Curious Pastimes (sometimes abbreviated to CuPa) is an organisation that runs one of the best-known[1] live action role-playing campaigns in the UK.

With up to c.1500 players attending their events, Renewal is the one of the three main fest campaigns in the UK, alongside the Gathering[4] and Profound Decisions' Empire.

Curious Pastimes also runs a system for formally approving smaller events (see below) staged by the various factions throughout the year.

The main events vary in size from 100 to 1500 people[6] and present different aspects of the ongoing Renewal Campaign.

Tailored young player plot and activities are run at every event for the different age groups to help them to learn the game and get involved.

Curious Pastimes offers formal "sanctioning", allowing factions to run their own events within the ongoing Renewal storyline.

The known, populated continent that hosts the majority of player characters and their communities is a temperate-to-subarctic landmass broadly equivalent to Eurasia.

[8] The known continent is populated by a number of monarchies, nation-states and confederations known as Factions, modelled very loosely on various real-world historical communities, with influences from fantasy literature, films and other sources, as well as original ideas.

Many of the factions host websites for their members and manage social media pages, and several of them stage small-scale "sanctioned" events set in the Renewal continuity.