ROLEPLAYING GAMES
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KRAKEN Horror Lottery Game

PANACEA

Author & Keeper: Sandy Petersen

Hurrah for science! New research has led to your friend's cure from diabetes AND apparently something more. Celebrate with him!

System: Call of Cthulhu

The Forging of the Giant Ring

Author & Gamemaster: Yohann Delalande

A few years after King Argrath's defeat at the Battle of Yoran, a group of trusted envoys are sent to remind Gonn Orta, the ancient giant, of a promise that could change the tide of an upcoming battle. How will the heroes manage to overcome the colossal challenges laid down before them and seal the promise made to the King of Sartar to send an army of giants to fight by his side?

System: 13^th Age in Glorantha

Random Village Heroes: Mudflat Pirates

Author & Gamemaster: Philip Glass

They are back. At least, that's what it looks like. The small costal village of Seaview-on-the-flats sends out a band of volunteers to investigate. A small maritime adventure set in a lightly fantastic world. Might contain sea monsters.

System: Impromptu RPG Engine

KRAKEN Game with the Author

The Ghost of Thunder River

Author & Gamemaster: Jason Durall

The savage Picts are hell-bent on destroying Aquilonian settlements along the Thunder River and survivors tell of a pale devil leading them. White drums signal all-out war! The Picts have taken prisoners – women and children – destined to be fed to their fiendish gods. The garrison commander has asked for volunteers to venture upriver into Pictland, to bring the captives back alive.

System: Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamt Of (Modiphius)

Dreams of the Dragon Isle

Author & Gamemaster: Jason Durall

It has been years since the traitor emperor Elric led barbarian hordes to sack Imrryr, the Dreaming City. The once-proud people of Melniboné are scattered across the Young Kingdoms, refugees in a world that fears them. Now, a small group of Melnibonéans must return to the shattered city, after a treasure thought lost amidst the ruins.

System: Elric! / Stormbringer

Akkadian Stars

Author & Gamemaster: Jason Durall

The gods of old – the Annunaki – built seven worlds and strung the stars about the heavens, throughout them, to illuminate the night for humankind. Aeons later, civilizations have risen and fallen and the gods are distant and unknowable, incarnate on multiple worlds, keeping their arcane technologies out from the hands of mortals. But now, the secrets of immortal alchemy and biotechnology are loose upon the world, and humankind stands ready to rise against the gods themselves…

System: Magic World / Basic Roleplaying

Prophet of the Alien

Author & Gamemaster: Yohann Delalande

Fall 2015, a rural town in Pennsylvania has fallen into the grip of an apocalyptic church that worships the Chandra invaders as God-sent saviors. In a frantic run to warn the authorities, in order to save their family and their community, will our heroes manage to escape a cult encroached deeper than they thought? Will they survive the Chandra presence in the area?

System: First Contact: X-Corps

The Omega Option: Rule 1

Author & Gamemaster: Philip Glass

In a world of Needles and Pins, run by software and huge interwoven entities, secrets can be kept. Even secrets such as time travel. Even secrets such as a special unit run by the Emergency Response Agency, code named 'The Omega Option'. On its first ever mission to recalibratetime, the objective seems a simple one: stay within the Heisenberg margin.

A puzzling game of time travel and exasperation, emanating from a farther flung future earth.

System: Impromptu RPG Engine

Fête d'Amour

Author & Gamemaster: Philip Glass

As Orgueil-sur-Miel prepares for its annual carnival 'Fête d'Amour', the most infamous grinches and grouches amongst the citizenry are rounded up and locked away in the old cistern on the outskirts of town. As with most overly brilliant plans, this one is about to go horribly wrong...

System: Impromptu RPG Engines

Exclusive KRAKEN Game with the Designer

The Diet of Wyrms

Author & Gamemaster: MOB

Sun County is riven with civil and religious strife in the aftermath of the Second Battle of Moonbroth (1623). With the Lunars driven from Prax forever by Argrath Whitebull, whose side will the 'Crow Eaters', the XIth Militia Squad based at the remote settlement of Morning, take in the Time of Two Counts?

System: MGF Glorantha

Montsegur 1244

Author: Frederik J. Jensen
Gamemaster: none
Host: Simon Strietholt

Do you renounce your heretic beliefs and do you wish to receive the forgiveness of the merciful Father?

In March 1244 this question was posed to several hundred Cathars. They had surrendered to the army that had besieged the castle of Montsegur for more than nine months. More than two hundred answered no, and thereby chose death by fire. Who were these people that chose to die for their belief?

System: Montsegur 1244

Without Pity

Author & Gamemaster: Gary 'Evilgaz' Bowerbank

Sir Bruce Sans Pitie is a scoundrel of the blackest sort and a plague across the land, but a knight and so far protected by chivalry and the honour and generosity of other knights. However, for a band of young knights-errant, he has gone too far. Without fear for their own reputations, on this point at least, they have resolved to track him down and put an end to his nefarious ways. Can they defeat this blackguard and if so, at what cost?

System: Pendragon

Always the Bridesmaid

Author & Gamemaster: Gary 'Evilgaz' Bowerbank

Sir Grifflet of Hope Castle is old, dying and worried sick. His son was killed by the Welsh in a border raid and left him without an heir — his wife is long since passed and only his daughter remains. She is renowned for your comeliness, fair voice and comes with a dowry of many demesne manors and huge tracts of land. Why then will no one marry her and become lord of the castle when poor Sir Grifflet leaves this world. Whatever the reason, it is not enough to deter a band of young knights for the challenge. Who could resist the opportunity to become lord of a castle so easily? Not our merry band of knights, that's for sure.

System: Pendragon

Under the Frozen Grove

Author & Keeper: Tito Leati

In the Summer of 1931, a young British landscape artist goes missing during a study trip to Florence. His disappearance in the nearby Apennines, where the Fascist regime is briskly building an imposing railway tunnel at the expense of many workers' lives, seems oddly related to both contemporary politics and the study of antique manuscripts. Will the Investigators unravel the mystery that lies behind the case and foreshadows far bigger tragedies in Italy's near future?

System: Call of Cthulhu

KRAKEN Game with the Designer

Between the Cross and the Sword

Author & Gamemaster: Pedro Ziviani

Stories are often told around the fire, during the dark winter nights, about the strange and fantastical things to be found in the lands to the West of Iceland. Nothing could have prepared the brave Vikings, however, for what awaited them at the southern limits of the Norse settlements in Wineland, well beyond the familiar shores of Leifur's Camp. As they arrive at the settlement of Hóp, responding to news of attacks on the Norse settlers, they face their greatest and most dangerous adventure yet.

System: Mythic Iceland (BRP)

Official KRAKEN Game Playtest with the Designer

Folklore

Author & Gamemaster: Pedro Ziviani

The farther you travel away from the urban centers, the stranger and more fraught with danger the world becomes. As scholars of folklore, distinguished gentlemen or ladies of the 1850s journey to remote parts of the world to collect folk tales, and have them published by the Folklore Study Society. What few people know is that the society members play a vital role in protecting communities from myths that turn out to be very real and often extremely dangerous.

System: Folklore

Folklore is a game that makes it fun to learn about real-world folk tales, while creating unique versions of those myths through play. We will pick a country and myth at the table, and then play the game to collaboratively create a story around that myth.

The Fall of Solace

Author: John Dunn
Gamemaster: Stefan Gravemeyer

The Spacemarines are sent to investigate a drifting Imperial Warship that was lost in the Warp for thousands of years. What xenos horrors may lurk in the darkness? You shall know no fear, the Emperor protects!

System: Warhammer 40.000 Deathwatch

Scions of Ralzakark

Author & Gamemaster: Ken Rolston

In the court of the White Emperor at Fort Wrath, none are higher in status than Ralzakark's own progeny, Dorastor's most noble aristocrats… the Scions of Ralzakark. The highest priority for an aspiring philosopher-king is the education of his descendants, and often Ralzakark sets them tasks to refine their appreciations of the world and its riddles. All are eager to impress their lord and sire… and equally keen to avoid his disapproval.

System: MGF Glorantha [with faint but unmistakable brimstone whiffs of PARANOIA]


Serve Ralzakark! Ralzakark is your friend! Glorantha meets PARANOIA. 'Happy is the New Sad!'

KRAKEN Einführungsrunde mit dem Übersetzer

Dunkles Berlin

Autor & Erzähler: Robin Mitra

Die Spieler schlüpfen in die Rollen von Einwohnern des modernen Berlins, ob Obdachloser, Multimillionär, Schülerin oder Bundespräsidentin*. Unweigerlich werden die Charaktere in dunkle Machenschaften hineingezogen, deren Drahtzieher sie nicht kennen und vielleicht lieber nicht kennenlernen wollen.

System: HeroQuest (dt. Version)

Die Charaktererschaffung und Regeln von HeroQuest sind sehr einfach und werden am Anfang des Spiels erklärt.

Carry On Up the Kartolin

Author: Pete Nash
Gamemaster: Mark Jarvis

'Wastrels of the glorious Lunar Army, you have been posted to Kartolin Pass, the worst posting in the empire. Chaos abounds, the Telmori are restless and only your thin red line stands against them!'

System: RuneQuest: Adventures in Glorantha (RQ6)

The scenario was originally designed by Pete Nash of Design Mechanism and hosted by him at Gen Con 2015.

Swenstown's Sour Secrets

Author & Gamemaster: Gianni Vacca

Whilst travelling from New Pavis to Swenstown, the heroes rescue a victim of highway banditry... and set in motion a series of unfortunate events at the same time.

System: RuneQuest: Adventures in Glorantha (RQ6)

White Women

Author: Scott Dorward and Brenda Hingstman
Keeper: Andrew Kenrick

Netherlands, 1942. Elements within the Special Operations Executive have begun to suspect that its network in the Netherlands is compromised, although no one in charge will acknowledge it. With little knowledge of what they are walking into, a small field team of Dutch SOE agents is heading home to try to find out why their network has gone dark.

What may already be a suicide mission can only be complicated by the special request that N has made. A group of Dutch Resistance fighters are having unexpected success in their fight against the occupiers, and N suspects that their means are not entirely wholesome. If so, they must be stopped, no matter what good they may be doing for the war effort. What are your chances of survival when you can't even trust your allies?

System: World War Cthulhu / Call of Cthulhu

This scenario was originally designed and run by Scott Dorward at UK Games Expo.

The Non-Euclidean Gate

Author: Mark A. Latham
Keeper: Andrew Kenrick

Seven lost pages of Dr John Dee's works have been found hidden in his old home at Mortlake. They seem to suggest that Dee's power went beyond angelic keys and scripts, and that he was searching for a gateway to a dimension beyond our own - one that he believed led to Avalon, and where perhaps he dwelleth still...

The investigators will be plunged into the cutthroat world of antiquarians and occult booksellers, who will literally kill to get their hands on Dee's manuscripts.

System: Call of Cthulhu

This scenario originally appeared in the 'Cthulhu Britannica: London' boxed set by Cubicle 7.

Pigs & Honor

Author & Gamemaster: Louis Kolkman

For weeks your farmers have been moaning about the boars that wreck their (and your!) fields. Now you, and your companions, are going to put those boars on the table....

System: Pendragon