Conpulsion Edinburgh

Home time from @conpulsion.bsky.social Fab time. Great final session with @gavininglis.bsky.social on solo game writing. Man knows his stuff! Once again, Conpulsion has been an inspiration.

Theatre stage, wood surround and beams overhead, red drapes backdrop, projector screen in front with black amd white Conpulsion logo of owl style mage rolling dice, list of days sessions left and right on stage, 5 seated panellists talking on microphones

Sunday keynote @conpulsion.bsky.social 'Where are we going?' presenting some positive possibilities for the future @philipgharris.bsky.social chair & lively panel @discourseminis.bsky.social @gavininglis.bsky.social Ron Edwards @trevinyork.bsky.social #Conpulsion #games #ttrpg #games #Scotland #rpg

Ron Edwards, Discourse, Stuart Boon and Trevin York join Phil Harris (Chair) in a talk about the current state of the games industry and how the hell we got to this place.

A photo of the Mort sourcebook for SLA Industries, updated down in its cardboard packaging.

Fun times Conpulsion yesterday. I haven’t stopped to mention how cool it was to chat with @khepera.bsky.social and to briefly say hi to Ron Edwards on Friday night. (I did the cover to Ron’s game Spione years ago)

The auction did just shy of £4k, and I can away with signed @nightfall.games stuff.

A page of text from my Shipwreck! game. It’s mostly a table showing good and bad things tat will happen as cards are drawn during the game.

On the train to @conpulsion.bsky.social! Still revising the current text of Shipwreck! before this morning’s session. The Scene Direction stuff is new, totally inspired by @lackingceremony.bsky.social’s Quiet Year.

The new front cover of the Overgrown TTRPG book, art by Valentina Sarin. Features hybrid animals in a broken overgrown urban area: lion-chicken, goat-bear, pig-dove, 3 parrot-deer and a kangaroo-bunny.

A pixel-art top down view of a treetop squirrel village with 3 huts on platforms connected by rickety wooden bridges and a central acorn store

It's @conpulsion.bsky.social day!
This morning I'm running Overgrown: Treetop Traipse, which is one of the example scenarios from the gamebook and features this wonderful map :)

Heading to @conpulsion.bsky.social today. Hope to catch up with folk and see a couple of talks. Haven't been for a few years so will be interesting to see what's changed.

Selling at @conpulsion.bsky.social all day today and tomorrow! Stop by and pick up Deep Regrets ahead of the retail launch!

Selfie showing me wearing my Abbadon tshirt.

Photo of the front cover of the Abbadon book.

On my way to @conpulsion.bsky.social to run a demo game of Abbadon. I'd be 100% ready if I hadn't forgotten to lift the character sheets out of the printer, so I guess we're going old school with lined paper.

Life of a TTRPG designer with ADHD lol.

The Cybertopia rulebook cover art: a silhouetted crowd of people in front of a city skyscape

It's @conpulsion.bsky.social day 2 today and I'm running a new Cybertopia oneshot this morning that I've never done before... Ever wonder what it'd be like for the humans the day Overgrown started happening to the world? We're doing Welcome to the Apocalypse from the ppl's perspective!

Mustering all the cool that I can...well, muster for @conpulsion.bsky.social
Big fun and cool people!

Edinburgh skyline at sunset, city spires including Balmoral Hotel, Scott monument gothic rocket, Pentland Hills in background with cartoon hare silhouettes leaping over the hills and in the sky, quirky reddish text at top says 'Worm Moons and Mad Hares and Mayhem Oh My!' bottom right orange text says Seasons of teh Sun campaign and ABS.Ventures original photo is by Andrej Zeman https://www.pexels.com/photo/silhouette-of-buildings-during-sunset-5517172/ with alterations by @ABS

Great lineup this weekend @conpulsion.bsky.social inc. yours truly running the next in my Seasons of the Sun campaign Worm Moons and Mad Hares & Mayhem Oh My! on Sat & Sun arvo using #Liminal #rpg space available to sign up on the day #Edinburgh #Conpulsion #ttrpg #Games #Scotland #SotS #Scottish

Conpulsion 2025 log, black and white, left a stylised logo of owl rolling dice then dates and location with name in large font and 'It's in the dice text'

The line-up @conpulsion.bsky.social this weekend is amazing Team #MFWG will be there, say hi if you see us #Edinburgh #rpg #Conpulsion #ttrpg #Games #Scotland #Scottish

@conpulsion.bsky.social starts tomorrow! If you're there, then I'm doing a bunch of stuff! And assisting @handiworkgames.bsky.social on the stall!

Get your hands on our downloadable program - including map! - of this weekend's events : conpulsion.org/wp-content/u...

Our full program can be found here: conpulsion.org/programme/

Conpulsion 2025 Scotland's oldest tabletop gaming convention

TOMORROW: CONPULSION 2025

TTRPGs - LARPs - Talks - Demos - Workshops

Booking link in bio - sign up on the day for games and workshops running throughout the day.

CONPULSION 2025 Pleasance, Edinburgh

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12-13 APRIL

#larp #ttrpg #gaming #ttrpgedinburgh

A photo of a softcover Maskwitches book peeking out of the box it came in.

Just in time for Conpulsion this weekend. A Maskwitches soft cover restock. Yay!

Conpulsion 2025 features Great Guests

Conpulsion 2025 features a selection of amazing guests from the worlds of role-playing, gaming and illustration. You can see and hear them at our panels and other activities over the weekend. We're delighted to welcome Ron Edwards. He is best known for games…

3 DAYS UNTIL CONPULSION 2025

Talks - Workshops - TTRPGs - LARPs - & More

Check out our talks and displays happening : conpulsion.org/programme/ta...

Pleasance, Edinburgh
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#ttrpg #gamedev #indiegaming

Bring and Buy is Back!

We know you have too many games and there is never a better time to rotate your loot than at Conpulsion! The Bring & Buy is back for another year in the Pleasance Quaker Studio on Saturday the 12th April 2025 with the wonderful Fiona, Roderick and Jason. Visit the Bring &…

@conpulsion.bsky.social is on this weekend!

Come along for a great range of roleplaying game and talks! It's on at The Pleasance in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 12th and 13th of April.

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#ttrpg #tabletopgaming #roleplaying #rpg #larp #boardgames #scotland

Traders Handiwork Games Handiwork Games was founded in 2019 by Banquo Award-winner Jon Hodgson. They are a Falkirk-based game development studio, focused on creating high-quality games with fair working co…

4 DAYS TO GO
TILL CONPULSION 2025

Traders - Workshops - TTRPGs - LARPs - Talks - Demos

Take note of our fantastic traders joining us this year - give them some love and a follow!

conpulsion.org/traders/

#traders #ttrpg #indierpg #gaming #dicegoblin

Just 5 more days before I'll be running my games at another con again!
I had originally planned to run my first ever con games at @conpulsion.bsky.social back in 2020 but then it got cancelled that year because COVID appeared! 5 years later I finally am going to actually do it and I'm real excited 😊

5 DAYS TILL CONPULSION 2025

TTRPGs - LARPs - Demos - Traders - Workshops - Talks - & MORE

Pre-reg for games open NOW
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A close up on pages from the unique, one-off, Cold City Hot War Reports One to Seven. This spread shows a poster with a mosaic face saying "Friend or foe".

A close up on pages from the unique, one-off, Cold City Hot War Reports One to Seven. This show the introduction to report one.

The unique, one-off, Cold City Hot War Reports One to Seven book, lying on a concrete surface.

The unique, one-off, Cold City Hot War Reports One to Seven book, lying on a concrete surface.

It's another absolutely unique item for the @conpulsion.bsky.social charity auction.

This is a one-off, hard cover, Cold City Hot War Reports One to Seven (the softcover Reports One to Six is available on our webstore). We hope this one makes lots of loot for the charity too.

Want to know more? Speak to the HEMA members outside the Theatre over the weekend and see them in action in the Theatre too.

with a lot of vocal crowd participation (ie. encouraging them to cheer for who they want to win!).

This event will involve lots of armoured fighting and will be highly visually appealing. Whereas the previous block’s event is more educational in nature, this event is much more about spectacle.

Second Block (14:00 – 15:00 on both days): Witness a Medieval Tournament with Real Knights!. In this event, we will be recreating a medieval tournament, showcasing various forms of combat performed in medieval tournaments, particularly with fully armoured knights,

In this event we will be doing an educational, demonstration, first by showcasing various fighting techniques done in and out of armour with swords, daggers, and even polearms, as well as wrestling. The demonstration will end with a look at fighting in and out of armour.

Knightly Combat LIVE at Conpulsion 2025

Hosted by HEMA

First Block (12:15 – 12:45 on both days): The Knightly Art of Combat: Medieval Martial Arts and Swordfighting from the Late 14th Century.