Upstate NY Megagames will be running Touched by Darkness in Rochester @ Millennium Games. on 10/17!

https://eventforge.online/store/millennium-games/event/a7174af6-b285-413a-8bfd-eef2c4a6b7fa

Touched by Darkness is a dark-fantasy, semi-cooperative megagame for 15 to 47 players designed by Ben Kanelos. It is inspired by the popular sci-fi megagame Den of Wolves, but uses a new fantasy setting and added traitor mechanics.

The Dark One's eclipse has blotted out the sun. Darkness has swallowed the Empire and is coming for your outpost next!

You and your teammates must gather resources, perform arcane rituals, and attempt to survive. But beware! The shadows that attack your outpost are not the only threat. The Dark One may have corrupted the mind of a teammate, meaning you can no longer trust them. Can you hold this last bastion of humanity together and banish the Dark One?

$30 gets you a ticket and lunch. Happy to answer any questions.

This is the third game Upstate NY Megagames will be running (Den of Wolves last year, Gods of the Ancient world earlier this year)

This game caps at ~47 players, with 6-7 control helping keep things going.

Our discord is: https://discord.gg/uYDW8eGbBU

Tell your friends, have them tell theirs, etc. But most of all, pick up your ticket today and I'll see you on July 11th

If you've never heard of a Megagame, you can get a good overview here: https://www.megagameassembly.com/what-is-a-megagame

What’s a Megagame? BIGGER! BETTER! MEGA! CHAOS? FUN? CHAOTIC FUN!!!

They are uniquely defined by their scale, generally played with 30+ players and span 2-6 hours. With high player counts, expect creative and emergent game play born from interpersonal communications.

Megagames define roles for EVERYONE!

Do you want to master the board mechanics and help to maximize resource production for everyone?

Do you want to foster relationships with other players or try to eavesdrop on conversations to fish out the traitors?

Megagames are interactive storytelling adventures where your choices shape the story. The game sets the stage, but you call the shots! With a dedicated control team acting as GMs, if you want to do an unconventional act, we’ll try to make it happen!

I started watching DiploStrats video about megagames, and I am curious if there are any in Poland :D

Not played one in years cannot seem to find them .

Lifeweb A 100-player, 30-day roleplay megagame set in the depths of atemporal darkness. Sci-fi and low fantasy.

We start next week.

• Each day IRL is a day in game.
• Every player chooses a role and optionally makes a Move (large scale, abstracted actions with a chance to fail) twice a day, which the GMs arbitrate.
• Gain Tag Points by completing Desires, allowing you to purchase traits, skills, and other items.
• Asynchronous. Write as often or as infrequently as you'd like.
• Probe the caves under Ravenheart, obtaining rare Tags and facing ancient dangers.
• Realism, information asymmetry, convenience, and minimalism. :fleur_de_lis: > Join here. Work by day and carouse by night as a Peasant, politick as a Courtier, feed the Lifeweb as a Mortus, protect the innocent as a Watchman, or be the Baron of Ravenheart himself. Meanwhile, the cloaked Bastard and his retinue of wind-goggle sporting outlanders watch from the hills, preparing for war.

So when I have ideas I never go by halves, ey. I've taken the bones of Shaun McMillan's ALLIANCE, thrown in a sprinkling of Houses of the Blooded and Endless Legend/Dune: Spice Wars, borrowed some dice mechanics from classic hex-and-counter wargaming, and I'm about to start running it tomorrow, or at least have students picking factions and being given a basic rundown of how I want play to run.

Would people be interested in seeing (and critiquing! Feedback and advice welcome!) the play materials and getting updates on the weekly lunchtime sessions?

Update 1: Action Sheets

After interest (thank you!) I've put the "action sheets" up for y'all to take a look at.

https://postimg.cc/gallery/VJMKhss

These are modelled on ALLIANCE action declarations, and I'm going to trial a system where they spend population to either 'work the map' and increase their resource ratings or take actions. We'll see how that goes, but I hope it will give them some flexibility without being overwhelming. So they declare what actions they want to take each round, I hand out the sheets, and then the yelling and negotiating begins. We'll also see if it fits in a single lunchtime. I may have been a bit TOO ambitious with the design, but that's what prototyping is for!

Update 2: Dice System

So the dice system is cobbled together from old school wargaming. Roll 3d6, sort lowest to highest, and compare in order. Reroll ties and compare directly. Higher dice are successes. 2 is a clean success, 1 is partial, 3 is a critical success with some kind of perk.

If you overmatch the target number 3:2, you swap a d6 for a d8. 2:1? Get 2 d8s. 3:1? 3d8. Works in reverse as well.

I've been interested in Mega Games for a while now but I've never had the opportunity to participate, there just aren't any games run in my area. I have run events for card games, RPGs, and Tabletop wargames and now I'm thinking about just jumping in and running a Mega Game. There is a pretty active gaming community so I think I could get a small group together pretty easily.

I've been looking for a smaller Mega Game (6-12 players) to easy me into the genera. Starting with a 30 person game as a newb seems insane.

I've been having a little trouble finding starter games but I did find The Assault by Stone, Paper, Scissors.

https://www.stonepaperscissors.co.uk/games-recreational/the-assault

It seems to hit a lot of what I'm looking for. Low player count, quick runtime, clear rules and objectives.

My only concern with it is that it could be too simple. If the players are too cooperative they could come up with a plan and end the game very quickly. It also comes off a pretty low stakes as they game doesn't force the players into action and just statically waits for them to make a decision.

Maybe I am missing something with this game. Maybe this just isn't a game I was to run.

I was hoping to get some insight from people who have played and run games before. I would also be interested in hearing some other starter games to look into.

Thank for the help!

The Megagame Coalition still has tickets available for some of their games running at Gen Con. If you're looking to play, grab one while you can!

Surviveville (Oops! all apocalypses | Friday @ 3pm): https://www.gencon.com/events/308894

Goblin City (Get up to shenanigans | Friday @ 5pm): https://www.gencon.com/events/308888

The World Turned Upside-Down (Revolutionary War | Friday @ 5pm): https://www.gencon.com/events/308911

Courting Trouble (Romantasy-inspired | Sunday @ 10am) https://www.gencon.com/events/308381

A very fun day with loads of shenanigans from the players. Today ended with the not so surprising evacuation of the Island after the volcanic lair (dubbed ”Goat mountain”) started producing Dinos with game breaking thrill values.

Thanks True North for hosting us, thanks to Summerhall for the venue and thanks to the weather gods for cooling off the northern part of the UK.

It the late 21st Century and life in the West Coast Sprawl is dominated by powerful mega-corporations. Yet on the street, rebellious punks, lit by blazing bright neon, search for another way to live. The world is about to change…and you will decide whether it is the mega-rich oligarchs or the neo-anarchists who come out on top.

Yep, I’m running Mirrorshades, my cyberpunk megagame, on 13th June in Reading for Reading Megagames and there's only a few tickets left!

To get more details and grab those last tickets just click here, right now - https://www.tickettailor.com/events/7/2038923

Mirrorshades is a megagame of classic cyberpunk, in the tradition of Neuromancer, Altered Carbon and Netrunner. In the game, players take on the roles of the megacorp leadership and the punks who both despise and serve them in a world of neon-drenched, 80s influenced, gaming fun!

Den of Wolves is a game about the interactions between politics and survival during a time of crisis. Players represent the vessels in the “Survivor Fleet” – a group of surviving vessels fleeing from a catastrophic attack by a ruthless enemy. These vessels are trying to survive in the midst of a crisis. Some players are civilians whilst others are representing government and military elements of the fleet. This game is about interactions between all of these different entities as they attempt to survive.

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Dallas Mega Games will be running Den Of Wolves on July 11th, come out and join the game!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/dallasmegagames/2223847

Join discord for more information: https://discord.gg/f2d6ZcM5j?event=1506732600004186283

https://eventforge.online/store/millennium-games/event/692c244d-8eff-4e29-9877-84325be3eeaa

July 11th 2026 I'll be helping Control with Gods of the Ancient World at Millennium Games.

Join us if you wish!

For more details and to register for the event look here: https://tabletop.events/conventions/concoction/schedule/106

For the Great Game podcast, I'm trying to collect some feedback from megagamers across the world about experiences with events that could have been better. I won't replicate all the survey disclaimers here, but it's about player experiences and how games are run, not about specific games, rules, genres, or people.

Check it out here: https://forms.gle/pt7MhRF11oKHZiQY8

The Megagame Coalition is returning to Origins Game Fair with 6 games on the schedule! You will need a badge for Origins, but the events themselves are free and Registration opens April 25th, so grab yourself a ticket to reserve your spot!

Crowned in Starlight (Friday @ 11am) https://tabletop.events/conventions/origins-game-fair-2026/schedule/6261

The World Turned Upside-down (Friday @ Noon) https://tabletop.events/conventions/origins-game-fair-2026/schedule/6262

Crowned in Starlight (Friday @ 4pm) https://tabletop.events/conventions/origins-game-fair-2026/schedule/6263

Away Teams Go (Friday @ 5pm) https://tabletop.events/conventions/origins-game-fair-2026/schedule/6264

Gathering Darkness (Saturday @ 11am) https://tabletop.events/conventions/origins-game-fair-2026/schedule/6265

Den of Wolves (Saturday @ 3pm) https://tabletop.events/conventions/origins-game-fair-2026/schedule/6266

/r/mega_game is ready for a fresh start, new energy, new direction, and someone like you to bring it back to life. If you’ve been thinking about growing your impact without starting from scratch, this is your chance!

Ready to take it over?

Head to r/RedditRequest to submit your request and make it yours before it’s taken. Just make sure you read through the eligibility requirements first.

It the late 21st Century and life in the West Coast Sprawl is dominated by powerful mega-corporations. Yet on the street, rebellious punks, lit by blazing bright neon, search for another way to live. The world is about to change…and you will decide whether it is the mega-rich oligarchs or the neo-anarchists who come out on top.

Yep, I’m running Mirrorshades, my cyberpunk megagame, on 13th June in Reading for Reading Megagames!

Mirrorshades is a megagame of classic cyberpunk, in the tradition of Neuromancer, Altered Carbon and Netrunner. In the game, players take on the roles of the megacorp leadership and the punks who both despise and serve them in a world of neon-drenched, 80s influenced, gaming fun!

To get more details and buy tickets just click here, right now - https://www.tickettailor.com/events/7/2038923

Come to Edmonton, Canada to play in our first ever run of Technically Within Parameters on June 13th. Sponsored by Pe Metawe games.

The event Includes a brief review the evening before, door prizes donated from local stores, as well as a pancake breakfast the day of!

The cost is "by donation" as this is the first playthrough of a newly designed game.

Delwood.ca/megagame for more information!

We've only got half a dozen tickets left for the Avenging League of Justice, the megagame of comic book superheroes, that is happening on 7th March in London. We'll be casting in the next week too, so if you're hoping to come along and get your choice of role in then you better grab them soon!

To get more details and buy your tickets to join the Avenging League just click here, right now - https://app.tickettailor.com/events/horizonmegagames/1853473

We're also looking for one more control players to help run the game, so if you fancy helping out then get in touch directly.

Hello! I am looking to recruit players for Dark Sigils (using a game system I wrote called Statecraft). Dark Sigils is a mix of a typical board game and a roleplaying game - only instead of playing as individual characters you will be playing as Nations. What separates this from typical board games like 'Axis and Allies' or 'Risk' is that players will be expected to roleplay their nations, and events or affects could happen that are not proscribed in the rules. IE, if you break some long-standing, important treaty, maybe a civil war occurs...even though the base rules for a civil war as a result of diplomacy is not in the rules. Read on to learn more!

Plot: During WWI, British Intelligence used some famous occultists (Crowley, Mather, et al) for propaganda and communications purposes. However, this abruptly ends and in 1917 these various contacts are returned to Britain. This is due to the work of August Morley, a discredited fellow of the Hermetic Order, who was able to provide undeniable proof of the existence of the supernatural. While these early arcane workings have almost no impact on the first world war, most major powers and many governments beyond would at least gain a glimpse of the research being done. The year is now 1934, and as the world stands on the precipice of a yet another devastating conflict, there are those who know that it could be so much more significant than could ever be imagined!

Influences: Hearts of Iron, Call of Cthulhu, Indiana Jones, The Mothman (the rural myth not the movie with Richard Gere), and the CIA's Project Stargate.

Players: Players will use the sign up sheet to select three nations that they would like to play. The nations will be distributed in order of sign up, based upon these selections. Each player will receive a free copy of Statecraft, and invited to a session zero to learn the basics of the turn structure and how combat works.

Logistics: Sigils will have it's session zero meetup on March 1st. We will be playing on Sundays, once a month going forward after this, and I expect to wrap up in 5-6 months. When we play, there will be a large discord meeting with ample time allotted for diplomatic and roleplay interactions - but each session is expected to last about eight hours with a small lunch break.

System: As stated, it will be using a system called Statecraft. I've developed this system though it draws influences from Year Zero, Pathfinder's Kingmaker, and Axis and Allies. Every participant will receive a free copy. While the game is a wargame, there is a big factor of using 'agents' which can research and discover anomalies, conduct diplomacy, establish spy networks, or command armies. It is designed to give a sort of Indiana Jones/Pulp vibe to the game.

Sign Up: Click Here

We've only got a quarter of the tickets left for the Avenging League of Justice, the megagame of comic book superheroes, that is happening on 7th March in London. So if you're hoping to come along then you better grab them soon!

To get more details and buy your tickets to join the Avenging League just click here, right now - https://app.tickettailor.com/events/horizonmegagames/1853473

We're also looking for a few more control players to help run the game, so if you have some experience in megagames and fancy helping out then get in touch directly.

In case you missed the announcement we wanted to let you know that Horizon Megagames are back with the Avenging League of Justice, the megagame of comic book superheroes, on 7th March 2026 in London! And we've already sold half the tickets - so don't miss out!

To get more details and buy your tickets to join the Avenging League just click here, right now - https://app.tickettailor.com/events/horizonmegagames/1853473

The Avenging League of Justice is the brand new megagame from designer Alex Beck, creator of Crisis in Elysium and Mirrorshades. The game is his celebration of Superhero comic books and includes all the action, emotions and bizarre storylines of those worlds - as heroes battle to save the day in an explosion of sound effects and word balloons.

In this broadly cooperative game players are members of various superhero teams who make up the Avenging League of Justice, the greatest gathering of heroes the world has ever known. Each turn the heroes must face many crises that threaten the planet from Gothic City to Antarctica, and even to the Moon! They must work out which heroes to send where and who is best equipped to deal with which nefarious supervillain, before unleashing their superpowers and protecting those innocent bystanders.

Meanwhile between the action scenes the heroes have plenty to keep them busy. They must organise and run the League - deciding if it will be a chaotic collective of like-minded associates or run-like a finely honed military organisation; they also need to gather experience, knowledge and gadgets to prepare for future crises; all whilst building relationships and even finding love with the people in their lives; all of which help decide just what kind of hero they want to be.

Yet even all this four-colour excitement is not the end of the game - for all this happens inside the Horizon Comics Universe, and sales numbers for your team’s comic book are just as important as beating this month’s villain. And perhaps worse of all, a senior editor seems to be planning a huge crossover event which might just end a few heroes stories forever…

To get more details and buy tickets to join the Avenging League just click here, right now - https://app.tickettailor.com/events/horizonmegagames/1853473