Planet Irish Gaming

Int: The oldest thing in gaming in Ireland that anybody knows about, Leprecon's been going since dice were carved from granite by nerdy cavemen and wargames featuring flintlock muskets were categorised as science fiction.  It still usually manages to serve up an excellent show.  A full house of Adventurers takes a look at what's on the cards for this year's.  Features:

• Leprecon
• Legless Adventuring Party robot
• Jumptech
• The Camarilla
• Magicians versus Scientologists
• Christmas in Valhalla
• Thor versus Neptune versus Umbongo Big Wooden Mask Guy
• The Demon-Zombie-Ghost-Pirate LeChuck is Dead
• Monkey Island
• Where There's a Will
• Something Shane can get behind
• Unfounded speculation
• Spirit of the Century
• Call of Cthulhu
• MURDER and MUTILATION!
• Mouse Guard
• Furry costumes at the ready!
• Penny Arcade
• Savage Worlds
• World War S
• A day that will live in infamy
• Dark Heresy
• Liam cofuses the Deathwatch and the Legion of the Damned
• Castles & Crusades
• Having fun and playing, with D&D?
• GURPS
• Metagame Disney
• Eberron
• Ridiculous question with a proper answer
• The Writers' Conspiracy
• Race for the Galaxy
• Settlers of Catan
• Doing the right thing
• Power Grid
• Battlestar Galactica board game
• Ruining a stranger's fun for a change
• Ticket to Ride
• humbug's other Klingon impression
• Caylus
• Carcassonne
• Carcassonnes and Catapults
• Chainsaw Warrior
• Magic: The Gathering
• A ton of surprise real information
• Construction of a standard
• Yu-Gi-Oh
• Legend of the 5 Rings
• Construction of a standard
• Warhammer 40,000
• Warmachine
• A bit of speculation
• Society for Creative Anachronism
• Some wargame!
• Pub quiz!
• Hostel!

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The full results were:

#Position Name Total Score(Countback) Army Club
1 van Embden Jan 61 Burgundian Ord DGG
2 Aynsley Richard 59(154) Hussite MWG
3 Hessian Mick 59(97) Med French DGG
4 Houston David 57 Alex Mac TTN
5 McKenna Seamus 50 NKE TTN
= Gibson Mark 50 Teutonic TTN
7 Bracken Padraig 43 Toltec-Chichimec MWG
8 Bergin Tony 40 Feudal Spanish MWG
9 Coughlan Willie 39 Anglo-Danish MWG
= McTurk Alec 39 Palmyran DGG
11 Brennan Rob 37 Southern Han DGG
12 Lederer Dave 36 Mongol Conquest DGG
13 Waldron Phil 33 Chola DGG
14 Madeley Tim 30 LIR Eastern MWG

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GP: Your time is up!  Minions, collect the answer sheets!  Pencils down!  Don't make me take off my sunglasses!  With the opening time of the Pub Quiz past, Shane, Liam, Dave and humbug welcome Cillian aboard as a new fifth Beatle, and make asses of themselves attempting to answer their own questions after having had a month to research them.  Pitiful, really.  Also, the actual winner is announced - assuming that is that it isn't The Adventuring Party.  Features:

• A new contestant
• Scoring our contestants
• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
• Round humbug
• The owlbear question
• humbug forgets about Yorkshire and Black Sea
• Not the Necronomicon
• Round Shane
• Liam's knobulous face
• Round Liam
• Races and political alliances
• Round Dave
• Mysteriously vanishing whiskey
• A short pause
• The losers
• The winner

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Per: Roaming the night in up to, eh, six or so guises are the members of the Camarilla, White Wolf's ongoing, worldwide LARPs.  Ceire, Boomer and Phil from the Irish Cam contingent join us to give the low-down on just what it's all about, and to spill the beans on whether Dave's actually as much of a badass as we make him out to be.  Features:

• The Camarilla
• White Wolf
• Supernatural tea-party o' the month
• Players versus population
• Going crazy and playing a ghoul
• The vampire redshirt
• Typical game types
• An awful area to drink blood in in Dublin
• Downtiming
• Splat-vampires
• Conflict resolution
• Learning life skills through LARP
• Mage: The Awakening
• Changeling: The Lost
• Death by Internet
• Camunism International
• Geist: The Sin-Eaters
• Vampire: The Masquerade
• Those guys in Edinburgh
• Be afraid of Dave's character
• The Prince of Dublin
• Sparkly vampires again
• Character generation
• How to earn experience points the Dave way
• How to lose humanity and torture people
• Canonical games at conventions
• Costume, signature items and lack thereof
• Camarilla timeline and the real world
• Alliances with Satan
• Local, national and global plots
• Scion
• Hunter: The Vigil
• Mummy: The Resurrection
• Promethean: The Created
• Playing NPCs
• The Werewolves of Hollers Millow
• Kingmakers and puppet-masters
• Powerful roles in vampire society
• Crabs in a bucket
• How to coexist
• Decapitation, my secret vulnerability!
• Combat
• A mildly-embarrassing story about Dave
• Getting involved or starting a group
• Irish Camarilla website
• Vampires on ice!

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Int: With mere seconds to spare, Shane, Dave and humbug see what they can find on the Itzacon website to tempt their strange and arcane appetites.  Features:

• Itzacon
• Retro-sci-fi aesthetic
• The Galwegian language
• Geist: The Sin-Eaters
• Half-informing you so you don't have to
• Mystery games
• Starfleet Special!
• What year it is
• Weirdness in the Appalachians, go figure
• The old half-orc-maker
• Vile experiments
• Warhammer likes its beer
• No flamethrowers
• The sixth dandy
• Secret babies
• Call of Cthulhu
• Benevolent Dr. Smythe
• Uninsulting rustic accent
• American explosions
• How to get rid of this prince
• Kneel before Zendikar!
• Gravity floor

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