Darran

An update from Lawrence Whitaker Greetings Continuees, The membership list has been updated - twice for some of you (and we know who you are, and are attending to that small matter! Its not a cunning way of boosting the members' list... just my clumsy keyboard skills) so please check Http://www.continuum.uk.net and the Cast and Crew drop-down. If you're not on there and should be, please drop me a line. The programme is developing with the usual litany of clashes, ums, ahs and 'where do we schedule that?' headaches, but really, its looking good and solid. Lots of Glorantha panels because there are lots of Glorantha announcements and updates. On that Gloranthan note, we're holding a 'So You're New to Glorantha?' panel. This is for all those Continuees who are interested in learning more about Greg Stafford's most famous creation, and how to get into the setting for gaming. We'll also be holding a special Gloranthan scenario especially for neophites, showcasing the HeroQuest 2 ruleset. This is your chance to discover the rich and wonderous setting of Glorantha! However, we have some interesting discussion panels on other subjects, including 'Faith and Roleplaying part II' - a follow-on to Dr Moose's very popular panel from Continuum 2006. Greg Stafford will be hosting another bout of Saurintology so you can discover your Inner Dinosaur, and Mark Galeotti will be plunging into 'History and Role-playing'. With all the buzz around Dark Heresy, our own Mike Mason will be hosting a panel to discuss the game, its history and where it's going. And, for all those Moorcock fans, I'll be hosting an Eternal Champion panel to bring you up to speed with news on what's happening with the Mongoose gaming line based on Mike's books and to talk about how the Elric and Hawkmoon games developed into their current incarnations. The membership list stands at 183 and we're looking to break that magical 200 number. So if you haven't signed-up yet, get your skates on; and, if you have a friend or friends (let's face it, who doesn't?) who's thinking of coming to Continuum, or maybe not even considered it, give 'em a push in the right direction. Some of you have asked me about freeform sign-ups. Simon Bray, Grand Constable of Freeformshire, will be publicising details very soon. The delay is threefold: first, we're still getting freeform details from the relevant GMs/writers; second, we had hoped to have online sign-up but that's not looking possible, so we're swinging into Cunning Plan B; and thirdly, we have some clashes to resolve so that we get a good, fair, equitable spread. But you'll be able to sign-up for your freeforms very, very soon. And, if you've never freeformed before, but feel like giving it a go, please let us know and we'll be happy to guide you through how it all works and pair you up with one of our Freeform Mentors so that you can get the most out of your freeforming experience. As already notified, there'll be the Continuum Auction. Mike Mason will be sending out more details soon, and we'll be adding the auction sheets and labels to the website. So look through your collections and see what you want to turn into hard cash... So, only 6 weeks to go... Continuum will be with us before you know it...! Lawrence Whitaker

Anything that you'll think will suit our membership. We have a strong Chaosium feel and hark back to RuneQuest [Mongoose or otherwise]. Glorantha is good as well!

A couple more things to think about. The deadline for the Continuum Programme Book is Friday 4th July 2008 Getting stuff earlier would be good though. As for word count anything from 1000 to 4000 words. A scenario could be a little more at 6000 maximum. Formats should be M$ Word 2004 [or lower] or Rich Text Format. If I can copy and paste from PDFs though so they are okay too. If you have any accompanying artwork I can include that as well or do my own for your article. Artwork can be in colour as the Con Book will be printed in full colour [that will be good for maps!]. I have had a few things already, news on them later, but I would like some more please?

0 Continuum 2008. John Foster Hall [also known as New Hall], Leicester University. UK. Friday 1st - Monday 4th August 2008. Continuum Continuum 2008 is a three day convention for 250+ attendees held in a modern conference centre at the University of Leicester Halls of Residence, Oadby, Leicester, UK. Call of Cthulhu, HeroQuest, RuneQuest, BRP, Savage Worlds, Indie games, and plenty of other game systems will be played at this convention. A colour Convention Book will be produced and given free to all attendees on arrival. As well as information on the convention, venue and games programmes there will be articles on gaming and role-playing. We are looking for contributions for this year's Convention Book, whether it is artwork, maps, articles, non-player characters, scenarios, encounters, gaming or GMing advice, settings, stories or anything else you can think of. We can not pay you but all contributors will receive the heartfelt thanks from the Continuum Committee, the joy of seeing their work in print and a free copy of the Con Book. All copyright of any material we use in the book remains the authors or artists, so you can use it again elsewhere. If you can send all submissions to darransims AT googlemail DOT com. Thank you for your time.

Part 2 as this forum will not allow me to post it all at once! 0 Gaelcon 2008. Clontarf Castle, Dublin, Ireland. Saturday 25th - Monday 27th October 2008. Gaelcon 2008 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. Home 0 Bizarre Consequences. Holbourne, Naish, Christchurch, Dorset, UK. Thursday 20th - Sunday 23th November 2008. Consequences B 0 Dragonmeet 2008. Kensington Town Hall, London, UK. Saturday 29th November 2008. Dragonmeet 2008 » About 0 Conception 2009. Naish Holiday Village, Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset, UK. Wednesday 28th January - Sunday 1st February 2009. Conception - Home 0 Tentacles 2009. Castle Stahleck, Bacharach, Germany. Friday 28th May - Monday 1st June 2009. Tentacles Convention - Welcome! 0 UK GAME EXPO 2009. The Clarendon Suites, Stirling Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK. Saturday 30th - Sunday 31st May 2009. UK Games Expo 2008 Home Page 0 Constitution 2009. New Hall, Cambridge, UK. Friday 31st July - Sunday 2nd August 2009. Constitution

So here is the update of RPG conventions that are confirmed and upcoming. 0 Q-CON XV Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland. Friday 27th - Sunday 29th June 2008. Q-Con XV 0 Continuum 2008. John Foster Hall [also known as New Hall], Leicester University. UK. Friday 1st - Monday 4th August 2008. Continuum 0 Grand Tribunal 2008. Venue ??, Cheltenham, England Friday 15th - Saturday 16th August 2008. Ars Magica • Grand Tribunal 2008 0 Gen Con UK 2008. University of Reading, Berkshire. UK. Thursday 28th – Sunday 31st August 2008. Horsemen Events - Home of Gen Con UK 0 Confess 2008. Venue ??, Sligo, Ireland. Friday 26th - Saturday 27th September 2008. Flat Earth Games Society 0 CONcrete Cow '08½. Old Bath House, Wolverton, Milton Keynes, UK. Saturday 27th September 2008. Concrete Cow - Milton Keynes RPG Club 0 Ludicrus '08. Kesgrave Conference Centre, Ipswich, UK. Saturday 27th - Sunday 28th September 2008. Ludicrus Events - Home 0 GamesFest 2008. The Victoria Hall, Tring, UK Saturday 4th October 2008. Home 0 Furnace 2008. The Garrison Hotel, Sheffield. UK Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th October 2008. Furnace 0 Spiel 2008. Messe Essen, Essen, Germany. Thursday 23rd - Sunday 26th October 2008. Internationale Spieltage SPIEL

I am glad you enjoyed my game! :cool: You do look good in fur!

I have uploaded my photos from Tentacles 2008 up on my Flickr site. Flickr: Darran!'s Photostream There's 278 of them to go through! :eek:

You can see the last day of the Tentacles webcam as a quick film on YouTube at: It's funny to watch it go by so quick!

I'll be there again this year! :thumb: I'll be taking lots of photos again and I'll post a report up here. Hopefully I'll be able to buy the new BRP book. For last year's report look to my blog here.

Shouldn't this be in 'Conventions'?

This cover is fantastic! I do like the little Chaosium logos on the jet pack. Nice touch! :thumb:

Cults of Prax for RuneQuest. When I got to read that first time it blew me away. Changed how I played my games since.

April's nearly upon us... which means... If you want to book for Continuum, do so before Tuesday as the price increases from 1st April. At the moment the prices are: Registration for Residential Members: £20 (£35 from 1st April) 3-Night room (Fri, Sat, Sun) booking: £105 Single Night room booking: £40 per night All rooms are extremely comfortable and en-suite. Each room has bed linen and towels, plus telephone and internet access. The rooms are grouped into flats of 6 rooms, with a large, airy, well equipped kitchen - great for impromptu gaming. If you intend to come along just on a Day Pass, these cost £18 each per day and can be bought on the day or in advance. What else can Continuum offer? Superb range of games. We'll have the preliminary timetable up soon. Great bar with Real Ales Seminars and guest presentations: Glorantha, HeroQuest, RuneQuest and BRP Auction Pub Quiz and Ice Breaker events to get everyone into the con spirit In other news... Website. Yes, its been very bare recently, but that will be changing rapidly. Games Maestro Graham 'That's a Play on Words' Spearing has put together the first list of tabletop games we'll be hosting and the PDF should be on the website in the next 24 hours. Liber Newtus Newt Newport has kindly donated all his esteemed MOLAD scenarios for publication in a single, mighty tome which will form one this year's fund-raisers. This will be the much vaunted Continuum Con Book this year, and our thanks (heartfelt) are extended to Newt for his generosity. Guests We have Greg, Sandy, Jeff, Angus, Rick and Mark so far. Others to be announced in due course. The intention, naturally, is to chain Greg to a table and make him talk and run games; Sandy becomes Evil High Priest and will be hosting an evening of Horror Films from his Vault of Gore-Filled Doom; Jeff will be chewing scenery and hosting the Glorantha Panel; Angus will also be running some games and generally being the affable Gaming God we know him to be. Cities of Dara Happa Jeff Richard and Greg are putting together the 'Cities of Dara Happa' book, filled with Second and Third age DH goodness, making it the ideal companion to 'Dara Happa Stirs'. Auction Yep, there'll be one. So scour your shelves and attics and bring forth the gaming goodies you want to sell. We'll be issuing auction sheets and tickets shortly. Wild and Wacky Events Robo-racing... Ice Breaker... Pub Quiz... more details to follow as these extravaganzas develop. So, with only 4 months to go, Continuum's pace is picking up. We've over 110 delegates so far, and look forward to seeing many more as the con looms. Pray to Yelm for a fine August sun; pray to Orlanth to keep the storms at bay. Pray to the Celestial Dragon for mystic insight to make this the best Continuum yet, and pray to Malkion for wisdom and divine gaming... Have a good weekend.

If you want to book for Continuum and take advantage of the discounted Early Bird registration, you have just over a month to do it! As of 1st April, the membership registration rises from £20 to £35, so don't leave it until the last minute - book your Continuum attendance now and assure yourself a place at one of the friendliest, best, game conventions in the Known Universe, and at the best possible price! Guests of Honour include: Greg Stafford - the Man and creator of Glorantha, Pendragon, Prince Valiant, HeroQuest, and a genuine legend of gaming. Sandy Peterson - the Evil High Priest himself; the man behind Call of Cthulhu and an expert on all things horror-related Mark Galeotti - Lunar Alumni and Tsar of Mythic Russia; an old friend of the con and all-round Good Egg Jeff Richard - Gloranthan Expert, Chief Scenery Chewer and arch-channeler of Johnny Cash. Rick Meints - The Eternal Auctioneer and head of Moon Design. Angus Abranson - UK Games Personality, Game Designer and Retailer, and driving force behind Dragonmeet. Other guests to be announced in the next few weeks! So remember: send you registration before March 31st March to take advantage of the reduced convention registration price of £20. Full registration details available on Continuum

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 ] Gotta love that 1am bar!

I am starting to feel old, but then again I do have seven grandchildren! :shocked:

Has anyone thought of just asking Greg if they can use a licence for Glorantha with BRP? He is quite approachable if you have detailed brief on the project in mind.

Although the website is still waiting to go live, we're delighted to announce that registration for Continuum 2008 is now open. Simple send your membership and accommodation payment via Paypal to: payment@continuum.uk.net Be sure to include which nights you're staying, and... Details of any friends you want to be roomed close to Whether you want a double room If you're bringing children. Costs for Continuum 2008 are: 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! If you prefer to register via paper and cheque, drop me a PM and I'll send you the PDF registration form.

December's Update. Not complete as yet as I am still waiting on a few replies back about other events. 0 Warpcon XVIII. University College Cork, Ireland. Friday 25th - Sunday 27th January 2008. Welcome! 0 Conception 2008. Naish Holiday Village, Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset, UK. Wednesday 30th January - Sunday 3rd February 2008. Conception - Home 0 Son Of Ramsdencon. Ramada Hotel, Colchester, UK. Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th February 2008. SoRCon 0 Leprecon 29. Goldsmith Hall, Pearse St. Dublin 2, Ireland. Friday 29th February - Sunday 2nd March 2008. THE LEPRECON EYE 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. Main Page - Milton Keynes RPG Club 0 TravCon 08. Redwings Lodge, Sawtry, UK. Friday 14th - Sunday 16th March 2008. BITS (British Isles Traveller Support) Homepages 0 Conpulsion 2008. Teviot Student Union, Edinburgh University, Scotland. Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd March 2008. Conpulsion 2008 0 Beer & Pretzels XIX. Town Hall, Burton-upon-Trent, UK. Saturday 17th - Sunday 18th May 2008. Beer and Pretzels Games Weekend 0 Tentacles 2008. Castle Stahleck, Bacharach, Germany. Friday 9th - Monday 12th May 2008. Tentacles Convention - What is Tentacles? 0 UK GAME EXPO 2008. The Clarendon Suites, Stirling Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK. Saturday 31st May - Sunday 1st June 2008. UK Games Expo - Birmingham 2007 0 Q-CON XV Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland. Friday 27th - Sunday 29th June 2008. Q-Con XIV 0 Continuum 2008. John Foster Hall [also known as New Hall], Leicester University. UK. Friday 1st - Monday 4th August 2008. Continuum 0 Gen Con UK 2008. University of Reading, Berkshire. UK. Thursday 28th – Sunday 31st August 2008. Horsemen Events - Home of Gen Con UK 0 Ludicrus '08. Kesgrave Conference Centre, Ipswich, UK. Saturday 27th - Sunday 28th September 2008. Ludicrus Events - Home 0 Furnace 2008. The Garrison Hotel, Sheffield. UK Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th October 2008. Furnace 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. Home 0 Bizarre Consequences. Holbourne, Naish, Christchurch, Dorset, UK. Friday 20th - Monday 23th November 2008. Consequences B

Continuum 2008. John Foster Hall, Leicester University, UK Friday 1st – Monday 4th August 2008. Continuum 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.

I do like the new Gloranthan books for HeroQuest. Storm Tribe, Thunder Rebels, and Lunar Imperial Handbooks are just fantastic. Gives me much more to work with in play than any other books before or since. :thumb:

October Update of RPG conventions. Here is a list of up and coming UK and Europe conventions. I will post monthly with updates. I hope that you will find it useful? Can you let me know of any I have missed please? 0 GAMESFEST 2. Victoria Hall, Tring. Saturday 10th November 2007. http://gamesfest2.blogspot.com/ 0 Consequences 2007. Naish Holiday Village, Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset, UK. Friday 16th - Sunday 18th November 2007. http://www.consequences.org.uk 0 Dominicon 2007. N.U.I Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland. Friday 9th - Sunday 11th November 2007. http://www.dominicon.ie/ 0 Grand Tribunal 2007. Cheltenham. UK Saturday 17th November 2007. http://sagalocator.myfreeforum.org/forum12.php 0 Dragonmeet 2007. Kensington Town Hall, London, UK. Saturday 1st December 2007. http://dragonmeet.co.uk 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 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 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 Game '08. New Century House, Manchester, UK. Saturday 1st - Sunday 2nd November 2008. http://www.game08.eu/

The lounge area as seen from the kitchen. Five comfy chairs with a coffee table in the centre. Ideal for a nice and relaxed game? The fridge/freezer, microwave and electric oven. Plenty of worktop space to prepare your meals and lots of cupboard space for storage. Everything including the kitchen sink!

The desk in one of the bedrooms. There is a desk lamp, a phone, mini-kettle with tea/coffee condiments, an Internet connection, and two power sockets. The mini-kettle and tea/coffee condiments on the desk. Just bring extra if you drink many a cuppa. The inside of the wardrobe in the bedroom. Plenty of space for all your clothes [and all those frocks for the freeforms!] The en suite bathroom with shower. The shower cubicle is large with a modern shower unit. The kitchen and lounge area in one of the flats. Perfect area to socialise with your fellow flat mates as you cook, clean, iron your clothes or have a drink. This is also big enough to host a game in either at the kitchen table or in the lounge area or both! Just reach over to the fridge to get a cold drink or put the kettle on to make a brew. The kitchen area of the flats as seen from the lounge area. A nice large kitchen table, with five chairs, to eat your meals from or play some excellent games!