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In “Electric Dreams” – the year is 2037. Last year, the Wallace Corporation launched its new Nexus 9 models. Which has led to a change in people’s everyday lives that would be hard to imagine today without!

Welcome to Los Angeles, the city where it rains seemingly non-stop, its skyline a jagged landscape of neon-lit megacorporations and decaying skyscrapers. Rain-soaked streets are clogged with flickering holograms, flying vehicles buzz through the air and masses of weary creatures – both human and replicant – struggle through their daily lives.

Smog clings to everything and the air is thick with the stench of industry, but also of human despair. In the shadows, powerful corporations pull the strings while blade runners hunt for renegade replicants. In this city, survival is the only law and justice is as fleeting as a dying light.

Blade Runner – dark cyberpunk setting with a detective character in futuristic Los Angeles. Blade Runner offers a dark, eerie setting, steeped in the gloomy atmosphere of the films and the literary source material. The game mechanics use an adapted version of the Year Zero engine.

Trigger warning: The Blade Runner series deals with dark and existential themes, and this role-playing game is no exception. The stories told in this game can be violent, disturbing and raise questions about personal morality. This is not a game for children.

Registration: Are you interested? Then go directly to our Discord server and register for the events there and check out the corresponding “System of the Month” post.

You can find all further information there and if you have any questions, they will be answered there.

Dates – Note, both events will be played in English!

• 02.05.25 – “Electric Dreams” – Time: 18:00 to 23:00
• 09.05.25 – “Electric Dreams” – Time: 18:00 to 23:00

We are in the Regency era in our good old world, in England, but not quite as we know it from the history books or from Jane Austen.

On a balmy late fall day, just before the good society is about to leave their country estates to spend the ball season in London, the Marchioness of Ripon, Phyllis Barrington, has invited everyone of distinction in the region to an enjoyable evening of music.

But the evening turns out differently than expected, the players are faced with a variety of challenges and everything is demanded of them.

Will the characters manage to survive the evening without losing their reputation, their sanity or even their lives?

And achieve at least one of several goals in the process?

We shall see! In any case, I’m looking forward to seeing YOU. Mesdames, Messieurs, yours sincerely, your host Andrea (he/him).

The session will be played in German

Trigger warning – The game will be played without a net and safety line. Retreat is offered if it gets too much for someone.

System: W10+ goes Ghastly Liaisons or Bridgerton meets de Sade and Bram Stoker. A system developed over 40 years, without levels but skill-based, in which relationships are everything.

Date: 22.03.2025 – Time: 14:00 to 17:00

In dark forests, beyond the mountains, by black lakes in hidden groves. At your doorstep. In the shadows, something stirs. Strange beings. Twisted creatures, lurking at the edge of vision. Watching. Waiting. Unseen by most, but not by you. You see them for what they really are. Vaesen.

Welcome to the Mythic North – northern Europe of the nineteenth century, but not as we know it today. A land where the myths are real. A cold reach covered by vast forests, its few cities lonely beacons of industry and enlightenment – a new civilization dawning. But in the countryside, the old ways still hold sway. There, people know what lurks in the dark. They know to fear it.

Vaesen – A Chilling Horror Role-Playing Game with a Detective Twist in the Mythic North by Nils Hintze. Vaesen offers a dark and eerie setting steeped in Nordic folklore and the ancient myths of Scandinavia. The game mechanics use a customized version of the Year Zero Engine.

Trigger Warning – This role-playing game may include the following themes: murder, cruelty towards animals and humans of all ages, death, loss, mental suffering, occultism, and religious conflicts. As the setting takes place in the 19th century, social norms are also different, which involves topics such as discrimination, social inequality, exclusion, and prejudice. Child death will come up in ‘The Devil on the Moor’.

1st Adventure: The Dance of Dreams
A letter reaches the members of te newly reformed Society at castle Gyllencreutz. It contains a advertisement and a note. It advertises a shadow play, ‘The Dance of Dreams’, performed at the Witch Cat inn. The note asks the Society to meet with a K. Olaus there.

2nd Adventure: The Devil on the Moor
Grimsted Lyng is a largely untouched moor between Denmark and Germany. Only a few farmers inhabit the area. The Danish Society for Moorland Reclamation wants to restore fertility to the barren moors through artificial fertilizer, tree planting, and drainage canals. But strange things start to happen and the Society is asked for help.

The following sessions happen in English
Saturday, 08.02.2024 14:00-20:00 – The Dance of Dreams
Saturday, 22.02.2024 14:00-20:00 – The Devil on the Moor

Registration

• 8.2. – The Dance of Dreams: full
• 22.2. – The Devil on the Moor: full

Imageheader from the Free League Website.

Put away your knitting and close up the gardening shed, because the sheriff of Brindlewood Bay has just approached you with news of another mysterious death in Brindlewood Bay! And who better to solve this week’s mystery than you, dear Murder Maven, and your fellow krimi bookclub members? Investigate and meddle to your hearts’ content, but be wary of the dark and the secrets it holds.

Brindlewood Bay is a PBtA cozy crime drama inspired by TV shows such as Murder, She Wrote, with cosmic horror undertones. Play is both narrative and collaborative. The solution to the mystery is not set in advance, but discovered together through clue gathering and the success (or failure) of your theories!

The following sessions will be held in English
Saturday, 04.01.2024 14:00-18:00 – Dad Overboard (fully booked)
Saturday, 18.01.2024 14:00-18:00 – Knit One, Kill One (fully booked)

Register

The event is fully booked.

Picture credits: Illustration from the role-playing game Brindlewood Bay.

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!.

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.

Registration soon via SwissRPG MeetUp.