Wellington Anniversary Weekend January 17th - 18th 2026

HardTime - Two for the price of one

Facilitator: 
Colin Phillips

Using the recently released Hard Time - the Hollywood Heist roleplaying game

You have all been invited to Los Angeles to meet a Fence, ‘Biggie’ Appleby, who is setting up a crew of hard hitters to rob an armoured car. The take will be 5 million dollars plus. It's a big take, with a big risk, but Biggie thinks you got what it takes.

You and the crew will have to work to a tight schedule and take some risks but the rewards will definitely be worth it.

System: 
Hard Time

Arcane Crimes Division: Triptych of Blood

Facilitator: 
Alasdair

Arcane Crimes Division brings light-hearted buddy-cop style action to a fantasy city bursting with magic and thick with scheming villains and ruthless scoundrels. The focus of the game is the relationship between detectives, as they crack cases, engage in thrilling chases, and confront criminal masterminds.

During each shift, teams of detectives battle the clock, pursuing leads across the city to unravel crimes, and bring the guilty to justice, before it’s too late. While the detectives always crack the case eventually, should time run out, the villains receive an advantage in the final confrontation. At every juncture, detectives must decide whether to trigger their special abilities to boost their success, potentially risk causing collateral damage, that could see them both consigned to paperwork hell.

Play as a Siege Automaton, powered by magic and steam; a Spell-Runner, skilled at navigating deadly dungeons, a Crimson Court Vampire, ageless and unnaturally attractive; a Blade, acrobatic and fearless and many more. This game works best when detectives riff off their partners, so be prepared to collaborate and lean-into the genre.

Triptych of Blood
The recent death of the city matriarch has created the sale of the century. As the last member of her family, she leaves behind no heir, meaning her impressive collection of jewellery and art will be sold at auction. Treasures mundane and magical will see the light of day for the first time in centuries. What wonders and horrors stand to be unveiled has gripped the imagination of a whole city.

Security is a paramount concern. The auctioneers have spared no expense in hiring the best private guards and thief catchers that money can buy, and the polarity police department chief has personally guaranteed that the only action or excitement will be frenzied bidding. Criminals- you have been warned.

System: 
Arcane Crimes Division

One Hell of a Party

Facilitator: 
Dave Cadman

There’s a house party by the lake and everyone who’s anyone is there. Sure, you don’t remember how you got there and if you really know any of the guests, but who cares when there are bangin’ tunes, an assortment of highs, and so many strange and beautiful people to explore.

One Hell of a Party is a (highly modified) Monsterhearts adventure where the characters are hormonal teenagers who may or may not also be monsters. Confront the supernatural, solve a mystery, or just go on an epic bender! But be careful, one wrong move and you could be slain, or even worse, embarrassed in front of your peers!

Due to its adult themes, this is an R18 adventure. Respectful play will be required and an ‘X card’ and ‘lines and veils‘ will be used throughout.

System: 
Monsterhearts (modified)

Pulp Cthulhu

Facilitator: 
Tigger

Calling All Heroes! It’s Time To Take The Fight to Cthulhu!
Pulp Cthulhu is a game of two-fisted adventure, weird science, dark deeds, and brave heroes.
Tired of your investigators dying in quick succession when jaunting around the world in a desperate bid to save humanity? Wishing that sometimes your investigator could make a stand instead of hiding and waiting for the eldritch horror to pass? Pulp Cthulhu ups the ante and provides you with tougher, more capable heroes, ready to take on he villainous machinations of the Cthulhu Mythos!

Kingsport, June, 1933. The heroes are contacted by Old Cobb, a fisherman who claims to have found a waterlogged diary on a boat adrift at sea. The diary is from Howard Winchester, a well-known explorer and friend of the heroes, and describes the discovery of a mysterious island connected to a pirate known as John “Black Teeth” Keetes and a cache of South American gold. The last entry hints that Howard may be trapped on the island. Off to rescue their friend and find the pirate treasure, the heroes discover strange statues, crazed survivors, and a pirate cove that holds the real secret behind the island, and why it should never have been found in the first place…

Set in the 1920s, Think 1999s The Mummy for tone and content.

System: 
Chaosium Pulp Cthulhu

Call Of Cthulhu

Facilitator: 
Tigger

Call of Cthulhu is Chaosium's classic roleplaying game of Lovecraftian horror in which ordinary people are confronted by the terrifying and alien forces of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Just regular people. In way over their heads.
Will you stand against the horrors of the night?

Survive one night outside of Arkham.
The storm had been brewing for days and now it hits! Combined with restless, idle youth and the desire for easy money, something has been released out there amid the darkness, the howling wind and lashing rain. the unwitting investigators are caught up in a spiral of terror where only their quick thinking, and courage, will see them through till the clouds clear and a new dawn beckons.

Genre knowledge is preferred as this is a horror game and may not be suitable for some players.

System: 
Chaosium CoC 7th Edition

Great Fantasy Bake Off

Facilitator: 
Jackie Brasfield & Jamie Sands

Ladies, gentlemen, gentlethem, and assorted magical creatures, welcome to the Great Fantasy Bake Off quarter finals! In this week's legendary challenge, our 6 remaining bakers shall venture forth into the mystical realm of Cake Week, where towering confections rise like the spires of Candlekeep and ganache flows like the mighty Dessarin river. As they conjure sweet spells and whip up buttercreamy enchantments, they'll face three legendary trials: the Signature Cake Quest, the Technical Battle of Bakes, and the Showstopper Siege of Sponge!

Who shall rise as the ultimate pastry paladin? Join judges Paul Waterdeep and Grue Leith as we whisk away our intrepid contestants to a land where baking and magic intertwine!

System: 
Homebrew

Noirlandia: Rossumĕsto

Facilitator: 
Ciarán Searle

The birthplace of Silicate Intelligence is in chaos. On the eve of their announcement to run for mayor, Karel Stork, a champion of both human and digital-sapience rights, has gone missing. As the grim search for Stork begins, the city erupts into riots.

Noirlandia is a character-driven system about uncovering a mystery, and the sacrifices you are willing to make to uncover the truth.

System: 
Noirlandia

An Urgent Request

Facilitator: 
Paul Wilson

An Urgent Request is an adventure based on the Avatar Legends RPG - Young martial arts heros out to change the world

A royal wedding, a symposium and intrigue are all in play as the sister of the Fire Lord plans a major symposium highlighting the ideals of the air nomads in advance of her wedding but there is a plot to discredit the speakers and cause a ruckus.

It's up to the Heroes to save the symposium! Set in the Roku Era, this adventure is an action-packed race across the Fire Nation Capital, with PCs sent by Air Nomads to save the speakers before the worst can happen

System: 
Avatar Legacy

William Shakespeare's: Assemble, Ye Avengers

Facilitator: 
Ruth Harper

This is not a game ... it is a play reading from Ian Doescher's book William Shakespeare's Avengers The Complete Works.

What if the most epic cinematic fantasy of all time had been penned by the greatest playwright of all time? Wonder no more! In William Shakespeare's Avengers, the best selling author of the William Shakespeare's Star Wars series has reimagined the Avengers films as plays penned by the bard himself.

Each reader will have a small number of characters and a script in glorious iambic pentameter to read from. If you want a break from role-playing and enjoy reading aloud this is the session for you!

System: 
Shakespearian English

Monster of the week - Aro Valley Mysteries

Facilitator: 
Paul Wilson

Something stirs deep in Aro Valley, down one of those streets you walked past a hundred times.
People have started going missing and it is up to you to find out what is happening.

You always thought that guy at the video place looked a little too pale, that old lady with too many dogs, the guy who owns a fancy car but lives in that dilapidated house on the corner or was it the guys at the brewery looking for a special ingredient.

This is a Monster Hunting game set just a stone's throw away and right around now.

Are you brave enough to see what lurks in the shadows of the darkest parts of the valley

System: 
Monster of the Week
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