In the best tradition of Role Playing Societies, the “Boys at BURPS” have attended several RPG conventions. Having never attended any such thing before, when we attended Conjuration in Cambridge back in August 03 we were afraid that the experience would be something akin to a cross between a Star Trek convention, and a 70s Open University professor outing……..and we were right. My one persistent memory was of a bearded gentleman on a panel in a “Free the Babylon Five” T-Shirt, while Peter’s summed it up by saying that when he got home, he felt like having a good shave. Anyway, it was an interesting experience, and we resolved that the next time the group attended a convention we would actually take part. In other words, play a game or something.

 

The next convention we attended was Dragonmeet 2004 which was an altogether different experience. Unlike Cambridge, it appeared to be a much busier con, probably as it was a one-day affair, rather than the weekend set-up. Either way, we nibbled our nails and joined in a Traveller game.

 

In August 05, we went to Cambridge again, this time spending the morning playing Munchkin, and the afternoon playing Heroquest, mind you, the less said about that system the better ;-)

 

Finally, last December 2005, we returned to Dragonmeet in Kensington. It was a fun packed day with AD&D (old style) in the morning and Traveller again in the afternoon.

The AD&D scenario was a real blast from the past, whilst the Traveller scenario run by BITS was as good as ever.

 

Our next trip to a convention will probably be Dragonmeet again with Cambridge being held every other year.