DunDraCon
DunDraCon
The West Coast's Premier Game Convention
- Location
- San Ramon, California, USA
- Focus
- Tabletop roleplaying and theatre-style larp
- Established
- 1976
- Website
- DunDraCon
DunDraCon is a large roleplaying convention in the USA. It runs every President's Day weekend (February) in San Ramon, CA. While the lineup is dominated by tabletop rpgs, a significant number of theatre-style larps are also run. It is a key venue for the California larp community.
History
The con was first run in 1976.[1] The first larp run at DunDraCon appears to have been the Dream Buccaneers Live Quest, run at DunDraCon X in 1986, advertised as "a playtested game with room for over 150... Come in costume if you've got one!"[2] The same year it hosted a seminar on live roleplaying from Times Were about their live-action Cthulhu games and "recreations of meetings at Rick's Place in Casablanca".[3] While seminars about larp appeared frequently in following years, actual larps did not appear again until 1992, with a run of Long Ago and Far Away at DunDraCon 16.[4] In 1998 DunDraCon began a seperate larp stream, consisting mostly of live Vampire games.[5] Since then, the larp stream has grown and diversified.
Games run
Larps run at DunDraCon 39 (2015)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Double Dog Dare | USA | Gamer Geekus |
| The Dwemer Summit: A Skyrim LARP | USA | |
| Remembrance | USA | Dreams of Deirdre |
| Dark Horizon | USA | Blue Lotus Productions |
| Hell's Karaoke (Saturday Morning Cartoon Edition) | USA | |
| Love and Loss on the Lushmun Canal | USA | |
| Deus Est Machina | USA | |
| The Copper Club | USA | |
| Rising Sun | USA | Gamer Geekus |
| Murder on the Western Express | USA | |
| Grimm New World | USA | |
| Your Last Day in San Romero Prison | USA | |
| L5R: The Price of Honor | USA | Rokugani Historical Society |
| Necessary Renovations | USA |
Larps run at DunDraCon 30 (2006)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Hamlet | USA | J. Li |
| The Dukesport Tournament | USA | |
| Lights! Camera! ACTION! | USA | |
| Garden Station IV | USA | |
| Return to Ussuria | USA | Dreams of Deirdre |
| Final Orbit | USA | |
| A Heart of Snow | USA | |
| Black Sun, White Light | USA | Chuckling Cthulhu |
| Into the Black | USA | |
| Eridanus Rising | USA | |
| A Light from the North | USA | Candace A. Carpenter |
| All Saints’ Eve | USA | |
| The Fall of Magic | USA | Chris Muoio |
| Journal | USA | Joe Parzanese |
| Queen of Spades | USA | J. Li |
Larps run at DunDraCon 24 (2000)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Game Gods 2000: The New Faith | USA | |
| Last Will and Testament | USA | |
| All the President's Men | USA | Jonnie Bard |
| The Wages of Sin | USA | Bill Maxwell |
| Night of the Vampire | USA | Ken Miscardini |
| Sangreal | USA | Bill Maxwell |
Larps run at DunDraCon 23 (1999)
| Name | Country | Run by |
|---|---|---|
| Game Gods | USA | |
| Evil at Bay | USA | |
| Sangreal | USA | |
| World Crime League | USA |
References
- ↑ Steve Perrin, A Brief History of DunDraCon. DunDraCon 2006 Program Book. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ DunDraCon X Program Book, p. 7, 1986. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ DunDraCon X Program Book (1986), p. 4.
- ↑ DunDraCon 16 Program book, p. 4, 1992. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ DunDraCon 22 Program book, p. 7, 1998. Retrieved 1 February 2015.