This Weekend: Free RPGs and Old School RPGs

What’s Happening? 6/18/14

Today: Riichi Mahjong @ 2pm; D&D Encounters: Dead in Thay @ 6pm; Netrunner League @ 7pm.
Thursday: X-Wing League @ 7pm.

This Saturday we’ll be host to Free RPG Day, a celebration of role-playing games in all their many forms! We’ll be giving away free starter books for RPGs like the retro-scifi Cosmic Patrol, super hero Valiant, cyberpunk Shadowrun, among a number of other indie games. For those who are Role-Playing veterans looking for something for their favorite game already, we’ll have free adventure modules for Pathfinder, Castles & Crusades, and 13th Age. Of course some of the coolest free items we’ve saved for last, like a Meeple dice tower, dry-erase battle map, commemorative dice and an expansion for the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game.

In the past the mob that arrives in the first hour usually takes everything fun, so instead we got a couple boxes of Free RPG Day stuff and will be staggering opening them throughout the day so that EVERYONE can get something they want.

Following up on the Saturday festivities, Sunday will be an impromptu ‘Old School RPG’ Day! Not only are all of our old-school D&D books 15% off, but we have a GM lined up to run a 2nd Edition AD&D one-off adventure from 2-7pm with pre-generated characters. If you reminisce about slaying dragons in the late 80s and 90s, you owe it to yourself to join in on the fun Spots are limited, so if you are interested let us know so we can get you signed up!

Tim Morgan

When Tim Morgan told his high school guidance counselor that he wanted to publish games for a living, the response was a clueless, “Uhhhh, you’ll probably want some college then.” Twenty-five years later, while still not publishing games for a living, he has made games his life -- over twenty years as the manager of a game store in Seattle, playtester of more RPGs and board games than you can shake a stick at, and small-press publisher of several games and even more novels. And now, co-owner of the ‘Round the Table Game Pub in Lynnwood. He currently lives in Everett, WA, where he is the caretaker of four (no, five!) lolcats, the oppressive taskmaster of a teenaged daughter, and the devoted husband of a wonderful author. His latest work is Ellis: Kingdom in Turmoil, a full RPG rules system and setting, detailing a low-fantasy world where religion is king and morality matters.