The Conclave

Gavs' Edit:

Calling All Inquisitors!

The news has been heavy of late, with the Specialist Games range dwindling and models becoming unavailable.
And yet, The Conclave still stands. Our members host precious gaming and modelling articles, produce inspiring miniatures, develop new rules for playtesting and share their adventures on the tabletop.

The Conclave still organises and supports events throughout the year; the yearly Inquisitor Grand Tournament and several Conclave Gaming Days.
This announcement continues this theme; several tables have been booked at Warhammer World, Nottingham on 28 September 2013 for the latest Conclave Gaming Day - 'The Eramus Affair'.
During the day, players will investigate the fallout from a previous Conclave, dealing with an illegal weapons trade centered around the Rogue Trader Eramus, and Imperial world of Obcultus.

The playerpack can be found hosted on The Conclave:
http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/13-pack.pdf

and a corresponding forum thread:
www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=2317

The Conclave also recognises the changes in the manner Inquisitor has been played over the years. Originally released as a 54mm-scale wargame, it is now commonly played at both 54mm and 28mm scales, and both are welcome at this event.

From seasoned veterans to those interested in learning the game; all are welcome - the idea behind this Conclave is to gather a plethora of Inquisitor players; bring those who play and enjoy the game in to one place and keep supporting the community life of GW's only true roleplay miniatures game!

While scenarios will be provided on the day, if you wish to run your own scenarios, PM Greenstuff Gav (http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=4) and we can arrange things!

it'd be helpful if you post on the end of the thread if you are or if you're hoping to come and scales you'd like to play; i'm not planning anything unusual regarding mixing scales or scores, but i can have 2 copies of the campaign to hand (with NPCs etc) so that both scales can run side by side!

Confirmed Attendees
Greenstuff Gav (GM)
MarcoSkoll
Koval (28/54)
Cortez
TheNephew (54)
Krenshar (54)
Bloodpact (54)
Kaled
PrecinctOmega (54 - poss 28)
Bobninja
Shannow (54)
Shard0808

Possible Attendees
Van Helser

+++Original Post Follows+++

Yesterday there was some discussion of what other events we might have this year and September was suggested as a possibility. I do have a vague idea for a campaign which I'd be happy to run - or if someone else wants to run an event that's fine by me.

Anyway I just thought I'd start a discussion thread and see what everyone thinks.

- Dave

If September, could you please avoid the weekend of the 14th/15th if at all possible? I'm certainly interested in attending, but I can't change the date of a religious holiday to do so. :P

Other than that, this sounds very exciting.

I think I will provisionally say I'd be interested...

Again provisionally I'm interested but SWMBO needs to clear my day release

I am always interested in opportunities to play Inquisitor.

I will definitely want to be involved in this.   I have a feeling I have a friend's wedding to attend in September, but will come back to you all with dates soon.

Ruaridh

Yes, please everyone let me know dates when you're not available and I'll try to accommodate as many people as possible, but the limiting factor is likely to be when we can get tables at WHW.

I'm happy to run the event at both 28mm and 54mm, but I think we'll need a minimum of six players per scale to make a viable event (although if there are less, those players are still welcome, but I'll leave it to them to organise ad-hoc games rather than running an organised event).

The event I had in mind would probably be four games, and be based around the exploration and exploitation of a hitherto unexplored region of space - so perfect for Rogue Traders looking for new markets, Explorators out to find lost technology, Inquisitors keen to investigate and root out heresies before the region is brought into the Imperium, subversive cults looking to expand into a new area of space, missionaries spreading the Imperial truth, and so on. It wouldn't use the 'contact card' mechanic from previous events, and my initial plan instead has it sort of based on Monopoly with players fighting over both wealth and locations (but that might all change if it turns out to be too complicated or I come up with a better idea).

But, as I mentioned before, if someone else has an idea for an event they'd like to run then I'm happy to stand aside and let them take the reins. Running an event doesn't require loads of Inquisitor experience - mostly it needs a good idea and to be willing to put in the effort to see it through - so if someone does fancy giving it a try but wants some help from a more experienced player then I'm happy to let them run it and I'll offer my help and advice where needed.

I have only one question -- would this be run near to, or out of, the Carthax sector, or would you set it somewhere else entirely? This may influence party selection.

If I run that event it would be a region of space within reach of the Carthax sector.


EDIT: But I'm more interesting in having as many players as possible at the event than in getting involved in a discussion of precise locations or the travel arrangements of people's characters, so any introduction to the event is likely to say something as vague as 'The cessation of warp-storm Omega-921 and the opening of stable warp route to the Andraste Region has attracted adventurers from across the Imperium, including a substantial number from the Carthax sector...'.

I'd definitely be interested. Still kicking myself over mixing up the IGT dates!

Quote from: Kaled on April 01, 2013, 11:40:41 AMI'm happy to run the event at both 28mm and 54mm

Based on precedent regarding 28mm take-up, I think the best option would be to make it primarily 54mm and simply provide the option that players can bring 28mm models and reach their own consensus that a certain game might be at 28mm.

I'd like to see a properly shared event but, if I'm realistic about the matter, I'd say you'd need some really positive interest in a 28mm side to the event before it was worth investing the effort in arranging it.
I know events sometimes get late-comers, but it ain't gonna happen unless they already know there's going to be a good few others there.

~~~~~

Anyway, based on the description, it might serve as a decent basis to start the Ecclesiarchy warband I've had planned for a while - I'm sure the loud mouthed preacher would have fun trying to bring the area into the fold - which would actually give the Battle Sister some actual allies... but for the sake of actually getting models finished, I think I might be better off with either Skoll or Vance's warbands.

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on April 02, 2013, 12:49:11 AM
I'd say you'd need some really positive interest in a 28mm side to the event before it was worth investing the effort in arranging it.

I agree, that's why I said we'd need at least six players at each scale to make it worth running - so far we've barely got enough players for 54mm never mind 28mm. I'll leave the thread up a week or two and see if it generates any more interest before I put any serious effort into planning a campaign. If we don't have enough players to make a one day campaign worthwhile then I think the day should go ahead and we can all bring scenarios and maybe schedule three longer games instead of four fast-paced ones.

I should be available in September. In fact I'll make sure I'm available as I've missed the last two events  :).

I'm going to be at that wedding the weekend of the 14th and 15th, so it's out for me.  I have a preference for the 7th of September though.

Ruaridh

The 7th would narrowly miss the back end of another religious holiday (by all of twelve hours, IIRC), so I'm cool with that as well.

I've given this thread a month to see whether there's enough interest in an organised event to make it worthwhile, and unfortunately it appears there isn't.

So we could just book a couple of tables at WHW and organise games on the day, or maybe organise something at another location, or something else - anyone got any ideas?

Got a date in mind? Tentative yes from me if it's in WHW, it'd be nice to have a massive turnout for the event after the SG axe. Gonna need to take time off work & arrange accommodation

Edit: Aww capacity, this is page 2? Stupid mobile browser. Might be worth leaving it another month? The recent events may stir up further interest

I would be interested too-probably a little more in an organised event, since an overall theme adds atmosphere, but I'd still turn up to an informal gathering. Autumn is still a few months off though, and it still doesn't feel like very long since the IGT, so it may be a little early to expect people to be giving it too much thought. For my own part, I think I meant to reply sooner, but got distracted and forgot to. Humble apologies :)
The basic premise, at least, seems sound enough, allowing a framework for several scenarios and storylines, and with the divergent goals of the characters avoiding the problems of a single big final scenario.

I know someone :P wasn't very happy about the last mailshot we did, but it would certainly be a way to get our irregular members to notice. A mailing list (although not a forum mailing list) certainly worked to get to get Molotov a good list for this year's INQvitational.

Thing is, as Charax says, it'd be great to have a big turnout. If they'll have us now they're axing the game, we should do something as spectacular as we can manage.

I can bring the Rhino, could easily get the Sentinel finished... and as I'd only be trying to finish up a previously started warband for the event, I may even find enough time and focus to work on the Warhound. (However, no promises).
Add in your (you referring to Kaled) Valkyrie and Arvus, maybe catch the attention of one of our other vehicle builders/convertors and we could have an impressive turn out of armour.

There's some great Inquisitor terrain out there, we've got hordes of NPCs to use...

We've got the toys - and given the withdrawal of the metal ranges, we've got the leverage to get people's blood up - so I'd rather see us going for the big one than admitting defeat just yet.

But it is reliant on people knowing it's going to happen.

as i was discussing with Koval, i've got a day-event campaign pack written (a slight re-tweak with the possiblilty of all those lovely vehicles) and is pretty much self-running if the organiser would like to save some work (i'd offer to run myself, but actual organising isn't my strong suit.. combined with the randomness of my working patterns means i won't know tillthe friday if i can attend :( )

would it be worth our while to collate some of the Community's Best Miniatures into either a display board (i know a cheap printer) or grab a small cabinet to sit on a table as a display?

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on May 05, 2013, 06:17:22 PMwould it be worth our while to collate some of the Community's Best Miniatures into either a display board (i know a cheap printer) or grab a small cabinet to sit on a table as a display?

Maybe, but I think it's secondary to the (metaphorical) bums on seats. If we're looking to prove to GW that Inquisitor isn't dying, we need to turn up with loads of people, get the attention of the staff and get the attention of the public.
Nice models and our big toys could certainly help, but we'd almost not want to be drawing attention to ourselves if there were only six of us. (Still, 'Clave shirts are something we should sort out).

In terms of raising our profile, doing things like putting event photos on Facebook and tagging them so WHW (and people checking out the WHW page) know what's going on wouldn't be a bad move.
(Funnily enough, I have found someone was asking about Inquisitor in the WHW feed a month or two back, so I've dropped them a line).

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on May 06, 2013, 12:05:05 AM
In terms of raising our profile, doing things like putting event photos on Facebook and tagging them so WHW (and people checking out the WHW page) know what's going on wouldn't be a bad move.

Much as I dislike Facebook, using it for our events isn't a bad idea.  Someone could create a Inquisitor: Conclave Events page, put on photos etc. for a couple of our previous events as well as links back here, to Carthax, Dark Magenta etc. and start talking about an Autumn Conclave and see if it generates any interest...

Merely setting up a Facebook page wouldn't attract attention. The few people who've put "Inquisitor" on their interests list might get stuff in their feed about it, but it would need its own publicity to start being useful.

That could be through dropping "Hey, thanks for hosting us, here are our latest pictures" notes on the WHW page, but I'm also thinking a lot of 28mm Inquisitor has picking up its interest through the big forums and blogging websites.

With that in mind, I've been considering putting my modelling logs on DakkaDakka and possibly Warseer. I'd wager that an increased presence of Inquisitor modelling would bring more people out of the woodwork.
Particularly if I can find the time to work on the Warhound - that should be fairly attention grabbing.

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on May 06, 2013, 07:30:00 PM
Merely setting up a Facebook page wouldn't attract attention.

I was thinking that having a Facebook page for our events would mean we have a presence on there, something we could promote - it's not an end in itself, just something to focus publicity around.

QuoteI'd wager that an increased presence of Inquisitor modelling would bring more people out of the woodwork.

Is there much 54mm Inquisitor modelling going on? It seems to be mostly 28mm at his point...

i gots 2 projects i'm workin' on... with GW stopping production i'll have to have atleast one more afore the next 'clave...

Quote from: Kaled on May 06, 2013, 09:20:47 PMIs there much 54mm Inquisitor modelling going on?

I think, in some ways, that may be the issue. The 54mm stuff just isn't out there to inspire other people to have a go.

Reasonably sure I say something to this effect practically every time a Concalve is announced, but:

I might be able to force myself to actually finish constructing and painting a warband, and fluff them, and then learn to play.

I know from reading various previous reports that y'all are perfectly welcoming to halfwits and newbs, and I'd like to actually play a proper game given how long I've been lurking.

I'm way down on the south coast, so it'd be the sort of thing I'd want to sort out travel for .well. in advance though...

DO EET. You have plenty of notice, and even with GW cutting down the Inquisitor range, you've still got a lot of stuff to play with.

I think we should actually declare this the "Newbs' and Halfwits' Conclave". If you've been here for more than a year and haven't ever played a game, get yourself to the Autumn Conclave.

Heh, I like that plan, grab all the lurkers out of the woodwork and haul them off to. WHW.

Is this still going on? Its been quiet recently...

Everything's been quiet recently. However, that's part of the problem.

I still think a forum mailshot to get the word out might help. Otherwise, we may be looking at only a minor event... or no event at all.

if somone want s to  check with Saussure i dont mind doing it, even with the hassle of last time!

First post, yay!

Showing some interest, if I can bum a lift with Gav I'd be up for some =][= September time :) I'm assuming it'd be a Saturday? (Can't do Sunday 22nd)

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on June 12, 2013, 07:25:57 PMif somone want s to  check with Saussure i dont mind doing it, even with the hassle of last time!

Seeing as it's my idea, I've sent him a PM.

Quote from: BoB on June 13, 2013, 12:08:06 PMI'm assuming it'd be a Saturday?

Events are, indeed, usually Saturdays - the only exception I can recall is Keravin's upcoming event(s) in Leeds.

i like the tagline; "Specialist Games are dead, Long Live Inquisitor!" :)

i know we had that whole debacle last time with the Inq28 crowd, but maybe someone can give them a heads up / nudge to see if they'll be up for doing some gaming? be great to get a horde of Inquisitor going on!

also, Welcome BoB!

It might be an idea to instead of organising a joint event have two seperate events running on the same day.

That way we can save face with the issue of elitism that gets thrown around.

As for permission, I quote from my PM inbox:

Quote from: Saussure on June 13, 2013, 10:19:26 PMGo for it, guys - give the Techpriest permission!

D.

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As for the matter of 28mm gaming, I can go and poke the Bunkerites - but I think the Conclave is generally more interested in dual-scale events than Ammobunker, and I'm not really sure how much Necris' suggestion of having two separate events would solve that matter.

I'm all for it, but I'm more expecting that if there is any 28mm gaming at this event, it's more likely to be of an ad hoc nature.

I'm aware of bunkers resilience to inq54 and duel events as a whole but if it was marketed as a seperate inq28 campaign running on the same day as a different inq54 campaign you may get some extra people attending.

I'm not saying it will work but it could help by just organising two events for the same day, if I was certain I could attend I'd offer to organise the 28mm campaign but might be too late in the day for a September event it would also depend in the bunker organising events at the opposite end of the month to conclave too

I don't think there is a resistance to dual scale events.   I think there's a resistance to how Inq28 players feel they are treated.    As the person who made the step over at the last event I was still getting comments though not to my face.   The Inq28 community seems to be largely focused on an ongoing narrative campaign set across events which seems at odds with the Conclave set up.

I'd love to know what comments were being made,

At the IGT there were lots of positive comments made for both scales and the main negative issue discussed was the abrasive attitude of some people (not present at the gt) about them not attending events if there was duel scale at all.

As a 54mm gamer that moved to 28mm in the hopes of finding more people to play a game i love against I found I was left on the sidelines at the few inq28 events I've attended. Trying to shoehorn my way into a closed narrative against players who'd already pre arranged their games before coming to the event, I fed my warband simply used as an aggressor or left without any directed objective which made the last event I attended dull and boring. I personally find 54mm more open and accepting gaming group and from my personal experience 28mm a much more closed door exclusive club.

Regarding the narrative aspect most of the conclave events take place in the carthaxian sector, as far as I'm aware the last few events have had situations revolving in the sector, the problem the conclave has is we can't guarantee who will turn up at events, we don't know which warbands will be in attendance etc for example one event I might decide to take Necris, another I might play Holister both have their own agendas within the sector and the feel of the event will depend on who steps forward. It is much easier to plot a narrative when you have a select number of people.

I don't think to be honest we want to get into another 28 vs 54 debate be that scale or community.

I can say I won't be attending as I have too much else on at that time.

Quote from: Keravin on June 14, 2013, 02:19:52 PM
I don't think to be honest we want to get into another 28 vs 54 debate be that scale or community.

This :)

like i say, i was more thinking be good to see the game played by loads of people, regardless of scale :)
re-familiarising myself with the mailshot section now

am i being denser than usual, but did we actually agree / book a date? hard to write a mailshot without the info :lol:

Quote from: Keravin on June 14, 2013, 02:19:52 PMI don't think to be honest we want to get into another 28 vs 54 debate be that scale or community.

Probably for the best, as they have a habit of turning sour.

However, I will say that I am genuinely sorry if you felt a negative attitude when you were at the The Twin Arches, Keravin.
I accept that the event was a long way from achieving its objectives as a day, but I had hoped that it had scored some minor victories.

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on June 14, 2013, 02:49:21 PMam i being denser than usual, but did we actually agree / book a date?

I don't think we have, no. Bit of an oversight on my part too!

If/when Kaled reappears*, I'd suggest the usual fare of a reasonably generous booking - we can scale it back later if needs be.
Checking the events calendar, I think they'll probably want to put us on the 28th, as it it looks like the only weekend in September where they haven't got a Battle Brothers or Throne of Skulls on.

*If he's not around soon though, I'll be happy to put in a booking so it's at least there to be used by whomever.

As long as we avoid the 14th like the plague, I'm happy with whichever date they give us. :)

Quote from: Necris on June 14, 2013, 08:00:25 AM
I'm aware of bunkers resilience to inq54 and duel events as a whole but if it was marketed as a seperate inq28 campaign running on the same day as a different inq54 campaign you may get some extra people attending.

I'm not saying it will work but it could help by just organising two events for the same day, if I was certain I could attend I'd offer to organise the 28mm campaign but might be too late in the day for a September event it would also depend in the bunker organising events at the opposite end of the month to conclave too

"The Bunker" has nothing against Inquisitor. There is a Specialist Games section where Inquisitor is warmly welcomed, alongside Epic, Mordheim, Battlefleet Gothic and Necromunda. Nobody would scorn any poster that chose to post 54mm models there. The admins of the board chose to create an INQ28 section to help the nascent community of posters interested in that topic. They haven't had much more involvement than that.

Quote from: Necris on June 14, 2013, 01:38:08 PM
I'd love to know what comments were being made,

At the IGT there were lots of positive comments made for both scales and the main negative issue discussed was the abrasive attitude of some people (not present at the gt) about them not attending events if there was duel scale at all.

As a 54mm gamer that moved to 28mm in the hopes of finding more people to play a game i love against I found I was left on the sidelines at the few inq28 events I've attended. Trying to shoehorn my way into a closed narrative against players who'd already pre arranged their games before coming to the event, I fed my warband simply used as an aggressor or left without any directed objective which made the last event I attended dull and boring. I personally find 54mm more open and accepting gaming group and from my personal experience 28mm a much more closed door exclusive club.

Regarding the narrative aspect most of the conclave events take place in the carthaxian sector, as far as I'm aware the last few events have had situations revolving in the sector, the problem the conclave has is we can't guarantee who will turn up at events, we don't know which warbands will be in attendance etc for example one event I might decide to take Necris, another I might play Holister both have their own agendas within the sector and the feel of the event will depend on who steps forward. It is much easier to plot a narrative when you have a select number of people.

I can only guess who you're talking about from your post, but I certainly have never said I would never attend a dual-scale event simply because it is dual-scale. In some senses, integration would be a desirable goal.

I don't see there being any barrier for a player with the right mindset if they wanted to play INQ28. It simply requires being sociable and proactive. I don't see us being closed - we had five new players at this year's INQvitational.

Quote from: Molotov on June 15, 2013, 08:00:38 AMI can only guess who you're talking about from your post, but I certainly have never said I would never attend a dual-scale event simply because it is dual-scale.

I'd rather not see this derailed...

... but I can quote PDH on the matter: "I'd prefer to keep the two scales separate for events." (http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/single/?p=8278862&t=7563442)
I do admit that's only one person, but there are very few people that have given any hard feedback at all regarding why attempts at dual scale events are struggling to be so.

QuoteI don't see us being closed - we had five new players at this year's INQvitational.

It's certainly possible to break into the 28mm community, but the nature of an invitational event does mean there is at least some inherent degree of exclusivity.

Any weekend in September is good for me. Needs to be a Saturday though  :).

Now I just need to create some extra hours in the day to get some models finished...started or whatever.

I'm still around, although I admit my enthusiasm for Inquisitor has waned somewhat recently, so have been concentrating on other games.  I'll more than likely still attend an event if one is going on, but maybe someone else can organise it?

Likewise I don't want to see the thread derailed anymore than it has been if you'd like to talk about this more Mol drop me a PM

Quote from: Kaled on June 17, 2013, 09:16:45 AMI'll more than likely still attend an event if one is going on, but maybe someone else can organise it?

I can offer to have some part - but I'd genuinely like to have an excuse to actually finish some models, so I don't really want to get roped into a whole day of GMing (or weeks of prep work).

But I can at least initiate some discussion!

One of the criticisms I heard of the Carthaxian narratives when I was at the INQvitational was the limited continuity in the plots.
This is sort of a natural consequence of having alternating writers (whereas the big Dalthan events have generally got Molotov's involvement) and does at least mean there's less continuity lockout (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ContinuityLockOut)... but I am wondering if that's a suggestion we want to pick up on.

Are there consequences of earlier events that we want to explore? Some of the things that came up when I was talking with Koval is what effects the growth of the Antonine cold trade might've had or the chaotic rioting that arose after the (apparent) death of Saint Aderyn having weakened parts of the Cuir subsector.

Just thoughts...

i may have a campaign fitting the end of Cold Trade (if someone'd remind me how that went; i apparently didnt do a writeup :( ) ... i may even be convinced to run the day if someone else organises a date (curse my crippling inability to use telephonic devices!) ...

Im only busy on the weekend of 21st/22nd. The rest im free. Angstrom has a couple of new pals who are ready to do the masters bidding.

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on June 18, 2013, 09:25:11 AMsomeone else organises a date (curse my crippling inability to use telephonic devices!) ...

Right, despite my own phobia of the telephone, I rang WHW.

Firstly, they are still happy to have Inquisitor events up there.

After that - I didn't enquire about the 14th or the 21st, as some people have already ruled out those dates*, but they currently have eight 6-by-4s and all their feature tables available for the 7th and no bookings for the 28th at all.

So, we have a choice of the 7th and 28th. Caveats are that the 7th has WH40K Battle Brothers on (so will be noisy) and the 28th is the Games Day weekend (so will be quiet, but some people might prefer to be at GD).
If not instructed as to a preference, I will probably book the 7th in the next few days. I'd prefer the extra modelling time, but we'll get to be more conspicuous on the 7th.

*I have also realised the 21st/22nd is the Severn Valley Railway's Autumn Gala; it's not certain if the family is going this year, but I don't want to rule out going and playing steam trains unless necessary.

7th sounds good to me; unless i hear otherwise i'll start writing the days' games now .. who ran Cold Trade? Val Helser?

Of the two dates, I'd personally prefer the 28th, but I can do either.

@Gav: It was indeed Van Helser. However, I understand he is still without internet, so getting hold of him if you need to might be interesting.

@ Koval: From a personal perspective, I too would prefer the 28th, but it's sort of asking it to bite us in the arse if we do schedule with GD the day after.

If I can make it the 28th is prolly better for me,

Either date is cool with me.

Do people still go to Games Day? The only reason i used to go was to get pre-release models and see exclusive sneak peeks, but with the GW clampdown and the rise of the cameraphone/internet forum combo, i dont see much point. Except to get the new Horus Heresy campaign book a week or two early!

Quote from: Bloodpact on June 20, 2013, 05:51:32 PMDo people still go to Games Day?

I think the only real appeals left for the veteran gamer are things like doing an exhibition board, trying for a Demon (which is still one of the best ways to get yourself a pay rise if you do commission painting) or the Forge World seminar - which I believe is still really rumour and sneak peek heavy.

However, some people might want to go, so I'm mindful of that possibility.
I'll book the 28th if enough people think that's the way to go - but I'll be honest, part of the reason I set some arbitrary deadline was because if it's the best way to get a quick decision. (If we're not quick, the 7th might cease to be an option).

Quote from: BoB28th would probably be preferred as its quieter for me the couple weeks before, though could do either, 7th wouldn't be a deal breaker

i'm fine with either :)

To be perfectly honest I'd love to go to GD but saying that I'd rather play games of inquisitor than attend what is essentially games workshop con, I enjoy the atmosphere and wandering through the daemon gallery, in past years I've enjoyed conversion/kitbash corner but last year the selection was very limited.

I'd love to get an inquisitor inspired game playing as a participant table maybe using some bastardised 40k rules for ease of access and quick play, something on a zone mortalis style table with inquisitors rushing through attempting to complete objectives.

But as said I'd rather play games that attend a con

I'd be happy to go the Nottingham and not go to GD - i'm deeply unlikely to go anyway, given that I've never gone before, and certainly do not have the money.

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on June 19, 2013, 06:51:25 PM
@Gav: It was indeed Van Helser. However, I understand he is still without internet, so getting hold of him if you need to might be interesting.

I'm back!

After moving house and struggling to get BT to connect me, I seem to have had a stable connection for a day now, so I hope I won't be disappearing any time soon.

I did indeed run the Cold Trade day, and I am in contact with Gav to transfer my files on the matter (which reminds me - I wrote an article on the day for Dark Magenta that never seemed to appear in print.  I'm assuming that's because of the probs with the Dark Magenta site, as they're coming to an end would the article be seeing the light of day any time soon?).

I hopefully will be able to attend the day in September, but I'm taking up rugby again and my weekends are at the mercy of the Scottish Rugby Union fixture makers.  I'll know more in a month or two.

Ruaridh

The 7th would be better for showing that Inquisitor is still played, so that gets my vote.  Saying that, I'll keep both weekends free in case, as I'm keen to make it to my first Conclave event.  :)

Wel, if it's your first 'Clave event, then whichever weekend we go for, I look forward to meeting you :)

So...
Which date?

I've been a little busy this week, so haven't yet got around to confirming a booking.
I will probably do so tomorrow afternoon. That way I can give people another day to object against my thinking, which is as follows:

It seems no-one has yet ruled out either date, although the 28th seems to be the general preference.
I am wary of the risk of clashing with GD (and would probably prefer to be a bit more overt about our gaming by picking the 7th), but enough people seem to disagree with me on that.

With all that in mind, the current plan is to book the 28th - unless, we somehow find all those spaces have been taken since last week!

Okay, we are booked for the 28th of September.

I went with six regular tables - although we normally book eight, we've never actually needed all of those to my recollection (they're sometimes useful to nick terrain from, but we're usually early enough to borrow that from whichever other tables).
But if we find ourselves with a huge surge of interest (which would need it to be the biggest 'Clave event since 2009), we can probably ring back and add a couple more - or just acquire them on the day, there's usually a few going spare.

I forgot to request any specific terrain - such as the useful Necromunda terrain, but (if it still exists) that shouldn't be in dramatic demand - and didn't ask about any specific feature tables, but we have some leeway to ring back and adjust the booking over the next few weeks.

GD is usually a quiet day for stores and this is no different for HQ I once tried to book a school event on the GD weekend and they said that is wasn't possible as they just didn't have the staff to cover an event as the hq store was running with skeleton staff

did they mention anything about food as when I tried to book they said that bugmans was closed

Also wont be able to confirm my attendance until after the Asylum

They did not inform me of any unusual Bugman's service.

That's good

Huzzah! We have a date! I can now book train tickets!

if everyone's happy with me running (foooools!) ill start the player pack.. got the finale written already :)

okay, so i thought i'd throw this out for you guys to all see before i start spamming forums / news sites / send out a mailshot;

www.the-conclave.co.uk/13-pack.pdf

should be fairly self-explanatory but does anyone have any questions?

The event is on 28th not the 18th gav

good spot! was just testing  ;D

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on July 04, 2013, 11:38:13 AMdoes anyone have any questions?

- Does P = NP?
- What is the circumference of a moose?
- The cockpit? What is it?

More sensibly, how much leeway will there be if people want to write their own scenarios for the day?

- only if the Norwegian Blue is in effect
- depends on how much Pi has been eaten
- some form of Double Entendre / where the chickens fight

i've no problems with people writing scenarios and can provide basic narrative guides for the various game "stages"(the plot advances after each game at the moment) if needed, provided i get some advance warning ;)

so, front page updated!
trying to get the damn newsletter working but looks like data-daemons ate it!

show of hands, who's coming? :)

I am very definitely coming along to this. Can you also edit the thread title to tell us when it's going to be? That way, it'll look like we've gone further than just the ideas stage (because we have).

I'll be there.

any ideas for scale?

the idea© is 2 copies of the campaign; it's a 28mm campaign and a 54mm campaign running side by side.
if people want to hop scales, that's fine, want to stick to their favourite scale? that's fine.

until i get told otherwise i'll plan for everyone to play 54mm but will have *everything* available for 28mm

I can in principle do two scales, but have few plans to involve Eliesa unless we also have more Bunker or dual-community people showing up than just me and Marco -- I'm more tempted to do things with Langley et al instead.

Of course, if I can do stuff with Astrid (and especially if I can get Astrid v2 and the Devourer finished), all bets are off. :P

Has any one posted about this event over on the bunker? See if we can get some more players turning up to the event.

Making tit abundantly clear there there will be 2 campaigns running of course?

id appreciate anyone plugging that side.. im not a member :-[
waraeer and tabletopgamingnews done.. any suggestions for news sites?
wanna get a large turn out for this :-)

Reasonably certain I'm in.
I've even pre-warned the Mrs, so I have to come now.

I'll probably be 54mm only, unless it becomes necessary to have both, which I .might. be able to manage.

I'll be there with 54mm, maybe 28mm too.

Im in, at 54mm. I'll even try and make sure i remember the date this time!

28th September  ;)

i've submitted the news to Beasts Of War, Bell Of Lost Souls and Tabletop Gaming News and none of 'em have published it <_<
also done Warseer and Frothers (Danger!) so if someone could do Arkhan's Mind and Ammobunker for me that'd be great!

I'll be there.

I can post on Ammobunker, but what's the official line?

Is there a separate "event" for Dalthus and/or 28mm? Or is it just one giant hodge podge? I'm guessing the former will seem too divided for some and the latter too integrated for others.

(Not that I am trying to be accusative. I'm just not sure it'll attract everyone's interest one way or the other).

28mm is welcomed and i personally would love inquisitor played at both scales, but to save arguments it'll be a case of both scales will be separate, identical campaigns and hand outs and plot, scores separate if only to stop mixing up both scales in the finales!
if people want to scale-hop during the day that's fine as well; of all people i appreciate when people make their characters in both scales (http://buildyourimagination.co.uk/minis/conclavewinter12/crew.jpg)!

I suppose that as it's not an official Bunker event, whether it fits into Dalthan continuity should ultimately be up to anyone that gets involved.

One slight problem I've noticed while I was about to post on Ammobunker...

... the player pack does require "That each character has its own painted 54mm model and completed character sheet".

Tell them to ignore the "54mm" bit, or replace it with "painted model (at the intended scale)". If you put it up there in bright lurid neon purple they'll get the message :P

Right - well. Posted. I used fluorescent pink though.

Apologies if I've missed or forgotten, but where does the Eramus Affair sit in relation to the current over-arching plot revival?
I think I'd like to use a few of the same characters, but if that's likely to lock them out of one or the other story, it'd be easier to write fluff with that in mind.

Also, I've just noticed, thanks to the deep background expositions popping up, that I was nearly tangentially involved in the later phases of the Amon-Dul saga, entirely unaware.
Continuity is fun.

I'm not sure the Carthaxian narrative (as I am assuming at least the 54mm version of the Eramus Affair will fit into, at least by involving Carthaxian inquisitors, even if not expressly in Carthax) was ever really conceived as an extension of the old Conclave plots.
The concept and basic premise of Carthax was laid down by Kaled, who I'm not sure had an involvement in that older history. It's also off in the west of the galaxy, a long way from key locations to those old plots (like Terra and the Eye).

Add to that the revival is proposed as being around about 250.M42, compared to the current Carthax date of 013.M42 - well, I guess that's your answer: about 240 years earlier.
Strictly then, the two don't really become mutually exclusive. It's quite possible for a character be at the Eramus Affair, then two centuries later be in the revival (it takes hopping around the galaxy a bit, but that's not impossible).

Myself, I have been discussing (with Koval, we're developing characters somewhat in tandem) the possibility of using a Carthaxian Inquisitor to fit into this revival. It would help work around my personal inexperience of all these old plots, by using an Inquisitor who doesn't really know anything about them either, but gives me some tangible links to some of what I've previously developed.
The plot hooks are high enough profile (whoopsie going down on Terra is serious whoopsie) that even a Conclave on the fringes of the Imperium might well send representatives to stick an oar in. It works quite well, really.

What I've got in mind is that this character would have trained under one of my "current" Carthaxian characters - presently an interrogator, but by the time she's ~275 she could be fully ordained and also have (experienced) former students.

But I guess this is the wrong thread for discussing it.

That's handy, actually - I'll angling for a reasonably inexperienced tech adept, who can age gracefully into the conglomeration of respirators, data-jacks and bionic hearts I'm hoping to shoehorn into The Truth.
200 or so years as a recluse fiddling with cogitators and memory banks  should do it.

I have returned from my holidays and have been browsing the fixture list for the coming season, and it seems that on 28/09/13 I am due to be as far away from Nottingham as one can possibly be within the populated parts of the British Isles - an away fixture to Shetland RFC.  At the moment my involvement in the Autumn Conclave seems unlikely. 

Ruaridh

Did you have any luck on any of the forums recruiting more victims of Angstroms displeasure players?

none of the news sites published the news; don't seem to have picked up any more players from the forum posts either :(
less writing for me to do of course ;)

Good news!

1) I'm back (sort of).

2) I'm coming to the Autumn Conclave!  Definitely 54mm.  Hopefully 28mm, too, if possible.

3) I'll see if I can't spread the word about the Autumn Conclave through my own network.

R.

1) Huzzah! (Sort of.)
2) Go with both scales! Play around a bit, you know it makes sense.
3) EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN!

... well, it seems the recent rain of returning members continues.

Good to see you around again Robey.

~~~~~

As an aside, I am expecting to be coming equipped for both 28 and 54mm myself. What 28mm and 54mm is another matter - it depends on which of many unfinished projects I actually decide to get off my arse and get on with.

aye, always good to have returning names :)
of course, now i have to avoid disappointing you all!

@Koval - Gav was saying that none of the news sites had publicized the Autumn Conclave.  I can probably do something about that, at least within my own network.

Might have to brush up my recollection of the rules, though!

R.

I got that far, but your "own network" was what troubled me a little. Are you cheating on us, Robey? :P

Can you sign me up please, and i've sent a PM to gav about the event.
Cheers

Soooooooooooo...
It's looking brutally expensive to make it all the way from the south coast to Nottingham.
Also, it sounds like the usual SOP is to get there Friday eve, to be ready Sat morn?

Any advice, or suggestions I may have overlooked, that might render this in some way affordable?

Edit: Not to come begging hat in hand, but if anyone's driving up that I could give petrol money to, or some similar, I'd be eternally grateful.
Preferably not axe-murderers, but it might just save me hitch-hiking up, which is becoming increasingly unreliable as a timely mode of transport.

Some people do turn up Saturday evening, but that's generally those who have particularly long trips - Van Helser, for example. tends to fly down from Inverness on the Friday, stay the Friday and Saturday nights, then fly back again on Sunday.
For a lot of people, it is an early start on Saturday to get there. (As it does save the cost of overnight accommodation).

Dependent on how you're looking to make it there... well, there's not a lot I can suggest to reduce the cost of driving, save finding someone to split petrol costs with.

Via the train, pre-booking an advance ticket will usually save a bit. And if you're using the web journey planners, you could a bit more relaxed about arrival times - sometimes it's a lot cheaper to go later and accept a few quid in taxi fare.
If the costs are high enough (or you're planning on making it to a few events over the next year) and you're eligible for whichever one, it can be cheaper to buy a rail card and benefit from the discount.

~~~~~

On the note of my own journey, I'm not planning on booking onto the last train this time around. It's one thing to stay around that late if running or playing in an extra game, but that's not very common - so, in the absence of anything being specifically planned, I'm more likely to get the 20:02 or 20:43, which'll give me the time to hang around and chat, but without being there on my own at the end!

(I may also take a different train out, seeing as the costs have swapped around a lot over time, but that's probably less relevant).

if you can get to Bath by 06:45 i can pick you up enroute?
i go from Radstock but usually go thru the centre of Bath onto the motorway :)

I've had a slightly more in-depth poke around since last whine, and found slightly more affordable tickets up.
Brutal AM start, but such is the way of these things.

Cheers for the advice, and the Gav for the offer.
Things are looking up.

Edit: Booked. Ah heck. If I'm a zombie upon arrival, I do apologise.

Edit: I did not know we had a censor. Good family-friendly fun. How entertaining.

Quote from: TheNephew on August 10, 2013, 06:01:30 PMI've had a slightly more in-depth poke around since last whine, and found slightly more affordable tickets up.

Although it's probably not useful now, one word of advice I forgot to give earlier - sometimes splitting the journey at a change can make it cheaper bought as two parts. (Sometimes it isn't. You have to experiment).

This used to be the case with my going via London, as splitting the journey at London* and just walking the difference between Euston and St Pancras** hugely cut the costs. For me, it's no longer the case, but you might find things improved.

*Also, it can be worth telling the online journey planners you don't need as long to cross London. They're often quite pessimistic. Sometimes a different option can be cheaper.
**About half a mile between the front entrances. After you add in stairs and waits, it's actually quicker to walk than take the Tube.

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on August 10, 2013, 07:39:18 PMFor me, it's no longer the case...

Okay, I am apparently wrong on this. Although booking as one journey out and one back is cheaper than two out and two back used to be, pre-booked tickets between St Pancras and Nottingham are for some reason half the price of a few months ago. So, this is going to be as cheap as I've ever made it to an event.

Anyway, all booked up. I've aimed for the 2043 out, as Van Helser's not there, so I doubt anyone's hanging around until the 2128. (And I think the 2043 is relatively close to when Koval tends to leave).

19.40 is the last train that I can catch back to Manchester. Oddly though it seems to be cheaper to buy the tickets at the station assuming I get the same deal as last time.

Hello fellow clavers,

Though not on here much I have been busy off it so will be coming along this year!

Look forward to seeing you all there :)

R

ps I'll be in 54mm

Put me on the provisional list - it's in my Calendar now, but as I'm planning on doing my upgrade viva soon, that might disrupt plans.  Gav, how likely is it you'd be able to pass through Bristol on your way?

as Shannow is there, i'd say 100% chance at the moment :)

Eeexcellent... I'll be able to REALLY confirm closer to the date. I thought academic life was supposed to get rid of this sort of thing...

Also, not to start a spin off topic, but we really should do some sort of South West Conclave...

Hello conclave
I'm really hoping to attend the event if it's alright for complete Inquisitor newbies to attend? I can guarantee that I'm free and only live an hour away from WHW so it's no great shakes for me getting there. However I only ever played one game 8 years ago, will need somebody to hold my hand lol. If this is possibly a problem then let me know.
I will also be limited on models, having by then only one complete 54mm model (my main character Inquisitor Helena Shal'tan) will this be enough to fit into the campaign..? I was thinking of perhaps throwing a couple of  servo skulls in there, but that is all I could manage by then.
Any help or advice much appreciated!

Quote from: Shard0808 on September 03, 2013, 07:40:11 PMI'm really hoping to attend the event if it's alright for complete Inquisitor newbies to attend?

We've had people with less experience at bigger events.

The big suggestions I have for you are read up on the rules, and these files of my own creation:
Economy character sheet V2 (http://www.mediafire.com/?m1mq96owictm673)
Updated Quick Reference V1.2.1 (http://www.mediafire.com/?xs9ep40c91f309h)

The latter is my version of the QRS, except it's actually up to date with the latest version of the digital rulebook and has  a redesigned injury table (http://s772.photobucket.com/user/MarcoSkoll/media/Miscellaneous/Injury_V1-2f.jpg.html) that is much quicker and easier to use than the official one (http://s772.photobucket.com/user/MarcoSkoll/media/Miscellaneous/Injury_V1-0.jpg.html).

The former... well, that started as a project to condense four character sheets on two sides of one sheet of paper. It learnt a lot of lessons from the first version and got tidied up a lot.
Even if you don't want four characters on the same piece of paper, it's better laid out for some people (and I've seen it reformatted to just have one character on it).
Also, less ink hungry than the default sheet.

QuoteI will also be limited on models, having by then only one complete 54mm model (my main character Inquisitor Helena Shal'tan) will this be enough to fit into the campaign?

One character won't be brilliant (although I have seen it done), but people are usually perfectly happy to loan out models if needed. They're hardly doing anything on the shelf at home!

I may have some of mine going spare - I have a few "floating" characters that are deliberately left so they can be reasonably be attached to various groups; mostly so I can fill in gaps in groups if I haven't finished all of the models I need in time for an event! (Easy example - one of them is a mercenary).

Although, as always, I don't necessarily know if I'll need them myself until I'm either done or realise I've procrastinated too much and'll have to use them. Still, someone else may be able to give you a firmer offer!

(That said, I'll actually have to find the time to read the remainder of your fluff to be sure if they're the types that Helena would actually work with).

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on September 03, 2013, 10:53:23 PM
One character won't be brilliant (although I have seen it done), but people are usually perfectly happy to loan out models if needed. They're hardly doing anything on the shelf at home!

i'll have a variety of spare miniatures (with character sheets incase you don't know what characters'd be appropriate for Inquisitor Shal'tan) as well; i've used 1-character warbands atleast twice and it's no fun for someone to shoot your guy in the head turn 2 and stun him for three turns (http://buildyourimagination.co.uk/minis/conclaveautumn11.php?i=DSCI0677.jpg)...

Quote from: Shard0808 on September 03, 2013, 07:40:11 PM
Hello conclave
I'm really hoping to attend the event if it's alright for complete Inquisitor newbies to attend? I can guarantee that I'm free and only live an hour away from WHW so it's no great shakes for me getting there. However I only ever played one game 8 years ago, will need somebody to hold my hand lol. If this is possibly a problem then let me know.

That's absolutely not a problem at all, if you're interested in joining us then I look forward to seeing you there.

QuoteI will also be limited on models, having by then only one complete 54mm model (my main character Inquisitor Helena Shal'tan) will this be enough to fit into the campaign..? I was thinking of perhaps throwing a couple of  servo skulls in there, but that is all I could manage by then.
Any help or advice much appreciated!

As Marco pointed out, loaning models is not uncommon. And I can offer something as well -- admittedly I only have one 54mm model that's suitably generic to be slotted in anywhere, but if you can think of a reason why Helena might have picked up a PDF officer* then I'll bring him along and throw in a simplified profile.

At 28mm, there are more options. :P

*The model I'm talking about -- a Major Jaxon conversion with an autocarbine -- could be used as any generic PDF character. I imagine grey battledress is par for the course in a lot of PDFs.


Out of interest, while the fluff you've written for Helena is all well and good, is there any chance that you could describe her in 50 words or fewer as a sort of brief overview? That'll help people on the other side of the table develop a working understanding of who she is, and if we're loaning models to one another, we'll know what kinds of operatives and henchmen she might employ.

Much appreciated guys, I'll go over the rules as much as possible before the event to make it easier on everyone. The final piece of fluff for Helena is in the works and should be done soon, I'll fire out a stats list with abilities and equipment along with a simple round up of who she is for everyone's benefit. Koval a PDF officer should be easy to enough to write into her story, the offer is massively appreciated :)
Hope to see you there guys

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on September 04, 2013, 07:46:27 AMit's no fun for someone to shoot your guy in the head turn 2 and stun him for three turns (http://buildyourimagination.co.uk/minis/conclaveautumn11.php?i=DSCI0677.jpg)...

If I recall (and/or recognise the crotch behind Lord Toff Posh Poncington-Toff as mine), I was GMing that one and used my godly omnipotence to stop the remaining shots. Here, have an obligatory Matrix scene (http://youtu.be/zYwdzYC3uUc?t=29s).

To tell the truth, characters to be used on their own generally need the rules bent a bit to keep them in the running - either by the favour of the GM (not a good thing to rely on) or getting special rules to make them more resistant to injury penalties.

i think you were GMing; had Kaled's Tau and i remember a dude with a gurt massive shield! :)

so, Fun Fact; having (realistically) 12 players means i'm 4 scenarios short; had written The Eramus Affair for 9 players :lol:
still, i've got a couple weeks to write some more!  :o

and the lack of dedicated 28mm players means i'll have the players to shuffle scenarios into 28mm, but won't be printing an extra copy of the Campaign Pack or building NPCs / Objectives with 28mm in mind i'm afraid!

Is the Erasmus Affair a continuation of an overall story arc? As in, the last Conclave campaign directly proceeds the events of the upcoming one? If so is there a thread detailing exactly what happened in the last campaign(s) and the current state of affairs (with battle reports..?), just so I can get familiar with characters, settings, backgrounds etc and bring Helena realistically into the setting.
Many thanks guys

Conclave events are discrete standalone entities. It's basically a case of "hey guys, I've got an idea". So you can join in with no prior knowledge of previous events -- though there's nothing stopping you from working an event's plotline into your character's backstory afterwards*. Let's face it, they were there. :P

*I did that with the Twin Arches event last December, adding the events of that to several of my characters' backstories -- even ones that weren't physically there.

The Eramus Affair follows on from a previous Conclave, The Cold Trade in which hte Inquisition failed to stop Xenos technology and it's Black Market in the Carthax Sector (apparently i didn't do my own writeup!).
In this Conclave, characters will be investigating a major supplier of arms onto the Hive World of Obcultus; a Rogue Trader known as Eramus.

Since the Cold Trade civil unrest has been on the increase and apparently Eramus is somehow bypassing the embargo.
Your characters maybe there to support the local PDF, maybe touch base with Eramus and secure arms or stop him; it's pretty flexible regarding characters objectives.

Across each scenario you gain "Information Points" which increase your standing in the investigation and placing higher will uncover more of the plot and grant more influence on the story up until the finale(s) which will determine several specific outcomes...

...

.. of course, that's the theory; how well it works is a completley different situation.
At worst you'll get 5 games and thanks to our awesome playerbase i've not had a bad game yet!

I will add though, the Carthax Wiki (http://carthax.wikispaces.com/) (and its Conclaves page (http://carthax.wikispaces.com/Conclaves)) is generally the centralised resource for such things (although I recognise I've never fully written up the Twin Arches. Whoops).

But, here's a slightly more summarised summary than that:

~~~~~

- The Hastor Stones: A dozen stones with exceptional regenerative abilities were found on Hastor. Naturally, these valuable artefacts are highly desired.
Inquisitor Kaled is killed in the conflict, but revived using one of the stones, and escapes with a second. Inquisitor Necris also exits with one of the stones.

- The Grundig Affair: The killing of Inquisitor Solomon Stoker starts a war within the ranks of the Inquisition. Eventually, Inquisitor Kor Grundig is revealed as the culprit and is seemingly killed by Inquisitor Jakart.
However, his apparent reappearance afterwards makes it highly likely a double was killed.

(The Hastor and Grundig events were both older events somewhat retconned into Carthaxian continuity.)

- The Grand Conclave M42.009: Mixed event with no overriding theme.

- The Succession: Inquisitor Lord Marcus Grolin, head of the Carthaxian Conclave, dies. Although the circumstances are suspicious, the main need is to elect his successor. After various quarrelling and in-fighting political campaigning, Inquisitors Necris and Goddard have sufficient support to nominate themselves, and Lord Smogg the support to nominate another candidate, Inquisitor Lord Calleia.

During the voting, Lord Inquisitor Calleia was attacked with an unknown plasma weapon, and Inquisitor Necris was pushed from a rooftop by an attacker who then fired upon nearby witnesses (although both survived).

Ultimately, Lord Calleia is elected head of the Conclave.

- The Grand Conclave M42.011: Mixed event with no overriding theme.

- The Antonine Amulets: The small Antonine cluster of worlds is essentially being propped up entirely by its cold trade in xenos artefacts (including the titular amulets). Various parties seek to strengthen, control or destroy this trade - and some just go about trying to cause anarchy.
Ultimately, the cold trade is primarily strengthened.

This is what the Eramus Affair (partially) follows on from.

- The Saint: A long running war on the Fortress world Ilithyia, trying to keep out traitor forces from a fallen neighbouring sector, is given a beacon of hope - Corporal Aderyn Aeslin, killed after a heroic and largely single handed defence, has resurrected and is being hailed as a vessel of the Emperor's will.
This calls in any number of parties seeking to canonise, control, investigate, martyr, assassinate or derail the possible saint.

Ultimately, after a lead-in, Inquisitor Cortez is chosen to meet the Corporal, but the meeting between her and Aderyn is infiltrated by a heretic psyker and a number of Tau, before a massive scale security snafu allows...

... first, a traitor force to breach the ground perimeter
... secondly, a Valkyrie (sabotaged with improvised explosives) to breach the anti-air defences and crash metres from the Corporal.
... and thirdly, a daemonhost to take control of one of the planet's orbital weapons platforms (sabotaged to overload and destroy itself if fired), having just been transmitted targeting information from the planet below.

While many Imperial forces escape the resulting devastation (along with the Tau delegation and the heretic psyker), the Corporal is believed to have been destroyed along with a large portion of the traitor force.
The uncertainty results in mass rioting over much of the sub-sector, although the situation is eventually brought under some level of control with Aderyn's posthumous canonisation.

- The Grand Conclave M42.012: Mixed event with no overriding theme.

- The Kaede Mack Conglomeration: Any number of wildly different (and frequently criminal) individuals are all using the name Kaede Mack, with no sign as to which is the real article.

The Inquisition attempts to crack down on the Conglomerate. Eventually, forced onto the run, the Kaede Mack conglomerate take to using a mobile command headquarters, which is assaulted by a number of Inquisition parties, eventually destroying the xenotech transmitter used to co-ordinate their activities.

While elements of the Conglomerate still exist, any underlying plan of actions is now fragmented.

- The Twin Arches: The skies around two star systems have changed. Codenamed Scylla and Kharybdis - the former from the Abraxis sector, the latter from Carthax - the shifted constellations in their skies throws their present galactic locations into doubt. Not that the fickle and unnatural warp cares, for they can both still be found on their old warp routes... and one more, a new doorway that connects these almost galactically separate systems as if they were just two rooms in a house.

A number of Inquisitors from both ends of this connection investigate, and find evidence of an ancient xenotech warp gate - its connection to the warp starting to "leak" after many tens or even hundreds of millennia.
This is what is resulting in the apparent shift of the worlds, some very weird laws of physics in the immediate vicinity of either gate's locus and quite possibly partially explaining the long running correlations between the Carthax sector and the Eastern Fringe.

A number of parties speak in favour of destruction of the gates, although a cell of agents in service to an Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus urges further investigation. An agreement is reached to allow that, although the investigation is still on-going and both worlds remain under some degree of quarantine.

- The Grand Conclave M42.013: Mixed event with no overriding theme.

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on September 10, 2013, 05:06:49 PM
I will add though, the Carthax Wiki (http://carthax.wikispaces.com/) (and its Conclaves page (http://carthax.wikispaces.com/Conclaves)) is generally the centralised resource for such things (although I recognise I've never fully written up the Twin Arches. Whoops).

feel free to steal words and pictures from My Collection Of Works (http://buildyourimagination.co.uk/minis/inq.php) should you need it!
as i'm not actually partaking in The Eramus Affair, i'll be keeping notes and have a writeup for the wiki of key events and the result :)

I'm afraid I can't make it, though to be honest with GW's recent trend of releases I'm finding myself utterly uninspired by the GW ip's I'm more interested in other gaming systems at present

Seeing as we're down to two weeks, are there any changes or requests I need to make to the WHW booking?

not from this side :)

would be nice if we could have a check how many are confirmed; i think the first post is up to date?

Well, I've just put an extra reminder on Ammobunker, although I'm not expecting a big surge of interest.

Six tables should be fine for the 12 confirmations we have, plus a few latecomers if we get any, so it seems I wasn't off the money on that one.

so, we all still up for this?
just need to get the printing done, the campaign day is written :D

hopefully people won't hate it!

WHOOOOOOOOOOP WHOOOP WHOOOP WHOOP WHOOP

Absolutely, very much looking forward to it.

Already told Gav this - sadly, I won't be able to attend. I thought my upgrade would be done by now, but I need an introduction, a bibliography, and better first and second chapters ASAP.

is there anyone able to do some two-sixed colour printing?
wanted to get a dozen of Kaled's Inquisitor Introduction Leaflet (http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/Inquisitor_Leaflet.pdf) printed but i got like 70 pages to get printed for the day and i'm strapped for cash :(

We've got a colour laser, so I can see if it'll behave.

EDIT: The leaflet may need some updates though! The suggestion that "the first place to look is at the Games Workshop Online Store – there are about 30 models to choose from in the Inquisitor range which should be enough to get you started" is a little out of date!

All revved up and raring to go here.

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on September 23, 2013, 10:11:41 PM
EDIT: The leaflet may need some updates though! The suggestion that "the first place to look is at the Games Workshop Online Store – there are about 30 models to choose from in the Inquisitor range which should be enough to get you started" is a little out of date!

the Eversor is a great model! :)
hopefully Kaled will still have the original somewhere...

in Random News© got everything printed; spare blank character sheets, spare reference sheets, the playerpack (for my reference!) all the plot cards, the 3 finales and all 8 scenarios.
...
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12 players, 4 per table, 3 rounds. i need 9 scenarios. crap.

I may still have the original file somewhere - I can have a look tomorrow. What needs updating? Just that one line? Or is there anything else?

Err, perhaps you could print off two copies of a scenario and thus give two tables the same scenario?

And is this accounting for Dave's and my desire to hijack a table for some playtesting at 28mm?

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on September 24, 2013, 07:29:35 PM12 players, 4 per table, 3 rounds. i need 9 scenarios. crap.

Hmm. 4 players per scenario is probably going to make the timing a bit tight unless it's only two characters per player...

Quote from: Kaled on September 24, 2013, 08:06:24 PMWhat needs updating? Just that one line? Or is there anything else?

That's the main thing (at least if we're just focusing on 54mm Inquisitor).

But, as far as a proof reading note, the word it's used in the first sentence after the "What characters can I play?" heading and after the Dark Magenta link (both on the second page) should be its, and for trivial pedantry, I'd also retconned the III part of Ilithyia III by the time we had that event (but that's probably only something I care about).

Quote from: Koval on September 24, 2013, 08:09:04 PMAnd is this accounting for Dave's and my desire to hijack a table for some playtesting at 28mm?

Yes - we're being deliciously difficult.

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on September 24, 2013, 08:29:18 PM
at least if we're just focusing on 54mm Inquisitor

FWIW I don't think we should, if only because the choice of scale exists.

Quote from: Koval on September 24, 2013, 08:09:04 PM
And is this accounting for Dave's and my desire to hijack a table for some playtesting at 28mm?

i haven't accounted for that at all :lol:
what did you have planned? i'd planned what was in the playerpack; 3 standard games (rotating players so everyone should play almost everyone) then 3 finales grouping players with similar scores to decide actual outcomes for hte day :)

QuoteHmm. 4 players per scenario is probably going to make the timing a bit tight unless it's only two characters per player...

don't tell me that! should it be 3 players per table? the scenarios aren't mind-blowingly complicated / have much by way of rules...

We intended to hijack a scenario and playtest some Revised Inquisitor rules at 28mm -- Dave wants to test some new actions and close combat stuff, and I want to play about with RIPPA.

I am liable to bring some spare 28mm models in any case. :P

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on September 24, 2013, 08:58:23 PM
don't tell me that! should it be 3 players per table? the scenarios aren't mind-blowingly complicated / have much by way of rules...

Three players plus a GM per table is my preferred format.

I've lost my Gruss.
By which I mean I put him somewhere for safe keeping and I have no idea where somewhere is.
Deeply irritating at such short notice.

And my time management has been poor enough that none of my servitors are built, let alone painted, and my tools are spread across the city.

The fallout of this being perhaps the most understaffed  AdMech investigation team in the sector.
I hope no-one minds a surprise speed-painted Liwet appearance - spray's drying now, and I've got about four free hours between now and my Saturday dawn train.

This is far too stressful.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Lawd.

Otherwise, YEAAAAAAAAH!

Edit: But at least that'll lighten the character-load on scenarios I'm in. To counteract my n00bility.

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on September 24, 2013, 08:58:23 PMwhat did you have planned?

If possible (if it's too much of a mess, we'll have to call it quits), we're looking to basically play one of the scenarios with some of the draft 2nd edition rules and probably some of our 28mm characters.

Quotedon't tell me that! should it be 3 players per table? the scenarios aren't mind-blowingly complicated / have much by way of rules...

Events normally run two or three player games (plus a GM, but I think your number of four is four players, not three and a GM) at events, and even that's often tight for time - I'd say maybe half of games I play at events get rushed or incomplete conclusions.

Having had no spare time to finish alternate characters, looks like Angstrom will be present again. That man gets around...

Almost got the scenarios done :-)
Ill allocate one of game 2s tables to inq 2.0 if thats ok?
Who is playing that?
Also saturday can igrab a math-orientated person to help me work out how the players go?
Was gonna designate playrs to tables first 3 games toensure pople play against differentpeolel, the finales goverened by Informatoon Points...


Also, Kaled and Marco am i still ok to borrow those 4 items? :-)

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on September 26, 2013, 12:24:44 PMIll allocate one of game 2s tables to inq 2.0 if thats ok? Who is playing that?

Just Koval and I at present.

QuoteAlso saturday can igrab a math-orientated person to help me work out how the players go?

I can probably help, although most of it will probably be referring to or fudging from the allocation lists I worked out last year (http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=270.msg25970#msg25970).

QuoteAlso, Kaled and Marco am i still ok to borrow those 4 items?

Assuming I am cogent enough on Saturday morning to remember to bring my contribution with me, yes.

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on September 26, 2013, 12:24:44 PM
Also saturday can igrab a math-orientated person to help me work out how the players go?

I'm happy to jump in here -- I'm mathsy. All I'd need to know is what kind of criteria you want us to keep in mind.

Besides which, this is as good a time as any to learn the finer points of player allocation for future events! :D

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on September 26, 2013, 03:49:16 PM
I can probably help, although most of it will probably be referring to or fudging from the allocation lists I worked out last year (http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=270.msg25970#msg25970).

QuoteI'm happy to jump in here -- I'm mathsy. All I'd need to know is what kind of criteria you want us to keep in mind.

cheers!
it's however many players (looking at 12) across 4 tables, hopefully rotating so people don't face each other too often!
obviously, round 2 will be odd as the pair of you are looking to play Inq2.0 but i can grab the remaining two guys and throw something together :)

...Well, looks like I forgot to click on the link. All the leg work's already been done for us. :P

except there's going to be only 3 players per table  :-[

1 more scenario to write :)

The leg work has still been done. :P

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on September 26, 2013, 12:24:44 PM
Also, Kaled and Marco am i still ok to borrow those 4 items? :-)

I can definitely bring two, but I'm not sure if I can get the third - we're looking at selling the house and some things went into storage and this may have been one.  I will check and bring it if it is here though...

Also, I can't seem to find the original file for the leaflet.  :-(  But I'm more than happy for someone to take the text and create their own version.

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on September 26, 2013, 07:43:08 PMexcept there's going to be only 3 players per table

You're actually in the clear. Although the solution for three tables isn't perfect (with some of the numbers swapped for neatness, I think it may be as good as is possible, although I haven't exhaustively proved that), the solution for four tables is absolutely optimal.

Put any number of people into it and it will always divide them as evenly as possible across four tables. (Well, provided nobody leaves in the middle of the day, but it just can't be that clever).
12 people? Always four tables of three. 8? Always four tables of two. 10? Always two of three and two of two.

The trick is that there's actually a fifth possible game for 16 attendees and 4 tables where no-one has previously met:
Game 5: 1,2,3,4 - 5,6,7,8 - 9,10,11,12 - 13,14,15,16

Because none of 1-4, 5-8, 9-12 or 13-16 ever meet anyone from their same cluster of four in the first four games*, mutual absences from the same cluster never meet and no game ever has more than its fair share of missing people. (Provided the list is filled from the bottom!)
*It'd be nice for everyone to meet everyone, but you can't meet 15 people in four games with three other people.

So, one trick would just be giving Koval and I the two highest numbers and our absence would just evenly divide across the remaining games.

It might be possible to shuffle the remaining players into new games, but that's a little bit trickier as far as picking numbers to make sure people don't still meet.
I do have to point out, that the three table and four table charts are not cross-compatible, so swapping between them with the same numbers won't work. Although I'm not sure it's impossible to achieve that - there may be a way to swap the numbers or the rounds on the three table chart around to fix that, although it might mean people no longer GM in numerical order.

The other alternative is if Koval and I can find a third person willing to deal with my shoddy Alpha rules and we just pick numbers that put us all together in round 2.
That might well mean not playing that game at 28mm, but while that's not ideal, it's something I can at least live with.

Quote from: Kaled on September 26, 2013, 08:08:18 PMAlso, I can't seem to find the original file for the leaflet.  :-(  But I'm more than happy for someone to take the text and create their own version.

Hoo boy. There's no way I've got the time to do that before Saturday. The best I could manage by then is a "paste over the original text" job.

Enjoy your games guys

Just dropping in to confirm my attendance.

I've seen talk of INQ 2.0, which I assume might be loosely inspired by my aborted work on that project.  Would love to get in on that.  I haven't had time to sort a 28mm party, yet.  My collection is a bit short of GW stuff, right now...

R.

'Allo 'allo.

Any chance anyone already has a handy quickstart rules booklet or similar halfwit/noob learning aid?

Obviously it's a little late to be asking now, but no harm in it - any brushing up I can do on teh train can only help the smooth running of games.
Apologies if I've missed a link already posted - I had a quick rummage through Marco's folders, didn't see anything too promising.

Thanks all.

Marco's got the Inquisitor reference sheet in his archive somewhere. I don't think anyone's ever done a quick start rules though (would probably be a good idea to produce one though).

Got the ref sheet, thanks, and a healthy fistful of similar ][ gaming aids, but as you say it doesn't look like there's a proper simplified-but-reasonably-comprehensive-on-one-sheet rules handout.

I can probably hammer one together out of screens from the LRB and Word.

I might have snagged another player. He's new to the game, but familiar with the universe!

What time are people arriving at Nottingham tomorrow?

I'll be on the 7.38 to Nottingham from Manchester Oxford Road arriving at 9.30.

Quote from: Bloodpact on September 27, 2013, 07:34:11 PM
I might have snagged another player. He's new to the game, but familiar with the universe!

me too... may have to wing table 5s scenarios!

I get in 09:26 from St Pancras - happy to hang around.

Anyone else?

If not, easiest way to get to WHW?

Arriving at about 08:40 or thereabouts from Ely. I almost always wait for Marco anyway, so I'm more than happy to hang about for more fellow Clavers.

Ho hum. Once again I'm not happy with how much I'm having to rush painting, so I guess it's Lyra again.

Quote from: precinctomega on September 27, 2013, 03:15:27 PMI've seen talk of INQ 2.0, which I assume might be loosely inspired by my aborted work on that project.

Loosely so. I think the game would really benefit from the update, so I've been trying to raise some interest for people to get involved in a joint project.

What we've got for tomorrow though is not much more than a few very crude bolt-ons to 1st ed to mainly play-test a reactive system and close combat that tries to encourage the attacker to choose actions other than just "attack".
We're more testing concepts and ideas than actual rules at the moment.

Quote from: TheNephew on September 27, 2013, 04:14:38 PMas you say it doesn't look like there's a proper simplified-but-reasonably-comprehensive-on-one-sheet rules handout.

There are rule summary pages at the back of the rulebook, but....

... well, that's useful. They're not actually in the rulebook files.

QuoteI get in 09:26 from St Pancras - happy to hang around.

Then you'll be on the exact same train as I am.

Although, knowing me, I'm probably more likely to be exhausted than interesting conversation.

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on September 27, 2013, 08:13:07 PM
There are rule summary pages at the back of the rulebook, but....

... well, that's useful. They're not actually in the rulebook files.

I thought so.
Distinctly remember having seen some once.
And I'm reasonably sure I've not actually seen a rulebook in the flesh, so scans must be out there...

As for not being talkative - no worries on that front. I'm off out soon, and don't expect to be in the greatest of shape getting up at 04:30 to get up to London...

Ah the joys of conclave meets. Last minute painting and early starts  ;D.

My own last minute prep has just been interrupted by news that's going to steal my Saturday away, so I'm sorry to say that I won't be joining you all. I hope it's a blast though and I'll be looking forward to seeing any photos and battle reports.

Sorry to hear it Krenshar -- hope everything's okay.

A great day, with some fantastic events!

Search for #autumnconclave on Twitter four my pics from the day.

R.

Absolutely. Brilliant day out, hope everyone enjoyed it.

thanks to all for partaking in the day; a proper write-up will appear in the In THe Field section with PDFs and downloads.
apart from me mixing up Scenario Points and Information Points, i'd be really interested in thoughts regarding the story (and how it unfolded) and the scenarios themselves; being the first time alot of these scenarios have been played i'malways looking to improve!

thanks to Shannow for the car-share (and putting up with me talking crap), TheNephew for so graciously accepting his necron-designed-bbionically-enhanced-squig, the two Daves for the loan of the inspiring vehicles and all of you for coming along!

It all went splendidly. Thanks Gav for running it.

A few niggles:

1) Apparently the increasing fame of my directorial namesake does not make him a reliable reference for my surname over the phone. More phonetic alphabet needed, I think.
2) Getting a train 45 minutes earlier did pretty little to help me, as the connection I should then have been able to catch was cancelled.
3) More sleep needed.

Still, I think we did pretty well - although turnout wasn't phenomenal, we met that opportunity objective we had for trying to catch people's attention. I can't actually recall having had quite that many other people taking pictures of what we're doing previously.

Three separate 54mm vehicles do seem to be a not ineffective method of drawing the eye.

That, surely, is an incentive to work on the Titan :P

I'll put up my own account of the day at some point, but suffice it to say that the finale will look a bit strange -- as Gav, Marco and Holiad are aware, I had to change the parameters a bit (from "Cultists" to "Inquisition operatives affiliated with Lyra's associates"), so that we didn't end up with an awkward blue on blue incident. Instead, we had a couple of fun exchanges (paraphrased below).


Corporal is too thick to know when to listen to an Inquisitor. Suspicious PDF Trooper gets Lyra's attention. Lyra leaves the Corporal and walks over.
Lyra: I take it you have a reason for attracting my attention.
Suspicious PDF Trooper produces an autogun and shoots past Lyra, hitting the Corporal in the stomach and fatally wounding him.
Lyra: (alarmed, to Suspicious PDF Trooper) My patience is wearing thin. Tell me what the hell you're doing. Now.
Suspicious PDF Trooper takes off her cap.
Alice: (channelling the Ninth Doctor) Tagging contraband, loading it into the Valkyrie, hijacking it to lead us back to Eramus. Thanks for blowing it.
Lyra: (exasperated) Well, if Fabian won't tell me what he's doing...

Vox Specialist sees Commissar Leith approaching, looks up, and makes a point of not saluting.
Vox Specialist: (nonchalantly) Good evening, Commissar.
Commissar Leith: (perhaps slightly affronted) You there. Soldier. I trust you'll be more cooperative than your corporal over there?
Vox Specialist: Oh. Him. He's not my corporal.
Suspicious PDF Trooper shoots the Corporal in the stomach. The Corporal falls to the floor.
Vox Specialist: (shrugging) And now he's not much of anything.
Another Trooper moves over to investigate the commotion.
Commissar Leith: (annoyed) I find your manner incredibly disrespectful, soldier. Identify yourself now. Name, rank and serial number.
Vox Specialist takes off her headset and cap, producing an oversized bolt pistol.
Tyra: Vargas, Tyra. Former Commodore, Battlefleet Pacificus, currently assigned to the Inquisition.
Tyra turns and shoots the overly inquisitive Trooper at point blank range, killing him.
Tyra: (to Leith) Good to see you again.

EDIT: scoring!
(in no particular order. Note the Finales didn't modify peoples scores and instead affected the outcome.

26points: p8 / Rob / Shannow
22points: p2 / Dave / Kaled
22points: p4 / Alex (bloodpacts mate)
22points: p10/ Robey / PrecinctOmega
22points: p12/ Steve / Cortex
18points: p6 / Tom / Shard0808
18points: p7 / Joe / Koval
16points: p11/ Alex (young one)
14points: p9 / Nick / Holiad
14points: p3 / Jim / Bloodpact
14points: p1 / Dave / Marcoskoll
10points: p5 / Joe / TheNephew

ill get the files updated with a few things i spotted then will work on the story :)

in the meantime the thumbnails don't work but i'm too tired to work out why:
http://buildyourimagination.co.uk/minis/conclaveautumn13.php

and i was rather pleased with these guys:
(http://buildyourimagination.co.uk/minis/conclaveautumn13/cult.jpg)
despite the obvious press-moulding!

Thanks to Gav for organising the event, and to everyone else who helped make it a lot of fun.

I really liked the way that success, or otherwise, in the scenario affected how much of the unfolding plot was revealed. I think it's an idea that could be taken further in future.  The same with the plot cards which gave people side objectives - unfortunately it seems most people forgot about them in the heat of battle, but I think the idea has merit and I'd be tempted to try giving them greater prominence in a future campaign. So each player could have his own objective that runs throughout the day which he has to accomplish alongside the main plot.

The scenarios were a nice mix of different types - some combat, some sneaking around, some relying on talking and persuasion. I also liked that they had all been designed so they didn't need a GM - having three opposing players almost always leads to far better games than just two players facing off against one another.

QuoteI also liked that they had all been designed so they didn't need a GM - having three opposing players almost always leads to far better games than just two players facing off against one another.

Absolutely, and let's not forget how we more or less shared GM duties between ourselves in game 3, which I think is a pretty valid alternative to Single Overall GM if it's appropriate for the scenario.

I had a fantastic time and will probably have an attempt at writing the finale game I played with Kaled and Cortez because it was so much fun with excellent non violent persuasive actions in it as well as a bloodbath melee!

Thanks to Gav for everything including the lift (I still owe you petrol money my good man) and to everyone who came making it a great time!

I was thoroughly surprised to get a model and hopefully will have something done with the scout and up on here in not too long!

R

Thank you to everyone who made my feel very welcome at the event, it was great to meet the faces behind the names and feel a part of something bigger. Lessons learnt from my beginners POV:

1. Single player parties really don't work all that well, once your turn is done it seems an age until you get to roll again, and against anything remotely high powered you suddenly become very vulnerable).

2. Close combat is incredibly sluggish, easily the weakest part of the game (dodge is...dodgy) and for a close combat specialist as your main character it kind of takes the fun out of fighting.

3. Fear of making a character too powerful occasionally left me at a big disadvantage (teleporting power weapon armed initiative 80 inquisitor with a heavy bolter/grenade launcher toting Servitor and a nasty tech magos, for one) I won't be making Helena into a space marine, but she's getting an upgrade!

4. Don't grenade your own Servitor

That just about sums it up! Thanks again for a fun day guys, I hope to see you all at the next conclave whenever it may be.

Quote from: Shard0808 on September 29, 2013, 05:47:02 PM2. Close combat is incredibly sluggish, easily the weakest part of the game.

That's pretty much the main reason why it was one of the things I pushed to the top of the list for tackling with Inquisi2r testing (woo, punny names).

On which note, our playtesting yesterday, while rough around the edges (particularly as Robey had joined us, so I had to try and brief him on the crude concepts at very short notice*), seemed to be generally positive.
I think what I'd like to do with an update is feasible, even the how needs more work and the question of what the consensus on what to do is up in the air.

*However, a net positive, as he did say some very useful things!

As everyone has said, A++, would nerd again.

Thanks to all for teaching, tolerating and advising throughout the games, and Gav for setting it all up.

I'd pretty much echo Shard's comments - two pretty slow and flimsy characters led to a fair bit of waiting and not a huge impact on the games, but that's as much down to my inexperience and hesitant play as the game. I suppose if we'd all had our parties up on the boards beforehand we could've balanced across the board, but it does take a little of the surprise and fun out of it.

It's a bit of a shame that the plot cards and such were underused, though no bad thing that the games were intense enough that so many people forgot them. I think that they make a great layer of detail/motivation to the games, and a nice extra thing to think about strategically.

I think I'll chuck up a write-up of my finale scenario with Alex (I believe, terrible memory) - should take all of two paragraphs, with two cripplings (crippleings? Nah.) in the opening stages and Alex's Stein and Liwet ambling off unscathed and victorious at a comfortable pace.

Many thanks to Gav for my Nec-Mech-Squig - in the event the 28mm happens and I can make it, I think I'll bring him as my beasting great bodyguard to try and reduce the party-wipes I barely avoided in so many games.

Would definitely make the trek up again, though not necessarily for the very next event.
Mutterings of a slightly more southern meet were encouraging on that front.

Edit: Oh! And next time, bases. I will bring bases for all my models, to which they will be attached, my own dice, and a tape measure. Possibly also glue and a more sensible way of transporting my doods than rolled up in a sock in a glasses case.

On the whole it's a good sign that I don't think I can identify 50% of the players in the photos, new blood is always a good thing (I say "new", I've not made since IGT 2012)

so, i dun a write-up (http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=2407.msg32581#new) with downloads for those interested :)

now where are all the pictures?!

Right now, still on my camera. I don't know where either my camera cable or card reader are!

I realise I've been a bit slow, but here are my photos from the day. (edit: removed dead link)

so, stupid question, but do i veiw the images non-mobile?
i pressed the "Veiw Full Website"  which dumps me to the home page :(

i hate photobucket! used to be so good , efficient and useful...

I'm fairly sure mine are coming up in the full version -- try clearing out your cookies?

After even more delay, I eventually found my camera cable a day or so ago, so here's my limited photos from the day:

http://s772.photobucket.com/user/MarcoSkoll/library/Inquisitor%20Events/2013%20Eramus%20Affair

Kindly ignore the numbering issue. My camera rolled over back to 0001 during the event, but Photoshop refused to process them in the correct chronological order, so I had to renumber files 0001-0007 manually to get them to appear in the right order in the album.

thanks for the pics guys :)
Marco; is that a broken skink in the cabinet? or is he Pining for hte fjords?

did anyone do a writeup?
now i think about it, i haven't even unpacked my bag to see if anyone kept handouts nor taken pics of Eramus or the other NPCs  :-[

I've not had the time to do a write-up :(

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on October 15, 2013, 09:09:59 PMMarco; is that a broken skink in the cabinet?

He's been at the pulque, I think.

As far as write-ups, no. Not yet, anyway.