Role-Playing Games Demo Scenarios

Over the years, I've run quite a few RPG demo scenarios at conventions, and accumulated notes and PC character sheets for many of them. Some have ended up being converted for publication, but some weren't really suited for that purpose. So I've finally got my finger out and decided to put them online in PDF format.

I should emphasise that these aren't publication-quality material; they're the sort of notes I make when designing something to run for myself, plus character sheets and sometimes additional character notes for the pregen player characters. And while I'm often anal-retentive enough to make the notes stupidly detailed and somewhat tidily formatted, I can't guarantee that other people will be able to run games from these without some preparation and ability to improvise. However, anyone who can accept these limitations is more than welcome to give them a go. In all cases, of course, the game systems and settings I'm using are copyright their original creators or publishers, as appropriate.

The Discworld Roleplaying Game

• Academic Exorcise, in which the staff of a new college of magic have to sort out the facilities.
• After the Alchemist's Accident, in which the assorted former domestic staff of a research alchemist (all of them nonhuman) have to deal with the problems arising after he blows himself up.
• Five Gods Go To the Seaside, a scenario which demonstrates that it is possible to play small gods characters.
• Mrs Nomed's Respectable Lodging House, in which the denizens of a lodging house in Ankh-Morpork have a very odd day. (The notes for this one are especially skimpy. Be prepared to improvise a lot.)
• Negotiating the Dungeon, a story of high finance and dungeons deep.
• A short scenario, probably taking about an hour to run (maybe more, especially if you're new to the system), concerning hiking in the hills.
• A Quiet Evening in the Green Pig, a one-hour introductory scenario in which the staff of a pub in Pseudopolis have supernatural problems with a customer.
• The Skund Enigma, in which agents of Sto Lat determine the truth about the government of Skund.
• Steam Lords of the Ramtops, a Steampunk crossover set in the steam-powered future of the Disc.
• Stray God Strut, in which a team from the Temple of the Small Gods have to resolve a theological issue. And fight things.
• vs. Pirates, wherein stealthy black-clad agents of the Agatean Empire go on a cruise.
• Scenarios featuring Trading Gate Watch House Patrol Number 1, a bunch of slightly-above-average watchmen in Ankh-Morpork:
• The PC character sheets.
• Dragon Fanciers of Quirm, apparently a small matter of pet theft.
• Undiplomatic Incident, in which the mystery involves foreign dignitaries.
• A Short Scenario using these characters, originally intended to take about an hour to run, but two hours might be nearer the mark.

Other GURPS Settings and Genres

• The Broken Clockwork World, a setting combining offbeat steampunk with portal fantasy.
• The House of Broken Clockwork, an introductory mystery scenario.
• Steampunk
• The Day of the Clockwork Peelers, a gritty tale of resistance to strange oppression.
• The Inheritance of Doctor Spallanzani, a steampunk/Action scenario in which agents of the crown must deal with assorted threats to the realm.
• The Passage of the Altairean Rose, a mystery in a steampunk space opera universe with airships.
• Thaumatology: Age of Gold, a high-magic version of the pulp 1930s.
• Doc Mudra vs. the Aztec Horror, sinister goings-on down Mexico way.
• Transhuman Space, the partly-posthuman world of 2100.
• Sulawesi Landslip, a mission for a Wings of the Rising Sun team.
• Wrapped in Cellophane, a tale of bad decisions and fractured identities.

Other Games Systems

Everway

• To the Garden of Monsters, in which the heroes assist a palace under supernatural siege.
• When the Lizards Came to the Sun Province, in which the heroes are called upon to investigate a mysterious threat to the great realm of Roundwander itself.

HARP Steampunk

• The Case of the Kidnapped Sergeant, a demonstration of my upcoming supplement converting the HARP system for a variant genre.

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