Conquest Games Market

A market and mini convention with a focus on local creators

Conquest Games Market is a one day event designed to showcase local game developers, vendors, suppliers, makers, and artists to the Melbourne Tabletop and Roleplaying gaming community. This is a sister event to our main convention in Easter, and will also have tasters of the sort of games you can expect at Conquest. We’re an open, inclusive and friendly community of tabletop gamers, GMs, and creators! 🌈😊

Expect to find:

New and Secondhand Games Market
Local artists
Australian-made games open to play
Dice, miniatures, accessories
TTRPGs, Board, Card, and Miniatures games
And More!

When?

Saturday the 31st of August, 2024. Doors open to the public at 10am, and close at 5pm.

Where?

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The Conquest Games Market will be held at our current Conquest Convention venue:
Coburg Town Hall
90 Bell Street, Coburg, VIC.

Bonus, we can use the same map we made for the convention too! Here is the main entrance on Bell St, and how to get to the various available car parks.

Cost?

Free entry for all attendees! Come check out the stalls and play some games at no cost.

How can I get involved?

Volunteer on the day – Reach out to us on Discord if you’re interested.
Join our Facebook event to let us know you’ll be there, and tell your friends!
Check out the vendors, artists, game developers, and more on the Conquest Games Melb Discord server.

Conquest Games Sessions

Some familiar faces will be running some cut down games throughout the day, a teaser to the sort of games you would expect to find at the main Easter convention.

Call of Cthulhu: A Stone's Throw from Atlantis

Call of Cthulhu: Stone's Throw From Atlantis

Presented by: Henry

Southern Spain, 1924. After a two day truck ride from Seville into the Doñana wetlands near the southern coast, the investigators arrive at the dig site of archaeologist Dr. Andrea Schuller.

Schuller has invited them here to witness a find that she claims will rival Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb!

Join your fellow investigators on a quest to understand mysteries that should have stayed buried in this 2 hour Call of Cthulhu adventure. Characters are provided and no prior experience is required.

Max players: 5
Rating: M 15+
Content warning: Horror, gore, monstrous creatures
Safety tools: Open table policy, X-Card

D&D Adventurers League

The D&D Adventurers League is an ongoing official campaign for Dungeons & Dragons, and always a staple of the Conquest Games Convention. DDAL uses the fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons rules, and features the Forgotten Realms setting. Players can use the fifth edition rules to create a first level character and bring that character to games anywhere D&D Adventurers League play is happening.

Come try out a snack-sized version at the market.

Goblin Errands

Presented by: ScarletSong

Scurrying between the tall shelves of arcane books and hiding amongst the washing from prying mage eyes, you and your band of Goblins have been sent by the elder Four-Thumb Anga on a great GOBLIN ERRAND to seek and “BORROW” the bits and bobs to throw a surprise party for your friend GrumbleFlub’s birthday. You have a day to find everything you need at the Tall People School of Magics and the Tall Magic People won’t mind a few things missing, surely.

This game of Goblin Errands by Martin Nerurkar and Sharkbomb Games is a playbook, d6 dice-pool system, beginner friendly, and full of weird voices and chaos.

Rating: PG 13

No peanut-based snacks at the table please.

Sign: A Game about Being Understood

Presented by: Travis Hall

To be understood, we need to communicate. And communicating isn’t always easy.

Sign is a game for 4 to 7 players. It’s based on the true story of a language born in modern times from the hands of children. The history of Nicaraguan Sign Language is profound and powerful and human. We need stories like that; we should hold them close.

In Sign, you’ll play as kids on their first day of school. Together you’ll make new language through play.

Max Players: 6
Rating: G

Thirsty Sword Lesbians

Presented by: Daz

Are you interested in telling queer stories? Does the idea of playing an angsty disaster lesbian with a sword make you feel warm and fuzzy inside? Do you want to take part in destroying every injustice you come across with a sword, erotic tension, and just a little bit of awkward pining?

Then have I got the RPG for you!

Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a Powered by the Apocalypse RPG where your party uses your skills of swords/magic/seduction to protect your community!

The main mechanics of this game are ROLEPLAY based, where romantic seduction is your best tool for getting what you want. There are some fighting components, but really, the main mechanics are about flirting and seducing the people around you to bring them over to your side. Whatever your real life charisma is, don’t worry! A dice roll or two will always be there to support you. While it will be a fade to black situation, if you’re not comfortable with (queer) romance or flirting, this probably isn’t the game for you.

DISCLAIMER:
This is a game for people who support racial liberation, intersectional feminism, and queer liberation. It’s for people who respect transgender people, POC, sex workers, disabled people, immigrants, people with diverse queer identities, people experiencing homelessness and poverty, neurodiverse people, fat people, and people of every body type.

This is NOT a space to educate you on any of those things. This is not the space to ask questions, nor to ask people to do the emotional labour of educating you.

This is a space to celebrate the existence and joy of people with these identities, and that support these identities. If you don’t agree or respect ALL of those things, then this is not the game for you.

Max players: 6
Rating: PG
Content warning: Homophobia, Classism.

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