Here are the long awaited list of RPG’s at Conpulsion. A big thank-you to all of those who submitted games.
SATURDAY MORNING 10:00 – 13:00 (1PM)
System: 3:16 – Carnage Amongst The Stars
Title: Kill All Aliens
GM: Euan Reid
One-Line Description: Kill All Aliens!
Description: Earth is perfect, and it’s your job to make sure it stays that way. By killing everything else in the universe.
Number of players: 3-7
Suitable for ages: Old enough to swear, young enough to enjoy gratuitous violence.
System: Basic D&D
Title: Dungeons & Dragons
GM: Matthew Barrowcliffe
One-Line Description: Kickin’ it old school.
Description: There will be a Dungeon, there will be a Dragon, the fate of the Kingdom will rest in your hands. This game does what it says on the tin!
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: PG+
Title: The Long minute
System: Squadron UK – The British Superhero Role-playing game
GM: Simon Burley (Creator of Squadron UK)
Pithy One-Line Description: A simple bank robbery plunges the Heroes into a city-wide mystery where even time itself is against them.
Description: Especially created for convention play, this scenario showcases the unique features of the Squadron UK game. The Heroes’ extraordinary capabilities and their detective skills will be needed to save the city. And they only have minute to do it – a very LONG minute……
Number of players: 3 – 5
Suitable for ages: Teens upwards (younger with parental supervision). Some role-playing experience preferred.
System: Call Of Cthulhu
Title: Under The Deep
GM: Gregor Hutton
One-Line Description: Take care, for who knows what lies in all our minds under the deep.
Description: Eccentric dilettante Leopold Rossiter takes you on a journey to the very depths of the Pacific Ocean, and beyond, aboard a submarine obtained in the aftermath of the Great War. Rossiter seeks wisdom in the depths that the world would rather keep hidden…
Number of players: 3-6
Ages: Adult
Title: Cassandra Truth
System: Homebrew
GM: Matthew Knighton
One-Line Description: A game of occult espionage and weird science
Description: A scientist is snatched from a secure psychiatric institution. The only clue as to why is the one word scrawled across the walls of his room; Cassandra. Your team is assigned to track the scientist down, before anyone else does.
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: Adult (there is an element of horror)
System: Doctor Who
Title: I Spy With My Little Eye
GM: Craig Oxbrow
One-Line Description: Berlin! 1963! One of the most dangerous times in human history! Oh good!
Description: The Doctor, Amy and Rory follow an alien distress signal to 1960s Berlin – the front line of the Cold War at its height. Suitable for new players.
Number of players: 3-6
Suitable for ages: All
Title: Highline Fae
System: Simple D6 Homebrew
GM: Gwen Fyfe
One-Line Description: Battle-fairies versus the forces of mechanization far above the streets of New York City!
Description: Two fae squadrons, one winter and one summer, have been deployed to the Highline, a disused railway above the streets of New York City. It is scheduled to re-open soon as a beautiful green space, but the Fae Courts worry about the lingering dangers of Victorian industry…
Number of players: ?
Suitable for ages: 10+
System: Hollow Earth Exploration
Title: The Heinrich Gambit
GM: Dan Hellsing
Pithy One-Line Description: Two-fisted pulp action adventure
Description: Following events in Egypt, the party pursue Otto von Kesselring and his evil Thule Society goons from advancing their agenda. Part of a government team assembled to work together in order to foil these plans, the continuing saga of the SWORD chronicles awaits!
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: 13+
Title: Mission: [redacted]
System: S.P.I.E.S. homebrew
GM: Yoda
One-Line Description: Your mission is to save the world but something went wrong in the office…
Description: You’re a super-spy and you’ve been tasked with saving the world from [redacted]. Unfortunately there was a mix-up in the secret identities office and you can’t break character or the mission might fail… It’s a good thing you’re good at lying your ass off.
Number of players: 3-6
Ages: old enough to watch James Bond in the cinema on their own
System: Silhouette
Title: Stranger Than Fiction
GM: Aaron Billingham
One-Line Description: Intrigue and danger in a fantasy Renaissance where nothing is as it seems.
Description: No-one believes that our ambassador to the strange foreign courts really committed suicide – you are tasked with investigating his death whilst continuing the trade talks, each trying to gain the upper hand for your own house in the process.
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: 15+
System: Changeling: The Lost (New World Of Darkness)
Title: Spies and Sorcery
GM: Tim Raspin
One-Line Description: Twisted fairy magic! Espionage! Shady government organisations! What more could you want?
Description: Bizarre fairy magic clashes with gritty reality when a group of people tainted by the cruel powers of the Fae are sent to extract a mole from a secret government organisation. Familiarity with World of Darkness would be helpful, but isn’t necessary.
Number of players: 3- 6
Suitable for ages: loosely 16+
System: Spirit Of The Century
Title: Casablanca
GM: Adam Prior
One-Line Description: The men (and women) from CLARISA vs the forces of SHADOW in Casablanca – A swinging 60s spy game in the style of The Man From UNCLE.
Description: An Indian filmmaker has recently died and among his possessions is a bible used as a cypher by the evil organisation SHADOW to encrypt orders. A squad of CLARISA (Combined League of American Russian Intelligence and Strategic Assets) are sent to retrieve the bible by fair means of foul – but do others have the same idea?
Number of players: 3-6
Suitable for ages: 16+
System: BLACK SEVEN
Title: From Above
GM: Stew Wilson
One-Line Description: Only you stand between the world and orbital kinetic death weapons.
Description: Back in the 70s, the CIA hatched a dieback plan — if ever it looked bad enough that nuclear war was likely, they’d use orbital kinetic weapons to bring the world back to the stone age. Now someone else has control and is holding the world to ransom.
Number of players: 3-5
Suitable for ages: 13+
SATURDAY AFTERNOON 15:00 – 18:00 (3PM-6PM)
System: Eternal Contenders
Title: We, The Warriors
GM: Joe Prince (creator of Eternal Contenders)
One Liner: Gladiators clash in this game of blood and steel, pain and glory!
Description: Welcome to Oblim, the last refuge of the desperate in a land run by scoundrels. We, the warriors who once fought for duty and honour. Now all that remains is coin and fleeting glory. Who among us has the heart to battle out of the gutter? Or will the darkness engulf us all?
Players: 2-5
Ages: 15+
System: Leverage
Title: The Stirred, Not Shaken Job
GM: Steve Ironside
One-Line Description: The rich and powerful take what they want. You steal it back from them. And sometimes, bad guys make the best good guys. You provide… leverage for those who need it.
Description: When an ex-employee wants his designs back, it’s exactly the kind of thing that you normally help with. But this time around, the target of your con turns out to have a few surprises of his own…
Number of players: 4-6
Ages: Any
System: Marc Millar’s Traveller 5th Edition
Title: Red Zone
GM: Matthew Barrowcliffe
Pithy One-Line Description: After a misjump, the crew of the trading vessel Angel’s Tread find themselves with a damaged ship in an unknown system.
Description: As the jump started it was clear something was wrong, then … nothing. You came round dazed, to the computer’s insistent alert: RED ZONE – DANGEROUS SYSTEM. Now the computer is unresponsive, like the ship, leaving you alone in the black…
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: All ages
System: Sci-Fi Beta Kappa
Title: Easter Parade
GM: Leo Marshall (creator of Sci-Fi Beta Kappa)
One-Line Description: Delinquent aliens with superpowers causing havoc in a college frat house.
Description: Amazingly, Alien House has been invited to enter a float in this year’s Easter Parade. So, do some research on the Terran Easter celebration, and make a float that will be the pride of the College. What could go wrong?
Number of players: 3-6
Suitable for ages: 16+
Title: The Consequences of Power
System: Squadron UK – The British Superhero Role-playing game
GM: Simon Burley (Creator of Squadron UK)
Pithy One-Line Description: Can you stop a super powerful but crazed vigilante dispensing his own form of justice?
Description: Should you save the vigilante’s victim – a vile criminal who’s above the law? Great power brings terrible choices…
The scenario from the rulebook. You’ll create a unique hero who you’ll feel a real connection with. You’ll enjoy high octane adventure. It’s time to join the Squadron!
Number of players: 3 – 5
Suitable for ages: Teens upwards (younger with parental supervision). Some role-playing experience preferred.
System: Unknown Armies
Title: 501 Days
GM: Ben McCallum
One-Line Description: Six people, one ship, 24 cubic meters, 501 days.
Description: The 2018 Mars mission goes ahead with an extended crew. Six of you will be living in a 24 cubic meter capsule for the 501 days that it takes to circle Mars and return. No elbow room, no quiet time and no help if anything goes wrong…
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: 15+
System: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition
Title: The Marienburg Courier
GM: Steve Clapton
One-Line Description: Treachery, intrigue, double-dealing abound as secrets and murder collide in the city port of Marienburg.
Description: Marienburg, crossroads of the Old World has long been a city where agents of various powers meet to trade or steal secrets. Now a dead courier will drag some of the city’s lowest citizens into the great game they always knew better to avoid.
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: 16+
System: The Agency
Title: The 5th Man
One-Line Description: Liverpool 1966. A member of a popular beat combo is now a zombie and your agents must transport him safely cross country by train.
GM: Matt Machell (creator of The Agency)
Description: The Agency, top secret government antidote to the supernatural: Saving the world in style. A technicolor world of bowler hats, sports cars, catsuits and martial arts. Can you protect an innocent brain-eating pop star from a ravening horde of fans?
Number of players: 2-4
Suitable for ages: 14+
System: Discworld RPG (2nd edition)/GURPS
Title: Postponing the Apocralypse
One-Line Description: Priests of assorted Small Gods strive to prevent theological disasters.
GM: Phil Masters (author of the Discworld RPG)
Full Description: The Temple of Small Gods, Ankh-Morpork, needs someone to edit liturgies, calm cultists, and patch pantheons. They’ve got you. But all you’ve got to do is stop transcendent beings from trashing the Disc out of petulance; how hard can it be?
Number of players: 4-5
Suitable for ages: Any
Title: PeakValley Take Down
System: Homebrew
One-Line Description: Remember, when I promised to take down your drug cartel last? I lied…
GM: Steve Irvine
Description: It’s 1988 and drug cartels are rife in PeakValley! You are a group of cops from around the city thrown into the fray, 80′s action style! They’ll never know what hit them, but with so many egos… will there be anyone left to arrest?
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: 15+
SATURDAY EVENING 20:00 – 23:00 (8PM – 11PM)
System: BLACK SEVEN
Title: Remaindered Assets
GM: Stew Wilson
One-Line Description: Black-ops agents vs. zombie soldiers. Hilarity ensues!
Description: The dead have risen and are working for the military-industrial complex! Your employer wants to know how and why and who. And then he wants you to solve the situation. High explosives optional.
Number of players: 3-5
Suitable for ages: 13+
System: Vampire: The Requiem
Title: Don’t Talk About Bite Club
GM: Dan Hellsing
One-Line Description: Dark gothic horror
Description: Asked by the local Ordo to investigate a place of power or Wyrms nest, you head into the downtown area of Bay City, when events take an interesting turn possibly for the worst, leading you on an investigation around the city.
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: 15+
System: ColdCity
Title: Berlin After Dark
GM: Stephen McMorland
One-Line Description: Paranoia and Nazi experiments gone wild in Cold War Berlin
Description: You play agents whose secret mission is to hunt down and cover up the remnants of Nazi experiments, horrible monsters and super soldiers. Mystery and paranoia abound as you struggle to advance your own agenda, your nation’s and also prevent the true horror of the War from destroying the innocent.
Number of Players: 3-5
Ages: Adults due to mature subject matter
System: Feng Shui
Title: Blowing Up Hawaii
One-Line Description: The Action Movie RPG – Blowing Up Hawaii!
GM: David McIlhinney
Description: The Devil Himself (David Hasselhoff) has risen in Hawaii. Only an elite squad of Kick-Ass Bikini Beach Girls stand in his way (with loads of Big Guns and Fast Cars)!
Number of players: 4- 6. More welcome.
Suitable for ages: 18+
Something Wicked
System: Squadron UK – The British Superhero Role-playing game
GM: Simon Burley (Creator of Squadron UK)
The first chapter of the forthcoming Squadron: X campaign pack. The characters (ordinary civilians, as yet unaware of the destiny fate has in store for them) are drawn into a strange and terrifying new world. Has the feel of an indie horror film or a pilot for an X-files/Torchwood/Buffy type TV series.
Title: Necromancers
System: Homebrew
One-Line Description: Why do I need to ask questions when I can just eat your heart?
GM: Steve Irvine
Description: Ghosts? Zombies? Vampires? The world is full of mysterious things that only a blessed few know anything about. The daughter of an influential man has gone missing leaving a trail of horrifically mutilated bodies. Your job is to find her and silence her… permanently!
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: 18+
SUNDAY MORNING 10:00 – 13:00 (1PM)
System: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Title: Buffy Versus [CLASSIFIED]
GM: Craig Oxbrow
One-Line Description: Saving the world from evil would be much easier if not for [CLASSIFIED]
Description: An ancient evil stirs beneath the city streets, and only Buffy and her friends can stop it. But that van has been parked there all week… Is someone spying on them? Suitable for new players. Also – [CLASSIFIED]
Number of players: 3-6
Ages: PG+
[Mystery Game]
System: Squadron UK – The British Superhero Role-playing game
GM: Simon Burley (Creator of Squadron UK)
System: Dungeon World
Title: Fortune And Glory
GM: Matthew Knighton
One-Line Description: A game of swords, sorcery and high fantasy adventure.
Description: As the cursed moon hangs in the sky an ancient, cyclopean city rises from the depths of the whispering sea. Now adventurers scramble to the newly risen city in search of fortune and glory. However, in the shadows, something stirs…
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: All
System: Leagues Of Adventure
Title: Moonbeams and Monsters
GM: Dan Hellsing
One-Line Description: Victorian steampunk adventure
Description: The Koh-I-Noor diamond has been stolen, the guards horribly mutilated, and the Queen’s top scientific mind has not been seen for months! Investigate, find the diamond and Lord Montgomery. What is going on and what secrets will be uncovered?
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: 13+
System: Orbit
Title: Suspicious Cargo
GM: Tara Catt
One-line description: A fun-filled caper set in a futuristic world of hijinks, with espionage and danger lurking.
Description: Rudely shanghaied by a ruthless corporation who know everything about you, there’s no choice but to comply. Now you must retrieve the lost cargo from beyond Free Space where League Laws don’t necessarily apply. Are you up to the challenge? Suitable for new players.
Number of Players: 4-6
Suitable for Ages: 16+
System: Airship Pirates (Auction)
GM: Peter Cakebread (cocreator of Airship Pirates)
Tickets for this game will be sold in Saturday’s charity auction
SUNDAY AFTERNOON 15:00 – 18:00 (3PM-6PM)
System: Best Friends
Title: Absolute Best Friends
GM: Sandy Ryalls
One-Line Description: “You know spies – bunch of bitchy little girls!”
Description: Espionage, Counter Espionage, “Cooperation”, Assets, The Cousins. Inter-agency operations are messy at the best of times. Good job we’re all Absolute Best Friends.
Number of players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: 12+
[Mystery Game]
System: Squadron UK – The British Superhero Role-playing game
GM: Simon Burley (Creator of Squadron UK)
System: Dark Harvest: Legacy Of Frankenstein
Title: Masquerade
GM: Steve Ironside
One-Line Description: The local Voivode is up to something, and the Resistance are desperate to know what it is. But in the land of Promethea, where Frankenstein’s Gift has corrupted the powerful, can anything be that straightforward?
Description: The Resistance need to get agents into the castle to try to find plans or documents and get out again. Fortunately, there is a Masquerade ball to celebrate his daughter’s coming-of-age – a perfect diversion! Seems simple enough, doesn’t it?
Number of players: 4-6
Ages: 15+
System: Hell 4 Leather (Tarot)
Title: No More Heroes
GM: Joe Prince (creator of Hell 4 Leather)
Pithy One-Line Description: A high fantasy tale of bloody revenge!
Description: When a mighty band of adventurers murder one of their own, they awaken something darker. The slain fool is granted one night to wreak vengeance on those who betrayed him. Who, if any, will escape the revenant’s wrath?
Number of players: 2-5
Suitable for ages: 13+
System: Monkey RPG
Title: The Mystery of the Troublesome Sage
GM: Stephen McMorland
One-Line Description: Supernatural Spying in Ancient China
Description: You play Immortals in ancient China, the same world as seen in the novel The Journey West (Monkey). The Jade Emperor has a problem and needs troublesome Immortals like you to solve it. Humour and action in this light-hearted adventure.
Number of Players: 3-5
Suitable for ages: PG+
Title: The Mysterious Deaths of Doctor Black
GM: Tiggs Cunningham
One-Line Description: Doctor Black is dead. But…
Description: You know this because you killed Doctor Black… Well, you’re fairly certain you did, the trouble is, so is everyone else in the mansion…
Number of Players: 4-6
Suitable for ages: 15+
Title: PlantagenetPark
System: Homebrew
GM: Phil Harris
Pithy One-Line Description: Return of the House of York
Description: Richard III has been cloned from his DNA remains but they made a mistake, he’s fertile, has captured the two princes and put them in the tower and is working to re-establish the House of York.
Number of players: 6
Suitable for ages: 16+
Title: Saviours
System: Homebrew
GM: Hendrik Little
One-Line Description: What would you do if you were offered power, perhaps even absolute power?
Description: What if you were offered power, perhaps even absolute power, control you were compelled to wield, however you saw fit? Maybe you never gave it any thought or perhaps this is the opportunity of a lifetime. Welcome to the Eden Initiative.
Number of Players: 3-6
Suitable for ages: 16+
System: Sci-Fi Beta Kappa
Title: Spies Like Them
GM: Leo Marshall (creator of Sci-Fi Beta Kappa)
Pithy One-Line Description: Delinquent aliens with superpowers causing havoc in a college frat house.
Description: Due to a colossal mix-up, our hapless aliens have been recruited by the Bureau of Planetary Security to investigate and expose an alleged Human Defence League cell at WeberCollege.
Number of players: 3-6
Suitable for ages: 16+
System: The Agency
Title: Lord Dudley’s Menagerie
GM: Matt Machell (creator of The Agency)
One-Line Description: Our heroes attempt to rescue a lost heiress from the abandoned chimerical menagerie of the Earl of Dudley.
Description: In a technicolour 1585, The Queen’s Men secretly defend England from the forces of evil, be they papists, creatures of the night or other unsavoury influences. The RPG of the 1970s TV series that never was…
Number of players: 2-4
Suitable for ages: 16+
System: Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Auction Game)
Title: Skinner
GM: Stew Wilson
One-Line Description: Line developer Stew Wilson presents a special preview of the Werewolf20 Skinner SAS
Description: The Skinner is dead. Samuel Haight tried for too much power, and was obliterated forever. The children of his legacy are few and outnumbered. They wouldn’t be so bold as to invite the wrath of the Garou Nation. They’re not as driven as Haight. And he’s dead and gone. Isn’t he?
Number of players: 3-6
Suitable for Ages: 18+
Tickets for this game will be sold in Saturday’s charity auction
