We are pleased to announce that we have updated our RPG's section with blurbs of all the games we will be running this year.
The Avowal Falls
Steve Meaney
We have been staring at them for almost half a century now, and the once blighted battle fields have returned to life as the towns and cities are slowly rebuilt. Although the land is wholesome and the crops bloom there is a poison in its heart, an echo of the great battles. The elders remember how their parents turned on one another in hate but remain silent when the patrols pass by. The two great enemies are never at rest though and rumours abound of plots to overthrow your great nation. You are the hidden watchers, the secret defence, alert for the unimaginable. Can it really be so?
5 players
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Padraic Barret (Winner of the Itzacon Writers Award and the Gaelcon Writers Award)
Supernatural RPG
There were three bodies in the bar; two on the floor, one behind the counter. All three shot multiple times at close range. Each then decapitated.
A convenience store clerk had heard shots from across the street and seen a dark coloured Chevy driving away at speed. Robbery certainly wasn't the motive; the till was untouched.
No, whoever had gone into that bar had done so to do murder and hadn't left any witnesses. And as they said...
5 players
Broken Sword
Eamon “Wing” Kearns
A Bleach RPG using the Exalted Storyteller System
Central 46 is gone, Aizen has disappeared and the government of Seiretei is in a state of disarray.
During the chaos, a rogue group of Shinigami have fled Soul Society to the world of the living stealing experimental weapons from the Shinigami Research and Development Institute. Kurotsuchi Mayuri has not stated what they are, but has requested a team from the 11th Gotei.
Equipped with only your Zanpakuto, what rudimentary kido you have, a tracking device from the Shinigami R&D Institute and your wits, you must recapture (and not kill) the rogue Shinigami and retake all of the weapons they took.
5 players
Wholesale Destruction
Siobhan “Bon” McKenna
Cyberpunk 2020 RPG
I got Colts and Rifles, man, but it's gonna cost you dear. Lines of credit ain't my thing anymore. Dark time in the city, Choomba, and you'd do well to bunker down and set up your snipers 'fore the Corp drones find ya. Should be coming through this sector any time now. Don't matter if you never ran 'gainst them, if you're on the circuit, they'll pay top cred to anyone who hauls your ass in.
So watch your back, friend, we got a crud storm coming our way and damned if we're goin' down without a fight.
6 runners
Rakehell
Gar Hanrahan (Noted Industry Figure)
A new setting
“I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.”
England is in the devil's grasp. Dark Satanic mills choke the countryside, and half of London has slid into the abyss. Souls are traded in the markets, gambled in the card dens and claimed by the bailiffs. Sell your soul, and you may prosper for a time, but in the end the devil has his due.
Your soul was torn from you, and hellfire fills the void left in your breast. If you can steal it back from hell, you may yet win salvation.
An amusing diversion for five damn'd players.
Operation: Overthrow Olympus
Matty McMahon
Mutants and Masterminds
Its 1951, the Nazi’s Super Soldiers are at our door’s and the Japanese War-Mechs are on the brink of over-powering the Americas and walking across the United States. We have but one chance to turn the tide of this war. An elite group of our own Enhanced Humans are ready to strike at the heart of the Nazi’s Super Solider production plant and wipe out their ability to create more, tipping the balance of power in our favor and winning this war for the good guys.
5 players
Absent Without Official Leave
Aonghus Collins
Deadlands Classic
This war's gone on for too damn long. I was 15 when it started, back in '61, lied about my age so I could fight and stick it to the Union. I'm 31 now, and it's still goin'. I fought at Gettysburg, and I saw the dead rise up and walk. Seems so long ago now, but it damn sure happened. Hard to believe the war could keep on going, but hell - that's politics.
Now I've had enough. Half my life I've lost, and I just wanna go home. Course, they'll try and stop me, reckon they might even put a bounty on my head. Heh - they can damn well try.
5 players
Go, Go Team Unscrupulous
Feargal Keenan
Necessary Evil - Savage Worlds
Operation Unscrupulous is underway in Pantheon City, from your base in Tartarus Row an evil organisation of superhumans spread out to combat the alien V'Sori and halt their invasion of earth. Your first mission is to prevent the assassination of your leader Lady Revenger, someone is after her and if she where to perish, morale would drop to an all time low.
Your team is out to stop the alien invaders, coz if anyone is going to rule the planet it'll be the home grown villains!
4-6 players
Shadows over Pontypandy
Aidan Marsh
Call of Cthulhu
Norman Price is always getting in to trouble…
This time, while playing in some ancient ruins, he stumbled upon an evil cultist ritual. Now they plan to sacrifice him to bring about the awakening of Cthugha, god of fire,
Time to call the town’s greatest hero: Fireman Sam.
6 Players
Sacrificial Lambs
Ronan Comaskey
Promethean
Magnum Opus. That’s what they call it. The golden path. The road to humanity. You’ve been walking that road a long time, and you know that sometimes hard choices have to be made. The worst of those choices is also the only one that is a step every Created must take if they want to be real boys and girls: making another to take their place. Equivalent exchange: the heart of alchemy.
But now, you’ve heard that one of your Throng’s ‘children’ has lost his way. Turned to Flux. He’s killing people and leaving calling cards for you. Your kind aren’t always the best parents, but the guilt of his actions haunts you; their blood on your hands. The guilt is holding you back, away from the light. It’s time to fix the mistakes of this half-life before you enter your full one.
A Promethean: the Created game for a Throng of 5.
The Defence of Meridian
Fergal Mac Carthaigh, Stephanie Power & Ray O’ Mahony (Winner of the Warpcon Best Scenario Award)
Home Brew
The city of Meridian is the crown jewel and seat of power of the vast Albionian Empire. When an attack upon the city is launched by an unseen aggressor, heroes are needed.
The City Council takes command and organises the city’s defence. The underfunded Obscure Research Bureau is tasked to seek out the truth behind the attack. The diverse members of the Silver Falcon Club rise up and take the fight to the enemy.
These three groups will define the fate of Meridian, and the Empire.
A three table game in the “Fog of War” setting using a percentile system.
From Persephone With Love
Anita Murray (Winner of the Warpcon Best Scenario Award)
Victorian Age Vampire
St Petersburg 1894:
The Masquerade is played out nightly in the court of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. But all masquerades must end; blood and madness have come to visit St Petersburg, Members of the aristocracy in Russia are being afflicted with a frenzied dementia; duels are on the rise, and they demand that the Tsar place the peasants under the heel of serfdom once more.
More troubling though are the mortals who claim to have drunk from the font of Dionysus and begin to see the Kindred's masks for what they are.
In the background a carnival's music begins to change the nature of the Masquerade.
5 Players
The Last Days of Outpost 241
Eoin Dornan and Alex O’Connor
A Traveller RPG
Outpost 241, on the planet of Nexine. Soldiers must face a difficult decision when a distress call reaches their besieged FireBase. How much are they willing to sacrifice for a war that has already taken everything from them?
5 players
Shadows of the Earth
Charles Dunne
GURPS: Old West
1868: The Union Prison of Eckersville in Oklahoma lies burning. A single horseman rides out, the flames behind and the sunset ahead. A team of Army Engineer Corps has been sent. Authorised to investigate, assess and bring to justice any and all perpetrators. But the smoking earth does not give its secrets up easily and hands will be turned against them.
5 players
Front Lines
Paul Anthony Shortt
The Dresden Files RPG
War has come. The White Council has become locked in conflict with the Red Court of vampires, and many wonder if the Red King hasn't been planning such a war for some time. All representatives of the Council are on their guard, so when word comes that the secrets to an ancient ritual of great power have been discovered and are on display at an exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there is no shortage of people willing to investigate. But when the Red Court have also decided to crash the party, can a disparate group of friends do what needs to be done to save the lives of millions of innocent people?
5 Players
Cogs and Dogs
Ian Power (Winner of the Gaelcon Writers Award)
GURPS Discworld
What do you do when your very way of life is threatened? How do you face an enemy no one has ever defeated, an enemy that comes in the night and leaves nothing but screams and blood and heartache?
What do you do?
You gather your friends, the people you trust, and with nothing but sweat and courage, you go out and save your people…. Oh… And you build a giant machine of steam and metal…. Every little helps.
Cogs and Dogs, A Discworld Gurps Game in which a group of dwarfs bring a battlemech to a monster fight.
A scenario for 6 plucky dwarves.
Drop zone
Alan Jackson
Homebrew
Remember Aliens? - Remember those marines and the dark dripping corridors and dying horribly.
Yep - thats you.
Don't worry though, if you keep your nerve and watch each others back you will definitely make it through this, well probably... Ok... maybe,
Good luck.
Sang Real
Daniel Adams
A custom Vampire : The Masquerade game
France, 1793. Discontent has finally erupted into a revolution that has swept the old order away. The Republican authorities, fearful of threats from within and without, have instigated a policy of suspicion and repression known as the Terror, sending thousands to the guillotine.
Across France, the Revolutionary Armies march, imposing the new order wherever they go. Behind the scenes, however, an older conflict plays out, as the vampires known as the Anarchs oust the Camarilla from power. It is now up to you, the young members of the Committee of Supernatural Affairs, to defend the Anarch Republic from threats in the provinces.
6 players
A Day that Will Live in Infamy
Stu Gorman (Winner of the Leprecon Writers Award)
Trail of Cthulhu
Halloween night draws near, and with it the ritual planned for that eldritch and ebon night. However rumours persist of degenerate government agents having infiltrated our secret organization.
Our allies in Europe are depending upon us to complete our great purpose. It is up to the five of you that we entrust not only the investigation into these rumours but also the retrieval of the last item needed for the ritual.
You must ensure that our dark masters are well served and for this mighty work you will of course be greatly rewarded.
6 players
Enemies of Dune
Graham Turner
A Dune RPG
Arrakis. The thorny jewel in the Imperial Crown, the only source of the Spice that is the very lifeblood of the Empire.
Under their mysterious leader, Muad’dib, the Fremen are loosening the Harkonnen hold on Arrakis; their attacks are deadly, and swift as the desert winds. It is only a matter of time until Muad’dib leads his people to victory.
Yet, a deadly plot exists to destroy the Fremen people, carried out by a ruthless enemy seeking revenge for past defeats. Can a group of Fremen and smugglers defeat this deadly adversary, and save both the Fremen and Arrakis?
A Dune RPG for 6 players
The things they left behind
Tadeusz Cantwell
Gurps
In the dungeons of Viem Nat the war is over. The poorly armed orcs have repelled the human expansion and earned the right of independence. The children of Charles Lee Company wish to learn where and how their fathers died. The official documents speak of an explosion that tore the squad apart. They will come into conflict with a nation’s official mourning of its fallen soldiers, as they search for the truth behind the fate of their loved ones. Moreover they search for a keepsake among the debris and find the things they left behind.
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