Calendar File Form: Roger Bell_West has set up a site which converts this page to standard calendar file format, and updates that file periodically. See http://firedrake.org/infobot/ics/conventions.ics for this. Or - I'm told that by using webcal://firedrake.org/infobot/ics/conventions.ics instead, you should be able to "subscribe" to this calendar. Note that I haven't looked at this since this page changed URL.
If you want your convention listed here, e-mail me with a date, URL, and any information that you want mentioned here, up to a couple of short paragraphs' worth.
5th-6th April: Seven Hills: Generations, at The Garrison Hotel, Sheffield. "Seven Hills is an annual tabletop roleplaying games convention. Born in Sheffield UK in 2014 as one of the annual Garrison Conventions, it offers games inspired by a different theme each year. The theme for 2025 is Generations." Membership appears to be £30. See https://7hills.org.uk/ for full details.
12th April: SALUTE 52, at the London ExCel. Purely a wargames event, but a very big one with a lot of traders, so I'll give it a mention. See https://southlondonwarlords.co.uk/next-salute.
12th-13th April: Conpulsion 2025, at The Pleasance, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9TJ. As they say, this is "Scotland's oldest running [tabletop roleplaying] convention", with various talks and events promised as well as games; ticket prices are apparently in the £10-£40 range - see https://conpulsion.org/ for full details and bookings.
26th April: Dragonmeet: Call to Adventure, at Kensington Town Hall, London, from 10am to 5pm. A spin-off of the big event at the end of the year, aiming to introduce new players to games in general and RPGs in particular. Features will include traders, a "paint and take", a scavenger hunt, a family zone, and two major demo areas, and admission will be FREE, though there's a ticketing system, presumably meaning that numbers are limited. See https://dragonmeet.co.uk/cta for more details and tickets.
10th-11th May: North Star, at The Garrison Hotel, Sheffield. "Come and play out amazing stories amongst the stars for a full weekend of tabletop Science Fiction RPGs. Avoid Imperial entanglements, set phasers to stun, survive the dark between the stars, or join the crew of the Free Trader Beowulf; whatever path you choose, enjoy some time away in other worlds and new realities for a full weekend." Membership is £15/day. See https://northstarcon.org.uk/ for full details.
23rd-25th May: Chaosium Con UK, at Cranfield Management Development Centre, Cranfield, Bedford. As the name suggests, this is a convention dedicated to the products of Chaosium Games. "Play Games. Make friends. Experience Chaosium like never before. ... Come along for a weekend dripping with cosmic horror, essential runes, swashbuckling adventure, and chivalrous quests!" Tickets are $60 (about £50) for three days or $25 (about £20) for a single day; accommodation, booked directly with the venue, is £64.00 per room single occupancy B&B per night, £91.00 per room double occupancy B&B per night. More details are at https://www.chaosium.com/chaosium-con-uk-2025/; tickets are at https://tabletop.events/conventions/chaosium-con-uk-2025.
30th May-1st June: UK Games Expo 2025, at (I assume) The NEC (Halls 1,2, & 3) and the Hilton Metropole Hotel, Birmingham. Britain's biggest general games convention, with lots of RPG sessions (generally run in the Hilton) among other features. Prices depends on ages, number of days, etc., and aside from the Hilton, there are several convenient hotels for accommodation (though those fill up quite fast). Just an initial announcement so far, but watch the Web site at https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/ for further developments.
28th-29th June: Longcon, at The Garrison Hotel, Sheffield. "An RPG convention for all weekend games. ... Welcome to Longcon, a tabletop roleplaying games convention for long form games that will last all weekend. Fancy a change from high pace 3 hour slots where you finish and want more? Longcon is for you. The organisation of the convention will be a little different, as the all weekend format needs to support people making good choices and organising groups that will play well over the full weekend." Membership rates are £30 for the full weekend, which pays for the room hire and a flow of tea and coffee throughout the event. See https://longcon.ttrpg.uk/ for more information and booking details.
4th-6th July: Summer Stabcon 2025, at The Guildhall, Stockport. A long-running small-scale tabletop games convention with, traditionally, a fair amount of roleplaying. Not much information yet, but some will doubtless appear in due course; unfortunately, the only online presence is a Facebook (yukkh) page at https://www.facebook.com/events/2068745920203985/.
25th-28th July: Continuum 2025, at Cranfield Management Development Centre. Booking is now open for this version of this annual event, which features tabletop RPGs and also freeforms and board games: £25 per day or £60 for the weekend, accompanied children 16 and under free. "Please note that Day Tickets at the Convention will only be available at the Registration Desk, cash only." See https://continuumconvention.co.uk/ for booking and more information, including games available as they're arranged.
15th-17th August: Grand Tribunal, in Cheltenham (I believe that they use a couple of sites around the town.) "Grand Tribunal is the European convention for Atlas Games' Ars Magica role-playing game. ... Grand Tribunal is a roleplaying, freeform and boardgame convention dedicated to the games and settings of Atlas Games. The convention is of especial interest to fans of Ars Magica, and also Unknown Armies, Over the Edge, Rune and other Atlas Games rpgs. We also have some freeform larp games, but a large Ars Magica themed game suitable for everyone, and some smaller freeforms (in fact the first 'Nordic style' larp run in the UK took place at Grand Tribunal in 2007). ... Grand Tribunal is a small, intimate and friendly event, and while it attracts a number of Ars Magica and RPG authors, it is very accessible to even casual gamers." Tickets are £20 waged, £10 unwaged, with some group and other discounts available. See http://www.grandtribunal.org/wiki/Main_Page for more information.
23rd-24th August: ShadowCon XIX 2025, at Northfields Community Centre, Northfields, London, W13 9SS. An event with some history ("Celebrating over 30 years of gaming"), run by the Shadow Warriors, a West London-based club. Lots of games are promised; price is quoted as "£5 per slot". See https://www.shadowwarriors.co.uk/shadoccon-uk-2025/ for more information, while sign-ups are through https://warhorn.net/events/shadowcon-uk-2025.
5th-7th September: Tabletop Scotland, at The Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh. As the name suggests, a general tabletop games convention, with roleplaying games among the planned offerings. Tickets will go on sale Saturday 29th March, but in the meantime, see https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/ for full details.
11th-12th October: Furnace Games Convention XX, at The Garrison Hotel, Sheffield. "Furnace is an annual tabletop roleplaying game convention ... If you love tabletop RPGs then you'll love Furnace." Registration will open some time this year: watch https://furnace.org.uk/ for more details as they emerge.
24th-27th October: Gaelcon 37, at Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport Northwood Park, Dublin 9. "The Irish Games Association hosts Ireland's oldest independent gaming convention, Gaelcon." No prices listed yet; watch https://iga.ie/gaelcon/ for updates.
29th November: Dragonmeet, at London ExCel. Certainly Britain's biggest one-day RPG convention, with a long history, in a new and larger venue. Only the date and basic times ("Gaming 09:00 - 22:00; Trade Halll 10:00 - 18:00") have been announced so far, but more will doubtless follow. Watch https://dragonmeet.co.uk/ for more information as it comes.
