We Have Posters!

So we spent a week brainstorming and here are the designs that Mr Kris Wilson and Mr Jake Gidall put together for our promotional entertainment! Y'all should start seeing them soon at your favourite pop-culture retailers!

Experimental slogan ideas for Sheepcon 2013 posters:

#1 
THE POWER

THE PASSION 

THE SHEEP!

#2

ENJOY TABLE-TOP GAMING?

YOU WILL PLAY SO HARD YOU'LL SHEEP!

#3

1 DAY

3 SESSIONS

10 HOURS OF IMMERSIVE GAMING

YOU WILL PLAY SO HARD YOU'LL SHEEP!

#4

U, U, D, D, L, R, L, R, A, B, SELECT, START

WON'T WORK AT SHEEPCON

WHY?

'CAUSE WE TABLE-TOP GAMIN' MURRFURRS!

...any takers?

Busy Busy Busy!

Always with the life getting in the way of the gaming... and the past month has all been about packing and moving house, leaving far too little time to work on my Castles & Crusades game for Sheepcon and also the pulpy 19th century Fate game I wanna get down before I lose track of my notes.

While packing up all my gaming paraphernalia (use small boxes for your gaming books people.. they're heavy!) I found an ancient, dot-matrix printed pamphlet for a game system I wrote-up as a kid. After the initial wave of nostalgia crashed over me I dared flick through the pages to see what 13yr-old-Me was capable of...

Not much really. I think I must have spent longer formatting the experience tables for the character classes than I did working on any backstory for the game. 'Dystopia' was pretty much a terrible Shadowrun ripoff; Post-apocalyptic Earth, genetic mutations and robots gone mad, magic for some reason, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... Mass hysteria! I think the only reason I wrote it up was I couldn't afford an actual copy of Shadowrun. Most likely I flicked through the pages of the actual book at my favourite local gaming store and naturally figured I could just write up my own version.

So the 20 pages or so of faded manuscript were far from inspiring, riddled with bizarro rules, a complete disregard for game-balance and lots of sentences that ended with "...just make it up!". Yet I remember having SO much fun running it with my friends. I think I have better memories running that barely-stapled-together piece of juvenile dross than I do from 8 years of 3rd Ed D&D!

I guess the only reason I brought this up in a blog post was that it got me pondering one of those eternal gaming questions: "How important is the system?". It's a question that seems to get raised a lot with every gaming community I come across and one that's never really solved. Is it too subjective? 

If only I had more time to ponder. Unfortunately, these boxes won't pack themselves... especially when I'm constantly stopping in stupors of wistfulness every time I pick up an old, dusty gaming manual! 

Happy gaming!

Gamemasters! Sheepcon is open for submissions!

Guidelines for game submissions are now in the GM Info page.

Unearth those obscure tomes of classic, strange and wonderful roleplaying games, so they may bask in the love of the sheeple!

Sheepcon has a VENUE!

REVOLTPRODUCTIONS

REVOLT is a fantastic Kensington art/production space built to provide an immersive theatrical environment for events, shows and gigs.

We visited REVOLT today and spoke to Ryan, the owner, mastermind and developer of the venue. Ryan gave us a great run-down of the ways we could set up the con, the props and spaces available within the building and the design details involved.

We were given a floor-plan at the end of the tour and an injunction to come up with thematic rooms for certain games, and then we’re all going in the night before Sheepcon 2013 to help set it up!

The address of REVOLT is 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington, a short walk from both Kensington and Macaulay stations as well as the Route 402 bus line.

Sheepcon will be an all-day event divided into three sessions of 3.5 hour games with a 45 minute lunch break and an hour for dinner in-between. Macaulay Road, due West of Kensington station, has a number of cafes and fast food places to go during breaks.

Sheepcon will be a licensed event. So you will need to bring proof-of-age cards with you or no entry folks.

We will be looking for Game Master applications soon – so if you have a great idea for a game, or even a new system you want to try out, have a think and we’ll soon have a form for you to spruik it!

Be the sheeple!