RPG GMs

RPG GM FORM

As a thank you for running games at AireCon GMs will receive the following rewards depending on the number of games they run, with each game lasting up to four hours;

1 game (min. 3 hours) - Free one day ticket to AireCon
2 games (min. 6 hours) - Free one day ticket to AireCon and an AireCup
3 games (min 9 hours) - Free three day ticket to AireCon and an AireCup
4 games (min 12 hours) - Free three day ticket, an AireCup and one food voucher
5 games (min 15 hours) - Accommodation for 2 nights (Friday & Saturday), Free three day ticket, an AireCup and three food vouchers

Accommodation

Accommodation will be at a hotel within walking distance of the Convention Centre. We will be asking volunteers to share a twin room. If you’d prefer not to share; there’s anyone you’d prefer to share with; or you have accessibility requirements, please let Ann know: ann@airecon.uk.

Instead of accommodation we can reimburse up to £100 per GM towards travel/hotel expenses. Receipts matching or exceeding the amount claimed will need to be submitted.

Content

Please be aware of the content of your games, if you think there is anything that may cause upset or distress make sure to inform the players beforehand, and use any safety measures where appropriate.

Tags

When submitting roleplaying games for AireCon, please use our simple ‘tag’ system, to help describe themes and content.

AireCon uses ‘tags’ as an extra shorthand to help inform players when they are selecting roleplaying games to play. We want our convention to be supportive and inclusive. To help with this, ‘tags’, signal the type of game the GM intends to run. This will particularly help some people in making a decision whether to play in the game. Of course, not every game suits everyone.

When submitting an RPG for AireCon you must include any of the mandatory tags that apply to your game.

  • The game will involve active attempts to kill or remove other characters (Player Versus Player).

  • Some player characters may have mutually exclusive or conflicting objectives but overt PVP not intended

  • Some player characters may have motivations the others do not know about or the plot of the scenario may not be what it seems

  • A darker 18 certificate game. Sex, excessive violence, drug use, dark themes that may cause offence or discomfort etc.

    *Whilst RPGs commonly have violence; shootings, hand to hand melee combat. This tag is thinking of excessive, graphic, visceral violence that may lead to people feeling distinctly uncomfortable, not your usual dungeon-bash, or shoot out.

  • This is a GMless, facilitated, improvisational game, which is player-led.

  • A game that is prepared for complete beginners, without much prior experience with RPGs. No game lore required.

Using other Tags.

Optionally, you may wish to include other tags that indicate genre or style elements you wish to emphasise from the game description. The following (big!) list of tags are suggestions. You might want to use some of these, or use them as inspiration for your own tags. Just to be clear though, we don’t expect or require you to use these.

  • Comedy
    Contemporary
    Crime
    Espionage
    Fantasy (Arthurian / Dark / Dungeon Crawl / Gritty / High / Urban)
    GM-less*
    Horror (Lovecraftian / personal / visceral)
    Investigation
    Medieval
    Mystery
    Pirates
    SF (Cyberpunk / Hard / Post Apocalyptic / Posthuman / Space Opera)
    Steampunk
    Superhero
    Teenagers
    Victorian
    Western

    *This differs from Player-led. A game can be player-led (for example, the improvisational style used for Dungeon World and others in the Apocalypse World family) but have a GM. GM-less games will usually have someone who knows the rules but may well be playing as a character in the game (for example, Kingdom, Microscope).

  • Alien
    Demonstration
    Heroic
    Humour
    Intrigue
    Introduction
    Minis
    Military
    Narrative
    Nazi
    No Pregens
    Organised Play
    Playtest
    Politics
    Rules-heavy
    Rules-lite
    Secrets - Closed
    Secrets - Open
    Storygame
    War

    *It’s assumed that most games will have pre-generated characters

Safety Tools

As this is a public convention event, we expect all GMs to use ‘safety tools’ to help ensure that our players can enjoy roleplaying games in a safe environment. As a minimum, please use ‘Open Door’, ‘Breaks’, and the ‘X-Card’. Depending on your scenario’s content, a quick ‘Lines and Veils’ can be very helpful. Guidance on the toolkit can be found here.

If you have questions on any aspect of running RPGs at AireCon, please contact us.