RPGs & Social Deduction
Role-playing games (RPGs) are collaborative storytelling games where players portray characters, make choices, and shape a shared story guided by a Game Master. While Social Deduction games are where players attempt to uncover each other’s hidden role or allegiance.
At DagdaCon, we’ll run a wide range of RPGs across the weekend. Below are the current game blurbs. This page is updated as new games are accepted; a full schedule will be published closer to the event.
The Fane of Corruption
Exterminate the vermin cult!
System: Shadowdark
GM: Ben Doherty
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 5
High in the mountains, an abandoned temple to Saint Terragnis has been infested by a cult of twisted rat-men intent on spreading disease and destruction. A rag-tag group of adventurers have banded together to brave the darkness of this defiled sanctum. Their reasons for undertaking this foolhardy endeavour are each their own. The Shadowdark cares not why they have wandered into its hungry maw, only how they will sate its appetite with the snuffing of their now-short lives…
Wizard of Arms & Armour
Mice and magic!
System: Mausritter
GM: Ben Doherty
Age Restriction: Family Friendly (Ages 8+)
Player Count: 5
Take up the sword and don the whiskers of a brave mouse adventurer in Mausritter, a rules-light fantasy adventure roleplaying game! From within a towering suit of armour, the Wizard reigns, with warrior roaches and the great Muted Bat under his thrall. His magic is wild and powerful. His failed spells have set books alight and cracked glass cases. He is cold and cruel and secretive, but mice journey from afar to buy his spells or to seek knowledge. These days the light from his workshop in the Helm is gleaming late into the night in green and ruby and gold, and the library mice are growing fearful. And so, they have turned to a band of heroes to knock the Wizard from his lofty perch and end his reign of arcane terror for good and for all
Clonmel of Cthulu
In this old foggy town, will you face the supernatural and uncover the truth?
System: Call of Cthulu (with streamlined rules for short form sessions)
GM: Aaron - @aaronsquid
Age Restriction: General Audience (Ages 10+)
Player Count: 2-6
In the town of Clonmel in Co.Tipperary, a series of supernatural occurrences and sightings have been reported recently. Fairies spotted partying in the woods at night, Banshees wailing near the River Suir and even a headless man on horseback galloping through the streets!
In Clonmel of Cthulu, players take the role of a group of inexperienced investigators of a Paranormal Detective Agency known as T.A.I.B.H.S.E. (Tactical Anomaly Investigation Bureau & Haunted Site Examiners).
The goal of T.A.I.B.H.S.E. is to examine these sightings, exploring the “paranormal hotspots” of Clonmel, and find a way to put an end to them (or perhaps prove that these sightings aren’t what they seem).
The Alalakh Expedition
Explorers uncover mysteries in the caverns of a forbidden moon.
System: Coriolis: The Great Dark
GM: Ray O'Mahony
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
Landing on Alalakh is forbidden. Every crew knows that. The Blight has seeped into every living thing on the moon, altering and corrupting the environment. Creeping vines seek the unwary and misshapen creatures stir in the depths. Past expeditions have met with unforeseeable dangers and grisly fates.
It's also known the flora developed hallucinogenic qualities easily exploited for valuable drugs. To some enterprising or desperate individuals this highly profitable venture is worth the risk, but it's not a place for a respectable crew of Delvers to go. Which is why it's so unsettling The Explorers Guild are sending you there.
Murder On The Dancefloor - A Vampire the Masquerade Game
Failure means war, push back against the darkness!
System: Vampire The Masquerade 2nd Edition
GM: Padraig D
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
The Vampire Prince needs you to investigate is a nightclub full of dead Vampires and avert a war with the werewolves.
Innocence Lost
When you leave Fariyland, what do you leave behind?
System: Changeling the Lost (heavily modified)
GM: Andrew Coffey (he/him)
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 5
Dooradoyle woods are closer than the dogpark, cheaper than the cinema, and the reason for centuries of psychological torture.
Five cousins went missing there. Lost to the fae and lost in time.
Twisted into the monsters of fairy woods and set by the fairy queen as her defenders enacting her cruel whim against the “heroes of the realm”. Bodies broken and with a rare clear moment, they have realised there is a way home. Through the hedge of thorns between this world and home, they will cut their flesh and bend their minds but there will be a cost.
Blood on the clocktower: Trouble Brewing
A hidden demon stalks among you, aided by mortal minions.
System: Blood on the Clocktower (Social Deduction Game)
GM: Padraic
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 7-20
In the tiny town of Ravenswood Bluff, everyone awakens to a scream in the night, and rushes outside to find the town's storyteller impaled on the hour hand of the ancient clocktower. They know only a demon could be responsible, and that this demon must take human form by day to hide. It will kill again, unless the town comes together to find and execute it; but how many innocent townsfolk will die along the way, by the demon's hands, or as victims of the town's paranoia?
7 to 20 players. Social deduction, lying and bluffing and figuring out clues. Beginner friendly.
Unnamed Monsters and Childish Things Game Series Episode IV: the search for Episode III
You are children with missing monster best friends; find them
System: Monsters and other Childish Things
GM: Jamie Bowden
Age Restriction: General Audience (Ages 10+)
Player Count: 3-5
You’re a team of elite kids (aka orphans with free time) with monster best friends who have saved the world twice from the forces of Tiamat, and the Brinch (Legally Distinct), but right now you've woken up and have found that your beloved monsters gone. You vaguely remember returning a chocolate milk cow and a Dr. Hyenastein, but the only clue you have is a note saying "I've stolen your 3rd adventure, mahahahaha!"
You’re a band of monsters with human best friends who have faced down the (false) queen of monsters and several nutters to save humanity (because grown-ups can’t save themselves); but now you’re in a cage, and you need to be saved
A story of friendship, monsters, and saving the cholocate milk cow.
Lá Breithe Dona Duit
Úsáid do cúpla focail i eachtra deas simplí!
System: D&D 2024 - as Gaeilge
GM: Amélie
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 6
Ní bhfuair Traz bocht na bronntanais a bhí sé ag iarraidh dá bhreithlá! An mbeidh sibh in ann iad a aimsiú sula dtosaíonn an chóisir?
Adventure as Gaeilge! Special character sheets, flashcards and props will be used to facilitate comprehension, so don't be afraid to join in even if you don't have the vocab (yet!).
Unlikely Allies - A Fallout game using a diceless story driven system
Unlikely Allies - A Fallout Story
System: Primetime Adventures system
GM: Padraig D
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
What makes a prospector ghoul, a secretive supermutant, a shady Vaultie and a shamed Brotherhood of Steel work together? Come find out
Hope's Last Day
I Can't Lie To You About Your Chances, But...You Have My Sympathies.
System: Alien RPG (Evolved Edition)
GM: Aerandir
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 5
24 hours ago, you headed out of Hadley’s Hope on a routine survey run, only to find yourself stuck 10 km out. A day has now passed, and no one is coming to help. The only communications you pick up on are garbled. Your food and water are running out. There’s no option but to walk back, and see what the hell is going on...
From the Silence
The Circle of the Restless a sabotaged premiere & a murdered critic
System: Candela Obscura
GM: Amélie
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 6
Candela Obscura is a D6-based system focused on cooperative storytelling, set in a world at the start of the 20th century, mere years after the end of a terrible war. Newfaire is in the middle of an economic and technological boom, but, unknown to most, supernatural phenomena plague the city. Tonight is no exception, as the Circle of the Restless is sent to investigate the mysterious death of a movie critic, right after an interrupted premiere.
This game will be suitable for beginners, pregens and anything needed will be provided. It will contain some body horror and unsettling elements, but safety tools (including a lines & veils form) will be used.
Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone
An ancient rabbit saves your friend and now you have to save the world - simple!
System: Old Gods of Appalachia (Cypher System)
GM: Drew
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 6
1900 Appalachia, USA
One glorious summer as a child, you watched one of your best friends die. Before you understood what happened, a being you thought only existed in the old tales approached. He promised to bring your friend back, but only if you promised to return the favour.
Now 20 years later, your owe has come due and you and your friends must battle against the dark elements in our own world to find a powerful witch before a dark, ancient being awakens. As boring 'ol humans with little to no magic, sure what could go wrong?
A note about the system: Old Gods of Appalachia is a folk horror game focused more on R-O-L-E playing than R-O-L-L playing.
Death Takes a Holiday, or Do They?
Play D&D like it's the 80s. Deadly but Easy to Play.
System: Shadowdark
GM: Aerandir
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 6
Your party has just been TPK'd. You wake up in a dark, dank dungeon. Can you survive what lurks in the dark to return to the world of living or will you fail and join the souls doomed to eternal torment?
Godforsaken: The Shadow over Kittery
The end of the New World
System: Call of Cthulhu 7th Ed
GM: Richard Clare
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 5
Arkham, 1692. You are accused of witchcraft. Your choice: face the judgement of your fellow Puritans or undertake a dangerous mission to the nearby town of Kittery. Kittery, a town overlooked by God, trapped in an endless night. Where a new charismatic preacher has come to town…