D&D Adventurers League: Gnashing Teeth
2024-08-25 10:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | Willows3/RPG Glade
The D&D Adventurers League is the official organized play system of D&D. It allows your character to travel from one game table to another–across the world and even through digital play–all while keeping your character’s progress and loot intact.
This is the Adventurers League module DDAL10-02:
The goliaths of Wyrmdoom Crag are a proud, but thankfully, generous people. Having provided you with shelter from the deadly wilds of Icewind Dale, they’ve asked you to look into the strange things that’ve been happening in and around their home.
This adventure is designed for 1st to 4th level characters. Characters outside of this level range can’t participate in this adventure.
You can pick up a character at the Festival or if you would like to make your own, all characters created for Adventurers League must follow specific guidelines, which can be found in the D&D Adventurers League Player’s Guide.

[5 spaces available]
Content warning: mild horror & combat, 14+
RPG Glade Table Number: 4

Chupito
2024-08-25 10:00 - 22:00 | TBC, Meet at Village Square
We’ll be playing Chupito! – The Original Six-Shooter Challenge Game. Players will draw from a range of physical and mental challenge cards and wager bullets against one another to see who comes out on top. Can you sing the highest note? Or name the most varieties of cheese? Do you have the most keys on your keyring or unread emails in your inbox? Can you stand on one leg the longest, with your eyes closed? Find your hidden talents, have a laugh and try not get shot!
Games last 30-45 minutes for 3-12 players.
Rolling games of Chupito will be available during this time window. Please visit the Chupito table in the Village Square for more details

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UK Starship Bridge Simulator
2024-08-25 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-08-25 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-08-25 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-08-25 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-08-25 16:00 - 17:00 | The Lodge (AV Lodge)
A fully functional Starship Bridge Simulator LARP/Computer game

[6 available spaces]
Children must be accompanied. Note: under 11s will need their accompanying adult to assist them at their station rather than signing up separately

One HONK Before Midnight: A Goose-Based TTRPG Adventure
2024-08-25 11:00 - 15:00 | Willows3/RPG Glade
In an age before mankind, the world thrived in peace and tranquillity. Life flourished until humans arrived, disrupting the delicate balance of nature. Curse those pesky humans! You are part of an elite gaggle of geese, determined to usher in The HONK-pocalypse and reestablish an era dominated by geese. But those evil humans are determined not to make it easy for you. Looks like you’ve got a fight on your hands–erm, on your wings!
One HONK Before Midnight is a new adventure, set in the idyllic town of Stafford-On-Gander. It’s built in its very own system – the H.O.N.K. system – perfectly suited to the brand of chaos that only a true goose can invoke.
[4 spaces available]
18+ only
RPG Glade Table Number: 6

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Sunday Market
2024-08-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Village Square
The Sunday Market takes place in the main square from 12pm-2pm (on Sunday!), with a wide range of unique handcrafted, geek or games related items available from our community’s talented members.
Available to buy:

‘Indie’ boardgames.
Unique graffiti-style and boardgame themed t-shirts
Board game accessories
Handmade crafts and original art including ceramics, art prints, woven baskets, gadgets and cross-stitch
Original stories – books, comics and CDs
Jewellery, badges and stickers
Dice (lots of dice…)

Come along to the main square between 12pm and 2pm on Sunday to see what’s on offer.
Sellers set up from 11:30 – 12. Tear down 2 – 2:30.

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D&D Adventurers League: Ice Road Trackers (Cold Welcome and Warm Bodies)
2024-08-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Willows3/RPG Glade
The D&D Adventurers League is the official organized play system of D&D. It allows your character to travel from one game table to another–across the world and even through digital play–all while keeping your character’s progress and loot intact.
This is the Adventurers League module DDAL10-00c&d:
A trek toward Icewind Dale turns deadly when an avalanche blocks the heroes’ passage through the Spine of the World. Rescued by a menagerie of strange creatures, the heroes are asked to return the favor in exchange for answers about what’s happening in the cold and frozen North.
This is the best starting point for playing Adventurers League at the festival as this adventure is designed for level 1 & 2 characters. Characters outside of this level range can’t participate in this adventure. You can pick up a character at the festival or if you would like to make your own, all characters created for Adventurers League must follow specific guidelines, which can be found in the D&D Adventurers League Player’s Guide.

[5 spaces available]
Beginner-friendly, 14+
Content warning: mild horror & combat
RPG Glade Table Number: 1

D&D Adventurers League: Ice Road Trackers (Cold Welcome and Warm Bodies)
2024-08-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Willows3/RPG Glade
The D&D Adventurers League is the official organized play system of D&D. It allows your character to travel from one game table to another–across the world and even through digital play–all while keeping your character’s progress and loot intact.
This is the Adventurers League module DDAL10-00c&d:
A trek toward Icewind Dale turns deadly when an avalanche blocks the heroes’ passage through the Spine of the World. Rescued by a menagerie of strange creatures, the heroes are asked to return the favor in exchange for answers about what’s happening in the cold and frozen North.
This is the best starting point for playing Adventurers League at the festival as this adventure is designed for level 1 & 2 characters. Characters outside of this level range can’t participate in this adventure. You can pick up a character at the festival or if you would like to make your own, all characters created for Adventurers League must follow specific guidelines, which can be found in the D&D Adventurers League Player’s Guide.

[5 spaces available]
Beginner-friendly, 14+
Content warning: mild horror & combat
RPG Glade Table Number: 2

Questiny Demo: New Dungeon crawling adventure- Meet the creator and play!
2024-08-25 12:00 - 14:00, 2024-08-25 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-08-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Village Square
Co-operative, dungeon crawling adventure for 1-4 players
All has been well in Labyrinthia, a beautiful and peaceful land, protected by the Wizard Council – guardians of the sacred artefact….. SOUND THE ALARMS, RING THE BELLS, THE ARTEFACT HAS BEEN STOLEN! Alokor the Dark Mystic has surrendered to the cruel Goblin Queen’s will and stolen it, without it life in Labyrinth could be plunged into eternal darkness… forever!
SO BEGINS our epic quest! Our heroes must travel to the Shadow Tower in the deep dark mountains of Labyrinthia. Will they manage to navigate the twisting, turning Labyrinth, gather potions, outwit faeries, find legendary weapons, avoid the swinging axes and battle the Goblin Queen’s armies to reclaim the sacred artefact and restore peace to the realm?!… Keep your wits sharp and your weapons sharper, there are rumours of something far worse than goblins brooding in the dungeons of the Shadow Tower..
Message from the creator: “Questiny is my love-letter to 80s fantasy adventures and so is a highly thematic, co-operative dungeon crawler for 2-4 players, which is super easy to learn! With it’s unfolding narratives, enemy movement mechanics and modular board there is plenty of adventure to feast upon and no two quests will ever be the same.. come and join us to find out if you can conquer your Questiny!
See photos and videos of the game in action on Instagram @questinyboardgame and join the mailing list at www.questinyboardgame.com
[4 spaces available]

Sidereal Confluence Board Game
2024-08-25 12:00 - 15:00 | Activity Centre
Sidereal Confluence Board Game, plays in 2 hours plus 1 hour teach (Teaching at 12pm, Game start around 1pm).
It is a Euro with Resource Trading.

[8 spaces available]

Beginners' Social Deduction - Blood on the Clocktower
2024-08-25 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-08-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Cub Glade/SD Glade
Blood on the Clocktower is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team’s goal. This could involving lying on your part.
These beginner Blood on the Clocktower sessions are run by our friendly Festival volunteers and are intended to introduce new players to the wonderful world of social deduction gaming.
If you are a regular player, please sign up instead to one of the other games that will be running throughout the Festival or visit the Social Deduction Glade and chat to our friendly glade host there.
[12 spaces available]

Beginners' Social Deduction - Werewolf
2024-08-25 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-08-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Cub Glade/SD Glade
Werewolf is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team’s goal. This could involving lying on your part.
These beginner Werewolf sessions are run by our friendly Festival volunteers and are intended to introduce new players to the wonderful world of social deduction gaming.
If you are a regular player, please sign up instead to one of the other games that will be running throughout the Festival or visit the Social Deduction Glade and chat to our friendly glade host there.
[12 spaces available]

Beginners' Social Deduction - Mafia
2024-08-25 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-08-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Cub Glade/SD Glade
Mafia is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team’s goal. This could involving lying on your part.
These beginner Mafia sessions are run by our friendly Festival volunteers and are intended to introduce new players to the wonderful world of social deduction gaming.
If you are a regular player, please sign up instead to one of the other games that will be running throughout the Festival or visit the Social Deduction Glade and chat to our friendly glade host there.
[10 spaces available]

Delving after Dad, D&D 5e
2024-08-25 13:00 - 17:00 | Willows3/RPG Glade
Your mother has called you and siblings to a family meeting. She looks worried. She has been crying. She has a nervous energy that you are not accustomed to in any dwarf, let alone her. Normally so strong and confident. When all the siblings are assembled, she looks at each of you in turn. “Your… father…” she says in a slightly choked voice. She takes a deep breath and continues “Your father has only gone and gotten himself killed or kidnapped or eaten or some other such nonsense. Go down in those caves after him, find him, and bring him home alive so I can bloody murder him!!!!”
Note: Players are the children of a famous Dwarven adventurer, who left several weeks ago on yet another adventure and has yet to return. Can you find him in the darkness below… Can you escape with him. Would you dare return home to your mother without him.
Genre: High Fantasy
Themes: Sibling rivalry, Dwarven cultural practices, Not upsetting your mother
[6 spaces available]
Content warning: mild body modification horror content. Under 16s must be accompanied by a playing responsible adult
RPG Glade Table Number: 5

PlayCulture
2024-08-25 13:00 - 23:00 | Willows3 Campfire
PlayCulture create exciting, tactical, sneaky outdoor games that make you feel like a kid again!
PlayCulture games are app-supported and take place physically in the real world. Here’s a taste of what will be on offer:
Seektag is like competitive hide and seek! In Indie mode you get points for spotting other players without getting seen, and in Gauntlet mode you have to evade guards to tag zones like a ninja team!
Zombies is a large-scale app-supported infectious outdoor tag game! Evade zombies, pick up health packs, become the final survivor! If you’re caught, you turn into a zombie and join the hunt!
PirateGold is a dastardly treacherous outdoor team game! Marooned on an island that conceals a bounty of treasures, the aim of the game is to set sail with as much plunder as possible. Assemble a rich crew, beg, steal, borrow, or do whatever it takes!
There will be rolling games during this window; please see the PlayCulture board in the Village Square for game times and further details
Under 18s should be accompanied by a responsible adult
The PlayCulture app can be downloaded here: playculture.com/app

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Human-sized Twin Tin Bots
2024-08-25 14:00 - 15:30, 2024-08-25 15:30 - 17:00 | Arena
Human-sized version of the programming board game “Twin Tin Bots” in which players are themselves the robots moving around a massive board, ‘zapping’ opposing robots and collecting crystals for victory.
Each game lasts up to 1.5h (depending how quickly players take their moves) and is played in teams of 3 – one programmer guiding two robots around a life-size game board (players can swap roles mid-game)
No player restrictions but the game requires a lot of standing up.

[12 spaces available]
If you sign up, please make sure you turn up on time (or cancel your spot well ahead of time) – the game may break if there aren’t enough people!

Weather permitting.

Mini-MegaGame: Den of Wolves - New Eden
2024-08-25 14:00 - 18:00 | Arena Marquee
In this game you will play a member of a space fleet, survivors of a massive attack from the nation of Wolf – decimating and subjugating the other settled worlds. Together you will be trying to survive in space, flee further Wolf attacks and find a new home for your people – a New Eden.
The game runs for 8 to 18 players over 3 to 4 hours, split into 8 turns. The game plays in real time, so managing your time and delegating tasks is an important part of the game.
Each player will be assigned a role of one of the survivor fleet space ships and must work together to succeed. Each ship represents a team of players and each come from a different nation or colony from before the attack.
Beware, however, Wolf planted agents throughout the colonies before the attack and it’s highly probable that some will be hiding amongst other players in the fleet.
The rulebook is here and it’s advised players give it a read before they arrive.

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[18 spaces available]
Players should be 18+

D&D Adventurers League: Divining Evil
2024-08-25 14:00 - 18:00 | Willows3/RPG Glade
The D&D Adventurers League is the official organized play system of D&D. It allows your character to travel from one game table to another–across the world and even through digital play–all while keeping your character’s progress and loot intact.
This is the Adventurers League module DDAL10-03:
A gruesome murder sends you into the frozen wastes in search of answers. Will you find what you seek, or will your journey simply create more questions?
This adventure is designed for 1st to 4th level characters. Characters outside of this level range can’t participate in this adventure.
You can pick up a character at the Festival or if you would like to make your own, all characters created for Adventurers League must follow specific guidelines, which can be found in the D&D Adventurers League Player’s Guide.

[5 spaces available]
Content warning: mild horror & combat, 14+
RPG Glade Table Number: 2

Star Wars TTRPG
2024-08-25 14:00 - 19:00 | Willows3/RPG Glade
Prepare to shoot first in the high stakes game of Edge of Empire, you’re not a jedi and the force probably still has your old address. No my unfortunate friend, you’re a smuggler or an out of favour politico sitting on the edge of the empire’s control trying to avoid the dangers of criminal groups or local security. Join me on a short one-shot introduction to the amazing Star Wars RPG that they never seem to print new copies of, and they stopped making dice for. I have a bad feeling about this.
[5 spaces available]
PG13
RPG Glade Table Number: 7

D&D Adventurers League: Ice Road Trackers (Unsure Footing and Chilled Drinks)
2024-08-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Willows3/RPG Glade
The D&D Adventurers League is the official organized play system of D&D. It allows your character to travel from one game table to another–across the world and even through digital play–all while keeping your character’s progress and loot intact.
This is the Adventurers League module DDAL10-00a&b:
A trek toward Icewind Dale turns deadly when an avalanche blocks the heroes’ passage through the Spine of the World. Rescued by a menagerie of strange creatures, the heroes are asked to return the favor in exchange for answers about what’s happening in the cold and frozen North.
This is the best starting point for playing Adventurers League at the Festival as this adventure is designed for level 1 & 2 characters. Characters outside of this level range can’t participate in this adventure.
You can pick up a character at the Festival or if you would like to make your own, all characters created for Adventurers League must follow specific guidelines, which can be found in the D&D Adventurers League Player’s Guide.

[5 spaces available]
Beginner-friendly, 14+
Content warning: mild horror & combat
RPG Glade Table Number: 1

Among Cultists
2024-08-25 15:30 - 18:30 | Activity Centre
Become a member of M, a secret society! 4-8 investigators try to prevent the arrival of a big evil in University… but watch out: evil cultists are already among us!
AMONG CULTISTS, a unique social deduction experience, inspired by the masterpiece AMONG US from Innersloth!
Combining board game elements with traditional social deduction, players are either Investigators or Cultists and move around the board, triggering events, actions and encounters. Investigators have 10 rounds to reach the necessary victory points or vote out all the Cultists. The Cultists have 10 rounds to sabotage or kill the Investigators.

[This event is closed for signups – please check the relevant thread in Discord]
