cranfield, Wharley End, Bedford MK43 0HG

Friday 26th - Monday 29th July, 2024.

http://continuumconvention.co.uk/

Grand Tribunal 2024, Gas Green Community Centre, Baker Street, Cheltenham GL51 9HQ

Friday 9th - Sunday 11th August 2024.

http://www.grandtribunal.org/wiki/Main_Page

HandyCon Lucky 13, Delta Hotel, Kents Hill Park, Timbold Dr, Kents Hill, Milton Keynes MK7 6HL

Friday 9th - Sunday 11th August 2024.

https://www.handycon.co.uk

Field of Games 2024, Silverstone Farm Campsite New Rookery Farm, Little London, Silverstone, Northants. NN12 8UP

Monday 12th - Monday 19th August 2024.

http://fieldofgames.co.uk

Strange Games Festival 2024, Bushy Wood Activity Centre, Main Road, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 3LZ

Friday 23rd - Monday 26th August 2024.

https://strangegamesfestival.co.uk

Dungeons & Flagons Tabletop Games Weekender August 2024, The Union, 21 Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6AD

Saturday 24th - Sunday 25th August 2024.

https://facebook.com/events/s/df-weekender-august-2024/687372176814294/

Norwich Games Con 2024, St Andrews & Blackfriars Hall, St Andrews Hall Plain, Norwich NR3 1AU

Saturday 24th August 2024, 10:00 - Midnight

https://www.norwichgames.uk

Tabletop Scotland 2024, Highland Hall at the Royal Highland Centre Ingliston, Edinburgh, EH28 8NB,  Scotland.

Friday 6th - Sunday 8th September 2024.

http://tabletopscotland.co.uk/

Furnace XIX, Garrison Hotel, 635 Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2GB

Saturday 12th - Sunday 13th October 2024.

http://furnace.org.uk

HandyKon 14, Delta Hotel, Kents Hill Park, Timbold Dr, Kents Hill, Milton Keynes MK7 6HL

Friday 25th - Sunday 27th October 2024.

https://www.handycon.co.uk

Dungeons & Flagons Tabletop Games Weekender Halloween 2024, The Union, 21 Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6AD

Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th October 2024.

https://facebook.com/events/s/df-weekender-october-halloween/1783222635531306/

Dungeons & Flagons Tabletop Games Weekender Festive Special 2024, The Union, 21 Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6AD

Saturday 14th - Sunday 15th December 2024.

https://facebook.com/events/s/df-weekender-december-festive-/744127557762545/

Dragonmeet 2024, Novotel London West, Hammersmith, London, UK

​Saturday 30th November 2024, 9.00am - Midnight

https://www.dragonmeet.co.uk

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GrogMeet 2025, Manchester Venue TBC

Friday 17th - Sunday 19th January 2025.

https://thegrognardfiles.com/grogmeet-2024/

ConTingency 2025, Searles Leisure Resort, South Beach, Hunstanton, Norfolk. PE36 5BB

Wednesday 27th January - Monday 3rd February 2025.

http://www.con-tingency.uk/

Dudley Bug Ball 2025, Station Hotel & Banqueting, Castle Hill, Dudley DY1 4RA

Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd February 2025.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100081059031001

AireCon TEN, Harrogate International Centre, King's Rd, Harrogate HG1 5LA

Thursday 14th - Sunday 16th March 2025.

https://airecon.uk