Outside the club
Various Conventions, RPGs, board games, online games and other activities that members of the club participate in.
Active Games
- Indie Mondays: Indie and Story games run at Wargames Workshop on Monday evenings.
Local games shops
Wargames Workshop is a shop and game cafe in Kingston (behind the big Tesco). It has a good selection of boardgames and wargames, and a limited selection of RPGs. They can order in other games. They host RPGs and board games in the cafe, plus organised play of wargames and CCGs.
Leisure Games has about the finest collection of RPGs, and particularly indie RPGs, in the UK. They're in North London, but do plenty of mail order.
Tabletop MK is a game shop in Wolverton, MK.
Conventions
Some conventions where you're likely to find club members attending include:
Concrete Cow
Our own one-day convention, organised by club members, taking place twice a year in Wolverton.
UK Games Expo
The UK's largest tabletop gaming convention, held at the NEC in Birmingham, covering RPGs, board games and wargames. There's a full programme of one-shot RPGs, plus a massive trade hall.
The Garricons
A group of weekend conventions all taking place at the Garrison hotel in Sheffield: Revelation (PBTA games), North Star (sci-fi games), Seven Hills and Furnace.
The Owlbear and Wizard's Staff
A two day convention based in Leamington Spa.
Contingency
A five day convention held in January at the Searles holiday park in Hunstanton. The organisers also run two spin-off conventions, Condensed and Conducked.
See also the UK Convention Calendar maintained by Phil Masters, Dave Wright's UK & Ireland RPG & Board Game Conventions list and the Conventions forum on the Tavern.
Other RPG clubs
The London Indie RPG group meet one Saturday a month to play various indie RPGs. MK club members often attend.
Local boardgame clubs and meetups
- The Leighton Buzzard boardgames club does a full-day meet once a month on Saturdays. Dates are on their calendar.
- The Wargames Workshop shop does RPGs and boardgames in their cafe.
- The Newport Pagnell boardgames club meets on Thursdays
- The MK Geek Culture Meetup group do boardgames meets and various other things.
- Handycon is a quarterly board game convention in Milton Keynes.
- The Tabletop MK game shop hosts games in Wolverton, MK.
Past Games
By Design
A 'Play by Message Board' Amber Diceless RPG campaign with participants from around the world and run by Kevin Dennis.
Hot War: The Law of Supply and Demand
A game running under the umbrella of the Compendium group, this is a tabletop RPG campaign, currently meeting on Monday nights.
Edge of the Empire
Star Wars: Edge of the Empire James Hollywood GMing Space Opera stories on the Outer Rim.
Ancestral Voices
A 'Play by Email' Amber Diceless RPG Campaign with participants from around the world. Sadly Ancestral Voices is no more and the pages are here for reference only.