Pause Menu and Pride at Play proudly invite you to a social evening of tabletop roleplaying games. Each game will be facilitated, and players of all experiences are welcome to try!

Special guest facilitators include Logan Timmins, designer of LOGAN: An Autobiographical Tabletop Game, and Timothy Snowdon, designer of Pretzel After Dark.

The Australian Roleplay Community are represented on the night, with four expert community game masters in the line up. A little bird says one of the games is still in active development and they are looking for playtesters with an open mind!

Doors open at 6pm at Pause Menu, 74 Rose St, Fitzroy VIC 3065.

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The line-up:

Fumbling in the Dark (Call of Cthulhu)
The Joy of Extra-dimensional Spaces (Dungeons and Dragons 5e)
Forgotten Fate (Dungeon World, One-Shot World)
Triangulate / Small Orbit (Body Movement)
LOGAN: An Autobiographical Tabletop Game (Reflective journalling)
Legend of the Hidden Folk: The Lantern Wisps (Custom)
Decay/Bloom (Blue Rose)

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Details:

Fumbling in the Dark
Play as a curious participant in a 1920’s seance, when something goes ‘crrrrunch’. It is up to you and the others in the room to determine what this creature (?) is and how to stop it, before it gets to you. All the while, keeping to the darkness as best you can.

Presented by ARC.

Player Capacity: 4, can extend to 6.
System: Call of Cthulhu
System knowledge required: None. System will be taught during the session.
Rating: MA 15+. Gore, mental instability/mania, tension.
Seriousness: Moderate, leaning toward serious. (4/6)

The Joy of Extra-dimensional Spaces
Stuck in a Magnificent Mansion in a pocket dimension. Will your party be able to find a way out or succumb to all the strange happenings within these magical walls?

A fun little adventure for new or experienced D&D players.

Player Capacity: 4-6
System: Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition
System knowledge required: None. System will be taught during the session.

Forgotten Fate
Memoryless, your past is a puzzle, and your future a blank canvas. As you seek to discover what happened to you, will you embrace your old selves or forge a new destiny? A one-shot Dungeon World RPG with cooperative improvised world-building.

Player Capacity: up to 6
System: Dungeon World (One-Shot World)
System knowledge required: None. System will be taught during the session.

Small Orbits / Triangulate
small orbits leads two players through the relationship between body, movement and text.
Triangulate is a set of rules that describe a way of orienting and interacting with a group of people.

To play, everyone uses their own phone and gets their own set of rules that determine a position within the group. One player's rules might conflict — or outright contradict — those of another player, forming a complex web of bodies and connections.

Number of Players: 2
System: Custom, requires each player to have a smartphone
Dance knowledge required: None. Your movement is your dance.

LOGAN: An Autobiographical Tabletop Game
LOGAN is an autobiographical tabletop game. In it you play through events I, Logan, have lived through, and come out with a version of my life in your hands.

LOGAN is deeply personal and vulnerable.

LOGAN is a reflection on life, on its high and lows, its ebbs and flows.

LOGAN is an invitation to look at your own life and reflect on all you have been through.

LOGAN is a reminder to commend yourself for still being here.

LOGAN is a work of queer joy, trans pride, resilience, growth and love.

LOGAN is a love letter that I invite you to write to yourself.

Player Capacity: up to 6
System: Reflective, rules light, journaling
System knowledge required: None.

Legend of the Hidden Folk: The Lantern Wisps
Welcome to the world of the Hidden Folk. A world that reacts and changes to the power contained within human memories. A world that reacts and changes to your presence, for better or worse.

In a world populated by fae-like beings, each of you has promised to use your power to stop the spread of the Shadow Realm, a world of perpetual darkness between this world and home.

You will travel the world, using your memories to find solutions to problems that the Hidden Folk face in the aftermath of the destructive expansion of the Shadow Realm while thinking of potential long-term solutions to stopping the Shadow Realm from bleeding completely into the World of the Hidden Folk

The Lantern Wisps is both a one-shot and a play-test for 2-4 players.
System knowledge required: None.

Decay/Bloom
Rebuild devastated communities in the peaceful Kingdom of the Blue Rose after a sorcerous apocalypse. Rely on your bonds with your found family to fight the darkness within you.

Blue Rose is a romantic fantasy setting that set itself apart from other fantasy clones in 2005 for being queer-friendly and pacifist by default, instead of as an optional afterthought

DISASTER/PEACE is a fiction-first magical girl game where you must rely on teamwork to succeed against the darkness within you that's holding you back

Player Capacity: 2-5
Game: Blue Rose setting, DISASTER/PEACE (Forged in the Dark) system
System knowledge required: No roleplaying experience required

Pride at Play: General Admission

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