News Archives: March 2007

Friday, March 23, 2007

Tentacled Plans

My Tentacles (25th May to 28th May, in Germany) is starting to look busy. Currently I'm planning to run :

The Curse of the Crimson Sail
30 player pirate freeform

Sir Gerald Fernley-Hamilton, governor of the small Carribean island of San Julianna, looked out from his palace window, and sighed. The ship tacking into the port was the Black Pig, a run-down privateer, crewed by villains. As if he didn't have enough trouble with the pirates already in town. Sir Gerald turned away, reluctantly returning to his desk, and its piles of paper. He glanced swiftly over the latest rumours and reports gathered from the town. Buried treasure, oaths of vengence, assaults, arrests. Nothing new there, then. Sir Gerald pushed the reports aside, and turned his attention to the most horrifying sheet of paper - the seating plan for his only daughter's wedding banquet...

Crimson Sail is the game I was going to run at the Student Nationals, running at Tentacles in its full, 30-player version. Assuming enough people want to play, that is...

Pub Quiz

The Blank Sheet
4-6 Players
Improvised Tabletop RPG.

Players take it in turns to ask the GM a yes/no question, and to make an in-character comment. By this means they create their characters, the scenario, and indeed the world setting.

The Grouse
approx. 1 hour

You have five minutes to convince the audience that your wildest theory is correct. Think Glorantha is round? That the Egyptian Gods were Cthulhoid entities? That Gregging is a good thing? Here's your chance to prove it to the world!

I ran this at Scotscon, and I think it worked pretty well, so we're giving it another try.

Timetables for all this are a little vague at the moment - Crimson Sail at some point on Saturday, not clashing with other freeforms, Blank Sheet Sunday morning, and the other two some evening...

Posted by graham @ 06:10 pm

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