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QueeRPGs 20th February

Greetings goblins!

I hope you're all keeping well, and thank you so much for your patience in waiting for this week's game announcements. There are two games running this week, in no particular order we have:

Tessa will be bringing Maze Rats, a highly-lethal game where caution is essential to long-term survival. Maze Rats is designed to be clean, fast, and intuitive as possible while encouraging creative solutions over brute force (although you can always choose brute force if you like).

Hearty adventurers love to take a well-earned break at the famous traveller’s inn, the Ruined Keep. But one night, the smoky and stew-scented tranquillity is shattered! Goblins have burst out from the back room, ransacked the place, and fled into the keg-cellar with the barkeep’s prized possession! “Free drinks for a year, to whomever recovers my precious mahogany board!”, cries the barkeep, “And gold coins besides, for the rest of my furniture!” As one, the adventurers agree to cooperate, leap to their feet, and charge into the cellar.

Cam will be bringing A Stern Chase Is A Long Chase. In Stern Chase, each player will control their own spaceship, with its own crew and abilities, as part of The Fleet. You will need to work together, balancing fighting, surviving, and progress as you try to escape the Enemy to reach your goal. Starting with some light worldbuilding and ship creation, the table will play through a series of short missions to determine whether or not the Fleet is able to escape the Enemy. You may reach the epilogue or you may not, but either way there will be hard choices and sacrifices to make along the way. Characters and even whole ships may be lost.

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You don't need to bring anything other than yourselves to join either of these games, but you might like to bring your favourite set of dice, some notepaper, and your preferred thing to write with (although spares can be provided). Please let us know on the event below if you're planning on coming along this week, and arrive promptly for 6pm and let us know if you're running a bit late. Looking forward to seeing you all

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Friday 20th February

Hello Goblins! Our first game announcement for this Friday (20th Feb) is What Is Here? which is being run by Niamh!

‘What is Here?’ is a game about building a myth around a supernatural being through the eyes of a community. By using a deck of cards and answering questions in short role play scenes, this game gives you the opportunity to build an organic story through a community, and shape their history forever. This being is whatever you want it to be, though try to approach the game without a preconceived image of what ‘it’ is. The whims, nature, desires, and temperament of ‘it’ will become apparent through play.

You don't need to bring anything with you to play What Is Here but you might want to bring some notepaper and something to write with if you'd like to keep notes from your games.

Our second game this Friday will be again be Cairn run by Arcadia. Cairn is a New-School Renaissance adventure game about exploring a dark and mysterious Wood filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities. Character generation is quick and random, adventures are tense and reward careful exploration, and combat is frantic and deadly.

Your party recently pooled the last of your funds to purchase a map from a shady dealer promising exclusive access "an unexplored tomb" that was "teeming with riches". On your long journey through the woods you began to wonder if you'd fallen victim to a scam, but at long last you have come upon the entrance exactly where the map promised. What treasure awaits you in the Tomb of the Serpent Kings?

Tomb of the Serpent Kings by Skerples is a multi-level dungeon designed to show new players the ropes while also giving experienced players a challenge. This game will run over multiple sessions until everyone in the party has gone home with their pockets full or died, whichever comes first. Character creation in Cairn is quick and easy (and character death can be even faster for the incautious) and will be done together at the start of the session.

While you don't need to bring anything, a polyset of dice with some extra D6s will serve you well, as will notepaper and your favourite writing implements.

Please arrive promptly by 6pm to play either of these games, and let us know in the discord if you can!

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i'm sorry did you say street magic

Hello goblins! I'm pleased to announce our first game planned for this coming Friday (6th February 2026).

Cam, one of QPG's most frequent GMs, will be bringing i'm sorry did you say street magic to our tables. This is a GMless, rules-light, story-heavy city building game where you and your fellow players will discover and imagine a city filled with life and vivid detail, packed with a myriad of neighborhoods, landmarks, and residents. Working together to draw out the best story, you will reveal resident's true names, and the ways that they intersect—then set events in motion that will change or alter their relationships.

While GM-less, you will be in good hands, as Cam will be at the table as a player, helping to explain the rules and guide you in what may be a new form of Roleplaying for many of you. You don't need anything special for this game, but you might want to bring some notepaper and your favourite pen if you like to doodle or take notes.

Please arrive promptly to begin playing at 6pm.

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We're Back!

Hello gorgeous goblins! We are very excited to be starting up again at our new venue PlutoQ! We will be getting together on the first and third Fridays of the month, which means it’s only a week until our first session on Friday 6th February.

We’ll be posting updates with upcoming games here, but if you like your updates a little more discord or email shaped, you can join our server or mailing list at the link in the bio. We would ask that folks be arrived and sat ready to start by 18:00. You don’t ever need any special equipment, but some dice and a notebook and pencil would be useful. We’ll aim to have at least one ten minute break midway through the evening, and games should wrap up by 21:00. We would encourage folks to use the card reader by the door/the QR code on the pillar to contribute to the venue where they are able to do so, and there’s also a small tuck shop in the venue, as well as a number of shops nearby if you want to bring external snacks. If you have any worries about getting to the venue, or want to discuss it further, please get in touch.

All that said, we hope to see a whole bunch of you next week!

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QueeRPGs is Moving!

From 6th February, QueeRPGs will be held at PlutoQ Community Reading Room in Govanhill on the first and third Fridays of each month. This is an exciting move for us, and we hope that it will give us the ability to grow into a larger, more sustainable, and more accessible group for all queers.

We’d like to thank our good friends at WEG for hosting us for so long and giving us the space and support we needed to get going.

Keep an eye out for more details in the near future!

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QueeRPGs 21st November

Good afternoon my Persnickety Penguins! I hope the week has been good to everybody. The time has once again come to plug this Friday's QPGs games!

This week we will see Cam running the final session of their Blades in the Dark campaign! We've seen the Nightmerchants go from a bunch of nobodies being pulled together on a job to being a bunch of nobodies with a railway carriage as a base and some dangerous artefacts buried in the garden! This fledgling crew still has problems though. A demon is loose in the streets of Crow's Foot, and it is unfortunately their fault. Can our band of misfits clean up their own mess? Find out in the gripping finale!

Our second game this week comes from Milo who will be back at our tables with Spire! Spire is a roleplaying game about desperate revolutionary dark elves caught up in a secret war against the high elves, or aelfir, who rule the towering city of Spire. This week in Spire you're needed for a Jailbreak! Infiltrate the Hive, Spire's greatest prison, and free the gnoll warlord Brakesh Gold-Tongue before his execution. Deny the aelfir a key symbolic victory. Make sure the papers know he's escaped. Be messy.

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QPGs will take place this Friday at WEG on Dumbarton Road. Please arrive at 1800 to be sat down and ready to play at 1830! As usual, the only thing you need to bring is yourself, but having a set of dice (A pool of D6s for Blades, a polyset with extra D10s for Spire), some notepaper, and something to write with should serve you well!

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QueeRPGs 10th October

Good evening my Tranquil Tamarins!

This week's QPGs offerings have sadly been reduced due to illness but I am still thrilled to be bringing you two games to choose from!

Cam continues to field Blades in the Dark, a tabletop role-playing game about a crew of daring scoundrels seeking their fortunes on the haunted streets of an industrial-fantasy city.

Last time the crew discovered that their allies, the Red Sashes, are up to something sneaky involving spirits. Unable to sit and watch another gang muscle into their supernatural turf, they set out to find out what the Sashes were upto and unwittingly released a demon onto the streets and alleys of Crow's Foot! What horrors have they unleashed, and can they put this proverbial genie back in its bottle?

For something a bit more light hearted, Christine will be running MÖRK BORG, a doom metal album of a game. A spiked flail to the face. Light on rules, heavy everything else. A game so kvlt and grimdark it only takes a light nudge to push it over into absurdity!

This week sees a seasonally-appropriate adventure for you to throw yourselves into. Each year the village honours the Forest by setting a nice big pumpkin adrift down the river but now all the Orchards have grown sour! Could the Forest be upset with their offering? Is something down river causing problems? Where do all those pumpkins go anyway? Brave the dark woods and treacherous river to find out in Trick or Trout! ----------------------- ‧₊˚♡⋅☆‧₊˚ -----------------------

Come along this week and join us for QueeRPGs at WEG on Dumbarton Road! All you need to bring is yourself, but as always something to write with and some dice to roll (BitD uses d6s, MB uses a standard polyset) will help you get stuck in. Please arrive at 18:00 for an 18:30 start.

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QueeRPGs 26th September

Good afternoon my Patient Pangolins! The hour is late, but I bring you news of two games running this Friday at QueeRPGs. This will be our first QPGs event at New WEG at 442 Dumbarton Road. Please do not go to Queen Margaret Drive and weep, we are not there, we do not sleep.

Cam is back with episode 2 of Blades in the Dark! Last time we saw the crew on a mission for the notorious Red Sashes to infiltrate a warehouse in Lampblacks territory and either steal or destroy their newfound power source. Unfortunately for the crew, the Red Sashes, and perhaps all of Duskvol that source of power was revealed to be stolen souls! How did a gang like the Lampblacks come to hold this kind of magic? How can they be stopped? Drop into Cam's Blades in the Dark campaign to find out!

For our second game this week I will be bringing back Mothership, the award-winning sci-fi horror RPG where you and your crew try to survive in the most inhospitable environment in the universe: outer space! The lost casino ship Year of the Rat has reappeared in the void, and you have been sent to retrieve its black box with the promise of salvage. With a potential jackpot, will you get a lucky streak, or end up paying the ultimate price for your greed?

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As always, you just need to bring bring yourselves, but some dice (D6s for Blades, Polysets for Mothership), something to write with, and some note paper will serve you well. Please arrive at 18:00 for an 18:30 start. This event is taking place at New WEG on Dumbarton Road. Please note: Due to its horror content, this week's Mothership game is rated 18+ for gore and body horror.

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QueeRPGs 12th September

Good evening my majestic moths! Following a bumper turnout last fortnight, this Friday's QPGs will see a triple-game event!

First up I am thrilled to announce that Cam will be bringing a short Blades In The Dark campaign to our tables! Blades in the Dark is a tabletop role-playing game about a crew of daring scoundrels seeking their fortunes on the haunted streets of an industrial-fantasy city. There are heists, chases, occult mysteries, dangerous bargains, bloody skirmishes, and, above all, riches to be had — if you’re bold enough to seize them. You and your fledgling crew must thrive amidst the threats of rival gangs, powerful noble families, vengeful ghosts, the Bluecoats of the city watch, and the siren song of your scoundrel’s own vices. Will you rise to power in the criminal underworld? What are you willing to do to get to the top?

We'll also be having an introductory session to Star Wars: Force and Destiny from WEG's own Big Jack! As a Force-sensitive outcast struggling to survive under Imperial rule, you can bring justice to the galaxy, search for the lost remnants of the Jedi order, or fall victim to the dark side’s temptations in Mountaintop Rescue!

It is a dark time in the galaxy. The JEDI ORDER has been destroyed and knowledge of the FORCE has been all but lost. Only a handful of people sensitive to the Force remain, scattered across the stars, ignorant of their destiny. Humble scholar Hethan Romund has preserved a fragment of the heritage of the Jedi. Traveling the galaxy, Romund stumbled across a number of people still strong in the Force and offered them what wisdomn she could. Now, Romund has been captured by MALEFAX, a servant of the dark side of the Force. Compelled by Malefax to lead him to a lost temple rich in ancient knowledge, Romund has sent a signal to several of the Force-sensitive allies she has made over the course of her career. Drawn together to rescue their mentor, these Force-sensitives now climb the snow-clad slopes of MOUNT TELLEC on the Outer Rim planet Spintir...

Finally, after a slight delay, Ryan will be bringing The Dead West, which he was unfortunately unable to run last session. In The Dead West, player's take on the role of the movers and shakers in a fictional old-west town. During the day, things are as you'd suspect in a western setting, but at night, shit gets weird. The goal of the players will often be to survive the night, and pray that the coming of the dawn, returns their town to relative safety of their hard but mundane lives.

For the past few weeks, famous gunslingers have been going missing in search of some grand treasure in a hidden vault. The latest band of desperadoes to come together think they've got a handle on this whole mystery, but do they….?

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All you need to bring is yourself, some dice to roll, and pencils to write with! Please arrive at 18:00 for an 18:30 start at the Queen Margaret Drive branch of West End Games. Please note this will be the last time QPGs meets at Queen Margaret Drive, and our next session will be taking place in the new WEG location in Partick.

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QueeRPGs 29th August

Good evening my loquacious lizards! This Friday at Queer RPGs we have two games coming to your tables. The first is For Small Creatures Such as We by Anna Blackwell, which will be brought to our tables by Anna herself. This co-operative sci-fi RPG, inspired by Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series, is built to create a narrative while still having enough mechanical depth to make it a fun game. As you play, you'll have to keep your ship fueled up and your crewmates healthy and happy. Manage your food supplies, plot your course on the galactic map, juggle missions, and face off against the many threats the galaxy can pose or play it safe and stick to secure space at the cost of time. Our second game sees the return of our beloved Ryan to the GM's seat with The Dead West. In The Dead West, player's take on the role of the movers and shakers in a fictional old-west town. During the day, things are as you'd suspect in a western setting, but at night, shit gets weird. The goal of the players will often be to survive the night, and pray that the coming of the dawn, returns their town to relative safety of their hard but mundane lives.

For the past few weeks, famous gunslingers have been going missing in search of some grand treasure in a hidden vault. The latest band of desperadoes to come together think they've got a handle on this whole mystery, but do they....? As always all you need to bring is yourselves, but dice to roll and pencils to write with will serve you well! Please arrive at 18:00 for an 18:30 start at the Queen Margaret Drive branch of West End Games.

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Friday 6th September - CAIN

Good evening my crepuscular cavaliers! We have a new GM, Alice, making her QueeRPGs debut this coming Friday with CAIN.

For those of you who haven't heard of it, CAIN is a new RPG by Tom Bloom, creator of the RPGs Lancer and Goblin with a Fat Ass as well as author and illustrator of the web-comic Kill Six Billion Demons.

Mission Log: Operation Weeping Mountain Location: Rowbury, pop. 64 2012.01.13 09:43 - A man is found dead with limbs removed. Subsequent investigation by local police force fails to find a cause. 2012.01.23 19:11 - A woman is found dead and bisected in the local sawmill. Local police called. 2012.01.23 23:01 - Exorcists dispatched. Commence operation. Humanity is cursed, host to a roiling psychic sea barely understood or controlled, a phenomenon arising purely from the darkest portions of the human soul. While most humans are blissfully unaware of its presence, others are more sensitive. When it grows wild in these hosts, SINS appear, terrifying supernatural monsters that are anathema to reality itself. CAIN is the solution, the global supranational shadow organization dedicated solely to the hunting and execution of SINS. It’s mission is clear, its purpose steadfast. Is there anything better than a good hunt? Just think, you’re all set to slaughter to your heart’s content. YOU are an exorcist, a powerful psychic soldier and tool of CAIN, honed and wielded for one purpose: WIPE OUT THE STAIN

Pack your pencils, a fistfull of D6s, and come down to West End Games on Friday 6th September, it's going to get interesting. Please arrive at 18:00 for a 18:30 start.

Due to the nature and content of this game all players must be over the age of 18. Content Warnings: Abuse, Gore/Violence, Mob Violence/Lynching, Financial Poverty, Death/Murder.

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Good evening my beautific bats! Apologies for being behind on updates this week, unfortunately I have taken ill and it is slowing me down.

This Friday (23rd Aug) night, we will be joined by GM Darius for a peek beyond the veil that separates mere mortals from that which stalks the night.

In Vampire: the Masquerade you are a vampire, struggling for survival, supremacy, and your own fading humanity – afraid of what you are capable of, and fearful of the inhuman conspiracies that surround you. As a vampire, you suffer the pangs of the Hunger, the relentless and terrible thirst for human blood. If you refuse to deal with it, it will overcome your mind and drive you to terrible acts to slake it. You walk this razor's edge every night. This is the original and ultimate roleplaying game of personal and political horror.

It's Glasgow, 1984. Rumours are whispered that for the second time in 30 years the Barrowland Ballroom might be burning down... this time though by a force much more sinister... Vampire Anarchists. You are also Vampires, but not in that silly Anarch sect. You dwell rightly in the shining Ivory Towers of the Camarilla. You've been assigned to keep this whole "burning down" thing under wraps... you wouldn't want mortals finding out about vampires. Alistair Cameron, the Ventrue Primogen, will be organising one of his famous Masquerade Balls this night, and would hate for anything to interfere in his grand plans for the city of Glasgow.

Don your opera cape, your silk gloves, and your most convincing plastic fangs for Vampire: the Masquerade this Friday at West End Games!

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Good afternoon my beautiful buzzing bees, I hope you're all doing well!

I'm very excited to announce that Vaesen will be returning to our tables this Friday evening under the skilled hands of GM Danya! For those of you who have, somehow, let this gem of a game slip under your radars it's another corker from Fria Ligan publishing. Vaesen presents a dark Gothic setting steeped in Nordic folklore and old myths of Scandinavia, based on the work of Swedish illustrator and author Johan Egerkrans.

Will you wrestle with mighty trolls? Flee from the terrifying Lindworm? Be led astray by a tricky kirk grim? Find out this Friday night at West End Games!

Be a therewolf or be a squarewolf!

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Good evening my engorged marrows of mystery! I'm here with a (belated) announcement as to the details of this week's games. We will be hosting two local indie RPG writers in each playtesting their games, one of whom is our very own Xiggy. Homes/Watson: Mystery & Romance, a game for players to create and tell the story of a brand new Sherlock Holmes case. Murder, theft, blackmail – and looming over you, the threat of scandal from Holmes and Watson’s blossoming relationship. Hey! That Doctor Stole My Tits! is a light-hearted and easy to play game about pursuing an errant doctor through a hospital after performing your top surgery. Why are they running? Why are you chasing them? Most important, what are they doing with your tits?! Find out this Friday, only at West End Games!

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Friday 28th June - Mörk Borg

Good evening my flickering citronella candles of mystery! This week you're in for a treat with Mörk Borg, run by none other than WEG's resident master of the gothic and macabre.

A doom metal album of a game. A spiked flail to the face. Light on rules, heavy everything else. MÖRK BORG is a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world.

In the once proud city of Grift a series of disappearances lead you into the long neglected sewers. Amid apathetic authorities and the impotent King Sigfúm you and your comrades might be the only thing standing in the way of more abductions.

Come along at 18:00 this Friday to Mörk your Borg!

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Friday 14th June - Vaesen

This Friday (14th June) the wonderul Danya will be running Vaesen!

In dark forests, beyond the mountains, by black lakes in hidden groves. At your doorstep. In the shadows, something stirs. Strange beings. Twisted creatures, lurking at the edge of vision. Watching. Waiting. Unseen by most, but not by you. You see them for what they really are. Vaesen.

Welcome to the Mythic North – northern Europe of the nineteenth century, but not as we know it today. A land where the myths are real. A cold reach covered by vast forests, its few cities lonely beacons of industry and enlightenment – a new civilization dawning. But in the countryside, the old ways still hold sway. There, people know what lurks in the dark. Are you ready to find out?

18:00 for an 18:30 start at West End Games - Be a therewolf, or be a squarewolf!

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Friday 31st May - Most Trusted Advisors

This Friday sees one of our GMs presenting Most Trusted Advisors, a game of courtly intrigue taking cues from the likes of The Thick of It, Blackadder, and Always Sunny in Philadelphia. You play the most trusted and most wise advisors to The Worst Monarch any fantasy kingdom has ever seen, but which of you is The Most Trusted? With a scheming duchy on the border, the ink on the treaty from the end of last war still drying, the black death spreading, witches being burned at the stake, and the printers informing the populace about all the wrongdoings of your liege, can you keep the country running while fulfilling your own, perfectly legitimate secret agendas? Find out this Friday in Most Trusted Advisors!