Gnome and Giant Games

Princess of Norland
2025-05-11 12:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | The Gnome Home, Glendale, Wisconsin
Once upon a time…
The Princess Amethyst has recently returned to the court of Norland after a mysterious six-month disappearance and her parents are overjoyed. In her wake a slew of royal guests have arrived as well – and two of them are seeking Amethyst’s hand in marriage. Now King Stephen and his queen must figure out what to do with their headstrong daughter and her two insistent suitors.
But even in the kingdom of the famed Sleeping Beauty, who slept for one hundred years and awoke to her happy ending several generations ago, happily ever afters are not easy to come by. And with one suitor a powerful, but entirely unexpected, king and the other a fop of a prince who has arrived with his domineering mother in tow, it’s not going to be easy to sort out this mess.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, the political ramifications of Amethyst’s marriage are piquing the interest of others who may be affected and even one of Amethyst’s sisters and her husband have been sent to make sure their kingdom’s interests are heard in the matter.
Are happily ever afters even to be found amongst political dealings, rumors and plots or did they disappear when the fairies did?
“The Princess of Norland” is a fairy-tale themed, theater-style, mechanics-light LARP. There will be politics, negotiations, plots, manipulations, secrets of varying sizes and shapes (even a secret identity or two), unrequited love, family struggles, rules being broken and possibly some fairy tale magic!

Diamond Geezers
2024-11-09 00:00 - 23:59
In September 2000 the Millennium Dome was raided by an intrepid armed gang, who used a JCB to break in and steal the De Beers diamonds worth an estimated 220 million pounds. The Guv’nor told you to come to meet him early at the lock up, because you’re the only one he trusts, but when you got there you found him murdered. You’ve got just three questions: who killed him, who will take over the gang, and most importantly where’s the bloody loot?

Borrowing heavily from the universe of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Layer Cake and Snatch (crime movies we highly recommend you see), this short and darkly humorous game gives you the chance to release your inner East London Gangster.

There will be tea and biscuits. WARNING – there may well be character death in this game. Shooters’ll be provided by the management. Players must be 18+.

Character sheets are quite long – 8 pages are typical. Costuming appropriately is encouraged to add to the feel of the game. There are certain East end prejudices that are implicit in the characters’ views including sexism. Violence in character’s backgrounds does exist consistent with the genre, and the game includes mechanics for the escalation of violence. It is rare for all characters to survive. There will be shouting, swearing and pointing of guns in people’s faces. Quite a lot, probably.
