Afternoon Games
14.00 to 18.00
SPECIAL GAMES FOR DRAGONMEET:
GM - 6 brave souls and 1 Kieron Gillen
System - Die RPG
Description - D36 FOR DAMAGE
30 players, 6 GMs and one actual Kieron Gillen gather to play a game where 30 players, 6 GMs and one fictional Kieron Gillen have gathered to play a game. Can reality survive? Will anyone get back to the con bar in time for last orders? Can DIE get even more meta than this? A unique con game of DIE you'll never forget, or possibly survive.
GM - Dicey Dave
System - LEGO Legions
Description - Once again the Lego Legion descends upon Dragonmeet, where life doesn't just happen in 2x2 or even 4x2 but over huge dioramas where Cthulhu and Nazis have been spotted over the years as well as the Ninja Turtles and everything from Star Wars, very limited places for this unique game
GM - 6 brave souls and 1 Kieron Gillen
System - Die RPG
Description - D36 FOR DAMAGE
30 players, 6 GMs and one actual Kieron Gillen gather to play a game where 30 players, 6 GMs and one fictional Kieron Gillen have gathered to play a game. Can reality survive? Will anyone get back to the con bar in time for last orders? Can DIE get even more meta than this? A unique con game of DIE you'll never forget, or possibly survive.
GM - Dicey Dave
System - LEGO Legions
Description - Once again the Lego Legion descends upon Dragonmeet, where life doesn't just happen in 2x2 or even 4x2 but over huge dioramas where Cthulhu and Nazis have been spotted over the years as well as the Ninja Turtles and everything from Star Wars, very limited places for this unique game
Room Allocation Spreadsheet
The spreadsheet below contains all the games running and the rooms to which they are assigned. The team on floor two will also have copies of this and will be able to advise if you cannot find your game or your GM has not yet arrived.
| games_to_rooms_website.xlsx |
| afternoon_games_allocation.pdf |
GM: Ziggy Newman
Game: My Kind of Epic
System: Homebrew
Description: A hybrid board game that combines a traditional roll-and-move mechanics with storytelling and RPG elements.
Players pick a character and move through the board fighting villains by coming up with crazy ideas based on their elemental superpowers. They can also collect items along the way which they can use to gain extra points when incorporating the item into the ideas.
GM: Andrew Gardener Blatch
Game: The White Devil
System: Call of Cthulhu 5E
Description: The adventure is set in the Elizabethan period, with Players as members of Elizabeth’s Black Company. The company is tasked with transporting and protecting a foreign dignitary across the wilds of Northumberland.
Expect dark themes, violence, skulduggery and themes of insanity, corruption and madness…
Pregens supplied.
Bring dice, courage and ale!
GM: Steve Hampshire
Game: 30 (K) Rock
System: Mongoose Traveller 2E
Description: Being evacuated from station on this rather elderly Far Trader wasnt your first choice, but when you are awoken in the middle of the night when the ship should be in jump, by loud banging and scraping noises, things are definitely not routine.
4 hours of Traveller exploration, problem solving and possibly a little controlled violence.
GM: Robert Yates
Game: The Horse of the Invisible
System: Cthulhu Gaslight 2nd
Description: In 1893 ghost-finder Thomas Carnacki, novelist Joseph Conrad and associates are asked to investigate a haunted house.
This scenario, based on the William Hope Hodgson story of the same title, is from White Dwarf issue 66.
GM: Liam Mills
Game: Epoch
System: Homebrew
Description: EPOCH is a game for 2-4 players, in which players take the role of of a prehistoric tribe of fantasy creatures in the stone age land of Erwa. Players must work together to survive against dinosaurs, spirits, neighbouring tribes, and harsh conditions.
The game runs on its own simple system - all rolls use a maximum of 2d6 and character creation is a ten minute process. The game is rules-light and designed to be as streamlined as possible for players of all experience levels.
GM: Julian Hayley
Game: Memphis Crawl
System: Xcrawl Classics
Description: Welcome to XCrawl, a fantasy world where the most popular sport is Xtreme Dungeon Crawling! Professional adventurers team up to challenge a Dungeon Judge, or DJ, in a manufactured dungeon with the whole event streamed live on spellphones Empire-wide!
The Memphis Crawl is the most prestigious Division III event, and one of the few ever to have a single Dungeon Judge: Julie Klugman, AKA DJ Cudgel Up! . Cudgel Up! and her feared goblin attack squad , the Cudgel Up! Dancers, have been a mainstay of the North American XCrawl circuit for decades. Now in its 20th year, the Memphis Crawl is about to get a new DJ as Klugman has decided to retire, a decision she plans to announce during the event.
You, the players a first level team of trained athletes have received a prestigious invitation to take part in this historic event, hopefully you'll come out of it alive having wone, fame, prizes and that all important sponsorship to the big league
XCC uses a system derived from Dungeon Crawl Classics, no previous experience of either system is necessary, guidance and pregen characters will be provided at the table.
GM: Richard Talbot
Game: Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow
System: Mongoose Traveller
Description: In the dangerous world of interstellar travel, one organisation promises to aid its members, "Anyhow, Anywhere, Anytime".
As 12 Travellers Aid Society (TAS) members get caught in a Red Zone natural disaster, TAS Member Outreach Services are called upon to deliver that promise. With a limited supply of duck-tape, no string and and a severe lack of towels, will the TAS Team be able to save the day. TAS loves it when a plan comes together.
Anyhow, Anywhere, Anytime is a Mongoose Traveller scenario for 2023 cons from BITS.
Themes - disaster rescue, poverty, VIP service, war
GM: Peter Lattimore
Game: Beacon of the Lost Realm
System: Homebrew
Description: Setting out from the town of Emberwatch our heroes will journey across the Wild Lands to reach the tumbledown lighthouse seen on the nearby headlands. Lord Emberblade has charged them with relighting the beacon therein, to aid further reinforcements coming up the coast from Pargranin.
GM: Millie Lavelle
Game: King of Cats
System: Tales from the Loop
Description: A science teacher from the local school has been missing for sometime now. Folks around town are split between he’s ran away or foul play. Plus it seems that some of the cats are acting oddly. These two things can't possibly be related, can they?
Players will create their own characters and set off to discover the heart of the mystery. Beginner friendly and rules lite.
GM: Feroze Khan
Game: The Thing with Circulus Station
System: Mongoose Traveller 2E
Description: "Set on the outskirts of the great Imperium the you, Traveller, step into the worn-out boots of disgruntled employees of a faceless mega-corporation. These weary workers have finally had enough of their underpaid and overworked lives, and a chance for freedom and riches beckons in the form of a daring interstellar mission."
I'm a new GM and looking to run a game of Traveller. It will feature a mix of roleplay and combat. There may also be space combat. New players are welcome.
This will be my first time running at a convention so all I ask for from players, is a bit of patience and a whole lot of adventuring spirit.
Are you looking for a good sci-fi adventure like Firefly or the Expanse?
Sign up Travellers!
GM: Tom Hoefle
Game: The Search for the Mystical Soulshards
System: 2d20 Conan
Description: You are a young (14 years ) group of orphans that live in Airutneva far to the north in Thargaard , about a hundred miles west of Siroth. Your Orphanage is led by the true king of Thargaard. He and his loyal subjects train the chosen ones for the last fight against the great demon Rimuru.
Thargaard is the largest of the three main powers on Theregov.
In its north the biggest part is covered in a very dense ice coat.
Only Frostdwarves, and for a short period of time Thargaardians or travellers with magical means are able to explore this icy northern part.
But if one of the much feared icestorms is coming even the Frostdwarves have to retreat into the specially for that occasion prepared icecaves - and have to sit it out from a few days up to a few weeks.
But if you manage to go further north you are greeted by a unique landscape with untouched ruins of long forgotten kingdoms, maybe even one of the rumoured hot springs where weird creatures roam and ancient treasures and knowledge can be found.
Siroth ( the capital of Thargaard ) itself is built upon old ruins of an unknown race and its catacombs are still not explored completely.
GM: Simon Barns
Game: The King under the forest
System: Old School Essentials
Description: You have all recently arrived in the village of Axbridge.
Some of you travelled here from the north, through Helfax Wood; some of you came through the Coronach Marshes, along the mysterious raised dyke called Dobby’s Walk.
A fondness for the finer things in life, such as good cog wine, leads you to conversation with the village priest, Father Bretwald.
“Have you heard of Vallandar?” asks Bretwald. “Rex quondam rexque futurus. He is said to have been king of this land long ago. His reign was just and pious, great
warriors bowed to be his vassals."
"I believe I know where this king lies buried. In Fenring Forest, three days away, no less"
GM: Marcus Rowland
Game: Bring me the head of Harry Potter
System: Diana: Warrior Princess
Description: Someone has put out a contract on some British kid, just out of school, currently in Los Angeles. There’s five hundred thousand dollars per person waiting for the team that kills him. You're not sure why a big team is needed to kill one kid, but someone is apparently prepared to pay for it.
All you need do first is check in with some crooked lawyers, they’ll tell you all you need to know about the contract. After that the money is as good as yours! Assuming, of course, that none of your “friends” get in the way…
Knowledge of Harry Potter, Angel, Preacher, and John Wick and other pro killer fiction may be useful.
Please note - An earlier version of this scenario was run at the Continuum games convention earlier this year; please don't sign up if you have already played in it.
GM: Phil Callan
Game: Best leave them ghosts alone
System: Old Gods of Appalachia
Description: Going to the funeral of a childhood friend is never an easy thing, but when its the funeral of someone you accidentally killed and brought back to life years ago, well...you all have owes, and this one's about to come due.
"Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone" is an Old Gods of Appalachia horror adventure set in a small town full of memories, ghosts, and promises unpaid.
GM: Andrew Yorkshades
Game: Curd your Enthusiasm
System: Warhammer 4th
Description: An evening of fine wine and vittals ends in disaster and death, and somehow it seems that the cheese might be to blame...
GM: Ed Mcdonald
Game: A View to a Quill
System: D&D 5th
Description: You don't know how you got to this strange, dusty bookshop, but getting home again isn't going to be easy.
- A dungeons and dragons adventure for 4-5 characters of 5th level or lower.
- Players are welcome to generate a character using Standard Array or Point Buy methods.
- The game uses significant amounts of homebrew, and features elements of roleplay, exploration and combat. I have run this game previously.
- Run time estimated at 3-4 hours.
- While D&D combat is inherently violent, the game would be rated PG13 in terms of content. Players are welcome to advise the DM ahead of time of any particular phobias or issues to avoid, but there is nothing 'heavy' and no real world social or political topics are involved.
GM: Phil Lucas
Game: 5-95 The island of the Vibrant Dead
System: PFS
Description: A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters.
During routine study on the Maze of the Open Road, a lecture is interrupted by the old Pathfinder ghoul ally, Marcon Tinol. Through discussions with him, the Society learns that he and Drandle Dreng established an island haven in Azlant for ghouls wishing to live apart from humans, referred to as the Island of the Vibrant Dead. Marcon reports that a strange new ghoul named Ghessa has arrived on the island but her story about her death and undeath isn't adding up, leading him to fear that she may be up to something sinister. The PCs must travel to the island, where the residents maintain a ghoulish existence celebrating their undeath, and dig into Ghessa's story, as well as her trips into the vaults of the long-dead Arodenite priesthood.
GM: Nicola Barnes
Game: 1-1 Taboo
System: Living Arcanis
Description: A Nawal of the Yhing Hir calls upon a group of travellers to retrieve the body of his dead son from a place where no Horseman may ride
An Introductory adventure optimized for 1st level characters.
This adventure is part of the Living Arcanis 5e campaign. Players are rewarded with certificates that allow them to advance their heroes and play them in other Living Arcanis 5e adventures.
Leave Your Mark Upon the Shattered Empires
Arcanis is a world of epic adventure, intrigue, and exploration. A world beset on all sides by the machinations of inhuman empires and creatures both fell and foul. A world painted in shades of grey, rather than stark black and white, where your enemy today may be your only hope tomorrow.
It is a world in desperate need of Heroes to hold back the tide of night and become legends!
GM: David Harrison
Game: 5-06 Ukuja, the First Wall
System: PSF 2E
Description: A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 7th- through 10th-level characters.
A new portal has been discovered in the Maze of the Open Road, and the Society has sent the PCs to investigate what secrets remain on the other side. The PCs discover the settlement of Ukuja, first of the nine walls that make up the Matanji orcs's aptly named Nine Walls nation. There, the PCs fall under scrutiny for a fiendish plot to destabilize the fortress settlement and must work to prove their innocence, all while discovering the true villain behind a fiendish invasion!
GM: Bruce Cunnington
Game: Shadow of the Beakmen
System: Dungeon Crawl Classics
Description: Towering obelisks stab the sky. Monstrous knights with blazing lances prowl the night. Huts burn, and entire villages are taken as slaves to be fed darksome pits. The cries of terror and panic give the horrors a name: the Beakmen have come.
No experience required, all welcome. Pre generated characters are provided but players from my morning game are welcomem to level up surviving characters!
GM: Neil Dungeon Baker
Game: The Mask of Zenobar
System: D&D 5th
Description: The tomb of the long-dead god-king Zenobar awaits you and your group in the shifting sands of the Lion Wastes. Join us in exploring this ancient, crumbling catacomb in search of wealth, treasure and deep magic of ancient power. Puzzle and battle through the ruins to win the ultimate prize — the legendary Mask of Zenobar.
Find Neil on twitter
GM: J.J Perry
Game: Skele Borg
System: Mork Borg
Description: Set in the ruined city of GALGENBECK, in the centre of The Dying Lands. The son of Lord Yarandel has been taken into Skull Crypt, if you dare to attempt a rescue the reward will no doubt be great, yet the danger even greater...
MÖRK BORG is a Doom-metal, dark-fantasy, rules light, classic feeling, TTRPG great for all skill levels.
GM: Kate
Game: Numenera the Crawling
System: Cypher System
Description: Your village is facing threat and needs resources. Dispatched to explore a mysterious part of the woods, you discover a set of stairs leading apparently up into nothing.
Can you solve the mystery and find what your village needs in time?
And what is that sense of being watched…?
GM: Graham Spearing
Game: The Castle of the Robber Knight
System: Dragonbane
Description: For two days you have wandered, and now you have arrived at your destination. A grassy hill towers before you. On its crest rests a ruined fortress – the Castle of the Robber Knight. The warmth of the inn’s fire in the village seems distant now, but you all remember the old woman’s words. Long ago, a wicked robber knight named Rothgar Wolfsbane plagued this area, pillaging and plundering wherever he could.He fought against everyone – humans, dwarves, and elves – but it was the orcs who eventually brought about his downfall. An orc clan marched on Wolfsbane’s castle and stormed it. Many lives were lost
that day, but in the end Wolfsbane fell and his castle was ravaged by flames. Brave fortune hunters have felt compelled to explore the robber knight’s castle in search of ancient treasures, but none have ever returned. Will you be the first?
GM: Warren Davidson
Game: Alien: Perfect Organism
System: Alien
Description: Play as a xenomorph through each stage of their development. Adapt, hunt, and survive until you establish a nest and a Queen. Defeat all your enemies to become the perfect Organism!
GM: Martin Wright
Game: Kali Ghati
System: Delta Green
Description: Kali Ghati” is a scenario for DELTA GREEN, the role-playing game of Lovecraftian horror and conspiracy.
The players’ Agents are soldiers, intelligence officers, federal agents or civilian contractors among the U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Thanks to the machinations of Delta Green—a secret government program that confronts
unnatural threats at any cost—all have been in country longer than they ever planned. They expect to be sent home soon. But now, they have a mission. Again.
A fellow Delta Green operative has gone missing from an Army base in a troubled province. It’s up to the players’ Agents to find him before the disappearance draws
attention that Delta Green cannot afford.
GM: Glenn Fleetwood
Game: The Mists of Treyhall
System: Tales of Argosa (D20)
Description: For years now you have been retainers for Baron Eldred of House Arnhelm, a loyal vassal of Rowena Ravengard, Queen of the Realm of Gath.
Recently, just as the leaves on the oaks of the Bogenwood have begun to take on their autumnal coppers and golds, a strangely persistent mist has risen from the great lake of Wolfmoon Water and entirely shrouded the northernmost holding of the Barony, the outpost of Treyhall.
Messengers have been sent, and most recently, a trio of household knights sent forth, but no word, and indeed, no-one has yet returned.
Desperate for news, and gravely concerned as to any threat this may constitute, the Baron has tasked you, his most favoured agents, to travel to Treyhall and by whatever means, resolve this mystery.
GM: Michael Langan
Game: The Wolves Den
System: Year Zero Engine
Description: A year after the outbreak the community at 'Springford Bridge' has settled into a fairly comfortable routine
However when Mathew arrives, tensions begin to increase until it is discovered that he and Rebecca a long established community member have left the 'Springford Bridge' Community and traveled into the surrounding countryside together. An area full of infected and rumours of a Cult like Gang 'The Witchfinders'.
You and your group are Sent out by Celia the Community leader to find them and bring Rebbeca back, what happens to Mathew well...
The Essex County side can be a very dangerous place a year after the outbreak, and as Celia says, "Sometimes people die, and Sometimes those people deserve it"
This is a one shot based on the new Free league 'Walking Dead' starter set scenario 'The Wolves Den' run with 'pre-gen' characters and established role play motivated agenda's for up to 5 people aged 15 plus.
GM: Anthony Whelan
Game: The Wizards Trial
System: DND5e
Description: This isn’t your ordinary smash and grab contract. For one thing you’ve not met a wizard this odd before but he needs your help and the pay is good. Maybe you’re signing up for more than you bargain for?
Thrakozz is our eccentric antagonist that will put the players through trials and tests to ensure they are good enough to be the new hirelings for her and her shadowy employers.
With twists, turns, puzzles and plenty of hack and slash glee players will spend four hours trying to get themselves out of the mess they find themselves in!
GM: Malcolm Hazel
Game: Do you know the Gingerdead Man
System: DND5E
Description: A missing orphan has sparked panic in the village of Scragbottom.
Last time he was seen, he said he was visiting the Candy Cottage in the woods.
Rumours have it, the Candy Cottage is haunted by a terrifying creature.
But you must rescue the poor orphan child.
His name? Little Jack Morner…
GM: Devin Watkins
Game: The Doom that Came to Christmas Town
System: Dungeon Crawl Classics
Description: The Yule-Light is dying.
Perched atop its majestic pine of old, this strange gemstone tree-topper has sat for untold millennia, shining its joyful and life-giving light over the small hamlet of Christmas Town that surrounds it. Its radiant light, a symbol of peace and hope to all, now wane and dimming.
While far to the north, hidden in the gloom of a mountain-top cave, the vile creature known as the Grinch has awakened. Foul, mean, and a real rotter, this king of sinful sots possesses a small heart and a hatred for the holidays above all things.
Now, with only days left before Christmas Eve, a sour-sweet wind blows across the land, spreading a vile taint that threatens the yearly tradition that sees Lord Claus travel the realm delivering cheer and good faith to the masses.
With the fate of Christmas and peace in the realm resting upon a knife’s edge, a group of brave adventurers gathers to embark on a heroic quest to fight back the darkness and save the holidays from The Doom That Came to Christmas Town…
GM: Craig Atkins
Game: Who the hell is Sarah Connor
System: Terminator RPG
Description: It is 2041 - Skynet's mainframe has finally been smashed, the AI is done, finished... But in a last ditch attempt to stave off extinction it activated the prototype Time Displacement Equipment and sent back a lone Terminator to the past of May 12th 1984, Location: LA.
Grizzled old Tech-Com Captain Kyle Reese needs volunteers for a mission to the past, to stop the metal killer before it completes its mission, but who is its target? Who is important enough for Skynet to target as its final hope of survival?
Tech-com historians have one clue, a piece of old microfiche film from the archives. There was a spate of killings on May 13th 1984, carried out by a serial killer dubbed by the media of the time as "The Phone Book Killer", who was responsible for the killing of three women all named Sarah Connor. The final victim, a 19 Year-old waitress was killed in a night club called Tech Noir at 8.35pm. The killer was never found, and we don't know what he looks like, but as this was the last victim she must have been important somehow. Reese has no clue who she is, but maybe keeping her alive will make a difference, end the war earlier perhaps. Who knows? But the mission is yours to complete. You go back naked, and it's a one way trip, so don't mess it up.
GM: Phillip Kelly
Game: Kids on Bikes
System: Kids on Bikes
Description: A game of small town secrets, rumours and mysterious happenings. Take on the roles of everyday people grappling with strange, terrifying, and very, very powerful forces that they cannot defeat, control, or even fully understand.
GM: Elliott Craggs
Game: Mothership
System: Mothership
Description: Mothership is a sci-fi horror RPG with simple mechanics and easy character creation, taking influences from media such as Aliens, Event Horizon and The Expanse series. Pick your class from Marine, Android, Scientist or Teamster (power loader not included), roll for a bag of equipment and jump right in to inspect weird anomalies for pay and company! If you're lucky, you may even survive.
GM: Anna Hanigan
Game: The Haunting
System: Call of Cthulhu 7th
Description: Boston Massachusetts, 1920. Your group of sleuths are hired to discover the truth about the mysterious happenings at Corbitt House. What tragedy befell the former tenants? Could something evil still linger in the house itself?
Whether is it your first time playing or you're an experienced player this is a great scenario to investigate a classic haunting!
GM: Paul Mackintosh
Game: The White War
System: Cthulhu Eternal
Description: A high mountain Cthulhu Mythos adventure in the white hell of the Italian Front during World War 1. Italian mountain troops encounter horrible unnatural threats in the high Dolomites. A one-shot scenario running on the Cthullhu Eternal multi-era SRD system, compatible with CoC 6th ed and earlier, DG, and easy to pick up for any Cthulhu gaming players.
GM: Ed Hathaway
Game: Embassy of the Inconstant Moon
System: Numenera
Description: A billion years in the future, civilizations have risen and fallen, and risen again, built on the detritus of the previous.
The moon shines down on the Ninth World, and its glow reveals thing which remain hidden during the day. When the green stripe across the face of it points towards the ground, a whorled crystal structure appears, jutting from the rolling hills of Scorpion's Reach. Explorers beware, the moon is a strange thing...
Numenera is a science-fantasy setting where you play explorers delving into the mysteries of the prior worlds, while not quite understanding how any of it works. It's a super easy system to learn, and there's lots of opportunity for exploration and clever role-play with all the weird stuff you find.
Game: My Kind of Epic
System: Homebrew
Description: A hybrid board game that combines a traditional roll-and-move mechanics with storytelling and RPG elements.
Players pick a character and move through the board fighting villains by coming up with crazy ideas based on their elemental superpowers. They can also collect items along the way which they can use to gain extra points when incorporating the item into the ideas.
GM: Andrew Gardener Blatch
Game: The White Devil
System: Call of Cthulhu 5E
Description: The adventure is set in the Elizabethan period, with Players as members of Elizabeth’s Black Company. The company is tasked with transporting and protecting a foreign dignitary across the wilds of Northumberland.
Expect dark themes, violence, skulduggery and themes of insanity, corruption and madness…
Pregens supplied.
Bring dice, courage and ale!
GM: Steve Hampshire
Game: 30 (K) Rock
System: Mongoose Traveller 2E
Description: Being evacuated from station on this rather elderly Far Trader wasnt your first choice, but when you are awoken in the middle of the night when the ship should be in jump, by loud banging and scraping noises, things are definitely not routine.
4 hours of Traveller exploration, problem solving and possibly a little controlled violence.
GM: Robert Yates
Game: The Horse of the Invisible
System: Cthulhu Gaslight 2nd
Description: In 1893 ghost-finder Thomas Carnacki, novelist Joseph Conrad and associates are asked to investigate a haunted house.
This scenario, based on the William Hope Hodgson story of the same title, is from White Dwarf issue 66.
GM: Liam Mills
Game: Epoch
System: Homebrew
Description: EPOCH is a game for 2-4 players, in which players take the role of of a prehistoric tribe of fantasy creatures in the stone age land of Erwa. Players must work together to survive against dinosaurs, spirits, neighbouring tribes, and harsh conditions.
The game runs on its own simple system - all rolls use a maximum of 2d6 and character creation is a ten minute process. The game is rules-light and designed to be as streamlined as possible for players of all experience levels.
GM: Julian Hayley
Game: Memphis Crawl
System: Xcrawl Classics
Description: Welcome to XCrawl, a fantasy world where the most popular sport is Xtreme Dungeon Crawling! Professional adventurers team up to challenge a Dungeon Judge, or DJ, in a manufactured dungeon with the whole event streamed live on spellphones Empire-wide!
The Memphis Crawl is the most prestigious Division III event, and one of the few ever to have a single Dungeon Judge: Julie Klugman, AKA DJ Cudgel Up! . Cudgel Up! and her feared goblin attack squad , the Cudgel Up! Dancers, have been a mainstay of the North American XCrawl circuit for decades. Now in its 20th year, the Memphis Crawl is about to get a new DJ as Klugman has decided to retire, a decision she plans to announce during the event.
You, the players a first level team of trained athletes have received a prestigious invitation to take part in this historic event, hopefully you'll come out of it alive having wone, fame, prizes and that all important sponsorship to the big league
XCC uses a system derived from Dungeon Crawl Classics, no previous experience of either system is necessary, guidance and pregen characters will be provided at the table.
GM: Richard Talbot
Game: Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow
System: Mongoose Traveller
Description: In the dangerous world of interstellar travel, one organisation promises to aid its members, "Anyhow, Anywhere, Anytime".
As 12 Travellers Aid Society (TAS) members get caught in a Red Zone natural disaster, TAS Member Outreach Services are called upon to deliver that promise. With a limited supply of duck-tape, no string and and a severe lack of towels, will the TAS Team be able to save the day. TAS loves it when a plan comes together.
Anyhow, Anywhere, Anytime is a Mongoose Traveller scenario for 2023 cons from BITS.
Themes - disaster rescue, poverty, VIP service, war
GM: Peter Lattimore
Game: Beacon of the Lost Realm
System: Homebrew
Description: Setting out from the town of Emberwatch our heroes will journey across the Wild Lands to reach the tumbledown lighthouse seen on the nearby headlands. Lord Emberblade has charged them with relighting the beacon therein, to aid further reinforcements coming up the coast from Pargranin.
GM: Millie Lavelle
Game: King of Cats
System: Tales from the Loop
Description: A science teacher from the local school has been missing for sometime now. Folks around town are split between he’s ran away or foul play. Plus it seems that some of the cats are acting oddly. These two things can't possibly be related, can they?
Players will create their own characters and set off to discover the heart of the mystery. Beginner friendly and rules lite.
GM: Feroze Khan
Game: The Thing with Circulus Station
System: Mongoose Traveller 2E
Description: "Set on the outskirts of the great Imperium the you, Traveller, step into the worn-out boots of disgruntled employees of a faceless mega-corporation. These weary workers have finally had enough of their underpaid and overworked lives, and a chance for freedom and riches beckons in the form of a daring interstellar mission."
I'm a new GM and looking to run a game of Traveller. It will feature a mix of roleplay and combat. There may also be space combat. New players are welcome.
This will be my first time running at a convention so all I ask for from players, is a bit of patience and a whole lot of adventuring spirit.
Are you looking for a good sci-fi adventure like Firefly or the Expanse?
Sign up Travellers!
GM: Tom Hoefle
Game: The Search for the Mystical Soulshards
System: 2d20 Conan
Description: You are a young (14 years ) group of orphans that live in Airutneva far to the north in Thargaard , about a hundred miles west of Siroth. Your Orphanage is led by the true king of Thargaard. He and his loyal subjects train the chosen ones for the last fight against the great demon Rimuru.
Thargaard is the largest of the three main powers on Theregov.
In its north the biggest part is covered in a very dense ice coat.
Only Frostdwarves, and for a short period of time Thargaardians or travellers with magical means are able to explore this icy northern part.
But if one of the much feared icestorms is coming even the Frostdwarves have to retreat into the specially for that occasion prepared icecaves - and have to sit it out from a few days up to a few weeks.
But if you manage to go further north you are greeted by a unique landscape with untouched ruins of long forgotten kingdoms, maybe even one of the rumoured hot springs where weird creatures roam and ancient treasures and knowledge can be found.
Siroth ( the capital of Thargaard ) itself is built upon old ruins of an unknown race and its catacombs are still not explored completely.
GM: Simon Barns
Game: The King under the forest
System: Old School Essentials
Description: You have all recently arrived in the village of Axbridge.
Some of you travelled here from the north, through Helfax Wood; some of you came through the Coronach Marshes, along the mysterious raised dyke called Dobby’s Walk.
A fondness for the finer things in life, such as good cog wine, leads you to conversation with the village priest, Father Bretwald.
“Have you heard of Vallandar?” asks Bretwald. “Rex quondam rexque futurus. He is said to have been king of this land long ago. His reign was just and pious, great
warriors bowed to be his vassals."
"I believe I know where this king lies buried. In Fenring Forest, three days away, no less"
GM: Marcus Rowland
Game: Bring me the head of Harry Potter
System: Diana: Warrior Princess
Description: Someone has put out a contract on some British kid, just out of school, currently in Los Angeles. There’s five hundred thousand dollars per person waiting for the team that kills him. You're not sure why a big team is needed to kill one kid, but someone is apparently prepared to pay for it.
All you need do first is check in with some crooked lawyers, they’ll tell you all you need to know about the contract. After that the money is as good as yours! Assuming, of course, that none of your “friends” get in the way…
Knowledge of Harry Potter, Angel, Preacher, and John Wick and other pro killer fiction may be useful.
Please note - An earlier version of this scenario was run at the Continuum games convention earlier this year; please don't sign up if you have already played in it.
GM: Phil Callan
Game: Best leave them ghosts alone
System: Old Gods of Appalachia
Description: Going to the funeral of a childhood friend is never an easy thing, but when its the funeral of someone you accidentally killed and brought back to life years ago, well...you all have owes, and this one's about to come due.
"Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone" is an Old Gods of Appalachia horror adventure set in a small town full of memories, ghosts, and promises unpaid.
GM: Andrew Yorkshades
Game: Curd your Enthusiasm
System: Warhammer 4th
Description: An evening of fine wine and vittals ends in disaster and death, and somehow it seems that the cheese might be to blame...
GM: Ed Mcdonald
Game: A View to a Quill
System: D&D 5th
Description: You don't know how you got to this strange, dusty bookshop, but getting home again isn't going to be easy.
- A dungeons and dragons adventure for 4-5 characters of 5th level or lower.
- Players are welcome to generate a character using Standard Array or Point Buy methods.
- The game uses significant amounts of homebrew, and features elements of roleplay, exploration and combat. I have run this game previously.
- Run time estimated at 3-4 hours.
- While D&D combat is inherently violent, the game would be rated PG13 in terms of content. Players are welcome to advise the DM ahead of time of any particular phobias or issues to avoid, but there is nothing 'heavy' and no real world social or political topics are involved.
GM: Phil Lucas
Game: 5-95 The island of the Vibrant Dead
System: PFS
Description: A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters.
During routine study on the Maze of the Open Road, a lecture is interrupted by the old Pathfinder ghoul ally, Marcon Tinol. Through discussions with him, the Society learns that he and Drandle Dreng established an island haven in Azlant for ghouls wishing to live apart from humans, referred to as the Island of the Vibrant Dead. Marcon reports that a strange new ghoul named Ghessa has arrived on the island but her story about her death and undeath isn't adding up, leading him to fear that she may be up to something sinister. The PCs must travel to the island, where the residents maintain a ghoulish existence celebrating their undeath, and dig into Ghessa's story, as well as her trips into the vaults of the long-dead Arodenite priesthood.
GM: Nicola Barnes
Game: 1-1 Taboo
System: Living Arcanis
Description: A Nawal of the Yhing Hir calls upon a group of travellers to retrieve the body of his dead son from a place where no Horseman may ride
An Introductory adventure optimized for 1st level characters.
This adventure is part of the Living Arcanis 5e campaign. Players are rewarded with certificates that allow them to advance their heroes and play them in other Living Arcanis 5e adventures.
Leave Your Mark Upon the Shattered Empires
Arcanis is a world of epic adventure, intrigue, and exploration. A world beset on all sides by the machinations of inhuman empires and creatures both fell and foul. A world painted in shades of grey, rather than stark black and white, where your enemy today may be your only hope tomorrow.
It is a world in desperate need of Heroes to hold back the tide of night and become legends!
GM: David Harrison
Game: 5-06 Ukuja, the First Wall
System: PSF 2E
Description: A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 7th- through 10th-level characters.
A new portal has been discovered in the Maze of the Open Road, and the Society has sent the PCs to investigate what secrets remain on the other side. The PCs discover the settlement of Ukuja, first of the nine walls that make up the Matanji orcs's aptly named Nine Walls nation. There, the PCs fall under scrutiny for a fiendish plot to destabilize the fortress settlement and must work to prove their innocence, all while discovering the true villain behind a fiendish invasion!
GM: Bruce Cunnington
Game: Shadow of the Beakmen
System: Dungeon Crawl Classics
Description: Towering obelisks stab the sky. Monstrous knights with blazing lances prowl the night. Huts burn, and entire villages are taken as slaves to be fed darksome pits. The cries of terror and panic give the horrors a name: the Beakmen have come.
No experience required, all welcome. Pre generated characters are provided but players from my morning game are welcomem to level up surviving characters!
GM: Neil Dungeon Baker
Game: The Mask of Zenobar
System: D&D 5th
Description: The tomb of the long-dead god-king Zenobar awaits you and your group in the shifting sands of the Lion Wastes. Join us in exploring this ancient, crumbling catacomb in search of wealth, treasure and deep magic of ancient power. Puzzle and battle through the ruins to win the ultimate prize — the legendary Mask of Zenobar.
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GM: J.J Perry
Game: Skele Borg
System: Mork Borg
Description: Set in the ruined city of GALGENBECK, in the centre of The Dying Lands. The son of Lord Yarandel has been taken into Skull Crypt, if you dare to attempt a rescue the reward will no doubt be great, yet the danger even greater...
MÖRK BORG is a Doom-metal, dark-fantasy, rules light, classic feeling, TTRPG great for all skill levels.
GM: Kate
Game: Numenera the Crawling
System: Cypher System
Description: Your village is facing threat and needs resources. Dispatched to explore a mysterious part of the woods, you discover a set of stairs leading apparently up into nothing.
Can you solve the mystery and find what your village needs in time?
And what is that sense of being watched…?
GM: Graham Spearing
Game: The Castle of the Robber Knight
System: Dragonbane
Description: For two days you have wandered, and now you have arrived at your destination. A grassy hill towers before you. On its crest rests a ruined fortress – the Castle of the Robber Knight. The warmth of the inn’s fire in the village seems distant now, but you all remember the old woman’s words. Long ago, a wicked robber knight named Rothgar Wolfsbane plagued this area, pillaging and plundering wherever he could.He fought against everyone – humans, dwarves, and elves – but it was the orcs who eventually brought about his downfall. An orc clan marched on Wolfsbane’s castle and stormed it. Many lives were lost
that day, but in the end Wolfsbane fell and his castle was ravaged by flames. Brave fortune hunters have felt compelled to explore the robber knight’s castle in search of ancient treasures, but none have ever returned. Will you be the first?
GM: Warren Davidson
Game: Alien: Perfect Organism
System: Alien
Description: Play as a xenomorph through each stage of their development. Adapt, hunt, and survive until you establish a nest and a Queen. Defeat all your enemies to become the perfect Organism!
GM: Martin Wright
Game: Kali Ghati
System: Delta Green
Description: Kali Ghati” is a scenario for DELTA GREEN, the role-playing game of Lovecraftian horror and conspiracy.
The players’ Agents are soldiers, intelligence officers, federal agents or civilian contractors among the U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Thanks to the machinations of Delta Green—a secret government program that confronts
unnatural threats at any cost—all have been in country longer than they ever planned. They expect to be sent home soon. But now, they have a mission. Again.
A fellow Delta Green operative has gone missing from an Army base in a troubled province. It’s up to the players’ Agents to find him before the disappearance draws
attention that Delta Green cannot afford.
GM: Glenn Fleetwood
Game: The Mists of Treyhall
System: Tales of Argosa (D20)
Description: For years now you have been retainers for Baron Eldred of House Arnhelm, a loyal vassal of Rowena Ravengard, Queen of the Realm of Gath.
Recently, just as the leaves on the oaks of the Bogenwood have begun to take on their autumnal coppers and golds, a strangely persistent mist has risen from the great lake of Wolfmoon Water and entirely shrouded the northernmost holding of the Barony, the outpost of Treyhall.
Messengers have been sent, and most recently, a trio of household knights sent forth, but no word, and indeed, no-one has yet returned.
Desperate for news, and gravely concerned as to any threat this may constitute, the Baron has tasked you, his most favoured agents, to travel to Treyhall and by whatever means, resolve this mystery.
GM: Michael Langan
Game: The Wolves Den
System: Year Zero Engine
Description: A year after the outbreak the community at 'Springford Bridge' has settled into a fairly comfortable routine
However when Mathew arrives, tensions begin to increase until it is discovered that he and Rebecca a long established community member have left the 'Springford Bridge' Community and traveled into the surrounding countryside together. An area full of infected and rumours of a Cult like Gang 'The Witchfinders'.
You and your group are Sent out by Celia the Community leader to find them and bring Rebbeca back, what happens to Mathew well...
The Essex County side can be a very dangerous place a year after the outbreak, and as Celia says, "Sometimes people die, and Sometimes those people deserve it"
This is a one shot based on the new Free league 'Walking Dead' starter set scenario 'The Wolves Den' run with 'pre-gen' characters and established role play motivated agenda's for up to 5 people aged 15 plus.
GM: Anthony Whelan
Game: The Wizards Trial
System: DND5e
Description: This isn’t your ordinary smash and grab contract. For one thing you’ve not met a wizard this odd before but he needs your help and the pay is good. Maybe you’re signing up for more than you bargain for?
Thrakozz is our eccentric antagonist that will put the players through trials and tests to ensure they are good enough to be the new hirelings for her and her shadowy employers.
With twists, turns, puzzles and plenty of hack and slash glee players will spend four hours trying to get themselves out of the mess they find themselves in!
GM: Malcolm Hazel
Game: Do you know the Gingerdead Man
System: DND5E
Description: A missing orphan has sparked panic in the village of Scragbottom.
Last time he was seen, he said he was visiting the Candy Cottage in the woods.
Rumours have it, the Candy Cottage is haunted by a terrifying creature.
But you must rescue the poor orphan child.
His name? Little Jack Morner…
GM: Devin Watkins
Game: The Doom that Came to Christmas Town
System: Dungeon Crawl Classics
Description: The Yule-Light is dying.
Perched atop its majestic pine of old, this strange gemstone tree-topper has sat for untold millennia, shining its joyful and life-giving light over the small hamlet of Christmas Town that surrounds it. Its radiant light, a symbol of peace and hope to all, now wane and dimming.
While far to the north, hidden in the gloom of a mountain-top cave, the vile creature known as the Grinch has awakened. Foul, mean, and a real rotter, this king of sinful sots possesses a small heart and a hatred for the holidays above all things.
Now, with only days left before Christmas Eve, a sour-sweet wind blows across the land, spreading a vile taint that threatens the yearly tradition that sees Lord Claus travel the realm delivering cheer and good faith to the masses.
With the fate of Christmas and peace in the realm resting upon a knife’s edge, a group of brave adventurers gathers to embark on a heroic quest to fight back the darkness and save the holidays from The Doom That Came to Christmas Town…
GM: Craig Atkins
Game: Who the hell is Sarah Connor
System: Terminator RPG
Description: It is 2041 - Skynet's mainframe has finally been smashed, the AI is done, finished... But in a last ditch attempt to stave off extinction it activated the prototype Time Displacement Equipment and sent back a lone Terminator to the past of May 12th 1984, Location: LA.
Grizzled old Tech-Com Captain Kyle Reese needs volunteers for a mission to the past, to stop the metal killer before it completes its mission, but who is its target? Who is important enough for Skynet to target as its final hope of survival?
Tech-com historians have one clue, a piece of old microfiche film from the archives. There was a spate of killings on May 13th 1984, carried out by a serial killer dubbed by the media of the time as "The Phone Book Killer", who was responsible for the killing of three women all named Sarah Connor. The final victim, a 19 Year-old waitress was killed in a night club called Tech Noir at 8.35pm. The killer was never found, and we don't know what he looks like, but as this was the last victim she must have been important somehow. Reese has no clue who she is, but maybe keeping her alive will make a difference, end the war earlier perhaps. Who knows? But the mission is yours to complete. You go back naked, and it's a one way trip, so don't mess it up.
GM: Phillip Kelly
Game: Kids on Bikes
System: Kids on Bikes
Description: A game of small town secrets, rumours and mysterious happenings. Take on the roles of everyday people grappling with strange, terrifying, and very, very powerful forces that they cannot defeat, control, or even fully understand.
GM: Elliott Craggs
Game: Mothership
System: Mothership
Description: Mothership is a sci-fi horror RPG with simple mechanics and easy character creation, taking influences from media such as Aliens, Event Horizon and The Expanse series. Pick your class from Marine, Android, Scientist or Teamster (power loader not included), roll for a bag of equipment and jump right in to inspect weird anomalies for pay and company! If you're lucky, you may even survive.
GM: Anna Hanigan
Game: The Haunting
System: Call of Cthulhu 7th
Description: Boston Massachusetts, 1920. Your group of sleuths are hired to discover the truth about the mysterious happenings at Corbitt House. What tragedy befell the former tenants? Could something evil still linger in the house itself?
Whether is it your first time playing or you're an experienced player this is a great scenario to investigate a classic haunting!
GM: Paul Mackintosh
Game: The White War
System: Cthulhu Eternal
Description: A high mountain Cthulhu Mythos adventure in the white hell of the Italian Front during World War 1. Italian mountain troops encounter horrible unnatural threats in the high Dolomites. A one-shot scenario running on the Cthullhu Eternal multi-era SRD system, compatible with CoC 6th ed and earlier, DG, and easy to pick up for any Cthulhu gaming players.
GM: Ed Hathaway
Game: Embassy of the Inconstant Moon
System: Numenera
Description: A billion years in the future, civilizations have risen and fallen, and risen again, built on the detritus of the previous.
The moon shines down on the Ninth World, and its glow reveals thing which remain hidden during the day. When the green stripe across the face of it points towards the ground, a whorled crystal structure appears, jutting from the rolling hills of Scorpion's Reach. Explorers beware, the moon is a strange thing...
Numenera is a science-fantasy setting where you play explorers delving into the mysteries of the prior worlds, while not quite understanding how any of it works. It's a super easy system to learn, and there's lots of opportunity for exploration and clever role-play with all the weird stuff you find.