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|House of the Black Lion || Australia || Aaron Fenwick | | House of the Black Lion || Australia || Aaron Fenwick | ||
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|Tales from The City: Via Dolorosa || Australia || Summer, Alicia Cameron | | Tales from The City: Via Dolorosa || Australia || Summer, Alicia Cameron | ||
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|Stormfront || Australia || Random Jones | | Stormfront || Australia || Random Jones | ||
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| Airship Mayhem What Ho || Australia || John D'Alton | |||
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| Bleach: All Hollow Inside || Australia || Peter Strong, Elizabeth Vinton, Jim Vinton | |||
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| Catch Me, I'm Falling || Australia || Travis Hall & Emily Jackman | |||
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| Heroes of Rokugan: Champions of the Sapphire Throne || Australia || Megan Bushby, Leah Biffin | |||
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| The Baroness Lucille Royle Memorial Grand Scientific Exhibition || Australia || Lisa McOrist, Robert Anderson-Hunt | |||
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| The Prince's Favour || Australia || Random Jones; Presented by the Melbourne Domain of the [[Beyond the Sunset|Camarilla Australia]] | |||
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| The Scarlet Pimpernel: The Final Peace || Australia || Megan Bushby, Leah Biffin | |||
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| Tower Inc. || Australia || Random Jones | |||
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| Dead Run || Australia || Peter Strong, Hilary Callander | |||
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| Jan Snoots Diamond Murder || Australia || John D'Alton | |||
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| Silence of the Bush || Australia || Fi McConachie | |||
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| Fallout: Vault 58 Science Fair || Australia || Tim Wilson | |||
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| For Queen and Empire || Australia || Aaron Fenwick | |||
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| The Best of Friday Night Poker Club || Australia || Random Jones | |||
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| Grand Moff's Last Chance || Australia || Megan Bushby | |||
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| White || Australia || Fi McConachie | |||
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| Village on the Sand || Australia || Stephen Silk (writer), Random Jones (GM) | |||
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| The Riverstown-Appleton Ferry || Australia || Gareth Jones and Robert Anderson-Hunt | |||
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| Shattered Worlds! || Australia || A Random Event Production | |||
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| Snoots Family at the Circus || Australia || John D'Alton | |||
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| Spirit of Bushido: Harvest Festival || Australia || Megan Bushby | |||
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| The Cutler & Red Autumn Fashion Collection || Australia || Gareth Jones & Robert Anderson-Hunt | |||
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| The Feast of the Dying Sun || Australia || Sarah Western | |||
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| Beware, the English Golfer || Australia || Elizabeth & Jim Vinton, Lisa & Rhianna Kyllo | |||
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! Name || Country || Run by | |||
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| For Tsar and Motherland! || Australia || Aaron Fenwick | |||
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| Friday Night Poker Club: World of Warcraft Edition || Australia || Random Jones | |||
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| Ilwuz Revealed || Australia || Aaron Holding | |||
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| LARP Victoria Presents: Chimera Productions: L5R LARP - Funeral Rites || Australia || Leah Biffin, Luke Wilkinson, Mark Biffin, Megan Bushby | |||
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| Majesty, Luxury and Sharp Edges || Australia || Josephine Mills, Lisa McOrist, Robert Anderson-Hunt | |||
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| Minecraft Panic || Australia || John D'Alton | |||
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| The Moot || Australia || Travis Hall | |||
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| Where Stars Fall || Australia || Fi McConachie | |||
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| World of Warcraft: The Freeform || Australia || Random Jones | |||
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! Name || Country || Run by | |||
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| Chimera Productions L5R LARP: The Jade Championship || Australia || Leah Biffin, Mark Biffin, Luke Wilkinson, Megan Bushby | |||
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| I'm Sorry Sir, But Immortality is Mandatory || Australia || Justin Puopolo | |||
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| Ilwuz Hunted! || Australia || Aaron Holding | |||
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| Legends of Markoth: Imperial Game || Australia || Chris Lee | |||
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| Legends of Markoth: Royalist Game || Australia || Chris Lee | |||
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| Titan: Into the Black || Australia || Justin Puopolo | |||
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| You Have Been Selected || Australia || Chris Lee | |||
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| Friday Night Poker Club: Doctor Who Edition || Australia || Random Jones | |||
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! Name || Country || Run by | |||
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| Enai || Australia || Peter Strong | |||
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| Dead Reckoning || Australia || Random Jones | |||
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| 12/1 || Australia || Random Jones | |||
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| Dresden Files – By the Light of The Blood Moon || Australia || Megan Bushby | |||
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| The Road Not Taken: The Vanek Version || Australia || Travis Hall | |||
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| Brink of War || Australia || Stephen Maundrell (GM), Chris Lee (writer) | |||
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| Dresden Files – By the Light of The Blood Moon || Australia || Megan Bushby | |||
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| Friday Night Poker Club: Star Trek Edition || Australia || Random Jones | |||
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| Sailor Moon and the Crystal Ballroom || Australia || Rachel Duyvestyn and Cathie Jackson | |||
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| Brink of War II || Australia || | | Brink of War II || Australia || Stephen Maundrell, Chris Lee | ||
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| The Doje's Masquerade || Australia || Chimera Productions | | The Doje's Masquerade || Australia || Chimera Productions | ||
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| Min Min || Australia || Fi McConachie || Fi McConachie and Renée | | Min Min || Australia || Fi McConachie || Fi McConachie and Renée | ||
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===Larps run at Conquest (2026)=== | |||
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! Name || Country || Run by | |||
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| Broken Promises || Australia || Random Jones | |||
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| The Trial of Lucifer || Australia || Travis Hall | |||
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| Be the Change You Wish to Sea || USA || Writers: the Crystal GMs<ref>The Crystal GMs (2018) [https://www.larplibrary.org/brands/the-crystal-gms/projects/93-be-the-change-you-wish-to-sea Be the Change You Wish to Sea], the Larp Library website, retrieved 22nd April 2026.</ref>. Run by: Nikki | |||
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| The Devil His Due || Australia || Aaron Fenwick | |||
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| The Diaries of Trask: Book 3: The Army of Darkness || Australia || Pagrin | |||
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| Of Cards and Convenience || Australia || Fi McConachie | |||
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| Pride and Extreme Prejudice || Australia || Rhydian, Lance & Gavan | |||
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| Spire: The Masks We Wear || Australia || William Arnott | |||
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Latest revision as of 22:44, 21 April 2026
Conquest Games Convention
Melbourne's Easter Games Convention
- Location
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Focus
- General gaming con
- Established
- 1989
- Attendance
- 100-300 attendees per year
- Website
- Conquest website
A roleplaying convention in Melbourne, Australia.
Mission statement
We’re an open, inclusive and friendly community of tabletop and roleplaying gamers, GMs, and creators! 🌈😊 Our games convention, Conquest, runs every year in Melbourne, Australia. It is held over the Easter weekend so that we can take advantage of the public holidays!
Our community is dedicated to providing a variety of different games in order to suit all ages and gaming styles. GMs, storytellers and creators have the opportunity to run RPGs of their own invention, while using their own gaming system.
We also host games derived from known genres or gaming systems, such as Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder and Call of Cthulhu.
If it’s a tabletop game, social live action roleplaying game, board game, or miniatures war game, chances are you’ll see it at Conquest!
History
Conquest is one of Australia's longest-running games conventions, first held in 1989 at the Melbourne Showgrounds.
The convention has also ran for many years out of a few different school venues, such as University High School, Melbourne in 1998, and Melbourne High School between at least 2006-2015. [Some dates uncertain]. High school venues were popular for allowing games to be run each in different classrooms, minimising noise from other games. But increases in hire costs at schools due to increased security, and a reluctance to hire out to external groups, have led to the decline in school-based venues for local game conventions.
Following the loss of school venues, there was a decline for a number of years in hosting freeforms at Conquest due to a lack of space. But thanks to volunteer advocacy and gaining extra space at Coburg Town Hall, freeforms have now returned to Conquest. Conquest in 2026 will be held in the Coburg Town Hall.
Conquest also sometimes holds a secondary event, "Conquest Market", later in the year.
Games run
Larps run at Conquest (2005)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Dead Reckoning | Australia | Random Jones |
| Friday Night Poker Club - Fellowship of the Rings Edition | Australia | Random Jones |
| No Heir for the Throne of Amber | Australia | Random Jones |
| Justum Pretium | Australia | Sarah Western |
| The Russian Egg | Australia | Sarah Western |
| The Kings Sceptre | Australia | Fi McConachie |
| The Last Lullaby | Australia | Liz Vinton |
| The Legends of Earthstone: The Right of Might | Australia | Jim Vinton |
| Stargate:SG1 GRUNTS World of Opportunity | Australia | Tarquin Murnane |
Larps run at Conquest (2007)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| All Hallow’s Eve | Australia | Becka Orth |
| Banji wa June | Australia | Peter Strong, Liz Vinton |
| Days of Wine and Roses | Australia | Xole Karman |
| The Demons Dance | Australia | Fi McConachie |
| The Fate of Nations | Australia | Hilary Callandar |
| Friday Night Poker Club: Firefly Edition | Australia | Random Jones |
| Heroes of Rokugan: Champions of the Sapphire Throne | Australia | Leah Bushby, Megan Bushby |
| The Hijack of Patient Zero | Australia | Travis Hall |
| Midnight Machinations: Evolution | Australia | Liz Vinton |
| Pathway to Eternity | Australia | Random Jones |
| Pirate King’s Revenge (Multiform) | Australia | Summer, Alicia Cameron |
| Pok-Ta-Pok | Australia | Sarah Western |
| The Shogun’s Price | Australia | Aaron Fenwick |
Larps run at Conquest (2008)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Bartholomew's Bank | Australia | Sarah Western |
| The Ferryman's Fee | Australia | Sarah Western & Travis Hall |
| Don't Mention the War | Australia | Travis Hall & Random Jones |
| Friday Night Poker Club: Heroes Edition | Australia | Random Jones |
| …the sound of pigeons on the Champs-Elysées | Australia | Random Jones |
| Seikyooiddi Bugakun | Australia | Peter Strong, Nick Argall, Random Jones |
| Heroes of Rokugan Interactive | Australia | Leah Bushby & Megan Bushby |
| Is It Not Nifty? | Australia | Anestis Kovakis |
| Midnight Machination: Extinction | Australia | Liz Vinton |
| Picnic at the Races | Australia | Fi McConachie |
| See Previous, Bi-Mon-Villain-Con | Australia | James Wright |
| Tales from the City: Exogenesis | Australia | Summer, Alicia Cameron |
| The Ashen Empire: A Cold Wind | Australia | Aaron Fenwick |
Larps run at Conquest (2010)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| House of the Black Lion | Australia | Aaron Fenwick |
| Tales from The City: Via Dolorosa | Australia | Summer, Alicia Cameron |
| Stormfront | Australia | Random Jones |
| Airship Mayhem What Ho | Australia | John D'Alton |
| Bleach: All Hollow Inside | Australia | Peter Strong, Elizabeth Vinton, Jim Vinton |
| Catch Me, I'm Falling | Australia | Travis Hall & Emily Jackman |
| Heroes of Rokugan: Champions of the Sapphire Throne | Australia | Megan Bushby, Leah Biffin |
| The Baroness Lucille Royle Memorial Grand Scientific Exhibition | Australia | Lisa McOrist, Robert Anderson-Hunt |
| The Prince's Favour | Australia | Random Jones; Presented by the Melbourne Domain of the Camarilla Australia |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel: The Final Peace | Australia | Megan Bushby, Leah Biffin |
| Tower Inc. | Australia | Random Jones |
| Dead Run | Australia | Peter Strong, Hilary Callander |
| Jan Snoots Diamond Murder | Australia | John D'Alton |
| Silence of the Bush | Australia | Fi McConachie |
Larps run at Conquest (2011)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Fallout: Vault 58 Science Fair | Australia | Tim Wilson |
| For Queen and Empire | Australia | Aaron Fenwick |
| The Best of Friday Night Poker Club | Australia | Random Jones |
| Grand Moff's Last Chance | Australia | Megan Bushby |
| White | Australia | Fi McConachie |
| Village on the Sand | Australia | Stephen Silk (writer), Random Jones (GM) |
| The Riverstown-Appleton Ferry | Australia | Gareth Jones and Robert Anderson-Hunt |
| Shattered Worlds! | Australia | A Random Event Production |
| Snoots Family at the Circus | Australia | John D'Alton |
| Spirit of Bushido: Harvest Festival | Australia | Megan Bushby |
| The Cutler & Red Autumn Fashion Collection | Australia | Gareth Jones & Robert Anderson-Hunt |
| The Feast of the Dying Sun | Australia | Sarah Western |
| Beware, the English Golfer | Australia | Elizabeth & Jim Vinton, Lisa & Rhianna Kyllo |
Larps run at Conquest (2012)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| For Tsar and Motherland! | Australia | Aaron Fenwick |
| Friday Night Poker Club: World of Warcraft Edition | Australia | Random Jones |
| Ilwuz Revealed | Australia | Aaron Holding |
| LARP Victoria Presents: Chimera Productions: L5R LARP - Funeral Rites | Australia | Leah Biffin, Luke Wilkinson, Mark Biffin, Megan Bushby |
| Majesty, Luxury and Sharp Edges | Australia | Josephine Mills, Lisa McOrist, Robert Anderson-Hunt |
| Minecraft Panic | Australia | John D'Alton |
| The Moot | Australia | Travis Hall |
| Where Stars Fall | Australia | Fi McConachie |
| World of Warcraft: The Freeform | Australia | Random Jones |
Larps run at Conquest (2013)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Chimera Productions L5R LARP: The Jade Championship | Australia | Leah Biffin, Mark Biffin, Luke Wilkinson, Megan Bushby |
| I'm Sorry Sir, But Immortality is Mandatory | Australia | Justin Puopolo |
| Ilwuz Hunted! | Australia | Aaron Holding |
| Legends of Markoth: Imperial Game | Australia | Chris Lee |
| Legends of Markoth: Royalist Game | Australia | Chris Lee |
| Titan: Into the Black | Australia | Justin Puopolo |
| You Have Been Selected | Australia | Chris Lee |
| Friday Night Poker Club: Doctor Who Edition | Australia | Random Jones |
Larps run at Conquest (2014)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Enai | Australia | Peter Strong |
| Dead Reckoning | Australia | Random Jones |
| 12/1 | Australia | Random Jones |
Larps run at Conquest (2015)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Dresden Files – By the Light of The Blood Moon | Australia | Megan Bushby |
| The Road Not Taken: The Vanek Version | Australia | Travis Hall |
Larps run at Conquest (2016)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Brink of War | Australia | Stephen Maundrell (GM), Chris Lee (writer) |
| Dresden Files – By the Light of The Blood Moon | Australia | Megan Bushby |
| Friday Night Poker Club: Star Trek Edition | Australia | Random Jones |
| Sailor Moon and the Crystal Ballroom | Australia | Rachel Duyvestyn and Cathie Jackson |
Larps run at Conquest (2017)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Brink of War II | Australia | Stephen Maundrell, Chris Lee |
| The Doje's Masquerade | Australia | Chimera Productions |
| Beyond the Threshold | Australia | Ivan |
| The Dungeon | Australia |
Larps run at Conquest (2018)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Brink of War 3 - Counsil of Lords | Australia | System designed by Christopher Lee - GM Stephen Maundrell |
| Dantir - All the Kings Men | Australia | Chimera Productions (Leah Biffin, Megan Bushby, Luke Wilkinson, Mark Biffin) |
| A Wolf by Any Other Name | Australia | Keith Lim |
Larps run at Conquest (2019)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| The Hijack of Patient Zero | Australia | Travis Hall |
Larps run at Conquest (2021)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| The Road Not Taken | Australia | Travis Hall |
Larps run at Conquest (2022)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| The Module | Australia | Ivan (D&D themed theatrical roleplay) |
| Zendikar Expeditions | Australia | EvenChance/Vincent |
| Scape Goat | Australia | Zofia Witkowski-Blake and Herbert Peppard |
| Rise of the Metro-Gnome | Australia | Conor and Ivan |
Larps run at Conquest (2023)
| Name | Country | Written | Run by[1] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lockdown | Australia | Random Jones | Random Jones |
| 12/1 | Australia | Random Jones | Random Jones |
| Moonshine | Australia | Penny Sullivan, Jason Chappel, & Charlie Tornatore, with editing by Melody Watson. | Charlie T |
| TattleTales: Immersive Tarot Card Storytelling | Australia | Davey from Ponydog Productions |
Larps run at Conquest (2024)
| Name | Country | Written & Run by[2] |
|---|---|---|
| Diaries of Trask Book one: As the night falls | Australia | Pangrin |
| Lights Out! | Australia | Fi McConachie |
| Beyond the Threshold | Australia | Ivan |
| The Wake | Australia | Travis Hall |
| Stormfront | Australia | Random Jones |
- Lights Out! was previously run at Phenomenon in 2023.
- The Wake was first run at Arcanacon XXV in 2007, and is set in that year.
Larps run at Conquest (2025)
| Name | Country | Written by | Run by[3] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catch Me, I'm Falling | Australia | Travis Hall & Emily Jackson | Travis Hall |
| Dead Reckoning | Australia | Random Jones | Random Jones |
| The Diaries of Trask: Darkness Embraced | Australia | Pagrin | Pagrin |
| Caligo Mundi Presents: Usurper! | Australia | Aaron Fenwick | Aaron Fenwick |
| Min Min | Australia | Fi McConachie | Fi McConachie and Renée |
Larps run at Conquest (2026)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Broken Promises | Australia | Random Jones |
| The Trial of Lucifer | Australia | Travis Hall |
| Be the Change You Wish to Sea | USA | Writers: the Crystal GMs[4]. Run by: Nikki |
| The Devil His Due | Australia | Aaron Fenwick |
| The Diaries of Trask: Book 3: The Army of Darkness | Australia | Pagrin |
| Of Cards and Convenience | Australia | Fi McConachie |
| Pride and Extreme Prejudice | Australia | Rhydian, Lance & Gavan |
| Spire: The Masks We Wear | Australia | William Arnott |
External links
References
- ↑ Conquest, 2023, Conquest 2023 Friday Custom Games Schedule convention schedule on Warhorn, retrieved 6th March 2026.
- ↑ Conquest, 2024, Conquest Melbourne 2024 Schedule grid, full schedule on Warhorn, retrieved 6th March 2026.
- ↑ Conquest, Conquest Melbourne 2025 Freeform Schedule, convention schedule listing on Warhorn, retrieved 6th March 2026.
- ↑ The Crystal GMs (2018) Be the Change You Wish to Sea, the Larp Library website, retrieved 22nd April 2026.