Tentacles Convention

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The Tentacles Convention is an international role-playing game convention held annually at Stahleck Castle in Germany on Pentecost. Tentacles is dedicated to games set in Glorantha such as HeroQuest and RuneQuest, as well as Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer and Hawkmoon.

Tentacles Convention is hosted by the RuneQuest Gesellschaft e.V. (better known outside of germany as The Chaos Society) since 1996. Both Tentacles and Continuum are the only periodically held Glorantha conventios in Europe. Most of the about 180 guests are fans and authors of the supported game systems. The publishers Chaosium, Issaries, Inc. and MoonDesign use Tentacles as a forum for presenting and discussing the future plans of their games.

Due to the international audience English is the main language. Tentacles offers the only opportunity in Germany to get in touch with two founders of role-playing Greg Stafford and Sandy Petersen. Sandy Petersen and other invited authors write regularly game modules and articles especially for Tentacles Convention. These works are published in the Ye Booke of Tentacles (YboT)-almanacs which are treasured by Glorantha and English-speaking Cthulhu fans.

A notable type of games on Tentacles is the freeform role-playing game.