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Do you know this roleplayer?

Posted by Leefe on 30 June 2008 – 11:24 pm

Filed under Photos, Roleplaying, Travel
Tagged as Japan, photo, rpg

Walking though Harajuku I was greeted by this visage staring down at me from a clothing store. Dark glasses, goatee, frilly shirt, bad jewellery… looks like a role player.

Actually, it reminds me of number role players I know in Sydney. And they probably just left a vampire freeform.

A poke in the eye con?

Posted by Leefe on 20 March 2008 – 11:45 pm

Filed under Roleplaying, Web sites
Tagged as convention, rpg

Seeing as Necronomicon is not running this year another group decided to run their con at Easter, Eyecon. From their FAQ they intend to run it each year. Will it be the new Easter convention in Sydney?

I went and signed up to see how their registration process works, and to see if there was anything worth registering to play.

It was interesting to note that their site tracked how many places in games were available each session, and displayed them to people registering. And that while a couple of game were full, many were very empty.

Hopefully they will get more people turning up tomorrow morning to fill out some of the games. But is begs the question…

Has the Sydney RPG convention scene died and some people just don’t want to accept it? With what seems to be a change from all the Sydney cons being run by one set of past BNGs to another, are they just moving the deck chairs on the Titanic?

(See below for game spaces available at the time I checked tonight, the night before the con.)
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Necronomicon 2002 photos uploaded to flickr

Posted by Leefe on 19 January 2008 – 1:19 pm

Filed under Photos, Roleplaying

	Finished uploading my photos from Necronomicon 2002 to flickr last night. Previously hosted on the Necronomicon Gallery, I though they would be more accessible on flickr.
	You can also find them in the Australian RPG Conventions group. And the original convention site can be found here.

Necronomicon 2001 photos uploaded to flickr

Posted by Leefe on 15 September 2007 – 2:13 pm

Filed under Photos, Roleplaying

	Just finished uploading my photos from Necronomicon 2001 to flickr. Previously hosted on the Necronomicon Gallery, I though they would be more accessible on flickr.
	You can also find them in the Australian RPG Conventions group.

Australian Roleplaying @ AboutUs

Posted by Leefe on 7 August 2007 – 11:44 pm

Filed under Roleplaying, Search

I recently came across About Us, a web directory of domains that uses a wiki as its underlying engine. Most of the pages are created by a bot. You enter the domain name, and the bot collects information about the domain and creates a page from a standard template. It is an interesting concept, but some people are questioning the ethics of the site. (More on that in a later post.)

Since much of the site is auto generated it often requires editing to be more useful. This includes the categories a page belongs to, which are often just a list of key works. (Good thing as a wiki anyone can edit it)

So to make Australian sites easier to find I created a new category: Australian Roleplaying. I added sites I found in AboutUs, linked sites, and other sites that I know of.

The category now sits at around 60 club, convention, designer, published and shop sites. Not bad for a few days spare time.

Necronomicon 13, 2001 photos @ flickr

Posted by Leefe on 4 August 2007 – 11:33 pm

Filed under Photos, Roleplaying

I have just uploaded 6 mosaics of my Necronomicon 13, 2001 photos to flickr.

In the future, when I have the time and inclination, I’ll add all individual photos to flickr. In the mean time you can see them all at the Necronomicon gallery.

Necronomicon 2007 is dead, long live Necronomicon

Posted by AusRPGer on 25 March 2007 – 7:00 pm

Filed under Roleplaying

There is now no roleplaying convention running in Sydney this Easter. According to the email I received from an organiser, Necronomicon cannot run as the venue, Newtown High School, is unavailable.

Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:51:22 +1000
From: “Dion Dowling” <dion .dowling [at] gmail.com>
Subject: Necronomicon 2007

Due to circumstances beyond our control, Necronomicon will not be happening this Easter 2007 weekend. The venue, Newtown High School of Performing Arts, has just changed its mind on hiring the venue to us – after doing so regularly for over 15 years. A change of administration and a change of mind that is not helpful to us. When we learnt of this earlier this week, we spent days trying to find a similar venue in the inner west on short notice.

We have found none. So regretfully, we must cancel the convention for Easter.

However, we are attempting to find a venue for the June Long Weekend. If we can find a suitable venue, we will host Necronomicon on that weekend for this year only, and we should have the venue booked for Easter next year.

We regret this has happened. None of us involved in the convention are happy with this development. The hard work that goes into a convention over many months before hand now seems wasted. But it won’t be. We will strive to present Necronomicon this year as best we can. And you can be certain that Necronomicon will return Easter 2008.

I would be interested to hear how this came about. I wonder when they decided to confirm the school booking?

And if Shadow Games were planning on moving Necro to the June long weekend, won’t there be a conflict. I thought Sutekh was organising another convention, InConceivable, on that weekend.

Its a pity “Sydney’s Premier Roleplaying Event” doesn’t appear more organised.

Other discussions on the topic:

Necronomicon cancelled (Sutekh forum)

Things not to do in an rpg…

Posted by Leefe on 2 February 2007 – 11:05 am

Filed under Blog, Roleplaying, Web sites

I was recently reading a blog post of things not to do in a roleplaying game, Things Mr. Welch can no longer do in an RPG 501-950 (2006-11-28 21:36:00). There are some items that are quite funny. My favourite being:

521. I will not convince the entire party to play Amish for the cyberpunk campaign.

I think this would be quite fun, playing an Amish character in a cyberpunk campaign.

It should be quite doable in a Shadowrun campaign. Have a mage or Shaman that is Amish, they already shun technology to some extent. Or in a Cyberpunk 2020 campaign have an Amish Solo. A long bearded man, in a big overcoat, with little to no cyberwear.

You just need to update being Amish a little. The Ordnung, the set of rules observed by the Amish, varies between communities and changes over time. Some Amish communities shun technology, others accept it for limited use.

Some more points that I thought were interesting/funny:

513. Trying to rip the face off the villain will not get the Scooby-Doo ending.

514. No giving my Roman gladiator the short disadvantage and naming him Minimus.

520. Under no circumstances is my medical droid allowed a groin mounted rectal thermometer.

546. Dead party members, while effective, are not appropriate anti-grenade measures.

588. Paladins are immune to STDs, but if I take advantage of this ability, I lose it. Wonderful paradox, isn’t it?

674. When deciding what to do with the ancient alien artifacts we discovered, EBAY is not an option.

And I had ideas for a games that relates to the last item:

950. The ability to give superpowers to characters is acceptable. Naming the character Captain Franchise is not.

Some of the items, though, are a little crass or in jokes that don’t make sense.

More Maccon photos at flickr

Posted by Leefe on 30 December 2006 – 9:56 am

Filed under Photos, Roleplaying

Here are some more photos I took at MacquarieCon prize giving. These photos have also been added to the Australian RPG Conventions [1] group on flickr.