Our next Triptych champions?

Games

Pheno 2006 is proud to offer the following games and events. These are divided into several categories:

The Triptych
RPGA games
Freeforms
Team (tabletop) games
Miniatures
Special events

The schedule

Go to General, RPGA and miniatures schedules...

New Designers

Each year Pheno is proud to encourage games writers who are new to writing for Cons to have a go.

We normally hold a competition for 'Best New Designer' but as we only have one new writer this year the result is a bit foregone. New designers are marked with the mysterious New Designer Star:

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 numbers) 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 (5), or is this a good introduction to it (0 or 1)?
Advisory rating — 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.

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RPGA games

A smorgasbord of RPGA games brought to you by The RPGA Asia Pacific Branch. D20 and Dungeons & Dragons v3.5.

Organiser — David Adams, email u2552331 <at> anu.edu.au

Living Greyhawk

RTK7-I02 Dirty Business — 1-session Greyhawk interactive for 24 characters of levels 1-11 (APL2-10)
RTK7-03 Strange Days in the Timberway — a 1-session game for characters of APL2-8
RTK7-04 Open Waters — a 1-session game for characters of APL2-12
COR7-07 Storm Harvest — a 2-session game for characters of APL6-16
COR7-08 Sins of the Father — a 1-session game for characters of APL2-8
NMR7-03 Draconic Dreams — a 1-session game for characters of APL6-14
NMR7-04 Signs and Portents — a 1-session game for characters of APL4-14
Game cancelled - Morph apologises for any inconvenience

Living Kingdoms of Kalamar

War... — 1-session Living Kingdoms of Kalamar adventure for ATLs 1-9.
...and Peace — 1-session Living Kingdoms of Kalamar adventure for ATLs 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9..

LG Introductory adventures

We will have a selection of introductory adventures for people who've never played Living Greyhawk before, or who want to start a new character. As the "mix" of these adventures changes on a regular basis, we don't know right now which adventures we'll have available.

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Freeforms

Freeforms are big games for 15–30 players (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.

12/1 — by Random (1 session, 12 players)
Dread Legacy — by Tim Smith & Robert Barbetti (1 session, 25 players)
The Heron's Reason — by Stacey Payne (1 session, 15-20 players)
The Iceberg Lounge — by Eric Henry (1 session, 25 players)
Game cancelled - Morph apologises for any inconvenience
Journey to a New World — by Renee & Fi (2 sessions, 16 players [4 teams of 4] )
Olympus 2020 — by Xole Karman (1 session, 20 players)
Pack — by Stuart Barrow (1 session, 20 players)

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Team (tabletop) games

Team games (or tabletops) are the traditional form of roleplaying, for groups/teams of about 5 players with generally one GM. There will be character sheets; there may be dice.

Curse of the Obsidian Wolf — by Marissa Harris (1 session GURPS: Cthulhupunk, 5 players)
Curse of the Unnamed Ninjas — by Andrew McLennan (1 session systemless, 4-5 players)
Diamonds and Guns — by Joe McNamara (1 session Mage:The Ascension, 5 players)
A Medieval Fairy Tale — by Pointless Mental Cruelty (1 session systemless/D&D 3rd ed, 4-6 players)
Game cancelled - Morph apologises for any inconvenience
A Planet of No Importance — by Brett Evill (1 session GURPS 4th ed, 5 players)
Game cancelled - Morph apologises for any inconvenience
Project Starswarm — by Peter Trueman (1 session GURPS Transhuman Space, 5 players)
'Til Human Voices Wake Us — by Andrew Smith (1 session Call of Cthulhu or D20 Cthulhu, 5 players)
Union Blues — by Mik Bonsall (1 session Weird West, 4 players)