Registration
Registration for the Draconis Festival is now open! To do so, visit our Tabletop Events platform. Whether you’re applying for a booth, sponsoring the festival, submitting role-playing scenarios, registering for games, buying merchandise or volunteering! To help you along the way, we’ve created a series of videos to explain each step.
Here are the key dates:
- August 1st: Registration on Tabletop Events
- August 9th: Booth and Sponsorship Applications
- August 12th: Game, LARP and/or Panel Submission
- September 2nd: Volunteer Recruitment
- September 18th: Game Registration
- October 18th 6pm to 11pm: Day 1
- October 19th 9am to 11pm: Day 2
- October 20th 9am to 6pm: Day 3
New this year
Last year, we were almost victims of our own success, as we managed to fill our event space for a good part of the festival. To help deal with this, to keep the festival growing, and to generally improve the event, we will be making several significant changes this year in how the festival is organized and run.
The first change, and probably the most significant, is that the Draconis Festival has been incorporated as a non-profit entity. This gives us a formal, legal status and allows us to separate the Festival’s finances from our own, personal finances. This will give the Festival more financial transparency, allow us to seek more external funding, and allow us to offer you more flexibility in making payments.
Our second big change this year is that we will be leaving the Warhorn platform and moving over to Tabletop Events. It is a much more comprehensive platform and will allow us to manage many more aspects of the festival in one place, including festival registration, game submission by GMs, scheduling, game registration, merchandise, payments, dealers and panels.
Our third change isn’t new because we tested it during our last online edition. We are abandoning the fixed four-hour time slots we have used in the past, and moving to a more flexible schedule where games can start on every hour, and they can have a duration of 1, 2, 3, or 4 hours.
Our fourth big change for this year concerns the arrangement of tables and locations of festival services, so that we can include more game tables. Our snack bar, merchandise table, and garage sale will be moved to the small room behind the double doors in the back, next to the dealers room (which will remain in the same place as last year). The live-action games will occur in the student cafeteria on the third floor. The reception desk and game registration will be moved into the corridor that enters our main gaming space.
Finally, in addition to the four big changes, there are a few minor changes we’re making to improve your festival experience. For example, we’ll be accepting electronic payments by credit card or debit card. This means you won’t necessarily need to carry around cash for the festival (although we will certainly continue to accept cash). Another example is that we will have more and better signage on site. This will be in the form of banners and posters installed in the game area and elsewhere in the CEGEP. We will also be offering our sponsors the opportunity to purchase promotional signage in the festival space.
We hope you will like these further changes, and we will see you in October!
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About Draconis Festival
Draconis Festival is the biggest role-playing game event of Quebec. It offers more than a hundred role-playing game sessions for beginners or advanced players. Offered games go from classics like Dungeons & Dragons and Call of Cthulhu to the latest independent local role-playing game. The festival is held two times a year. Online on Discord in Winter and in person at the CÉGEP du Vieux-Montréal in Fall. In any case, the event is totally free and open to all the diversity.
The organization team is made entirely of volunteers and the role-playing games are offered by members of our excellent community.
Venue
- Cégep du Vieux Montréal
255 Ontario Street East, Montreal, Quebec
H2X 1X6
Paid indoor parking is available at the CÉGEP if necessary.
For any question, please don't hesitate to send us an email at - festivaldraconis@gmail.com