Conquest:
Held in Melbourne every Easter. Featuring roleplaying, freeforms,
miniatures, card and board games. Site includes jargon decoder, help
for convention newbies and behind-the-scenes information for
tournament organisers.
http://www.conquest.asn.au/
Necronomicon:
Held yearly (around October) in Sydney, Australia. Specialises in
darker roleplaying and freeforms, although does offer a variety of
games. Home of the Short Sharp Shocks tournament.
http://www.necronomicon.org/
ConOrg:
An occasional conference for Australian games convention organisers.
Copies of papers presented.
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~genre/conorg98/
Jester-Con:
Tasmania's only convention, held in Launceston. A two-and-a-half day
event. Includes: guest speaker and seminar, LARP, roleplaying,
tabletop or miniature games, CCGs, miniature painting competitions,
story writing competition and scavenger hunt.
http://www.vision.net.au/~mhorton/
DWARFCon:
Three day convention of the Dandenong Wargamers and Role-players
Federation. Gaming is held in Melbourne's South Eastern Suburbs.
http://www.bad-sports.com/~dwarfcon/
Pandemonium:
Adelaide's main games convention. Mostly card games, war games and
roleplaying.
http://members.tripod.com/~adelaidegamersassoc/pandemonium/
Arcanacon:
Held yearly (around July, although in 2001 is moving to January) in
Melbourne. Mostly roleplaying and freeforms. Has a reputation for
excellent writing.
http://arcanacon.vurt.net/
Auran Big Weekend:
The largest games convention in Queensland, Australia, held on
Queensland's May long weekend every year. Combining traditional
board games with miniature, role playing and live action games.
http://www.thebigweekend.com/
NotaCon:
A monthly event held in Melbourne, featuring roleplaying and other
games. More informal than a regular games convention.
http://vurt.net/notacon/
Unicon:
Melbourne's cheapest roleplaying convention, organised by the
roleplaying societies at Melbourne University and Monash University.
Held around October.
http://www.vurt.net/~unicon/
Sydcon:
Sydney's Easter games convention, featuring roleplaying, wargames
and card games.
http://www.sydcon.net/
