Not much has happened in the last two months, but since we’ve only been in the new premises for six months, that’s allowed to happen! Nevertheless, there is some news:
The half-year results are looking good! Although our income from drinks and collections/donations was lower than expected, this is more than made up for by the increased use of the space
We will soon have new food offerings in the room. Kieran will be selling pastries and Ronja will be offering frozen meals
There have also been some changes to the room decor: the fantasy room now has a sword hanging on the wall, the sci-fi room is now better soundproofed and there is a screen and a large fridge in the lounge
KuL-Quests: The Sincere Series, English, 05., 12. & 20.07.2025 Welcome to “The Sincere Series,” a kul-quest that delves into storytelling beyond lighthearted adventures, exploring deeper themes of life, emotions, and secrets. This series offers four standalone one-shot games, each with its unique narrative but united by their somber and thoughtful tone. Registration via Discord
Pathfinder Society, German, 09.07. & 13.08.2025 The Pathfinder Society sends its scouts on new adventures and missions! Suitable for newcomers. Registration via MeetUp from SwissRPG
System of the Month Juli: Through the Breach, English/German, 16. & 23.07.2025 The Ten Thunders are a crime syndicate that recruits the poor and desperate and turns them into weapons to wield against their enemies. You are one of these them, and your training is nearly complete. When a petty thief steals a dangerous object, it falls to you to seek revenge for his transgressions. Registration via Discord.
KuL Paint & Prep, 31.07. & 28.08.2025 KuL Paint & Prep is a creative evening for GMs and players to paint minis, build terrain, and prepare adventures and/or characters together. You can bring your own project or help colour the minis we have on site. Registration via Discord.
System of the Month August: Perils and Princesses, English/German, 2., 9. & 30.08.2025 A party of valiant Princesses embarked on a grand adventure. They each received a magical Gift from their Fairy Godmothers to aid them in their quest through the enchanted forest. They bargained with pixies, outwitted goblins, danced in the moonlight at a mossy shrine and even stopped for a picnic with a unicorn along the way. Registration via Discord.
KuL-Social “KULISTS&GRILL&FUN&DRINKS”, 16.08.2025 After it was so nice last year, there will be another barbecue at Tim’s house 😉 KuL members should have received all information by e-mail. Registration via list in the mail
The next Höck will take place on Thursday, September 4 at 18:00 Participation possible on site or via Discord.
The first month in our new premises is already over and although we have allowed ourselves a little rest after the remodelling, a lot has already happened:
From now on, club members can reserve the lounge free of charge for meetings, get-togethers, board games, etc. Please note that you only reserve the table – the room will continue to be used by the other groups.
Instead of CoffeeB, we now have a fully automatic coffee machine and soon coffee directly from the roastery in the neighbourhood – so we hope you enjoy it! There have also been changes to the beer, and Wirt Beer is now also available directly from the neighbourhood.
There is storage space for regular groups in the small room next to the Fantasy Tavern! So if you would like to store game material in the room, please contact us.
If you would like to offer a free game in the rooms, you can now fill in the new form at KuL-Quests: kul-verein.ch/en/kul-quests-2
And of course lots of little things: The new flyers are here, window films have been installed in both rooms, the chairs in the fantasy room have been replaced and there are now more lights, the laptops are at your disposal and much more!
Hello Güterstrasse! Open day, 16.3. Half inauguration party, half open day for new visitors. We look forward to meeting you all on Sunday 16 March for games, drinks, snacks and conversation. No registration is necessary but if you would like to support us on site, please let us know on Discord.
Pathfinder Society, German, 19.3. & 9.4. An introduction will take place on 19 March as part of the free role-playing days. You always wanted to try Pathfinder? This is the ideal opportunity. In April we will continue with the Society. Registration via RPGBern
System of the Month März: W10+, German, 22.3. We are in the Regency era in our good old world, in England, but not quite as we know it from the history books. On a balmy late autumn day, the Marchioness of Ripon, Phyllis Barrington, has invited everyone of distinction in the region to an enjoyable evening of music. Already booked!
KuL Quests: Star Trek Adventures 2E, English, 25.3. Space, the final frontier. Join the Starfleet and travel through the universe with your crew. Explore strange new worlds, encounter fantastic alien life forms and experience dramatic adventures in an endless galaxy. Registration via Discord
System of the Month April: Wanderhome, English/German, 2., 21. 30.4. Completely without dice or complicated values, we immerse ourselves in a fantastic world full of animal creatures, mystical places, minor and major deities. Wanderhome promises a poetic, but often also very funny journey through the world of Haeth, which we invent, revise, discard and recreate during the game. Registration via Discord
KuL-Social, 3.4. In April, we meet again to chat, play games and admire the space together.
The next Höck will take place on Thursday, 1 May at 6 pm Participation possible on site or via Discord.
Space, the final frontier. Join Starfleet and travel with your crew through the Star Trek universe. Explore strange new worlds, encounter fantastic alien life forms and experience dramatic adventures in an endless galaxy.
GM Mario plays the 2d20 system Star Trek Adventures 2E by Modiphius with you. You take on the role of one or more different crew members of the USS Masaka and fight, negotiate and sneak through known and unknown parts of the galaxy. You can create your own characters before the game or choose a pre-made character. The plan is to play 4-6 one-shots. After that we will see how much interest and motivation there is!
Attention: Mario is not a huge Star Trek connoisseur. Fans of the series should see it more as a bad fanfic and everyone is welcome – even if you don’t know Star Trek at all.
Age: 16+; Content: Violence, profanity, drugs; Language: German
The first session will take place on 1 March from 14:00 – the remaining sessions will be announced directly on Discord.
Work on our new premises at Güterstrasse 48 has officially begun! Today Matze was there. @Chrigi @Senji @Bibl/Tim @Luthiena | Patricia and me.
As we had already done our shopping last week, we were able to get started straight away today. Everything has gone according to plan in the fantasy room so far. We had already torn down the existing counter when we handed over the keys, so we were able to start painting after removing the skirting boards and masking. Everything is beige at the top and brown at the bottom – the panelling is still to follow.
Unfortunately, we encountered a problem when building the drywall. With the drill. And the problem was the existing heating pipe!
Unfortunately, this meant that we couldn’t finish the work yet and had to call in the emergency plumber, which will unfortunately upset our budget a little. Nevertheless, we’ve come quite a long way and can finish the wall tomorrow. The removed radiator will then be replaced at some point. Have we ever mentioned that you can also donate to KuL? kul-verein.ch/en/want-to-contribute
Construction report II from 28.12.2024
Another day of rebuilding. This time Matze, @Cenk @Luthiena | Patricia and I were there.
The wall is finished! It is characterised by extreme… walliness. Except of course in the door area. Now it still needs to be plastered and painted, but we’ll do that tomorrow.
A second coat of paint has been applied in the fantasy room and the shutters are also finished. Everything that is still green will be covered with stone walls. Patricia will be building these over the next month and will probably be driven mad in the process.
A problem has arisen with the door to the fantasy room because our previous tenants installed the frame so amateurishly. I still need to see how I can get this door right – it’s all crooked, arched and so on. I’ve expressed my feelings in a photo.
And last but not least, we primed the floor in the lounge so that we can lay the real floor tomorrow. That was session 0, so to speak.
Construction report III from 29.12.2024
All good things come in threes and so we made good progress again today! We were joined by @Jojo @akieran @Bibl/Tim @Luthiena | Patricia my father Walter and myself.
We painted the frames in the fantasy room for a second time and removed some of the covers. Patricia could now also start on the stone walls!
The Sci-Fi room has now also received its first coat of paint – artist Tim proudly standing in front of his work. Speaking of artistic: I’ll leave you with this fantastic photo of Kieran plastering the wall: ‘The duality of mortar’.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of Jojo and Walter, the floor in the lounge was completed today! I quote: ‘Is it working?’ ‘Uuuuuaaahhhhooo….’ But it looks fantastic.
Construction report IV from 30.12.2024
At the end of the year, @Senji @Sybille @Bibl/Tim @Luthiena | Patricia and I were on site.
The sci-fi room has now been painted and the door fitted with a handle. Everything is now ready for Patricia to start decorating in January! If you would like to help out from time to time, please contact her directly or get in touch on Discord.
The lounge now has skirting boards and Tim has won the agonising battle against the monthly adhesive – the drywall on this side has also been plastered and is waiting to be painted. Speaking of agonising: Patricia is now busy assembling the stone wall and the wood panelling – her nerves are burning at least as much as the cutting wire!
Now we’re taking a New Year break. We’ll resume on 4 January 2025 before there’s ‘only’ decoration left and I only write construction reports from time to time. Happy New Year to you all!
Construction report V from 04.01.2025
In the new year, @Bibl/Tim @Luthiena | Patricia @Michi @Cenk @Clemens my father and I met to finalise the last work in the ‘conversion’ area. Of course, we are now continuing with decoration, technology etc. The wall in the lounge is now painted white and has also received its skirting board. Here is a list of the work that was completed today:
Repair skirting boards
Fit skirting boards to wall and hallway
Sanding/sawing and painting the shelf for the alcove
Attach wall bumpers to the doors
Install lamp + light switch in the entrance area
Install speaker brackets in the sci-fi room
Continue work on the stone wall in the tavern
Install latch on the toilet
Lots of tidying and cleaning
The door to the tavern now also works – more or less. To close it properly, you simply have to pass a DC 10 Athletics test
Construction report VI from 10.01.2025
A lot of progress was made again last week. Most of the work was done by @Bibl/Tim @Luthiena | Patricia and myself.
Patricia in particular has worked a lot on the decoration in the fantasy room! The stone walls still need to be plastered and painted so that you don’t just have to imagine they are stones. We also continued to experiment with the wood panelling, but I’m not on the board for my intelligence so I forgot to take a photo =)
Work in the sci-fi room was mainly drawing things out and measuring. But today we tried to paste on the starry sky … that didn’t work. Next we prepared the ceiling with double-sided tape … that didn’t work.
So unfortunately we will have to build a frame. Of course, that will take a bit of time again, but it will work out. So if anyone has time next week – as always, we’d appreciate any help!
But we now have a skirting board made of warning tape so that nobody runs into the wall!
And of course lots of little things have happened. Our kitchen furniture has arrived (thanks Anna for picking it up!), we now have 10 wooden chairs that still need some love and affection, the light in the hallway now works as intended and we have a key safe that doesn’t require you to climb down a deep slope first. Absolutely unimaginable, but okay.
In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part… See…
Great A’Tuin the Turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters. Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination.
In a brain bigger than a city, with geological slowness, He thinks only of the Weight.
Most of the weight is of course accounted for by the four giant elephants upon whose broad and star-tanned shoulders the disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its vast circumference and domed by the baby-blue vault of Heaven.
The Colour of Magic
Welcome to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld RPG: Adventures in Ank-Morpork. The Modiphius system will be available on Kickstarter soon, but the quickstarter is already available!
We are playing the mystery intro adventure “Up in Smoke”. You embody up to 5 members of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard (pre-made characters) and have been sent out to investigate the raid on the Sunshine Home for Sick Dragons. For those in the know: We are playing around the time of Thud!.
The rules are very simple and focus heavily on role-playing. There is little fighting (and only with normal skill tests – there is no weapon damage or similar) and the focus is entirely on immersing yourself in the bizarre world of Terry Pratchett – but you don’t have to know it to have fun!
TLDR: 3-5 players, in German, pre-made characters, two different groups.
The game will take place on Tuesday 10 or Thursday 19 December from 18:00.
