Concrete Cow
From Milton Keynes RPG Club
Milton Keynes RPG Club are holding another of their games days on 11 September 2010.
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WHO?
We're Milton Keynes RPG Club. Find out more about us at http://www.mk-rpg.org.uk .
WHEN?
Saturday 11 September 2010. Doors open at 9.00am, first games start at 10.00am. We'll finish at 11.00pm.
To keep some sense of organisation about the day (ha!), this is the approximate timetable for the day.
| Doors open | 9.00am |
| Morning games | 10.00am - 1.30pm |
| Afternoon games | 2.30pm - 6.30pm |
| Evening games | 7.30pm - 11.00pm |
| Close | 11.00pm |
(Concrete Cow 11 will be on 19 March 2011.)
WHAT?
Any roleplaying or board game. You want to play it, bring it along and run it. Previously we've had on offer 3:16, Amber, Call of Cthulhu, Cold City, Dead of Night, Dogs in the Vineyard, GURPS, Gwenthia, HeroQuest, Hollow Earth Expedition, Hot War, Landston, Mouse Guard, Mythic Russia, Primetime Adventures, Savage Worlds, Spycraft, Tekumel, Trail of Cthulhu, Transhuman Space, True20, Vampire, and some more that I've forgotten. Latest updates will be posted on our website.
A full list of games on offer is on the Concrete Cow games page.
WHO'LL BE THERE?
Guest of Honour
Our Guest of Honour for is Andy Kenrick! Andrew Kenrick has been working in the games industry for the past ten years as a freelance writer, editor and small-press publisher. His credits include Dark Heresy, the Ennie-nominated adventure The Lemurian Candidate and his self-published game of horror, Dead of Night. Latterly he has found himself as editor of Games Workshop's monthly magazine, White Dwarf magazine, and no one is more surprised than he.
Concrete Cow is also the first con that Andy will attend since the launch of Dead of Night 2, so we'll be hosting a (belated) Launch Party for the game! We're still working out the details, but rest assured that Andy will be chained to a table, running games of Dead of Night, when he's not answering questions about what's going on in Games Workshop.
Traders
We'll have our usual two excellent traders back. We'll be glad to see them again.
- Leisure Games will be bringing all manner of RPGs and other sundries. Expect plenty of choice of all your favourite games.
- Reaper's Revenge will be along with oodles of sparkling polyhedra and all manner of things to put them in. Dice, dice, and more dice!
If you have something in particular you'd like to buy at Concrete Cow, either contact the trader directly, or email us and we'll pass the message on.
Make sure you bring plenty of cash to give to the nice people with the shiny books and dice!
Gamers
Members of the Concrete Cowncil, MKRPG's convention gaming arm, will be in attendance to run all sorts of funky games. See the Concrete Cow games page for details.
And, there's all the fantastic games you'll bring along and run. If you let us know what you're planning to run, we'll put it on the Concrete Cow games page.
(Note that for child protection reasons, under-16s will need to be accompanied by an adult at Concrete Cow.)
WHERE?
The Old Bath House, Wolverton, in the north-west corner of Milton Keynes. The full address is
The Old Bath House
205 Stratford Road
Wolverton
Milton Keynes
MK12 5RL
Maps are available on MK Web, Google Maps, Streetmap.co.uk, and Google Earth.
Directions for drivers are on the Concrete Cow directions page.
Regular trains to Milton Keynes run from London Euston station. The nearest station to the con is Wolverton (one stop north of Milton Keynes Central), about five minutes' walk away.
The Old Bath House is next to the large Tesco store in Wolverton. Once you get off the train, ask for directions to Tesco, climb the stairs by their front door, and you'll be outside the entrance to the Old Bath House.
HOW MUCH?
£5.00, payable on the door. This'll cover the cost of hiring the hall.
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
For direct questions, email concrete-cow-owner@yahoogroups.com. Discussions of Concrete Cow take place on our Yahoo group or at the Concrete Cow forum at UK Roleplayers.
You can join in other discussions on RPGnet, The Collective Endeavour, Triple Ace Games, Story Games, The Tavern, Yog Sothoth, Doctor Who: Adventures in Time & Space, Nearby Gamers, and Facebook.
We're also on the lists of events maintained by Darran Sims, Phil Masters, and at UK Roleplayers.
Links to previous CC threads are at Exile Games and Doctor Who.
If you want to tell others about Concrete Cow, please go ahead! If you start a new discussion, let me know and we'll link to it from here. You can also download a Concrete Cow 10½ poster (A4 PDF) and some Concrete Cow 10½ flyers (2xA5 PDF).
HOW CAN I DO MY OWN?
If you want to organise something like Concrete Cow in your own neck of the woods, go for it! It's not difficult and quite satisfying. For some tips, read our Concrete Cow howto or ask us directly.
