Hundreds of gamers came to De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) this weekend for the Student National Roleplaying and Wargaming Championships.
Members of the 50-strong DMU Games Society organised and hosted the national event in the DSU Campus Centre. The second floor was transformed into a battleground as students and alumni played wargames including Warhammer, Second World War, and Insight.
Meanwhile Queens Building, Hugh Aston and Portland Building were the centre for Live Action Role Play (LARP) - where students are part of an interactive fantasy game acting out their character's actions - board gaming and retro computer games like Pac-Man and Street Fighter.
Live-action role play in Queens' Building where teams were playing Paranoia
More than £4,000 was collected over the weekend for Leicestershire hospice Loros through students' donations. The event was held here after DMU Game Society won the student nationals last year.
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DMU Games Society social secretary Katie North said: “It’s a really friendly society and it’s grown massively. You can make a lot of friends. I think the fantasy and the acting appeals to people.”
The club meets at Firebug every Thursday and has about 50 members.
Former DMU chaplain David Cundill and part-time Loughborough University chemistry lecturer Stephen Summerfield, are Leicester Polytechnic graduates who were gaming champions from 1989. David brought along many of his scale models for the terrain while others were sourced from DMU Architecture.
"I’ve been in the loft to get everything down,” he said. “It’s brilliant to see so many students here.”
Next year the student nationals will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University and the 2015 champions were Leicester University.
Posted on Monday 30 March 2015