THE GAMES WE PLAY

We play a wide range of role playing games and board games. We usually have at least three role playing games running at the same time and we try and plan them a bit in advance so everyone knows what their in next (and so the GMs can plan...)

Our role playing games run in 'cycles' so we can start and finish them around the same time - this makes it easy for everyone to play different games with different people. It works really well.

Every five weeks we pause for a boardgames and one-shot RPG session. This is a great time for new people to drop in and play some games.

What's happening when?

We schedule all our upcoming events on Meetup.

There you'll find more details about each game that's running over the next few weeks. It's also a great way to chat with us if you're interesting in joining.

We love to hear from other gamers. You can also contact us directly via our Contact page.

Quick view

If you just want an idea of what we play, here's what roleplaying games we're currently playing and a few that we've played recently. You can click a game title for more details about the each system.

Currently Playing...

Call of Cthulhu: O Mother, Where Art Thou?
1930's America, Appalachian mountains. Searching for the mother and sister of a rich New York businessman.
Seems their plane got caught in a storm a couple of days back. Never made it.

The old fella still believes they are alive and heck, for the money he’s paying YOU are willing to believe they are still alive. All you need to do is find them. Just a few days of hiking in the mountains. What’s the worst that can happen?

Lamentations of the Flame Princess: Pisces Interruptus
Devon, 1635, and the once-moribund fishing village of Innsmouth is seeing something of a renaissance.

Fish is being sold once again and rumour has it that the villagers have found a source of gold; but what brought about this drastic change of fortunes?

Sagas of the Icelanders: Shipwrecked
In the year 874, the first Norse settlers set foot on Iceland. They were escaping war, poverty and the dissolution of their political freedoms in mainland Scandinavia. Their kin soon followed and claimed the empty lands, free from rulers and religious pressures, becoming lone farmers, determined to survive in this harsh new environment. These are their stories.

This Saga is about a family of Viking settlers arriving in Iceland who get ship wrecked in winter. Can the family survive the winter? A game about so starvation, survival, gender roles, relationships, and violence.

Technoir: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
You play protagonists like cyber-tweaked couriers, hard-nosed investigators, and drugged-out hackers making opportunities for themselves in a despairing world.

Using a rules-light system with enough intricacies to spark new fires of hardboiled crime novels and cyberpunk science fiction, Technoir lets you coax, hack, fight, prowl, and shoot your way through a dark future.

Recently Played...

Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition
Possibly the best known role playing system of all time.

A band of brave and fearless adventurers prepare to head forth into the unforgiving wilderness, risking almost certain death to do battle with the mighty forces of evil. Meanwhile, what can best be described as a random collection of odd-balls who have met, slip out the back, hoping to make some easy coin and perhaps survive another day before evil notices them. Guess which group you'll be in..?

Mythic Rome
A historical supplement for Mythras, which is derived from Runequest, one of the seminal fantasy role playing game systems with over 30 years of history.

The Eternal City. The beating, visceral heart of the greatest republic in the known world. A place of hidden mysteries, great piety, shifting politics and bloody intrigue. A horrific crime strikes at the very heart of the Republic, a heart that is now gripped with fear. With no clear motive and no obvious culprits, there are a myriad questions in search of answers. Fortunately, there are those in Rome with the skill and wit to find them...

Spire
You are a dark elf. Your home, the towering city of Spire, was occupied by the high elves two hundred years ago. Now, you have joined a secret organisation known as the Ministry, a paramilitary cult with a single aim – to overthrow the cruel high elves and restore the drow as the rightful rulers of the city.

What – or who – will you sacrifice to achieve your aims? Will you evade the attention of the authorities, or end up shot in the street like so many before you?

Academy City: Prom night
Academy City is an artificial island city-state in the Atlantic Ocean, of which about 70% of the population are students, many with Esper powers, giving various powers, the city actively trying to recruit foreign espers.
Using Fate: Core, with some of the friend/rival mechanics from Toyko Brain Pop hacked in.

Escape From New York
Another day in the Big Apple. Another hot, June day. And the subway is blistering as you ride to your next stop. Except the D train driver has just come over the Tannoy. An asteroid has hit Portugal. Then the carriage shakes, the lights go out and the train slows to a halt.

This is a home-brew game from the GM.

James Bond 007
Experience the life of a secret agent....work for M.I.6. Prepare yourself for high speed chases, track down evil villains & pit yourself against ODD JOB or JAWS. Select your equipment from Q Branch & who knows even obtain the coveted "00" Rank

Doctor Who: Adventures in Time & Space
Mortenbury, Shropshire, 1575. A mysterious plague is sweeping the region and the characters investigate. An audience at the castle, rumours of body-snatching and a rebellious noble lead to the discovery that not everything is as it seems and the soul of England and Scotland is at stake.

Goblin Quest
Goblin Quest is a tabletop roleplaying game about slapstick violence, fatal ineptitude, and the greatest adventure of your life. Play five goblins each (in sequence, not parallel) and watch them meet hilarious ends while failing to achieve the most basic tasks.

Will they survive the dangerous world of the Great Battle Camp and avoid the attentions of brutal orcs, murderous bugbears, mean-spirited hobgoblins and scary wizards? Probably not. But you'll have fun finding out!.

Last Fleet
The rag-tag fleet that contains the last of humanity flees through space, pursued by the implacable, inhuman adversaries that destroyed your home world. You play daring pilots, savvy commanders, seasoned engineers and wily politicians striving to protect your people from destruction.

This is a playtest of a new game written by the GM.

Board / card Games

We've got many board games and card games. Some are owned by the club, many more are owned by our members. Here's just a few we enjoy. You can click the image for a larger version and click the title to open the game listing on Board Game Geek.

Spirit Island
A cooperative, settler-destruction strategy game.

Players are different spirits of the land, each with their own unique elemental powers, forced to defend their island home from colonizing Invaders spreading blight and destruction. Work with your fellow spirits and the Dahan (local islanders) to increase your power and drive the invading colonists from your island in this deep and complex area-control game!

Sentinels of the Multiverse
A cooperative, fixed-deck card game with a comic book flavour. Each player plays as one of ten heroes, against one of four villains, and the battle takes place in one of four different dynamic environments.

A team of heroes, all with impressive powers and abilities stand between the world and the forces of evil. Will you help them? Answer the call to protect the multiverse!

Dead of Winter
A meta-cooperative psychological survival game. Players are working together toward one common victory condition — but for each individual player to achieve victory, he must also complete his personal secret objective.

Certain games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing. Work toward the group's goal, but don't get walked all over by a loudmouth who's looking out only for his own interests!

King of Tokyo
In King of Tokyo, you play mutant monsters, gigantic robots, and strange aliens – all of whom are destroying Tokyo and whacking each other in order to become the one and only King of Tokyo. Combine your dice to gather energy, heal your monster or just slap the other monsters down! Spend your energy to trigger permanent or one-shot special powers: a second head, body armour, nova death ray...

Carcassonne
In Carcassonne, players build the area surrounding this impressive city, one tile at a time. They then place a follower on fields, cities, roads or monasteries in order to score as many points as possible. These followers will become knights,monks, farmers and thieves, depending on where they are placed. No matter their followers' function, the player who will most cleverly use their followers will win the game...

Flash Point: Fire Rescue
A cooperative game of fire rescue. Work as firefighters attempting to rescue victims from a raging building fire. As you work, the fire is spreading to other parts of the building, causing structural damage and possibly blocking off pathways. Extinguish fires, avoid flash overs, explosions and building collapse to save the victims trapped inside...