So, early in the term I was getting a bit worried that the newsletters were seeming a little lacking in content and I was assured by wise, experienced exec members that A) that was normal and B) that it would very much change towards the end of the term. And hot damn were they right - buckle up for another hefty newsletter!
Also my Megagame dream wasn't particularly exciting unfortunately but it makes for a good hook as a title, so I'll take it.
❗ Announcements ❗
🌍 Megagame!!! This Week!!!
Thank you so much to everyone who's signed up so far! There are only 4 spaces left so get them while you can! Find the tickets for £3 (if you're a member), or £4 (if you're not) at our SU ticket sales page.
Once you've bought your ticket, please join our specific Discord server and get excited for totally normal non-alien happenings this Sunday in a Westwood near you [1]!
Speaking of Westwood, here is it's location on the interactive campus map, in case you're like me and have literally only ever visited once.
([1] I guess probably not that near some of you as I know some folks are travelling specifically for the game but you get the gist.)
🏳️🌈 Pride x Boardgames Collab
Come along and play some gaymes this week with Pride at board games - normal place, normal time! (Just a note that the poster says 7-10 but boardgames will be running the full 2-10pm as normal).
- 🗓️ Wednesday 15th June (that's Wednesday Week 8)
- 🕙 2-10pm
- 🗺️ B2.02
🧑🏫 Exec Meeting
We have an in-person exec meeting this week!
- 🗓️ Friday 17th June (this Friday)
- 🕙 1-2pm
- 🗺️ FAB1.05
Topics for discussion will include:
- Open Day Reminders
- Event Progress - MtG x DnD collab, Megagame, Tabletop Radio, Quiz, possible Extravaganza events
- Potential Summer Events
- Any other business!
‼️ No Room Bookings for RPGs this week
The uni is running open days over the next couple of weeks (specifically on Saturday 18th and 25th June) and have decided to book out most of everywhere so RPG Room bookings are somewhat of a mess and there are currently no rooms booked for these two Saturdays. Please contact Ben (Nasenbaer23#8574 on Discord) if you are meant to have a room and they will give you a different one.
🧠❓ The Quiz
- 🗓️ Friday 24th June, (that's Friday Week 9)
- 🕙 7-10pm
- 🗺️ OC0.04
- 💰 £1.50
For those inquizitive among you, I've @ed people far and wide to bring you this list of tantalising teasers for the 6 rounds (plus the bonus round!) of our upcoming quiz. (Though do note that these are subject to change - I guess you'll just have to come along to the quiz to find out if they do or not!)
- Something's Wrong with the Music Round
- RPG Abilities - Find the Fake!
- Board Game Release Dates
- Fantastic Curses and how to Dispel them
- Bonus round - What Happens Next?
♝✨ Tabletop Extravaganza
It's our all singing, all dancing [2] three day long gaming spectacular! Tabletop Extravaganza is like Board Games weekend except longer, not just for board games, and also notably not really during a weekend this year due to University open day timings! Basically join us for 36 solid hours of any sort of games you want - feel free to put events on the website for any larger games that you want to organise.
- Sunday 26th June - Tuesday 28th June**
- 🕙 10am - 10pm (including overnight!)
- 🗺️ B2.02 and B2.04/5
[2] I can't technically promise singing or dancing at the extrav... wait a sec, I'm pretty sure at every one I've been to before we've devolved into singing and/or dancing at some point, so actually maybe I can.
🧙🎲 DnD x MtG Collab
Just the highlights of the three upcoming MtG x DnD crossover events. Please talk to the CCGs or RPGs reps (Lap {TheRealLap#3793}, Ben {Nasenbaer23#8574}, Alonso {Alonyeyo#2887}, and Sophie {crowphie#9599} ) for more info.
Part 1 - INTRO TO MAGIC THE GATHERING
- 📅Thursday Week 9, June 23rd
- 🕘 15:00-17:00
- 🗺 B2.02
Sign up for an intro on how to gather magic here!
Part 2 - MAGICAL DnD ONESHOTS
- 📅Tuesday Week 10, June 28th (yes, that is the Tuesday of Tabletop Weekend)
- 🕘 12:30-17:00
- 🗺 Various rooms in the FAB
Sign up to participate in DnD oneshots here!
Part 3 - COMMANDER LEGENDS: BATTLE FOR BALDUR’S GATE
- 📅Wednesday Week 10, June 29th
- 🕘 12:30-17:00
- 🗺 B2.02
- 💰 £13
Sign up to Commander Legends here!
🏳️🌈📡 Reminder to sign up to Tabletop Radio!!
Due to the absolutely stacked nature of this week's newsletter I'm just going to repeat teasers for all the segments that still require sign ups. Please check out last week's newsletter if you want a taste of pretty much all the events that will be happening but for now go ahead and get involved in any of the things below!
📡🏳️🌈 THURSDAY, JUNE 30TH
Jackbox - There are 4 spaces left! If you're interested, sign up to the event, or shoot Scarlett (@ORCH1D) a message!
Hello reader, I wanna play a game. Which game? Unclear at this point in time, but what I do know is that it'll be from one of the Jackbox party packs! For those of you who don't know, Jackbox games are party games which are hosted on a machine and then people can use their mobile devices to join in. They can range from getting prompts to write jokes to drawing pictures on your tiny phone screen and having people try to guess what the hell you were drawing in the first place.
Tabletop Gameshow - Sign up to be part of the Wargames team (2 spaces left), or Sign up to be part of the Non-Wargames team (2 spaces left)
This year we will have our first ever “Tabletop Gameshow” live! This will feature two teams competing in a variety of challenges, with one team representing the Wargames faction of the society, trying assert dominance to further the Wargames Coup and the other team playing to prevent that. Ed is running this segment and there will be two teams of three players - here are the sign ups for each.
Overlight Oneshot - Sign up to the Overlight RPG here, there is 1 space left!
Hello there! It me. Anakin. This year for Tabletop Radio I've decided it definitely won't be a bad idea to run a livestreamed RPG. So I picked the gayest looking book off our society's shelves and will get to work on making a game to remember! I'm looking for up to four players with an intent to inflict their queerness on others unapologetically for Overlight, a game of Kaleidoscopic Fantasy.
Mao - Sign up to Mao, there are 3 spaces left!
Hey Tabletop, Lewis here! Do you like Uno, but find the rules a little... restrictive? Annoyed that you can't bend the rules when it would be just a touch inconvenient for the other players? Well, Mao might just be for you! In this year's Tabletop Radio, I'm running a 6-person game of Mao, a game where the rules are invented by the players, while they're playing!
📡🏳️🌈 FRIDAY, JULY 1ST
Chess 3000: The Next Generation Deluxe - Matthew is running this segment and is looking for 4 players - Sign up to Chess here, 3 spaces left!
Chess is, as we all know, a highly outdated game. And like all games, the best way to improve it is to add several more rules without thinking about it too hard. Throughout this year's tabletop radio stream, viewers will be able to donate in order to add new rules to the game, and then in this segment we will put those rules to the test.
MUSIC
There's no signups for this, but here's a little announcement about it: this year's music is going to feature multiple musicians (singers! a cellist! an actual drummer! whatever Finnbar ends up playing!) in a 1h30 segment at the end of Friday. We're even aiming to perform some of your requests together as a group - that's right, not just Finnbar fighting a kazoo like previous years. We will however need time to practice those group requests, so there will be a limited number of donation slots available before the stream for requests that you'd like multiple musicians on. You will still be able to donate for music during the stream, but it will likely just be a single musician and we can't guarantee that your request will be played during the stream (and will instead be during a bonus stream). Keep an eye on our Discord and future newsletters for when those donation slots go live!
❔ What's happening this week? ❔
- Monday 5-10pm: In Person Wargames - B2.01 and B2.02
- Tuesday 6-10pm: In Person Draft - B2.02 - Commander Legends - £13 - you must sign up here to take part
- Wednesday 2-10pm: In Person Board Games Collab with Pride - B2.02 and B2.04/5
- Thursday 5-10pm: In Person CCGs - B2.02
- Friday 1-2pm: In Person Exec Meeting - FAB1.05
- Sunday 9:30-5pm: Megagame - Westwood Teaching Centre, WT1.01, 03, 04-5, 06
- Please note that there is no LARP on Sunday this week, due to the Megagame
Remember, you can always find an up-to-date timetable of what's going on on our website's Schedule page, and you can see special events (including RPGs) and sign up to them via our Events page.
💭 What happened last week? 💭
Lots of highlights to treat you to this week!
Mick Returns!
There was a lot of news from my beloved Mick this week in Wargames and whilst I'm going to have to summarise it here a little (mostly because I don't know how to format that many pictures in the newsletter), I encourage you to check out the whole thrilling saga over in #highlights!
Just back after her two weeks annual leave Mick witnesses a Mawloc erupting from underground and, brave soul that she is, she charged in at the giant beast...
Only to fail to wound it and to get eaten alive!
Morvenn Vahl, Supreme Commander of the Sister of Battle, who just defeated a Tyranid Swarmlord is surrounded yet again by not one but two large monsters, One of which she swears she can hear Mick shouting from inside...
All 3 of the combatants are on just a singular wound and it was a tense fight but she was able to take out both of the creatures, subsequently freeing Mick from the insides of the Mawloc.. a victory for the Sisters of Battle![3]
[3] it was, in fact, a win by the Tyranids based on points, however it was deemed a tie due to only 1/2 Termagants remaining out of the entire Tyranid army 😂
Trouble at Beacon Academy
Oli's summer of RPGs seems to be going well and Ben had this to report after one of the sessions for the RWBY playtest:
"Today at Beacon Academy, a team of 6 students set out to go and retrieve artefacts, guarded by Grimm (evil monsters that are attracted by negative energy).
Two players roll stealth and sneak ahead of the party, watching for hostiles. Meanwhile, the cyborg, woman toting a minigun, mysterious individual who is definitely not part-Grimm and our former acrobat-turned-hunter, blatantly disregard the attempts to be stealthy and storm up on the area.
One of our scouts, frustrated, lets out a scream of "do you not UNDERSTAND [expletive deleted] CONCEALMENT???" which had two effects.
- Sheepish (in-character) apologies from the party
- A horde of Grimm, attracted by the rage of the unfortunate scout team, charge the party.
ROLL INITIATIVE!"
New Rorschach test just dropped
This Spirit Island board was cleared on turn 7 and much debate ensued about what its shape most reminded people of. I think it looks like an upside down video game controller but croissants, devils, and crabs were also proposed. What do you think?
Unfathomable chaos
Apparently this unfathomable chaos deck was very kind to those playing? I, myself have never played this game so its name is apt on many levels and I don't have much more to say.
I am concerned about the amount of explosions happening
For the third time in a row, one of Ben's RPGs ended in a massive explosion. At this point, I as a GM would either lean into this as a Branding Choice(TM) or I would start to change the laws of flammability and combustion in the universes I play in to try and stop the entire world eventually getting blown up.
Extra Bonus End Bit
It's Pride month so I have something a little different for you this week. Alas, one of the player characters was slain in combat to one of the terrifying enemies proposed over the last two roll tables. Now, between sessions, they have to devise a new character but have come to a bit of a stumbling block when trying to figure out how to describe their gender. There are infinite out there so it can certainly be a bit challenging to narrow it down - but don't worry, I've got you covered with this week's d10 table of genders!
- The childlike wonder of yeeting into a pile of colourful autumn leaves, the collision of life and death bringing joy
- The unsatisfying feeling when a yawn stops midway
- A pile of unfinished projects
- Whatever your gender is in real life, squared
- txt slang
- Rippling seafoam
- The distant twinkle of what is fairly probably a star
- A very large, slightly wonky strawberry
- Leaping off a swing at its zenith and hurtling towards destiny
- The recalcitrant sheep you try to herd in your dozing state in order to get to sleep
Wash your hands, stay safe, and come play some games with us 💛
Lils (they/he, Communications and Operations, probably crafting or climbing a tree)
@ArtemisForest#9741 on Discord
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