| Title | The Thunder Perfect Mind |
| System | The Thunder Perfect Mind |
| GM | Tanya Floaker |
| Age Rating | Adult only (ages 18+) |
| Genre | Occult Action Thriller |
| Tags | Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 2-6 |
| Content Warnings | Dark urban fantasy, death, physical violence, divergent views of reality |
| Description | You are a Tethered Aeon As a revenant with powerful supernatural abilities, struggle to free yourself from the toxic nostalgia for a past life that led to your tragic death. This becomes harder as you find yourself embroiled in deadly politics and esoteric mysteries which lead into a future of melancholy and doom. Pursue breakneck action, Interpersonal drama, and Occult investigation to shatter the illusion of helplessness in the here and now! Find Truth or be Forever Lost |
| Title | Bizarre British Wrestling |
| System | World Wide Wrestling 2nd Edition |
| GM | David Creighton-Offord |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Professional wrestling with an emphasis on comedy |
| Tags | Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 2-6 |
| Content Warnings | Violence, interpersonal conflict, terrible puns |
| Description | Bizarre British Wrestling is a promotion going through some issues. Multiple injured wrestlers, a writing team in meltdown, the loss of a streaming contract… Will you be the wrestler who finds opportunity in the ongoing chaos? Will you push for money? The love of the crowd? The respect of your peers? A championship? Or something more personal? Will you be a beloved Babyface, or villainous Heel? Will you be a monster on the microphone, or make your magic in the ring? Will you stand tall or take a fall? Find out at “Freaky in Auld Reekie!” World Wide Wrestling is a Powered by the Apocalypse game focused on the lives of professional wrestlers both inside and outside the ring. It uses a relatively simple 2d6 die system with the ability to spend momentum in order to juice up your die rolls. At any time that players are in a match, the other players can jump onto the commentary team, adding colour to commentary and even putting over the players once per match, turning failure to success with a few well chosen words. The tone of this game is going to be more focused on the more extravagant wrestling styles of the early 90s and Lucha Libre than more aggressive styles of wrestling like Strong Style or Deathmatch. This is more Goofy Wrestling for Life than Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch. While you don’t need to be a full on connoisseur of the squared circle, it does help to know a little bit about wrestling. AAA Lucha Libre can currently be viewed for free on YouTube, as can a lot of classic matches from a variety of promotions. |
| Title | Missing in Action |
| System | Streets of Dystopia |
| GM | Greig Watson |
| Age Rating | Adult only (ages 18+) |
| Genre | Cyberpunk sci-fi |
| Tags | Rules Lite, GM’s Own System |
| Players | 2-4 |
| Content Warnings | Drug misuse, criminal violence, social injustice |
| Description | It was supposed to be a routine job. A small two-person team infiltrated Omega Labs to extract a certain sample for the corporate client. But now the team has gone missing and fixer Benedict Black has a problem – the clock is ticking and the client is waiting for their goods! Enter the backup crew. The PCs must pick up the trail of the missing team and recover the sample at all costs. Will they track it down or will they too go missing in action? Streets of Dystopia is a rules light cyberpunk RPG inspired by classic works of fiction in the genre such as Neuromancer and Snowcrash. Set in the dystopian megacorporate-dominated city of Neotropolis, the game embraces investigation, intrigue and gritty action. |
| Title | Meat in a Tavern |
| System | Dungeon Crawl Classics |
| GM | Robbi Graves |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Fantasy (Weird/Pulp) |
| Tags | Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 2-5 |
| Content Warnings | Cannibalism, slime |
| Description | You are peasants in the city of Jordoba. One morning you wake up in a cell underground, with no memory of how you got there. Now you and your fellow captives must escape or die trying, because whoever put you there won’t be away for long, and you can bet they’re not friendly. Matt Finch’s modern classic introductory module converted to a Dungeon Crawl Classics “funnel”. You play four level zero characters with low hit points and random equipment who must dungeon-crawl their way out of a sticky situation before their captors return. |
| Title | The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces |
| System | 5e D&D (2014) |
| GM | Lucy Winters |
| Age Rating | Child Friendly |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Tags | Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 2-6 |
| Content Warnings | Fantasy/cartoon violence, brief and mild creepy atmosphere |
| Description | Candlekeep is the greatest library in all the land, a colossal scholarly citadel perched atop a rocky crag out over the Sea of Swords. All the knowledge of the world is brought there and catalogued, and within its walls live and work countless researchers, academics… and adventurers! This is a beginner-friendly 1st-level adventure for 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons where characters are pulled into a fantastical mystery by a magical tome they uncover during their studies at Candlekeep. Expect weird monsters and strange magicks around every corner! No experience is necessary and pregenerated character sheets with be provided. |
| Title | A Doctor too far |
| System | The Code of the Spacelanes |
| GM | Simon Burley |
| Age Rating | Child Friendly |
| Genre | Dr Who – classic and Nu. No Disney |
| Tags | Rules Lite, Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 2-6 |
| Content Warnings | None |
| Description | Play any* iteration of The Doctor in a cross over special that could never happen. Who has summoned you to the console room of the Tardis? A console room that each of you finds strangely “wrong” and unsettling. What’s the Universe-threatening….threat…that’s required you to cross your own time-line and put the very fabric of Time and Space at risk. Again. * No fan fiction or Big Finish. As of writing I don’t include War, Fugitive, Meta-Crisis or anything past Jodie Whittaker. Players Will Experience: * Role-play forward, player driven 2d6 shenanigans, with an easy-to learn system that generates an unforgettable experience. * You’ll use pre-generated characters but can amend them if you disagree with my design. (They’re all basically the same character anyway.) Player Requirements: * No previous experience or knowledge necessary. GM Style: Narrative-first and cinematic. Player-focused, collaborative emphasising story, improvisation, and memorable character moments. |
| Title | Matrons of Mystery – The Six Sherlocks |
| System | Matrons of Mystery |
| GM | ian muir |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Crime and Mystery |
| Tags | Rules Lite, Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 3-5 |
| Content Warnings | Murder! |
| Description | The ladies of the Wednesday Evening Sewing Circle are very excited – the Sherlock Holmes Society is having its annual convention in their little village! Everywhere they look, there are people walking around dressed in deerstalkers and cloaks, waving pipes at each other and declaring that everything is “elementary”. But, among all the Great Detectives, someone has murder in mind. Can our Matrons solve the mystery? The game, as they say, is afoot…. Player Requirements: An inquiring mind, a magnifying glass. 7 percent solution optional. |
| Title | Horror at Briarfoot Mill |
| System | Winter’s Bones |
| GM | Robert Webb |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Horror – Redwall meets Weird Fiction |
| Tags | Rules Lite, GM’s Own System |
| Players | 2-5 |
| Content Warnings | Moderate horror and violence |
| Description | I will be running a one shot called Horror at Briarfoot Mill. Once a symbol of hope and compassion, Briarfoot Mill has fallen silent. The great sails have ceased to turn, and the gears within are silent. The Briarfoots themselves have become strange and reclusive, and a series of bizarre events in nearby villages have fueled rumours that something is deeply wrong at the mill. Are you willing to risk your life to uncover the truth? Winter’s Bones is a game of folk horror, inevitable decay, fleeting hope, and small heroism. The system is designed for short campaigns and tragic, bittersweet stories. A rules light horror hex-crawler, Winter’s Bones is a unique mix of old and new. Redwall meets Robert W. Chambers. Players take on the role of Mice in a world of fleeting summers, and dark, unforgiving winters. As the summer sun fades, and the frost takes hold, nightmarish creatures emerge from deep below the surface to terrorize its unfortunate inhabitants. These monsters are the spawn of the ‘Deep Still’. A cold, malignant presence buried far below the frostline. It’s true nature is a mystery, but all Mice know to fear it. Try as you might, Winter will claim you in the end. What will you leave behind? |
| Title | “NG6” by Naylor Games |
| System | Original game |
| GM | Jaya Baldwin |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Tags | GM’s Own System |
| Players | 1-4 |
| Content Warnings | Fantasy combat, beetles |
| Description | Note: This is a demo/playtest for a campaign-based board game. Sessions are expected to take 75 to 90 minutes. In Ng6 (place-holder title), you play a team of heroes battling and exploring through a series of scenarios unified by an overarching plot. Mission objectives vary, going beyond simply “killing all the enmies in the room”. Each scenario alternates between player and enemy turns, but with a twist: After an untimed planning phase, the rest of the team’s turn plays in 5 minutes of real time! This is a game for players that thrive under pressure, like fast action, and enjoy meaningful co-operation/communication during combat. Though first concieved as a board game, we’re looking to try this with RPG players to see if the combat system could have potential in RPGs also. Feedback from previous players: “Is this a Gloomhaven Killer???” – D_B Games “I wish I could just replace D&D combat with this system” – Matt “I need you to hurry-up and finish making this board game: like now” – Floss |
| Title | The Hunt for Haldraxis |
| System | Dungeons and Dragons 5e |
| GM | Jesse |
| Age Rating | Teens (ages 12+) |
| Genre | Epic Heroic Fantasy |
| Tags | Newbie Friendly |
| Players | 2-5 |
| Content Warnings | Corpses, City Destruction, Fantasy Violence |
| Description | Not but yesterday, a red dragon flew from the mountains and attacked the city of Byriver in the night. Orange flame painted the south side of the city, resulting in the burning of three fields and two homes. Four people were killed, and eleven were gravely injured. The dragon then bellowed his demands to the city from the top of the castle: “In four days, leave me all your gold and jewels in the temple ruins in the mountain, and your city will be safe from the wrath of I, Haldraxis.” He then flew back into the mountains to await his payment. The king, unwilling to bargain with a dragon, knows that there are heroes in his midst who could save Byriver from destruction. Heroes like you. |