Blog - Furnace XX (2025) After Action Report

TL;DR: Last weekend was Furnace, a #ttrpg convention that I help to organise in Sheffield each year. It was our twentieth year and the con was bigger and better than ever. Almost a hundred people playing over 59 different game systems over 5 slots and two days... this entry is my notes on organising, preparing and running the con.

#FurnaceCon #RPGFurnace

https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2025/10/furnace-xx-2025-after-action-report.html

Further to feedback at #FurnaceCon I'm putting together a short guide document for GMing at our #ttrpg conventions. 3-4 hour slots, 4-6 players.

Conscious of some great existing resources which I will link to, but feel free to reply with pithy nuggets of wisdom or links!

After action report from an excellent weekend of gaming at #FurnaceCon - cheers to Dom, Elaine and Graham!

https://dogwoodtales.blogspot.com/2025/10/furnace-xx.html

We've just had #FurnaceCon XX over the weekend in #Sheffield UK. It was packed with beautiful people and #ttrpgs.

We'll do a XXI, so come and join us. Here are a few quick thoughts.

https://farhavens.blogspot.com/2025/10/furnace-xx.html

Started to work my way through some Westerns as I’m intending to run the #talesoftheoldwest #ttrpg at #FurnaceCon in October.

Last night it was the more recent “The Thicket”. Tonight I’m going with “Pale Rider”. I’ve a bunch of Eastwoods to go through but what else should I look out for?

One of my co-organisers for #FurnaceCon has put together a compilation of seventeen of the last nineteen years of timetables of games offered. The first two years are lost before the digital ubiquity that smartphones brought.

I've had a nostalgia trip of all the #ttrpg scenarios that I've run at the con. There's 43 in the list, and the missing years would probably take it over 50.

https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2024/10/17-years-of-gaming-distilled-down.html

@eladrin shared this elsewhere.

Furnace XX will be on the weekend of 11-12 October 2025.
Join us for our twentieth year, a celebration of friendship and our games! Book your accommodation at the Garrison now, and event registration will open next year.

#FurnaceCon #ttrpg

My after action report for #FurnaceCon is now completed, with details of the five fun #ttrpgs that I played and ran.

#OldGodsOfAppalachia
#TheZoneRPG
#Revolt
#Liminal
#DyingEarthRPG

https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2024/10/furnace-xix-2024-after-action-report.html

Wonderful weekend at #FurnaceCon in Sheffield. Okay, I'm biased as I help to organise it with @eladrin but I had five fantastic #ttrpg sessions & met up with old friends.

Played #OldGodsOfAppalachia (set in Scotland) and run by @PaulBaldowski, facilitated #TheZoneRPG and later #Revolt. Sunday brought a game of @TheTweedmeister's #Liminal run by a fellow organiser & then I ran @pelgranepress's #DyingEarthRPG (in revivified form) where everyone was whimsical & bad. As I said, wonderful.