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Some information on what’s on at the St Andrews Convention.

This list is not 100% there but it gives a good idea of what stuff is on.  Let me know if you’re planning to go.

The location of the St Andrews Convention is - Students’ Association, St Mary’s Place, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9UZ  Google Map link

Tickets are £8 for non-students and £7 for University (any uni that is) Students and the price includes a buffet lunch.

The convention is being held in an age restricted venue and so attendees must be 18 or over.  Also to be clear [b]RPGs are run as a 6 hour slot.[/b]

Event schedule looks like this -

Saturday 14th of March:
Tabletop Gaming
• BloodBowl Tournament
• 40K Apocalypse
Roleplaying Games
• Paranoia
• 3.5 D&D
• Traveller - “In Search of Angels“
• 3:16
• Call of Cthulhu

Sunday 15th of March:
Collectable Card Games
• Magic The Gathering Sealed-Deck
Tabletop Gaming
• Urban Mammoth will be demoing their Urban War game.
Roleplaying Games
• Traveller RPG “Masks“
• Classroom Deathmatch
• 3.5 D&D Oriental
• 3.5 Game

Other events to be confirmed -

Tabletop Gaming
• Necromunda [b]Awaiting additional info[/b]
• Warhammer Fantasy competition [b]Awaiting additional info[/b]
Roleplaying Games
• Feng Shui.
• Hunter (White Wolf)

More likely to come over the next couple of days but let’s just say that there’s been some significant movement on the progress-o-meter to get the shop open.

Some events that will be happening over the next month -

St Andrews University Gaming Convention is Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th of March.

Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons Day is Saturday the 21st of March.  Because the shop won’t actually be open by that date this event will be hosted at an alternate venue in Kirkcaldy.  I should also point out that the event will likely NOT take place on the 21st of March but will instead take place on Sunday the 22nd of March.

Next event that’s being planned is for the Universal Fighting System Collectable Card Game.
This is a 2 stage event with the first happening in the evening on Friday the 27th of March and the second happening on Friday the 3rd of April.  Actual times and locations to be confirmed (currently negotiating those) but this is a promotional event to introduce new and current players of other CCGs/TCGs such as Magic: The Gathering, World of Warcraft and Yu-Gi-Oh to the game.  There will be a lot of freebies going for this event.
The game gives players the chance to play as characters from various video games such as Street Fighter and Soul Calibur with a Tekken set due out later.

Scotland’s largest gaming convention will be held in Edinburgh on the 28/29th of March.  Conpulsion offers a wide selection of gaming goodness.  More information on the Conpulsion website.

More soon!

No review of the Hi-Ex comic convention here because frankly there are better reviews out there - here and here.

All I will say is that I had a great weekend, bought some stuff and chatted with some excellent people about my plans.  Thanks go to Vicky and Rich for doing a great job of organising the convention.

With the upcoming conventions in St Andrews on the 14/15th March and in Edinburgh on the 28/29th March I’ve been firming up stock to sell.
Other than the obvious stock of Games Workshop, Magic The Gathering, Dungeons  & Dragons and other flagship products I’m also going to be selling some other ranges.

Continue reading ‘Talking Stock’

So, pleasant holiday season for everyone?  I miss anything?

So we’re officially in recession now.  Definitely looks like retail is taking a chunk of that pain with businesses such as Woolworths disappearing from our high streets.  Would they still be trading if we weren’t in a recession?  Is that even relevant?  I don’t know but this isn’t a retail market analysis blog so we’re not going to cover that

Have had a variety of discussions on the timing of the shop recently, nothing concluded as yet but as I suggested in my previous post the likelihood of the shop opening in March is fading on a daily basis. Continue reading ‘Saga’