| Title | Tank Wars |
| System | Is it a Plane!? |
| GM | Chris Dean |
| Age Rating | Child Friendly |
| Genre | 90s arcade shoot ’em up video game mixed with 80s / 90s action adventure cartoon. |
| Tags | Rules Lite, Newbie Friendly, GM’s Own System |
| Players | 2-6 |
| Content Warnings | None |
| Description | You’re the Hypertanks, a team of war machines imprinted with copies of human minds, and heroes of the Human Arachnoid War. You are part of a parade celebrating the War’s end. Everything is going well, until ominous shapes form in the sky… Is it a Plane!? is a published RPG that replaces dice rolls with rapid doodles in limited time! Whenever you do something that would normally require getting some dice out, you instead must doodle what you are attempting to do. Nobody has the time for artistic skill, so stick figures are all you need. And although you cannot tell the Editor (GM) exactly what you’ve drawn, you can point out any stats you are using from your character sheet, and indicate any elements of a scene that have already been described as clues to help them interpret your panels. Multiple players can doodle at the same time, and work together placing Panels (laminated pieces of card) onto two pages to create overlapping scenes. Panels vary in size and Power, and based on the Editor’s interpretations, the Power is distributed to either weaken or strengthen the Situations you face, create or remove Situations, and increase or reduce Pressure that you face. |
| Title | The Orbs of Night and Day |
| System | BREAK!! |
| GM | David Creighton-Offord |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Anime styled fantasy adventure |
| Tags | Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 3-5 |
| Content Warnings | None expected |
| Description | Outer World is broken. Most struggle to survive, huddling together in the ruins of the past. Will you protect or abandon them? Some pockets of civilization remain. Their leaders seek to shape the future. Will you help or hinder them? Forgotten knowledge and lost treasures are rumored to have the power to change the status quo. Will you wield them wisely? Influential heroes and villains roam the land, leaving a wake of irrevocable change behind them. Will you survive long enough to become one of them? In the lands of the Twilight the Trade Guilds prepare for the Grand Tournament. A gathering of sky sailors, fighters and athletes in a series of games that last for weeks. In the pairs duelling tournament the great prize is the Orbs of Night and Day. Normally these orbs are kept in the Guild Halls of the winners’ city, this time on the Isle of Iron Bones. It is up to you to transport the Orbs to the tournament, where they will be put on display. Be warned, there are those who would steal the orbs and their means are varied and wild. The Skelemaster, Calcium Cal, would have the Orbs as part of his collection of pretty things, all the better to indulge his vanity. The Smoke Clan sky pirates seek the orbs for their own wealth. Finally, and strangest of all, there have been rumours of a large self powered wagon that can move between locations and perhaps even worlds…. In BREAK!! the players take on the role of adventurers, plucky souls that roam Outer World in search of truth and treasure. The game takes place in the Outer World, a fantastical place where day and night no longer cycle with the crashing of the “Sky Machine”. This has left a world with continents forever shrouded in darkness, held in twilight or bathed in perpetual light. Taking on one of several classes and races, each with their own specialisms and quirks, parties explore, negotiate, fight, craft and create their own destinies. |
| Title | Pride & Prejudice & Centipedes |
| System | Household |
| GM | Michael Paul O’Sullivan |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Tags | Rules Lite, Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 2-5 |
| Content Warnings | None |
| Description | By the side of the Great Stairs, where the Entry Hall opens up on the Short Hallway, there’s a merry little hearthish village known as Stairside. The rural landscape here seems to exist outside of time, the many mouse ranches and vast farmlands are sure to charm any traveler passing through. And there, tucked away in the dusty streets of Stairside, there’s an old-timey tavern. The creaking wooden sign has certainly seen better days, but it still happily announces “The Blue Rat”. Our littlings gathered here… But why? Household is a game filled with adventure, intrigue, and social interactions set in a large abandoned House in a time that resembles the first years of our XIX century. Players take on the role of littlings, the Little Folk from European folklore, such as faeries, boggars, sprites or sluagh. |
| Title | WST Sector Story |
| System | Paranoia (toned down for kids) |
| GM | Peter Raisen |
| Age Rating | Child Friendly |
| Genre | Slapstick Post Apocalypse Si-Fi |
| Tags | Rules Lite, Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 3-6 |
| Content Warnings | Content warning – cartoon violence and temporary death will happen |
| Description | Your nursery just received a classified briefing, someone read it, you are now the only people who can save Teela O MLY because the briefing was a self-destruct tape. If Teela (the video star) is not rescued Alpha Complex will collapse and be destroyed. |
| Title | Crystal Waters |
| System | Nefas |
| GM | Hamish Cameron |
| Age Rating | Adult only (ages 18+) |
| Genre | Lovecraftian Horror investigation in the Roman Empire; character death and success are both possible. |
| Tags | Newbie Friendly, GM’s Own System |
| Players | 2-4 |
| Content Warnings | supernatural elements, ritual magic, murder, injustice, possible character death, elements of historical realism and/or anachronism (some will be decided at the table). |
| Description | Malata. The golden sands of its swimming beach. The crystal clear waters of the bay. The sandstone cliff dotted with rock-cut tombs and houses. The bustling port for Gortyn, one of Crete’s most important cities. Destination port of an Imperial legate, sent to Gortyn by Hadrian for an unknown task. Soon the lives of Malata’s inhabitants will be forever changed, but maybe four of the ordinary people on who find themselves on Malata’s docks on this bright morning can prevent the destruction that is to come. Nefas is a in-development Powered by the Apocalypse game of Lovecraftian horror set in the Roman Empire. You play ordinary people who must grapple with the supernatural and otherworldly to save yourselves and hopefully your family, friends and neighbours. Safety tools, including lines and veils, open table, x-card/t-card, etc, will be discussed at the table. |
| Title | Agent Omega in: Hazmat Island! |
| System | Mission Impawssible |
| GM | Morgan E |
| Age Rating | Child Friendly |
| Genre | Ridiculous Spy Flick |
| Tags | Rules Lite, Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 3-5 |
| Content Warnings | Harm to Animals |
| Description | Madame Meltdown has nefarious plans on Hazmat Island! You, Agent Omega, spy extraordinare (and a group of hungry raccoons in a trench coat) must put a stop to those plans and save the day! |
| Title | Trenches |
| System | D&D 2024 |
| GM | Adam Prior |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | WW1 style warfare in a Fantasy setting |
| Tags | |
| Players | 3-6 |
| Content Warnings | Warfare, WW1, death, mud. |
| Description | As the Dwarvern Civil war stretches into it’s 8th Decade a new group of conscripts arrive on the front lines in the ruins of the ancient capital city. Will they be able to survive the oncoming battle or will they meet the fate of those that have come before them? After the death of the High King at the hands of the clan whose name is not spoken the dwarven empire has fragmented into civil war with the various clans fighting to hold the capital city and proclaim themselves the empires new ruler. The war has raged on for 8 decades now and many of the unprotected holds have been raided by Orcs forcing the civilian populations to flee. The ‘unclanned’ dwarves are often conscripted into the clans armies as extra warm bodies to throw at their enemies. You and the rest of your party are some of these conscripts forced to fight for Clan Felspar over the ruins of the capital. With your help will the next big push actually succeed? Will you be able to escape the slaughter or will you join all those that have come before you. A somewhat gritty WW1 inspired game using the D&D 2024 rule system. |
| Title | ReContact! |
| System | Mongoose Traveller 2nd Ed |
| GM | Martin Pickett |
| Age Rating | Adult only (ages 18+) |
| Genre | Sci-Fi |
| Tags | Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 3-6 |
| Content Warnings | None |
| Description | Skenta (Foreven 1032). Interdicted for 400 years since a civil war destroyed the single habitable planet, killing nearly 3 billion sophonts in the process. To contain the threat, their neighbours destroyed every jump-capable ship in the system and retreated, wiping the databases of every mention of Skenta except a stark prohibition on contact. To this day the Skenta League and the Vilhet Open Alliance continue their bitter conflict through minor incidents and regrettable mistakes, each side maneuvering for advantage over the other. On a lonely research base hidden in the asteroid fields, scientists seek to re-invent the jump drive, a weapon that would all but guarantee victory for the VOA. Unless the enemy get it first. And unless something else happens… |
| Title | A Poisonous Affair |
| System | D&D 5e (2014) |
| GM | Paresh |
| Age Rating | Adult only (ages 18+) |
| Genre | High fantasy |
| Tags | Rules Lite, Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 3-5 |
| Content Warnings | Fantasy violence |
| Description | A recent poisoning of water bodies has become a matter of concern for people of Greenmeadows. With the election coming close, the mayor feels it might be a sabotage attempt by his rivals. But the scale at which the poisoning has happened seems a bit out of their pay grade. Whether it is political foul play or something more supernatural, you have been asked to find the cause and save the little town. It is a beginner friendly game set at level 2. I will be providing character sheets. |
| Title | Dropzone |
| System | Homebrew |
| GM | Alan Jackson |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Sci-fi, horror, action |
| Tags | Rules Lite, GM’s Own System |
| Players | 3-6 |
| Content Warnings | Action movie violence, possible player treachery |
| Description | Join the marines, see the galaxy. Colony planet LV-426 has stopped responding. Time to send in the marines. Must be pirates, no such thing as aliens, right? Right? You have been sent to save the day, in this movie inspired action horror game. Using a lightweight homebrew system, expect action, mayhem, despair, laughter and tragedy as you figure out who the bad guys are and then shoot your friends anyway. This Conpulsion staple has run for far too many years, but somehow I just can’t stop, so come see if you can find a new ending! |
| Title | Escape from Lenton Gaol |
| System | The Hooded Man |
| GM | Iain Nisbet |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Historical, Swashbuckling, Robin Hood |
| Tags | Rules Lite, Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 3-5 |
| Content Warnings | Incarceration plays a central theme in this adventure |
| Description | The player characters have been imprisoned for a variety of (minor) crimes against the Norman state and are facing likely punishment. We will discover together the nature of these crimes as part of the quick and easy character creation process. Behind bars and without any equipment or outside assistance, player characters will have to work together and devise a plan to escape from the prison before feeling to safety beyond the Sheriff’s grasp! |
| Title | Castle of the Robber Knight |
| System | Dragonbane |
| GM | Mark |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Tags | |
| Players | 4-5 |
| Content Warnings | |
| 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? |