Main Room
RPG Demonstration Games
Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition - Straffar Gatan 39
Description: A missing heiress and a call-out to one of the worst parts of town doesn't sound like the most interesting job... but a group of unwitting investigators find themselves in the middle of something dark and terrible.
Players: Four (choice of six pre-generated characters provided)
GM: Nathan Dowdell between 12:00 and 14:00
Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition – A Life in the Day
Description: A day in the life of four rookie Luna City Police Department officers, as they go about enforcing law and order in Humanity’s Heart…
Players: Four (pre-generated characters provided)
GM Bill Heron between 16:00 and 18:00
Conan In An Age Undreamed Off, new Modiphius rules - The Ghost of Thunder River
Description: Led by a mysterious pale devil, the savage Picts are hell-bent on destroying Aquilonian settlements along the Thunder River. War-drums herald an all-out invasion, and the Picts make ready to sacrifice prisoners to their fiendish gods. The garrison commander needs volunteers to venture upriver into Pictland, to bring the captives back alive... and you have answered his call.
Players: Four (pre-generated characters provided)
GM: Jason Durall between 10:00 and 12:00
Conan In An Age Undreamed Off, new Modiphius rules - The Red Pit
Description: Enslaved and condemned to die in Koth’s most infamous quarry, our heroes must overpower their jailers, evade a withering hail of arrows, and defeat a vicious man-eating lizard as they scale the Red Pit’s sheer walls. In the race to freedom – who will be the first to die?
Players: Four (pre-generated characters provided)
GM: Garry Harper between 14:00 and 16:00
Achtung! Cthuhu (Call of Cthulhu) – Life Under the Gun by Graeme Davis
Description: Dover: June 1940. German forces are barely 20 miles away across the English Channel. Artillery is rushed to the Dover area; shelters and bunkers are dug into the famous White Cliffs and beneath the town. Then, a strange discovery is made….
Players: Four (pre-generated characters provided)
Game One - GM Bill Heron between 12:00 and 14:00
Game Two - GM Ben Naylor between 16:00 and 18:00
Infinity – The Shards of Tonbogiri
Description: The frigid environs of Svalarheima (or Huangdi, dependant on whom you ask) are a focal point for political intrigue and covert operations between the Hyperpowers of PanOceania and Yu Jing; a polar hotbed of activity that can provide the perfect opportunity for a mercenary company to flourish. You have been hired by a private entity affiliated with PanOceania to uncover the mystery of the Shards of Tonbogiri, but what exactly are they and what will they mean to the balance of power?
Players: Four (pre-generated characters provided)
Game One - GM Marc Langworthy between 10:00 and 12:00
Game Two - GM Marc Langworthy between 14:00 and 16:00
Miniatures and Board Games
Achtung Cthulhu Skirmish
The Forest of Fear
Description: The heroes of Section M have discovered an ancient artefact in a lost ruin in the Forest of Fear. Can Professor Deadman decipher the code before the forces of the Black Sun overrun them? With just a few Airborne to hold the farmhouse the clock is ticking as you discover the action packed new skirmish miniatures game based on the award winning Achtung! Cthulhu roleplaying game.
Players: 4 players every hour from 10:00 to 18:00
Thunderbirds
Description: Join International Rescue, avert disasters, and foil the Hood’s evil scheme in THUNDERBIRDS, the new co-op game from Matt Leacock
Players: 4 players every hour from 10:00 to 18:00
RPG Demonstration Games
Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition - Straffar Gatan 39
Description: A missing heiress and a call-out to one of the worst parts of town doesn't sound like the most interesting job... but a group of unwitting investigators find themselves in the middle of something dark and terrible.
Players: Four (choice of six pre-generated characters provided)
GM: Nathan Dowdell between 12:00 and 14:00
Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition – A Life in the Day
Description: A day in the life of four rookie Luna City Police Department officers, as they go about enforcing law and order in Humanity’s Heart…
Players: Four (pre-generated characters provided)
GM Bill Heron between 16:00 and 18:00
Conan In An Age Undreamed Off, new Modiphius rules - The Ghost of Thunder River
Description: Led by a mysterious pale devil, the savage Picts are hell-bent on destroying Aquilonian settlements along the Thunder River. War-drums herald an all-out invasion, and the Picts make ready to sacrifice prisoners to their fiendish gods. The garrison commander needs volunteers to venture upriver into Pictland, to bring the captives back alive... and you have answered his call.
Players: Four (pre-generated characters provided)
GM: Jason Durall between 10:00 and 12:00
Conan In An Age Undreamed Off, new Modiphius rules - The Red Pit
Description: Enslaved and condemned to die in Koth’s most infamous quarry, our heroes must overpower their jailers, evade a withering hail of arrows, and defeat a vicious man-eating lizard as they scale the Red Pit’s sheer walls. In the race to freedom – who will be the first to die?
Players: Four (pre-generated characters provided)
GM: Garry Harper between 14:00 and 16:00
Achtung! Cthuhu (Call of Cthulhu) – Life Under the Gun by Graeme Davis
Description: Dover: June 1940. German forces are barely 20 miles away across the English Channel. Artillery is rushed to the Dover area; shelters and bunkers are dug into the famous White Cliffs and beneath the town. Then, a strange discovery is made….
Players: Four (pre-generated characters provided)
Game One - GM Bill Heron between 12:00 and 14:00
Game Two - GM Ben Naylor between 16:00 and 18:00
Infinity – The Shards of Tonbogiri
Description: The frigid environs of Svalarheima (or Huangdi, dependant on whom you ask) are a focal point for political intrigue and covert operations between the Hyperpowers of PanOceania and Yu Jing; a polar hotbed of activity that can provide the perfect opportunity for a mercenary company to flourish. You have been hired by a private entity affiliated with PanOceania to uncover the mystery of the Shards of Tonbogiri, but what exactly are they and what will they mean to the balance of power?
Players: Four (pre-generated characters provided)
Game One - GM Marc Langworthy between 10:00 and 12:00
Game Two - GM Marc Langworthy between 14:00 and 16:00
Miniatures and Board Games
Achtung Cthulhu Skirmish
The Forest of Fear
Description: The heroes of Section M have discovered an ancient artefact in a lost ruin in the Forest of Fear. Can Professor Deadman decipher the code before the forces of the Black Sun overrun them? With just a few Airborne to hold the farmhouse the clock is ticking as you discover the action packed new skirmish miniatures game based on the award winning Achtung! Cthulhu roleplaying game.
Players: 4 players every hour from 10:00 to 18:00
Thunderbirds
Description: Join International Rescue, avert disasters, and foil the Hood’s evil scheme in THUNDERBIRDS, the new co-op game from Matt Leacock
Players: 4 players every hour from 10:00 to 18:00
Board Games Room
Best of Essen
A chance to try some of the very best games that launched at Essen-Spiel game fair this year. Sponsored by Esdevium Games. Try the games then buy them from Leisure Games in the trade hall. Games on the day include: 7 Wonders Duel, Celestia, Colt Express, Dice City, Code Names, Flick'em up, Mafia De Cuba, Ticket to Ride, Time Stories.
Playtest UK
A chance for all those designing new games to get feedback and advice on their games
Heroclix tournaments
Four Battle Royal tournaments running through the day and on the big table, the Contest of Champions
MIB demonstration games
Play OGRE, Munchkin and many others
Zombicide
Take a survivor and pitch in to the fight, come back at the end of the day to see who survived the longest.
Wings of Glory
Take a plane and join the fight, come back at the end of the day to see which plane downed the most enemies.
Z-Mob
Making it's Debut at Dragonmeet fresh from a successful kickstarter, Z-Mob has six desperate but hardened survivors, who have bonded in the horror of the last twelve months have fought their way back into the necropolis that London has become, escorting Dr Shultz past the hordes of undead to his former workplace in the heart of the capital; Atomic Laboratories. As if sensing that their existence is at stake, a horde of zombies larger than any the survivors have seen before has stormed the building and gotten through to where they wait in the lower basements while the scientist finishes working upon her cure. The job is simple; keep Dr Shultz alive as he perfects his formula to release into the atmosphere. Some of the survivors might die but they can make sure they take as many of these zombie b**tards with them on the way as they can.
Murder She Rolled: All Out of Mulligans
Dick Dudley came to the convention hoping to win big at the tournaments but that was not the hand he was dealt. With no mulligans in life, he could not escape his own murder. It is up to you and your friends to solve the case. Murder She Rolled is a live-action detective game where you and your friends have to find clues, question the witness, and interrogate the suspect in hopes of getting a signed confession. Are you up to the task or will the killer walk away scot free?
Premiering at Dragonmeet and running throughout the day, this game is a live action romp set throughout the entire convention, starting in the main hall and traversing the entire of the con before returning to see if the players have managed to get the right answers.
Nine Worlds
Richard Denning premieres his new game. The nine worlds of Norse and Anglo-Germanic myth comprise the battleground for this area control game. In the game Nine Worlds, players struggle to take control of these worlds, spending action points to add or remove armies, move them between the worlds, or banish them to Helheim. Control of a world gives access to world powers that players can use to win the game. Victory relates to the numbers of armies that players have in the Nine Worlds along with controlling or disputing control of as many worlds as possible.
Lab Wars
The game is a wacky take on research, in which you build up your lab, sabotage your opponents and be the first to discovery to win the game! You take the role as a lab in which each player gets to choose to play from 5 characters. Each character has a special bonus which ramps up resources. Each character has an attack feature which sabotages other characters. Once characters are used they may only be used again when they are "picked up" by another character. Therefore strategy is required in how you play your characters in the strategy that you choose to build your lab. There are also event cards which encourage interaction further and gives the player further bonuses or potential for further sabotage.
Best of Essen
A chance to try some of the very best games that launched at Essen-Spiel game fair this year. Sponsored by Esdevium Games. Try the games then buy them from Leisure Games in the trade hall. Games on the day include: 7 Wonders Duel, Celestia, Colt Express, Dice City, Code Names, Flick'em up, Mafia De Cuba, Ticket to Ride, Time Stories.
Playtest UK
A chance for all those designing new games to get feedback and advice on their games
Heroclix tournaments
Four Battle Royal tournaments running through the day and on the big table, the Contest of Champions
MIB demonstration games
Play OGRE, Munchkin and many others
Zombicide
Take a survivor and pitch in to the fight, come back at the end of the day to see who survived the longest.
Wings of Glory
Take a plane and join the fight, come back at the end of the day to see which plane downed the most enemies.
Z-Mob
Making it's Debut at Dragonmeet fresh from a successful kickstarter, Z-Mob has six desperate but hardened survivors, who have bonded in the horror of the last twelve months have fought their way back into the necropolis that London has become, escorting Dr Shultz past the hordes of undead to his former workplace in the heart of the capital; Atomic Laboratories. As if sensing that their existence is at stake, a horde of zombies larger than any the survivors have seen before has stormed the building and gotten through to where they wait in the lower basements while the scientist finishes working upon her cure. The job is simple; keep Dr Shultz alive as he perfects his formula to release into the atmosphere. Some of the survivors might die but they can make sure they take as many of these zombie b**tards with them on the way as they can.
Murder She Rolled: All Out of Mulligans
Dick Dudley came to the convention hoping to win big at the tournaments but that was not the hand he was dealt. With no mulligans in life, he could not escape his own murder. It is up to you and your friends to solve the case. Murder She Rolled is a live-action detective game where you and your friends have to find clues, question the witness, and interrogate the suspect in hopes of getting a signed confession. Are you up to the task or will the killer walk away scot free?
Premiering at Dragonmeet and running throughout the day, this game is a live action romp set throughout the entire convention, starting in the main hall and traversing the entire of the con before returning to see if the players have managed to get the right answers.
Nine Worlds
Richard Denning premieres his new game. The nine worlds of Norse and Anglo-Germanic myth comprise the battleground for this area control game. In the game Nine Worlds, players struggle to take control of these worlds, spending action points to add or remove armies, move them between the worlds, or banish them to Helheim. Control of a world gives access to world powers that players can use to win the game. Victory relates to the numbers of armies that players have in the Nine Worlds along with controlling or disputing control of as many worlds as possible.
Lab Wars
The game is a wacky take on research, in which you build up your lab, sabotage your opponents and be the first to discovery to win the game! You take the role as a lab in which each player gets to choose to play from 5 characters. Each character has a special bonus which ramps up resources. Each character has an attack feature which sabotages other characters. Once characters are used they may only be used again when they are "picked up" by another character. Therefore strategy is required in how you play your characters in the strategy that you choose to build your lab. There are also event cards which encourage interaction further and gives the player further bonuses or potential for further sabotage.
This year hosted by Ray Hodson, the night seminars are still being confirmed but are expected to run till late in the evening.
10:30 - What's hot in indie rpgs and story games?
The panel discuss the games and developments within the hobby that are exciting them the most. Moderated by Epistolary Richard and featuring Anita Murray, Becky Annison, Joanna Piancastelli, and Robert Carnel
11:30 - Swords, Spies and Shoggoths - the Pelgrane Press panel.Join Simon Rogers, Cat Tobin, Rob Heinsoo, Kenneth Hite, Robin Laws, and Gareth Ryder-Hanrhan for a behind-the-scenes look at what the award-winning UK publisher's been up to this year, and what they've planned for the coming year.
12:30 - Cubicle Seven Announces
Swing by and hear all the latest news from the Cubicle 7 team!
How has the first year of independence treated the UK's most successful rpg publisher? What's on the cards for Cubicle 7 in 2016?
CEO Dom McDowall will lead a chat about where C7 have been this past year and where they're heading next.
He'll be discussing the expanding C7 team, and upcoming releases for our smash hits The Doctor Who Roleplaying Game, The Doctor Who Card Game, The One Ring Roleplaying Game, Lone Wolf Adventure Game, World War Cthulhu, and more.
If you'd like to know more about Cubicle 7's range of renowned games set in your favourite worlds, or would like to hear more about their future plans come along and have a chat!
13:30 - Modiphius Calling!
Nathan Dowdell, Chris Birch, John Houlihan, Gio Baroni, Nick Fallon.
Modiphius Entertainment talks about news of the forthcoming Kung Fu Panda and Siege of the Citadel games, as well as the INFINITY, Conan, John Carter, Mutant: Year Zero, Mutant Chronicles, and Achtung! Cthulhu roleplaying games.
Modiphius will also be unveiling a new license for an exciting new licensed project at Dragonmeet during this seminar and plans for the Modiphians community.
14:30 - Chaosium Announces
Jeff Richards from Chaosium will be giving us an update on where Chaosium are going as a company, together with full details of all the upcoming releases from both Chaosium and Moon Design for the Call of Cthulhu and Glorantha product lines.
15:30 - Ken and Robin talk about stuff
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff is the podcast of authors and game designers Kenneth Hite and Robin D. Laws. Stuff talked about includes hobby gaming, history, occultism, chrono-travel, food, cinema, narrative, art, politics, food, maps, Cthulhiana, and in fact any matter subject to jocular yet penetrating erudition. Here is one of the only chances to catch them speaking live in England.
16:30 - Joe Dever
The award winning author of Lone Wolf shares his plans for the coming year.
18:00 - What Would Jackson Elias Do?
Two of the UKs finest podcast crews go head to head in this panel. Imagine the worlds most polite rap battle with less dancing and more tentacles. The Smart Party and The Good Friends of Jackson Elias lock horns over the perennial question: why so much Cthulhu in gaming, and is it for good or ill? Raise a glass with us as we toast the very best and worst in RPGdom.
19:00 - Charity Auction in the main Foyer
Robin D. Laws returns for another Dragonmeet at the behest of Pelgrane Press, publishers of such Robin D. Laws games as Hillfolk, The Esoterrorists, Ashen Stars and The Gaean Reach. His most recent RPG is Feng Shui 2, reboot of his action movie classic, from Atlas Games. He comprises one-half of the ENnie-winning podcast Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, and can be found online at robindlaws.com. His fiction projects encompass eight novels and the short story collection New Tales of the Yellow Sign. Surrender your Christmas sandwiches.
Multiple Origins, Golden Geek, and ENnie Award winner Kenneth Hite has designed, written, or co-authored more than 80 roleplaying games and supplements, including the Star Trek Roleplaying Game, Mage: The Sorcerers’ Crusade, GURPS Horror, Call of Cthulhu d20, The Dresden Files RPG, Qelong, The Day After Ragnarok, and the Deadlands Noir Companion. Now a staff writer at Pelgrane Press, his work for them includes the Trail Of Cthulhu and Night’s Black Agents RPGs, the Ken Writes About Stuff series of PDFs, Bookhounds of London, and The Dracula Dossier.
Outside adventure gaming, his works include Tour de Lovecraft: the Tales, Cthulhu 101, The Nazi Occult for Osprey Publishing, and a series of Lovecraftian children’s books. He has several published Cthulhu Mythos short stories, and writes the “Lost in Lovecraft” column for Weird Tales and a regular column for Sweden’s Fenix magazine. An Artistic Associate at Chicago’s WildClaw Theatre, he served as dramaturg for their recent stage production of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Half the podcasting team behind Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, he lives in Chicago with two Lovecraftian cats and his non-Lovecraftian wife, Sheila. Look for him on Facebook (facebook.com/kenneth.hite) and Twitter (@kennethhite).
Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan is a writer and game designer from Ireland. He's worked for Mongoose Publishing and Cubicle 7, and is now on staff at Pelgrane Press. He's written editions of Traveller, Paranoia, the Laundry Files, as well as more books than he can comfortably recall. Recent projects include the epic Dracula Dossier (368 pages) and Eyes of the Stone Thief (360 pages), which may explain why he missed last year's Dragonmeet on account of an injured spine. Find him online as @mytholder.
Rob Heinsoo is the creative director of Fire Opal Media and the line editor and developer of 13th Age for Pelgrane Press. He's the co-designer of 13th Age and the upcoming 13th Age in Glorantha, the designer of Epic Spell Wars, Three-Dragon Ante, and many other card games, roleplaying games, and miniatures games. You can find him at robheinsoo.blogspot.com or as @robheinsoo on Twitter.
Lawyer and knitter by day, Becky Annison is the designer behind "When the Dark is Gone" a game published in the upcoming Seven Wonders Anthology by Pelgrane Press. She has also recently completed a successful Kickstarter campaign for "Lovecraftesque" with her co-designer Josh Fox. Becky is interested in how we can better understand and experience emotions in role-playing from the joyful to the cathartic and she is passionate about inclusivity and diversity in gaming.
Mike Mason is a writer and game designer, who works as Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu Line Editor. Previous to Chaosium, Mike managed Black Industries, Games Workshop’s RPG and board game division. Mike is the co-writer of Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition and also the Dark Heresy RPG. Recent projects include Pulp Cthulhu and the Grand Grimoire of the Cthulhu Mythos (a spell compendium of over 500 Call of Cthulhu spells), as well as contributing author for The Curse of Nineveh campaign from Cubicle 7. Find him on Facebook, G+, and at chaosium.com
Multiple Origins, Golden Geek, and ENnie Award winner Kenneth Hite has designed, written, or co-authored more than 80 roleplaying games and supplements, including the Star Trek Roleplaying Game, Mage: The Sorcerers’ Crusade, GURPS Horror, Call of Cthulhu d20, The Dresden Files RPG, Qelong, The Day After Ragnarok, and the Deadlands Noir Companion. Now a staff writer at Pelgrane Press, his work for them includes the Trail Of Cthulhu and Night’s Black Agents RPGs, the Ken Writes About Stuff series of PDFs, Bookhounds of London, and The Dracula Dossier.
Outside adventure gaming, his works include Tour de Lovecraft: the Tales, Cthulhu 101, The Nazi Occult for Osprey Publishing, and a series of Lovecraftian children’s books. He has several published Cthulhu Mythos short stories, and writes the “Lost in Lovecraft” column for Weird Tales and a regular column for Sweden’s Fenix magazine. An Artistic Associate at Chicago’s WildClaw Theatre, he served as dramaturg for their recent stage production of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Half the podcasting team behind Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, he lives in Chicago with two Lovecraftian cats and his non-Lovecraftian wife, Sheila. Look for him on Facebook (facebook.com/kenneth.hite) and Twitter (@kennethhite).
Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan is a writer and game designer from Ireland. He's worked for Mongoose Publishing and Cubicle 7, and is now on staff at Pelgrane Press. He's written editions of Traveller, Paranoia, the Laundry Files, as well as more books than he can comfortably recall. Recent projects include the epic Dracula Dossier (368 pages) and Eyes of the Stone Thief (360 pages), which may explain why he missed last year's Dragonmeet on account of an injured spine. Find him online as @mytholder.
Rob Heinsoo is the creative director of Fire Opal Media and the line editor and developer of 13th Age for Pelgrane Press. He's the co-designer of 13th Age and the upcoming 13th Age in Glorantha, the designer of Epic Spell Wars, Three-Dragon Ante, and many other card games, roleplaying games, and miniatures games. You can find him at robheinsoo.blogspot.com or as @robheinsoo on Twitter.
Lawyer and knitter by day, Becky Annison is the designer behind "When the Dark is Gone" a game published in the upcoming Seven Wonders Anthology by Pelgrane Press. She has also recently completed a successful Kickstarter campaign for "Lovecraftesque" with her co-designer Josh Fox. Becky is interested in how we can better understand and experience emotions in role-playing from the joyful to the cathartic and she is passionate about inclusivity and diversity in gaming.
Mike Mason is a writer and game designer, who works as Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu Line Editor. Previous to Chaosium, Mike managed Black Industries, Games Workshop’s RPG and board game division. Mike is the co-writer of Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition and also the Dark Heresy RPG. Recent projects include Pulp Cthulhu and the Grand Grimoire of the Cthulhu Mythos (a spell compendium of over 500 Call of Cthulhu spells), as well as contributing author for The Curse of Nineveh campaign from Cubicle 7. Find him on Facebook, G+, and at chaosium.com