About us
We're gamer-types interested in playing games, being social, making friends, and meeting new people. We love all types of games, especially role-playing, but also board, card, miniature, or whatever. We also love all gaming adjacent stuff too, such as anime, cosplay, game design, world building, video games, and more.
- We believe in getting games off your shelf and onto the table.
- Mission statement: Play everything at least once.
- Our unofficial motto: "Yeah, we'll play that!"
- We exist to help players find games and GMs find players.
- We welcome new players and new GMs to the greater Cincinnati area.
- We liaison with other organizations, podcasts, cons, game stores, and more.
- We encourage all everyone to game, especially underrepresented demographics such as women, LGBTQIA+ people, and BIPOC (biracial, indigenous, people of color).
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Featured event
RPG Campaign Building Workshop
This RPG Campaign Building workshop focuses on creating campaigns from vague concepts. The workshop isn't about rules nor session management, not world-building, but constructing the plot and narrative structure behind your game.
We’ll look at how to turn loose ideas into something cohesive: overarching plot, strong themes, engaging antagonists, meaningful conflicts, and hooks that pull players in.
We’ll cover things like:
- Building a campaign from a single idea
- Having a structured, plot-first foundation
- Developing themes and moods that anchor your campaign
- Creating antagonists with goals, timelines, & plans
- Designing hooks that get players involved
- Weaving plot threads, mysteries, & revelations that unfold naturally
- Balancing structure with player freedom
- Using subplots, pacing, motifs, & mood to create a truly immersive experience
For the best experience at this workshop, please come prepared with your own ideas for plot (or campaign concept) and possible antagonists.
$5 cash at the event or PayPal (paypal.me/jasonbrannen31), Venmo (@Jason-Brannen-31), Zelle (storyteller@fuse.net), Cash app ($toryteller31).
Things To Bring
• Pencils
• Paper
• Feedback (https://bit.ly/2ElXyiw)
• Imagination
Please join us afterwards for food!
Upcoming events
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Cincinnati Adventurers Guild Fundraising 2026
·OnlineOnlineHelp the Guild run for another year. Your donations cover things like signage, meetup fees, business cards, and event advertising.
Donate in-person to any GM with cash or use PayPal to send a donation to storyteller@fuse.net, https://paypal.me/jasonbrannen31
5 attendees
Beginner's D&D 5e - The Haunted House One-Shot
Hero's Hearth, 8315 Beechmont Ave, Cincinnati, OH, USWant to learn to play D&D? Join us for a journey into the world's greatest role-playing game!
Desolate and abandoned, the evil alchemist’s mansion stands alone on the hill, looking out towards the sea. Mysterious lights and ghostly hauntings have kept away the people of Saltmarsh, despite rumors of a fabulous forgotten treasure. What is it’s sinister secret?
Pregens provided. Want to create your own characters? WotC 2014 5e hardbacks only for species and class, level 2, standard array, maximum HP for 1st level, roll or take the average (whichever is better) for level 2, standard starting equipment + 50GP.
Things To Bring
• Pencils
• Paper
• Dice (polyhedrals)
• Feedback
• Imagination
As with all our games, No Experience Necessary!Please join us afterwards for food!
4 attendees
Call of Cthulhu 7e RPG - A Lonely Thread (1920s Era Scenario)
Next Round Games, 431 Ohio Pike Waycross, Cincinnati, OH, USHello Investigators!!!
No experience necessary as this one-shot is designed for beginners and experienced investigators alike. Pre-generated characters will be provided. Paper, pencil, dice provided if needed. If you prefer to bring your own, this system utilizes a standard polyhedral dice set.
- Games do fill up fast. If your plans have changed after signing up, please update your rsvp as soon as possible to give someone else a chance to play.
Navigation Note
Use full address when using GPS. 431 Ohio Pike #136 Cincinnati Ohio 45255
- The GPS may take you to a large building that is located right in front of Next Round Games' parking lot. Go past this building and you will see smaller offices set up in a U pattern. Next Round Games is at the bottom right of the U.
Scenario Background
Professor Joshua Thomas is well-known as a brilliant archeologist whose work has been critical in broadening our understanding of the ancient world. His research into the esoteric practices of many cultures has thrown light on ancient beliefs, making him an authority on the occult.
Now retired, other than some part-time work at Miskatonic University, Thomas has become something of a socialite. He happily lends his expertise to those who visit his vacation cabin, situated just an hour or so out of Arkham. Over the years, he's become a friend rival, or mentor to many.
Our story begins one bright morning in late September, just as your car crests over a ridge on the hilly drive up to Thomas's cabin. When you arrive, you intend to catch up with the professor, compare notes, and perhaps share a discreet glass of whiskey.
About Call of Cthulhu 7e RPG
Call of Cthulhu is an investigative, horror game created by Sandy Petersen in 1981 and is published by Chaosium. In this game, you take on the role of investigators who may be exposed to any number of sanity-breaking entities, cultists, and monsters, in the attempt to find your way out of whatever mystery you were unwittingly dragged into. Do you dare to test your mettle and see if you can make it to the other side with your wits intact? If so, I look forward to seeing you soon!
Feedback Link
• Feedback (https://bit.ly/2ElXyiw)4 attendees
Past events
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