Saturday, 23 February 2008

More RPG Conventions

February's update.

0 Son Of Ramsdencon. Ramada Hotel, Colchester, UK.
Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th February 2008.
http://www.sorcon.co.uk/

0 Leprecon 29. Goldsmith Hall, Pearse St. Dublin 2, Ireland.
Friday 29th February - Sunday 2nd March 2008.
http://www.leprecon.ie

0 K2 2008. Killarney Country Club, Killarney, Ireland.
Friday Friday 7th - Monday 10th March 2008.
lir@lspace.org

0 CONcrete Cow '08. Old Bath House, Wolverton, Milton Keynes, UK.
Saturday 8th March 2008.
http://www.mk-rpg.org.uk

0 TravCon 08. Redwings Lodge, Sawtry, UK.
Friday 14th - Sunday 16th March 2008.
http://www.bits.org.uk/

0 Conpulsion 2008. Teviot Student Union, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd March 2008.
www.conpulsion.org

0 Beer & Pretzels XIX. Town Hall, Burton-upon-Trent, UK.
Saturday 17th - Sunday 18th May 2008.
http://www.spiritgames.com/bnpdetails.php

0 Tentacles Deja Vu. Castle Stahleck, Bacharach, Germany.
Friday 9th - Monday 12th May 2008.
http://www.tentacles-convention.de/

0 UK GAME EXPO 2008. The Clarendon Suites, Stirling Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
Saturday 31st May - Sunday 1st June 2008.
http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk

0 Q-CON XV Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland.
Friday 27th - Sunday 29th June 2008.
http://www.q-con.org.uk/

0 Continuum 2008. John Foster Hall [also known as New Hall], Leicester University. UK.
Friday 1st - Monday 4th August 2008.
http://www.continuum.uk.net

0 Gen Con UK 2008. University of Reading, Berkshire. UK.
Thursday 28th – Sunday 31st August 2008.
http://www.horsemenevents.com/

0 Ludicrus '08. Kesgrave Conference Centre, Ipswich, UK.
Saturday 27th - Sunday 28th September 2008.
http://www.ludicrus.co.uk

0 Furnace 2008. The Garrison Hotel, Sheffield. UK.
Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th October 2008.
http://www.rpgfurnace.com/

0 Game '08. New Century House, Manchester, UK.
Saturday 1st - Sunday 2nd November 2008.
http://www.game08.eu/

0 Indiecon ‘08. Holbourne, Naish, Christchurch, Dorset, UK.
Friday 7th - Monday 10th November 2008.
http://www.indiecon.net/

0 Bizarre Consequences. Holbourne, Naish, Christchurch, Dorset, UK.
Thursday 20th - Sunday 23th November 2008.
http://www.consequences.org.uk

0 Conception 2009. Naish Holiday Village, Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset, UK.
Wednesday 28th January - Sunday 1st February 2009.
http://www.conceptionuk.org/
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Monday, 18 February 2008

The East Midlands D&D Meet UP Groups' March Monthly Meet

Serenity/Firefly:HeroQuest game on Saturday 8th March 2008

As part of The East Midlands Dungeons & Dragons Meetup Group March Monthly Meeting I will be running one of my Serenity:HeroQuest games as detailed below. The meet up starts at 13:00 on Saturday 8th March 2008 at the Brunswick Inn, right next to the Derby Railway Station.
Anyone interested should reply or PM me.

The Brunswick Inn
1 Railway Terrace, Derby, DE1 2RU.


“Money, money, money!”


“I got the Gatling gun!”


Serenity/Firefly:HeroQuest.
The game is 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. Each game is a one shot with pre-gen characters. There are seven player characters and the game should last four hours.





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Saturday 8th March 2008 @ 14:00.
'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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Past reports of the other games

For a report on August's game click here and and for September's game click here for details of this months game and RSPV click here.

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Saturday, 15 December 2007

December Update of Up & Coming RPG Conventions.

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://www.conceptionuk.org/

0 Son Of Ramsdencon. Ramada Hotel, Colchester, UK.
Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th February 2008.
http://www.sorcon.co.uk/

0 Leprecon 29. Goldsmith Hall, Pearse St. Dublin 2, Ireland.
Friday 29th February - Sunday 2nd March 2008.
http://www.leprecon.ie

0 K2 2008. Killarney Country Club, Killarney, Ireland.
Friday Friday 7th - Monday 10th March 2008.
lir@lspace.org

0 CONcrete Cow '08. Old Bath House, Wolverton, Milton Keynes, UK.
Saturday 8th March 2008.
http://www.mk-rpg.org.uk

0 TravCon 08. Redwings Lodge, Sawtry, UK.
Friday 14th - Sunday 16th March 2008.
http://www.bits.org.uk/

0 Conpulsion 2008. Teviot Student Union, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd March 2008.
www.conpulsion.org

0 Beer & Pretzels XIX. Town Hall, Burton-upon-Trent, UK.
Saturday 17th - Sunday 18th May 2008.
http://www.spiritgames.com/bnpdetails.php

0 Tentacles 2008. Castle Stahleck, Bacharach, Germany.
Friday 9th - Monday 12th May 2008.
http://www.tentacles-convention.de/

0 UK GAME EXPO 2008. The Clarendon Suites, Stirling Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
Saturday 31st May - Sunday 1st June 2008.
http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk

0 Q-CON XV Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland.
Friday 27th - Sunday 29th June 2008.
http://www.q-con.org.uk/

0 Continuum 2008. John Foster Hall [also known as New Hall], Leicester University. UK.
Friday 1st - Monday 4th August 2008.
http://www.continuum.uk.net

0 Gen Con UK 2008. University of Reading, Berkshire. UK.
Thursday 28th – Sunday 31st August 2008.
http://www.horsemenevents.com/

0 Ludicrus '08. Kesgrave Conference Centre, Ipswich, UK.
Saturday 27th - Sunday 28th September 2008.
http://www.ludicrus.co.uk

0 Furnace 2008. The Garrison Hotel, Sheffield. UK
Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th October 2008.
http://www.rpgfurnace.com/

0 Game '08. New Century House, Manchester, UK.
Saturday 1st - Sunday 2nd November 2008.
http://www.game08.eu/

0 Indiecon ‘08. Holbourne, Naish, Christchurch, Dorset, UK.
Friday 7th - Monday 10th November 2008.
http://www.indiecon.net/

Wednesday, 12 December 2007

My games at Conception 2008.

0 Conception 2008. Naish Holiday Village, Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset, UK.
Wednesday 30th January - Sunday 3rd February 2008.
http://www.conceptionuk.org/

These are my games that I am running at Conception 2008.

HeroQuest:Heroes
Using some of the cast of the TV show Heroes as player characters set right after where season 1 ends this game debuts at Conception 2008. This setting was voted the winner in a poll here, beating Ultraviolet [the Channel 4 TV Series], The Shield [The channel 5 TV series], Battlestar Galactica [the new TV series], More and newer episodes of Sereinty/Firefly, and some old fashioned Glorantha gaming.

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Slot 3 - Thursday 10:00 - 14:00
'Double Ascension' by Darran Sims narrated by Darran Sims.
A Heroes HeroQuest adventure for 5 players.
Newcomers very welcome. Maturity preferred.

With Nathan’s self sacrifice to save the city, Peter gone for good and Matt taken to hospital in an ambulance; the survivors look to one another amongst the aftermath of Kirby Plaza. With the remnants of the nuclear explosion drifting down on New York City, in the sudden dark after the brightness of day, there hangs a question.
A blood trail leads to an open manhole cover and the body of the boogeyman is missing.
All that is left in the wake are a few scribbled sketches of what has past, what is and what is yet to come.
So why does everybody feel that they are being watched?

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Serenity/FireFly: HeroQuest
These are games based on the series FireFly and the film Serenity by Buffy's Joss Whedon. The player characters 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 run twenty times now at various conventions and has always been over-subscribed.

The sequel, 'The Quick and the Dead', has only been run seven times and has now been extended with extra dilemmas.

The second sequel [or is that threequel?] debuted at Conception 2007 and has only been ran once more at Dragonmeet 2007. I am running it again especially for Conception 2008. '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!

Debuted at Furnace 2007 and only ran once so is completely new is the fourth in the series called 'No Power in the 'verse'. This is payback time and the Alliance and Blue Sun will suffer when the crew of The Betty discover the darkest secret yet and will try to bring an end to their evil plots.

Due to the popular demand of these games a seventh player character has been added to all 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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Slot 6 - Friday 10:00 - 14:00
'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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Slot 12 - Sunday 10:00 - 14:00
'No Power in the 'verse' by Darran Sims narrated by Darran Sims.
Serenity: HeroQuest adventure for 7 players.
Newcomers very welcome. Maturity preferred.

"Well, they have hurt me jobs, hurt my pay, hurt my ship, hurt my crew and now they are hurting my head.
Well I say 'no more!'
I ain't sitting back on this one, no sir. I am goin' to take it to them. Hurt them hard. See how they like that! I coming at them straight and true.
No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

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'We are the Boys...'
This is a new game based on a very popular TV series in the UK. This will not only stretch my scenario writing ability and my GM style but the HeroQuest games mechanic as well. Very much a 'beer & pretzel' game played for some laughs. I hope that it goes well.



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Slot 9 - Saturday 10:00 - 14:00
'We are the Boys...' by Darran Sims narrated by Darran Sims.
HeroQuest adventure for 6 players.
Newcomers very welcome. [im-]Maturity preferred.

It is the dark summer of 1940 and the storm clouds of war still hang over Europe. Nazi Germany is poised to do Hitler's bidding and invade this green and pleasant land. The Local Defence Volunteers will be the last bastion of England when the invasion comes; if they fail then the country will be under the Nazi jackboot and all freedom lost.
And where will the Nazi vanguard attack?
Walmington-on-Sea!

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Wednesday, 28 November 2007

Cartoon RPG Characters

Okay I have cobbled together some cartoon characters for Evilgaz's article about Player Ettiquette that appeared in this year's Con Book for the Furnace convention.

Now I am quite happy with them but I do struggle for some ideas for a regular cartoon strip. Anyone have any ideas?


Cat-Piss Man.

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The Original Dungeoneer.

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The CGG Kid.

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The MMORPGer.

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The Avant-Grande Role-Player.

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The Rules Lawyer.

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The Haggered GM.


Thoughts?

Thursday, 22 November 2007

Basic Timings for Continuum 2008.

Just to give a basic idead of the running times so people can plan events and games.

Food Times
08:00 - 10:00 Breakfast. Included with accommodation.
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch. Cash sales.
18:30 - 20:00 Dinner. Cash sales.

Friday
Bar Times 14:00 – 01:00
13:00 Open registration
14:00 Game Slot 1
19:00 Opening Ceremony
20:00 till late Game Slot 2
20:00 Icebreakers! [Pub quiz & silly games]

Saturday
Bar Times 11:00 – 01:00
10:00 – 13:00 Game Slot 3
14:00 – 18:00 Game Slot 4
19:30 – 23:30 Game Slot 5

Sunday
Bar Times 11:00 – 01:00
10:00 – 13:00 Game Slot 6
14:00 – 18:00 Game Slot 7
19:30 – 22:00 Auction
19:30 – 23:30 Game Slot 8
22:00 Closing Ceremony
Drink and chat until early hours.

Monday
Breakfast, tidy up, say goodbyes, & depart.
10:00 – 14:00 Game Slot 9 [for Hardcore gamers Wink ]


Tuesday, 20 November 2007

Prices set for Continuum 2008!


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Continuum 2008. John Foster Hall, Leicester University, UK
Friday 1st – Monday 4th August 2008.
http://www.continuum.uk.net

Prices for membership and Accommodation.
We are pleased to announce the prices for Continuum 2008.
Registration will open very early December 2007 with the launch of the new Continuum 2008 website. Exact date will follow soon.

En suite Accommodation.
All three nights = £35.00 per night.
One/two nights = £40.00 per night.

Membership.
Early-Bird membership = £20.00 before 1st April 2008.
Standard membership = £35.00 after 1st April 2008.
Kids with adult = FREE!

Yes that's right, kids come free with an adult if they are having accommodation. Kids equal or under 16 years of age.

As you see we hope that this provides excellent value for money for a busy games convention in a first rate venue with top notch accommodation.

News about the games, programme, guest of honour and events will follow in the coming months.