Tabletop Games for Continuum

[Scott Dorward]

It looks like I'm going to be prepping stuff right up to the eleventh hour, just for a change. Would it be OK if I did my own sign-up sheets? If so, is there a template I should use?

[Darran]

It looks like I'm going to be prepping stuff right up to the eleventh hour, just for a change. Would it be OK if I did my own sign-up sheets? If so, is there a template I should use?

You might be better using your own as ours are very basic.

Continuum 2012 Game sign-up sheet

[Tim Gray]

Do we think there's any market for shorter games, like 1-2 hours, or are people only interested in a full slot's worth?

If I get Thing 1 finished I want to prep one or two things for Rocket Amoeba, a simple multi-genre system I'm developing. It's in a playtest draft now, so it'd be good to give it a run. Not sure what genre etc yet. I'll have a few hardcopies with me - I've made it into a book because I'm obsessive and stuff. Planning to stick those on the stall for a couple of quid and get some people giving it a go at home.

Past con experience suggests the short demo is a non-starter, but I figure it's worth asking the question.

[DigitalMage]

Shorter games might be worth running in the morning slots that are only 3 hours anyway.

[Scott Dorward]

You might be better using your own as ours are very basic.

Thanks, Darran! I'll put some together.

[Tim Gray]

I've submitted this. Writing it up now. Somewhat ambitious. Biting nails.

GM: Tim Gray
Title of Game: The Black Egg
Game System and Setting: Albion

Game slot: Slot 5 - Sat evening
Quiet or Display game?: Quiet
Max Number of Players: 5
Length of Game: 4 hours

You are sent to hunt rumours of a mysterious and powerful artefact. Who else is looking for it? What is it? And what is this strange foreboding you feel?

Something is coming back.

Tags: fantasy, celtic, once and future britain, slightly epic


I believe Tim Partridge has put another Albion scenario in for the Sunday evening slot.

[Evilgaz]

Thanks, Darran! I'll put some together.

They can go on the other side of the beer mat with your plots! Wakka wakka.

Ill-prepared Gaz

[Scott Dorward]

Right! I have six games prepped now, and that should. I'm planning to run The Sea, Our Mother and The Space Between twice, so that's every slot covered.

All of these are adults-only, but you knew that.

The pitches are:

Monsterhearts
System: Monsterhearts
4 players

Brad promised to take you to the homecoming dance. Now Brad is lying in your bed, naked, with his throat ripped out. You’re pretty sure he’s dead. If you’re lucky, he’ll stay that way.

One of your friends might help you dispose of the body. You’ve done the same for them often enough. Maybe Tyler has a use for the corpse in one of those creepy rituals of his. On second thoughts, you remember what happened last time. Why is nothing simple?

But of course your real problem is who’s going to take you to the dance now that you’ve eaten your boyfriend?

The game of teenage monsters and their messy lives.

The Space Between
System: Call of Cthulhu (7th ed.)
4 players

The Church of Sunyata has grown to a position of power in Hollywood. Its members include stars, producers, movers and shakers, and its celebrity centre in the Hollywood Hills is home to the most important parties in town.

Still, the church is having trouble shaking off its image as a cult. Their latest project -- a self-financed blockbuster based on church teachings -- will help open the eyes of the public. The production is in trouble, though -- the leading lady has gone missing, the police are sniffing around and everyone on set is growing more nervous and secretive.

The future of the project is in the hands of a few dedicated church members. Will they be able to ensure that their vision is shared with the world?

The Sea, Our Mother
System: Hot War (Cthulhu Mythos setting)
4 players

It is 1972, and six years have passed since the Summer of Love. The peace and love generation is descending into hard drugs, political violence and selfish hedonism. It is the end of an age.

One small group, calling itself The Water of Life, has shunned the rest of the world, and has created a small commune on the coast of Massachusetts. It is devoted to spiritual enlightenment, worship of the life-giving sea, and restoring the lost wisdom of the native people of Innsmouth.

Rolling Stone magazine have sent their best reporter to tell the story of this last embodiment of the spirit of a generation. Wisdom and truth await.

Gothic Horror Lucky Dip
System: Dead of Night
4 players

In a small town in Europe, some time in a century gone by, unknown horrors await. Tendrils of mist lap around crumbling houses like the tongues of hungry beasts. Strange noises can be heard out on the moors, sounding like neither beast nor man. A little girl watches from the shadows, her skin as pale as death. And the only light to be seen is in the window of the old castle that watches over the town like a bird of prey.

We will create a gothic horror setting collaboratively, using randomly selected elements taken from various British and Italian horror films of the 1950s and 1960s. You will create player characters to tie into these elements, and then we will all discover what doom awaits them.

Future Generation
System: Dead of Night (hacked for low-powered superheroes)
5 players

London, 1979.

You know you're different. People have always treated you like some kind of freak, avoiding you or reacting like you're something they stepped in. You're not the only one though: there are other kids you went to school with who are just like you, and you can sort of stand each other. Some of them may even be friends.

Now you've left school, the world hasn't become any easier to deal with. You seem to be changing -- oozing pus, hearing voices -- but some of the changes have potential. You can do things to yourself and other people -- strange, disgusting things. Maybe that's why there are black vans following you.

It's the first time you've felt like you have control over something. What will you do with this power? Will you help your friends, the strangers who hate you, or just yourself?

Maybe you could think it through if only you could stop the children whispering in your head...

The Blizzard's Teeth
System: Jaws of the Six Serpents
5 players

The blizzard howls outside the keep in the hills, growing fiercer with every passing hour. One of the guards swore that he saw something misshapen moving in the snow. Moments later he was snatched away and only blood and meat remains.

A group of refugees from the storm, thrown together by circumstance, shelter from the horrors that stalk the blizzard. Each of them has secrets, but their only chance of survival lies in trust. Will they live to see the dawn?

Dark sword-and-sorcery action, filled with intrigue, betrayal and bloody horror.

[Tim Gray]

Ooh, what, another Jaws scenario?


PS nearly finished writing up my Albion one now... I seem not to trust it to hang together unless I get it to near-publication level. Well, maybe that'll pay off down the line.