Creator Zone

Published on March 20, 2012. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

On Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm we will be turning the 12 feet of Saturday’s “Bring & Buy” tables into a Creator Zone.

The plan is that this space in the trade hall will be open to aspiring creators and creatives to sell their wares and to network with each other.

We want it to be a market type of area where artists, novelists, games designers and musicians can share their work and meet-up with like-minded creators.

So, how do you take part? Well, buy a ticket for the con and we’ll see you at the tables on the Sunday. We’ll post a staff member in the area to help facilitate the zone too.

We hope that societies will bring along their art, writing and music zines and it would be great to see aspiring artists and self-published novelists and game designers selling their books.

There is no fee to be on the Creator Zone tables, all we ask is that be respectful and mutually supportive of other people using the area.

IRN GM

Published on March 18, 2012. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Conpulsion’s IRN GM competition is back this year.

The rules are simple:

Sign up at the RPG sign up desk  on Saturday, and collect your three random GURPS supplements.

Write an RPG Scenario based on the three books given to you.

Hand in the sign up sheet and synopsis (as well as the supplements) on Sunday morning.

Run your game on the Sunday afternoon and be judged.

Prove that you can pull and RPG out of thin air with the best of them and win a prize.

 

Enthroning the SKoG – competition

Published on March 17, 2012. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Could you be the Scottish King of Games?

The title of Scottish King of Games will be awarded to the best player of board and card games on Saturday. The SKoG will also walk away with a £50 prize voucher to spend on any trader stall at the con. (Special consideration will be made for people who can’t come back on the Sunday to spend the voucher.)

 

The games contestants will be playing are listed below, covering these categories:

  • Board games: abstract strategy, worker placement, auctioning, pick up and deliver and area control
  • Card games: deck building and hand management.

All rules will be explained as needed but you can use the links provided below to the games’ pages on Board Game Geek; each page has links to the game’s rules that you can look at beforehand.

The set up and rules:

  • Contestants must play in all games
  • Contestants must be available at all times between 10am and 6pm on the Saturday (there will be a lunch slot and breaks :-) )
  • Games will be played mostly in groups of 4
  • There is no minimum age but contestants should check the individual games suggested age ranges (see the links below).

The board games:

The card games:

Guest, Mayan-apocalypse theme game:

Trader: Intemporaliter Primaeva

Published on March 17, 2012. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .

To find out more you can visit their website.

Or Facebook page.

Trader: Black Lion Games

Published on March 17, 2012. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .

Black Lion Games has been supporting Edinburgh’s gaming community, the Edinburgh student gaming societies and Conpulsion for many valuable years.

Black Lion Games is a specialist games shop in Edinburgh. Selling roleplaying games, collectible card games, miniatures, board and card games, wargames and all the accessories you could want.

Feel free to wander round their website and see what they have to offer.

Bring & Buy

Published on March 17, 2012. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

A chance to offload your junk – sorry, much sought after pre-loved gaming goods – or buy some stuff.  Or if you’re really keen, both!  As usual, the stall will be accepting items from shortly after doors open. We hope to be offering these items for sale shortly before the first slot starts.  Exact timings will be published as soon as they are confirmed.

All items must be listed individually on an official Conpulsion B&B form which will be made available shortly.  If you wish to pre-number your goods, please contact us to be issued with your unique reference.

THE STALL RUNS ON SATURDAY ONLY.  Roleplaying and other gaming products will be given priority if stall space is limited.

A 10% commission will be taken from the stall to be donated to this year’s charity.

Bring_&_Buy_Form_2012

 

Steampunk Disco – Saturday Night

Published on March 15, 2012. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Picture courtesy of Pierre Vincent http://www.pierre-vincent.com

Enjoy an alternative future on the Saturday evening at Conpulsion as the cogs and pistons kick into high gear at our Steampunk Disco .

The Look 24/7 DJ Silvertouch is stoking the music engines for the evening and providing a mix of styles to entertain the most discerning of convention goer from 10:00 pm until 3:00 am.

The disco is free for Conpulsion ticket holders but the event is also open to those non-gamers who want to join the fun for the cheap price of £5.

For each entry paid for we promise to donate £4 to our charity Pass It On so everyone wins: Great music, fabulous company and student union prices.

Entry to Teviot after six in the evening requires the following, Read Teviot Entry Policy here.

Then make your way down to the Underground, costume or not, and enjoy the fun

 

Pick up and play board games from Red Dice Games

Published on March 13, 2012. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Red Dice logoRed Dice Games is an online retailer of board and card games whose people are going to demo some games and bring along a collection of games for pick up and play. Check out their shop here: www.reddicegames.com

Their pick up and play selection will be: Kittens in a Blender, Bears!, Braggart, Seven Dragons, Fluxx (Space and Zombie, to mention but 2), Zombie in my Pocket and Zombies – … writing this now I’m realising how important Zombies are to our subculture.

The games they’re demo-ing are:

  • Saturday am – Mansions of Madness and Game of Thrones;
  • Saturday pm – Elder Sign and Blood Bowl: Team Manager;
  • Sunday am – Dust Tactics and Rex: Final Days of an Empire;
  • Sunday pm – Nexus Ops and 7 Wonders.

Board game schedule

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Saturday morning – 10am
Scottish King of Games *competitionpre-reg available
Wings of War (World War I)
Car Wars
Mansions of Madness
Game of Thrones (2nd edition)
Saturday afternoon – 3pm
Wings of War (World War I)
Car Wars
Elder Sign
Blood Bowl: Team Manager
Saturday evening - 8pm
Iron Man of Arkhamcompetitionpre-reg available
Sunday morning - 10am
Civilization *pre-reg available
Wings of War (World War II)
Car Wars
Dust Tactics
Rex: Final Days of an Empire
Sunday afternoon - 3pm
Wings of War (World War II)
Car Wars
Nexus Ops
7 Wonders
Legacy
Combat Commander
Notes:

  1. 2 more games are pending arrangement, watch this space
  2. * Begins at 10am but continues through the afternoon slot

 

Events: Dawn Duellists Society

Published on March 8, 2012. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

The Cold Steel Weapons of Fantasy and Steampunk with Edinburgh’s DDS

Come and see what happens when people throw cuts rather than polyhedral dice! Handle bastard swords, two handed swords, sword and buckler combos, sabres and rapiers. Get a taste of how they work for real, and why not all of them can coexist.

The DDS will be in full swordplay downstairs in the Underground on Saturday lunchtime.

To find out more about the DDS visit their website.

 

Guest: Newt Newport and D101 Games

Published on March 8, 2012. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

In 2008 while faffing about creating an Imaginary Games company to produce a game based on Monkey: The Journey to the West, a 20 page RPG.net thread over the then woeful state of Gloranthan publications, inspired me to put my money where my heart was and leap head first into the world of roleplaying games fanzines.  Three months later the first issue of Hearts in Glorantha was released to much appreciation, and building on this came OpenQuest, a tribute game to old RuneQuest, its supplement the Savage North and then Monkey itself.

I’m the self-styled Benevolent Dicator of D101 Games, regularly pulling rabbits out of hats and producing new games and supplements in both the Storytelling and Traditional mode. Written both by myself and a gang of other authors. Its a tread mill of fun that beats the crap out losing myself in the World of Warcrack and that’s seen 19 books in four years.  I once had an entire convention, independently tell me that you couldn’t make any money out of RPGs. It made me smile wryly, since D101 does make money SO EVERYONE INVOLVED GETS PAID and much greater spiritual goals are achived on a regular basis.

I recently released Crypts and Things, a none too subtle mix of Swords and Sorcery D&D with the DM’s advice written while channelling Clark Ashton-Smith and I’m currently writing Project Darklight a Cyberpunk game, which mixes up with an explosive cocktail of Ufology and scathing commentary on the current state of information technology.

Mr Newport can be found around the convention and running The Magical Painter and Operation Wolverine games.

Sponsor: Leisure Games

Published on March 8, 2012. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .

Leisure Games  is one of Europe’s leading specialist Games Shops, taking pride in keeping the widest ranges of all types of games in stock. As well as the ‘Bricks & Mortar’ store we run a fast, friendly and efficient mail order service, sending games all over the world. Our shelves are crammed full of Roleplaying games, Indy Press RPGs, Board games, Card games, Collectible and Living card games, miniatures, Historical War games, Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Historical Tabletop Wargames rules and accessories!

We have various forthcoming events in-store such as CCG Tournaments, Painting Competition and Games Demonstrations Days, and we support our local Games Club by sponsoring events and hosting Finchley Games Club Demonstration/Recruitment days in-store. On top of all that we support numerous conventions around the country. Sadly we cannot attend Conpulsion, but we wish you all a great time.

Their website is http://www.leisuregames.com/ and you can follow them on Twitter @leisuregames_uk

 

More Mobile Frame Zero pictures & Kickstarter news

Published on March 7, 2012. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Mobile Frame Zero: Rapid Attack is designed to be playable with two to five players, each fielding a company of mobile frames of different strengths. The game keeps tension high by making sure that no player ever quite has enough frames, equipment, or time to be a sure thing. In fact, the player in the strongest points position to win is the player with the weakest company; if you expect to fight from a difficult position, be ready to run away and come back in another round!

Play starts with the doomsday clock set to 11. Every turn, it ticks down by one automatically. At 0 the game ends. But adding to that is the possibility that each player can mark it down faster. If you’re winning, you’ll mark it down every round. If you think you’ll be winning this round, you’ll mark it down. Players never really know how soon the game will end until the very end.

Rules are tightly tied to the frames themselves. Every frame has its own two white dice, then has added to it up to four subsystems. Those systems help the frame move, attack at one of three ranges, defend themselves, and observe & communicate. When a frame takes damage, it takes damage by losing those systems.

Play takes between 2.5 and 4 hours, depending on the age and number of players. Eager 10-year-olds seem to grasp the game well, but it offers a constantly flowing sea of tactical options to more experienced players.

Mobile Frame Zero: Rapid Attack are seeking funding for their Kickstarter. Simply click the link to find out more and support them.