Arcanacon

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ArcanaCon

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Location
Melbourne, Australia
Focus
Tabletop roleplaying and Australian freeform
Established
1983
Website
ArcanaCon


ArcanaCon is a roleplaying convention in Australia. It runs every Australia Day weekend (late January) in Melbourne. While the core of the convention is table top roleplaying, it has a strong Australian freeform / theatre-style larp component.

History

The first ArcanaCon was run in September 1983.[1] It ran its first freeform the following year - a Traveller scenario set on an asteroid mining colony[2][3] - the second ever to be run in Australia. The format gained in popularity, with two being run in 1985 (The Nights of Camelot[4] and The Last Gasp[5]) and four in 1986.[6]

In 1988 ArcanaCon switched to an early - mid July timeslot. In 2001, with ArcanaCon XIX, it moved to its current Australia Day weekend timeslot.

Games run

Larps run at ArcanaCon XXXIII (2015)

Name Country Run by
Stormfront Australia Random Jones
The Pulse: It's a Time Slip Australia Natalie Rolfe
The Road Not Taken USA Travis Hall

Larps run at ArcanaCon XXXII (2014)

Name Country Run by
A Monarch for All Seasons Australia Louise Leong
Arenas of Bahra Australia Aaron Fenwick
Dead Reckoning Australia Random Jones
The Skyships of Bahra Australia Aaron Fenwick

Larps run at ArcanaCon XIII (1995)

Name Country Run by
All Too Human Australia Caitlin May
Birthright Australia Caitlin May and Dominic McMullan
Black Death III: Orbital Decay Australia
Diaries of Trask Australia Jim Vinton
Lest Darkness Fall... Australia
Lunar City 7 Australia Tom Hull and Evan Sparks
Mr Big Australia
Slapfest Australia Wim Vanden Hil

Larps run at ArcanaCon XII (1994)

Name Country Run by
Black Death II: Night of the Comet Australia
Moonlight and Vodka Australia Caitlin May
The Machinery of Night Australia Richard Watts and Patrick O'Shea
Twin Peaks: The Dark of Futures Past Australia

Larps run at ArcanaCon XXXI (2013)

Name Country Run by
Being for the Benefit of Alice White Australia Richard Canning and Sara Hanson
Fishbowl Australia Duncan Harris
Prom Night Australia James Wright
The Skyships of Bahra Australia Aaron Fenwick

Larps run at ArcanaCon XI (1993)

Name Country Run by
Black Death Australia R2CD
Egypt 3 Australia Robert Prior
Out of the Aeons Australia Any Paik
Reel To Reel Australia Morgana Keast and Catlin May
Twilight Hours Australia Ann Bayly and Russell Penney

Larps run at ArcanaCon X (1992)

Name Country Run by
King Arthur Australia Euan Walker
Ky 'Tar Australia
Silverwraithe II Australia Rhys Howitt
The Edwardian Club Australia Morgana Keast
The Sweet Taste of Murder Australia Ann Bayly and Russell Penney

Larps run at ArcanaCon IX (1991)

Name Country Run by
Desert Canyon Australia Morgana Keast
Land of the Couch Carrots Australia Ann Bayly, Russell Penney, and Morgana Keast
Shanghai Trader Australia Robert Prior and Robert McLean
The Fabulous River Boat Australia Justin Ackerman, Ken Miller, Sean Bently
The University of Space Australia Rhys Howitt

Larps run at ArcanaCon VIII (1990)

Name Country Run by
Den of Theives Australia Craig Lattin
Honour Before Honours Australia Squid Ink Djam
The White Silver Plains Australia Shaunagh-Lyn Weaver

Larps run at ArcanaCon VII (1989)

Name Country Run by
A Cat Among the Pigeons Australia Rodney Haines, Shaunagh-Lyn Weaver
Paranoia Australia Fraser McHarg
Tokugawa Dawn Australia David Thomas and Sean Bentley

Larps run at ArcanaCon VI (1988)

Name Country Run by
Detente Australia Dominic Jackman, Rodney Haines, Shaunagh-Lyn Haines
Guenevere's Banquet Australia Cathy Simpson
Pompeii on the Rocks Australia Cynthia Palmer and Greg Taylor

Larps run at ArcanaCon V (1987)

Name Country Run by
The Gathering Australia Morgana Cowling
Ellingham Revisisted Australia Freeforms Unlimited

Larps run at ArcanaCon IV (1986)

Name Country Run by
Arabia Felix Australia Cathy Simpson
Bunnies and Burrows Australia Steve Smith
Paranoia Australia Fraser McHarg
The Hunt Australia Neroli Wesley and Chiara Condotta

Larps run at ArcanaCon III (1985)

Name Country Run by
Nights of Camelot Australia Cathy Simpson, Jeff Webb and Rhys Howitt
The Last Gasp Australia Alan Greenway

Larps run at ArcanaCon II (1984)

Name Country Run by
Traveller Australia

References

  1. ↑ ArcanaCon I entry form, 1983. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  2. ↑ ArcanaCon II entry form, 1984. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  3. ↑ ArcanaCon II Con Book, 1984. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  4. ↑ ArcanaCon III Con Book, p. 22. 1985. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  5. ↑ ArcanaCon III Con Book, p. 30. 1985. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  6. ↑ ArcanaCon IV entry form. 1986. Retrieved 24 January 2015.

External links

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