ROLEPLAYING GAMES
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KRAKEN Horror Lottery Game

SEE!

Author & Keeper: Sandy Petersen

A new drug has hit the streets – nicknamed See. It eliminates all desire for other drugs, and you only have to take it once! Is it a savior or a threat? Whence does it originate?

System: Call of Cthulhu

Jeff's Experimental Gloranthan HeroQuest Game

Author & Narrator: Jeff Richard

In this game two groups of players will each create a Glorantha community and the searing conflict between them. Be it Wolf Pirates vs. The Mother of Monsters, Cragspider's Fireslingers vs. The Cannon Cult or Alkoth vs. Dragonewts. The players will play the mundane and magical resources as well as the incarnated heroes of their collective to plot, fight and heroquest against the other group. The game will run several rounds over numerous days.

System: HeroQuest 2.0 Glorantha

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BIMBO

Author & Gamemaster: Grégory Privat
Un jeu de rôle 100% «Grindhouse»

Bienvenue dans BIMBO, un jeu dont vous serez la vedette, à condition de jouer les meilleures scènes, d'éliminer la concurrence des autres joueuses et de réussir à manipuler le metteur en scène et la production.

La gagnante d'une partie de BIMBO est celle qui réussit à faire de son actrice la tête d’affiche d’un film. Le metteur en scène gagne la partie si une majorité des joueuses veut tourner dans son prochain film. Si le tournage n’est pas bouclé, tout le monde perd.

System: BIMBO

Buried in the Past

Author & Keeper: Glyn White

Germany, 1993. What was covered up in the dungeons of Dömitz Fortress before the wall came down? A failed escape attempt? A murder? An evil history or the key to a fortune in mineral wealth? Investigators delve into a dangerous past set not far from the Schloss Neuhausen. This scenario has successfully run once previously at THE KRAKEN 2012.

System: Call of Cthulhu 1990s

The Posse

Author & Keeper: Glyn White

USA, 1799. A terrible crime at the Stegall place causes a posse to be formed at Judge McBee’s. These killers need to be hunted from their hiding places along the banks of the Ohio river before they tarnish the name of the new state of Kentucky.

System: Colonial Cthulhu

Pandora’s Box

Author & Keeper: Glyn White

USA, 1934. Pandora’s Palace, the city’s glitziest nightclub has a new attraction: the infamous ancient artifact itself! Authenticated by experts, valued as priceless, many unfortunate previous owners, but now carefully sealed! What could go wrong?

System: Call of Cthulhu (Classic Era)

UNIT 731

Author: Sandy Petersen
Keeper: Felix Girke

After WWII, the crimes of the Japanese secret weapons research group, UNIT 731, are under investigation. Will you be able to bring light into what really happened during those dark days, and survive what your discoveries bring?

System: Call of Cthulhu

DEATH MUST BE GIVEN

Author & Narrator: Fabian Küchler

The heroes are Humakti sent out by their god of war and death, to help a clan who is troubled by a ghost. The people believe the ghost to be a dead Humakti! That cannot be. But many have heard it speak words in the sacred Humakti language: Swordspeech! The Humakt temple wants to find out the truth. Has a Humakti risen from his grave? The clan has offered a fine black bull as payment if the heroes can lay the ghost.

System: HeroQuest 2.0 Glorantha

Derelict Earth - A Storm is Coming

Author & Gamemaster: Rob Sabath

October 2018 - Scorched earth is all that was left behind when the robotic aliens left, most major cities lie in ruins and global economies are shattered. Millions of people died, many of starvation and epidemics, governments collapsed due to broken communication and the collateral damage of the war.

The survivors seek shelter in small communities and towns, trying to make a living off the land and whatever they can salvage from the battlefields. Some areas established trade routes to prosper, others withered and died. Some parties plunder and roam the lands, others maintain a military leadership and fight for what is left.

Your party of is setting out to capture one of the remaining alien robots in the city ruins. Knowing one weak spot, you will set a trap and render it defenseless - although this will require planning, cunning and a lot of luck. The main goal is to capture it intact so the scientists can disassemble it and reproduce the alien technology to use it during the fight to liberate earth.

System: Chaosium Basic Roleplaying

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Cardinal's Blades

Author & Gamemaster: Philippe Auribeau

1643. Richelieu is dead. Louis XIII will follow suit. Before he died, the Cardinal had his legendary company of swashbucklers and rogues rebuilt: the Cardinal's Blades. Those exceptional men and women will have to help the new Cardinal, Mazarin, and the new king, Louis XIV, to resist the deadliest enemies of the Crown: Spain and the Court of Dragons. Since in this 17th century, Dragons are nothing but reality.

System: Cardinal's Blades RPG

WE ARE HERE TO SEE THE EVIL WIZARD KORMÁKUR

Author: Jason Morningstar
Gamemaster: Felix Girke

A group of brave souls have traveled through dark forest and hissing swamp to reach the moss-covered tower that now stands before them. They are each here to see the dreaded wizard Kormákur, but apparently Kormákur is not home. What will happen now?

System: Systemless

Prince Charming, Reanimator

Author: Daniel J. Bishop
Gamemaster: Felix Girke

Prince Hubert Charming seeks a (new) bride! Following rumors that a princess has been asleep in an overgrown castle for hundreds of years, he rounds up ‘volunteers’ from the nearby village to retrieve her (so he doesn't have to). Who of you can survive the dangers of Grimwood Castle and reach the Sleeping Beauty?

System: Dungeon Crawl Classics

Oblivion's Edge - Deathwatch

Author: Owen Barnes
Gamemaster: Stefan Gravemeyer

The PCs form a Kill Team of elite Space Marines who operate under the orders of the Inquisition. The Battle Brothers have to fight their way through a Tyranid invasion on the agri world Avalos. All Xenos must be purged. You shall know no fear...

System: Warhammer 40K Deathwatch

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Force of Will

Author: Mike Mason
Keeper: Philip Glass

Colville National Forest, WA - present day. An ambitious film crew sets out to interview an elusive religious community as part of their ongoing documentary on strange cults. No outsiders have ever been allowed to see the compound in the Colville forest, let alone talk to the enigmatic founder - it's Pulitzer time!

System: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition

Centauri Dreams

Author & Keeper: Kevin Dearn

'Magellan' is to make history by being the first manned spacecraft to make an interstellar trek. The player characters are the crewmembers on this epic journey to Proxima Centauri, Alpha Centauri A and back to Earth.

System: Call of Cthulhu

ARCHIMEDES 7

Author: John Wick
Keeper: Sverre Larne

'Archimedes 7' is a colony ship traveling from our solar system to a distant world.

A small piece of tin protects its inhabitants from the dangers of the void but the real danger lurks inside the ship…

System: Simplified Call of Cthulhu

Cthulhu of the Carribean

Author & Keeper: Eini

The Caribbean - present day. You're here because nobody can refuse the offer of a FREE first class return flight to Wilhelmstad (on the Dutch isle of Curacao) and a FREE week of pleasure cruising in the Caribbean. OK, there's something about one of your ancestors, but what better environment for a little mystery than the deep blue seas of the Caribbean? So you are here both for entertainment, good sports and fun. What can go wrong?

System: Cthulhu (Now)

Too Close to Home

Author & Gamemaster: Nick Davison

“Anomalies are starting to appear, doorways in time to worlds we can barely imagine. The anomalies are conclusive proof that the past exists in a fourth dimension as real and solid as those we already know. Your job is to predict and contain them.”

As members of a newly formed Anomaly Research Institute team your mission is also to cover them up.

System: Primeval RPG

Needles & Pins: Story Portal House

Author & Gamemaster: Philip Glass

When rich kids disappear, leaving no trace apart from some obviously forged e-cards from far away places, suspicion inevitably falls on Story Portal House, a self-proclaimed Real-LARP-Community outside the city's perimeter. This festering boil of anarchy and crime has been left to it's own devices for too long. Time to clean up!

System: Impromptu D6

Needles & Pins 3: Head Hunters

Author & Gamemaster: Philip Glass

Agents are sent out to free Paul Acid, renowned cluster artist and member of the notorious Quantum Wizards, from his imprisonment at the fabled high security facility Gotthard 4, in order to test some new non-lethal mind weapons. With a blizzard covering their approach, team members are ready for a low altitude jump from a lofty mountain ridge. What will they find below?

System: Impromptu D6

Four Meadows

Author & Narrator: Topi Pitkänen

Four men from the Blueberry Clan, Ranulf Stand-Tall's Culbrea tribe and Jonstown city travel to Alda-Chur and North Sartar, territory held by enemies and strangers. They will fight Bad Man in a quest to the spirit world to become a full shaman. Not all of them may make it. Will they return to serve their community? Will they be able to awaken their fetch? Will they survive Bad Man?

System: Glorantarot, HeroQuest 2.0 Glorantha & Century

SCHWARZWALD (BLACK FOREST) REQUIEM (DE/EN)

Authors: Rainer Gladys & Steffen Schütte
Keepers: Oliver Hauri & Matthias Heer

A group of friends travels to Vienna to look after Siegried Lohmann, professor of romantic music, and his lovely daughter Grethe.

A classic adventure from the Zauber Zeit magazine from 1989. A straight forward game in which the German speaking players have to translate various German dialects for the others.

System: Call of Cthulhu (redux version)

Achtung! Cthulhu - Der Flieger

Author & Keeper: Gary 'Evilgaz' Bowerbank

Churchill's instruction to the Special Operations Executive is to 'Set Europe Ablaze'. Agents are inserted into occupied Europe to work with local resistance fighters in sabotaging the German war machine. A worrying trend has started though. Whole resistance cells are eliminated overnight. Agents are disappearing – in extreme cases they parachute from a glider, but never reach the ground. Rumours of a dark, secretive group operating within Europe abound, tales spread of occult rites and sacrifice. No one knows if they are connected to the debilitation of the SOE, but a special team has been assembled to investigate – just in case.

System: Savage Worlds / Call of Cthulhu 7th

Riders on a Storm

Author & Gamemaster: Gary 'Evilgaz' Bowerbank

The Wind Voice is not happy. He is angry as a bull with thorns in each hoof. In Prax followers of a pilgrimage route for the Storm gods have been meeting unfortunate ends, or going missing on the trail. Sable Riders have been bringing in more 'trade goods' than anyone could reasonably expect. The Lunar authorities laugh at the Orlanthi demands for protection and justice. A handful of devout followers of the Storm pantheon have been assembled to investigate the wrongdoing and punish those responsible.

System: Savage Worlds in Glorantha

How do I get out of this chicken $!*& outfit?

Author & Gamemaster: Gary 'Evilgaz' Bowerbank

Hellion IV was a world ripe for the picking. Weyland set up shop and started taking resources hand over fist. Some military investment was needed to keep the indigenous insectoids in line, but that aside it was a no-brainer. System wide anomaly, terrorist activity, rival company action, who knows – what's sure now is the colony is failing and it's every man for himself. Supply ships have failed to arrive or been destroyed for months – finally one is getting through. The question is, how the frak do you get off planet and out of this chicken $!*& outfit?

System: Savage Worlds

This Bountiful Land

Author & Gamemaster: Gary 'Evilgaz'Bowerbank

The Saxons are beaten back and contained, the Picts stay beyond the wall and even those in the mountains of the west seem more content fighting among themselves than invading Arthur's realm. It is a time of relative peace and prosperity. Yet, some lords are becoming lax. Monies owed to the King remain unpaid. Bandits run free as mercenaries who once warred, now find themselves unemployed. Even the fae seem more active and mischievous. Earl Sanam of Salisbury however is a good and noble vassal of Arthur and so has sent a troop of his younger knights to tour his lands, make sure the King's road is clear and that those who owe fealty to the crown are not neglecting their duties. That these are some of his more troublesome knights should not be taken to mean the Earl simply wishes a quieter life for a few months…

System: Pendragon

A Paolo Mini-Game*

THE CALL OF CATTHULHU

Author: Joel Sparks
Keeper: Paolo Guccione

Cats are the only ones not losing Sanity when they witness the Great Old Ones, so the fate of our reality is truly in their han… er, paws.

System: Call of Catthulhu Deluxe

*This is a very short game. You can ask Paolo to run it for you whenever you have a break during THE KRAKEN. Simplicity is fun.

A Paolo Mini-Game*

THE LAST ONE

Author: Alberto Tronchi
Gamemaster: Paolo Guccione

You are humanity's last survivor. Will you make it to the place of your salvation? And will you be the same person at the end of the journey?

System: Systemless

*This is a very short game. You can ask Paolo to run it for you whenever you have a break during THE KRAKEN. Simplicity is fun.

A Paolo Mini-Game*

ENTER THE AVENGER

Author: Raffaele Manzo

Someone murdered the protagonist's loved one. Will he succeed in taking his revenge? A story of honor, blood and vengeance in a Sword & Sorcery setting.

System: Systemless

*This is a very short game. You can ask Paolo to run it for you whenever you have a break during THE KRAKEN. Simplicity is fun.

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World War Cthulhu: The Dragon in the Waves

Author & Narrator: Jason Durall

4 February, 1940. Allied forces intercept a distress call from a German U-boat off the coast of the Faroe Islands. The message declares that the 'SKG device' is at risk, and Allied High Command suspects it is a new iteration of the Enigma Machine. A squad of operatives is hastily assembled and sent to intercept the U-boat. Their mission: To recover the device before it is recovered or destroyed by Nazi forces, sunk beneath the dark, freezing waters of the Norwegian Sea.

System: Call of Cthulhu (6th Edition)

The Laundry: Going Down to Dunwich

Author: Gareth Hanrahan
Narrator: Jason Durall

Welcome to the occult branch of Her Majesty's civil service, the clandestine organization known as Capital Laundry Services... 'The Laundry' for short! We apologize for the sudden nature of your induction into the Laundry, but rest assured that it is for your own safety. It's time to report for your basic training, at the coastal village called Dunwich. Oh, not the one from those stories. The real one.

This is the introductory scenario for 'The Laundry' RPG, based on the Laundry Files by Charlie Stross. Suitable for any players. No knowledge of the setting necessary.

System: The Laundry | Call of Cthulhu (6th Edition)

Are You Being Severed?

Authors: Eugene Doherty & Oscar Rios
Keeper: Nick Davison

Ground floor perfumery,
stationery and ancient gods,
wigs and occult blasphemy
kitchenware and death... going up

1972. Industrial unrest by the miners has led to nationwide power cuts. The British Museum is hosting a record breaking Tutankhamun Exhibition. The staff of 'Ladies and Gents Wear' at the Grace Brothers department store stay behind for an after hours training session. Little do they realise that a horror is about to stalk them, a horror more eldritch, more terrible, more ancient than even Mrs Slocombe's pussy. Who will survive the night, and who by morning will still be free?

System: Call of Cthulhu