English Role-Playing Game Club
Starting on September 13th there is going to be a role-playing game (RPG) club at the Athenaeum! Don’t get it
wrong: This is not a theatre group, it’s a game based on dialogue (sometimes
called pen-and-paper RPG). You take the role of a character and try to have
your character solve puzzles, find clues and ultimately defeat evil!
The place is the USA, the time is the 1920s, with a dark universe hidden
behind the façade which we believe to be reality. The characters you can play
are people like private detectives, reporters, scientists, priests/nuns, rich
guys/girls looking for a hobby and so on. The game is horror-themed and based
on the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. The game system is the “Call of
Cthulhu” system which focuses more on investigating and solving
mysteries than fighting monsters. (Sorry, no hack-and-slay unless you
like creating new characters!)
As with everything in life, this also has a catch: The game is in English.
But don’t worry! You will not be graded for what you do or say. Just
look at it as a fun way of improving your communicative skills! In order to be able to actively participate in the
game you should at least be in year 8 and be willing to speak English. If you
can understand this text, you’re fit to join! The sessions of the club are on
Tuesdays in the 7th and 8th lesson in room A206 (up the stairs to right of the
Vivarium).
The number of participants is limited to ten, so if you are interested, send an
email to [email protected] as quickly as possible! The first
ten to reply will be in, the others will be put on a waiting list if someone drops out later.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its
contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not
meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us
little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of
reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the
deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
H.P. Lovecraft