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 :draconis:
  • October 19th 9am to 11pm: Day 2 :draconis:
  • October 20th 9am to 6pm: Day 3 :draconis:

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!

News

1 week ago

Festival Draconis
Il nous fait plaisir de vous inviter à l’assemblée générale de la nouvelle organisation sans but lucratif Festival Draconis le dimanche 20 octobre à 9:00! Pour cette première édition ouverte au public, que vous soyez membre ou non, notre but est de vous présenter notre organisation et ses objectifs initiaux pour la prochaine année. Nous allons également présenter le conseil d’administration, ainsi qu’un premier bilan financier pour l’édition 2024 du festival. Puis, nous expliquerons comment vous pouvez la rejoindre, les avantages que cela vous rapporte, et prendrons vos suggestions pour son évolution dans la prochaine année.Pour consulter l’agenda de la rencontre et vous y inscrire: tabletop.events/conventions/festival-draconis-2024/schedule/24 ***We are pleased to invite you to the Annual General Meeting of the new non-profit organization Festival Draconis on Sunday, October 20 at 9:00 am! For this first edition, open to all whether you're a member or not, our aim is to present our organization and its initial objectives for the coming year. We'll also be presenting the Board of Directors, as well as an initial financial statement for the 2024 edition of the festival. Then we'll explain how you can join, the benefits of doing so, and take your suggestions for its evolution in the coming year.To see the meeting agenda and register: tabletop.events/conventions/festival-draconis-2024/schedule/24 ... See MoreSee Less
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2 weeks ago

Festival Draconis
Fans de Draconis, n’oubliez pas que la vente de marchandise se termine le 30 septembre prochain! Ce sera votre dernière chance de vous procurer un chandail du festival dans une des six couleurs disponibles. Les seules marchandises que nous continuerons à vendre en ligne jusqu’au début du festival sont les adhésions à l’OSBL.Les tasses seront de retour sur place au festival, en plus de macarons, autocollants et billets supplémentaires pour la tombola. Pour commander votre marchandise, rendez-vous sur notre page Tabletop Events et sélectionnez Attend > Get Merch. tabletop.events/conventions/festival-draconis-2024 👕***Draconis fans, don’t forget that our online merch sale ends on September 30th! It will be your last chance to order a festival t-shirt in one of the six colors we have available. The only merchandise that will still be available in our online store beyond the 30th are the memberships for our non-profit corporation. The mugs will be available again on-site at the festival venue, as well as badges, stickers, and additional raffle tickets.To order your merchandise, go to our Tabletop Events page and click Attend > Get Merch.tabletop.events/conventions/festival-draconis-2024 👕 ... See MoreSee Less
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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