Free RPG Day 2024
Free RPG Day 2024
You might remember last years post on Free RPG Day. This year Free RPG Day was on 22nd June 2024, and you can find out more about Free RPG Day here.
I had such a great time last year, I was the again asking if my local gaming store, OnTableTop, was going to host games this year... and to my delight they said yes!
The plan this year was to do something similar to previous, with two tables for RPGs, with three two hour slots across the day. I was doing the organising in the background and made a few calls to various GMs I knew to see if they would run a game for me. I myself was going to run The Witch is Dead by Grant Howitt, Deep Space by Jonathan Hicks, and Mesopotamians by Nick Wedig.
Sadly, through a lack of communication from the gaming store, I was chasing them without luck and they left it too late to order all the goodies for Free RPG Day. Whilst this was not the best situation, I decided to go ahead with the games and somewhere around the beginning of June confirmed that two tables would be available for RPGs. The response I got was not heartening, as the gaming store was undergoing refurbishment that particular weekend which meant the store was unavailable for Free RPG Day.
I reported this bombshell news through the social media channels and a kind community member asked a local café for the use of the back half of their shop. Gladly they said yes, although whatever was to be planned would be a very stripped down version of Free RPG Day as there was definitely not the same space available.
With this in mind I cancelled all previous (grand) plans for Free RPG Day and set about organising for two games (or three if I could manage the time and squeeze another one in) for that Saturday in the café
In the end I ran two games, Mesopotamians and The Quiet Year, and many thanks to Infuse Tea Bar for letting me use their facility.
Although this was not the Free RPG Day I had envisioned, I enjoyed myself (although by backside hurt from sitting on a small hard stool for about 6 hours!) and gaming in a café (for a few hours) would be something I would consider again.
Although disheartened and the outcome of events, I am not discouraged and am looking forward to Free RPG Day 2025.
J