Together with Matt (@chimpy20), Lee (@leejneilson) and Griff (@doc_griffiths), we are arranging a one-day RPG event in Warwickshire on 22nd September.

The Bear and the Ragged Staff is the symbol of the Earls of Warwick and, subsequently, of the County, and we thought eminently suitable for a D&D makeover, and hence the Con’s name became The Owlbear and Wizard’s Staff. Thanks to Mrs Griff for the stunning artwork.

We’re going to try and keep it simple.

RPG sessions morning and afternoon, with a lunch break. Time for a trip to the pub at the end of the day. We’ve hired the Band Factory in Leamington as our venue – lots of space to spread out tables, near the railway station, pubs, and places to eat.

We’ll open the doors at 9am and the first RPG sessions run from 10am-1.30pm, break for lunch, and second session run from 2.30pm-6pm.

So far, we have 10 tables confirmed for each session with very kind GMs offering their services. Games on offer are likely to include Dungeon Crawl Classics, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Star Trek Adventures, D&D5e, Numenera, Shadowrun, RuneQuest Glorantha, HeroQuest Glorantha, Genesys, Call of Cthulhu, Space 1889, Monster of the Week, Feng Shui, Elite Dangerous, Mutant Crawl Classics, and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

I'm going to list tickets as free and ask attendees to make a donation on the day towards venue hire - if you do book a ticket and are unable to come, please let me know so I can relist.

Game slots

All day

GM: Dirk

System: RuneQuest - Roleplaying in Glorantha

Pitch: The Broken Tower and beyond …

Welcome to Greg Stafford's World of Glorantha! Glorantha is a mythic world of mortals and gods, myths and cults, monsters and heroes. In Glorantha, the Runes permeate everything, and mastery of Runes allows astonishing feats of bravery and magic. Glorantha is an ancient world, and has known many ages, but now it is at the brink of the greatest conflict it has ever known... the Hero Wars.

An introductory game for people who want to (re) discover Glorantha and the new RuneQuest.

Max players: 6

10am-1.30pm

Table 1

GM: Matt H

System: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay – hopefully 4e but if not out, 2e

Pitch: Archaon may be defeated but the beasts of the Drakwald remain. Woe to the traveller who braves the depths of the forest.

- A 2e introductory adventure in Middenland, set amid an Empire reeling from the ravages of Chaos.

Max Players: 6

Table 2

GM: Griff

System: Monster of the Week (Powered by the Apocalypse)

Pitch: "Keep Your Eyes Peeled" is an original folk-horror / monster slaying scenario for the action-packed and narratively exquisite Monster of the Week. We're headed back to
1970s Hookland - Britain's forgotten county - investigating the brutal exsanguination of beauty queens, regional weathermen and retired pirate radio station presenters.

Kipper ties, cravats and flares are encouraged, but optional.

Max Players:5

Table 3

GM: Jimbo

System: Genesys

Pitch: God Save The Queen!
A Rip-snorting Victorian Steampunk Adventure Of Thrilling Detection, Monkeys and Mayhem!

Max players: 4-6

Table 4

GM: Lee

System: Dungeon Crawl Classics

Pitch: Not in Kansas Anymore: A 0-level Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG funnel adventure in which characters from 1970’s Earth are plucked from their own dimension and transported to another altogether weirder one...

Those are men in realistic rubber lizard costumes, right?

Max players: 6

Table 5

GM: Matt G

System: Call of Cthulhu 7th Ed.

Pitch: In the small Welsh town of Caerleon in the mid 90's " Chrono Quest" the pilot to an archaeology themed TV series being pitched to Channel 5 find something older than the Roman Fortress of Isca Augusta

Max players: 4-5

Table 6

GM: Andrew

System: Feng Shui

Pitch: TBC

Max players: TBC

Table 7

GM: Dave

System: Fate Core Eclipse Phase

Pitch: A team of Firewall agents descend into the stormy upper Jovian atmosphere to investigate a virtual slave trade

Max players:5

Table 8

GM: Greg

System: Elite Dangerous RPG

Pitch:TBC

Max players: 6

Table 9

GM: Glenn

System: D&D 5e

Pitch:

Title: Shortcut

It’s been a tough year of adventuring for you and your companions, you’re headed back to Neverwinter for some well deserved R&R, luckily one of your group knows a shortcut through a pleasant enchanted forest, where the pixies frolic and every day seems like spring, amazingly it will cut 2 weeks off your journey, what could possibly go wrong? A D&D 5e adventure for up to 6 players, 5 preferred, characters will be provided.

Max players: 6

2.30pm-6pm

Table 1

GM: Kai

System: D&D5e (tweaked) for Farrir, the setting for the Wizard on the Wynd podcast

Pitch: Farrirn's have avoided the coves to the south east of Cullen's Bay for sometime now and fisherfolk won't go within two miles of Ynys Sâl. Strange singing, sickly greens lights and dark shapes beneath the water have led to many fanciful tales. A monster lives in the caves, the island is haunted and the spawn of Ul-gratch-theen gather beneath the waves. No one knows the truth and no one is that keen to find out, so this stretch of rocky coastline has been left, wild and abandoned.

Then the first baby went missing.

The hysteria and grief was felt all throughout Cullen’s Bay. Unusual, but perhaps it had been taken by a starved wolf? The Greenlady communed with the local wildlife, but no answers came. Then the second baby was taken. After the third, a call went out for brave adventurers to seek the cause of the kidnappings.

Max players: 6 (12 pregens provided)

Table 2

GM: Blythy

System: Numenera

Pitch: For years, the village of Droznish on the Plains of Kataru eked out an existence from the arid lands surrounding it. Until Astari came along - a young girl found wandering the barren wastes to the east with no memory of how she got there. Astari had a gift - she awoke an ancient piece of prior-world technology that had simply sat in the village as a curiosity for as long as anyone could remember. Since Astari woke the machine, the crops have grown quickly and abundantly. Droznish has now enjoyed twenty years of bumper crops. But now Astari has disappeared, the machine sleeps once again and the crops fail. The villagers are desperate and hope that you can help find Astari before famine takes hold.

Max Players: 6

Table 3

GM: Kat

System: Star Trek Adventures

Pitch: On stardate 3715.3, the Federation starship USS Enterprise arrives at Gamma Trianguli VI, a planet that appears to be a tropical paradise with very rich natural resources. A small team of crew are dispatched including the Medical Officer, Scientist and other personnel. They quickly find the paradise is extremely hostile; however, transporting back to the ship is impossible as an energy field is drawing power from the Enterprise rendering the transporters inoperable. They must find the source of the energy field before the Enterprise is doomed and them with it.

Max players: 6

Table 4

GM: Ian

System: HeroQuest Glorantha

Pitch: Temertain Must Die

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Six Humakti, beset by nightmares and dark pasts, haunted by the Household of Death but promised absolution from their failures, seek a blade with which to restore honour and justice. One of them must wield it, to fell a Prince and save a kingdom. They will triumph or die, perhaps both, but most of all gain absolution for their sins.

Max players: 6

Table 5

GM: Wayne

System: Savage Worlds Explorers Edition: Space 1889 Red Sands

Pitch: Ghosts from the Past
An archaeology team have found something in the Martian desert. Something that they are unwilling to communicate through normal channels. Her Majesty's Foreign Office has dispatched a team of experts aboard the good aether ship, HMS Lively to ascertain the details.

Max players: 4-6

Table 6

GM: Neil

System: Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Pitch: The Village of Maisoncelle

24th October 1415

Henry V, determined to strengthen his rule in France is leading the English Army on a wearying march from Harfleur to Calais when it is halted by the French Army commanded by Charles d'Albret, Constable of France.

Camped around the village of Maisoncelle, bordered to the northwest by Agincourt woods and the north by Tramecourt woods, a calmness has settled upon the English men-at-arms and archers as they contemplate their fates. For tomorrow they will take to the field against a French Army at least 5 times their size.

Walter Thornton, a Knight, company leader and favourite of Henry's has uncharacteristically disappeared on the eve of battle. Now Henry calls upon the 'Aliquam Martialis', his sergeants-at-arms to find Walter, return him to his command, or if he has deserted, execute him. If only it was that simple...

Max players: 6

Table 7

GM: Adam

System: Shadowrun 3rdedition, Seattle 2057

Pitch: You thought your life had gone to drek when you got caught on a 'run and thrown in prison. But after getting sprung out things got even worse.

Turns out a friend had turned on you and now you're out they need to finish the job i.e. you. And the guy who broke you out wants you to find something that doesn't exist or he'll blow your fraggin' brainpan up.

Just another day in the shadows? Or the worst fraggin' day ever?

Max Players: 6

Table 8

GM: Pete

System: D&D 5e

Pitch: In Waterdeep, the City of Splendours, intrigue and villainy is always just around the corner. With the imminent release of “Waterdeep: Dragon Heist”, explore some of the opportunities and dangers the city has to offer. More adventure details to follow.

Max players:6

Table 9

GM: David

System: Mutant Crawl Classics

Pitch:TBC

Max players: TBC