Tabletop RPGs - Lighthearted

By: Scarlet Song

Beginner Friendly
Kid Friendly

A Cosy TTRPG about Critter Life by an Enchanted Wood
(That May or May Not be Filled with Magical Spirits)

In Cottage Core Critters, players will make and play as cosy anthropomorphic Critters who are living a slower life in and around nature. In this game, players will be taking part in the autumn appreciation event, a festival of care and consideration for those you adore and perhaps…more?

This game comes out of the Seasons of Stories supplemental launching officially at Conquest!

This game will have arts and crafts potentially attached to it!

Find out more about Scarlet Song at her website:
https://www.scarletsong.com.au

Player Capacity: 5
System: Cottage Core Critters.
System knowledge required: None, system will be taught during the session.
Rating: PG. Large Insects, Spiritualism
Seriousness: Moderate, but on the less serious side. (2/6).

Presented By: Mark Holsworth
Written by: Mark Holsworth and Gerard Todd

Beginner Friendly
Kid Friendly

A Looking Glass Jukebox is a genre mash of sixties rock, psychedelic absurdity, and alternate realities—too groovy for squares. This is Spinal Tap through the looking glass, the Beatles on The Magical Mystery Tour, the Monkees in Head, Scoobie Doo knocking on The Doors of Perception, the Partridge Family on acid… this isn’t just role-playing its rock’n’role-playing.

Player Capacity: 4
System: A Looking Glass Jukebox
System knowledge required: None, system will be taught during the session.
Rating: PG. 
Seriousness: Completely Silly – (0/6).

Scenario By: Autism Valued

Beginner Friendly
Kid Friendly

Rumours have been flying across the Demon Realms that a miscreant (or miscreants) is on the loose, spreading joy and even kindness.
That cannot stand, especially with the Unspeakable Demon Lord’s wedding so close at hand!
You, brave adventurer, have been recruited, tricked or mysteriously teleported into the Lord’s entourage. Your mission? Ensure his wedding will be the ghastliest the Demon Realms have ever seen.

Player Capacity: 3 to 5
System: D&D 5e 2014
System knowledge required: None, system will be taught during the session.
Rating: PG. Demons, Hell
Seriousness: Not Very (1/6).

 Scenario by: Daz

Beginner Friendly

Are you interested in telling queer stories? Does the idea of playing an angsty disaster lesbian with a sword make you feel warm and fuzzy inside? Do you want to take part in destroying every injustice you come across with a sword, erotic tension, and just a little bit of awkward pining?

Then look no further than this Date Everything inspired oneshot!

A friend of a friend sent out a call for help to tame their haunted house that seems to have a tantrum whenever they bring someone new home – and they’ve got a date tonight! Will you be able to flirt your way to a resolution, or will true love derail you on the way?

Player Capacity: 6.
System: Thirsty Sword Lesbians (Powered By The Apocalypse).
System knowledge required: None, system will be taught during the session.
Rating: M. Religion, Non-explicit sex (There will be implied sex scenes between PCs and PCs or NPCs, which makes it not appropriate for minors to participate. )
Seriousness: Not very (1/6).

 By: Owen Crute

Beginner friendly, Kid friendly

A comedy game poking fun at the classic Dungeons and Dragons formula, running in an extremely loose, vaguely Powered By The Apocalypse-flavoured system.

You are a loose, quasi-familial unit of kobolds: diminutive and trivial creatures living in the warrens and tunnels of the the Fang, a mountain owned, operated and occupied by the great red dragon Furor Corissa. She’s the coolest thing you’ve ever seen. One day, a group of adventurers arrive to delve into your home and slay her! You must flee upwards and inwards through the dungeons of the peak, warning the other denizens and laying traps and hazards behind you. Will you reach Corissa’s hoard-chamber in time to wake her?

Player Capacity: 3 to 5.
System: Custom.
System knowledge required: None, system will be taught during the session.
Rating: PG. Slapstick fantasy violence, strong language.
Seriousness: Not very (1/6).

Scenario by: Pandamonium

Beginner Friendly
Kid Friendly

When an unexpected quake shudders through Mistwood High, the earth splits open and something colossal emerges. A kaiju-like echo of an ancient legend is advancing on the school, drawn by forces no one fully understands.

Only a few students hear the call to stand against it… students who must keep their powers hidden even as danger closes in.

Can they protect their classmates, conceal their identities, and stop the creature before the truth breaks through?

Players will have the opportunity to decorate their own super hero masks!

Player Capacity: 3 to 5
System: City of Mist
System knowledge required: None, system will be taught during the session.
Rating: PG. Fighting / Comic book style violence
Seriousness: Moderate, but on the less serious side (2/6).

 Scenario by: Anthanum

WELCOME TO SUNSET BAY

Where the surf is golden, the beers are cold, and the secrets are buried deeper than a stingray at low tide.

The owner of The Driftwood Pub has vanished.

One minute, Baz was pulling pints and calling the meat raffle. The next? Gone. No note. No body. Just an empty till, a half-written will, and a pub full of people who all called him “mate”, all while sharpening knives behind his back.

Was it murder?

A scam?

Or did he just finally get sick of the Thursday night poker game?

You’ve got a ticket to the meat raffle… and a motive.

The locals are talking. The cops are circling. And everyone’s got a reason to want Baz gone:

• The ex-wife who still runs the kitchen
• The surf champ who owes him a fortune
• The mysterious newcomer who bought a suspicious amount of raffle tickets
• The kangaroo who saw everything (What’s that Skip?)

Drink up. Spill secrets. Solve nothing.

In a town where everyone’s related, cheating, or both, the only thing more dangerous than a murderer is a second cousin with a grudge and a podcast.
This summer… the drama’s on tap.

Sunset Bay: Last orders

It’s not just a missing persons case. It’s a family reunion.

All episodes streaming now. Bring your own esky.

Rated M for mature: Contains coarse language, medium-rare betrayal, and severe emotional damage.

“The only thing fresher than the seafood is the lies.” – The Sunset Bay Gazette (probably biased)

“I saw nothing. But I’ll tell you what I didn’t see for a schooner.” – Old Mate Mick, Professional Witness

Player Capacity: 6.
System: Custom Pasion de las Pasiones (PtbA)
System knowledge required: None, system will be taught during the session.
Rating: M. Murder, Soap opera level nudity and sex scenes, Telenovella level utter stupidity.
Seriousness: Completely Silly (0/6).