RPGaDAY 2026 21. Charity

#RPGaDAY 2026

21. Charity

21. Share an RPG charity past or present that moved you.

Tim Bradstreet had his signed early Vampire: The Masquerade art portfolios for sale at the 2011 Grand Masquerade convention in the US and I went to get one to put into the Conpulsion auction here, I mentioned this and he gave me it for free. (I bought another for myself, naturally!) And I was glad to let him know it was the first lot to go for more than £100 that year.

Photo by Martin Ericsson

There was also the time a family illness led to Conpulsion switching charity for the auction, for which I am forever grateful.

And as GM Ian mentions, the long-running Marvel SAGA game where I played Charity Chance, Agent Of SABER!

Autocratik

Runeslinger

Nationals 2027 - 9th-11th April

So for the first time since 2024, not clashing with the planned dates for Conpulsion!

Conpulsion 2026 quiz answers

Answers. Can you beat the winning team, that got 47 out of 66, 8 on audio so 39 out of 54?

Conpulsion 2026 quiz

Conpulsion quiz went alright, I think. Of the six teams actually trying, the lowest still got 31 of 66. (The team anti-trying got 1, to their chagrin.)

Questions below, apart from the audio round. (So 54 points available!) Answers soonish.

Conpulsion 2026 day one

Met someone I’ve known for a couple of years, which was nice.

Nationals 2026

Guess what.

Given that the venue for Conpulsion is closer than the train station it’s not a hard choice.

So I guess we’ll see who hosts next time and if these two groups can avoid making it three times in a row.

Conpulsion 2026 Quiz Update, again

I now hopefully have all the questions I need for the Conpulsion quiz apart from a possible backup round.

Update 9.55: Off to take advantage of endless university printing!

Conpulsion Quiz 2026 Update

I have now done one of the two rounds I have to actually research.

I have a Buffy question and a Sarah Michelle Gellar question. So there.

Conpulsion quiz update

Answer sheets off to be printed en masse.

Now to get enough questions.

The Bunker Game is coming

The Bunker Games is a (mild) development of something I did with students on my Nuclear Cold War module at Edinburgh Uni between 2014 and 2016. You’re trapped in a bunker after a nuclear attack - who is allowed to survive?

This is not something I would run with students now, certainly not without considerably more preparation and buy-in.

However, it is an interesting artefact, if only from a personal POV, seeing how my pedagogical approach has evolved over a decade.

Malcolm Craig

Physical copies launching at Conpulsion!

Conpulsion games are up

Conpulsion RPGs up for prereg

Me? Run something? Hahahahano

Teviot

Teviot Union, the home of The Watch House officially reopens after two and a half years. I’ll have to go see what they've done.

Update: Wee video. Main thing which meant the delay, great big balconied bar at the back, way in where the front desk used to be. The Mezzanine has stopped being the New Amphion and is now the Gallery, while still being a mezzanine. Otherwise quite a lot of grey walls where the wood panelling was, though not entirely. Hrm.

Questions

And yes, once again, maybe for the last time... the Conpulsion Quiz.

Conpulsion news

GeekNative shares news of Conpulsion 2026 plans including megagames.

Conpulsion 2025 Quiz Answers

The winning team got 51 out of 61. (And we had a team of one who got 20.) How did you do?

Conpulsion 2025 Quiz

If you dare!

Answers in a day or so.

Conpulsion 2025 Day 2

Talks! Quiz! Banquo Award for Andy Hepworth!

Conpulsion 2025 Day 1

Talks! Auction! Saying hello to people!

Conpulsion games

Conpulsion 2025 scheduled game list.

Conpulsion update

Two weeks to Conpulsion and I have most of the quiz but not a write-in round.