Are you melting? We're melting, but that doesn't stop the AthCon Crew and guess what time it is... Time to start gathering the troops for AthVentureCon 5! Yes, FIVE!! First up we have Game Masters! Wanna run a game (or 2) at AthCon5? Sign up here👇 forms.gle/ZnMbEALjRzyf...

AthCon5- GM Interest Form

February 20-21nd, 2027 Loughrea Hotel & Spa, Loughrea, Co. Galway GM expression of interest for AthVentureCon 5! If you're a returning GM, welcome back! You know the drill by now, but for our new r...

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It's official - AthVentureCon 5 is happening!!! Save the Date! 🗓️Loughrea Hotel & Spa🗓️ 20-21 February, 2027 Mark your calendars and book your hotel rooms! ☎️To get the following prices, you have to ring the hotel and tell them you're attending AthVentureCon

What a weekend. Thank you everyone, and we mean EVERYONE! I'm sure a more meaningful post will follow after a proper long rest or two, but in the meantime, we would love your feedback to help us make Ath-V-Con even better ❤️🤞🏻 forms.gle/uw8KsTorZKok...

Session2 is a happening!! 17 game tables here in the Main Hall, 4 more in the Quiet Rooms and of course the Never Ending Gory table!!!

Ah the calm before the storm. I know a lot of folks will be travelling down to #AthCon4 from early tomorrow. No matter what part of the world you're coming from, make it down safely folks. We look forward to seeing y'all!! #AthCon4

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Ah I love a good clicky schedule athventurecon.ie/schedule/

We are still looking for big mini donations in the regular sized mini bucket at the check in desk. Clear?

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It's not just games we do at #AthCon4 you know! On the Sunday we have a Paint Your Mini where a few hardy souls are giving over a few hours to show Mini-Adventurers how to paint minis! And what's more you get to take your work home with you for free! FREE MINIS!! Now just how cool is that??

#AthCon4 has sooooooo many things to get excited about; RPGs, LARP, awesome vendors, creative workshops, mesmerising panels, talk, merch and so much more! It's hard to pick out one thing....but THE NEVER ENDING GORY table has me super-excited! What is this? I hear you all ask. Well attend I say..

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WARNING WARNING WE ARE ABOUT TO TALK LARPS THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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So when the dust had finally settled on AthCon3 the committee members met and discussed #AthCon4. "Let's make it bigger and better!" they said. "Bigger and better then the greatest Con ever! Are you having a laugh??" I said. "No!" they shrieked, "but we are having a LARP!" Much hilarity ensued.

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Well wonder no more as GM Gavin is offering you the chance to party at the Festival of the Gods in honor of Freyja, Freyr and Sol. I think we can assume that at some stage festivities get a tad out of hand but you're 20th Level, what have you really got to worry about? ;-)

I think this may be the last RPG game tweet, LARPs will follow when I catch my breath! Having gone thru over 100 games (madness!!) it is maybe fitting that the last one is from my very first GM! I won't embarrass either of us with the 'when' but can tell you that the year began with a 19!!

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GM Declan, he of D8 Dungeon fame, invites us all to his Session 4 game (that's Sunday 10am) In Memoriam using the We Have Lost game system. The Empress is dead. Her closest friends and confidants have gathered to remember her. Tales are told of the past but the Empire must look to the future.

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Not all ghosts are friendly. And very few of them dance. In GM Emmett's CAIN system game we get a ghost that does neither. In CAIN you play part of an elite team tasked with hunting down supernatural beings that have gone bad. This one is the spirit of a gambler, dragging others down with him!

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Victor Frankenstein's wife to be is worried about his recent behaviour. On top of that there are rumours of a strange creature haunting the city, a city that is struggling to contain a cholera plague. Yeah things are just going swimmingly! Frankenstein is GM Graham's Deathbringer game for session6

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I'm not fully sure what the librarians working in the library floating on a cloud in GM Jude's 4th level 5e D&D game look like. But i think there's a fair chance they look like these dudes! We're Going Up, Up, Up! is a Sunday morning, session 4, offering where it's safe to say to expect minis!

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Sunday 6pm is sadly the last session of #AthCon4 but GM Neil rounds of his own marathon of gaming, panels and workshops with Shadowy Scoundrels, a Fey Earth games! Various premises have been broken into and their owners have grown tired waiting for the law to find the culprits! So they hired you!

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I've played enough games to know that when some mysterious employer hires you to transport an equally mysterious box from one location to another to know that you should never, ever look inside. I've also played enough to know that when such occurs someone (ie me) will always look in said box.

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Some games describe themselves and GM Tomas's game is a prefect example! First off the system used is the brilliantly titled F.I.ST. (Freelance Infantry Strike Team). And secondly the game is called Operation BUZZKILL. My feeling is that this is very much what it says on the tin! ;-)

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Oh No!! Something is off in the town of Ashbridge. There is an energy sapping aura hanging around, conversations stalls mid sentence, memories seem to be fading even as faces start to blur around the edges. Suspicion seems to be focused on Greywarden Books and those that frequent it!

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So the Bone Gang, a gang of rats, have ventured deep into the sewers and it looks like that they may have fallen foul of a legendary sewer beast! Every cloud and all that means that this is an opportunity for some brave miceses to get themselves some treasure. Snakes and miceses get on right??

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Kittens!!! Well Magical Kittens to be more precise. GM Mike takes a break from pirating on the high seas to run a game the party take on the role of Kittens trying to manage those ridiculous hoomans and their ridiculous hooman problems! Now the hoomans seem to have gone missing! Typical hoomans.

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Captured by slavers and taken in chains to the colosseum where you are forced to fight beside your fellow captives for the amusement of the baying public! Welcome to The Arena, GM Mary Elizabeth's 3rd level D&D 5e game set to take place in the baking sand at first light Sunday at #AthCon4

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There is a potential cloud in sunny world of the Tyrell Corporation! CEO Janice Brannock has been cutting corners (a corrupt leader of a mega-corp! I know, I'm as shocked as you) and older Janice has been smuggling in Nexus-6 replicants and using them as cheap labour. This could impact share prices

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Let's be honest with ourselves, deep down we all want to be pirates! And in the mid session on the Sunday of #AthCon4 you have a chance to fulfill your dream! GM Dave sails into town with A Rum-Ble In The Jungle! A 4th level D&D 5e game suitable only for pirates with 18 years or more of sailing!

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Hmmmm, so it's 1926 and your on a boat heading towards Rockport Masachusetts, when the lights of the lighthouse on Beacon Island suddenly go dark. The boat founders on the rocks & the only safe harbour your lifeboat has hope of making it to is Beacon Isle & hope you find welcome.

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Flocking hell! Sheeps 🐑 have gone missing and the locals of the small village of Aodh desperately need your help in tracking down the pack of wolves that they think are responsible! GM Caitlin's, The Wolves of Aodh, is a 3rd level D&D 5e game set for the early session on Sunday at #AthCon4

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We're on the home stretch this week and down to the last few handfuls of games to preview for #AthCon4 GM Aaron first ever game at the Con is a Cy_Borg offering! Karaoke Night finds the players deep in this cyberpunk world surrounded by Nanomsncers, Corp Killers, Cyber Slashers & Gang Goons!

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So 24 hours ago you left the bleak mining colony settlement of Hope (some would argue an optimistic name!) to run a routine survey only to be forced back after due to weather and mechanical issues. Comms seem garbled with a lot of screaming then silence and no one is about to offer a tow back...

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So when a very wealthy and quite elderly collector contacts you with an offer of three days work for a decent payout it sounds like easy money. Three days work; three simple tasks and a healthy paycheck, sounds too good to be true. And as this is Call of Cthulhu it probably is..

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