If your group fancies a proper day out with the dice, Essex has one lined up. Bardscon brings 12 straight hours of tabletop gaming to the Bardswell Social Club in Brentwood on Sunday 14 June 2026, running from 10am through to 10pm, and tickets are just a fiver.
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See how it worksFor that fiver you get organised games and RPG sessions to book into, open play tables for whatever you have hauled along in your bag, and a row of traders to browse between games. The Final Boss Fight crew running the day have lined up stalls from Arcana Cast, Dice of the Seeker, Harps Corp, Print Craft and Rat Wave Gaming, so there is dice, gaming kit and artwork on offer. Improv role-play group IRPG are on hand too, and the day includes live entertainment and a charity raffle the organisers have cheerfully named the Big Pile O Games.
Local one-day cons like this are the backbone of the UK hobby. They are small enough to feel friendly, cheap enough to be a casual punt, and a great way to meet players who live near you. If Bardscon gives you the itch to run something yourself, you do not need a social club and a stage to start. A regular game night at a pub, cafe or library does the job nicely, and you can set one up and invite players near you on Backseat Gamer or find a group that already meets. Brentwood is an easy train ride from central London, so Bardscon makes a simple day trip if you want to see how a community runs its own show.
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