Free RPG Day 2015 @ Proud Lion!

by Rae

In addition to our normal gaming events scheduled throughout the month, this June sees the return of Free RPG Day! On Saturday 20th June, Proud Lion will be hosting sessions of D&D Expeditions, followed by an evening at Boston Tea Party where we will also be running Dread and Star Wars: Edge of the Empire.

D&D Expeditions is the perfect way to get a taste of 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons. Each Expedition is only a few hours long – perfect for a quick adventure! We will be running two different Expeditions on the day. The first will run from 10:30am until 3pm. The second will be a split session, running in store from 3:30pm until 5pm, then continuing at Boston Tea Party from 6pm until 9pm.

There will be a maximum of four players for each Expedition, and to ensure Expeditions are balanced, pre-generated characters will be made available - no custom characters will be allowed. Tickets are free, but must be reserved via Ticketsource in order to play. Please note this is not a drop-in, drop-out session – please only reserve a ticket if you will be staying for the complete session!

Our evening offerings at Boston Tea Party will also be free but will again require tickets via Ticketsource. Our first, Star Wars: Edge of the Empire, is based on the adventure contained within the Beginner Box, and serves as an excellent introduction into this science fiction RPG. Our second evening game will be Dread, a horror RPG that is centred around a classic game of Jenga. Both games will run from 6pm to 9pm at Boston Tea Party and can support up to four players. Again, both games will be using pre-generated characters for all players.

In order to reserve your space for one of these games, please follow the link below to our Ticketsource page, where you can select which game you wish to play and claim a spot.

In order to ensure as many people as possible get a chance, we are limiting each player to playing only one of the above games on the day.

Click here to reserve a ticket for Free RPG Day!

However, that doesn't mean you can't bring your own games! Feel free to grab your friends and run an RPG of your own along side us in the evening. We'd love to see more people getting involved and trying out different RPG systems! We'll see you all on Free RPG Day!

Rae has a lot of RPG stories in her head this week!

Big Game Hunting - Free RPG Day 2012: SATURDAY 16TH JUNE

So Free RPG Day is now only a few weeks away!

I'm pleased to be able to announce that we'll be taking over the empty shop next door to Proud Lion for ONE DAY ONLY!

42 Albion Street gives us the space to run six different RPG sessions, covering three different RPGs - D&D 4E, Battletech and the new Warhammer 40K RPG Only War, which features the Imperial Guard.

There will be a lunchtime session running from 11-1pm, then an afternoon session running from 3-5pm. Spaces will be limited and you will need to sign up in advance to get a place, but they will be free and all attendees will get a copy of the adventure they played to take away at the end of the game.

SIGN UP IS NOW OPEN!

Please email me at shop@proudlion.co.uk telling me which game session you would like to register for.

You can choose ONE from the following:

11-1pm - D&D 4E (5 spaces)

11-1pm - Battletech (4 spaces)

11-1pm - WH40K (4 spaces)

3-5pm - D&D 4E (5 spaces)

3-5pm - Battletech (4 spaces)

3-5pm - WH40K (4 spaces)

SPACES WILL BE ALLOCATED FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. You will receive a confirmation email. If we've run out of spaces for your chosen session, I will contact you if there are alternatives.

Here's the Facebook event for those who use it for maintaining their schedules!

Ben Fardon is trying to juggle all the things!

Big Game Hunting - Free RPG Day 2012

I hope everyone enjoyed Free Comic Book Day 2012! It was a huge success for Proud Lion this year - I'm very grateful to everyone who helped out and all of you for coming down and making it something special.

That's not the end of this year's freebies though! Coming in June we have Free RPG Day 2012. Keep your eyes peeled for more details in the coming weeks. For now, all I'll say for definite is keep Saturday 16th June free in your schedules!

Offerings this year will include a Battletech/Shadowrun Quickstart RPG flipbook; a Warhammer 40K Roleplay Only War Adventure called Eleventh Hour; a Pathfinder Adventure called Dawn of the Scarlet Sun; and a D&D 4E Adventure called Dead in the Eye.

We have a few items left from Free RPG Day 2011. If you'd like a free Quickstart RPG book, ask me next time your in and I'll see what we've still got.

Many thanks to our regular contributor Todd Marsh for the pictures for Free RPG Day 2012.

Ben Fardon is determined to put the finishing touches to the gaming bar in the coming fortnight.

Big Game Hunting - Free RPG Day

Saturday 18th June is Free RPG Day!



Now into it's fifth year, some of the biggest and best RPG publishers are bringing you some freebies for one day only!

Pop in store from 10:00am on Saturday and claim yourself one of the following:

Eden Studios

All Flesh Must Be Eaten Quickstart & Adventure

Exile Game Studios

Hollow Earth Expedition Quickstart & Adventure

Fantasy Flight Games

Black Crusade Quickstart and Adventure

Goodman Games

DCC RPG Quickstart

Green Ronin

DragonAge Quickstart

Paizo

"We Be Goblins!" Pathfinder Adventure

Paradigm Concepts

White Wolf

World of Darkness Quickstart

Wizards of the Coast

"Domain of Dread: Histhaven" D&D 4th Edition Supplement

to the box set "The Shadowfell: Gloomwrought and Beyond"

Stocks are limited, first come first served. Due to potential demand, these freebies will be limited to one per customer, so choose wisely and get down early!

I'm sorry but due to limited space in store, I won't be running any in store demonstrations this year, but check out iWARPUK for RPG and other gaming in Gloucestershire.

Ben Fardon is hoping to lose himself in other characters this afternoon