York Board Games Convention

Welcome to The Forge

York Board Games Convention's RPG Zone

Apply to be a GM at The Forge!

Step into the story. Shape your destiny. Discover new worlds.

At this year's York Board Games Convention, we're thrilled to return to The Forge - a dedicated space for roleplaying games (RPGs), storytelling, and immersive adventures. Whether you're a seasoned player or brand new to tabletop RPGs, The Forge is where characters come alive, dice hit the table, and unforgettable tales unfold.

Expert Game Masters, Guaranteed Quality

We're gathering a team of experienced, vetted Game Masters (GMs) who know their stuff. These skilled storytellers will be running a collection of gorgeous indie RPGs that showcase the incredible variety of systems, alongside familiar favourites like Dungeons & Dragons and genres beyond the mainstream.

Want to Run a Game in The Forge?

We're always looking for enthusiastic, experienced Game Masters to help us deliver incredible sessions at The Forge. If you're confident in your ability to run engaging, inclusive games and love sharing your favourite systems with new players, we'd love to hear from you.

What do GMs get?

1 game (min 3 hrs) = free day ticket + £10 event credit
2 games (min 6 hrs) = weekend ticket + £20 event credit
3 games (min 9 hrs) = full event ticket + £30 event credit
4 games (min 12 hrs) = full event ticket + mug + £40 event credit
5 games (min 15 hrs) = full event ticket + mug + pin + £50 event credit

Apply to be a GM at The Forge!

Explore Beyond the Usual

From grimdark horror to cosmic sci-fi, from narrative-driven drama to chaotic comedy, The Forge champions indie gems you might never have heard of but will never forget. It's your chance to try something completely new, or fall in love with a fresh take on classic RPG storytelling.

Atmospheric Spaces Designed for Immersion

The Forge isn't just another table in a hall. We've created immersive spaces with set dressing and atmospheric lighting to heighten the mood and bring your games to life. Whether you're investigating ancient ruins or leading a rebellion, the setting will match the story.

How to Join In

You'll be able to sign up on the day for a wide range of RPG sessions - just head to The Forge area and choose your adventure. Sessions will run throughout the weekend, with a variety of systems, time slots, and challenge levels to suit all experience levels.

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York Board Games Convention

🔥 Welcome to The Forge

York Board Games Convention's RPG Zone

Step into the story. Shape your destiny. Discover new worlds.

At this year's York Board Games Convention, we're thrilled to unveil The Forge - a dedicated space for roleplaying games (RPGs), storytelling, and immersive adventures. Whether you're a seasoned player or brand new to tabletop RPGs, The Forge is where characters come alive, dice hit the table, and unforgettable tales unfold.

Sign up for the games detailed below in the dedicated webapp!

Friday, 9:00-13:00

DIE RPG: TPK

GM: Tom Malcolm Wright | System: DIE The RPG

DIE is the TTRPG about a group who get magically sucked in to a TTRPG to experience a horrifically personal game where the stakes are very high. Also known as Goth RPG Jumanji. In TPK: you all used to play fantasy RPGs together as teenagers, until an awful session
where the GM threw you into a killer dungeon and slaughtered the party. Now years down the line, you’re all back in town and the GM suggested a game. With mutual recrimination, both in and out of game, you’re surprised they asked. You’re perhaps even more surprised you all said yes.

Tags: mature themes; beginner friendly; conflicting agenda; player vs player

Content notice: decided at the table

Safety tools: x card; lines, veils, ask

Character creation: build at the table

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Decagone

GM: Matt Taylor | System: Mothership

Upon arriving for your first day in a deep ocean research facility, it becomes apparent that you and the rest of the staff are trapped by one or more of the peculiar and dangerous experiments going on in the facility. Can you figure a way out to safety, or will you simply try to 4d print yourself into immortality? That’ll work, right?

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: Light horror elements

Safety tools: Lines and Veils, X cards

Character creation: build at the table

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Friday, 13:30-17:30

An Im-Pasta-ble Problem at Mama Luigi's

GM: Katherine Hurley | System: Kids on Bikes

It's summer 1997 in Brooklyn, NY, where Mama Luigi's restaurant has been serving up the best meatballs in the neighborhood for 40 years. Too bad something's gone wrong lately with her ingredients. Mama Luigi's grandson, Charlie, and his neighborhood friends are determined to find out why. Is it supernatural? Is it sabotage? This gang of 10-year-olds is going to get down to the bottom of things in this Kids on Bikes-style adventure.

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: Mild violence

Safety tools: x card

Character creation: pre-generated characters

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Trapped in the Tropics

GM: Matt Taylor | System: Pirate Borg

Be a pirate! Sing sea shanties! Drink rum! Investigate shipwrecks! Get your hands on a powerful magical artefact! Tackle the hordes of the unquiet dead and try to avoid becoming one of them yourself! Did I mention rum?
Inspired by Monkey Island, Pirates of the Carribean, Call of Cthulhu and many more, Pirate Borg is a rules-lite, fun heavy RPG system intended to get you on deck and having fun as quickly as possible.
*Rum is optional should you wish to partake, as is singing sea shanties, though that will be encouraged. Talent or musical ability not required.

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: Light horror elements

Safety tools: Lines and Veils, X cards

Character creation: build at the table

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A Darkling Prince

GM: Owlbear | System: Dungeons & Dragons

Arcanist Myblis needs help! Undercover adventurers are needed to spy out a bandit base hidden in an innocent looking forest town. Will they find the source of this hidden evil, or will they fall victim to it themselves? A beginner friendly exploration adventure for Levels 1-4

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: None

Safety tools: x card

Character creation: pre-generated characters

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Year of the Rat

GM: Jack Tindle | System: Mothership

The lost casino ship Year of the Rat has reappeared in the void, and you have been sent to retrieve its black box with the promise of salvage. With a potential jackpot, will you get a lucky streak, or end up paying the ultimate price for your greed?

Tags: mature themes; beginner friendly

Content notice: Body Horror, Depictions of mental illness, Explicit violence, Drug and alcohol abuse, Graphic/Disturbing Imagery

Safety tools: X Card, Script Change (pause, rewind, fast-forward, eject)

Character creation: build at the table

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Horse Around the House

GM: Grant Howitt | System: Horse Around the House

Horses. They’re an unstable, jangling maelstrom of fear and violence encased in half a ton of muscle and hoof.
Now imagine trying to get on with your job around one.
Now imagine your job is performing in a largely improvised American primetime sitcom.
There isn’t even a success or failure mechanic in this month’s one-page RPG, just a dice-stacking exercise that determines how long it is until the horse next goes off.
You don’t want to be here. The horse doesn’t want to be here. Let’s all have fun.

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: Horses

Safety tools: x Card

Character creation: build at the table

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Friday, 18:00-22:00

Call of Cthulhu: The Lightless Beacon

GM: Tom Malcolm Wright | System: Call of Cthulhu

"Monday, April 12th, 1926, ...a moonless night...a malfunction at the lighthouse...
Four strangers, their ship foundered on nearby rocks, are forced to take to a small lifeboat and head to Beacon Island for refuge in the growing storm. Dangers untold lurk as a mystery unfolds under The Lightless Beacon. This is an introductory scenario for legendary horror game Call of Cthulhu"

Tags: mature themes; beginner friendly; conflicting agenda

Content notice: Peril, violence, drowning

Safety tools: X Card, Lines, Veils, Ask

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

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Buried in the Bahamas

GM: Peter Gorbet | System: Pirate Borg

Buried in the Bahamas is an introductory adventure for Pirate Borg and The Dark Caribbean campaign setting. Perfect for new players, this swashbuckling adventure will see the crew set out in search of riches aboard The Tarantula, under the command of the tyrannical Captain Bloodwhip.
You'll explore tropical Island, battle fearsome foes and maybe even discover the booty buried under the X.
Will you survive and go on to carve your name into the seven seas?
A random assortment of salty scallywags will be provided, but feel free to bring your own 1st level pirates.
Pirate Borg is easy to pick up and play and all materials will be provided, however Dice Goblins are welcome to bring their own set of the standard 7 polyhedral dice.

Tags: mature themes; beginner friendly

Content notice: Skeletons, Character Death, Mild Drug/Grog Use (can be ignored)

Safety tools: Lines, Veils, Ask

Character creation: pre-generated characters

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Argrym - The Merchant of Hreivyl

GM: Adam G | System: Argrym

Embarking on the long and perilous journey through the hilly Hojbjesh hinterlands, an eccentric merchant hires of a group of Travellers; those few mercenaries, mages and miracle workers that dare traverse the dangerous wilds of Argrym. However, as the Travellers learn more about their companion, they discover that he is not what he first seems. Will they deliver him to his destination before the dreaded annual Harvest?
The Argrym Anthology is a collection of short adventures that take place in Argrym, a dark medieval fantasy world with twisted, supernatural wildlife and a diverse range of crumbling societies. Play as Travellers, bravely unearthing the horrors of the world and protecting the common folk, trusting only in the monolithic deity Arg and the hope that your efforts might not be forever in vain.
Argrym puts a fresh twist on classic d20 combat, featuring unique spellcasting mechanics and simultaneous turns that bring dramatic and frenetic urgency back to the game. One wrong move can bring myriad long-lasting consequences such as injuries, diseases and insanity—all bringing your Traveller closer to an untimely end.'

Tags: mature themes; beginner friendly

Content notice: violence, death, racism/xenophobia

Safety tools: the consent checklist

Character creation: pre-generated characters

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Bird Crimes

GM: Grant Howitt | System: Bird Crimes

Everyone knows that the funniest crime – objectively – is smuggling rare birds across borders, so we decided to dramatise the high-stakes world of parrot trafficking into an easy-to-run roleplaying game. In BIRD CRIMES you play a down-on-their-luck poacher who’s been roped into illegally importing seven rare breed parrots (who are also criminals) aboard a redeye passenger jet from JFK to Heathrow, and the birds keep escaping, and at one point they get hold of a gun and it’s really downhill from there on in.

Tags: Beginner friendly

Content notice: Birds

Safety tools: x Card

Character creation: build at the table

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Saturday, 9:00-13:00

Year of Clockwork Mystery

GM: Thomas Baird | System: Pathfinder 2e

During the previous year, the Pathfinders located a strange artifact in an Azlanti temple: the clockwork compass. This artifact is shaped as a normal compass, however it has four empty slots that look as though they'd fit a number of different aeon stones. Sorrina Westyr, the master of spells in the Pathfinder Society, calls on the PCs to help her with some experiments. But of course, as it's a Pathfinder experiment, nothing ever goes as it seems! A PF2e Scenario for characters level 1-2.
This game is open to all. You are welcome to bring your own Pathfinder Organised Play Character. But Pregenerated Character Sheets are also available.

Tags: Beginner friendly

Content notice: None

Safety tools: X Card, The Consent Checklist

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

sign up here!

Argrym - The Merchant of Hreivyl

GM: Adam G | System: Argrym

Embarking on the long and perilous journey through the hilly Hojbjesh hinterlands, an eccentric merchant hires of a group of Travellers; those few mercenaries, mages and miracle workers that dare traverse the dangerous wilds of Argrym. However, as the Travellers learn more about their companion, they discover that he is not what he first seems. Will they deliver him to his destination before the dreaded annual Harvest?
The Argrym Anthology is a collection of short adventures that take place in Argrym, a dark medieval fantasy world with twisted, supernatural wildlife and a diverse range of crumbling societies. Play as Travellers, bravely unearthing the horrors of the world and protecting the common folk, trusting only in the monolithic deity Arg and the hope that your efforts might not be forever in vain.
Argrym puts a fresh twist on classic d20 combat, featuring unique spellcasting mechanics and simultaneous turns that bring dramatic and frenetic urgency back to the game. One wrong move can bring myriad long-lasting consequences such as injuries, diseases and insanity—all bringing your Traveller closer to an untimely end.'

Tags: mature themes; beginner friendly

Content notice: violence, death, racism/xenophobia

Safety tools: the consent checklist

Character creation: pre-generated characters

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Kwantum Theory

GM: Jack Tindle | System: Slugblaster

In Kwantum Theory, we join our heroes as inter-dimensional skateboarding teens on the run from the Mall Cops of the Multiverse (and also your mum) slug-blasting their way across the multiverse, all in the name of pulling a sick kickflip over a Mathpanther and achieving peak popularity amongst your peers. Expect classic schoolyard shenanigans, sci-fi-meets-high-fantasy hijinks, and an unpleasant dose of parental figures who just don't get it man. Be there or be square.

Tags: mature themes; family friendly

Content notice: Potential Bullying, Threat, (light) Childhood Trauma, Overbearing Parental disapproval.

Safety tools: X Card, Script Change (pause, rewind, fast-forward, eject)

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

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Star Fleet Academy - 2270 - Milk Run

GM: Simon Burley | System: The Code of the Spacelanes

Forget the 32nd Century. We always wanted a Star Fleet Academy series set in the 23rd Century. Well, here it is, immediately after The Original Series. (And not too long after Strange New Worlds.)
You'll play Star Fleet cadets on a routine training mission, piloting a shuttle around the Solar System under the watchful eye of Lieutenant Commander Galloway. It's a milk run. What could possibly go wrong?
Play brave young Star Fleet cadets in an easy-to-learn, narrative-first 2d6 adventure filled with teamwork, exploration and cinematic action. No previous experience is needed, but there are enough Easter eggs to keep Trekkies smiling.

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: PG

Safety tools: x card; open table

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

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Saturday, 13:30-17:30

Escape! Aisle 13

GM: Stephen Conkar | System: Soot: Tales of Tenebrous

Congratulations! You are a contestant on the show Escape! All you have to do is make it out of the Supermarket Aisle 13 before the sun rises!
You will play a pre-generated character with their own short background and reason for being at the show. Try and escape, while exploring the strange Supermarket Aisle 13. Expect a mix of dice rolling and roleplaying where your decisions matter!
Hidden agendas | Mature themes | Time Limit | Mystery | Escape | Modern | Supernatural Danger | Suspense | Personal Goals | Character Roleplay

Tags: Mature themes

Content notice: Hidden agendas | Mature themes | Time Limit | Escape | Supernatural Danger | Suspense | Personal Goals | Injury/Death

Safety tools: X Card, Open table

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

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ESCAPE: Screen 13

GM: Amy Smith | System: Soot: Tales of Tenebrous

Midnight is the deadline. You’ve volunteered for ESCAPE, a televised game show filmed inside the abandoned Rewind Cinema. Solve the puzzles, overcome the challenges and escape before midnight. But why does this cinema seem to know you, test not only your skills but challenge your secrets, your regrets, and the choices you might remake if you could. To make it, you must work together, recover your lost film reels, and face the truth waiting on Screen 13.
Play a pre-genned character though Screen 13, use your skills to help overcome the challenges and decide if they face their past or hide from it.

Tags: Mature themes

Content notice: Mature themes | Time Limit | Mystery | Escape | Modern Supernatural horror | Suspense | Potential Injury |

Safety tools: X Card, Open Table

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

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A Darkling Prince

GM: Owlbear | System: Dungeons & Dragons

Arcanist Myblis needs help! Undercover adventurers are needed to spy out a bandit base hidden in an innocent looking forest town. Will they find the source of this hidden evil, or will they fall victim to it themselves? A beginner friendly exploration adventure for Levels 1-4

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: None

Safety tools: x card

Character creation: pre-generated characters

sign up here!

Champagne Problems

GM: Jack Tindle | System: Candela Obscura

Champagne Problems is a detective noir mystery, set in a fantastical version of the American east coast during the roaring 20's. Using the Candela Obscura system, players will take the role as investigators, tasked with unravelling a crime that practically oozes with sings of occult interference. When the chips are down and veil between worlds thins, this adventure will ask the question: How will you put a stop to the charade when the party, truly, never ends?

Tags: mature themes; beginner friendly

Content notice: Alcohol, Drugs references, abuse of authority, mania, hallucination.

Safety tools: X Card, Script Change (pause, rewind, fast-forward, eject)

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

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Crash Pandas

GM: Grant Howitt | System: Crash Pandas

You're a bunch of raccoons, all trying to drive the same car, looking to make their names in the dangerous world of LA street racing. Driving is handled with a blind-bidding system that could see you all try to turn right at the same time and smash the car into a wall.
Download also includes text-only version and handwritten version, if that's something you're interested in.

Tags: Beginner friendly

Content notice: None

Safety tools: x card

Character creation: Build at the table

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Saturday, 18:00-22:00

Year of Clockwork Mystery

GM: Thomas Baird | System: Pathfinder 2e

During the previous year, the Pathfinders located a strange artifact in an Azlanti temple: the clockwork compass. This artifact is shaped as a normal compass, however it has four empty slots that look as though they'd fit a number of different aeon stones. Sorrina Westyr, the master of spells in the Pathfinder Society, calls on the PCs to help her with some experiments. But of course, as it's a Pathfinder experiment, nothing ever goes as it seems! A PF2e Scenario for characters level 1-2.
This game is open to all. You are welcome to bring your own Pathfinder Organised Play Character. But Pregenerated Character Sheets are also available.

Tags: Beginner friendly

Content notice: None

Safety tools: X Card, The Consent Checklist

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

sign up here!

Argrym - The Merchant of Hreivyl

GM: Adam G | System: Argrym

Embarking on the long and perilous journey through the hilly Hojbjesh hinterlands, an eccentric merchant hires of a group of Travellers; those few mercenaries, mages and miracle workers that dare traverse the dangerous wilds of Argrym. However, as the Travellers learn more about their companion, they discover that he is not what he first seems. Will they deliver him to his destination before the dreaded annual Harvest?
The Argrym Anthology is a collection of short adventures that take place in Argrym, a dark medieval fantasy world with twisted, supernatural wildlife and a diverse range of crumbling societies. Play as Travellers, bravely unearthing the horrors of the world and protecting the common folk, trusting only in the monolithic deity Arg and the hope that your efforts might not be forever in vain.
Argrym puts a fresh twist on classic d20 combat, featuring unique spellcasting mechanics and simultaneous turns that bring dramatic and frenetic urgency back to the game. One wrong move can bring myriad long-lasting consequences such as injuries, diseases and insanity—all bringing your Traveller closer to an untimely end.'

Tags: mature themes; beginner friendly

Content notice: violence, death, racism/xenophobia

Safety tools: the consent checklist

Character creation: pre-generated characters

sign up here!

Into The Maelstrom

GM: Peter Gorbet | System: Pirate Borg

“In this gothic-castle-on-a-boat adventure, you'll cross cutlasses with Albrecht the Tideborne, a vampire lord, and his crew. Garlic and sunlight won't save you from monsters hungry for the blood of scurvy-ridden pirates”. This is a special session using the new rules from Down Among the Dead, the new rule expansion from Free League Publishing.
This game will be great if you like pirates, over-the-top action, old school gaming
The game runner will provide characters.
New players are welcome.
Players will be learning this system together with the game runner

Tags: mature themes; beginner friendly

Content notice: Vampires, Character Death, Mild Drug/Alcohol use

Safety tools: Lines, Veils, Ask

Character creation: pre-generated characters

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Pig at a Wedding

GM: Grant Howitt | System: Pig at a Wedding

You've got a grudge. You've got a pig. Your nemesis is getting married.
You know what to do.
Originally written in approximately 2019 for a collection of micro-RPGs that is now very hard to buy, we're proud to present Pig At A Wedding - a tremendous excuse to imagine, and depict, very large pigs devouring very large wedding cakes - on its own for the first time (now it's out of contract). The latest in a long line of animal crime based games, and obviously the best because pigs are one of the best animals on Earth.

Tags: mature themes; beginner friendly

Content notice: None

Safety tools: x card

Character creation: Build at the table

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Flotilla of Fate

GM: Owlbear | System: Dungeons & Dragons

In the far east of Murghôm, adventurers help evacuate the town of Becwyr as disaster falls, and shepherd their charges downstream through perils on the River Shalchay and the fabled Gbor Nor! A beginner friendly adventure for levels 1-4.

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: None

Safety tools: x card

Character creation: pre-generated characters

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Sunday, 9:00-13:00

Goat Crashers

GM: Tom Malcolm Wright | System: Goat Crashers

You're a cheeky little goat who just wants to party. Problem is, the only party in town doesn't want goats to attend. But to hell with what they want, right? One of Grant Howitt's legendary one page RPGs of simple rules and utter, improvised chaos.

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: Goats, parties.

Safety tools: X Card, Lines, Veils, Ask

Character creation: Build at the table

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Dad Overboard!

GM: Matt Taylor | System: Bridlewood Bay

Play as a group of elderly women, members of the local Murder Mavens Mystery Book Club and help the authorities solve murder cases in a picturesque New England town.
A wealthy financier's has been dragged out of the bay, his family say they were all out on their yacht, he'd simply had too much to drink and fallen overboard. But something smells fishy about that explanation...
The Mavens have solved many a mystery, sometimes it’s a simple as Doris beating Beatrice too many times in the local baking competition, but unbeknownst to the Mavens, the reasoning is often more horrifying and incomprehensible, thanks to The Midwives of the Fragrant Void, the cult permeating the town.
Less suitable for first time role players - Combining cozy Murder Mystery with Cosmic Horror, in Brindlewood Bay the players are NOT solving a mystery. The players CREATE the mystery and a satisfying solution together with the keeper. The CHARACTERS solve the mystery.

Tags: mature themes

Content notice: Some body horror, violence, ritual sacrifice

Safety tools: Lines and Veils, X cards

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

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The Ascent of Drakkenfell Peak

GM: Jack Tindle | System: Draw Steel

You are a group of bounty hunters, on the trail of an escaped convict: Altan Khurok. For three weeks you have pursued him across the Marvanian hinterland, until at last coming to the foot of the Wailing Peaks. It is true from what you have heard, that Khurok plans to awaken some ancient evil entombed within. You can only hope that you have arrived in time to stop him.
In Pursuit of the Dragon Cult uses Draw Steel, a heroic fantasy tactical-combat system designed for engaging fights, shrewd negotiations, and memorable montages; as player characters work together as a party to overcome hideous monsters and impossible odds.

Tags: mature themes

Content notice: Body horror, depictions of terror, claustrophobia, graphic violence

Safety tools: X Card, Lines, Veils, Ask, Script Change (pause, rewind, fast-forward, eject)

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

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Year of Clockwork Mystery

GM: Thomas Baird | System: Pathfinder 2e

During the previous year, the Pathfinders located a strange artifact in an Azlanti temple: the clockwork compass. This artifact is shaped as a normal compass, however it has four empty slots that look as though they'd fit a number of different aeon stones. Sorrina Westyr, the master of spells in the Pathfinder Society, calls on the PCs to help her with some experiments. But of course, as it's a Pathfinder experiment, nothing ever goes as it seems! A PF2e Scenario for characters level 1-2.
This game is open to all. You are welcome to bring your own Pathfinder Organised Play Character. But Pregenerated Character Sheets are also available.

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: None

Safety tools: X Card, The Consent Checklist

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

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One of our Dinosaurs is Missing

GM: Simon Burley | System: The Code of Steam and Steel

In an alternative Victorian London - an egalitarian, multi-cultural city of Steam, Steel, Overland trains and Airships (blame Darwin!) - Doris the Diplodacus has gone missing from London Zoo. this is a high octane pedal-to-the-metal Steampunk adventure against the clock. Can you solve the mystery of just how someone can steal an 80 foot long 15 ton Dinosaur and tackle the fiendish mastermind behind the plot to get her back in time for breakfast?
Role-play forward, player driven 2d6 shenanigans, with an easy-to learn system that generates an unforgettable experience.

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: PG

Safety tools: x card; open table

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

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Sunday, 13:30-17:00

Buried in the Bahamas

GM: Peter Gorbet | System: Pirate Borg

Buried in the Bahamas is an introductory adventure for Pirate Borg and The Dark Caribbean campaign setting. Perfect for new players, this swashbuckling adventure will see the crew set out in search of riches aboard The Tarantula, under the command of the tyrannical Captain Bloodwhip.
You'll explore tropical Island, battle fearsome foes and maybe even discover the booty buried under the X.
Will you survive and go on to carve your name into the seven seas?
A random assortment of salty scallywags will be provided, but feel free to bring your own 1st level pirates.
Pirate Borg is easy to pick up and play and all materials will be provided, however Dice Goblins are welcome to bring their own set of the standard 7 polyhedral dice.

Tags: mature themes; beginner friendly

Content notice: Skeletons, Character Death, Mild Drug/Grog Use (can be ignored)

Safety tools: Lines, Veils, Ask

Character creation: pre-generated characters

sign up here!

Year of Clockwork Mystery

GM: Thomas Baird | System: Pathfinder 2e

During the previous year, the Pathfinders located a strange artifact in an Azlanti temple: the clockwork compass. This artifact is shaped as a normal compass, however it has four empty slots that look as though they'd fit a number of different aeon stones. Sorrina Westyr, the master of spells in the Pathfinder Society, calls on the PCs to help her with some experiments. But of course, as it's a Pathfinder experiment, nothing ever goes as it seems! A PF2e Scenario for characters level 1-2.
This game is open to all. You are welcome to bring your own Pathfinder Organised Play Character. But Pregenerated Character Sheets are also available.

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: None

Safety tools: X Card, The Consent Checklist

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

sign up here!

The Cluedo Caper

GM: Owlbear | System: Brindlewood Bay

The Murder Mavens are on Vacation! They have travelled to the United Kingdom to walk in the footsteps of Agatha Christie and so many other famous mystery and whodunit authors. Their privately chartered tour also takes them to Black House in the Scottish Borders near the town of Kelso, where they are to stay in this four-square stately home on route to the Highlands and trips to various castles and lochs. A beginner friendly intro to Brindlewood Bay RPG set in the UK...

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: None

Safety tools: x card

Character creation: Build at the table

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Lost in the Autumn Realms

GM: Ed Jollyboat | System: Lost in the Autumn Realms

Join Ed for a feelings-first collaborative storytelling experience.

Tags: beginner friendly

Content notice: To be decided at the table

Safety tools: x card

Character creation: Build at the table

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Sunday, 13:30-17:30

Last Orders

GM: Simon Burley | System: The Code of Cthulhu

Birmingham’s pubs brim with excitement as Henshall’s Brewery reopens, dispatching its revived Mild, Bitter, and Bruno brews for a citywide synchronised tasting event.
Players, among the revellers, uncover chilling signs: frenzied drinkers, eerie brewery whispers, and grotesque accidents.
A sinister force taints the beer, threatening to consume Brum unless stopped before the grand toast.
Frenzied horror.
Role-play forward, player driven 2d6 shenanigans, with an easy-to learn system that generates an unforgettable experience. No previous experience or knowledge necessary.

Tags: beginner friendly; mature themes (18+)

Content notice: Horror; violence

Safety tools: x card; open table

Character creation: Pre-generated characters

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