It's official - AthVentureCon 5 is happening!!!
Save the Date!
🗓️Loughrea Hotel & Spa🗓️
20-21 February, 2027
Mark your calendars and book your hotel rooms!
☎️To get the following prices, you have to ring the hotel and tell them you're attending AthVentureCon
While i can neither confirm nor deny rumours that Henry Cavill will be doing security at #AthCon4 I can confirm that we will have a table running The Witcher RPG!
In this game the players will be tasked with finding a few members of the King's Court that have gone missing after a battle.
Our good friend GM Neil returns yet again to #AthCon4 & brings with him some of Fey Earth games. A brilliant system created by Neil himself and one that's always immensely popular!
Neil is running 3 games over the weekend (as well as a few panels, some talks, possibly a workshop & making the tea 😉)
Well there it is, they finally built it!
Welcome to GM David's (back again at #AthCon4) Underdark Park!
This 8th Level D&D 5e game pits the adventures as testers (some would say guinea pigs!) for the underdarks latest attraction!
Your job is quite simple really, show up and test the park out.
2,200 words today on Inferno's Child... The end is coming into sight (yes, I have spent way longer than I wanted to on this book!)
It hasn't been going smoothly due to a number of reasons, but I quite like the book. It's doing what I wanted to do. However, I think this might be quite a marmite one.
It's not just games we do at #AthCon4 you know!
On the Sunday we have a Paint Your Mini where a few hardy souls are giving over a few hours to show Mini-Adventurers how to paint minis!
And what's more you get to take your work home with you for free!
FREE MINIS!!
Now just how cool is that??
So it's probably fitting that our next GM features on the day that #AthCon4 gets to hang up our Sold Out sign.
Yes we've sold out!!
Only tickets left are those for mini adventures (that's under 12s) and NPCs (that's folks that don't want to game but mind mini people and soak up atmosphere).
Don your teeny tiny suit of armour, pick up your toothpick lance and prepare to fight off warrior roaches and many other fearsome, if miniature, dangers in GM Ben's Mausritter adventure; Wizard of Arms & Armour!
The party all play miceses in this rules-light fun system that is always popular!
You wanna see something really scary?
If the answer is yes, or it's no, not really, but I'll look anyway because I just can't not look, then our next game could be just the thing for you!!
GM Mark C returns to #AthCon4 and brings along a real chiller of a Call of Cthulhu game; Bodies of Water
Carney delivers a landmark speech in Davos.
San Grewal hosts with @maxfawcett.bsky.social
Hey it’s one from our very own parish! GM Ben and a few others from The Emerald Collective will be running some fantastic games at AthCon in February!
First game up is GM Declan, one of the crew from the awesome D8 Dungeon, and To Be Or Not To Be....A Good Boy!
This is a barking mad take on the Everyone Is Jack game system where players take on the role of various personalities within....(paws for effect)...Fido the prize winning dog!!
Hoooonnnkkk!!!
Yes we have at #AthCon4 we have not one but two chances to run with the gooseseses!
GM Cathlin returns with a trio of games the first one being The Great Cake Heist (a H.O.NK. game system) where you play geeseseses in gang warfare against those evil ducks in Phoenix Park!
So excited to come back for AthCon again this year! Also, I'm just now realising I've got a rodent theme going because my other two games at AthCon4 are Mausritter...
So a next game up is a special one for all us #AthCon4 committee members!
GM Aoibhe has yet to miss an AthCon, initially as a Club Member, but for the last few years as a fully growed up person running tables as a GM!
This years offering is a 5th Level 5e one...Peril At WizardCon!!
It has been awhile 😅
Can't wait to get back to the story with these folks! ❤️
New Year and we've a new game!
An ever-present at the various AthCons throughout the ages,GM Tony ( @thedeafdm.bsky.social ) takes a seat once more at #AthCon4!
First game of his we look at is a 8th Level D&D - The House Of Madness.
It kicks off with a goblin in a top hat & goes on from there!
A bunch of well dressed "business associates" meet up in a warehouse after a "business meeting" with their "acquired assets"
It all sounds perfectly legit to me I think.
All they have to do is wait about until midnight, don't open anything and ignore that strange knocking noise.
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Just like Santa's elves we're busy little minions at this the of year as we tweet about our second game of the night!
In Downtrodden Abbey returning GM Cian S gives a fun Discworld twist to the life in an old Manor house!
This particular Manor is filled with charming Ankh Morporkian traditions..
Next game up we've GM Keith A's own take on the Honey Heist system. Around this table however, the players assume the roles of monsters looking for the ultimate crime payday - stealing the invaluable AthVentureCon Cup!!
This was run last year and all players had a blast so expect more of the same!
Honestly I'm awake!!
Less than 3 months to go to the World's Greatest Con* and we're almost ready to talk games!!
And by the Gods do we have some talk for you, I just need to take a deep breath first.
If you haven't already got yours then tickets at...
Www.athventurecon.ie
*award pending ;-)
You love to see it!
Personally running Mausritter for the kids and Shadowdark for the big kids (a.k.a the "adults").
Roll on AthCon4! Can't wait
Book cover - a young woman in tartan dress faces away from the viewer, looking over a winter landscape. Flowers and vines grow from where she stands. Text: Silent tears trickled from the corners of Brigit’s eyes and rolled across her temples, dampening her hair. She had no idea how she could possibly still contain tears; she had shed so many she must surely be dried out by now. She clutched the Cailleach doll she had created to her chest, using it as a focus for her prayers. If any deity would acknowledge her plight, surely it would be the Queen of Winter, Aengus’ opposite. Said to live alone in a cave on Ben Nevis, The Cailleach had never taken a husband and answered to no man. She was powerful and free, filled with magic and master of her own domain. If someone had ever tried to sell her off into an unwanted marriage, Brigit had no doubt the world would have been plunged into never-ending winter. Surely the goddess would take pity on Brigit, if only she prayed hard enough.
It's #BookQW and the word is 'world'. In The Heart of Winter, Brigit is lamenting her arranged marriage to Aengus, god of Summer, and praying to his counterpart.
Out now from Flame Tree Press: www.flametreepublishing.com/the-heart-of...
Out today! This #OwnVoices #Neurodivergent cosy fantasy from our very own @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social Ever wanted to find somewhere you belong? Join Greton, an elderly autistic asexual man as he searches for his heart’s desire
Out now: Magic, Maps, and Mischief 🦉
Read it for:
- strong autistic and ADHD rep 🎉
- queernorm world 😍
- themes of acceptance, kindness and the different kinds of love ☺️
- cozy, feel-good vibes ❤️
Shares greatly appreciated 😁 hope you enjoy the book!
mybook.to/magicmapsand...
A green graphic showing the cover of Daughters of Nicenvin and text. Book cover - two women in 18th century highland dress stand back-to-back, surrounded by men made of straw. The atmosphere is threatening. Text reads: Out November 11th from Flame Tree Press. "A story of love, community and responsibility that weaves together the heartening and heart-breaking to spellbinding effect." - Andrew Knighton
Available for pre-order now: www.flametreepublishing.com/daughters-of...
I can’t recommend this book enough. It’s so full of kindness with such a big heart. Seeing so many parts of myself portrayed in Greton was so beautiful
Magic, Maps, and Mischief is out on Friday, just in time for #aceweek
As well as being autistic, Greton is asexual. Come and give his story a try :)
mybook.to/magicmapsand...
