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AthVentureCon
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A TTRPG con in the west of Ireland.
Come for the games, stay for the workshops, panels, artists, cosplay and other craic!

All funds raised go to the youth club Athenry Adventurers

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So when the dust had finally settled on AthCon3 the committee members met and discussed #AthCon4.

"Let's make it bigger and better!" they said.
"Bigger and better then the greatest Con ever! Are you having a laugh??" I said.
"No!" they shrieked, "but we are having a LARP!"

Much hilarity ensued.
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January 23, 2026 at 8:27 PM
So it's probably fitting that our next GM features on the day that #AthCon4 gets to hang up our Sold Out sign.

Yes we've sold out!!

Only tickets left are those for mini adventures (that's under 12s) and NPCs (that's folks that don't want to game but mind mini people and soak up atmosphere).
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January 22, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Way back in the days of #AthCon1 the most excellent GM Dylan was one of the first to throw his hat into the ring for us. And he's been with us ever since. Something we are eternally grateful for.

The first of his games we're looking at is a 5th Level D&D 5e offering; The Spirits of Mirehaven!
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January 21, 2026 at 9:06 PM
You wanna see something really scary?

If the answer is yes, or it's no, not really, but I'll look anyway because I just can't not look, then our next game could be just the thing for you!!

GM Mark C returns to #AthCon4 and brings along a real chiller of a Call of Cthulhu game; Bodies of Water
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January 21, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Our next game up looks like it will be a banger of a game!
Newcomer to #AthCon4, GM Mary Elizabeth rocks out the big guns for her 12th level, D&D 5e game - Into The Dead Magic Zone!

In it the party play peacekeepers tasked with extracting civies from a battle zone during a brief truce.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Don your teeny tiny suit of armour, pick up your toothpick lance and prepare to fight off warrior roaches and many other fearsome, if miniature, dangers in GM Ben's Mausritter adventure; Wizard of Arms & Armour!

The party all play miceses in this rules-light fun system that is always popular!
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January 21, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Our next game up continues with our cute animal theme as GM Ben brings his Shadowdark game The Fane of Corruption back to #AthCon4

The players travel high into the mountains to the abondoned temple of Saint Terragnis where some cult of ratmen has sprung up.
I assume that they want to be friends.
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January 20, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Hoooonnnkkk!!!

Yes we have at #AthCon4 we have not one but two chances to run with the gooseseses!

GM Cathlin returns with a trio of games the first one being The Great Cake Heist (a H.O.NK. game system) where you play geeseseses in gang warfare against those evil ducks in Phoenix Park!
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January 20, 2026 at 8:24 PM
First game up is GM Declan, one of the crew from the awesome D8 Dungeon, and To Be Or Not To Be....A Good Boy!

This is a barking mad take on the Everyone Is Jack game system where players take on the role of various personalities within....(paws for effect)...Fido the prize winning dog!!
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January 20, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Feeling all animally this evening so I think we'll preview a few games where the players get to be all animally themselves!!
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January 20, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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January 18, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Werevolf?
Dere wolf.
Dere castle.

GM Rowan is in da house and brings a 5th level 5e adventure along - Star Whispers!

In it, our gallant heroes have to travel into the Finmork forest & recover some moon pebbles, which will stop the werewolves getting all eatey of peoples.
Nice doggy, good doggy.
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January 17, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Arrrrrrrrrrrrr!! (deep breath in)..Arrrrrrrrrr!!

Tis pirate time again me harties!

GM Mike has put into port just long enough to take on a new crew and then set sail on The Crimson Wave off to adventures new!
This ongoing saga has become almost a tradition at #AthCon4 & is always wildly popular!
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January 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Now when I say the words disciplined, well trained, elite and professional and ask you to think about fantasy units some would mention one of the Space Marine chapters. Others might talk of the brave knights of Minas Tirith. Or perhaps the Tsuranuanni soldiers from the Riftwar saga series...
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January 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Ahhh!! Less than 5 weeks to go and we'll still have sooooo many games to tell y'all about!

And that's without even mentioning our first time running The Never Ending Gory table!

Pressure? What pressure!!

A barage of games incoming....

#AthCon4
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January 17, 2026 at 1:33 PM
So a next game up is a special one for all us #AthCon4 committee members!

GM Aoibhe has yet to miss an AthCon, initially as a Club Member, but for the last few years as a fully growed up person running tables as a GM!

This years offering is a 5th Level 5e one...Peril At WizardCon!!
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January 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Our next game sees GM Emmett shifting from gamer to GM especially for #AthCon4 with the 2nd level 5e game; Death House (from Curse of Strahd).

Poor aul Strahd gets such a bad press, people see all the blood sucking and murdering and his big old domain of dread and assume he's a bad guy!
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January 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
First game up is GM Antony (the very same of Dubliners & Dragons fame) and a Four Borg game...Quest for the AthventureNomicon!!

Players pick up their trusty, if much unappreciated D4s, and battle against the bland but deadly Beige Sorcerer who has trapped #AthCon4 in the Plain of Pain!!!
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January 14, 2026 at 6:46 PM
I haven't been hiding, honest I've been busy!!

Tuesdays are Club Night and after 2 hours with 30 or so teenagers one does be fit for nothing but sleep!

And on Monday we had an #AthCon4 committee meeting and boy oh boy do we have a show for you!! More on that later, but for now... some games!!
January 14, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Chicago dilettante (think social influencer from 100 years ago), James Frazer has gone missing. Tall, handsome, a shock of blonde hair and rich (think me 100 years ago) he cuts quite the dashing figure.
Or so his family think as they want you to find him, quickly and without scandal!
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January 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Welcome to the weekend my friends!!

I'm feeling in a Call of Cthulhu mood this evening so let's kick off Friday night with a few CoC games!

First up returning for a 3rd time to #AthCon4 is GM Rita bringing along a opera themed horror game.

Note - there are no muppets in it but I like muppets.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:46 PM
GM Graham is back and brings a classic retelling of Shakespeare's MacBeth with him!!

So play a Thane of Scotland & ready arms as you prepare to meet your enemies on the battlefield!

Only there's Orcs in this one.
And it's called MacDeath
And he's only using the Deathbringer system to retell it!
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January 8, 2026 at 9:01 PM
GM John returns to #AthCon4 and brings with him a 3rd Level D&D 5e game; Ashes of the White Banner.

In the game the party is sent off to investigate the once loyal outpost of Dol Varnen which now flags black banners above Her walls.

Something dark now is said to stir beneath the walls of the town.
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January 8, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I had to wait until after the watershed to review our next game as it's 3-time returning GM Amber's take on the Lewd Grannies game system; Grannies Gone Wild (and yes, I just typed that 😉).

You play a Granny, amongst a table of Grannies, a Granny pose if you will, at your granddaughter's wedding!
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January 5, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Next game up a Candela Obscura one by returning GM Amélie. In this one, the party, onbehalf of The Circle of Restless, are sent on their way to investigate the mysterious death of a celebrity mystic!

Bumps in the night, voices from the beyond all add up to some very spooky goings on indeed!
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January 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM