RPGs
If you’d like to GM, please read the GM section below and fill in the RPG GM Form at the bottom of the page.
GMs
As a thank you for running games at AireCon GMs will receive the following rewards depending on the number of games they run, with each game lasting at least 3 hours;
1 game (min. 3 hours) - Free one day ticket to AireCon
2 games (min. 6 hours) - Two Free one day tickets to AireCon
3 games (min 9 hours) - Free three day ticket to AireCon
4 games (min 12 hours) - Free three day ticket and one food voucher
5 games (min 15 hours) - Free three day ticket and three food vouchers
Please be aware of the content of your games, if you think there is anything that may cause upset or distress make sure to inform the players beforehand, and use any safety measures where appropriate.
Tags
When submitting roleplaying games for AireCon, please use our simple ‘tag’ system, to help describe themes and content.
AireCon uses ‘tags’ as an extra shorthand to help inform players when they are selecting roleplaying games to play. We want our convention to be supportive and inclusive. To help with this, ‘tags’, signal the type of game the GM intends to run. This will particularly help some people in making a decision whether to play in the game. Of course, not every game suits everyone.
When submitting an RPG for AireCon you must include any of the mandatory tags that apply to your game.
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The game will involve active attempts to kill or remove other characters (Player Versus Player).
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Some player characters may have mutually exclusive or conflicting objectives but overt PVP not intended
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Some player characters may have motivations the others do not know about or the plot of the scenario may not be what it seems
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A darker 18 certificate game. Sex, excessive violence, drug use, dark themes that may cause offence or discomfort etc.
*Whilst RPGs commonly have violence; shootings, hand to hand melee combat. This tag is thinking of excessive, graphic, visceral violence that may lead to people feeling distinctly uncomfortable, not your usual dungeon-bash, or shoot out.
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This is a GMless, facilitated, improvisational game, which is player-led.
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A game that is prepared for complete beginners, without much prior experience with RPGs. No game lore required.
Using other Tags.
Optionally, you may wish to include other tags that indicate genre or style elements you wish to emphasise from the game description. The following (big!) list of tags are suggestions. You might want to use some of these, or use them as inspiration for your own tags. Just to be clear though, we don’t expect or require you to use these.
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Comedy
Contemporary
Crime
Espionage
Fantasy (Arthurian / Dark / Dungeon Crawl / Gritty / High / Urban)
GM-less*
Horror (Lovecraftian / personal / visceral)
Investigation
Medieval
Mystery
Pirates
SF (Cyberpunk / Hard / Post Apocalyptic / Posthuman / Space Opera)
Steampunk
Superhero
Teenagers
Victorian
Western*This differs from Player-led. A game can be player-led (for example, the improvisational style used for Dungeon World and others in the Apocalypse World family) but have a GM. GM-less games will usually have someone who knows the rules but may well be playing as a character in the game (for example, Kingdom, Microscope).
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Alien
Demonstration
Heroic
Humour
Intrigue
Introduction
Minis
Military
Narrative
Nazi
No Pregens*
Organised Play
Playtest
Politics
Rules-heavy
Rules-lite
Secrets - Closed
Secrets - Open
Storygame
War*It’s assumed that most games will have pre-generated characters
Safety Tools
As this is a public convention event, we expect all GMs to use ‘safety tools’ to help ensure that our players can enjoy roleplaying games in a safe environment. As a minimum, please use ‘Open Door’, ‘Breaks’, and the ‘X-Card’. Depending on your scenario’s content, a quick ‘Lines and Veils’ can be very helpful. Guidance on the toolkit can be found here.
If you have questions on any aspect of running RPGs at AireCon, please contact us.