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Roleplaying Games

Each and every year, Gaelcon has an extensive and exhaustive range of Table Top Roleplaying Games. And we want you to submit your RPG to run at Gaelcon! Submissions will close May 31st!

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Live Action Roleplaying Games

Every year Gaelcon offers some of the very best LARPS that Ireland can offer. And we want you to submit your LARP to run at Gaelcon! Submissions will close May 31st!

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Card Games

This year Gaelcon hosts AEG’s Legend of the 5 Rings European Championships! But not only that but we’re offering some fantastic tournaments and open formats of Magic : The Gathering, Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh!

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Figure Games

With the return of the Warhammer 40,000 and Fantasy tournaments, War Games is gearing up for another year! Gaelcon will also be hosting a WarMachine and Hordes tournament alongside our open play Figure Games, such as the Battle of Endor (v2.0).

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Special Events

Gaelcon has always been known to have some fantastic Special Events like last year’s Live Action Space Hulk. For this year we plan on holding a unique Blood Bowl tournament and many more interesting and unique games.

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Boardgames

This year we'll have a boardgames desk with a selection of games available to borrow subject to a deposit. For the serious boardgamers out there we're running a challenge where points can be scored for playing games with a winner at the end of the convention.

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Social Events

Gaelcon 2011 has a great selection of social events running throughout the weekend for you to choose from. The IGA Charity Auction is, as always, the highlight of the weekend, where funds will be raised for various well-deserving Irish charities.

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Accepting Submissions

We're currently accepting submissions of games for RPGs, LARPs, Special Events and Figure Games!

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Information

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IGA Charity Auction

The IGA Charity Auction has helped raise over €275,000 in pledges to children's charities over the last 16 years.

Welcome to Gaelcon 2012

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Gaelcon 2012 – hotter than Bond, cooler than Shaft, drunker than Draper.

 

Rising from a watery grave, Gaelcon 2012 is returning this October to its happy home for the last few years – the Ballsbridge Hotel in Dublin. Do you want to sample our excellent selection of world class RPGs and LARPs; Wargames and CCG tournaments; Special Events and more? Then come join us on the October Bank Holiday Weekend, October 26th – 29th.

If you want to reap some of the glory for yourself by writing a game for us, than please contact our spectacular RPG and LARP co-ordinators, Graham and Fergal, by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Thank you!

Cian O'Sullivan
Gaelcon Con Director 2012

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Writer's Award

For our RPG writers, we will once again be running our Writers Award. Entry to the Writers Award is only applicable to those scenarios accepted by Gaelcon and which are completed and submitted before the 30th of September. Our Roleplaying Games Coordinators will be the judges and their decision is final.

For more information about submitting a game to Gaelcon, please check out our RPGs submission forms.

Roleplaying Games Submissions

Come one, come all!

Gaelcon is happening again, from the 26th to the 29th of October in the Ballsbridge Hotel. Amongst our fabulous attractions will be our first class RPGs and LARPS...which, is where you come in.

We’re now accepting submissions for RPGs and LARPs for Gaelcon 2012. If you have an idea for a game, please send the following information to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

  • The name of your game
  • The system you are running your game with
  • The number of players your game is for
  • A 50 word blurb for our flyers
  • A 100 word blurb for our website and Convention programme
  • The names and contact details of 1 or more people who you have persuaded to GM your game for you.

We’ll be accepting submissions right up til the 31st of July, and will contact everyone who has submitted within a week of this closing date to let them know which games have been accepted.

If anyone has any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Looking forward to your games!

Graham and Fergal.

Figure Games Submissions

GAELCON WANTS YOU!

To run your wargame at Gaelcon 2012. If you have an idea for a Wargame, whether it involves vampire-pirates, dinosaur-ninjas or hordes of tyrannical, rampaging historically accurate psychopaths (as Romans for short) send us a mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We're looking forward to hearing from you.

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LARP Submissions

Come one, come all!

Gaelcon is happening again, from the 26th to the 29th of October in the Ballsbridge Hotel. Amongst our fabulous attractions will be our first class RPGs and LARPS...which, is where you come in.

We’re now accepting submissions for RPGs and LARPs for Gaelcon 2012. If you have an idea for a game, please send the following information to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

  • The name of your game
  • The system you are running your game with
  • The number of players your game is for
  • A 50 word blurb for our flyers
  • A 100 word blurb for our website and Convention programme
  • The names and contact details of 1 or more people who you have persuaded to GM your game for you.

We’ll be accepting submissions right up til the 31st of July, and will contact everyone who has submitted within a week of this closing date to let them know which games have been accepted.

If anyone has any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Looking forward to your games!

Graham and Fergal.

Special Events Submissions

At Gaelcon 2012 we've got robots, crafts, draughts, cars, spaceships, lego, mazes, monsters, treadmills, boardgames, wargames & some really quite splendid hats. All we're short now is your ideas. The deadline for submission of ideas is the 31st May 2011 and since we're expecting only the very finest of crazy ideas you'll need the time to build, sew, stitch and glue your creation together. What we'll need from you is:

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Volunteering

Every year at Gaelcon we require GMs and Staffers to give a helping hand!

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Trade & Press

Interested in trade space or have a question about Gaelcon?

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Committee

Any questions and queries can be made directly to the Gaelcon committee.

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