From news.uwa.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!triode.apana.org.au!triode!sly Fri Aug 25 13:15:38 1995 Path: news.uwa.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!triode.apana.org.au!triode!sly From: sly@triode.apana.org.au (Stephen 'Sly' Lyne) Newsgroups: aus.games.roleplay Subject: FAQ v1.00 Clubs Date: 22 Aug 1995 15:16:21 GMT Organization: APANA - Australian Public Access Network Association Lines: 366 Message-ID: <41csc5$9ss@triode.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: triode.apana.org.au Keywords: FAQ Clubs X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] /* a-g-rpg.faq */ aus.games.roleplay FAQ p2 Clubs Frequently Asked Questions for the news group aus.games.roleplay ver 1.00 (1995-08-22) maintained by Sly (sly@triode.apana.org.au) ============================================================ Contents -------- part 1, General FAQ 1 About this FAQ 1.1 Credits 2 What is Roleplaying? 2.1 Roleplaying 2.2 Dungeons and Dragons 2.3 Campaigns 2.4 Conventions 2.5 Live Roleplaying 2.6 Freeforms 2.7 Multiform / Cinematic 3 'Net Resources 3.1 Newsgroups 3.2 FAQs 3.3 Web Sites 3.4 Bulletin Boards 4 Commercial 4.1 Games and Supplements 4.2 Magazines 4.3 Retail Outlets 5 Other 5.1 Wargames and miniatures 5.2 Trading Card games 5.3 Board games 5.4 Computer games 5.5 Historical Reenactment 5.6 Play By Mail (PBM) ** part 2, Clubs part 3, Conventions ============================================================ 4 Clubs ------- Thankyou's for this section go to: Paul Davis [Renegade] u9035281@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au Secretary of University of Wollongong SimGames who compiled the original list, and also: Paul Smith (paul@redgum.ucnv.edu.au) DUGA Arch Cynicist and ORCISH General Secretary Julian Cooling mmjmc@cc.flinders.edu.au who contributed. I know most of these clubs may be out of date... if you actually know anything *please* email me. Once I have updated as much as possible from "out there" I will try and individually contact the leftovers to confirm existence / addresses, etc. Format: (all clubs in alphabetical order) -- Full Name of the Club (ACRONYM) smail: c/- Contact Name Snail mail address town STATE postcode phone: (prefix) phone (Contact Name) email: email@address (Contact Name) Short paragraph about the club. Club Listing: -- Australia-New Zealand Automobile Combat Society (ANZACS) smail: c/- Christine McIntosh 1/111 Riversdale Rd Surry Hills VIC 3128 phone: (03) 808 8991 -- Brisbane Advanced Squad Leader Club smail: 53 Outlook Pde Bray Park QLD 4500 phone: (07) 205 4951 (Paul) -- Brisbane Wargamers phone: (07) 229 1903 (Keith Fanges) -- Canberra GAMES Society, Inc. smail: GPO Box 1016 Canberra ACT 2601 Roleplaying, boardgaming and wargaming. Runs CANCON each year in January. -- Club Tanelorn smail: GPO Box 2148 Brisbane QLD 4001 phone: (07) 290 7336 (Keith Done) Roleplaying, boardgaming and wargaming -- Dandenong Gamers' Guild phone: (03) 798 6642 (Gary) (03) 786 3397 (Nathan) Roleplaying -- Deakin Uni Games Association (DUGA) smail: c/- Wes Prosser 442 LaTrobe Tce Chilwell VIC 3220 smail: (052) 297395 (Wes Prosser) email: wes@titan.cc.deakin.oz.au (Wes Prosser) A big, well organised clubplaying a huge range of games as well as producing 'Blue Gnome' the best club magazine I have ever seen. 4 - 6 issues per year with 64 or so pages per issue. Great stuff. Also some special editions. It is available outside of DUGA for a small cost. -- Flinders University Fantasy Gaming Society smail: C/- Clubs and Societies Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide SA 5001 email: mmjmc@cc.flinders.edu.au -- Freeform Club smail: 16 Mulgrave Street Ashwood VIC 3147 email: The Freeform Club is based in Melbourne, and specializes in running and writing Freeforms. -- Hobbits, Elves and Dwarves (HEAD) Melbourne Uni Roleplaying Club smail: c/- Jon Satterley Queen's College Parkville VIC 3052 phone: (03) 398 5398 -- History of the Imperium Working Group smail: c/- Anthony Buckley 5 East Avenue Allenby Gardens A5009 -- Lilydale and Surrounds Adventure Roleplayers (LASAR) phone: (03) 735 3728 (Chris) Roleplaying and Fantasy miniatures -- Legacy of Conundrum Live Roleplaying phone: (03) 877 1542 (Andrew) (03) 786 3397 (Adrian) -- Loremaster phone: (047) 29 0225 (Paul or Chad) Roleplaying and Fantasy miniatures -- LOTNA phone: (07) 234 1055 (Brett Eichman) -- Macquarie University Roleplaying Society (MURPS) smail: Box 83, Students' Council Macquarie University 2109 phone: (02) 868 1838 email: murps@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au www: http://hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au/murps/ Runs MacquarieCon roleplaying convention each year as well as many activities throughout the year including campaigns, freeforms and social events. -- Monash University Role Players (MURP) smail: c/- Monash Uni Clayton VIC 3168 email: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles) -- North Shore Gamers League (NaSGuL) smail: c/- Tin Soldier (Hornsby) 1 Station Street Hornsby NSW -- Newcastle University Gamers Society smail: c/o James Smith 7 Daisley Crescent, Charlestown NSW 2290 email: engjs@cc.newcastle.edu.au (James Smith) NUGS is one of the largest Newcastle University clubs and has been around for several years. In the past it has run two role-playing conventions. It stages a number of events during the year, covering many different types of gaming. The club publishes a newsletter, `NUGSpeak' about six times a year. -- ORCISH UCNV Role Playing Club email: paul@redgum.ucnv.edu.au (Paul Smith, Scty) -- Queensland Univeristy Gamers Club phone: ??? -- Roleplaying and Gaming Enthusiasts Society. (RAGES) smail: c/o University of South Australia) phone: (08) 263 3970 (Jason Isitt, President) email: 9035287w@Levels.UniSA.edu.au (Jason Isitt) 8918877t@Levels.UniSA.edu.au (Derek Bradley, VP) We can be contacted via Dragon's Lair in the City (John Martin's plaza, Adelaide). We specialize in AD&D, bloodbowl, mechwarrior, TORG, rolemaster, and battletech - but this is no way what we limit ourselves to. PS :: We are DAMN good at battletech. -- RMIT Science Fiction and Games Association smail: c/o Clubs and Societies Swanston St Melbourne, 3000. email: -- RPGA South Pacific Branch smail: email: wes@dale.canberra.edu.au (Wes Nicholson) Large, international gaming organisation sponsored by TSR. Heavily biased towards the Dungeons and Dragons set of gaming products. -- South Australian Simulation Association (SASA) smail: PO Box 10184 Gouger Street Adelaide SA 5000 phone: (08) 259 5788 day (08) 379 6068 night (08) 410 4455 club hours email: vernon@dstsos3.dsto.gov.au (Rene Vernon) Roleplaying, boardgaming, wargaming. Licenced, air-conditioned clubrooms in the city at 134 Waymouth Street, Level 2. Open Wednesday evenings, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays, other times by arrangement. Visitors welcome anytime. We run a weekend convention each year [Maelstrom] sometime during Sep thru' Dec. -- Southern Battle Gamers Club phone: (02) 522 5742 Gerd Plachetta (02) 522 0764 Neil Holloway Wargaming -- Spartan Association phone: (02) 529 2757 (Duane Yates) (02) 740 6013 (Tony Fahd) Roleplaying, boardgaming and roleplaying -- Spawn of the Nemisis Roleplaying Society (SONRPS) smail: c/- Scott Walton 2 Jilliby Pl Belrose NSW 2085 phone: (02) 451 0526 -- Sydney University Roleplaying Club (SUTekh) smail: Box 180 Holme Building Sydney University NSW 2006 email: sutekh@bizo.biz.usyd.edu.au www: http://bizo.biz.usyd.edu.au/~daniel/sutekh.html phone: (02) 906 3262 (Karl Wolfenden) -- Tas. Uni. Role-playing Society (TURPS) smail: c/o the University Union, Uni. of Tas Hobart 7005 email: -- Toowoomba Tacticians Strategic Games Group phone: (076) 35 3432 (Bob Green) -- University of New South Wales Gameplayers smail: Union Box 34 University of NSW PO Box 173 Kingsford NSW 2032 phone: (02) 314 6144 (Daniel Heald) -- Wollongong University Simulation Games Society (SimGames) smail: c/- Paul Davis Unit 2 / 3 Hay Street Gwynneville NSW 2500 email: Our club is about all types of gaming, from computer to rpgs onwards. We currently specialise in RPG's and playtesting. All are welcome to join. -- Yseda smail: 63 Beecroft Rd Beecroft NSW 2119 phone: (02) 484 4314 ah (Nick Cook) -- sly@triode.apana.org.au /\ GU d----(++) H-- s++:++ !g !au>* a- US+ PO Box 1615, Macquarie 2113 /<>\ w+ C++++ E N++ !W -po+ R+++ G'''' e+ AUSTRALIA ph 04-1454-2562 /____\ !tv b+++ u*(---)(++) f* n-(+++) y* TheRules 1.Style over Substance 2.Attitude is Everything 3.Live on the Edge