Roleplaying Games Schedule
We've got a lot of the ground floor and will be running a number of different games over the course of the weekend.
The Lady Blackbird
Lady Blackbird is on the run from an arranged marriage to Count Carlowe. She hired a smuggler skyship, The Owl, to take her from her palace on the Imperial world of Ilysium to the far reaches of the Remnants, so she could be with her once secret lover: the pirate king Uriah Flint.
HOWEVER, just before reaching the halfway point of Haven, The Owl was pursued and captured by the Imperial cruiser Hand of Sorrow, under charges of flying a false flag.
EVEN NOW, Lady Blackbird, her bodyguard, and the crew of The Owl are detained in the brig, while the Imperial commander runs the smuggler ship’s registry over the wireless. It’s only a matter of time before they discover the outstanding warrants and learn that The Owl is owned by none other than the infamous outcast, Cyrus Vance.
How will Lady Blackbird and the others escape the Hand of Sorrow?
What dangers lie in their path?
Will they be able to find the secret lair of the pirate king? if they do, will Uriah Flint accept Lady Blackbird as his bride? By the time they get there, will she want him to?
Go. Play. And find out.
Squadron UK
Play a superhero in the golden age of british heroism, meet Simon Burley, the games designer and stalwart of the british RPG scene for years,
CALI4-1 Plain of Stone Spiders - Dungeons and Dragons 4th Ed (Living Forgotten Realms Game).
The WeavePasha of Almraiven seeks adventurers to recover shards of the Calimemnon Crystal. He has traced one shard to the Plain of Stone Spiders. This is the first of the Calimemnon Crystal Major Quest adventures - see CALI4-2, and CALI4-3 for the continuation. A Living Forgotten Realms adventure set in Calimshan for characters of levels 15-20. Feel free to bring your own LFR legal characters, but if you want to join us on the day there will be pre-generated characters available.
CALI4-2 Dragon Above, Desert Below - Dungeons and Dragons 4th Ed (Living Forgotten Realms Game).
The WeavePasha of Almraiven seeks adventurers to recover shards of the Calimemnon Crystal. He has traced one shard to an earthmote floating high above the desert. However, that same earthmote also happens to be the lair of a blue dragon. This is the second part of the Calimemnon Crystal Major Quest which concludes in CALI4-3. Play of CALI4-1 is not assumed but may be beneficial. A Living Forgotten Realms adventure set in Calimshan for characters of levels 15-20. Feel free to bring your own LFR legal characters, but if you want to join us on the day there will be pre-generated characters available.
CALI4-3 Twisted Rune - Dungeons and Dragons 4th Ed (Living Forgotten Realms Game).
The WeavePasha of Almraiven seeks adventurers to recover shards of the Calimemnon Crystal. It seems as if one of the shards has practically come to him. Elemental disturbances in the abjuries he maintains have led the WeavePasha to believe that the shard has been brought to Almraiven, and is interfering with the magical defenses of the city. Other reports indicate the Twisted Rune, a highly secret cabal of powerful undead spellcasters, may be involved, though what they are up to remains a mystery. This is the finale of the Calimemnon Crystal Major Quest. Play of the two previous adventures is not assumed but may be beneficial. A Living Forgotten Realms adventure set in Calimshan for characters of levels 15-20. Feel free to bring your own LFR legal characters, but if you want to join us on the day there will be pre-generated characters available.
Betrayal at Altaruk - Dungeons and Dragons 4th Ed. (Dark Sun Setting)
Welcome to Athas, a land of harsh survival and savage adventure. Following the death of the Sorcerer-King Kalak, your city has been thrown into chaos. In the midst of this crisis comes an offer of work, a simple job escorting a caravan to Altaruk. But with an unforgiving desert to cross, will this simple task turn out to be more than you bargained for? This game is intended as an introduction to both Dungeons and Dragons and the Dark Sun setting. Level 1 pregenerated characters will be provided.
The Shard of Salaxzar - Dungeons and Dragons 4th Ed (Eberron setting).
Pirates! A rumour of treasure! A swashbuckling adventure set on the high seas! Need I say more?! Come and join a level 5 Dungeons and Dragons adventure set in the Eberron Campaign Setting. This game is suitable for players new to Dungeons and Dragons as well as those more experienced. Pre-generated characters will be provided.
DALE2-4 Illsyldra - Dungeons and Dragons 4th Ed (Living Forgotten Realms Game).
Something in the forests of Deepingdale is driving the elves from their ancestral home. A black tree spews out disease and spawns shadow creatures that take over the woods. Will you be able to solve the problem in time? A Living Forgotten Realms adventure set in the Dalelands for characters levels 11-14. Feel free to bring your own LFR legal characters, but if you want to join us on the day there will be pre-generated characters available.
Still LOST (The Quiet Year)
Create and guide an isolated community on a more-than-natural island in this story game scenario inspired by the baffling tv series. Rather than individual characters, we explore a new community, the challenges it faces, what it chooses to value and the shared identity that emerges over the course of its first year.
Create a new Shakespearean play in 4 hours or less (Forsooth)
We'll improvise and tell the bard's greatest lost work in this Shakespeare-themed story game. Lovers, duels, fable, witchcraft and all of human emotion are at your disposal. If you love theatre, literature, or being a ham for the amusement of others, this game is for you.
Sunnydale High ReVamped (Monsterhearts)
Join a new class of students in this story game scenario with an alternate take on Buffy the Vampire Slayer's early seasons' setting. Create and play as part of an entirely new cast of teenagers as they battle the dark in others and themselves at California's most dangerous high school.
Troops! (Fiasco)
Enlist in the infamous Black Sheep Squadron Stormtrooper Regiment on garrison duty on Tattoine in this story game scenario inspired by the much-loved Star Wars fan film. Whether your trooper is on the make, in too deep, not cloned quite right or the only honest trooper on this Force-forsaken rock, the one things they have to watch out for more than the Rebels is each other!
Postponing the Apocralypse (Discworld RPG 2nd edition preview)
The Temple of Small Gods, Ankh-Morpork, needs someone to edit
liturgies, calm cultists, and patch pantheons. They've got you. But
all you've got to do is stop transcendent beings from trashing the
Disc out of petulance; how hard can it be?
Charms to Soothe (GURPS Thaumatology/Horror)
They said you had a talent, that you were smart enough and fit enough
and enough of a bastard that you could serve your country in a way
most people never even get to hear about. And you did want to serve
your country, didn't you? So you found yourself on the front line of a
war that most people simply wouldn't believe was possible, working for
a secret organisation tasked with defending the UK from whatever
supernatural threat faces it. (Inspired by the novels of David
Devereux)
Subduction Zone SANGUSH (GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier preview)
For fifteen centuries, the Red Kings have slept. Project SANDMAN has
commandoes, reality archaeologists, and neurolinguistics experts
whose job is to keep them asleep, by any means necessary - because
humanity was made to be their slaves. You're a Sandman; you fight
fire with fire, with all of history at risk, and the minds of the
innocent as your burning ground. Don't fail.
Bughunt: Sawiris (GURPS Space/Horror)
'You always say that. You always say, "I got a bad feeling about this
drop."'
The colony in the Sawiris system has fallen out of contact - the
latest courier ship hasn't reported in. Maybe they've just had some
technical problems and you can relax for a few days while the
Lieutenant fixes things. Yeah, right, and how long have you been in
the Army?
Cthulhu Dark
All the Cthulhu, none of the rules....
Numenera
Be one of the first to play the new game from Monte Cook, in a world where nothing is what it seems.
My life with Master
Winner of the Diana Jones Award 2004, players take the parts of the masters servants and play through the last days of that overlord
13th Age
From the designers of D&D comes a game with the Roll trimmed out and all the Role to play for.
Dresden Files
Roleplaying in the popular fiction world created by Jim Butcher
Fate Accelerated
The Latest incarnation of the popular FATE system, running a variety of scenarios across the different worlds
