Consternation II will be a convention dedicated to roleplaying, board, card, and related games that will take place at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, on August 19th-21st 2011. We plan to feature any and every sort of game that members want to bring and play, along with a few extra features to make for an enjoyable weekend - or just a great gamers' day out, if that's all you can make it for.
Consternation will be the latest in the long-running series of British Roleplaying Society conventions, including among others Conjunction (1990), Convocation (1997), Baroquon (1999), Consternation (2005), Recombination (2007), and Constitution (2009). The last two were held in conjunction with Unicon, a science fiction convention, and Harmuni, a filk convention - but now we've gone our own way again, and will be focussing on the games side of thing. (Which is why we've reverted to an old name, which we plan to stick with from now on.)
Of course, we'll still have some of the extra stuff that has made BRS events so popular with members in the past - a dealers' room, real ale in the bar, and a games auction on the Saturday night. And once again we've booked Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall) as our venue, with its excellent facilities, convenient location, and good-value accommodation
That depends what you bring. But if you let us know what that will be, we'll announce it here and on the convention mailing list and the wiki we're going to have running soon (we hope). Murray Edwards has good facilities for, amongst other things, LARPs - so if anyone wants to organise one of those, please do let us know and we'll fit you in.
Likewise, if anyone wants to arrange any kind of programme events or suchlike, just get in touch, once we've got an address for you to use.
Furthermore, Consternation II will also incorporate Grand Tribunal, a mini-convention dedicated to Atlas Games's Ars Magica roleplaying game of medieval magic.
That's great. See our Memberships Page if you want more details or are looking to sign up straight away. You might also like to note that we have an online discussion forum, by courtesy of the UK Role Players site.
Grand Tribunal is held by kind permission of Atlas Games. "Grand Tribunal" and the "Grand Tribunal" logo are trademarks of Trident, Inc. d/b/a Atlas Games, used with permission.
The constitution of the BRS is available online.
This 'Web page is copyright Consternation II, 2009.