RPGs
Below is the list of competition and participation Role Play Games being run at Q-Con XV. Competition games will have an additional fee of £1 and the winner will receive a prize, which will be presented at the closing ceremony.
Friday Evening 7pm - 10pm
Starblazer Adventures - The Ruins of Time
By Alan Hume
Flying Star Patrol was supposed to be one of the easiest gigs this side of the Regulus Constellation but that was before you ran in to the infamous pirate Adam Mantis and his deadly cruiser, the Defiant. With the brief but fiery space battle over, what's left of your patrol cutter is plunging through the atmosphere of an unknown and previously uncharted world. As the ship pulls apart around you, the last thing you see is your going to crash land amidst the overgrown ruins of an ancient city...
Starblazer Adventures is the new space opera RPG with a rock and roll attitude that gives you everything you could possibly need in one book that is literally bursting with stunning sci-fi art. Based on the award winning Fate rules, Starblazer Adventure is designed to give players the opportunity to adventure across a vast galaxy packed with giant war machines, massive fleets, devilish ancient races, lost worlds, traitorous scientists and ancient creatures
Cthulhutech - Shadows In The Night
By David Conn
It is the year 2085, and all-out war has raged for twenty-six years. Pitted against humanity and their Nazzadi allies are the might of the alien Migou, who seek to enslave humanity, and the Cults, who worship Things-Better-Left-Alone. Unfortunately, as the Migou already know, things could be much worse... for everybody.
The 57th Armoured Recon Division, currently fighting a holding action against the genocidal Rapine Storm Cult, are about to find out how much worse...
SLA Industries (Adults Only)
By Robert Stewart
In the Grime covered Cyber-punk city of Mort you work for SLA Industries, you work for money, you work for fame and you work for sponsorships. You got some notoriety in the past, couple of clothing labels took you on, weapons manufacturers gave you free stuff you whack people with.... but that faded, people lost interest and you've been getting jobs on the crap end of the scale recently. That all changes today. Everybody likes a Suicide Mission, makes for great ratings on TV and anyone who comes out is almost guaranteed their own Series. The Mission? Just pick up a couple things for SLA in the Cannibal Sector.... can't be that hard right?
In a world where you work for SLA or you don't work at all, do you really have a choice?
Dungeons & Dragons - Gary Gygax Tribute: Tomb of Horrors
Competition Game
Michael Davis
This game is a fond farewell to E. Gary Gygax, using the adventure module he wrote for the Official D&D tournament at Origins I. Tomb of Horrors has become a classic and has been converted to 3e rules, but for this game we will use Gary Gygax's original 1st edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons rules (the original 3 hardback rulebooks only.
Wild Talents
By Caspar Love
Two months ago, Batman was killed. Now as small groups struggle to keep Gotham safe it seems that Batman's killer has returned to the city
Ambition's Folly (INT7-01)
By Tim Sech
RPGA Living Greyhawk
Always 12 players per slot unless otherwise noted, 2 tables of up to 6. Players need to create their own characters following the rules at www.wizards.com/lg or pick up one of our pre-generated characters onsite. All events are D&D 3.5.
A new dawn has arrived in the early morning on Oerth. What adventures await the unsuspecting? New adventurers arrive every day to the Gem of the Flanaess seeking riches or to just take in the wonder that is Greyhawk City. Will this day be no different or will adventure find you? A one-round Core Introduction adventure set in Greyhawk City for characters level 1-4 (APL 2only).
Dungeons & Dragons Open Championship FOURTH EDITION
Prizes provided by Wizards of the Coast
Scenario details TBC.
Saturday Morning 10.30am - 1.30pm
Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition - The Ironshackle Heist
Competition Game
By Jonathan Glover
Ironshackle is a very wealthy dwarf merchant, his house is absolutely loaded with gems and other fine treasures. You're going to raid his house tonight and clean it out! Time to make it big!
Victoriana - Devil at 4 O'Clock
By Marc Farrimond
London - the seat of the civilised world and the jewel in the crown of the Great British Empire. Home to millions of dreamers - each with their own hopes and aspirations, but also home to something far more sinister.
The glorious Great British Empire is vast and wealthy, but not without her enemies both foreign and closer to home. A strange cult and a sinister plot to over throw the government and assassinate that most sovereign of souls, Queen Victoria; leads the players in a race against time to save the Monarch and help the Empire retain its rightful place in world politics.
Victoriana 2nd Edition expands on the wild, weird and wonderful Victorian alternate reality of Victoriana and introduces for the first time the Heresy Gaming Engine©. A world where man rubs shoulders with Ogres, Dwarves and Eldren, and science is the new magic. Victoriana takes a sideways look at our own reality and throws in fantasy elements and creatures and adds its own unique twist, giving the player everything they would ever need for a Steampunk style system.
Traveller - Space Dogs!
By Alan Hume
You are Vargr, genetically uplifted dogs, you are the underclass, doomed to live and die in the Imperial slums, you get the dirty jobs and nobody cares if you live or die.
The colony of Little Heaven is in trouble, beset by murderous pirates, they need help fast and they don't care if that help has fangs and fur!
Can you save the colonists? Can you save yourselves, Can you do anything when all you are is...
The Veggie Patch - She Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas
By Eugene Doherty
So you're a walking, talking vegetable. Nothing strange about that, all your friends and neighbours are too, at least here in the Veggie Patch. But beyond the safety of the barrier that surrounds your home lie the conniving Brassicas and the malevolent weeds and who knows what other dangers besides? Well soon you will know as you are tasked to journey out into the Wilds to the Big Shed on the Hill© for the cure that may save your community. Are you green enough for the challenge?
GURPS Prime Directive
Competition Game
By Caspar Love
Investigators have uncovered an infiltration of known-space by an as yet unknown force. Investigate and try to gather as much data as possible.
Trial by Fire by Tim Sech (INT7-02)
By Tim Sech
RPGA Living Greyhawk
Always 12 players per slot unless otherwise noted, 2 tables of up to 6. Players need to create their own characters following the rules at www.wizards.com/lg or pick up one of our pre-generated characters onsite. All events are D&D 3.5.
While some of the landscape of the Domain of Greyhawk has changed, the squabbling and power struggle of nobles has not. Ancient papers have been found and translated, papers that many would kill to have in their possession. With the knowledge now within their grasp two men rise above others to retrieve what they believe is rightfully theirs. Today is the day where a choice must be made that will change the fate of many. A one -round Core Introduction adventure set in Greyhawk City for characters level 1-4 (APL 2 only).
Dungeons & Dragons Open Championship FOURTH EDITION
Prizes provided by Wizards of the Coast
Scenario details TBC.
Saturday Afternoon 10.30am - 1.30pm
Call of Cthulhu - The Lighthouse
By Andy Frazer and Jacky Shaw
Not far off the coast of New England, stands a lone lighthouse. Atop its' tower a dim light glows, day and night, but it is no fiery beacon, nor warning glow, but a pale, unearthly radiance. Of late, no word has been received from the keepers that live upon this desolate rock... but a storm approaches... and the light may not be bright enough to pierce the encroaching gloom.A local boat, bearing a small crew, has been launched to seek answers... and who knows..? Perhaps, to save the lives of some unfortunate mariners - unlucky enough to be lost in the coming storm.
3D Dungeon - Adventures in the 3rd Dimension
By William Boyle and Gary Bingham
D&D started from small scale fantasy wargames fought in mine works under castles and this is in part a tribute to our roots and a tribute in part to E Gary Gygax's immortal memory. Imagine a subterrean complex filled with loot and horrors in almost equal measures* Heroic adventureres sent in to brave these horrors and liberate the loot all for the entertainment of rich an powerful beings. Kinda like old school D&D but with 30 years of messing about...
Presented using 3D scenery, dungeon furniture and a lot of vicious tom foolery:
Come and join the FUN** and see if your team can win the prize this year!
* horror/loot ratio actually 100/1 but what the heck
** well when we say fun...
Elric/Stormbringer - Shipwrecked on Monster Island
By Greg Black
Good News! You and your friends are on a long sea-cruise
Bad news! You're working as slaves for your (frankly) eeevil Melnibonean masters
Good News! After a major storm you're washed up - sans slave masters - on an island
Bad News! The storm's coming this way, there's precious little cover in sight, oh and the sign over your shoulder says... Monster Island...
Star Wars SAGA - Knock, Knock, C.I.S. Calling
By David Forsythe
The captain and crew of the 'Double Skifter' are relaxing in the Starport Cantina on Shantor while they wait for their cargo of supplies for the GAR garrison is unloaded. When suddenly...
A Star Wars SAGA edition game with pre-generated 1st level characters. No Jedi.
A Dead Man's Job (INT7-03)
By Tim Sech
RPGA Living Greyhawk
Always 12 players per slot unless otherwise noted, 2 tables of up to 6. Players need to create their own characters following the rules at www.wizards.com/lg or pick up one of our pre-generated characters onsite. All events are D&D 3.5.
Recovering the red pearl has stirred many factions into action. Unfortunately with the instability of the region as it is the Greyhawk militia does not have time to hear such fanciful tales as 'lost rituals' and the like. Aramis has been betrayed by his own men and they now have the rest of the ritual items. Will you stick your neck on the line again and be able to break through their defenses? Only one way to find out. A one-round Core Introduction adventure set in Greyhawk City for characters level 1-4 (APL 2 only).
Dungeons & Dragons Open Championship FOURTH EDITION
Prizes provided by Wizards of the Coast
Scenario details TBC.
Sunday Morning 11am - 2pm
Call of Cthulhu - School, the Happiest Shortest Days of Your Life
By Eugene Doherty
Cave You Chaps, it's old Quelch! But what's that look in his gimlet eye, is it looking for schoolboy miscreants to impose an impot, or new victims for living sacrifice? There's rum goings on at Greyfriars and you stout chaps of the Remove are just the boys to thwart the plots of the eldritch bounders,.. or die trying.
SLA Industries - MR Giggles Must Die
By Marc Farrimond
It seems like any ordinary contract, hunt down some freak who has been killing other freaks, take him out and keep the media and of course Mr Slayer happy in the process, but this freak is not like your average run of the mill killer, he is smart, fast, deadly and twice the size of the biggest Stormer you are ever likely to meet in a dark alley. Now its up to you to come up with the goods, after all ratings don't make themselves.
SLA Industries is a dark future game set on the bleak world of Mort, a world where life is cheap and bullets are expensive. Here you work for one of the world's largest companies SLA Industries, dealing with those little problems that arise from time to time, or simply just going out and killing people who get on the wrong side of your nefarious boss, Mr Slayer. A dark and gritty setting that has as much humour as it does violence and life is judged only by your next contract.
Dark Heresy - Dark Twilight Blues
Competition
By Jonathan Glover
In the grim darkness of the far flung future of the 41st Millennium, horrors lurk on all sides, ready to corrupt the Imperium of Man. As acoyltes to an Inquisitor your job is to purge the traitors, heretics and mutants that threaten the Imperium. However, there is a problem with fulfilling this task! Where have your companions gone? Where is the Inquisitor? Why does your head hurt so much? And who are those angry people pointing guns at you?
GURPS: Timepiece
By Caspar Love
Our enemies in the history wars have made a move. The question is how do they plan to assassinate a man who didn't really exist?
Unknown Armies
By Benn Beaton
Unknown Armies is a game of Post-modern Urban Horror, a strange and often bizarre setting where anything can and often will happen, expect the unexpected and be wary of what is around the next corner, if in fact it is a corner. This variant eschews the modern setting in favour of the wild west. After a robbery gone bad the remains of the Horhez gang are holed up in an old farm house. Outside the rain pours and the mud gets thicker. Inside angry spirits prey upon the remainder of the gang. Can you survive the night?
Raiders of the Chaos Fields (COR8-02)
By Creighton Broadhurst
RPGA Living Greyhawk
Always 12 players per slot unless otherwise noted, 2 tables of up to 6. Players need to create their own characters following the rules at www.wizards.com/lg or pick up one of our pre-generated characters onsite. All events are D&D 3.5.
COR8-02 Raiders of the Chaos Fields by Creighton Broadhurst Turrosh Mak, despot of the Orcish Empire of the Pomarj, wants peace. Is this some new stratagem on the wily half-orc's part or is his offer genuine? A period of relative peace along Greyhawk's buffer zone has many worried. Have the orcs really stopped raiding or are they preparing a new, devastating invasion? A one-round core adventure set in the Domain of Greyhawk for characters levels 1-11 (APLs 2-8).
Dungeons & Dragons Open Championship FOURTH EDITION
Prizes provided by Wizards of the Coast
Scenario details TBC.
Sunday Afternoon 3pm - 6pm
Cyberpunk - Night City Stories (Adults only)
Competition Game
By David Hayes
It's always the same. Rain and violence sweeps the streets of the Metropolis. Matt (Stamt) Johnson was the only glimmer of light in the city of night but they snuffed him out. This cannot be let go, THEY WILL PAY!!!
Shadowrun
By Paul Brindley
It's the sixth age and all is strife. Corporations rule and profit is king, governments are at the mercy of the money and power of the corporations, some nations in their own rights. Racial hatreds have been put aside to be replaced by the hatred of the new 'meta-humans', the Elves and Trolls and the other new races. Magic is feared by the mundane and the religious and discrimination is the norm for every magician or non-human. Poverty is rampant and all the wonders of the modern world are deigned to the sinless, those people who lost the identities or 'system identification numbers', SIN's. Criminals are everywhere and so is organised crime, the Mafia, the Triads the Yakuza and worse.
Only two things keep the big corps from waging war on each other, the knowledge that it would surly lead to mutual annihilation and the corporate court. So when a corporate shark or underworld kingpin wants to hit a rival they turn to deniable assets, you are one of those assets. You are a Shadowrunner, living outside of society you do not exist. You do what you need to survive in this world. You do what they pay you to do, steal, sabotage, kidnap or kill.
Take a step into this world as you and your team take one more roll of the dice in a world where your boss is just as likely to kill you as your target, and there's no-one that can't be found.
You and your team have been hired by a major corporate player to retrieve some information from the Yakuza. You have to find out where they keep this information, get it out and deliver it... and while you're at it you might want to make sure you keep your skin too.
3D Dungeon - Adventures in the 3rd Dimension
By William Boyle and Gary Bingham
D&D started from small scale fantasy wargames fought in mine works under castles and this is in part a tribute to our roots and a tribute in part to E Gary Gygax's immortal memory. Imagine a subterrean complex filled with loot and horrors in almost equal measures* Heroic adventureres sent in to brave these horrors and liberate the loot all for the entertainment of rich an powerful beings. Kinda like old school D&D but with 30 years of messing about...
Presented using 3D scenery, dungeon furniture and a lot of vicious tom foolery:
Come and join the FUN** and see if your team can win the prize this year!
* horror/loot ratio actually 100/1 but what the heck
** well when we say fun...
Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space - A Day like No Other
Competition Game
By Marc Farrimond
You awake in a strange room, surrounded by strangers with no recollection as to how or why you got here? Questions are asked and voices raised but each of your new companions is as helpless and lost as yourself and the one burning thing that everyone wants answered is where on earth are you? With the only option being team work, you will need your wits about you if you are to survive and live to tell the tell.
Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space is the all new Officially licensed roleplaying game from Cubicle 7 Entertainment, based on the long running television show Doctor Who. With a unique system and games mechanics that put the word Role playing over Roll playing, you can expect to run into all sorts of strange creatures, travel to new worlds or traverse the highways of time and space as companions to the mysterious Time Lord known only as The Doctor.
Blue Planet
By Caspar Love
The most advanced city on the planet is being plagued by glitches. Are they simple bugs or something more sinister? And who can benefit from the glitches if it is?
Ritual of the Damned (INT7-04)
By Tim Sech
RPGA Living Greyhawk
Always 12 players per slot unless otherwise noted, 2 tables of up to 6. Players need to create their own characters following the rules at http://www.wizards.com/lg or pick up one of our pre-generated characters onsite. All events are D&D 3.5.
The pieces are back in Aramis's hands and the only thing left to do is set them in play. Aramis is ready for his dreams to come true and relies on friends to help him see it through. The ritual is about to happen, will it be for the good of Greyhawk or be yet another disaster in the Domain of Greyhawk's long storied history? A one-round Core Introduction adventure set in Greyhawk City for characters level 1-4 (APL 2 only).
Dungeons & Dragons Open Championship FOURTH EDITION
Prizes provided by Wizards of the Coast
Scenario details TBC.