Historical A-G
This page is for games which are set in a historical or "pseudo-historical" setting where the name of the game starts with A-G. This can include alternate history, low fantasy settings,Victoriana and Steampunk games
1848: Revolution
The year is 1848. Famine has struck Europe, Marx & Engels have published their Communist Manifesto, and the starving masses have risen up against the oppressive political system. From the East End a group of Radicals try to direct London's angry mob, whilst south of the river the Chartists gather on Kennington Common. Meanwhile the military is co-ordinating their reponse from a room inside Buckingham Palace, and the politicians are stuck inside the Palace of Westminster as the mob howls for their blood. Crack forces on both sides descend into the thick of the fray, trying to turn the tide and to uncover their enemy's secrets. Both sides face internal divisions, bitter arguments about what Britain's political structure will look like after the revolution. And traitors lurk in everyone's midst...
Guide your people to victory. Build a better world. Trust no-one.
1848 is a one-off weekend Nerf LARP-meets-Mega Game-meets-Political Freeform. It's a sequel to the Masquerades & Massacres campaign, but the setting has changed over the intervening 15 years and knowledge of M&M isn't really necessary.
WEBSITE
https://www.facebook.com/groups/744222748923032/
Setting Intro
https://www.facebook.com/groups/744222748923032/permalink/744273598917947/
Rules Intro
https://www.facebook.com/groups/744222748923032/permalink/744264468918860/
Guide your people to victory. Build a better world. Trust no-one.
1848 is a one-off weekend Nerf LARP-meets-Mega Game-meets-Political Freeform. It's a sequel to the Masquerades & Massacres campaign, but the setting has changed over the intervening 15 years and knowledge of M&M isn't really necessary.
WEBSITE
https://www.facebook.com/groups/744222748923032/
Setting Intro
https://www.facebook.com/groups/744222748923032/permalink/744273598917947/
Rules Intro
https://www.facebook.com/groups/744222748923032/permalink/744264468918860/
Age of Aether
Age of Aether (AoA) is a science fantasy Live Action Role-Playing game (LARP) based on the concepts of H. G. Wells’ novel, “War of the Worlds”. Drawing on influences from the steampunk, science fiction and fantasy genres, AoA is a truly unique role-playing experience that will take you into an alternative history of the 19th Century world.
Players assume the roles of members and associates of a worldwide organisation known as The Reputable Intrepid Adventurers Club (or T.R.I.A.C.) during an interplanetary war with Mars. For the second time in a century, the Martians have sent their war machines to Earth, hell bent on taking the world for their own.
T.R.I.A.C. is an association that draws the greatest minds and adventurers from many of the world’s remaining nations that have banded together to aid in the war effort in any way they can. Some combat the Martian threat directly as soldiers and investigators. Others gather precious resources create new and interesting inventions and research into the biology and technology of the Martian foe. Still others use their skills in the medical and pharmacological arts to aid in the fight. Finally there are those humans who have been changed by the Martian invasion and now possess the ability to use strange powers, the Resonants.
Humanity, however, is not alone. Alongside them are a number of alien races, freed from the Martian invaders. They too have something to gain, something to fight for and something to lose.
The fate of the planet rests on a knife edge. Only you and your fellow extraordinary colleagues can push back the threat and win the war for Earth’s survival…
WEBSITE
http://macifaria-games.co.uk/ageofaether/index.html
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Age-of-Aether/1023564241000729?sk=timeline
Players assume the roles of members and associates of a worldwide organisation known as The Reputable Intrepid Adventurers Club (or T.R.I.A.C.) during an interplanetary war with Mars. For the second time in a century, the Martians have sent their war machines to Earth, hell bent on taking the world for their own.
T.R.I.A.C. is an association that draws the greatest minds and adventurers from many of the world’s remaining nations that have banded together to aid in the war effort in any way they can. Some combat the Martian threat directly as soldiers and investigators. Others gather precious resources create new and interesting inventions and research into the biology and technology of the Martian foe. Still others use their skills in the medical and pharmacological arts to aid in the fight. Finally there are those humans who have been changed by the Martian invasion and now possess the ability to use strange powers, the Resonants.
Humanity, however, is not alone. Alongside them are a number of alien races, freed from the Martian invaders. They too have something to gain, something to fight for and something to lose.
The fate of the planet rests on a knife edge. Only you and your fellow extraordinary colleagues can push back the threat and win the war for Earth’s survival…
WEBSITE
http://macifaria-games.co.uk/ageofaether/index.html
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Age-of-Aether/1023564241000729?sk=timeline
Anarchy LARP
I neither can, nor may I tell all the wounds and all the pains which they inflicted on wretched men in this land. This lasted the nineteen winters while Stephen was king; and it grew continually worse and worse. They constantly laid guilds on the towns, and called it "tenserie"; and when the wretched men had no more to give, then they plundered and burned all the towns; that well thou mightest go a whole day's journey and never shouldest thou find a man sitting in a town, nor the land tilled. Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter; for none was there in the land. Wretched men starved of hunger. Some had recourse to alms, who were for a while rich men, and some fled out of the land. Never yet was there more wretchedness in the land; nor ever did heathen men worse than they did: for, after a time, they spared neither church nor churchyard, but took all the goods that were therein, and then burned the church and all together. Neither did they spare a bishop's land, or an abbot's, or a priest's, but plundered both monks and clerks; and every man robbed another who could. If two men, or three, came riding to a town, all the township fled for them, concluding them to be robbers. The bishops and learned men cursed them continually, but the effect thereof was nothing to them; for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and abandoned. To till the ground was to plough the sea: the earth bare no corn, for the land was all laid waste by such deeds; and they said openly, that Christ slept, and his saints. Such things, and more than we can say, suffered we nineteen winters for our sins.
- The Anglo Saxon Chronicle, 1138
Welcome: This an Anarchy LRP - historical roleplay in the time of war between Stephen and Matilda: 1135-1153AD. It is a time of intrigue, war, murder, robbery and of course, Anarchy!
WEBSITE
http://anarchylarp.wikidot.com/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/310582419374200/
- The Anglo Saxon Chronicle, 1138
Welcome: This an Anarchy LRP - historical roleplay in the time of war between Stephen and Matilda: 1135-1153AD. It is a time of intrigue, war, murder, robbery and of course, Anarchy!
WEBSITE
http://anarchylarp.wikidot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/310582419374200/
Blood Red Roses
Originally set as The Wars of the Roses (1455– 1487) the game has since developed in to its own original setting. Many fashions, styles and attitudes in the game are still taken from this period. The world is a mid-low, dark fantasy parody of our own set in the ‘League State’ of Algundy under Arch-Duke Harold. Algundy is a land recently rent by civil war. Beset by evil, both mortal and otherwise, this is a land of violence and humanity.
Magic is shunned and feared, it is evil with it’s practitioners hunted down by The Church of the ‘Grey Lady.’.
Alchemists advance the use of terrifying new weapons using a new black powder. The Lost (undead) walk the land in many terrible and horrific forms. The Evil moves in from the east it’s magical tentacles reaching into the hearts of men and women the League over. Into this world we invite you to bring a hero or villain of your own creation.
WEBSITE
http://www.bloodredroses.co.uk/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4858824797/
Twitter
https://twitter.com/brr_larp
Magic is shunned and feared, it is evil with it’s practitioners hunted down by The Church of the ‘Grey Lady.’.
Alchemists advance the use of terrifying new weapons using a new black powder. The Lost (undead) walk the land in many terrible and horrific forms. The Evil moves in from the east it’s magical tentacles reaching into the hearts of men and women the League over. Into this world we invite you to bring a hero or villain of your own creation.
WEBSITE
http://www.bloodredroses.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4858824797/
https://twitter.com/brr_larp
Buccaneers of the Damned
Buccaneers of the Damned is a series of events run by EYE LARP, using light freeform rules (they're more a guide really) and definitely doesn't involve Pirates.
WEBSITE
https://www.facebook.com/groups/657756290948214/
WEBSITE
https://www.facebook.com/groups/657756290948214/
Call of Cthulhu LARP (IED Games)
Set in the 1920s, post-war Britain is a very different place to what you have read in the history books. Some know this, some fear this to be true, but the Mythos is real. Horrifying monsters rule the universe, terrifying creatures haunt your dreams, and evil people are determined to unleash them on the unsuspecting population.
Standing against the darkness are a disparate group of investigators. Armed with their own unique set of skills and abilities (and some light firearms) this eclectic band aim to survive the oncoming horrors before madness, or death, inevitably claim them.
Inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Call of Cthulhu LARP strives to offer an immersive, yet frightening, Live Action Role-play game for players.
WEBSITE
http://ied-games.co.uk/coc-larp/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/728552877232271/
Standing against the darkness are a disparate group of investigators. Armed with their own unique set of skills and abilities (and some light firearms) this eclectic band aim to survive the oncoming horrors before madness, or death, inevitably claim them.
Inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Call of Cthulhu LARP strives to offer an immersive, yet frightening, Live Action Role-play game for players.
WEBSITE
http://ied-games.co.uk/coc-larp/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/728552877232271/
Corpus Christie LRP
Corpus Christie LRP is in development. The current plan is that we will run the first event in November 2019, for a maximum of 20 players. We can’t make it any larger without losing the Agatha Christie country weekend feel. It will be set in a lovely house in the country, circa 1923, where the Princess Irina Volynsky, an exiled Russian aristocrat, has invited a number of her nearest and dearest friends, families and enemies. She is a woman with a number of deceased husbands, a lot of enemies, and a lot of money, and a collection of mysterious artefacts from around the world. What could go wrong?
The game will be a mix of classic Christie whodunit, combined with unsettling horror, madness and probably your imminent demise.
The cost will be £200 for the weekend, which includes food and accommodation. You’ll have to share rooms, but it’s small rooms, not dorms and we hope to make the food tasty.
WEBSITE
https://corpuschristielrp.wordpress.com/
Facebook
www.facebook.com/groups/242712303129380/
The game will be a mix of classic Christie whodunit, combined with unsettling horror, madness and probably your imminent demise.
The cost will be £200 for the weekend, which includes food and accommodation. You’ll have to share rooms, but it’s small rooms, not dorms and we hope to make the food tasty.
WEBSITE
https://corpuschristielrp.wordpress.com/
www.facebook.com/groups/242712303129380/
Criminal Contact
A dynamic, live action role playing game set in the fictional town with a Steampunk setting, these day long events invite players to explore 'New Warleans'; (located at Warminster Activity centre) a fictional town built on a fully functioning economy, populated with interactive characters and overflowing with numerous opportunities to acquire 'credits'.
Your challenge is to discover, and then exploit (in whatever way you feel best) the many supplies and demands offered by the diverse residents of New Warleans, and the surrounding 'badlands'. Invest your starting funds in some of the hundreds of 'products'; from Fertilizer to Firearms, protection to propaganda, everyone needs something!
Adopt a gang, or go it alone on your quest to be the single richest player by the end of the day.
WEBSITE
https://www.facebook.com/criminalcontact?fref=nf
Your challenge is to discover, and then exploit (in whatever way you feel best) the many supplies and demands offered by the diverse residents of New Warleans, and the surrounding 'badlands'. Invest your starting funds in some of the hundreds of 'products'; from Fertilizer to Firearms, protection to propaganda, everyone needs something!
Adopt a gang, or go it alone on your quest to be the single richest player by the end of the day.
WEBSITE
https://www.facebook.com/criminalcontact?fref=nf
Crooked House
Crooked House are organisers of high-concept high-budget ludicrously effect-packed live-roleplaying events.
Their first event at the start of 2015, called "God Rest Ye Merry", was a ghost story set at Christmas 1954 about an extended family returning to their ancestral home for the first time in years.
They hired a sprawling, creaky old mansion on Exmoor and filled it with props, documents and special effects. Then they led their players into their world. They stayed there for 48 hours without a break, subjected to psychological trickery, computer game technology, video, audio, smells and stunts to put them through the wringer
WEBSITE
http://crookedhouse.org/
And their amazing "behind the scenes" site
http://crookedhouse.org/grym-home/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/crookedhouselrp?fref=nf
Twitter
https://twitter.com/crookedhouseorg
Their first event at the start of 2015, called "God Rest Ye Merry", was a ghost story set at Christmas 1954 about an extended family returning to their ancestral home for the first time in years.
They hired a sprawling, creaky old mansion on Exmoor and filled it with props, documents and special effects. Then they led their players into their world. They stayed there for 48 hours without a break, subjected to psychological trickery, computer game technology, video, audio, smells and stunts to put them through the wringer
WEBSITE
http://crookedhouse.org/
And their amazing "behind the scenes" site
http://crookedhouse.org/grym-home/
https://www.facebook.com/crookedhouselrp?fref=nf
https://twitter.com/crookedhouseorg
Cry Havoc
Duke Stephen of Wessex has gone missing, his exiled half-brother Edmund has returned at the head of an army, composed largely of Burgundian mercenaries, and seized Winchester, claiming the Dukedom for himself. Edmund’s veteran Burgundians have, so far, swept aside any resistance loyal to Duke Stephen. Ill equipped to resist, many of the burghers and lords of Wessex have capitulated and sworn fealty to Edmund. To the west Lady Ann of Wessex, Duke Stephen’s wife is in a perilous position, residing at Glastonbury with her young son Arthur: Duke Stephen’s heir. Edmund has already sent messengers requiring Lady Anne to attend him at Winchester, together with her household, fearing for her life, and lacking military strength or support, Lady Anne has fled with a few loyal retainers and taken refuge in the hidden places of the countryside. Though she has been abandoned by many supporters, she is not without resources or powerful friends. There are many who would prefer a duchess, or a regent for the young Duke, than an ambitious militaristic Duke Edmund.
To save her land and the lives of her family, and loyal subjects, she has decided to fight if she can. To this end she has engaged the services of an exiled soldier of fortune Captain Walter Savage who has sent forth a call to arms and undertaken to train such soldiers who will come to resist Edmund's elite Burgundians. Loyal Yeomen of Wessex who know the secret ways of the country; wild gallowglass clansmen from Ireland; soldiers of fortune; erstwhile allies of Duke Stephen’s Wessex – who knows who will answer the call? All that is certain is that Lady Anne’s rag-tag little force is determined to resist Duke Edmund and defy him with every means at their disposal.
The game is based around the formation of a mercenary company and the training and organisation needed to make it effective in battle. You can play brigands, mercenaries, adventurers from afar, Lady Anne's own soldiers and entourage, craftspeople, artists, merchants or members of a splintered clergy
WEBSITE
http://cryhavoc.uk/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1475494726086720/
To save her land and the lives of her family, and loyal subjects, she has decided to fight if she can. To this end she has engaged the services of an exiled soldier of fortune Captain Walter Savage who has sent forth a call to arms and undertaken to train such soldiers who will come to resist Edmund's elite Burgundians. Loyal Yeomen of Wessex who know the secret ways of the country; wild gallowglass clansmen from Ireland; soldiers of fortune; erstwhile allies of Duke Stephen’s Wessex – who knows who will answer the call? All that is certain is that Lady Anne’s rag-tag little force is determined to resist Duke Edmund and defy him with every means at their disposal.
The game is based around the formation of a mercenary company and the training and organisation needed to make it effective in battle. You can play brigands, mercenaries, adventurers from afar, Lady Anne's own soldiers and entourage, craftspeople, artists, merchants or members of a splintered clergy
WEBSITE
http://cryhavoc.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1475494726086720/
The Dark Door
Since 1993 The Dark Door has been running horror based live role-playing events set within the Cthulhu Mythos.
Set in the 1920's, players take on the role of investigators of the macabre collectively pitting their wits (and nerve) against the dark forces at play. Our aim is to scare and entertain participants while they uncover arcane secrets and do battle with a pantheon of powerful beings from beyond the stars! During play you will interact in character with other players and "non-player" characters, some trustworthy and some not so. Clues will be found, mysterious secrets uncovered and beasts summoned. Many will surely die, though the dead often prove to be somewhat animated!
WEBSITE
http://www.thedarkdoor.co.uk/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/7386882815/
Set in the 1920's, players take on the role of investigators of the macabre collectively pitting their wits (and nerve) against the dark forces at play. Our aim is to scare and entertain participants while they uncover arcane secrets and do battle with a pantheon of powerful beings from beyond the stars! During play you will interact in character with other players and "non-player" characters, some trustworthy and some not so. Clues will be found, mysterious secrets uncovered and beasts summoned. Many will surely die, though the dead often prove to be somewhat animated!
WEBSITE
http://www.thedarkdoor.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/7386882815/
Diaspora LARP
Diaspora is a brand new Diesel-Punk Fusion LARP, combining elements of exploration, science, discovery, politics, espionage and a side-helping of Film Noir - coming soon for 2017!
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1507223929586307/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1507223929586307/
Dreams of Empire
Dreams of Empire - part role-playing game, part board game but wholly awesome.
Players take on the role of a 19th Century nation's government, an inventor-explorer or an intrepid member of the press as they deal with strange events and each other in an alternative history 1860s. Technological progress, cultural achievements or even war against your fellow players are all tools at your disposal to achieve your objectives in a world creeping toward a sinister future!
There are ten nations teams available (each of four players), two press positions and five inventor-explorers. The nation teams are made up of a head of state, minister of war, finance minister and a foreign minister who have their own roles and abilities with which to help their team; inventor-explorers can go on expeditions to uncover forbidden knowledge, or create strange new devices in their labs; meanwhile the press stand for truth and knowledge in dark times.
WEBSITE
https://www.facebook.com/DreamsofEmpire/timeline
Players take on the role of a 19th Century nation's government, an inventor-explorer or an intrepid member of the press as they deal with strange events and each other in an alternative history 1860s. Technological progress, cultural achievements or even war against your fellow players are all tools at your disposal to achieve your objectives in a world creeping toward a sinister future!
There are ten nations teams available (each of four players), two press positions and five inventor-explorers. The nation teams are made up of a head of state, minister of war, finance minister and a foreign minister who have their own roles and abilities with which to help their team; inventor-explorers can go on expeditions to uncover forbidden knowledge, or create strange new devices in their labs; meanwhile the press stand for truth and knowledge in dark times.
WEBSITE
https://www.facebook.com/DreamsofEmpire/timeline
Dumnonni Chronicles
Dumnonni chronicles is a live role-play group that bases its games on Celtic / dark ages mythology tradition and fashion but stylised and enlarged to create a heroic but realistic feel.In Dumnonni the look and feel is re-enactment meets fantasy and we like to think that our players spend some time and thought on ensuring that there kit and costume fit well with the setting.
We think that good costume and good role playing go hand in hand to create both believability and atmosphere. Our games endeavour to be accessible to players that enjoy many different aspects of the game. We like to think that we can guide a plot where both thought and action are equally important and so caters to a broad range of desires.
The period that we draw inspiration from is 200 BC to 900 AD allowing a large scope of social and cultural background .There is also a mythological slant to our games that broadens this further.
We run "low fantasy” games were although the fantastic is accepted it is handled in a rational way. Our aim is to run a good story with a feel of authenticity to the era with fantastic and even comedic elements…Just like all the most well read and entertaining accounts of the time.
WEBSITE
http://www.dumnonni.com/index.php
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/5084209706/
We think that good costume and good role playing go hand in hand to create both believability and atmosphere. Our games endeavour to be accessible to players that enjoy many different aspects of the game. We like to think that we can guide a plot where both thought and action are equally important and so caters to a broad range of desires.
The period that we draw inspiration from is 200 BC to 900 AD allowing a large scope of social and cultural background .There is also a mythological slant to our games that broadens this further.
We run "low fantasy” games were although the fantastic is accepted it is handled in a rational way. Our aim is to run a good story with a feel of authenticity to the era with fantastic and even comedic elements…Just like all the most well read and entertaining accounts of the time.
WEBSITE
http://www.dumnonni.com/index.php
https://www.facebook.com/groups/5084209706/
Flying Lead
New to Wild West Larp? or new to Larp?? This is a great game to get involved in. Watched the countless cheesy westerns? do you love Deadwood and Hell on Wheels?? This is the game for you. A totally organic experience set in a purpose built town, with a 65 acre backdrop of mixed wood and pine. Camping, cooking and living the experience, Flying lead is as true a FilmSim as you will get. FREE loan kit and weapons if needed!
WEBSITE
http://eyelarp.com/games/flying-lead/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/714938728586706/?ref=group_cover
WEBSITE
http://eyelarp.com/games/flying-lead/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/714938728586706/?ref=group_cover
The Good, The Bad and the Dead
The year is 1849 and the new world of the Americas is slowly being tamed. America in which the game is set is a place both familiar and very different. Much like the traditional wild west the gun is king and the gunfighter a legend, Indian tribes still live free beyond the frontier and a man or woman can carve out a reputation and a fortune from the dusty trails.
As a Regulator, you are a gun for hire making a living on the new frontier. Play as a gunslinger or prospector, doctor or preacher your character could be called upon to deal with local bandito attacks to finding a lost Spanish gold shipment.
The game is open to players over the age of 18 and is currently by invite or recommendation of existing players only. We will be running events for around 20-25 players with a strong persistent character driven story focus
WEBSITE
http://www.liveroleplay.com/gbd/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/390650664299770/
As a Regulator, you are a gun for hire making a living on the new frontier. Play as a gunslinger or prospector, doctor or preacher your character could be called upon to deal with local bandito attacks to finding a lost Spanish gold shipment.
The game is open to players over the age of 18 and is currently by invite or recommendation of existing players only. We will be running events for around 20-25 players with a strong persistent character driven story focus
WEBSITE
http://www.liveroleplay.com/gbd/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/390650664299770/
Gothic LRP
Gothic is a UK based action-horror LRP system set in late Victorian Britain, circa 1880-1900. The players are intrepid adventurers investigating and attempting to thwart the forces of darkness and the supernatural.
WEBSITE
https://www.facebook.com/groups/gothiclrp/
WEBSITE
https://www.facebook.com/groups/gothiclrp/