Games for the Summer Quarter 2018

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It’s Sci-Fi season!

Yes folks, the summer quarter at the Harrogate Roleplayers club looks like it is going to be wall-to-wall sci-fi. So grab your laser blasters (or M41A pulse rifles), fire up your starship engines and get ready for action!

What’s on Offer?

In addition to Chris Middleton’s ‘Star Wars: Edge of the Empire’ game (see Nathan’s post, below), there are now three four other games on offer:

Call of Cthulhu (Classic 1920s Setting)

GM: Alex
System: Call of Cthulhu, d100.
Players: Maximum 4 players.

Firefly

GM: Stewart
System: Firefly, using the Cortex Plus system.
Players: 4 players, although 3 spots are already taken.

This a continuation of Stew’s game from a couple of quarters ago, but another player is very much welcome to join.

Space: 1889

GM: Rob
System: Space: 1889, using a custom d6 system.
Players: 4 players, although 2 spots are already taken.

Space: 1889 presents an alternate history in which certain discredited Victorian scientific theories were found to be true and have led to the development of new technologies. In the setting, Thomas Edison has invented an “ether propeller” which can propel ships through the “luminiferous aether” (the universal medium that permeates space, based on a now outdated scientific theory), and in 1870 traveled to Mars. There they discover that the planet is inhabited. By the time of the game’s setting in 1889, the great powers have used Edison’s invention to extend their colonies and interests to the inner planets of the solar system. Venus and Mars have been colonized by Great Britain, Germany, France, and Russia. Belgium has only colonized Mars and Italy has only colonized Venus whilst Japan and the United States maintain economic and scientific enclaves on Mars. There are no colonies or bases on the Moon. Only Great Britain maintains a (scientific) base on Mercury.

Traveller:2300

GM: Matt
System: To be determined. It won’t be the published rules though.
Players: 4 players (5 at a push), although 2 spots are already taken.

Although bearing the same name as Traveller, the two games have nothing in common. Traveller:2300 is a hard science-fiction game, set in the year 2300. Following a global economic and political collapse in the early years of the 21st century, mankind has managed to rebuild, returned to space and has begun the process of exploring and colonising nearby star systems. However, it is still early in mankind’s expansion into space, and exploration has reached little beyond 30 light years from Earth.

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Games for the Spring Quarter 2018

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My posts seem to have the alarming ring of repetition about them. However, that aside and without further ado:

Yes, it’s again that time when we look to new or returning games for the upcoming quarter. Four of you have so far said that you will be running or would like to run games.

1. Cy will be running the fourth (is it fifth?) installment of his chart-topping World of Samsara game, but I think may already have a full complement of players.
2. Snowy is offering up Starfinder (Pathfinder in space, for those of you that don’t know).
3. Adam – our newest club member – is offering up SLA Industries.
4. John is offering up Palladium Fantasy; some old school fantasy gaming possibly familiar to those of you that remember the 1980s.

I’ll leave it to each of the GMs to make a pitch for their games if they feel the need to. If anyone else would like offer up a game, just comment on this post.

Thanks.

Matt

 

Games for the Winter Quarter 2018

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Hello everyone,

With Christmas fast approaching, it’s time to start organising games for the upcoming Winter quarter.

With our current numbers, I think we’re looking at three games. I will be running one game, so we need at least two other people to run something. Can you let me know if you want to referee a game and, if so, what game or games you would be prepared to run? I’ll kick things off with a long list of games that I’m considering running:

1. Blue Planet (hard sci-fi RPG, set two hundred years from now on a water planet in the Lambda Serpentis system, 35 light years from Earth)
2. Nyambe (fantasy Africa setting, using my D10 homebrew system)
3. Call of Cthulhu (Victorian or 1920s setting)
4. After the Bomb (mutant animals, using a modified version of the Basic Roleplaying [BRP] system)
5. Dark Sun (D&D campaign setting set in the fictional, post-apocalyptic desert world of Athas, but not using the D&D rules)

Cheers,

Matt

 

 

 

Games for the Autumn Quarter

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Hello everyone,

Just to let you know that the following games are on offer for this new quarter:

• Firefly (referee: Stewart)
• Mutant City Blues (referee: Nathan L)
• Divided Isle (referee: John)

There are spaces available in Stewart’s and Nathan’s games, and possibly in John’s if both of the other games have at least three players each.

Cheers,

Matt

 

A Quick Roundup

Hello everyone,

As far as I know, these are the games that are on offer for the Summer quarter, or have already started (as is the case with Cy’s game):

Cy is running his ongoing World of Samsara game and has a full complement of players.

Nathan is offering Mutant City Blues (see the previous post), but I don’t know yet if he’s signed up any players.

Snowy is running a superheroes game (see his recent post) and has at least two players thus far.

I’m running ‘At Rapier’s Point’, which is a game of swashbuckling adventure set in 17th century Europe. I have space for one more player. Reply to this post if you are interested in playing. Note that my game won’t start until Thursday, 13th July.

If one or both of Snowy and Nathan’s games don’t generate sufficient interest, then new games will need to be offered up.

Cheers.

Matt

 

Hints and Tips for New Referees

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Hello everyone,

Tim’s posted on the Harrogate Roleplayers Facebook page, asking for any sources of information on how to be a good DM / referee. If anyone has any links, please post them either here, or on the Facebook page.

I also thought it would be useful to compile a list of hints and tips that might be useful for everyone, not just new and novice referees. So, with that in mind, if you have any hints and tips on being a referee, comment on this post. I’ll get the ball rolling by repeating here what I posted in my reply to Tim:

Never railroad your players. What I mean by that is: never force them to do something that they don’t want to do, or make them feel as though their choices in the game don’t matter.

Cheers,

Matt

 

Games for the Spring Quarter

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Hello everyone,

It’s time to get new games and groups organised for the April to June quarter. As usual, if anyone has a game or games that they would like to run, please post a comment below this post briefly describing what you’re offering.

The basic information you should include:

• Name of the RPG (if it’s a published one)
• The system
• The setting
• The type of adventure (or the actual adventure) you want to run
• Minimum / maximum number of players

Let me know separately if you’re offering to be a reserve GM.

The cutoff will be Thursday, 30th March, after which I will collect players’ preferences using Survey Monkey.

Cheers,

Matt

New Harrogate Games Store

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Just a quick heads up about a new games store that’s due to open soon in Harrogate:

Further information and updates can be found at:

http://www.hordegames.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/hordegames

 

This Quarter’s Games

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Hello everyone,

Just to confirm that the games running this quarter are:

1. Snowy’s Drow Pathfinder campaign (4 players currently)
2. Scott’s Unusual Affairs Management Agency game (4 players currently)
3. Theo’s Italian Renaissance-inspired fantasy playtest game (3 players currently)
4. Rob’s Imperium in ruin Traveller game (3 players currently)

Snowy’s game can accommodate six players; Scott and Rob’s games 5; and Theo’s game 4; so there are still plenty of spots available.

In addition, Chris Dawson has a game he is keen to run (see below). If you are interested, let either myself or Chris know.

“The game is kind of a rules light RPG where you play as a Professional Wrestler. You pick a gimmick, make a PC, and then work to try and put on the best and most entertaining matches you can. You don’t compete to win, but more to tell the best story and have the best match you can. Do you have what it takes to make it to the top of the British Wrestling Alliance? Will you have the audience cheering your name, or drowning you out in boos? Can the person behind the wrestler deal with the backstage politics of the wrestling world?

No wrestling knowledge needed. The game is designed for both fans of wrestling, and fans of role-playing. Only thing required is 2d6.”

Cheers,

Matt

Games for the Winter Quarter

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Hello everyone,

It’s time to get new games and groups organised for the January to March quarter. As usual, if anyone has a game or games that they would like to run, please post a comment below this post briefly describing what you’re offering.

The basic information you should include:

• Name of the RPG (if it’s a published one)
• The system
• The setting
• The type of adventure (or the actual adventure) you want to run
• Minimum / maximum number of players

Note: Snowy’s already posted what he would like to run in the entry below this one (https://harrogateroleplayers.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/my-offers-and-ideas-for-the-next-quarters/)

Let me know separately if you’re offering to be a reserve GM.

The cutoff will be Thursday, 22nd December, after which I will collect players’ preferences using Survey Monkey.

Cheers,

Matt