On the SECOND Saturday of April, we're assembling a party and rattling our bones for tabletop role playing games. Play will commence between 10AM and Noon-ish, then run three to four hours depending on the game.
====10:30 AM - 1:45 PM (3 Hrs)====
RPG: CAPERS (my own design, in playtest)
Scenario Name: "A Busy Night"
Scenario Description: Your super-powered bootleggers have been tasked by local crime boss Nucky Johnson with running the Nightingale Club in Atlantic City. The Nightingale is well known for bad things happening resulting in regular changes in management. How will you fare now that you're in charge of the least lucky club on the Boardwalk?
Game Runner: Craig Campbell
Beginner Friendliness: GREEN: Folks new to tabletop RPGs are welcome ("What is tabletop role playing, again?"), TOUCH-A, TOUCH-A, TOUCH ME: Experienced gamers who don't mind helping new folks are welcome ("Let me tell you about dump stats..."), O BRAVE NEW WORLD: Experienced gamers who have never played this particular RPG are welcome ("I've played Pathfinder for a while. What's Dungeon World like?"), DOWN & DIRTY: Experienced gamers who have played this particular RPG are welcome ("Yeah, I have FATE dice...")
Start Time: 10:30 AM - 1:45 PM (3 Hrs)
Player Count: 3-5 Players
Characters: Pre-generated characters provided
RPG Description: Ask the GM
RPG: Dungeon World
Scenario Name:
Scenario Description: It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Join me for some classic fantasy with new school rules and play to find out what happens.
Game Runner: Drew
Beginner Friendliness: GREEN: Folks new to tabletop RPGs are welcome ("What is tabletop role playing, again?")
Start Time: 10:30 AM - 1:45 PM (3 Hrs)
Player Count: 2-5 Players
Characters: Character generated at the table
RPG Description: A storygame with strong Narrative and world building focus, super friendly for new players, rule light, describe what you are doing heavy, more improv than murder hobo.
RPG: Honey Heist
Scenario Name: HoneyCon 2017
Scenario Description: You are going to undertake the greatest heist the world has ever seen. Two things. ONE: You have a complex plan that requires precise timing. TWO: You are a gawddamn bear. (Honey Heist is a one-page RPG that will involve a lot of free form role play. You'll be role playing bears who plot to steal a lot of honey.)
Game Runner: Jasper Meer
Beginner Friendliness: GREEN: Folks new to tabletop RPGs are welcome ("What is tabletop role playing, again?"), TOUCH-A, TOUCH-A, TOUCH ME: Experienced gamers who don't mind helping new folks are welcome ("Let me tell you about dump stats..."), O BRAVE NEW WORLD: Experienced gamers who have never played this particular RPG are welcome ("I've played Pathfinder for a while. What's Dungeon World like?"), DOWN & DIRTY: Experienced gamers who have played this particular RPG are welcome ("Yeah, I have FATE dice..."), OLD HAND: Only gamers with a good command of the rules and experience playing this particular RPG are welcome ("I played D&D for the first time in 'Nam back in '74, before Saigon fell. I saw Charlie running off with my White Box as the chopper airlifted us from the embassy..."), BETA TESTERS: Only gamers who don't mind zany mechanics, gonzo antics, Byzantine rules, incomplete systems, or giving useful feedback are welcome ("Well all right, all right, all right: let's get weird, y'all.")
Start Time: 10:30 AM - 1:45 PM (3 Hrs)
Player Count: 3-6 Players
Characters: Character generated at the table
RPG Description: A 1 page indie story game about bear thieves.
RPG: Fate Core
Scenario Name: Welcome to the Fishbowl
Scenario Description: Start with one fact, every time you walk through a door there is a one in a trillion chance you end up somewhere else, maybe even some when else. Somewhere without stars, without daylight. A city, a massive city, built on the ruins of an even older city. The builders sleep in glass tombs in the heart of their creation. Some say when they awake the sun will rise, others claim we should join them in peaceful slumber in this eternal night. The rest of us? We just take it one day at a time. Start a new life. Cause, one thing we all agree on- we aren't going home.
Pull up a seat at the bar in the Fishbowl and see what trouble finds the regulars today.
This is a home brew sci-fi setting using the Fate Core rules.
Game Runner: Michael Thompson
Beginner Friendliness: GREEN: Folks new to tabletop RPGs are welcome ("What is tabletop role playing, again?")
Start Time: 10:30 AM - 1:45 PM (3 Hrs)
Player Count: 2-6 Players
Characters: Pre-generated characters provided
RPG Description: FATE is a storygame that evolved out of a traditional game called Fudge. You play as characters in a story you're crafting with the GM and other players. The system abstracts out some of the types of things you'd do a lot of different ways in other RPGs into 4 simple actions, and uses points called Fate Points. It uses funny dice, but with a guide to the system, you'll figure it out.
====10:30 AM - 3:45 PM (5 Hrs)====
RPG: Arcanis (D&D5e)
Scenario Name: Espionage
Scenario Description: When nations play games with one another, they are often played with the lives of their citizens. When such games involve Canceri, everyone involved usually loses. Now, a Milandisian agent is held captive in the necropolis city of Kielmun, under threat of execution. Do you think you can arrive in time?
Living Arcanis is an Organized Play campaign (you can take your character to other Living Arcanis games). I will have pre-gen characters. If you are interested, campaign information can be found at: http://www.paradigmcampaigns.com/DefaultLivA.aspx. You can use the campaign documents to build a character if you would prefer.
Game Runner: Robert Maxwell
Beginner Friendliness: GREEN: Folks new to tabletop RPGs are welcome ("What is tabletop role playing, again?")
Start Time: 10:30 AM - 3:45 PM (5 Hrs)
Player Count: 4-7 Players
Characters: Pre-generated characters provided, You can make a character following campaign rules, and you might be able to make a character before we start.
RPG Description: Dungeons and Dragons is the original roleplaying game. It is a traditional roleplaying game set in a high fantasy medieval times. It is strongly focused on tactical combat based on character abilities, has light social interaction, scripted adventures, and typically uses miniatures. 5th edition is simpler than many prior versions and is generally considered approachable to new people. The 5th edition has many optional modes that incorporate elements from modern story games. Learn more about them at http://dndadventurersleague.org/ / https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules
RPG: Black Hack Old School Role-playing, with some house rules
Scenario Name: A Field Trip for the Girl's School of Warrior-Priestesses
Scenario Description: You're acolytes of a powerful cult, out of your citadel for the first time in years, practicing tracking & herbalism--when your chaperone is approached by a dangerous stranger with a mission to find & capture a feral child... This is a slightly grim high fantasy setting. I encourage humor &/or dark comedy in individual scenes, but the over-arching story is meant to remain serious & perhaps even morally ambiguous. I'm aiming for a tone between Buffy & the writings of Joe Abercrombie.
Game Runner: Kirk Dolin
Beginner Friendliness: GREEN: Folks new to tabletop RPGs are welcome ("What is tabletop role playing, again?"), BETA TESTERS: Only gamers who don't mind zany mechanics, gonzo antics, Byzantine rules, incomplete systems, or giving useful feedback are welcome ("Well all right, all right, all right: let's get weird, y'all.")
Start Time: 10:30 AM - 3:45 PM (5 Hrs)
Player Count: 2-5 Players
Characters: Character generated at the table
RPG Description: Ever played basic D&D? Ever read the basic D&D rulebooks from the 70s/80s? Clearly, that was a time people had time to read and (partially) understand complex rules. The Black Hack is the idea of that system, redone with very understandable, short rules. This blurb explaining how it's a traditional OSR RPG probably is like 1/2 the length of the maybe 20 page rulebook. If you like OSR games, you'll like this.
====Noon - 5 PM (5 Hrs)====
RPG: Simplified D&D 5E
Scenario Name: The Hunt For Ted Turner's Gold
Scenario Description: Eccentric billionaire Ted Tuner has died under mysterious circumstances. He has willed his fortune and media empire to which ever of his employees can unravel his clues and find his hidden gold. The players take on the role of high ranking turner broadcasting employees as they search around Atlanta in a race against time to find ... TED TURNER'S GOLD.
Game Runner: Chris Dailey
Beginner Friendliness: GREEN: Folks new to tabletop RPGs are welcome ("What is tabletop role playing, again?")
Start Time: Noon - 5 PM (5 Hrs)
Player Count: 2-5 Players
Characters: Pre-generated characters provided
RPG Description: Dungeons and Dragons is the original roleplaying game. It is a traditional roleplaying game set in a high fantasy medieval times. It is strongly focused on tactical combat based on character abilities, has light social interaction, scripted adventures, and typically uses miniatures. 5th edition is simpler than many prior versions and is generally considered approachable to new people. The 5th edition has many optional modes that incorporate elements from modern story games. Learn more about them at http://dndadventurersleague.org/ / https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules
====2 PM - 5 PM (3 Hrs)====
RPG: Star Wars d6
Scenario Name: Unraveling Fates
Scenario Description: A planet with a storied history and a movement to defy an Empire.
Game Runner: Jonathan Sample
Beginner Friendliness: GREEN: Folks new to tabletop RPGs are welcome ("What is tabletop role playing, again?"), TOUCH-A, TOUCH-A, TOUCH ME: Experienced gamers who don't mind helping new folks are welcome ("Let me tell you about dump stats..."), O BRAVE NEW WORLD: Experienced gamers who have never played this particular RPG are welcome ("I've played Pathfinder for a while. What's Dungeon World like?")
Start Time: 2 PM - 5 PM (3 Hrs)
Player Count: 3-6 Players
Characters: Pre-generated characters provided
RPG Description: Star Ward d6 is a traditional RPG with low complexity set in the star wars universe. It's similar to d6 Space and other d6 games you find on RPG Now.
