The Games
Pheno 2005 is proud to offer the following games and events. These are divided into several categories:
Schedule
There will be nine (9) sessions for scheduled games across the weekend, as well as a banquet, special events, and all the fun of post-Con drinkies:
| Friday 10th | Saturday 11th | Sunday 12th | Monday 13th | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning: 9-12 am |
1 | 5 | 8 | |
| lunch | ||||
| Afternoon: 1-4 pm |
2 | 6 | 9 | |
| break | ||||
| Evening: 4.30 - 7.30 pm |
Registration from 6pm |
3 | 7 | Prizegiving |
| dinner | ||||
| Late: 8.30 - 11.30 pm |
Special events | 4 | Banquet | Post-Con drinkies |
NB: The Living D20 games have a slightly different schedule.
New Designers
Each year Pheno is proud to encourage games writers who are new to writing for Cons to have a go.
At the end of each game the players will be asked to vote for the new writer whose game was the best, and that writer will go on in the next year to write one of Pheno's prestige games: the Triptych!
New designers are marked with this symbol: 
Game ratings
Pheno uses a rating system for games to help you choose games, and to help you anticipate what the GM is looking for in a game.
Games are rated from 1 (little or none) to 5 (really important) on the following:
- Characterisation— portraying the characters... 1 (play the stats) to 5 (bring out the deep insights)
- Story/plot— telling a good story... 1 (A-Team) to 5 (Shakespeare)
- Genre— knowing the genre, staying in the genre... 1 (post-modernist parody) to 5 (Tolkienesque total immersion)
- Seriousness— romp (seriousness 1) to the big issues (seriousness 5)
- Rules knowledge— do players need to know the game system, or is this a good introduction to it?
- Adult content— violence, horror, naughty bits. This can also be rated like a film: G, PG, M, MA, R.
The Triptych
Each year, Pheno invites three respected designers to present a systemless single session game as part of a triptych. Each game showcases what we consider the best of Pheno roleplaying: characterisation, drama, entertainment, innovation. Each game will be judged separately, but teams competing in all three games will also be eligible for the Triptych Perpetual Trophy.
- The Mask and the Moonlight— Stuart Barrow
- Familiar (NB This is a Freeform) — Xole Karman
- Something Wonderful — Andrew Smith
Living D20
A smorgasbord of Living D20 games brought to you by The RPGA Asia Pacific Branch. D20 and Dungeons & Dragons v3.5.
Organiser – Wes Nicholson email admin <at> rpga.apac.com
Legacy of the Green Regent
- LGR19: A Difference of Opinion, by Greg Marks
- LGR20: The Howling of a Mighty Storm, by Greg Marks
Living Force
- LFA410: Lockdown on Soboll, by Rob Edwards
- LFA411: Uffels Prisoners, by Rob Edwards
Living Greyhawk
- PER5-02: Hell's Gloom , by Patrick Williamson
- PER5-03: Fear of the Heart , by Andrew Cowan
- PER5-04: A Pit Too Far, by Patrick Williamson
- IUZ5-02: Playing Both Sides, by Britt Frey (NB. replaces IUZ5-04 'Plane Thinking')
- An Ill Wind in Krestible, Living Greyhawk Interactive
Mark of Heroes
- EMH2: Pirates Bounty and the Isle of Fire , by Greg Marks
NB Living D20 games run on a slightly different schedule to other games.
Freeforms
Freeforms are big games for up to 50 (or rarely, and insanely, more...) players, whose characters are collected in some kind of social gathering in which they interact, intrigue and politic with each other.
- Eden's Daughters — by Ingrid Bean
- Of Cards & Convenience — by Renee & Fi
- Familiar— by Xole Karman (one of the triptychs)
- The Unicorn's Lance — by Fi McConachie
- Jerry Does Canberra! — by Andrew MacLennan
- Beaker: Sky Marshalls — the Freeform — by Robbie & Stephanie Matthews
- An Arthurian Idyll — by James Walker & Eric Henry
- Camarilla — Vampire: the Requiem — lead storyteller: Peter Wass
Team games
AKA tabletops, these are games for groups/teams of about 5 players with generally one GM.
- The Mask and the Moonlight— by Stuart Barrow (1-session systemless — one of the triptychs)
- Unravelled — by Ryan d'Argeavel (2-session systemless)
- Après Moi, L'Enfer — by Brett Evill (1 session FLAT BLACK / ForeSight)
- You Don't Have Clearance For This Game Title — by Hugh Fisher (1-session Paranoia)
- Use by date — by David James (1 session systemless)
- 28 minutes later... — by Andrew Mahoney (1 session new system)
- Viva Las Vegas! — by Joe McNamara (1 session Mage: the Ascension)
- Something Wonderful— by Andrew Smith (1 session systemless — one of the triptychs)
- Copy That! — by Peter & Janet Trueman, with David Gould (1 session Hero System)
Special events
These are special events that are not strictly roleplaying games, but are lots of fun nonetheless.
- Baron Munchausen — moderated by Liz Argall
- Diplomacy — organised by Bernard Philbrick
- Frag — organised by Paul May
- Mission Improv-able — organised by Liz Argall & Mike(y) McClure
- Second-hand store— organised by Wes Nicholson