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which can propel ships through the “luminiferous aether” (the universal medium that permeates space, based on a now outdated scientific theory), and in 1870 traveled to Mars.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 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

 

 

 

New Quarter game: Superheroes

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Welcome to world 1313, you are currently entering a crossroads between worlds, a place where the lost find themselves.

Until 50 years ago this world has had close to no supernatural or superhuman activity. It appears that it is something that our world is unable to generate or create: relying instead on technology to grow: at least until the gates opened.

It was then they started to appear: individuals wandering from world to world, falling into the wide cities that lie scattered across the continents.

Characters will start as Students at thehe Ingeniousus Divinus Academy,
The academy is home to the majority of people that may be termed as Super-powered individuals. A majority of them arrive in their teens, requiring education and teaching of how to use their powers responsibly.
The organisation of the school is divided by powers and educational needs. To aid this there are several houses across the school, each catering to the powers of the different students

This is the second time this setting has been run and System used this time is Tri-Stat (BESM), so there should be a good vaiety of characters to be built.

Any interest please note below.

Snowy

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

 

New Games for the Winter Quarter (2016)

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Hello everyone,

Following on from my last post (and accompanying email), could those of you wishing to run a game for the next quarter, please add a comment to this post with a brief synopsis of the game you’d like to run. 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.

Given the number of players, I think we will need three games for the next quarter. Obviously, more than three of you can offer to run something. Just to note: I won’t be running a game this time.

Cheers,

Matt

 

Game Selection

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Hello everyone,

Following on from Snowy’s post on Wednesday, and a conversation on Thursday evening with Dan, Nathan, Ashley and Rachel, I’d like for the next quarter to try a new approach to arranging games. The way we’re currently doing things is not working as well as I would like and I know that some of you are in agreement. Firstly, we tend not to hear anything from referees (myself included) until a couple of weeks out and sometime not until the first Thursday of the quarter, by which times some games are already full.

I would therefore like to propose the following:

Five weeks out from the end of each quarter I will create a post where anyone who would like to run a game should post a brief synopsis of the game system, setting, and the adventure or type of adventure that they have in mind. This doesn’t need to be a 1000 word essay, but should be enough for players to decide whether it’s of interest to them. It would also be useful to hear from anyone prepared to be a ‘reserve’ referee, in the event that there aren’t enough games submitted, or one or more submitted games do not generate sufficient interest.

Two weeks from the end of the quarter, I will add a poll to the site containing all the submitted games (thanks for the idea Rachel!), that all of you wanting to play should use to vote for your game of choice (and possibly a second choice). I will review the results and then contact all the referees to let them know the score. I’m hoping that this will make the whole process less confusing and frustrating, and fairer for all concerned.

At some point in the next few weeks I would also like for us to have a quick get-together to discuss room allocation.

Please let me know if you have any questions, or if you dislike with the proposal.

Cheers,

Matt

Games for the Summer Quarter

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Hello everyone,

It’s getting close to the start of the new quarter. With that in mind can anyone wanting to run a game either post it on the website and/or the club Facebook page, and/or on the new and very yellow notices that Dan has very kindly put up in the bar at the club (cheers Dan!).

As per usual, we’re going to need four games. I know that Cy is likely to be running something and I’m definitely not running. Anyone else who would like to run a game, please put your hand up as soon as possible.

Thanks!

Matt

Blue Planet

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Hello everyone.

For the upcoming quarter at the Club, I am offering to run a game of Blue Planet. This is a hard science-fiction game set on the world of Poseidon. Poseidon, as the name suggests, is a waterworld dotted with a number of achipelagos; in fact it’s the only other world that mankind has managed to travel to.

It is a frontier world and, as such, presents many opportunities for enterprising individuals to make their mark, as well as many opportunities for some to end up dead very, very quickly. Violence, corruption and lawlessness are ever present dangers, fueled by the mega corporations that have come to Poseidon to stake their claim to its natural resources and crush any resistence to the seemingly inexorable growth of their wealth and influence.

Do you have what it takes to make your mark on the Blue Planet?

New Games Update

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Hello everyone,

Below are the games that are currently on offer for the Autumn quarter. You may notice that, contrary to my assertion in the previous post, I am now offering a game:

Possible Upcoming Games

Game	Notes	Referee/GM
Anima	A superhero campaign using the Anima system.	Snowy
Shadowrun	Details to be confirmed.	Chris D
Only War	Details to be confirmed.	Matt T
Harnmaster	Harn is a low fantasy, early medieval campaign setting for Harnmaster RPG. Adventure details to be confirmed.	Matt S
Dragon Age	Details to be confirmed.	Chris M