Month: June 2019

Go Play Manchester V Player Allocation

This comes a day early, because all three games being offered for GPM V on Sunday, June 23rd, 1-5pm at Fanboy 3, are completely full.

Please note because Liminal was very popular as a first choice, I’m now running a second Liminal adventure called “A Walk in the Park” (see details after player allocation table).  So if you didn’t get into Paul’s “Benneth the Stones” as your first choice then I’ve put you in “A Walk…”.

Game Chariots of the Gods Beneath the Stones A Walk in the Park
System Alien RPG Liminal Liminal
GM Paul B Mitch Newt
Player 1 Roderick Dorte Martin
Player 2 Andy H Udo Fil
Player 3 Jeremy Lynn May
Player 4 Richard John R Daniel
Player 5 Dan Andrew A-W Debbie

Here are the details of my Liminal game

A Walk In the Park

You wanted a break from the Liminal World. A world full of ghosts jumping out of old cupboards, werewolves on the moors, schemes of magical societies in the houses of power and vampires at the disco. So, you wanted to get out of the city, to somewhere remote but not the middle of nowhere. Where you could enjoy the creature comforts while being able to take a peaceful walk in the countryside. A friend on your network of contacts came up with just the place.

A mate of theirs needs a house sitter while they are on holiday. Their 1930s house is large enough for you and the rest of your crew and is in Royton, an old mill town just down the road from Manchester in the North West.  All they ask is that walk their dog in the county park at the end of the street at least once a day. Should be a nice and relaxing break?

 

The Eaten

System: 13th Age Glorantha
GM: Newt Newport

Its Sea Season at the Silverwind Stead in the land of Dragon Pass. It should be all dancing and alecakes, at this time of growth and renewal.

But outside the clan’s lands, the Tula, the forces of Chaos rages unchecked, taking all the clan’s effort to hold them back. Recently three of your clan’s greatest heroes Garmast the Windlord and his wife Vestala the Gentle, and the clan’s sage Ranulf the Beady went to perform a hero quest in a sacred yet secret place in an attempt to raise magical healing energies. It was not successful. Both Garmast and Ranulf was struck dead by an evil spirit which also drove Vestala mad. Fortunately, she has recovered her sanity, but a great famine has gripped the land, and now the clan is starving.  To make matters worse bandits made up of the routed enemy Lunar forces,  raid trade caravans loaded with emergency food from neighbours.

13th Age Glorantha is a fantasy D20 system written by two of D&D previous designers (3rd edition’s Jonathan Tweet and 4th Edition’s Rob Henisloo) set in Greg Stafford’s bronze age mythic world of Glorantha.  No experience of Glorantha or 13th Age required. This adventure is designed as a straightforward introduction to both setting and system.

 

 

Beneath the Stones

System: Liminal
GM: Paul Mitchener
Near Hadrian’s Wall are the Mare and Foal Standing Stones- just two stones remaining of an ancient stone ring. Alas, property developers have moved in after a wave of protests, but they have given permission to a group of archaeologists before they begin construction work. But why were the protestors receiving money from the Jaeger family, the werewolf “royalty” of the country? And why is a known magician of the Council of Merlin part of the excavation team? And why are the locals now all having nightmares?
Time for a Crew of Liminals to get involved.
Liminal is a game about those on the boundary between the modern day United Kingdom and the Hidden World- the world of secret societies of magicians,
a police division investigating Fortean crimes, fae courts, werewolf gangs, and haunted places where the walls between worlds are thin.

Chariots of the Gods

System: Alien
GM:  Paul Baldowski

You are space truckers on the starfreighter USCSS Montero, running “the Gauntlet”—the trade route between Anchorpoint Station and the Frontier. Your ship’s cargo hold is packed with dozens of tanks of the rare gas Helium-3—a special order for a Weyland-Yutani corporate account on Sutter’s World. On-route, the Montero’s sensors developed a glitch before you left Anchorpoint and sporadically pinged contact with a sensor reflection before you activated the displacement drive and went FTL. Now, you are just awakening from hypersleep, ready to deliver your goods to the colony of Sutter’s World.

More information: This from the preview of the new upcoming licensed Alien RPG by Swedish publisher Free Leauge Publishing.

Here’s the trailer

Roleplaying where no one can hear you scream. Twentieth Century Fox and Free League Publishing, the award-winning game publisher of the Tales from the Loop RPG, are making a tabletop roleplaying game series set in the ALIEN universe! Sign-up for exclusive news and previews at alien-rpg.com

Go Play Manchester V June 23rd 2019

We now have a date for the June edition of Go Play Manchester, Sunday 23rd June, at Fanboy 3 in central Manchester between 1 pm and 5 pm.

As a reminder of how things work, here are the dates & deadlines of all the setup steps.

Now – Call for GMs, if you want to run a game please send me the details via the form on the Games Masters’ Information page.

Sunday 16th June. Player sign up opens, the week before the meetup.  Sign up to the newsletter and I’ll send you the link to the sign-up page.

Friday  21st June. Details of who has been allocated which game will be published via the website.

I’ll be announcing game details in due course, but as a teaser, Paul Mitchener of Liminal RPG and Age of Arthur fame will be visiting us from Sheffield for the first time since the first GPM back in Jan.  I shall also be offering a Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition game set in World War 2, called After the Raid.

All the best,

;O) Newt