Can you give me a little more of an insight about the sort of convention this is, Darren? Is it a 'sales' orientated convention or a 'play' orientated con? What numbers usually attend? What sort of games get played?

Neil

Take the King's shilling at http://www.omnihedron.co.uk/dutyandhonour/

Neil, it's very much play-oriented, with just a couple of sales stalls. A little bit like Furnace, but I think bigger and less cosy.

It springs from Call of Cthulhu and Runequest, the old Chaosium games and their more recent versions. They've had Sandy Petersen and Gref Stafford as guests the two times I've been, and you get a lot of Glorantha hard cases.

A lot of the programme is CoC/RQ/HQA, but a wide range of games can and do get played, and you can get through the con without having much truck with the above if you really want to.

Tim Gray
Silver Branch Games
www.silverbranch.co.uk

Continuum is a residential con over a weekend in the summer for about 250 attendees.
There is a strong emphasis on games and play but there are also seminars held as well as the big 30 to 50 player freeform games that take place over the weekend.
We also have a trade hall.

The greasy breakfasts are infamous and the bar is busy!

I'm delighted to announce that, with effect from tomorrow, 15th November, Continuum 2010 is open for registrations.

The event is to be held at John Foster Hall, University of Leicester, from Friday 2nd July 2010, until Monday 5th July 2010. The registration pricing is as follows:

Early Bird Registration (15th November 2009 - 15th February 2010: £20
Standard Reg (February 16th onwards): £25
En-Suite Room per night: £45
En-Suite for 3 Nights: £120
Twin Room per night: £90
Twin Room for 3 Nights: £240

There are two ways to register:

Via Paypal. Our email address for Paypal payments is payment@continuum.uk.net. Please include the following:

Your name
Address
Number of nights accommodation required, and the nights you'll be staying
Any special rooming requirements (ie, I want be next door to X, Y or Z)[

Don't forget that, in addition to the room cost you need to include your registration fee. Thus, a single night would cost £20+£45 = £65. Registration is a fixed fee for the whole weekend - so you don't need to pay a registration fee for each night you need.

Twin rooms are very limited in numbers, but en-suite rooms - and all single rooms are en-suite - are plentiful and comfortable.

If you wish to register by snail mail, a registration form will be made available shortly and we will accept cheque payments. The address to send a paper registration to is:

Continuum
53 Stepping Lane
Derby
DE1 1GL

We look forward to welcoming you to Continuum 2010 - The Year the Con Made Contact!

I've run Traveller there, Hawkmoon, Conspiracy of Shadows and played in several Wordplay playtests, Savage Worlds and others beyond pure CoC/RQ/HQ. Played 3:16 as well last time thanks to Neil Ford. Great con, as Tim describes, like Furnace but less cosy.

We also had the one and only StormQuest game (HQ Stormbringer) before the sale of the rights to Mongoose squashed that and left me with 28,000 words of dead space.

;-)

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Dom Mooney
http://www.bits.org.uk/
http://www.powerprojection.net/