RPGs & Social Deduction
Role-playing games (RPGs) are collaborative storytelling games where players portray characters, make choices, and shape a shared story guided by a Game Master. While Social Deduction games are where players attempt to uncover each other’s hidden role or allegiance.
At DagdaCon, we’ll run a wide range of RPGs and Social Deduction games across the weekend. Below are the current game blurbs. This page is updated as new games are accepted; a full schedule will be published closer to the event.
RPG & Social Deduction Timeslots
Friday: 6pm - 9pm
Saturday: 10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm, 6:15pm - 9:15 pm, & Midnight - 3am
Sunday: 10am - 1pm & 2pm - 5pm
Sunday Mini RPG slots: 10am - 11:30am, 11:30am - 1pm, & 2pm - 3:30pm
Visit the schedule for detailed times.
Social Deduction
Blood on the clocktower: Trouble Brewing
A hidden demon stalks among you, aided by mortal minions.
System: Blood on the Clocktower
GM: Padraic
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 7-20
In the tiny town of Ravenswood Bluff, everyone awakens to a scream in the night, and rushes outside to find the town's storyteller impaled on the hour hand of the ancient clocktower. They know only a demon could be responsible, and that this demon must take human form by day to hide. It will kill again, unless the town comes together to find and execute it; but how many innocent townsfolk will die along the way, by the demon's hands, or as victims of the town's paranoia?
7 to 20 players. Social deduction, lying and bluffing and figuring out clues. Beginner friendly.
The Werewolves Of Tipperary
Lies and deceits
System: Werewolves - Card Game
GM: Liv Kill and Alexis Nicolas
Age Restriction: General Audience (Ages 10+)
Player Count: 10-20
In peaceful Tipperary, a plague start to appear, some humble villagers turn to ravenous wolf at night time, hunting and killing their neighbours. Will you be able to find and stop them in time? Will you be able to keep hunting until the town is yours?
Spyfall
Seek the spy. Save the world
System: Spyfall game
GM: Frank Doheny
Age Restriction: General Audience (Ages 10+)
Player Count: 12
Players are given a card with a location such as a cruise ship or movie set. One player is given a card with the word spy on it, they don't know the location. The players with the location card have to guess who the spy is. They ask questions without giving the location away such as 'why were you wearing that earlier?'. A player can accuse who they think is the spy and player reveals their card if the others agree. If the spy is revealed players get points. The spy can take a guess at the location, if correct then the spy gets points.
RPGs
The Fane of Corruption
Exterminate the vermin cult!
System: Shadowdark
GM: Ben Doherty
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 5
High in the mountains, an abandoned temple to Saint Terragnis has been infested by a cult of twisted rat-men intent on spreading disease and destruction. A rag-tag group of adventurers have banded together to brave the darkness of this defiled sanctum. Their reasons for undertaking this foolhardy endeavour are each their own. The Shadowdark cares not why they have wandered into its hungry maw, only how they will sate its appetite with the snuffing of their now-short lives…
Wizard of Arms & Armour
Mice and magic!
System: Mausritter
GM: Ben Doherty
Age Restriction: Family Friendly (Ages 8+)
Player Count: 5
Take up the sword and don the whiskers of a brave mouse adventurer in Mausritter, a rules-light fantasy adventure roleplaying game! From within a towering suit of armour, the Wizard reigns, with warrior roaches and the great Muted Bat under his thrall. His magic is wild and powerful. His failed spells have set books alight and cracked glass cases. He is cold and cruel and secretive, but mice journey from afar to buy his spells or to seek knowledge. These days the light from his workshop in the Helm is gleaming late into the night in green and ruby and gold, and the library mice are growing fearful. And so, they have turned to a band of heroes to knock the Wizard from his lofty perch and end his reign of arcane terror for good and for all
Clonmel of Cthulu
In this old foggy town, will you face the supernatural and uncover the truth?
System: Call of Cthulu (with streamlined rules for short form sessions)
GM: Aaron - @aaronsquid
Age Restriction: General Audience (Ages 10+)
Player Count: 2-6
In the town of Clonmel in Co.Tipperary, a series of supernatural occurrences and sightings have been reported recently. Fairies spotted partying in the woods at night, Banshees wailing near the River Suir and even a headless man on horseback galloping through the streets!
In Clonmel of Cthulu, players take the role of a group of inexperienced investigators of a Paranormal Detective Agency known as T.A.I.B.H.S.E. (Tactical Anomaly Investigation Bureau & Haunted Site Examiners).
The goal of T.A.I.B.H.S.E. is to examine these sightings, exploring the “paranormal hotspots” of Clonmel, and find a way to put an end to them (or perhaps prove that these sightings aren’t what they seem).
The Alalakh Expedition
Explorers uncover mysteries in the caverns of a forbidden moon.
System: Coriolis: The Great Dark
GM: Ray O'Mahony
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
Landing on Alalakh is forbidden. Every crew knows that. The Blight has seeped into every living thing on the moon, altering and corrupting the environment. Creeping vines seek the unwary and misshapen creatures stir in the depths. Past expeditions have met with unforeseeable dangers and grisly fates.
It's also known the flora developed hallucinogenic qualities easily exploited for valuable drugs. To some enterprising or desperate individuals this highly profitable venture is worth the risk, but it's not a place for a respectable crew of Delvers to go. Which is why it's so unsettling The Explorers Guild are sending you there.
Murder On The Dancefloor - A Vampire the Masquerade Game
Failure means war, push back against the darkness!
System: Vampire The Masquerade 2nd Edition
GM: Padraig D
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
The Vampire Prince needs you to investigate is a nightclub full of dead Vampires and avert a war with the werewolves.
Innocence Lost
When you leave Fariyland, what do you leave behind?
System: Changeling the Lost (heavily modified)
GM: Andrew Coffey (he/him)
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 5
Dooradoyle woods are closer than the dogpark, cheaper than the cinema, and the reason for centuries of psychological torture.
Five cousins went missing there. Lost to the fae and lost in time.
Twisted into the monsters of fairy woods and set by the fairy queen as her defenders enacting her cruel whim against the “heroes of the realm”. Bodies broken and with a rare clear moment, they have realised there is a way home. Through the hedge of thorns between this world and home, they will cut their flesh and bend their minds but there will be a cost.
Unnamed Monsters and Childish Things Game Series Episode IV: the search for Episode III
You are children with missing monster best friends; find them
System: Monsters and other Childish Things
GM: Jamie Bowden
Age Restriction: General Audience (Ages 10+)
Player Count: 3-5
You’re a team of elite kids (aka orphans with free time) with monster best friends who have saved the world twice from the forces of Tiamat, and the Brinch (Legally Distinct), but right now you've woken up and have found that your beloved monsters gone. You vaguely remember returning a chocolate milk cow and a Dr. Hyenastein, but the only clue you have is a note saying "I've stolen your 3rd adventure, mahahahaha!"
You’re a band of monsters with human best friends who have faced down the (false) queen of monsters and several nutters to save humanity (because grown-ups can’t save themselves); but now you’re in a cage, and you need to be saved
A story of friendship, monsters, and saving the cholocate milk cow.
Lá Breithe Dona Duit
Úsáid do cúpla focail i eachtra deas simplí!
System: D&D 2024 - as Gaeilge
GM: Amélie
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 6
Ní bhfuair Traz bocht na bronntanais a bhí sé ag iarraidh dá bhreithlá! An mbeidh sibh in ann iad a aimsiú sula dtosaíonn an chóisir?
Adventure as Gaeilge! Special character sheets, flashcards and props will be used to facilitate comprehension, so don't be afraid to join in even if you don't have the vocab (yet!).
Unlikely Allies - A Fallout game using a diceless story driven system
Unlikely Allies - A Fallout Story
System: Primetime Adventures system
GM: Padraig D
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
What makes a prospector ghoul, a secretive supermutant, a shady Vaultie and a shamed Brotherhood of Steel work together? Come find out
Hope's Last Day
I Can't Lie To You About Your Chances, But...You Have My Sympathies.
System: Alien RPG (Evolved Edition)
GM: Aerandir
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 5
24 hours ago, you headed out of Hadley’s Hope on a routine survey run, only to find yourself stuck 10 km out. A day has now passed, and no one is coming to help. The only communications you pick up on are garbled. Your food and water are running out. There’s no option but to walk back, and see what the hell is going on...
From the Silence
The Circle of the Restless a sabotaged premiere & a murdered critic
System: Candela Obscura
GM: Amélie
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 6
Candela Obscura is a D6-based system focused on cooperative storytelling, set in a world at the start of the 20th century, mere years after the end of a terrible war. Newfaire is in the middle of an economic and technological boom, but, unknown to most, supernatural phenomena plague the city. Tonight is no exception, as the Circle of the Restless is sent to investigate the mysterious death of a movie critic, right after an interrupted premiere.
This game will be suitable for beginners, pregens and anything needed will be provided. It will contain some body horror and unsettling elements, but safety tools (including a lines & veils form) will be used.
Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone
An ancient rabbit saves your friend and now you have to save the world - simple!
System: Old Gods of Appalachia (Cypher System)
GM: Drew
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 6
1900 Appalachia, USA
One glorious summer as a child, you watched one of your best friends die. Before you understood what happened, a being you thought only existed in the old tales approached. He promised to bring your friend back, but only if you promised to return the favour.
Now 20 years later, your owe has come due and you and your friends must battle against the dark elements in our own world to find a powerful witch before a dark, ancient being awakens. As boring 'ol humans with little to no magic, sure what could go wrong?
A note about the system: Old Gods of Appalachia is a folk horror game focused more on R-O-L-E playing than R-O-L-L playing.
Death Takes a Holiday, or Do They?
Play D&D like it's the 80s. Deadly but Easy to Play.
System: Shadowdark
GM: Aerandir
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 6
Your party has just been TPK'd. You wake up in a dark, dank dungeon. Can you survive what lurks in the dark to return to the world of living or will you fail and join the souls doomed to eternal torment?
Your Blood Will Water My Shrubs
Ready or Not meets Little Shop of Horrors meets Resident Evil
System: DnD 5e
GM: Richard Clare
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
A group of down on their luck adventurers are invited to Nightshade Manor for a sumptuous charity feast, the bountiful banquet. Maybe your luck is starting to change. All hail Ochu, Goddess of the harvest!
Warning: Death comes easily in this scenario.(backup characters are provided)
The Banshee’s Cry
Are you brave enough to venture into the Fey Queen’s lair?
System: Dungeoans and Dragonds 5e
GM: Rozie Mc Hale Noone
Age Restriction: General Audience (Ages 10+)
Player Count: 5
The Duanairí family have wealth, fame, power. One thing they do not have, however, is the ability to tolerate each other. Every year on Oíche Shamhna, they try to put their differences aside and gather for a feast in the newly rebuilt Castle Éadrom. This year, though, Aobha, the Duanairí’s 8-year-old heiress, disappears, and the blood-chilling howl of a banshee is heard. When the bravest among them set out to investigate, they discover a whole other world of hill forts, wyrms and a dangerous queen with a touch as cold as death.
The Haunting of Plassey House
"Join the Fight Against Fright" in this spooky one-shot at a haunted university!
System: The Bad Articles - d100 rules-lite homebrew
GM: The Bad Articles
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 4-6
Come and play-test the beta version of The Bad Articles in a role-play heavy, rules-lite TTRPG game set in 90s Ireland. Join the Official Supernatural Neutralisation Agency and investigate a haunted university in this locally set, spooky one-shot! Quickly create a character and play as one of the mundane "agents" with a keen interest in the supernatural. Laugh and fight your way through the madness with improvised weapons and a healthy dollop of luck as you learn the incredibly simple rules of The Bad Articles TTRPG. All you will need is a d100 and your wits to complete the mission at the Haunting of Plassey House.
The Other Adventure
All your favourite computer games... sort of.
System: The Other System
GM: Ian Paul Power
Age Restriction: Family Friendly (Ages 8+)
Player Count: 5
You are in a dark cave with a sandy floor. There are tunnels to the north and south.
Invalid Command – I’m sorry, I do not understand "What is going on?"
You are in a dark cave with a sandy floor. There are tunnels to the north and south. Would you like to hear a list of commands?
The Other Dream
The Dreamland of Questoria is in jeopardy, only you & your friends can save it!
System: The Other System
GM: Ian Paul Power
Age Restriction: Family Friendly (Ages 8+)
Player Count: 5
In your dreams you’re one of the five heroes of Questoria, constantly battling evil giants, or saving kittens from bottomless wells or defeating evil space robots that fly on dragons. But over the last few nights Questoria is growing darker and more twisted. Something is rotten in your dream world, and you’re going to figure out what. It’s a terrifying task, so it’s a good thing that your four best friends from school also dream of Questoria, and are with you on this journey… What? That’s normal, right?
Angler Antics & Selkie Shenanigans
A group of selkie & human kids, set out to save their home.
System: Tales From Rowan Bay (New System)
GM: Ian Paul Power
Age Restriction: Family Friendly (Ages 8+)
Player Count: 6
The fishers and selkies of the bay of Rowan get on well enough. The fishers share the catch with the selkies and the selkies let the fishers know where in the bay the biggest schools of fish are hanging out. That all changed the day the big factory ship showed up, with a net the size of all the other fishing boats combined. Now there's not enough fish to go around. The selkies are going hungry, and some of the fishers are blaming the selkies for their dwindling catches. Something needs to be done about it, and lord knows grownups are no good at actually getting anything done, so it's up to you lot. That factory ship has got to go.
An RPG for 3 Selkies and 3 Fishers
A Prince's Fortune
It's just a marketplace, how bizarre could it be?
System: Heart: The City Beneath
GM: Kurt Pilbrow
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 3-5
The Aelfir Prince, Follower-Of-Footsteps has enlisted your help on his journey to earn his right to the throne as he searches for the soul and consciousness of his ancestor, Always-A-Bigger-Fish, King of Zemblanity. And so far you have tracked them through the depths of the Heart itself.
With the Prince, you have found your way to The Harvest Bazaar, a place where you can exchange absolutely anything, from physical manifestations of concepts to even forgotten memories for the right price. A crazy place where you may have to keep your wits about you before they get lost or even pinched straight out of your head.
Will you be able to help the Prince find his ephemeral ancestor, or will this marketplace of madness take more than just what you intend to trade?
Minibeasts on Many Boats
Sail the highstreams as swashbuclking insects looking for treasure
System: Roll for Shoes (Hack)
GM: Kurt Pilbrow
Age Restriction: Family Friendly (Ages 8+)
Player Count: 3-5
The high seas aren’t the only place to be a swashbuckling pirate. If you look hard enough, you might just see the simple streams and pleasant ponds transform into the battlegrounds for compact critters and creepy crawlers on aquatic adventures.
You are the crew of the S.S. Swarmsong, looking to make a name for yourselves as the cutthroat buganeers you are. Captain Silverfish’s treasure is out there and if somebug is gonna find it why not let that bug be you?
An Domhan Eíle
Save The World. Both Of Them.
System: Homebrew
GM: Karri Kitty
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
You and 4 other heros get transported to the Otherworld, where things are looking pretty bad. The Otherworld has its own form of social media, and the leader of the Fairies First movement has found a lot of supporters in the wild - along with some enemies. The two sides are highly divided, and civil war is looming. One side wants to attack the world of modern humans, the side that has summoned you wants to prevent that war. As you adventure to stop this you will face both direct combat and social media combat. Are you ready to side with the Sídhe - and can you go viral in the Otherworld in time to save it?
Journey to Cinderhearth Hill
System: D&D 5.5e
GM: Aidan (The Rookie DM)
Age Restriction: General Audience (Ages 10+)
Player Count: 5
The harshest winter in living memory has pushed the forestfolk to the brink. Supplies are dwindling, tempers are fraying, and the first day of spring has stubbornly refused to arrive. Weeks pass, but the snows remain.
In desperation, the Forest Council turns to an ancient legend; a last, desparate hope.
A band of brave adventurers must make the dangerous journey to Cinderhearth Hill, explore the ancient ruins beneath it, and rekindle the legendary flame that once kept the seasons in balance.
Bit winter's grasp is not easily broken, and a power from an earlier age now stalks the land once more.
This game features player characters with unique ancestries based on Irish woodland creatures, and inspired by their role in myth and folklore.
Buried in the Bog
The Seal is breaking. Blood may hold it, if you choose to spill it.
System: Custom TTRPG System (Alpha Test)
GM: Dara Meehan
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 4
The Black Bog does not forget.
Beneath its sodden earth, an ancient Seal fractures. A bound horror stirs within its barrow, straining against its chains, fed for generations by blood. With the rising of the last Harvest Moon, the Bog Dwellers have converged on its tomb.
In Greycreek, a woman has been taken. By dawn, her blood will be offered in sacrifice.
Those who enter the Bog believe they are hunters, rescuers, or righteous blades. They are none of these. They arrive at the edge of a corrupt land, where every choice feeds the dark.
The choices they make will determine the fates of many. But in a land ravaged by the touch of Abtheral, nothing is as it seems.
The Seal will break.
The only question is when
The Massacre at Bleakspire Pass
Fear the dark below
System: Fallen Worlds (Homebrew)
GM: Darren Kenny/ Darken Creations
Age Restriction: Adult/Mature Themes
Player Count: 4
Escort aspiring merchant Valis Therrow through the Veins of the Earth, a massive dwarven tunnel system built in ancient times, to Bleakspire Pass where fortune awaits you all. In these ancient and neglected tunnels beasts, abominations, and all things foul have taken root. Can you survive the journey to Bleakspire... or will those that lurk in the dark consume you all?
Astraté's Light
Step into night, bring back the light
System: Dungeons & Dragons 5e
GM: Aodhán O'Leary (they/them)
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
The elders of the Valley sealed the true dark away - everyone says that; everyone except them. They have never spoken a single word to you about those adventures, except in their sleep when they cry out strange names in a strange language.
Recently, they've been crying out more often, the word Astraté echoing in the long nights.
Now the days have grown cold and laughter has become scarce in the Valley. The old folks shake their heads and the children glance beyond their shadows and won't go into the woods to play. The adults sip their drinks, mutter darkly and close their doors early, shutting in the light.
Until one day the fires are lit and the light doesn't stream out at all.
Terraforming Mars: Titanium City
Corporate Intrigue & Terraforming on the Red Planet
System: Terraforming Mars (playtest edition)
GM: Gareth Hanrahan
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
Mars is the new frontier, and titanium is the new gold rush. Earth's voracious economy needs metals - but your employer, Saturn Systems, has their own vision for humanity's future. The path to the moons of Jupiter starts in the red sands of Mars...
Orc & Pie
Cosy Village, Adorable Detectives, Grisly Crimes
System: Merryshire Detective Club (GUMSHOE)
GM: Gareth Hanrahan
Age Restriction: General Audience (Ages 10+)
Player Count: 5
You're a band of adorable halfling amateur detectives in a lovely little village, and a terrible crime has been committed - someone's stolen a meat pie from Mrs. Muggins' shop! Can you solve this case?
Warning: pies may contain allergens. Investigations may reveal dark secrets, family intrigue, sinister schemes, dangerous cheeses, hideous truths, buried passions and things best left hidden.
Silhouettes and Alcohol
A game for 5 delinquent teens who have just discovered magic is real.
System: Homebrew
GM: Rowland Cooper
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
Thousands of years ago, legends tell of powerful mages who roamed the world, liberating, subjugating and laying waste. Whatever they wanted, they could do. Whatever they desired, they could have. But then everything changed. No-one knows why, but magic doesn’t work any more. Maybe it never did. But then some travellers arrived… You overhear their strange language, and then they ask you for directions to a “cursed valley”, in your own language. Apparently they were using magic. When they leave, you look at your friends, and you wonder… What would you all do if you had magic?
Lights Out!
When a family of 6 finds out theirs is the only house affected by the power cut.
System: Innocents
GM: Rowland Cooper
Age Restriction: General Audience (Ages 10+)
Player Count: 6
Big sister Lex is on a camping trip. She always brings back cool things when she goes away. Like last time she brought home a giant tooth on a string! And the time before that a pretty purple feather! We're not allowed go into her room, but sometimes the twins do go in and play with her camping toys. She doesn't seem to mind, and she's not home very often anyway. Mom and Dad have had to take Gus to the hospital, so it's just me and my best friend looking after us for the night.
Everything was fine until after dinner, then all the lights went out. All the other houses are fine, and Mom's wards have activated so nothing can come into the garden, or leave. We just have to wait for Mom or Lex to get back. Or until the twins something stupid...
Mist and Myth: Call of the Warrior
System: A D&D 5e (Homebrew) for 5 heroes
GM: Fergal Monster
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
Fadó, fadó, long, long ago,
The heroes of old were not simple fables,
Greatness was not always Goodness,
Cunning was not always Wisdom,
Destiny and Doom were oft intertwined.
An ancient enemy returns from deep abyss,
The Warrior watches from the mists,
Calls heroes from ancient myths,
To send them back into darkest depths.
(h)Agony Aunt
A missing husband, an old woman in the woods & a terrible curse.
System: Dungeons & Dragons 5E (2014)
GM: Emerald Collective Dave
Age Restriction: Teen/Mature (Ages 16+)
Player Count: 5
In the bustling town of Clearpoint, south of the Vertex Crux mountains and near the Krozwoods forest, trouble brews.
Anya Spearbreaker is distraught—her husband Walter has not returned from the woods.
Worse, a reclusive old woman has been seen in town at night, threatening death and destruction unless her stolen glass orb is returned.
Anya begs the party to find Walter and bring him home safely.
Can they rescue him before the vengeful crone unleashes her wrath on Clearpoint?
The Lightless Beacon
April 12th 1926. The lighthouse has gone out and with it, your hope.
System: Call of Cthulhu 7th Ed
GM: The Dreaded DM
Age Restriction: Adult
Player Count: 5
It's the night of April 12th 1926. You are on the SS Essex County, a mixed cargo and passenger ship on its way to Rockport, Massachusetts. Unfortunately in 15 minutes time the Beacon Island Lighthouse will go out, causing your ship to founder on the island's rocks taking serious damage and requiring you to abandon ship. The crew advise that you and the other passengers take the lifeboat and land on Beacon Island. There's a storm brewing after all! Hopefully the lighthouse keepers will be able to help!