RuneQuest Con Down Under
A convention for RuneQuest and the world of Glorantha and the other great games produced by Chaosium: Pendragon, Call of Cthulhu, Elric, Nephilim, Credo, Dragon Pass
The third in the RQ Con series, after Baltimore (Jan '94) and San Francisco (Jan '95) shifts Down Under to Melbourne, Australia, January 19-21st 1996.
Guests of Honour - Greg Stafford, Sandy Petersen
*Feature Event* - HOME OF THE BOLD
The 70 player, multi-session freeform - a smash hit at RQ Con '94 (USA)
& Convulsion '92 (UK)
*Tournaments* - covering all Chaosium games, as well as systemless and
freeforms.
*Seminars* - Heroquesting, Lunar Tunes, Pendragon Pass, Nick Brooke
Cultural Exchange, Call of Cthulhu, Getting your RPG stuff published,
Living with Myth, Lore Auction (where Greg and Sandy answer any
question for a buck!)... and more!
*Special Events* - Eat at Geos, Orlanthi Storytelling Contest,
Gloranthan Sacred Time Ceremony (half ritual, half theatre, half
freeform), Live Action Trollball and lots more!
*Special Guests*
We'll be bringing you a line-up of RuneQuest/Chaosium luminaries from
across the globe (and just around the corner). Confirmed special
guests include:
Greg Stafford - creator of Glorantha, author of RuneQuest and Pendragon, and founder of the world's coolest game company, Chaosium.
Sandy Petersen - the man who brought you Call of Cthulhu, numerous RQ publications and (more recently) Doom-laden software for your PC.
David Hall - editor and publisher of Tales of the Reaching Moon, the international RQ/Glorantha magazine.
Kevin Jacklin - the UK's freeform LARPing guru.
Nick Brooke - scourge of the Internet Glorantha Daily and inveterate Gloranthan scholar-at-large.
Mark Morrison - long-time Chaosium editor and author of Elric and Call of Cthulhu, and lately, interactive software scriptwriter.
David Dunham - author of Pendragon Pass, the alternative Pendragon rules for Glorantha
Richard Watts - editor of Chaosium's Elric line, poet and performer extraordinaire.
Cost: membership is just $40 for the whole weekend. An additional $10 for Home of the Bold participants. There are no other session or seminar fees. Membership is strictly limited to 150 places. Places are already filling up, including a gratifyingly large number of overseas players.
Venue: Bayswater Primary School, Bayswater, Bayswater, Victoria. (Bayswater is approximately 25 km east of the Melbourne CBD, and easily accessible by road, rail and bus.)
Enquiries and Further Information
Please contact the organisers
Michael 'MOB" O'Brien
48 Barcelona Street, Box Hill 3128 VIC
Phone (03) 9899 8539 / 2669 Fax (03) 97208986
Internet: mobtotrm_at_vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
John Hughes
47/32 Bunbury Street, Stirling 2611 ACT
Phone (06) 288 0273
Internet: nysalor_at_spirit.com.au
Andrew Bean
4 Maggie Street, Yarraville VIC 3013
Internet: abean_at_geel.dwt.csiro.au
David Cake
104 Barker Road, Subiaco WA 6008
Phone (09) 382 2847
Internet: davidc_at_cs.uwa.edu.au
*we've already got a gratifying large number of furriners making the trip:
glad to have many more, if you can make it!
Cheers
MOB
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