This is a listing of campaigns being pitched on the 31st of January for the afternoon slot. Pitches will take place at 6:45pm in part of Hanger 5 in Potterrow.
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Arcane Antics (Continuing)
System: Kids On Brooms
GM: Tom Tudor
Description: Welcome to your 5th year at the Ancient Academy of Mama Pacha located in Darkest Peru. Its an important year for your studies, so we must encourage you to focus on your studies, despite any strange and confounding conspiracies that may or may not be happening around you.
Arcane Antics is a campaign set in a fantastical wizarding world of the players’ creation. It utilizes the Kids on Brooms System, a rules lite system where the players make the world and have a strong control on the narrative. This is a continuation of a game I ran last semester however new players should be able to integrate themselves without much issue.
There will not be too high stakes in this campaign. No one is the chosen one, saving the world. Its not about the destination, but the story on how you all get there. This will be laid back roleplay, with some hopefully fun bits of combat scattered throughout.
Lines and Veils and The T Card will be used as safety measures
Spaces: 6 (4 filled)
Where: Initially Geas Room bookings, then moving to Edinburgh Games Hub
Age Rating: 15
Content Advisories: cartoon/comical violence, strong language, mentions of blood, Mentions of Bullying. Mental Health Issues. Occasional Horror and mild sensuality. References to the works of JR Rowling
Ghosts of Saltmarsh (Continuing)
System: DND 5E
GM: Stefan
Description: This is a continuation of last semester’s Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign. The crew of the Golden Oyster continue investigating mysteries in Saltmarsh and at sea. Most pressingly the threat of the Sahaugin and a rising tide.
Piratical accents and hornswoggling optional.
Spaces: 5 (5)
Where: GEAS Room bookings
Age Rating: 15
Content Advisories: Fantasy violence including potential character death, drowning, sea monsters including kraken and two headed sharks.
The Isle of Abandon
System: 5e homebrew
GM: Louis
Description: Set on an infected, pest-riddled island after a great cataclysm, the party will be tasked to survive a selection of deadly plagues and strange afflictions on their way to what appears to be a a safe haven. Real of danger of death for characters. Back up characters are advised.
Spaces: 4
Where: GEAS venue – Hangar 5 Bar End – Potterrow
Age Rating: 18
Content Advisories: Plague and disease, disfigurement, existential themes, parisitic monsters, deadly cold, cannibalism, general grim-dark themes
Phandelver & Below (Continuing)
System: DnD 5e
GM: Billy
Description: In Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk, journey to the beloved town of Phandalin, where a malevolent cult threatens to overtake the region. Together with your party, solve mysteries and stamp out growing corruption as you uncover more about the peculiar happenings plaguing the town.
Spaces: 6
Where: Potterow (Hanger 5)
Age Rating: 18
Content Advisories: Fantasy violence, eldritch(esque) horror, PC & NPC body horror, insects/arachnids, foul language, etc.
The Two Headed Serpent
System: Pulp Cthulhu (Call of Cthulhu 7e)
GM: Jack Reynolds
Description: New York City, 1933, Through one means or another you have all found yourself in the employ of Caduceus, a medical and world wide relief organisation. Your first mission, provide relief, equipment and repair to an aid camp on the densely forested Bolivia-Paraguay border, currently shrouded in smoke and gunfire due to the Chaco War. Usually Caduceus operatives work to help people, at least that’s what you’ve read in the papers, but this job pitch felt different…
You will all be taking on the roles of Caduceus operatives who were hired or took up the position for a variety of reasons and come from all walks of life. Doctors, Armed guards, Scientists, Film stars and any other adventurous types are welcome. As long as you have a willingness to help people you are welcome at Caduceus. Unknown to the public eye, however, Caduceus defends humanity from ancient mythos threats and seeks out individuals who they think could help them on their mission. (We will create characters at the pitches, literally no experience in Call of Cthulhu or Pulp Cthulhu required, I’ll explain everything at session 0)
The campaign takes place just before the end of Prohibition and during the height of the great depression and is a high pulp, high action, horror, investigative and globe trotting adventure which will take the PCs through the Volcanic mountains of Iceland, the concrete jungle of NYC and ancient lost lands in the Atlantic as they uncover a conspiracy that has been millions of years in the making
Spaces: 4-5
Where: Hangar 5 Bar End – Potterrow
Age Rating: 18
Content Advisories: Lines and Veils to be discussed at session 0 but general warnings about the campaign: General Violence, Madness, Body Horror, Descriptions of Disease, Gang Violence, and other associated Lovecraftian Horrors
Scooby Doo RPG (Continuing)
System: Call of Cthulhu
GM: Basti
Description: A group of meddling kids go round town solving mysteries. One week can be an evil business man in a yeti costume. The next week might be an eldritch horror that induces insanity. Have fun 🙂
Spaces: 6 (all spaces are currently allocated)
Where: GEAS booked location
Age Rating: 18
Content Advisories: Horror, violence, gore
Tyranny of Dragons (Continuing)
System: D&D 5e
GM: Brooks Elder
Description: A continuation of my campaign from last semester, although I’m happy for new players to jump in, this is a good spot! Each of our adventurers is coming into their own and learning more about their abilities and their place in the world. Together, they have joined a caravan of merchants in order to tail some cultists from the sinister Cult of the Dragon, to see if they can figure out where the Cult is amassing a horde of treasure, and for what purpose. Expect to see dangerous encounters with monsters on the road, a fight or two at a local tavern, and an expedition into a mysterious swamp, and, of course, plenty of dungeons and dragons.
Spaces: 6
Where: GEAS’ Bookings
Age Rating: 12
Content Advisories: Fantasy violence
Vampire: The Masquerade – The Crowded Streets (Continuing)
System: Vampire: The Masquerade V5
GM: Craig Oxbrow
Description: Continuing game, with space for new players.
Vampires exist in a world that looks like ours, hunting for blood and fighting for power in the night. A game of personal horror as your new nature clashes with your humanity, about what it takes to survive and stay at least a little human in a society of monsters.
Knowledge of the system and setting is not required, the system is straightforward and characters can be new to the night.
Spaces: 4-6
Where: Hangar 5 (or may move)
Age Rating: 15
Content Advisories: Horror, violence, crime