Horror TTRPG Night: Mothership

From now until Halloween, come to Pandemonium for the next several weekends to learn (and play) a selection of horror tabletop roleplaying games! Horror, as a genre, is broadly defined, and our selection reflects that. Even still, owing to the content that may be covered in these adventures, these sessions will be for adults 18+ in age.

How this will work:

The schedule of ttRPGs is below:

• Saturday, 09/21: Shadowdark

• Saturday, 10/05: Mothership

• Saturday, 10/19: Trophy Dark

• Friday, 10/25: Ten Candles

This ticket only guarantees entry to the specific date you have bought it for. If you would like to buy tickets for the other events, you will have buy them seperately. Note that with the exception of Ten Candles, every game will run from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. (in the back event room – past the ttRPG books).

What You Can Expect

To paraphrase a recent Quinns Quest episode, horror ttRPGs ask players to do two contradictory things: 1) play your character as if you want them to survive, and 2) create a thrilling story where your character may not live. 

Each of these games will be run as one-shots where the above will be true. In addition, these games tend to be rules-lite and require more active participation from the players to help the GM craft the story. This means that if you’re more comfortable with dark-fantasy, mechanically-driven games, Shadowdark and Mothership may be best for you; if you don’t mind free-form, tragic horror, stick around for Trophy Dark and Ten Candles.

Finally, because these are horror games, we will make use of ttRPG safety tools at the table (especially Lines & Veils and the X-Card). To read an excellent write-up of what these tools are (and why they’re used), follow this link to Mike “The Lazy DM” Shea’s article here.

Resources about the upcoming game (a Google Doc) can be found by clicking at the link here.

RULES FOR ATTENDING: 

• Proof of COVID vaccination is required at EVERY EVENT. Either the presentation of the physical card or a clear picture will suffice. Pandemonium does not keep any records, written or otherwise, of vaccination status.
• Advance online registration is required.
• Anyone not registered in an ongoing event will not be allowed in the event space to maintain capacity limits.
• No food will be allowed in our event space for the time being. Drinking is allowed.