Games on Demand is back for 2015!

More fun filled adventures from a huge variety of games, with specific games picked at the start of each round.

We don't have a list of things on offer yet, but it should be the usual mix of old favourites, new hotness, a few playtests, and weird stuff you never heard of before

Pax Victoria II is a Grand Strategy game for 15 to 25 players. Teams of 3-5 players compete to dominate the oceans, island mines, and the main continent of the planet Victoria, using a mix of World War One era technology. It is a mixture of board gaming and LARP, based on similar games run in both New Zealand and the UK over the last 20 years.

During the game, in the Map Room, teams take turns moving game tokens on a giant map of Victoria, racing against the clock to get as much done as possible, At the same time in the World Room, the other teams are busy trading and engaging in diplomacy. The game will reward players who choose a good strategy, and focus on its successful execution.

Play of the game begins a full week before the convention, with players choosing strategic options that will focus their nation on land or naval forces, economic strength, or perhaps research into the new airforce options. You can probably expect some game related diplomacy at the Friday night drinks.

Pax Victoria I was run at Buckets of Dice 2012. Information about both games can be found at: http://www.housewar.org/Pax-Victoria-II.php

An introduction to the grand strategy format and explanation of how the game works can be found here.

It is 2003; the eve of war. The United States has accused Iraq of secretly conducting a programme to produce weapons of mass destruction, and the world watches as the final 48 hour deadline for the surrender of Saddam Hussein and his sons approaches. A small group of journalists will be in the vanguard of the invasion. Eager to substantiate its claims to the press, the U.S. military plans to reveal one of Saddam’s secret weapons facilities, deep in the Iraqi desert. What they find, however, may unleash an ancient evil onto the world, causing massive destruction and suffering on a scale far greater than anyone had imagined…

EPOCH is a game of character-driven survival horror. The goal is to deliver a tense and scary experience in a single game session. EPOCH players are active participants in the creation of the game atmosphere and have complete control over the creation and ultimate fate of their characters.

Read more about EPOCH via: http://epochrpg.blogspot.com

On a dead plateau, under unfamiliar stars, behind a wall of impaled, watchful corpses, an alien god sleeps. If they wake, the Sleeper in the Pyramid will set in motion a chain of events which will bring about CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN, the end of the world.

Now, a small band of intruders has breached the plateau, presumably with the intention of waking the Sleeper. And its the Laundry's job to stop them.

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"The Laundry Files" is the rpg of Charles Stross's "Laundry" books, in which mathematics is magic and a secret UK spy agency - "The Laundry" - battles the forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. This scenario is from GOD GAME BLACK and contains spoilers for The Apocalypse Codex. A full mission briefing is available here

It is 1891 and a terrible crime has been committed. Someone has murdered the Martian Ambassador at the home of Lord Darlington. But all is not lost, for the great detective Sherlock Holmes is at hand to solve the case. But wait, isn’t Sherlock Holmes a character from fiction? That is the least of your worries though, for the dead have risen and are banging on the windows, hungering for human flesh...

Set in the Warhammer 40,000 Universe, the players take on the roles of Inquisitorial acolytes. On the mining planet Sepheris Secondus, a terrorist group known as the Broken Chains has begun to cause more trouble than the local law enforcement can handle. The attacks of these mutant malcontents have begun to take a very sinister turn, with strange and disturbing technology being utilised. What is really going on on Sepheris Secondus, and can the Inquisition stop the heretical plans that seek to throw the entire sector into chaos?

Since the event known as The Sinking, a general uneasiness descended upon the Great City, but that's no reason not to party!
The PCs attend a covert masquerade thrown by a troupe of thrill seeking young nobles. Matsoni Gimbros, the clique's ringleader, declares the party's theme to be The Sinking.
To complement his theme, Matsoni chose the perfect venue: an abandoned bathhouse on the edge of the sinkhole. Rumors that a ghost haunts the bathhouse only add to its allure.
Privileged, promiscuous young people in a haunted condemned building: what could possibly go wrong?

Its the year 2093 and humanity has began to explore the universe. After successful exploration of Mars, attention has now focused inwards towards Mercury Venus and the Sun. As part of a scientific exploration team you have spent many weeks and months in a close orbiting around the sun on Space Station Icarus, a deep space exploration platform specially designed to protect its inhabitants from the intense heat and dangerous radiation from the Sun.

Your mission is drawing to a close and has been relatively uneventful and you are allowing thoughts of your return home to Earth to enter your mind. Only a few more days to go, what could possibly go wrong?

SYSTEM: EPOCH is a game of character-driven survival horror. The goal is to deliver a tense and scary experience in a single game session. EPOCH players are active participants in the creation of the game atmosphere and have complete control over the creation and ultimate fate of their characters.

Here's some places around Kapcon for food, and other needs. If you know of any other places, or shortcuts to get places on foot, then feel free to leave them in the comments, or on NZ Rag in the thread on food locations.

View Kapcon Locations Map in a larger map

As usual we are having pre-Kapcon drinks on Friday 18th Jan, at JJ Murphy's bar on Cuba St.

From about 7PM till late.

JJ Murphies
119 Cuba Street
Wellington

We'll be upstairs on the balcony. Come and meet the people you might be fighting with or against!