News

Is….

El Presidente – Sam MacAdam – returning from behind the throne.
Secretary – Jonatan, swapping seats again.
treasurer – Erich Essmann
Librarian – Malin Sandell
Webmaster – Alan Jackson, continuing his tradition of mismanagement
Nationals un-coordinator – Euan Reid
Conpulsion – TBC depending on whether Sandy survives next weeks festivities.
President of Vice – Stuart Petrie

Elected in one of the shortest AGMs on record (20 minutes!)

Greetings Grand Adventurers.

Another year has passed and it is now time to announce the GEAS 2011 Annual General Meeting. It will be held in The Study (aka the Terrace) in two weeks time, Sunday, March 20, between the two sessions, at ~5:10 pm, so that people in games that end at 5 have time to order some food. During the meeting, a number of office bearers for 2011/2012 will be elected, namely the President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, the Librarian, the Nationals Organizer and the Webmaster.

The President, the Treasurer and the Secretary do, according to EUSA, need to be students of the University of Edinburgh, so if you are a student who wants some nice words to put on your CV, I urge you to seriously consider running for one (or several) of the offices. And even if you will not run for anything, we would still like you to show up.

The Conpulsion officials will be held on Sunday, April 3, the week after Conpulsion, in the same place and hour as the AGM.

Reminders will hopefully be sent closer to the dates.

-Jonatan Rostén (GEAS President)

These are the games I know about. If you are interested in running a game and you have not contacted geas.committee@gmail.com, do so (or show up on the first session and tell me).

New games:

Icon (Matthew Knighton, Sunday afternoon), a simple and fun super hero game. Think Kitchen sink super hero roleplaying game.

Swords of the Middle Kingdom (Stephen McMorland, Sunday afternoon) Kung Fu action RPG set in a fictitious Ancient China type world called Wulin, you play members of various Kung Fu sects fighting tyranny with a price on your head etc. It uses Hong Kong Action Theatre rules – AKA Cinemaction and is a Cinematic Stunt filled fun fest of crazy antics and melodrama – please direct your less rubbish role-players in my direction – I am willing to take on maybe two or three apprentices to teach them the Ways of Kung Fu.

D&D 3.5ish (Timothy Raspin, Sunday afternoon) a low(ish) level D&D 3.5 game using the Eberron Campaign setting. As always, I have some House Rules though these are relatively minor modifications to the base rules. However, I do have a completely different alignment system that has proved to encourage roleplaying. Room for about 2.

Doctor Who (Craig Oxbrow, Sunday afternoon)

Vampire: The Requiem (Craig Oxbrow, Sunday evening)

Serenity (Euan Reid, Wednesday afternoon) Since this is not an official GEAS time slot and no presentation will be held, you can contact geas.committee@gmail.com if you are interested.

Some or single slots:

Feng Shui (David McIlhinney, Sunday Evenings) Big Explosions, Time Travel and Flying Monkeys all included. “Plenty” of room.

Refractions (Phil Harris, Sunday afternoon) 3 possible slots.

Beyond the Maelstrom (Phil Harris, Sunday evening) One opening.

Witchcraft (Ben McCallum, Sunday evenings) One free slot.

1920s game (Matthew Barrowcliffe, Sunday afternoon) Roughly speaking the game is a
cross between Jeeves and Wooster, The Laundry by Charles Stross, the
Scarifiers (a radio series) and a period drama that may involve a gay
athiest anarchist. One free slot

Bronze age GURPS (Crian Shields, some Sundays, some Saturdays). One space.

Call of Cthullu (Rasmus Dall, every other Friday) contact geas.committee@gmail.com if you want to get in touch with them. Could use one or possibly two more players.

For the moment, it seems to be mostly Sunday games.

Greetings and a wishings of a Happy New Year.

There has been some interest for refilling and starting GEAS games and for the moment, we have three or four possible new games, three games with multiple free slots and a handful of single slots. Since not all games are sure in what times they will run and the fact that we don’t know how many people will show up for the new slots anyway, we will have a little gathering before the games start on the first sessions (16th and 19th) similar to those in the beginning of autumn. I can’t guarantee that there will be slots for everyone who shows up, but taking the chance is better than staying at home, right?

I will try to put some info on what games will be available here in a bit.

Jonatan Rostén (President of GEAS)

Greetings and Merry Christmas, Grand Adventurers! I know that several players that were only in Edinburgh for one semester have gone home and left spaces in their games, and I also know there are games that for different reasons have died.

Therefore, we’re thinking of trying to redistribute gameless players into existing or new games. In order to do this, we need GMs and spaces so if you think you can fit an extra player or two in your game, or if you are interested in starting a new game, please mail us and we’ll see if we can bring role playing goodness to more people.

-Jonatan Rostén (GEAS Pres.)

All nationals information is on the link titled ‘Student Nationals 2011’. If you have any questions, please email the geas committee.

The deadline is this Sunday, so please let me know what you plan to do.

Greetings, Grand Adventurers.

The bookings for next semester has opened and GEAS has got bookings. Here is some information-heavy information. There should be a reminder before any inconsistencies so you don’t have to keep everything in your head.

Sundays stay basically the same (1-5 pm, 6-10 pm). We have the Study/Terrace (Teviot) and will overflow into the Mezzanine/New Amphion. Because of EUSAs new limit on bookings, the time between 5 and 6 pm, usually dinner, is not booked. It’s not likely that anyone will claim that hour ever. So far, we know of no disruptions.

Wednesday games have changed a little. The first Wednesday is the 19th of January and will be in the Highland room of the Pleasance. The second Wednesday, 26th of January, will be in the Dining room of the Teviot. After that, all Wednesday games but one will be in the Terrace bar as well. On the 23rd of March, we will be in the Dining room again. It is likely that we will meet up in the Library bar before heading up to wherever we are going so you’ll be reminded then. It is still 6-10 pm.

The first official Sunday session of 2011 is on the 16th of January and the first Wednesday session is the 19th of January. The semester ends with the sessions on the 20th of March (Sunday) and the 23rd of March (Wednesday). There is a three week study period during which the Teviot is not bookable. The bookings will then continue from the 20th and 24th of April until the 22nd and 25th of May. Hopefully, there should be a reminder before then so you don’t have to remember everything.

In an unrelated notice, Loren Wiseman of Traveller fame, one of the speakers at last years conpulsion has fallen ill and had a heart attack. There is a book in the Black Lion shop that will be sent to him so if anyone who feels that they’ve spent some time with him during conpulsion or otherwise, you can drop by before the 30th of November and write something nice in it.

-Jonatan Rostén (President of GEAS)

We now have five rooms in the Pleasance during the evening so there is priority to find places for the afternoon games. We still have more games than rooms in the evening so don’t stop looking.

Dear Grand Adventurers

EUSA has today kindly informed us that the entire Teviot building will be closed on Sunday 31th because of decorations (the placing of pumpkins) for Sunday night’s Halloween party. We have gotten hold of two rooms in the Pleasance for the entire time but as you might imagine, those two rooms will most likely not be able to hold more than one game each. Therefore, I urge players and GM:s alike to explore other possibilities for their games, such as homes and other places where one could have a game.

We will meet in the Pleasance bar at the regular times on Sunday (of course, if a game has another place to be and has informed all it’s players, there is no need to show up).

Please send this to anyone who might not get this mail (or who might not read it before Sunday). We are working on having someone stand in front of the Teviot to inform people who haven’t received this.

If your game has another place, please mail us or text me (0750 361 46 13) and we will send another mail on Saturday with as much info about where the different games will be as we have.

We are sorry for the massive inconvenience.

Jonatan Rostén (GEAS Pres.)

We can finally give you a list of most of the games running and they are as follows:

Queen, Country, and Cash! Crian Shields (Sunday afternoon, 2 spaces)
London, Britain, Europe, The World, 1885! The steampunk revolution is in full swing; what daring deeds will our heroes undertake? What dastardly doings will they prevent?
The rules system used is Gurps

City of Lies Roderick Easton (Sunday evening, potentially 1 place)

4 Emerald Magistrates and their Scorpion Liaison try to keep the Imperial Law in the corrupt and honourless city of Ryoko Owari.  Who killed the last Magistrate?  How does the bandit leader Fade succeed in his attacks? Where does all that opium go anyway?  Is anyone or anything exactly what they seem?

The Return of the Bronze Cities. Crian Shields (Sunday evening, no spaces)
After a terrible cataclysm, what was a renaissance fantasy world has reverted to the Bronze age. Follow a group of tribals as they travel the world, argue, explode Orcs, dispute, recruit Kobold henchmen, quarrel, and drink anything drinkable. Uses Gurps for rules.

The A Team Alan Jackson (Wednesday evenings, no spaces)
In 1700’s Edinburgh, a bunch of misfit heroes & not-so-heroes do daring deeds and make much marvelous mayhem.  With alchemists, steampunk and ninjas.  Also using my crazy, card based homebrew system.

Shattered Time Alan Jackson (Sunday evenings, no spaces)
A game of heroes and history, deities and demagogues.  Refugees from lost alternate histories converge on the centre of reality and decide what to do about it.  Using the latest version of my homebrew system.  And playing cards.

Reliquary Matthew Barrowcliffe (Sunday afternoons, no spaces)

1920’s adventure, where a group of the Empire’s children try and
contain the residue of past glories and explorations. It is run under
a home-brew card based system, has occult themes and occasional dark
tones.

The Rats in the Walds Gregor Hutton (Sunday afternoon, no spaces)
Ventrue forth into a grim world of perilous adventure. A
fraying alliance between the states of Middenheim and Reikland
threatens to plunge the Empire into flames. Can a motley crew of
friends and relatives from Altdorf save the day?

Neuroshima Kuba Krakowiak (Sunday afternoon, no spaces)
Im currently running Neuroshima – a postapocalyptical game focusing on struggle of mankind against renegade machines. After chemical, biological and nuclear war mankind is devastated but determined to survive. Players take part in that struggle, taking care of their own businesses as well as supporting various factions. Mechanics is based on Polish system “Neuroshima”, not really known anywhere but Poland, quite nice for post-ap setting though ;).

Witchcraft Ben McCallum (Sunday evening, no spaces)
Blurb: Welcome to the Occult Underground. It’s like an overlay placed onto the world that you used to know, adding extra danger and complications. You may not have meant to enter it, you may not understand what’s going on, but you’re here now and it’s not going to let you go. No matter what.

As most of these games are full, there is also another potential game:

Vampire: The Requiem Craig Oxbrow (Sunday evenings, some places)
Hell is a city much like London.
The vampires of the city are countless, divided by jealousy and hatred. The city stands at the edge of war. Tonight, you will die in battle. And then…?

These are some of the games running, not all games are listed since not all games have been reported. The list will be updated when we know more.

-Jonatan, (Pres.)

Updated 19/10-2010