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Title: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: MarcoSkoll on November 30, 2017, 04:54:33 PM
2017 has been a pretty strong year for events, with "The Mahlau Affair", "New Dawn", "The Wastes" and "Mother of Mercy" - the first time I think I've been to four Conclave events in one year.

However, I'm assuming we're not likely to have any short-notice events in December, so I've unpinned the 2017 Events thread and we can start planning for 2018.

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Calendar

May

Saturday 19th - Sunday 20th:
London Grand Tournament
"Legacy" narrative day on Saturday, "Open Event" (based on the IGT format) on Sunday.
https://www.lgtpresents.co.uk/inquisitor

August

Saturday 11th
Guardian
The Inquisition must unravel their own lies in order to rediscover a secret that protected the sector in ages past.
Play-test event for Inquisitor Revised Edition.
(Scale currently 28mm, but open to expanding to both scales)


September

TBC (definitely a Saturday, likely the 29th)
Abyss
Open 28mm narrative event, set around the trial of a Radical Inquisitor.

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I'd also like to propose the following dates - 27th January, 24th February, 28th July, 27th October (all Saturdays) - for another attempt at running something at my local club in Hemel Hempstead. (Possibly, depending on mood, maybe another playtest day for the Revised Edition).

If anyone else has any proposed days or dates, please feel free to post below!
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: mcjomar on November 30, 2017, 06:53:06 PM
28th July is completely out, for me, as is the 24th of february.
I can't think of anything 27th october (just under a years time).
Not sure if January would work out - I don't know what my plans are yet.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: Cortez on November 30, 2017, 09:43:38 PM
I'm not sure how much free time I'll have next year as I'm getting hitched in August.

Could maybe make something in January or February.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: greenstuff_gav on November 30, 2017, 10:05:33 PM
Quote from: MarcoSkoll on November 30, 2017, 04:54:33 PM
2017 has been a pretty strong year for events, with "The Mahlau Affair",

i've gotta write the sequel; got the plot sorted, just gotta do the actual scenarios!
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: mcjomar on December 01, 2017, 08:07:07 AM
Quote from: Cortez on November 30, 2017, 09:43:38 PM
I'm not sure how much free time I'll have next year as I'm getting hitched in August.

Congrats!

I'm doing the same on the 29th of July, thus why I can't do the 28th at all.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: Cortez on December 01, 2017, 09:35:28 AM
Quote from: mcjomar on December 01, 2017, 08:07:07 AM
Quote from: Cortez on November 30, 2017, 09:43:38 PM
I'm not sure how much free time I'll have next year as I'm getting hitched in August.

Congrats!

I'm doing the same on the 29th of July, thus why I can't do the 28th at all.

Also Congrats!

Yeah I don't think going to a Wargaming event the day before is going to go down well :D.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: TheNephew on December 04, 2017, 07:49:42 AM
I think I can probably do any of those dates bar January, Marco.

Do you know which LGT day has fewer sign-ups?
I can only do one day, and I'm leaning towards Saturday, but if we're in need of numbers I can make it Sunday.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: MarcoSkoll on December 04, 2017, 03:36:42 PM
At the moment, no, I don't know anything about sales for the LGT. I need to enquire with the organisers on that front (but it will both affect and be affected by my attempts to wrangle the 28mm community).

Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: MarcoSkoll on May 28, 2018, 08:13:07 PM
Right, seeing as the LGT/Legacy is done and dusted, it's time to kick this thread again.

As far as things I have in mind personally:

- Another Revised Edition play-test event.
- A Dark Sphere event, with a hopeful focus on drawing out 28mm players in the London area. (It may not be exclusively 28mm, but part of the point of it would be to get a clearer idea of whether numbers are good enough to be able to include 28mm should we be invited back to the LGT).

I don't have dates fixed down for any of this yet, but I'd like to go with a more proactive approach rather than procrastinating.

However, is there anyone else out there with ideas they want to run? I don't want to end up lording over things if anyone else wants a go.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: TheNephew on May 28, 2018, 09:11:59 PM
I'd be perfectly happy to have a reason to realise a few 28mm projects I've had rattling around in my head too.

Would a Dark Sphere 28mm event be using full LRB/LRE, or is Inquisimunda or similar preferred with those folks?
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: greenstuff_gav on May 28, 2018, 10:06:42 PM
Quote from: MarcoSkoll on May 28, 2018, 08:13:07 PM
- A Dark Sphere event, with a hopeful focus on drawing out 28mm players in the London area. (It may not be exclusively 28mm, but part of the point of it would be to get a clearer idea of whether numbers are good enough to be able to include 28mm should we be invited back to the LGT).
would a followup marine-centric event help?
i've been mulling ideas and fiddling with core NPCs fora 54mm event but a mrine is a marine regardless of scale :)
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: MarcoSkoll on May 28, 2018, 11:26:29 PM
Quote from: TheNephew on May 28, 2018, 09:11:59 PMWould a Dark Sphere 28mm event be using full LRB/LRE, or is Inquisimunda or similar preferred with those folks?
The event would be using the Inquisitor LRB.

Although a significant portion of the INQ28 community does play rules based on some version of Necromunda, they're not rules I'm interested enough in to run an event for.

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on May 28, 2018, 10:06:42 PMwould a followup marine-centric event help?
Although I would be interested in another Marine event (the first one worked well), I don't think it would be the right choice for this specifically.

I'd be hoping to get a bearing on many 28mm players can be lured into events in London, so I'd want to run it as a fairly "standard" event to get the best idea.

Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: mcjomar on May 29, 2018, 10:33:39 AM
Depending on dates I'd be tempted.
I'd need to actually get my 28mm projects finished though.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: MarcoSkoll on May 30, 2018, 02:55:21 PM
I've obviously started trying to kick a 28mm event at Dark Sphere into gear. That event needs to be in London, because part of the point is to get a sense of the size of the 28mm community around London should we be invited to another London GT.

Now, thinking about the Revised Edition playtest event, that would certainly be easier for me if it were in London (given getting to Dark Sphere on time means leaving the house at about 9 o'clock, but getting to Nottingham on time means leaving the house at about 6 o'clock), but that would also put every event run or currently planned this year in London, which feels somewhat selfish.

With that in mind, if I ran the next Revised Edition playtest in Nottingham instead, who would be interested/available?
(This will likely be primarily a 54mm event, but we'll see if any 28mm players are interested).
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: Genghis on May 30, 2018, 05:40:13 PM
I'm curious about seeing the revised edition in action.  If there was a 28mm option, I'd be tempted to make the journey to Nottingham for it (assuming I'm free).
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: TheNephew on May 30, 2018, 06:02:45 PM
I think Nottingham is going to be a once every couple of years thing for me, sadly - it's just a grim long day on the trains, to the point that I'm pretty miserable by the time I get home no matter how enjoyable the gaming always is.
I'd be up for DS though.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: MarcoSkoll on May 31, 2018, 12:51:07 AM
Quote from: Genghis on May 30, 2018, 05:40:13 PM
I'm curious about seeing the revised edition in action.  If there was a 28mm option, I'd be tempted to make the journey to Nottingham for it (assuming I'm free).
While I'm expecting it to be of more interest to 54mm players (I've had a lot more feedback from that side of the community), I'm not beyond making it a mixed or even primarily 28mm event if that's the way that the numbers work out.

When, where and how big will depend on feedback. I may start asking around on Facebook or sending out newsletters.

Quote from: TheNephew on May 30, 2018, 06:02:45 PM
I think Nottingham is going to be a once every couple of years thing for me, sadly - it's just a grim long day on the trains, to the point that I'm pretty miserable by the time I get home no matter how enjoyable the gaming always is.
I'd be up for DS though.
I can understand that. London is a fair bit more practical for me as well, and it would naturally be where I would run an IRE playtest (I get to be a lot more rested, which is far better for me actually remembering and evaluating the rules), but I know that London is a fair bit less practical for other people, so we really should spread the events around.

If it does work out that there's just not the interest in Nottingham, I might actually be tempted to hold it in Hemel on 28th July, as that's one of my club's open Saturdays, and I think that would be a good date to go for (if the 28mm Dark Sphere event will be roughly in September to give people time to get ready, late July seems a fair time to put in an IRE event. It's far enough from the other event, and fits in on this side rather than doing what happened with the LGT where we had a huge gap where nobody planned anything because people thought "Oh, there's an event coming").
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: Genghis on May 31, 2018, 05:27:36 PM
Quote from: MarcoSkoll on May 31, 2018, 12:51:07 AMIf it does work out that there's just not the interest in Nottingham, I might actually be tempted to hold it in Hemel on 28th July...

That's just up the road from me now, and I'm free that weekend at the moment, so I'd definitely be up for that if it happens and 28mm's an option.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: TheNephew on June 01, 2018, 08:53:12 AM
I'm sure I could do Hemel too, if it makes it easier for you (and helps you grow your local ][ scene).
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: Cortez on June 01, 2018, 06:48:37 PM
I won't be able to do any events before late November/December and it would really need to be in Nottingham. Getting down to London is just too expensive to do more than once a year.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: Van Helser on June 01, 2018, 09:50:58 PM
I've probably had my fun for this year.  For future though, I'd say Dark Sphere is pretty accessible, but not sure about Hemel Hempstead.  Guess I'd have to get to London and then find a way out of the city.  That might be a bit problematic.  With planning anything is doable I suppose.

Ruaridh
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: MarcoSkoll on June 01, 2018, 11:17:50 PM
Quote from: Van Helser on June 01, 2018, 09:50:58 PMGuess I'd have to get to London and then find a way out of the city.
Hemel is on the West Coast mainline out of Euston (four trains an hour, mostly those to Birmingham or Northampton), and the club venue is about the same distance as WHW is from the station. (A long but not unthinkable distance to walk, but with public transport as a viable alternative).

It's not quite as well connected as London or Nottingham, but it isn't particularly hard to get to. It's also about 10 minutes drive from the M1 and M25 (although most routes will probably encounter Hemel's "Magic Roundabout" on the way. It's a masterwork of road design, but some drivers can find it quite intimidating).

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However, right now it's looking like I might try and hold the IRE day in Nottingham. I have had a few potential interested responses (mostly from 28mm players so far), and I checking things I think my club might actually be trying to use the Saturday I thought would be an open day pretty much exclusively for a Guild Ball tournament, so it might be it wouldn't be viable to run anything in Hemel that day anyway.

Quote from: Cortez on June 01, 2018, 06:48:37 PMI won't be able to do any events before late November/December and it would really need to be in Nottingham.
It's possible something might get planned for about then.

I'm not personally committing to doing it (as by then I might actually like to have an event where I haven't got to worry about having to do all the paperwork for it - as I'll have run three and a half events by that point in 2018, I think I might be exempted from having to put together any more), but that is not too close to anything that's currently being planned, so it's about the time of year I might imagine someone else putting something.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: mcjomar on June 04, 2018, 08:33:19 AM
I've got no hope of any event now that occurs before mid august. No chance of attending. September is my earliest open period.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: realitybytes16 on June 12, 2018, 08:20:53 PM
While I hesitate to confirm anything due to my directionally-challenge nature and my (STILL!) complete lack of any complete 54mm minis, the MoM event was the most fun I've ever had at a tabletop and I'd love to give the game another go.
This week I'll be way too busy to work on anything because it's Fight Week at university and thanks to non-commital scene partners I'm way behind (plus rapier and dagger is exhausting, so even when I'm home the lure of video games and Netflix is rather strong because minimal effort is required ^^) but next week is the start of the summer holiday, so hopefully I can tidy my desk and FINALLY get a warband in the works. I'd only be available before September though.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: MarcoSkoll on June 13, 2018, 03:09:02 PM
Well, I've updated the first post with currently planned events.

The only thing we've currently got planned before September is "Guardian", on the 11th August (although current responses mean that's going to be a 28mm event, unless we get quite a few more responses from 54mm players to expand it to both).
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: MarcoSkoll on September 16, 2018, 03:54:17 AM
I'm putting this out there without much expectation of interest, but what would people say to the idea of an IGT in late November or December?

I know I already co-opted the format for the Sunday at the London GT and some may already see that as the IGT for this year, but I think we need to organise a 54mm event in Nottingham so that we actually have one this year. (Everything else has been/will be in London and/or was/is 28mm scale).

Unless someone else is going to be responsible for the organising, I don't think I can responsibly put together another narrative event this year, given I've still got a lot of prep work for the London event I'll be running in a few weeks, but because the writing/prep effort is spread around for an IGT (until the day proper), I could certainly start the wheels moving on that.

Of course, if anyone has the willingness to organise a narrative event themselves, I'll happily cede to them (and can certainly bring any of my terrain or assets to help them out - I already proved I could get my Paraelix terrain to Nottingham when it came to Guardian last month).
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: mcjomar on September 16, 2018, 07:51:23 AM
Just a heads up, but apparently GW is altering GWHQ so that we no longer "have" to book ahead - instead it's first come first served on the day, just turn up.
Also, they're adding tables, apparently.
The new just turned up on my FB feed.

As for an IGT this late in the year, it's a hard maybe for me. I can make the 3rd Nov, but a trip up north could be fiddly - I'll have to investigate before a final confirmation.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: MarcoSkoll on September 16, 2018, 01:13:47 PM
Yes, I've just seen that, and have written a very grumpy response (along with a great many others, seemingly) - it's just not viable to use somewhere as a central location if you can't be absolutely sure that you'll get the tables you need.

Hopefully the out-cry is sufficient that they have to keep some form of booking option, even if it's just on an "you have to convince us you really need it, sign a legally binding contract and provide three character references" basis.
Title: Re: 2018 Conclave Events
Post by: Van Helser on September 16, 2018, 07:36:56 PM
Yes, I'd just love taking a flight and booking hotels for two nights to find I've got nowhere to play...

Regarding an IGT before the end of the year, I wouldn't be able to attend. 

Hopeful of putting in an appearance next year though.

Ruaridh