Saturday Afternoon

The games listed below are scheduled to run on saturday afternoon, starting at 3pm.

Talking Shop

Conpulsion has a number of guests, and one thing guests love to do is talk, so we’ve given them a room and a list of things to talk about!

Saturday Lunchtime 2-3. Malcolm Craig and others on “Games, politics, and the real world”
Saturday Afternoon 3-4. Avengers on “Plot movement vs awesomeness in game design [...]

We Had Faces

Film Noir meets occult horror, Unknown Armies style

It was supposed to be a simple deal: in, out and sell the goods. Sure, it wasn’t exactly legal or risk-free, but it wasn’t supposed to get you killed.

The world is now a much more confusing and frightening place. Your memories of the last few days are a [...]

Time Cube

Science! Magic! Pointy Sticks! Temporal Paradoxes!

The ‘Situations Vacant” board in the Orc’s Head, your friendly local adventurers’ hangout :

“WANTED: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. 12 South Road, Oakvale Village. You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only [...]

Cash Tills – A Mysteries of the Supermarket Game

Money, murder and mayhem
The doors of a supermarket in Millton Keynes seem to be locked and the people inside as well as the ones from the car park seem to be in a state of panic.  As engineers work on the doors and the police try to calm the situation there’s a spurt of blood [...]

Hell for Leather

The game where Murder = Extra Dice!

The game show, Hell for Leather, follows an advanced tactical military unit called the Hunters who track down and butcher contestants as they flee toward their objective. You play those contestants.

Anyone can cash you in as a prize, from the old lady behind the net curtains, to the freelance [...]

The Good, The Bad and The Clueless

1 small town, 6 mean ass hombres, 60 galons worth of hat, no memories, no clue. Western in the classic pulp style.

Imagine John Wayne got amnesia and remembered the attitude but not a lot else. Now imagine six of him starring in a film by a first time director who doesn’t really understand what he’s [...]

A Man of the People

A politician reducing crime must be good news, right?

Ormes Head was once a mostly typical New England borough with a disproportionately high rate of unsolved murders. In 2008, successful small businessman Edward Rutherford was elected City Councilman on the promise of reducing crime. Last year, in an area where 230,000 people live and work, there [...]

Indie Games

Join a group of other interested players and try out some of the latest greatest indie games. GMs will be on hand and able to run pretty much anything

6-20 people.

Old Man Katan and the Mushroom Band

Something’s up with the local swamp, and it’s not just the singing mushrooms!

Things are not quite right in Glitchegumee Swamp. A Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition game with an old man who lives in a swamp, a few lost things and of course, singing mushrooms. It’s your job to brave the confusing and treacherous bog [...]

The Celestial Scroll

A game of pulp action and adventure

The year is 1925; The Celestial Scroll, an artefact of ancient China has been recovered by the British Museum (at considerable difficulty) and is about to be unveiled to an incredibly curious audience.

Unveiling night comes and all is going swimmingly until the party is plunged into darkness and the [...]