| Title | Whiplash |
| System | I Love the Corps |
| GM | Chris Dean |
| Age Rating | Adult only (ages 18+) |
| Genre | Military sci-fi action-horror |
| Tags | Newbie Friendly, GM’s Own System |
| Players | 3-6 |
| Content Warnings | It’ll be a gory survival horror |
| Description | Prince Alastair of Avalon colony is holding political talks at Ramdale Castle. You’re a squad of Peacekeeper marines, assigned as the security detail of General Absen, as he attends these clandestine talks. Can you make sure he sets foot back on the dropship by morning? I Love the Corps is a published military science-fiction action-horror RPG set in the year of 2450 following squads of marines from the United Colonial Marine Corps. The game’s task resolution system involves adding a chosen ability score + bonuses and penalties to either the result of 1d6 or a passive score. Rather than rolling for every action, an ability total generated can be used repeatedly for similar actions. Gameplay splits largely into narrative scenes. Each narrative scene has 3 beats, and each PC gets one active ability (1d6 + plus modifiers) and passive ability (3+ modifiers) per beat. So choose wisely, as your totals oi the final beat of the scene dictate how it ends, and what position you’re in if thrown into an action scene! |
| Title | Stabbing Through a Town |
| System | Liminal Horror |
| GM | Zoe |
| Age Rating | Adult only (ages 18+) |
| Genre | Slasher Horror |
| Tags | Rules Lite, Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 3-6 |
| Content Warnings | Slasher horror so expect some body horror, scary monsters, gore, violence, violence against children (possible) |
| Description | There is this town that’s been abandoned for years and people keep telling ghost stories about it. Sounds like the ideal vacation spot! Or the ideal place to die… Enter into a world of slasher flicks. Where something sinister is stalking you in the shadows, and all you have are your wits and scavenged tools to survive and fight your way out against this nightmare. Can you escape and be a final girl/boy/person/creature, or will you succumb to the darkness…? Using the liminal horror rules and a modified one-shot setting, you will get to pick a horror archetype and battle against the odds and try to come out, covered in blood or slime or something, as a survivor! |
| Title | Unravel: A Bunch of Dummies |
| System | Unravel |
| GM | Violet |
| Age Rating | Adult only (ages 18+) |
| Genre | 70s supernatural horror with a dash of conspiracy |
| Tags | Rules Lite |
| Players | 3-5 |
| Content Warnings | Puppets, disease, possession |
| Description | You will play as Condemned, everyday citizens who have been threatened, coerced, or otherwise compelled into the service of the Other Ministry, a shadowy organisation claiming to be a part of the British government. You have been tasked with investigating a strange illness affecting the residents of Wystcliffe, a dillapidated seaside resort town. The illness has no clear cause, but the progression is consistent: muscle stiffness, leading to paralysis, and eventually a strange form of waking coma. What could be the source of this infection? What is that rattling sound in the hospital vents? And what does all of this have to do with the construction work at the old abandoned amusement arcade? |
| Title | Over Hill and Under Hill |
| System | The One Ring (2nd Edition) |
| GM | David Allen |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Fantasy (Middle-earth) |
| Tags | Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 3-5 |
| Content Warnings | Harm to animals, threat/indirect harm to children, fantasy violence |
| Description | Something stirs in the hills of Eriador. A shadow long thought vanished from Middle-earth now lengthens again upon the North Downs near Bree, bringing with it death and despair. You, a company of adventurers under the patronage of Lady Gilraen of the Dúnedain, have been called to Bree to speak with someone who has sensed this lurking terror, and to try to investigate and snuff out its source before it can cause more harm. In this game, I’ll be running the introductory adventure from the starter set for the Middle-earth RPG The One Ring, perfect for newcomers to the system (though those more familiar with it are equally welcome). |
| Title | Don’t Take Your Guns to Town |
| System | Tales of the Old West |
| GM | Robbi Graves |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Western |
| Tags | |
| Players | 2-5 |
| Content Warnings | Violence, Vigilantism |
| Description | This is an adventure for the Tales of the Old West System, set in the American West of the 1870s. A young cowboy named Billy Joe has been shot down in the local saloon. Eyewitness reports differ as to the circumstances, but some say it was in cold blood. With no real law in town to speak of, some of the townsfolk are organizing a posse to go hunt down the gunman and dispense some frontier justice. But is there more to this story? Your characters can investigate the killing and draw their own conclusions, taking whichever side they see fit. But despite what you’ve seen in the movies, life in the Old West is never black-and-white. |
| Title | Into the Dark |
| System | Rolemaster |
| GM | Peter Raisen |
| Age Rating | Adult only (ages 18+) |
| Genre | Steampunk with cthulhu cultists in a grimdark (oh yes DARK) world |
| Tags | |
| Players | 3-6 |
| Content Warnings | GRIMDARK!! be told. You are opposing evil – very evil and the evidence alone is evil. Full on victorian underbelly |
| Description | Victoriana, steam-punked, cultists, insane imperialists gone even worse. They have the money, the manpower and the will to commit a great evil. Only lunatics would stand against the tide of history. Hello players. |
| Title | The Wavestone Monolith |
| System | Shadowdark |
| GM | Lucy Winters |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Fantasy eldritch horror |
| Tags | Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 3-5 |
| Content Warnings | Lovecraftian elements, a wide spread of typical gruesome 80s and 90s horror tropes. |
| Description | They say the lost civilisation that inhabited Wavestone left behind piles of gold and gems… and echoing, inhuman howls on moonless nights. Forgotten places like this are where the Shadowdark holds sway, and where aspiring treasure-seekers like yourselves dare to venture in search of gold and glory. Come play Shadowdark, an old-school fantasy adventure game designed with a modern perspective, where real time matches in-game time and a torch only buys you a real-life hour of light. Expect fast and deadly combat, harrowing dungeon crawling, and chaotic random tables driving your adventure at every turn. Pregenerated characters will be available and no experience is necessary. |
| Title | Desperate Measures |
| System | The Code of Cthulhu |
| GM | Simon Burley |
| Age Rating | Adult only (ages 18+) |
| Genre | Classic Cthulhu Scenario but more like The Evil Dead than The Exorcist |
| Tags | Rules Lite, Newbie Friendly, GM’s Own System |
| Players | 3-5 |
| Content Warnings | Infanticide amongst other things |
| Description | “Hey – please, it’s Mira. Mira Peri.I’m sorry to call like this, but I don’t know who else to turn to. “The police in California just called me. They say my sister, Wendy, was killed – hit by a car. They’re asking me next-of-kin questions like this is normal. “But Wendy was murdered sixteen years ago. Mum smothered her in her cot. “You were there when we buried her. “I hired a PI because I thought I was losing my mind. Now he’s not answering, and I can’t shake the feeling that something is very wrong. “Please. I need help. Call me back.” An adaptation of a classic Call of Cthulhu scenario – written by Keith Craig – to The Code of Cthulhu Rules. Warning Adult content including infanticide. Player-driven, roleplay-forward 2d6 shenanigans using a fast, easy system built for big story moments. Create your own bespoke characters touched by the paranormal. No previous experience required. Suitable for complete beginners and grizzled grognards alike. Narrative-first, cinematic, and collaborative Referee style focused on story, improvisation, and memorable character moments. |
| Title | All Crim’s Night |
| System | DnD 5e 2014 |
| GM | Emily Howell |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Fantasy crime sim |
| Tags | Rules Lite, Prior setting/system knowledge preferable |
| Players | 4-8 |
| Content Warnings | Crime, fantasy typical violence, non-graphic descriptions of adultery |
| Description | Every year Duke Abeyo of Red Castle tests his guards by hosting All Crim’s Night, a night where he invites every thief and criminal gang in Red Castle to try to invade his castle, get past the Crimson Guard, and reach his treasury vault. The first team to reach the vault is rewarded with a handshake from the Duke and five minutes to take whatever they can carry. On All Crim’s Night, mayhem, thievery, and betrayal is allowed and encouraged. A not-too-serious one-shot for players with prior DnD experience. This adventure will come with pre-made character sheets for players to choose from, or 10-15 minutes at the start of the session to create your own character or alter the premade ones. Character death and PvP possible. Based on the adventure “Plunder and Siege” by Johnny Chiodini, DM of The Oxventurer’s Guild DnD campaign which can be found on the “Oxventure” channel on Youtube. |
| Title | City Slickers |
| System | Golden Sky Stories |
| GM | Matthew Hambley |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Japanese bucolic whimsy |
| Tags | Rules Lite, Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 2-4 |
| Content Warnings | Magic, wholesomeness, every-day peril |
| Description | A setting in the style of “My Neighbour Totoro” and “Kiki’s Delivery Service.” Play as magical animals who can adopt the appearance of a human child. Help the town and its people, do good deeds, get up to mischief and have adventures under the setting sun. |
| Title | The Abandoned Onsen Mystery (Version 2) |
| System | Wave man |
| GM | Stephen L McMorland |
| Age Rating | Adult only (ages 18+) |
| Genre | Fantasy/Psychological horror/Ghost story |
| Tags | |
| Players | 3-5 |
| Content Warnings | Likely to be a bit scary, some violence, of a fantastical nature and psychological aspects similar to gaslighting or playing upon fears, no gore other Lines and Veils to be discussed |
| Description | This is the second version of this experiment, as with version one on Saturday this is the same scenario, same setting but different system, depending on the system rules the characters might be a variety of classic Feudal Japan archetypes, including fantasy races like Kitsune or Kappa etc. You are five travellers that have been caught out in a terrific thunderstorm while travelling through the Japanese countryside, just as you felt like you would die from lightning strikes or drowning in the torrential rain, you spot a light, following it, you come to a traditional Hot Springs Inn, an Onsen, entering it you discover the other characters but no one else, the place still has warm food on the tables and signs of recent occupancy, but no guests, no staff, something is very wrong, and now you are trapped here with whatever happened to the others sure to happen to you, unless you solve the mystery, can you trust the others? Can they trust you? This is a ghost story, a psychological Horror and a fantasy game. |