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South Africa's longest-running role-playing tournament
Dragonfire is the official annual role-playing tournament of CLAWs (the Cape Legion of Adventurers and Wargamers), the student roleplaying society on the campus of the University of Cape Town. Dragonfire started in 1989, the year of CLAWs's founding. The tournament runs in August every year, most recently on the Women'sDay weekend (around the 9th), and includes several roleplaying modules in various systems, LARPs, cardgaming (Magic, Vampire and Mythos), and occasional figure wargaming (Warhammer, Necromunda, etc).
A brief module history for the years in which I was involved follows, where my somewhat erratic memory can supply it. In the case where I no longer have a copy of the module or it was one of those last-minute efforts which had no credits page, I may have left out names of designers: please do mail me and say so.
Details for more recent Dragonfires can be found on the CLAWs page.
Dragonfire 1989
| AD&D module | 6 hrs | Dragonfire | by Andrew Sturman
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(choice of characters, 3 to 6-person teams).
(This was a massively unwieldy character system where you had a choice of seven or eight characters of various levels, and had to choose them to make up a total number of levels - i.e. more players equals lower levels. Hell to design...)
Dragonfire 1990
| AD&D module | 6 hrs | Forest of Thorns | by several designers including Andrew Sturman, Giles Embleton, Carlo Kruger, Eckhard Gartz |
(choice of characters, 3 to 5-person teams).
Dragonfire 1991
| AD&D | 6 hrs | Bloodstream | by a LARGE design team: Thomas Alsen, Lester Biskupsky, Giles Embleton, Eckhard Gartz, Andrew Shackleton, Anthony Steele, Andrew Sturman, Bryan Thomas, Jessica Tiffin, Mark Wilson. |
(choice of characters, 3 to 5-person teams).
Dragonfire 1992
| AD&D* | 6 hrs | Eye of the Storm | by Stefi Anastasiadis, Giles Embleton,Jessica Tiffin, Eckhard Gartz, David Maclay
| | Rolemaster** | 4 hrs | Thief of Honour | by Andrew Shackleton (design co-ordinator), Thomas Alsen, Stefi Anastasiadis, Andrew Higson-Smith, David Maclay, AndrewSturman, Bryan Thomas, Jessica Tiffin.
| | Star Wars** | 4 hrs | A.C.I.D. | by Andre Botha, Giles Embleton, Ari Levin, Colin Naturman, Andrew Simpson, Andrew Sturman, Jessica Tiffin |
*choice of characters, 3 to 5-person teams.
** 4 characters, no choice
Dragonfire 1993
| AD&D* | 6 hrs | When Dragons Die | by Giles Embleton, Ricky de la Harpe,Andrew Shackleton, Jessica Tiffin, Robert van der Vliet, Adriaan Wessels
| | Rolemaster** | 3 hrs | Judgement | by Andrew Higson-Smith, Andrew Shackleton, Jessica Tiffin
| | Cyberspace/Cyberpunk** | 3 hrs | Killing Time | by David Maclay, Colin Naturman |
*Choice of characters, 3 to 6-person teams. The last of the great CLAW marathon modules: design teams and modules bothstarted to shrink to more manageable proportions from this point...
** 4 characters, no choice
LARP: Ars Magica LARP
Dragonfire 1994
| AD&D* | 4 hrs | While the Hunt's Away | by Philip Anastasiadis, Tracy Dawson, Ricky de la Harpe. David Maclay
| | Rolemaster | 4 hrs | Tarrigond: An Arthurian Quest | by Andrew Higson-Smith, Andrew Shackleton, Jessica Tiffin |
* 4 characters, no choice - from this point, sense reasserts itself. All other Dragonfire modules hereafter are for four characters unless otherwise specified.
LARP: The Auction
Dragonfire 1995
LARP: Dinner at the Roxy
Dragonfire 1996
| AD&D | 3 hrs | Prince of Intrigue | by Simon Cross, Wayne Human, Patrick Schreiber, Duncan Sellars, Jessica Tiffin
| | Maelstrom | 3 hrs | Cassady's Folly | by Dylan Craig
| | Call of Cthulhu | 3 hrs | Nameless Ways | by Philip Anastasiadis, Austin Chamberlain, Jessica Tiffin
| | MERP | 3 hrs | Hand of the Dead | by Eckhard Gartz, David Maclay, Jessica Tiffin
| | Vampire | 3 hrs | All Hallow's Eve | by Alan Searle, Nenad Ristic, Davin Fligel, Darren Menachemson |
LARPs: The Final Voyage of the Mary Celeste; A Falling Out;
The Wolves Are Running; Cedar Falls.
Dragonfire 1997
| AD&D | 3 hrs | On Lady Miriam's Day | by Austin Chamberlain and Dylan Craig |
| Call of Cthulhu | 3 hrs | Brooding Spirit | by Jessica Tiffin |
| Cyberpunk | 3 hrs | The Prometheus Project | by Alan Searle and Adriaan Wessels |
| Fighting Fantasy | 3 hrs | Zombies Ate My Headlight | by Dylan Craig |
| Castle Falkenstein | 3 hrs | The Highwayman | by Jessica Tiffin |
| MERP | 3 hrs | Judgement | by Andrew Higson-Smith, Andrew Shackleton, Jessica Tiffin |
LARPs: An Attack of the Vapours; The Sultan's Tear; Thorn
Dragonfire 1998 | AD&D | 3 hrs | Spudbug's Wormery | by Dylan Craig | | Call of Cthulhu | 3 hrs | Cornwall in a Day | by Philip Anastasiadis
| | Werewolf | 3 hrs | Homecoming | by Ryan Olsen, Alastair Pearson, Nenad Ristic
| | Star Wars | 3 hrs | Envoy to Ardhew: A Newt Hope | by Austin Chamberlain, Perry Dace |
LARPs: Where There's A Will; Changing Times; Red Rover; Whispering Dragon
Dragonfire 1999
| AD&D | 3 hrs | Six Fathoms Deep | by Dylan Craig
| | Call of Cthulhu | 3 hrs | Shifting Sands | by Austin Chamberlain and Jessica Tiffin
| | Shadowrun | 3 hrs | The Trick is Not To Close Your Eyes | by Brendan Quinlivan
| | Alternity | 3 hrs | Downtown Station | by Jeremy Norton and David Seaward |
LARPs: Aurora, Past Imperfect, Black Coffee Blues, Twinkle Twinkle
Dragonfire 2000
| AD&D | 3 hrs | The Morning After | by Tim Lawrance
| | Call of Cthulhu | 3 hrs | Disorder'd Death | by Austin Chamberlain and Jessica Tiffin
| | Alternity | 3 hrs | Quiet Iteration | by Simon Cross and Adrianna Pinska
| | Deadlands | 3 hrs | Fun After Dark | by Ryan Kruger |
LARPs: The Lady Guinevere; Mardi Gras; Opera In Cognito;
War and Peace
Dragonfire 13 (2001)
| GURPS Space | 3 hrs | Free Association | by Simon Cross and Adrianna Pinska |
| Feng Shui | 3 hrs | Now Boarding at Gate Thirteen | by Dylan Craig |
| D&D 3rd ed | 3 hrs | Taillesbourg | by Tim Lawrance | |
| Aberrant | 3 hrs | Tarnhelm Initiative | by Adeeb Balla and Ryan Kruger |
| Call of Cthulhu | 3 hrs | Darkness Falls | by Brendan Quinlivan
| | All Flesh Must Be Eaten | 3 hrs | Thirteen Ways To Die - Choose One | by Dylan Craig |
LARPs: My Fair Lady, Paranoia, Consequences , One Fine Day
Dragonfire 14 (2002)
| Call of Cthulhu | 3 hrs | Noir Nightmare | by Mike Dewar |
| Castle Falkenstein | 3 hrs | The Highwayman | by Jessica Tiffin |
| D&D 3rd Ed | 3 hrs | Brothers in Arms | by Simon Cross and Adrianna Pinska | |
| GURPS | 3 hrs | Out of the Mud | by Austin Chamberlain and Dylan Craig
| | Fvlminata | 3 hrs | Curatores Fumis | by Dylan Craig |
| Unknown Armies | 3 hrs | Darksouls | by Dylan Craig and Brendan Quinlivan |
LARPs: Sign of the Star; Revenge of the Yak; In the Shadow of the Stake
Dragonfire 2003
| Buffy Roleplaying System | 3 hrs | Slaying Alive | by Mike Dewar |
| D&D 3rd Ed | 3 hrs | Dinner with the Count | by Lucas Wheeler |
| Unknown Armies | 3 hrs | My Soul To Keep | by Michelle Haward | |
| Call of Cthulhu | 3 hrs | Ravaged Lands | by Austin Chamberlain and Jessica Tiffin
| | GURPS | 3 hrs | Mindscape | by Mike Dewar |
LARPs: Where There's A Will; Anestri; Farago
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