Chaosium Con Australia 2025 Update: Here's the complete convention program!

Here are the program offerings for Chaosium Con Australia 2025, coming up in Melbourne Australia on June 27-29: over 150 events to choose from! And more events may be added between now and the start of the show.

If you'd like to join us, purchase a badge at the Aetherworks website here and then we will give you the link to the Chaosium Con Australia page at Tabletop Events. There you will be able to start building your personal timetable for the convention. You can register for all standard gaming sessions, panels, and other events at NO COST. 

We look forward to welcoming you back to the Moonee Valley Racing Club in Melbourne, Australia on June 27th-29th.

Get your Badge here!

– Roleplaying Game Sessions –

• Call of Cthulhu of various flavours including Pulp (40 sessions)
• Pendragon (13 sessions)
• RuneQuest (17 sessions)
• Basic Roleplaying (6 sessions)
• Rivers of London (3 sessions)
• Stormbringer (4 sessions)
• Superworld (1 session)

VIP Game Sessions (most are additional cost)

• Age of Vikings (2 sessions)
• Arkham Sanitarium Asessment (2 sessions)
• Basic Roleplaying (4 sessions)
• Call of Cthulhu (17 sessions)
• Pendragon (7 sessions)
• RuneQuest (5 sessions)
• Dark Vigil (3 sessions)

Blood on the Clocktower (6 sessions)

• Blood on the Clocktower - A Miskatonic Murder Mystery

Board Games (20 sessions)

• Credo, the Game of Duelling Dogmas
• White Bear and Red Moon 50th anniversary edition (first look at this one!)
• Horror on the Orient Express
• Khan of Khans
• Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection
• Cthulhu Wars
• The Gods War
• Pandemic Cthulhu
• History of Peloria

Panels (11 sessions)

• Prop Making for Call of Cthulhu
• Writing Call of Cthulhu Scenarios from Weird Fiction
• Once and Future Pendragon
• The Matter of Pendragon
• Writing Solo Scenarios: Alone Against the Word Count
• Designing Your Own Game: to BRP or not to BRP?
• Library Use IRL: Digging in the Archives
• Chaosium AMA
• Secrets of Sun County
• Searchers After Horror Haunt Strange Far Places
• The Chaosium Community Content Panel

Live Play (2 sessions)

• Live Play - Call of Cthulhu - The Auction (Stream of Chaos)
• Live Play - Whispers in the Outback (Savage Bear Podcast)

Vendors

• Chaosium Booth offering the latest Chaosium releases - price includes PDF
• Community Content Pop Up Shop
• Vendor Booths
• Bring and Buy

Other Events

• Book Signings with authors - with our Guests of Honour and Special Guests, including Richard Ivankovic.
• VIP Welcome Party (additional cost): Welcome and interact with Chaosium Con Australia’s International and Local Guests of Honour; Fri 6:00-8:00pm, Legends Bistro Moonee Valley Racecourse, corner Wilson & Thomas Streets, Moonee Ponds.

Food and Drink Options

• The convention will have a coffee cart, light snacks, soft drinks, juice, and mineral water available for purchase on site. Free water is also available. There is also a cafe across the road, and Moonee Ponds' main shopping precinct is less than 10 minutes walk away, with a wide variety of places to eat, drink, and shop.

20th anniversary screening of 'The Call of Cthulhu' (26 June, 2025)

• Get your tickets for the special 20th anniversary screening of The Call of Cthulhu (2005). Widely regarded as the greatest adaption of a Cthulhu Mythos tale ever put to screen, the film will be introduced in person by the HPLHS’s Andrew Leman, director, and Sean Branney, producer and co-writer. Q&A to follow after the screening. We'll also be showing the “Making of…” featurette.
• Presented by Chaosium Con Australia in conjunction with the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, this screening takes place at 9pm on June 26th, 2025, at the iconic art deco Sun Theatre in Yarraville, VIC Australia.
• Get your Sun Theatre tickets here. Door Prizes by Chaosium. We encourage the audience to come in Call of Cthulhu-themed costume!