Wellington Anniversary Weekend January 18th - 19th 2025

When darkness came to Ravenlite

Facilitator: 
Emma S

After having defeated the bandit leader of the Ravenhawk bandit gang, you and your long-term adventuring party are going back to the capital city of Ravenville in the region of Ravenlite, when you come across a little girl in trouble and needing your help. But is all as innocent as it seems?

This is a teen-friendly game is written and GM'd by a teen and is good for all ages that can role-play dungeons and dragons. You will be playing as third level D&D characters, I am using the 5e system (not 2024 rules), there will be pre-made characters available but you can bring your own.

System: 
Dungeons and Dragons 5e

Corporate Retreat

Facilitator: 
Dillon Burke

A group of ambitious Weylund-Yutani executives gather for a corporate retreat, where the teams will work together to develop a vision statement for the company, and enjoy a presentation from the Bio-weapons Department.

System: 
Alien RPG (Free League)

LARP double feature: GIANT CRAB MONSTER and REVIEWING STAND

Facilitator: 
Tim Oliver

These are two small LARPs by Jason Morningstar (also known for Fiasco/Winterhorn/Juggernaut) - they both take 6 players and take less than an hour, so we'll do two in a row!

Neither game requires advance prep, costuming, or any knowledge of system, but you're welcome to fancy up if you feel like it.

REVIEWING STAND: It's a parade! You are all important figures in the utterly patriotic nation of Tauberg-Nassenau, and you are stuck in a reviewing stand waving at the troops during a formal parade. Toasts! Anthems! Speeches! Being dignified representatives of the elite! Secret agendas! This game has a fixed soundtrack for the entire game period to keep you *in the mood*.

GIANT CRAB MONSTER: Yeah, that's about it, a giant crab monster is headed towards your town and it must be stopped. As Prominent Citizens, you're the only ones who can do something about it. But what?

System: 
freeform / light larp

Deathmatch Island: Island One

Facilitator: 
Dan L'Estrange

[BEGIN]
We are pleased to announce that you have passed the Selection Process and will be taking part in the upcoming season of DEATHMATCH ISLAND.

You may not remember applying. This is normal. It is important that you do not panic, or serious injury may occur (production is not held responsible in such events).

Some frequently asked questions are below.

Who are you? What is Deathmatch Island?
Production is committed to be open and transparent! XXXXX the less you XXXXX. In 1967, XXXXX XXXX XXXX your parents XXXXX XXX XXXX XXXXXX XXXX certain death.

I don't want any part of this.
Not applicable - please resubmit as a question.

How do I prepare?
You have been selected because we believe in your ability, we have confidence in your skills, knowledge and experience. Just believe in yourself. You can do it. Play to Win.

What happens next?
No need to worry; the Recruitment Process has commenced. We repeat: DO NOT PANIC.

For peace of mind, we can tell you that the Selection and Recruitment Process will be completed on this date:

XXXXXXX [REDACTED FOR YOUR BENEFIT]

You're excited to begin.

So are we.

Production.

[ENDS]

System: 
Deathmatch Island

VIBECIETE!

Facilitator: 
Blake

Hull Breaches Friday the 13th-esqe survival horror adventure for the Mothership ttrpg.
Play as an annoying hyperwelthy teen. (Or a mamber of there yaught crew) Have one last shin dig at the old abandoned hodder forest reserve habatat before it is scrapped.
Dont worry about all those silly stories about people going missing there.
Dose anyone else hear that humming sound? VIBECIETE!

Content warning: violence, dismemberment, sexual innuendo, foul language, druge use, horror, animal harm, space.

System: 
Mothership

Mausritter — Stragglers

Facilitator: 
Tom Starbuck

Years ago in the barren valley, workers tunneled and toiled and extracted near endless hauls of valuable ores from the mine. Further surveys were made, and plans were drafted for more and more tunnels through the earth. Equipment failed. Workers went unpaid. Mice went missing. Weeks of quota vanished without a trace.

Now, the mine lies dormant. Deed-holders cast blame about sabotage. Rumors circulate of poisonous gasses and mice gone mad. Interlopers rummage around in the remains. A former mining town dwindles into obscurity. And in the deep wound of the earth, writhing in slag and runoff, something slithers, crawls, then steps upward.

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Masuritter is a rules-light RPG system where you play as a band of mice exploring a huge world and (hopefully) living to tell the tale. It encourages careful and clever planning, applying real-world logic to tackle problems, and open-ended scenarios what could go any number of ways.

Stragglers is a scenario I've written myself and run multiple times, where the players are tasked with retrieving valuables from a less-than-abandoned mine.

System: 
Mausritter

Dropzone

Facilitator: 
Alan Jackson

Join the marines they said, see the galaxy they said. One muddy, raining colony at a time. At least you get to play the hero sometimes.

Colony planet LV-426 has stopped responding. Your mission is to go there and save the civilians. It must be pirates like usual, there’s no such thing as aliens is there?

Sci-fi Action adventure horror, with lots of guns. Super light home brew system. Heavily inspired by the movie Aliens
Content: action movie violence, horror references, possible pvp betrayal

System: 
Homebrew

Furta

Facilitator: 
Hamish Cameron

Gaius Divites wants you over to Lucius Felix's domus lickety-split to half inch 'im something that fell off the back of a plaustrum. Now Lucius Felix is a right Caesar when it comes to the Tiber docks, so you'll 'ave to play it real easy or you'll be floating through Ostia by morning. Mind you, this ain't the first time you and the lads have sacked Carthage. You'll be spending Divites' coin quicker than I can say veni, vidi, vici.

Furta is a playtest of Nefas, a PbtA game of mythos horror and supernatural weirdness set in the Roman empire of the early second century CE. This particular game is a mashup of Hadrianic Rome and Guy Ritchie crime movies. There may or may not be a supernatural twist. Think Gladiator meets Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels meets The Color Out of Space. No knowledge of Roman history is required to play--it worked for Ridley Scott, after all. Premade characters (mostly) will be provided; BYO terrible London crime caper accent.

System: 
Nefas (PbtA playtest)

Blood and Water

Facilitator: 
Jamie Sands

You're flatmates living together, pretty mundane stuff, except you're all different supernatural creatures.

You know the TV show Being Human? It's like that.
Alternatively think Friends, but Ross is a ghoul, Phoebe is fae and Joey's recently started shapeshifting into a big cat.

You're monsters, but the problems you face are usually more about flatting than they are about what you are and where you fit into the supernatural world. You're living on the edge of society, but you're not a flat-out murderer (you'd be in jail otherwise, right?), and hey whatever happens, you have your flatmates to back you up.

Think lighthearted with a dash of horror, there may be some blood and gore, there may be some evil people, but everything will get wrapped up within 25 mins (plus commercial breaks).

The last time I ran this at Kapcon we got through character creation and I think three "episodes" of the TV series, and the players got to develop and grow their characters so that's what I'll be aiming for again.

System: 
Blood and Water by James Mullen

Party people

Facilitator: 
Haz

It is the early 2000s in an alternate New Zealand and the south island has an extra city. Hohonuana sits at the foothills of the southern alps and was a bustling city until an earthquake caused issues with the water supply. Oddities following the earthquake brought you all together and now you form a small support network of individuals interested in the unusual.

The city has started to bounced back but the nightlife has outpaced all other sectors, with many people from around the country flying in on the weekends to party. The club scene is decent, but word of mouth is there is a new designer drug only available here, and that is what is really drawing the visitors.

An acquaintance who is a bit of a party animal is missing and your suspicions have been raised as you keep (wrongly) imagining the club scene from the movie Blade since you recently rented it on VHS from Blockbuster. You would feel better if you knew what happened, especially before this weekend so you can enjoy the largest music festival NZ has ever seen.

System: 
Monster of the Week
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