[C]newsgroups, Clubs, Cons and Companies
Newsgroups / Forums
- aus.games.roleplay
- As well as all of the rec.games.frp heirarchy, this newsgroup
exists to support roleplaying in Australia (not Austin)
- aus.games.roleplay
- Aus Gamers @ livejournal
- With the ever-growing popularity of the livejournal world, its not
too surprising that there is a community devoted to Australian
Gaming...
- http://www.livejournal.com/community/aus_gamers/
- CannedGeek
- Not just for roleplaying, but for geek news and events around
Australia, CannedGeek has an uptodate calender of events you should
check weekly.
- http://www.cannedgeek.com/
- RPG.net
- One of the largest sites online for gaming, rpg.net is full of news,
reviews and fora.
- www.rpg.net
Clubs
- Infinite Images (II)
- II are Melbourne University's Roleplaying club.
- RMIT
- Science Fiction and Gaming Association
- FOME
- Another Monash Club, FOME technically is not a roleplaying club,
but their history is intricately tied up with MURPs, so much so that
in places it is hard to separate them
- http://www.fome.monashclubs.org/
- Dandenong Wargames and Roleplaying Federation
- http://www.bad-sports.com/~dwarf/
- Nunawading Wargames Association
- Despite the name, they also roleplay around Melbourne
- http://www.alphalink.com.au/~nwa/index.html
- VURT
- Not strictly a 'club', Vurt is an organisation dedicated to
providing online material for the roleplaying hobby.
- http://vurt.net
Cons
- Conquest
- http://www.conquest.asn.au
- Conquest is run at Melbourne High over the Easter long weekend.
It has a considerable amount of
minatures, board games and live action events in addition to the roleplaying.
- DWARFCon
- http://www.bad-sports.com/~dwarfcon/index.html
- DWARFCon is run by the Dandenong Wargames and Roleplaying Federation
(DWARF) in the middle of the year.
- Arcanacon
- http://www.arcanacon.org/
- Arcanacon happens every year at the Collingwood Education Centre.
- UniCon
- http://www.unicon.asn.au/
- Risen from the ashes once more, UniCon is run in late September.
- FauxCon
- http://www.fauxcon.org
- FauxCon is Victoria's only regional convention, held at a new
site each year.
Companies
Not in any particular order...
- Chaosium
- http://www.chaosium.com/
- Cthulhu, Elric, Mythos cards.
- Issaries, Inc
- http://www.glorantha.com/
- Hero Wars (Glorantha/RuneQuest)
- White Wolf
- http://www.white-wolf.com/
- Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Wraith, Changeling, HoL, Hunter
- Steve Jackson Games
- http://www.sjgames.com/
- GURPS, In Nomine, Car Wars as well as numerous boardgames
- Wizards of the Coast
- http://www.wizards.com/
- The publishers of the swarming hegemony d20 System, Wizards publish
the most well know rpg, Dungeons and Dragons.
- Grey Ghosts Press Inc
- http://www.fudgerpg.com/
- FUDGE, a free backend system.
- Green Knight Inc
- http://www.greenknight.com
- Pendragon
- Pinnacle Entertainment Group
- http://www.peginc.com
- Deadlands
