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PROGRAMME
You’ll find some information about the activities, guests,
freeforms and role-playing games as well as practical information on accommodation,
food and travel.
The Register Form will also be available and registering will begin at that
particular moment.
The Convention will be held in November 2-4, 2007 in the LEGTA Valabre (A
High School next to the city of Aix-en-Provence).
2 PM : Opening. Welcome to the Travellers’ Inn.
The traveller will be given his room. The GMs receive their scenario sheet
with the synopsis they provided on it.
First games. Time to roll…
6.00 PM : Opening ceremony.
Everybody ‘s here ? The Chimerians welcome you aboard and introduce
our Guests of Honor.
The drawing of the Trollball competition will follow.
6.30 PM: Role Quizz: You think you know RPG very well ? Team
up with two buddies (yep, a chimera has three heads) and get involved into
the first round of Role Quizz (questions in French and in English).
20 questions first, then a great final for the best four teams.
8 PM: Among the branches of the Souffre-Jour:
Special time for the RPG Agone.
With the exclusive participation of Mathieu Gaborit and the Souffre-Jour team.
Mathieu Gaborit, now a renowned writer, will come back on the beginning of
Agone, the writing of his novels and the international version of the game.
The Souffre-Jour team will propose many events on Agone during the week-end.
9. 30 PM : At the beginning was the word…
The Chimerians pay homage to literary creative power and propose a literary
session, during which some of our beloved guests will read passages of their
work, as well as attendants who wish to.
With a drink of SangDragon offered by the house.
10.30 PM: Trollbaaaaaaalll: Let’s start kicking @@@@@! Gather around the wonderful Glamour stadium and enjoy the most delightfully cruel Glorantha miniature competition.
11 PM Hate without a sword:
A Pendragon freeform for 12 players. International attendants strongly advised!
(English, French and German can be used in this game).
« Garloth. A castle. A baby is to be born. According to an old
Pagan legend, no blood shall be spilt by a blade or the child and mother will
both die.
In the south, near York, two kings are fighting. Men from them are in the
castle, in the same time. And intrigue, old stories, old secrets and revenges…
In the night, something breaks the silence… “
9 AM : Et glou et glou...
Freeform in the universe of « Reve de Dragon ». Ok,
it’s fully in French but just have a look on the smiling faces and you’ll
have a good idea of the atmosphere of the game.
10 AM : Let’s talk about... Call of Cthulhu
Charlie Krank talks about Cthulhu and the latest news from Chaosium. We’ll
make a tour of COC history and future.
With the participation of TOC, the main COC website in France.
11.15 AM : REAL MYTHOLOGY : Greg Stafford talks about mythology. Come and listen to the Great Cosmogony Master…
2 PM : On the path of dreams
Pannel Reve de Dragon, with Denis Gerfaud, Pierre Lejoyeux, Rolland Barthelemy,
Colin Heine.
History and stories of “ Reve de Dragon”...
4 PM : Some kind of sulphur smell…
Daniel Dugourd and Michel Gaudo talk about Malefices, the French Horror game
set in the 1900s.
(games will be run in English at the Convention to make international attendants
discover this RPG)
6 PM: Heroes are back !
Great Glorantha panel. Latest news of Glorantha, books to come and Heroquest
questions and answers. Listen to the sound of thunder!
8 PM: Happy Birthday Runequest!
Let’s celebrate the 20th anniversary of the translation of Runequest
in French language, that is to say the arrival of Glorantha in French !
(1987).
Raise your drinks and pay homage to Greg for these 20 years of great fun !
And let’s listen to Greg’s telling us how all did begin…
10 PM: A family matter:
Freeform for Call of Cthulhu for 25 players.
Meet the Beauregard family and its freakish, heavy past, present and…future
in the old Beauregard mansion, after the death of the old patriarch Horace.
Written by Nick Huggins, with his permission.
Possible roles for international attendants (contact
Philippe if interested)
4 hours
10 AM: A Story of madmen: Panel on Denis Gerfaud’s latest game “Hystoire de Fou”
11.15 AM: Let’s talk about...Nephilim
Fabrice Lamidey and Frederic Weil talk about Nephilim, its creation and development,
and also of the US version with Charlie.
2 PM : Let’s talk about…PENDRAGON
Greg talks about his little favorite… Questions and answers and celebration
of the Diana Jones award winner: The Great Pendragon Campaign!
3 PM: short stories contest organized by Caravelle editions and Librairie de provence.
5 PM : The Auction…
Come and yell at the Chimeriades’ auction. Rare, amazing, stupid or pathetic
items already wait for you…
6 PM : Closing time ceremony
No, it’s not over yet ! But let’s gather before the first attendants
go, and let’s wave our loudest applause for our guests and all the GMs
who risked their Sanity points to run games.
After ?
Game continues ! We still have a full night and the Chimerians will keep you up.
Many events will take place during the convention.
RPG sessions : many games will be run by GMs in various languages.
The first synopsis are available
here
Boardgame demos : some boardgames will be available and on display at the Convention
Trollball:
Special place for a very special game :
After the tremendous success at tentacles Convention, Gregory Privat comes back with his Trollball game for the second session of the game:
Trollball, episode 2: The Emperor strikes back!
After the unexpected victory of the baboon team at the Trollball World cup
and above all the way in which the lunar teams pathetically failed to honour
the Lunar Empire, Monsoon decides to put the things right with another competition.
The World Champion team, conveniently put into jail after the competition,
will be back on the sand and face adversaries more prepared than ever. The
Emperor send a message to Glorantha:
“ When the pride of the Empire is struck, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!”
A wonderful competition for 16 players (team of 2). To register, write to Philippe.
site réalisé, dans un esprit chaotique, par Inbadreams, avec l'aide intermittente de Jimmy Wonderfioule.