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Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): Sue Lee
Event Title: Roll Up Roll Up
Event Description: Roll Up Roll Up for the Greatest Show on Earth!
Slots: TBC
Age Requirement: Adult (18+)
Experience Required: No experience required
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 5
Game System: Chill 2nd Ed
General Game system Information: "Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, tonight for your Edification and Entertainment, for your Delectation and Delight, bringing you the Most Marvellous and Magnificent Merriment. Providing you with a Panacea and Plethora of Performance Perfection to counter Mental Retardation, and all manner of Malignancies with a Magical Mirth filled Miasma of Magnificence."
"Tonight, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, there are not enough Capital Letters in the Lexicon to express what Joys and Jolities await you in the Big Top!!!!"
"Ah... Damn... hang on.... That wasn't Supposed to Happen..."
What do the PCs do?: 1: Ring Master and Lion Tamer - gets loads of animal handling, charisma, the face.
2: Clairvoyant gets the weird stuff, some magic divination and suchlike, probably prescient dreams.
3: Strongman - tank - think of Andre the Giant in Princess Bride. He's currently very much misunderstood.
4: Trapeze Artist /acrobat - multo dexterity, climbing in and out of buildings, that kind of stuff.
5: Magician - manipulator of stuff, pickpocket, lock picking, quite possibly fire-eating, bullet catching, and pyrotechnics!
Atmosphere/Genre: Victorian Circus - I'm running it in Chill because I know the system, do not read too much into this
Playtesting Status: Less and 1 year |
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Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): Sue Lee
Event Title: Taste for Murder
Event Description: Taste for Murder is a nice little indie game written by Graham Walmsley.
"In an English country house, someone is about to commit a murder. Even they do not know what they are about to do."
Slots: TBC
Age Requirement: Adult (18+)
Experience Required: No experience required
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 3
Game System: Taste for Murder
General Game system Information: Shove Agatha Christie, P G Wodehouse and the Bad Taste Bears around a table and then roll to see what the weather is like. Important questions will potentially be answered like
Do you pour the milk before the tea?
Should you apply cream or jam to your scone first?
How many incestuous relationships can be going on in one family?
What do the PCs do?:
Atmosphere/Genre: WARNING - this game can go to a lot of very dark places. And then it gets worse.
ANTI WARNING - I may well bake for this.
Playtesting Status: Less and 1 year |
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Gaming Group/Sponsor: Dutch Invaders
Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): Brenda
Event Title: Ties that bind
Event Description: Legend has it that once every 300 years the missing half of the once great city of Ahaan will reappear within the realm. Sages declare that within the walls of the this city the amulet known as the Eye of Zhe'Mhat waits to be found. Bards whisper of the enormous power this amulet holds, saying that it's the key to ultimate good, or ultimate evil. It seems like every faction within the realm will be looking for the treasure, yourself included. But will three days be enough to outsmart your competition and retrieve the amulet before the lost half of Ahaan disappears again, along with those still inside? The fate of the world and your loved ones depends on it.
Slots: TBC
Age Requirement: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: Experience preferred
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 4-6
Game System: Jaws of the Six Serpents
General Game system Information: It's a fairly straight forward system, easy to understand, and easy to use for awesome stuff.
What do the PCs do?:
Atmosphere/Genre: Swords and sorcery
Playtesting Status: Less and 1 year
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Gaming Group/Sponsor:
Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): James Mullen
Event Title: The Scurvy Dog
Event Description: A rousing tales of blood, booty & rum on the high seas, with a crew of despicable pirates!
Slots: TBC
Age Requirement: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: Experience preferred
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 3-5
Game System: Dead Man's Chest
General Game system Information: A 'one-stat' game, but the value of that stat changes as pirates gain and lose reputation as a result of their adventures.
What do the PCs do?: The PCs are pirates; they work as part of a crew for the good of their ship, but they will betray their crewmates at the drop of a hat when their own personal desires come to the fore.
Atmosphere/Genre: Pirates!
Playtesting Status: Less than 3 years |
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Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): James Mullen
Event Title: Sawmill
Event Description: A group of strangers awake in a derelict sawmill strewn with a variety of boobytraps and a canister of toxic gas that will release its contents in two hours. Will they work together to get out or will the secrets they expose tear them apart?
Slots: TBC
Age Requirement: Adult (18+)
Experience Required: Experience preferred
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 2-7
Game System: Sawmil
General Game system Information: A short, rules-lite RPG where players increase their chances of getting out by exposing painful truths... but also bring themselves closer to an ugly death.
What do the PCs do?: PCs must accuse each other of dreadful things in order to reveal the skills they possess that will enable them to overcome the boobytraps. Some of the revelations made will drive a wedge between them and the co-operation of at least 2 PCs is the minimum requirement for the whole group to avoid death.
Atmosphere/Genre: Visceral Horror
Playtesting Status: Less and 1 year
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Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): James Mullen
Event Title: Pyramid
Event Description: An ancient tomb has been discovered, so a team of explorers races to be first to plunder its treasures for their own ends. Who will survive the traps & guardians surrounding the Pharaoh's Chamber and get out with the most treausre?
Slots: TBC
Age Requirement: Youth (12 and under)
Experience Required: No experience required
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 2-5
Game System: Pyramid
General Game system Information: A short, rules-lite, competitive RPG, using simple playsheets to track the progress of the explorers within the Pyramid. The players take sets of matching d6s from a common pool to represent their discoveries; when the pool is emptied, a new, smaller pool is rolled to represent the explorers going up to the next level of the Pyramid.
What do the PCs do?: The PCs find treasures, dodge traps and fight guardians, but they also take on the role of the Pharoah when the PC on their left acts and describe the challenges they face.
Atmosphere/Genre: Pulp Adventure
Playtesting Status: Less than 3 years
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Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): James Mullen
Event Title: 101 Zombies!
Event Description: A team of idiosyncratic mercenaries go on a mission to clear a strategically important site of the undead hoards who infest it, in a post-apocalyptic world.
Slots: TBC
Age Requirement: Youth (12 and under)
Experience Required: No experience required
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 3-7
Game System: 101 Zombies!
General Game system Information: This is a semi-cooperative, short RPG, where the players want to prevent the site from being overrun by Zombies, but the winner is the player who kills the most Zombies.
What do the PCs do?: The PCs kill Zombies in a variety of inventive ways, search for better weapons and try to hold back the wave of undead horrors trying to eat their brains!
Atmosphere/Genre: Tongue-in-cheek Action Horror
Playtesting Status: Less and 1 year
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Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): James Mullen
Event Title: Global Security
Event Description: In a secret HQ, a criminal mastermind plots to take over the world; soon, the UN will have no choice but to give into the evil demands being made. With no idea where he will strike from and the clock running down, it appears that he will get everything he wants. Fortunately, each world power has an operative ready with just the right talents to take on this challenge: they are so mission-focussed, however, that they may find the biggest challenges in front of them are each other…
Slots: TBC
Age Requirement: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: Experience preferred
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 2-5
Game System: Global Security
General Game system Information: A short, rules-lite RPG where two decks of cards are used to explore the world and overcome the challenges set by the Criminal Mastermind. There is a competitive edge to the game as players strive to outdo each other.
What do the PCs do?: The PCs are secret agents roaming the world looking for leads & contacts that will allow them to find and inflitrate the Mastermind's HQ. Once inside, they must defeat him and destroy his Masterplan, then run back to base to claim their rewards.
Atmosphere/Genre: Campy Espionage
Playtesting Status: Less than 3 years |
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Gaming Group/Sponsor: Phoenix Games Club
Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): Rachael Hodson
Event Title: From Alicante with love
Event Description: A pox on Bonaparte!
Slots: TBC
Age Requirement: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: No experience required
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 3 min 6 max
Game System: Duty and Honor
General Game system Information:
What do the PCs do?: "O'er the hills and o'er the main
To Flanders, Portugal and Spain
King George commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away"
Come on lads join the 10th Lincolnshire! The Emperor Napoleon rules Europe and his armies press through the Iberian Peninsular to gain total control! Only the British Army, under the Duke of Wellington, and their allies can save the day.
You are Soldiers of the 10th (the Poachers) escorting 'something' from Alicante for Wellington to his Spanish allies. Anything after that is up to you.
Atmosphere/Genre: Napoleonic military history fun.
light hearted
Playtesting Status: Less and 1 year |
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Gaming Group/Sponsor: Shadow Warriors
Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): Max Bantleman
Event Title: SLA Industries - 'Is This Thing On?'
Event Description: Mort, 604 SD. You’ve come a long way in the last three months: you’ve become a squad. Five Blues, three Yellows, two Greens and now this: easy street – a Silver. Third Eye, a full on Silver with camera time, a chance to get your name, your face and your SCL number known to every agent, sponsor and Dept. Head on Mort. Of course it’s a double edged sword. But you can handle it: you’re Pro’s. Escorting a couple of prime time pranksters on a week of their show. Pinky & Grout, a mutated Dwarf and a crazy Vevaphon, and everyone likes ‘LCA’ right? I mean the show’s top ten! This could be the start of it, getting it together, going for the big time. Easy street. How hard can it be? Bring it on!
Slots: TBC
Age Requirement: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: No experience required
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 4-6
Game System: SLA Industries
General Game system Information: Skills based: 2d10+skill to target success number of 11 with mods. Easy peasy.
What do the PCs do?: PCs are a squad, working together to complete a job that could make them for life.
Atmosphere/Genre: Modern / future sci-fi / horror: guns are not as cool as blades, tech is not as cool as bio-engineering. SLA Industries owns the whole universe and rules through commerce and chaos.
Playtesting Status: None |
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Slot 1: 9am-1pm
05/11/10 |
Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): Dan Marriott
Event Title: Secrets of the frozen city
Event Description: The year is 1936; Admiral Richard Byrd
has put a team together to return to the frozen city which he discovered a few
years ago. The last time he was here, he brought back some strange artefacts
but he was forced to abandon his quest when fumes from his equipment nearly
killed him. This time he returns with Lt Col. Alistair G.L. Stewart and his
butler Albert Parker, special agent Tom Sawyer FBI, Tau a Chinese mystic, the
second best journalist in Washington, Louise Murphy and Professor Jonathan
Harper an English professor teaching classics and ancient history at Harvard.
You have flown from Washington on a trip funded by the US
government to the established base in Antarctica know as "Little
America". From here it is a 123 mile trek across the ice and tundra to
your destination. What will you find, how far does the city extend down into
the ice and who built it?
Age Requirement: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: No experience required
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 4-6
Game System: Hollow earth exploration
Atmosphere/Genre: pulp 1930's
Play testing Status: None
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Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): James Mullen
Event Title: Mystery of Life
Event Description: In the celestial justice system, the people are represented
by two separate yet equally important groups:
the angels & demons who investigate suicides,
and the Eternals, who prosecute the deceased.
These are their stories.
Slots: 05/11/10 - Slot 1: 9am-1pm
Age Requirement: Adult (18+)
Experience Required: Experience preferred
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 3
Game System: Mystery of Life
General Game system Information: A short, GMless RPG for exactly 4 players, in which they take turns examining scenes from the life of a recently deceased client to determine whether their soul belongs in Heaven or Hell.
What do the PCs do?: In phase one, two players are the angel & demon investigating the life of an apparent suicide, while the other two players take on witness roles as needed. Phase Two takes place in the celestial court and the players swap roles.
Atmosphere/Genre: Gritty Modern-Day Fantasy
Playtesting Status: Less and 1 year
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Slot 2: 2pm-6pm
05/11/10 |
Gaming Group/Sponsor: Have Dice
Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): John Amos
Event Title: Mongol Hordes
Event Description: BRP rules for an excursion against Chin states
Age Requirement: Youth (12 and under)
Experience Required: No experience required
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 4/6
Game System: BRP
General Game system Information: Attack the weakened Chinese who will be our slaves and earn great riches and reknown
What do the PCs do?: Find out who holds Ogedai prisoner release him and take revenge
Atmosphere/Genre: Friendly game but not if you are chinese/tense expectancy
Playtesting Status: Less and 1 year
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Slot 3: 7pm-11pm
05/11/10 |
Gaming Group/Sponsor: Have Dice
Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): John Amos
Event Title: The Librarian is Orange?
Event Description: GURPS Discworld
Age Requirement: Youth (12 and under)
Experience Required: No experience required
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 4/6
Game System: GURPS
General Game system Information: Sojourn in the world of Pratchett, Ankh-Morpork & the Unseen University
What do the PCs do?: Having just joined the Unseen University you've just got to get your books & robes from the Librarian
Atmosphere/Genre: Laidback gaming/fun fun fun setting
Playtesting Status: Less and 1 year
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Slot 4: 9am-1pm
06/11/10 |
Gaming Group/Sponsor: The Phoenix Games club
Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): Dan Marriott
Event Title: Into the unknown
Event Description: Previously, as part of the expedition lead by Admiral Bird, you have explored the upper reaches of the frozen city. Entering the lower levels, you encountering a tunnel that has a warm air flow blowing up it, were does it lead?
Choosing to investigate you is greeted by the most lush jungle environment ever and sees herds of dinosaurs walking the landscape, but where are you? what is this place? One thing is certain you’re not in Kansas anymore....
Age Requirement: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: No experience required
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 4-6
Game System: HEX
Atmosphere/Genre: pulp 1930's
Play testing Status: None |
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Slot 7: 9am-1pm
7/11/10 |
Gaming Group/Sponsor: The Phoenix game
Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): Dan Marriott
Event Title: The Crystals of Atlantis
Event Description: Having explored this strange land encountering storage panther and bird people along the way, you have found yourselves guest of the Vil-ra heirs to Atlantis. But what is the secret of their power? Why do non humans get treated so poorly here? And what are the secrets the priest seems so keen to protect?
You know you must find a way home, can the Vil-ra help or hinder your quest to return to the surface world.
Age Requirement: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: No experience required
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 4-6
Atmosphere/Genre: pulp 1930's
Play testing Status: None
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Slot 9: 7pm-11pm
7/11/10 |
Gaming Group/Sponsor: The Phoenix Games club
Event Coordinator/Game Master Name(s): Dan Marriott
Event Title: Escape from Skull Island
Event Description: The story so far, as part of a deniable mission by His majesty's government you have located the scientist Von Klinkerhoff, who was not where his last radio contact placed him. You find him being treated like a god within a strange native village, in a land of dinosaurs and lush jungle.
The arrival of the villainous Elsa Schnider and the Thule society soon put pay to that. Escaping through the "thunder circle" you find yourself deep in some ancient monument, not lingering you escaped the Thule society yet again before encountering a party of Amazons in the lush vegetation. Being taken to the Amazon queen you have been treated well and were sent on your way to another "Thunder circle" on the mysterious Skull Island, you were ambushed by the Thule society but Elsa was captured by the Amazons and has been taken back to the village. It’s now or never will the "thunder circle" take you home? Or will it lead you somewhere new either way the only way home is to escape from Skull Island.
Age Requirement: Adult (18+)
Experience Required: No experience required
Number of Player (please state minimum/maximum numbers): 4-6
Atmosphere/Genre: pulp 1930's
Play testing Status: None |
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