This is a listing of campaigns being pitched on Sunday afternoon, 26th September 2021. Pitches will take place at 1 pm on the GEAS Discord server. These games will take place on Wednesdays at the same time slot every week.
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The post here is for information only, and sign-ups for games will happen live on Discord after the GMs have pitched their games.
An Adventure Across Ancient Lands
System: Dungeon World
GM: Brooks Elder
Description: You have all arrived here, at this strange barrow out in the wilderness. It beckons you to explore it. Who knows what wonders you might find inside? This will be a game of classic fantasy adventure, with warriors, wizards, and everything in between! As the players, you will be taking on the roles of daring adventurers, travelling across the land in pursuit of your ambitions. There will be many dangers ahead of you, and you shall have to overcome them with your sharp wit and your martial prowess if you are to succeed.
This game will be played using Dungeon World, a conversion of D&D to the PbtA system. All of the standard playbooks will be available, in addition to some cool homebrew ones. It’ll be easy to learn, and I think it should be good for folks looking to play something new or different from usual.
Format: Voice and video
Spaces: 6
Age Rating: PG
Content Advisories: General fantasy violence and blood.
Adventures in Ravnica
System: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
GM: Jackie Luu
Description: Set in the Ravnica setting where 10 guilds control almost all aspects of life in the Ecumenopolis of Ravnica, players will either lore friendly character that’s part of the guild or the players may choose to live outside the system.
The game will be a bit more combat favored but there will be plenty of RP opportunity, as well as story arc tied to player characters provided that relevant story hooks are made.
Session zero will be mostly learning a bit about the world and creating characters that tie into it.
Format: DnD beyond with Roll20
Spaces: 5
Age Rating: 15
Content Advisories: Horror, social and cultural issues inc. racism, threats to physical and mental health. This GM provided a copy of the RPG Consent List which contains more details [link]
Gods of the New World
System: A modified version of “Our Panthion” initially with a different system depending on player actions after the first few sessions.
GM: Rowan Edmunds
Description: You are Gods! You have been banished to a small corner of the universe but it is boring here, floating in the void. watching the twinkling light of distant stars. By pooling your powers you have created a small star and a ball of rock that spins around it. The rock is barren but there is potential for you to unlock. For you to create something interesting. I wonder what it will become.
Format: I will be using a drawing tool. Perhaps Roll20, Forge, Tabletop Simulator or just MS Paint depending on player preferences. I will also be using Discord and some music site like WTG.tv or bardly.io
Spaces: 4-6
Age Rating: 18
Content Advisories: Alongside the normal fantasy violence, natural disasters, famines etc are all to be expected. There will be full player agency to veto anything that makes them uncomfortable.
Hunt for the Jade Prison
System: Exalted Essence
GM: Aidan
Description: The players are a wandering band of demigods seeking to restore the rule of the Solars. To do this they will have to pull off the high-fantasy version of a heist; assemble a team, find the legendary Jade Prison and come up with a way to break it, releasing the Solar’s essences. Inspiration wise the game will draw a lot from Avatar the Last Airbender; Legend of Korra and Journey to the West. No prior setting knowledge or experience necessary – system’s complexity has been described as about on par with running a D&D 5E spellcaster (by people with more D&D experience than me).
Format: Voice and/or video
Spaces: 3-6
Age Rating: 15
Content Advisories: Fantasy violence and (maybe) body horror.
Liminal Edinburgh
System: Liminal
GM: Stephen McMorland
Description: In Liminal you play those beings that dwell between one world and another, members of a secret world of the supernatural where Fae – touched, Magicians, Werewolves, Vampires and ghosts struggle to survive.
In this game you will play the members of a crew of Liminals, investigators, protectors, survivors, struggling to make your way while powerful Factions wage their wars.
This is an Urban Fantasy with some horror elements, there is something horrible stalking the streets of Edinburgh, can you stop it? What other horrors will you uncover while investigating various mysteries?
Format: Discord with video optional
Spaces: 3-5
Age Rating: 18
Content Advisories: Some horror and fantasy violence may be in this game but no gore, the attitudes of thousand year old supernatural beings and stuffy Council of Merlin members may not be exactly in keeping with modern sensibilities and criminal shenanigans may be necessary. – but nothing real, only imaginary 😀
Nativia
System: Dungeons And Dragons 5th Edition with homebrew aspects
GM: Tay
Description: Set 200 years in the future, the world has been engulfed in sea water, resulting in the mass extinction of life on this planet. All remaining life has fled to the tallest point on the Earth, now known as the land mass ‘Nativia’. With the great flooding came many political changes, such as the Solaran government – a ‘democratic’ organisation that controls the Nativian population, the domestication of orcs for their survival and a political/racist tension which is tied to this. Technology parallel to that of our own has developed too, phones, beepers, alarms etc. all exist, ran by magic instead of electricity.
This game will revolve around government conspiracy, capitalism and its results and most importantly; lesbian half orcs. Feel free to get creative.
Format: In person or voice/video depending on how players are feeling. Start with Roll20 for combat
Spaces: 2-6
Age Rating: 18
Content Advisories: Drugs, alcohol, mentions of sex, explicit violence.
Pasion de las Pasiones
System: Pasion de las Pasiones (PbtA)
GM: Vivek Santayana
Description: A game about passion, drama, secrets, delights, love, and betrayal! Pasion de las Pasiones takes its inspiration from Latin American telenovelas. PCs will play the different characters in a telenovela, and we will explore whatever steamy romance, devastating heartbreak, or vociferous conflict happens in their lives, and the effect this has on everyone caught in the blast radius. This game is all about over-the-top drama, and getting characters to do whatever the opposite of a mature, sensible, and measured response to any situation will be.
It uses a Powered by the Apocalypse system which is fairly simple, and is more focussed on the story and emulating the genre of the telenovela. No prior knowledge of telenovelas necessary, although an awareness of the tropes of different kinds of soap operas might be helpful.
Format: Zoom, Discord for dice, Google Spreadsheets for characters, and possibly a collaborative wiki for session notes.
Spaces: 5
Age Rating: 15
Content Advisories: There will be romance, and possibly adult themes and strong language.
A Pirates Life
System: Dungeons And Dragons 5th Edition
GM: Thomas Tudor
Description: Ahoy there mateys and welcome to the Barmont archipelago, a remote set of islands away from the old continent. Its 1725, the middle of the age of pirates and the pirate lords are well on their way to wreak havoc on the Imperialist Elves. There’s a plundering to be had, or perhaps unveil ancient magitech societies, or just get drunk at the local taverna. Can your group rise to infamy and understand what it truly means to be a pirate?
This campaign will feature homebrewed renaissance firearms and cannons, also plenty of magic items will be had. Not only is this my first time DMing but it will be my first time using Foundry as well. This campaign will mostly be lighthearted and not serious and I will try to provide options to players as best I can.
Format: Discord Voice Call (Video Optional) & Foundry VTT
Spaces: 5
Age Rating: 15
Content Advisories: Blood, Terrors from the Ocean, Guns, Mentions of slavery, Imperialism.
Tales from the Yawning Portal
System: Dungeons And Dragons 5th Edition
GM: Robyn
Description: I’ll be running some of the dungeons from Tales from The Yawning Portal starting with The Sunless Citadel. It will be a non-linear campaign with light story and lots of combat. It’s a great game for newbies or people who’d like the ability to drop in and out. The first adventure you will be investigating the ruins of an old temple and the rumours of a mysterious fruit that is sold in the nearby town each year.
Format: Roll 20 and video
Spaces: 4-5
Age Rating: 12
Content Advisories: Violence
Tournament Of Wishes
System: Dungeons And Dragons 5th Edition
GM: Jack Martin Seymour
Description: A once in a lifetime opportunity has been afforded to the player characters as The Tournament Of Wishes arrives once again, wherein the winning team receives the ultimate reward, their any desire granted by the most powerful Noble Djinn, but first they must fight, find and finesse their way to the top facing enemies and allies alike in competitions and quests, will they succeed? And perhaps they will discover that more lurks beneath the surface and not all is what it seems
Format: Voice only for me but others are welcome to do cams, Roll 20 as well perhaps if everyone else is good with it and I can figure out how to work it
Spaces: 6
Age Rating: 18
Content Advisories: Horror and fantasy violence.
We Didn’t Start The Fire
System: Through The Breach
GM: Craig Barnes
Description: In an alternate history steampunk world you find yourself being pulled together with a rag tag group of strangers as you hurtle towards a shared vision of the future, a roaring fire pouring over the city of London, and you standing against it.
This is a larger than life steampunk game whith magic, monsters and mayhem. You can expect to investiagte through a web of intruige and villany to discover the truth of what awaits you.
Will you cheat fate herself? Or embrace your destiny?
Format: Roll20 and Discord
Spaces: 6
Age Rating: 15
Content Advisories: Fantasy violence