Evening Games
20.00 to 23.45
GM: Kevin Rolfe
Game: Achtung Cthulhu: Dad’s Army vs the Deep Ones
Number of Players: 5
System: Achtung Cthulhu 7th Ed
Description: It's Dad's Army vs the Deep Ones.
Walmington on sea, may never be the same again.
Don't panic Mr Mannering... and for God's sake don't tell em your name Pike...
GM: Max Foster
Game: Tale of Gold and Salt
Number of Players: 5
System: D&D 4th
Description: Sequel to Embers of Salt. After saving Lukal Skyrunner from execution, he has entered a self imposed exile to meditate. Upon receiving a grand vision, the players will be tasked with delving into a city within the Underdark to retreive the last component for his ritual.
An adventure for 8-10th level characters.
This will be a short 3-hour adventure
GM: Ian Sandford
Game: The Doors Behind Time
Number of Players: 4
System: Cthulhu Dark
Description: In a time of fear and zealotry, the Ingham family
are executed for witchcraft. Afterwards, those
who gave evidence against them are found dead.
As the Investigators dig deeper, they discover a
long and dark history of vengeance. In the end,
they must make a choice: do they sacrifice their
lives or become a tool of revenge?
The Doors Beyond Time is a mystery about
vengeance, injustice and forces beyond time and
imagination.
GM: Hreg Mysterio
Game: Wranglers in the Menagerie of Extraordinary Fauna
Number of Players: 6
System: Dungeon Crawl Classics
Description: Radicalised druid cultists have released all the rare and exotic beasts in the Potentate's prized menagerie. Your party has been hired to round the critters up.
In this fantasy adventure, players will need to use their wits and ingenuity to capture, rather than kill, a diverse and deadly array of mythological creatures. It won't be easy, but there will be great rewards in store for returning the beasts to their cages, unharmed.
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG from Goodman Games will feel familiar to anyone who has played classic Dungeons & Dragons, but with innovative new rules for wild magic that makes the game world feel more dangerous, weird and unpredictable. What's more, the game uses all those polyhedral dice that you never get to use, like the D24, D30 and D16, so bring them along if you have them. If not, don't worry, the GM's got you covered.
Each player will be given a pre-generated 1st level character. The GM advises that you don't get too attached to them.
GM: Nick Shepley
Game: The Daggers of Dran
Number of Players: 8
System: D&D 5th
Description: A wounded dispatch rider on a desperate mission to the warlike city of Dran begs the party for help as he tries to evade a band of assassins. Guide the rider and his precious package to the city across the Arclands wilderness, through mysterious ruins that contain an ancient evil.
GM: Matt Wrycraft
Evening slot: 8pm-Midnight
For 6 players
Roleplaying game
Name of game: PFS 9-03: On the Border of War
System: Pathfinder Society
Description:
For levels 5-9.
Brevoy may seem a united country, but its noble houses are ever on the brink of warfare while King Noleski Surtova struggles to keep the peace and prove his legitimacy. A neutral township's baron has died, and the loyalists of several houses have rekindled old rivalries while maneuvering for their respective lords to control the region. As the noble houses maneuver armies nearby in the name of "peacekeeping," the teeters on the precipice of war. Hostilities could spell the end of a famous ruin that the Society is yet to document, and Pathfinders must travel into the powder keg region to delay hostilities long enough to salvage and study the site. For the truly ambitious, it may be possible to avert the war altogether, but canny nobles as likely to see the PCs as pawns as mediators.
GM: Michael Kamine
Evening slot: 8pm-Midnight
For 6 players
Roleplaying game
Name of game: SFS 1-02: Fugitive on the Red Planet
System: Starfinder Society
Description:
For levels 1-4.
Theft cannot be tolerated, especially when the culprit is a former Starfinder! The PCs travel to the red world of Akiton, hot on the heels of a deserting Starfinder who stole a magical relic from the vaults of the Lorespire Complex. Things get complicated when they discover what should be a dreary town in Akiton's wastelands is now positively jubilant. Could this revelry, not to mention the re-opening of town's formerly defunct mining operations, be related to the wayward Starfinder?
GM: Dan Jewell
Evening slot: 8pm-Midnight
For 6 players
Roleplaying game
Name of game: PFS 8-17: Refugees of the Weary Sky
System: Pathfinder Society
Description:
For levels 7-11.
As the Jistka Imperium decayed from within, its artificers and elementalists struggled to repel invaders from Osirion to the east. To channel their elemental power, the spellcasters constructed the mighty Citadel of the Weary Sky, but so much energy attracted a mighty fiend that crushed the tower. The Pathfinder Society knows that many of the mages escaped, but only recently and with the help of a new ally did it learn where they fled. Now the PCs set off for a forgotten Jistkan sanctuary where otherworldly forces now reign.
Content contributes to the storylines of the Grand Lodge and Scarab Sages factions.
GM: Mike Davey, Matthew Owen, Andrew Hicks, Chris Manning, Dave Harrison
All day from 11am until 5pm
For 6 players
Walk-up-and play 1 hour demos
Roleplaying game:
Name of game: Starfinder “Into the Unknown” quests
System: Starfinder Society
Description:
Pregenerated character provided.
A series of five Starfinder Quests designed for 1st-level characters.
When a mysterious visitor comes to Absalom Station selling items belonging to a lost Starfinder, the Starfinder Society takes note. The PCs are dispatched to discover out how the recent arrival found these items, leading them on a series of quests beyond the Pact Worlds and into the stars. This takes the PCs from exploring Absalom Station, to partaking in starship combat, to exploring an alien world. The stunning conclusion takes the PC's previous accomplishments into account for a climactic final showdown against an enemy starship.
Game: Achtung Cthulhu: Dad’s Army vs the Deep Ones
Number of Players: 5
System: Achtung Cthulhu 7th Ed
Description: It's Dad's Army vs the Deep Ones.
Walmington on sea, may never be the same again.
Don't panic Mr Mannering... and for God's sake don't tell em your name Pike...
GM: Max Foster
Game: Tale of Gold and Salt
Number of Players: 5
System: D&D 4th
Description: Sequel to Embers of Salt. After saving Lukal Skyrunner from execution, he has entered a self imposed exile to meditate. Upon receiving a grand vision, the players will be tasked with delving into a city within the Underdark to retreive the last component for his ritual.
An adventure for 8-10th level characters.
This will be a short 3-hour adventure
GM: Ian Sandford
Game: The Doors Behind Time
Number of Players: 4
System: Cthulhu Dark
Description: In a time of fear and zealotry, the Ingham family
are executed for witchcraft. Afterwards, those
who gave evidence against them are found dead.
As the Investigators dig deeper, they discover a
long and dark history of vengeance. In the end,
they must make a choice: do they sacrifice their
lives or become a tool of revenge?
The Doors Beyond Time is a mystery about
vengeance, injustice and forces beyond time and
imagination.
GM: Hreg Mysterio
Game: Wranglers in the Menagerie of Extraordinary Fauna
Number of Players: 6
System: Dungeon Crawl Classics
Description: Radicalised druid cultists have released all the rare and exotic beasts in the Potentate's prized menagerie. Your party has been hired to round the critters up.
In this fantasy adventure, players will need to use their wits and ingenuity to capture, rather than kill, a diverse and deadly array of mythological creatures. It won't be easy, but there will be great rewards in store for returning the beasts to their cages, unharmed.
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG from Goodman Games will feel familiar to anyone who has played classic Dungeons & Dragons, but with innovative new rules for wild magic that makes the game world feel more dangerous, weird and unpredictable. What's more, the game uses all those polyhedral dice that you never get to use, like the D24, D30 and D16, so bring them along if you have them. If not, don't worry, the GM's got you covered.
Each player will be given a pre-generated 1st level character. The GM advises that you don't get too attached to them.
GM: Nick Shepley
Game: The Daggers of Dran
Number of Players: 8
System: D&D 5th
Description: A wounded dispatch rider on a desperate mission to the warlike city of Dran begs the party for help as he tries to evade a band of assassins. Guide the rider and his precious package to the city across the Arclands wilderness, through mysterious ruins that contain an ancient evil.
GM: Matt Wrycraft
Evening slot: 8pm-Midnight
For 6 players
Roleplaying game
Name of game: PFS 9-03: On the Border of War
System: Pathfinder Society
Description:
For levels 5-9.
Brevoy may seem a united country, but its noble houses are ever on the brink of warfare while King Noleski Surtova struggles to keep the peace and prove his legitimacy. A neutral township's baron has died, and the loyalists of several houses have rekindled old rivalries while maneuvering for their respective lords to control the region. As the noble houses maneuver armies nearby in the name of "peacekeeping," the teeters on the precipice of war. Hostilities could spell the end of a famous ruin that the Society is yet to document, and Pathfinders must travel into the powder keg region to delay hostilities long enough to salvage and study the site. For the truly ambitious, it may be possible to avert the war altogether, but canny nobles as likely to see the PCs as pawns as mediators.
GM: Michael Kamine
Evening slot: 8pm-Midnight
For 6 players
Roleplaying game
Name of game: SFS 1-02: Fugitive on the Red Planet
System: Starfinder Society
Description:
For levels 1-4.
Theft cannot be tolerated, especially when the culprit is a former Starfinder! The PCs travel to the red world of Akiton, hot on the heels of a deserting Starfinder who stole a magical relic from the vaults of the Lorespire Complex. Things get complicated when they discover what should be a dreary town in Akiton's wastelands is now positively jubilant. Could this revelry, not to mention the re-opening of town's formerly defunct mining operations, be related to the wayward Starfinder?
GM: Dan Jewell
Evening slot: 8pm-Midnight
For 6 players
Roleplaying game
Name of game: PFS 8-17: Refugees of the Weary Sky
System: Pathfinder Society
Description:
For levels 7-11.
As the Jistka Imperium decayed from within, its artificers and elementalists struggled to repel invaders from Osirion to the east. To channel their elemental power, the spellcasters constructed the mighty Citadel of the Weary Sky, but so much energy attracted a mighty fiend that crushed the tower. The Pathfinder Society knows that many of the mages escaped, but only recently and with the help of a new ally did it learn where they fled. Now the PCs set off for a forgotten Jistkan sanctuary where otherworldly forces now reign.
Content contributes to the storylines of the Grand Lodge and Scarab Sages factions.
GM: Mike Davey, Matthew Owen, Andrew Hicks, Chris Manning, Dave Harrison
All day from 11am until 5pm
For 6 players
Walk-up-and play 1 hour demos
Roleplaying game:
Name of game: Starfinder “Into the Unknown” quests
System: Starfinder Society
Description:
Pregenerated character provided.
A series of five Starfinder Quests designed for 1st-level characters.
When a mysterious visitor comes to Absalom Station selling items belonging to a lost Starfinder, the Starfinder Society takes note. The PCs are dispatched to discover out how the recent arrival found these items, leading them on a series of quests beyond the Pact Worlds and into the stars. This takes the PCs from exploring Absalom Station, to partaking in starship combat, to exploring an alien world. The stunning conclusion takes the PC's previous accomplishments into account for a climactic final showdown against an enemy starship.