On purple blue background, on the left the word Games. On the right hand side, on the top the Creative Scotland logo, underneath the hashtag #Cymera2024
The Cymera Games Strand is back in its very own games space for 2024!
Find us in the Highland Room (RPG Space), on the top floor in the building right across from the main entrance, above the Festival Bookshop.
We are open on Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 am until late.
The games space is a free, drop in, safe place for folks to play tabletop games of all descriptions. Some games will be provided by us with experienced and friendly hosts to guide you through them and take you on an adventure. Or feel free to bring your own games, both board and rpg or whatever you fancy and make use of our space - bring some friends or make some there.
We will be asking everyone to use safety tools, at the very minimum the X-card at games played in our space and ask all who join us to familiarise themselves with our code of conduct and other policies to ensure a diverse, accessible and safe space for all.
Please note spaces are capped for everyone’s safety in the Games Space, we will do our best to accommodate you at all times but please be aware of these restrictions.
Schedule
There will always be tables for free play. If you are interested in any of the RPGs and Board Games, we recommend reserving a slot so we can gauge interest.
We are just finalizing the 2024 schedule, so watch this space for updates.
Saturday 1st June 2024
7pm: Inside the Rookery - Live from Cymera
‘Inside the Rookery’ join us live at Cymera as The Rookery host a special of their weekly RPG shindig.
Expect some lively chat and special birds of a feather joining our flock as we take a deep dive or should that be swoop into the ways and wynds of games in the company of our experts.
Hosted by The Rookery’s feathered flock
About the event:
Running time: 60 minutes
This event is free to attend but spaces are limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.
This event takes place in person and is broadcasted via the Rookery live stream. We will have a QA at the end of the panel, we will take questions from the in person audience and from folks inline via the Cymera or Rookery Discords or social media feeds.
Who are The Rookery?
The Rookery are Andy Law, Andy Leask, Graeme Davis, Mark Gibbons, and Lindsay Law, five award-winning TTRPG professionals with over a century’s combined experience in the gaming industry. They not only host Inside the Rookery, but also run their own company, Rookery Publications.
Watch their previous livestreams on YouTube Twitch and support Inside The Rookery on Patreon and find them on Twittter and Facebook
Meet the Cymera Hosts
ABS is known to hunt vampires and all manner of undead…
ABS
ABS programs and produces the Cymera Festival RPG strand amongst other things
ABS is hoping you would like the play the adventure he co-wrote for last year’s festival Green and Pleasance Land running Liminal the excellent urban fantasy system set in present day UK and ‘The Hidden World’
Or perhaps his freshly written mystery for Brindlewood Bay – ‘a roleplaying game about a group of elderly women—members of the local Murder Mavens mystery book club—who frequently find themselves investigating (and solving!) real-life murder mysteries.’ This adventure see the players visiting Scotland in ‘The Mavens Go Stravaiging aka That’s Another Fine Loch Mess You’ve Gotten Us Into’ and this would be the first public play of it!
He can be found at https://morefunwith.games/ or Twits @_A_B_S_ Insta @_A_B_5_ or @ABS@mastodon.social
Hildegard Von Bringem aka Hilde
Games Space Assistance Pup and Moral Support Mascot
Hildegard loves the magic of hugs and chasing balls
She thinks games are pawesome!
She particularly enjoys Call of Cat-thulhu
Hilde can be found on Twitter
Hildegard!