Several game systems are getting their Garrison convention premieres at Seven Hills 2018, so it’s going to be a good show to try something new or different.
Liminal and Cartel are two games on offer that also have a Kickstarter campaign running at the same time.
Premieres
Catch these for the first time in the city of seven hills at Seven Hills 2018.
Saturday 24 March
- Saga of the Icelanders – A Prelude to Sagas (Slots 1-2). Actually set in Norway, this is an epic family survival drama in the vein of the television series Vikings.
- Fragged Empire – Relay 57 (Slot 2). Transhuman conflict against a machine intelligence mobilising an army of human robots.
- Blood and Honor – Clan’s Destiny (Slot 2). Epic Samurai tragedy in the midst of clan wars.
- Liminal – Goblin Market (Slot 2). Urban fantasy on the threshold of modern Britain and a hidden world of magic (see below).
- Lasers & Feelings – Rock Hoppers (Slot 2). Asteroid scavengers drifting towards deep space distress.
- Beyond Dread Portals – Guard Dogs (Slot 3). A homage to Planescape, modernised, with portal guardians hunting miscreants across the planes.
- Earthdawn – A Tale of Two Kaers (Slot 3). Crunchy fantasy horror, tipped as “D&D done right.”
Sunday 25 March
- Würm – Mouths to Feed (Slot 4). Ice-age hunters facing superstition, courage and horror.
- Mutant Year Zero: Mechatron – 20,000 Leagues Under the Mutants (Slot 5). Post-apocalypse mecha comedy.
- Star Wars d6 – Blade’s Hope (Slot 5). Rebels on a vital arms smuggling mission.
Kickstarters
Liminal
A self-contained urban fantasy game about people caught in-between the everyday modern world and a world of magic. It’s written by Seven Hills’ own Paul Mitchener, who’ll be running Goblin Market for four lucky gamers on Saturday afternoon (Slot 2).
The game is set in the United Kingdom against a hidden world of secret magician societies, a police division investigating Fortean crimes, fae courts, werewolf gangs, and haunted places where the walls between worlds are thin. Hear more about it directly from Paul in this Smart Party podcast episode.
It’s a sign of the interest the game is getting that the Kickstarter campaign funded within hours of launching. Stretch goals are being knocked down, yielding some rich bonus material from a range of experienced collaborators (including a re-casting of Sheffield – the Seven Hills city – as a werewolf capital, by Lovecraftesque co-author Becky Annison).
At the time of writing, there’s still time to help unlock the extended scenario pack, a vampire supplement and a huge gazeteer – back it here.
Cartel
Cartel emulates shows like Breaking Bad, The Wire, and El Mariachi, and is written by Urban Shadows co-author Mark Diaz Truman. Elaine McCourt is running Sangre y Nieve, a dangerous Mexican narco melodrama for 3-4 players that is sure to blast open the convention on Saturday morning (Slot 1).
This isn’t the first time Cartel has appeared at a Garrison convention. It got great feedback when Nigel Clarke debuted it with A Little Town in Mexico a few weeks ago at Revelation 2018, the convention dedicated to games that are Powered by the Apocalypse.
The kickstarter campaign has also funded already, and is attracting more backers to unlock stretch goals, including maps, cards, and new playbooks.
