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Handlebar Games

We design and run pen-and-paper roleplaying games.

Join us for some epic adventures in fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and more!

Our Current Games and Adventures

Listing of the active games planned for Convergence 2023.

Memories of Nibiru

Memories of Nibiru (13+)

Cypher System (Customized)

You've been having vivid dreams, nightmares, about a rogue planet named Nibiru hitting Earth and killing everyone and everything. Each time you wake up screaming, astounded at how real it all felt. Then you found out that others have this same dream, about Nibiru. The internet says strange things about Nibiru, how people who remember it need to talk to the government, or how people who know about Nibiru are showing up murdered, or just never come home. You have to have answers, about these dreams but also about these strange things that keep happening to you. Did... did you fly for a bit? Lift a car? Shoot lasers from your eyes??? You need answers, which is why you agreed to attend a Nibiru's Anonymous therapy session strangely located in a warehouse in the rundown part of town. This is Cypher System's "The Origin" world, a mix of X-files and Superheros; use your powers to save yourself and your friends from corporate aquisition teams, government agencies, supercriminals and strange beings called The Collectors!

Terran Revenge Fleet

Terran Revenge Fleet (13+)

System: 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars (Customized)

This is an immensely fun, noisy, amusing game that is the perfect Convention throw away game. You don't need ANY experience with roleplaying to have a blast with this game. All the rules and supplies will be made available to you at the table. Come and go as you need and it won't hurt the game at all! Can only play for an hour, great! Come play! Age suggestion 13+ as there is lots of violence, sometimes disturbingly described, drug references are possible, and planetary level genocide is a must. They came from the stars and almost destroyed mankind. Almost, is not enough though. We clawed our way back from ruin and chaos and took to the stars with a single unifying thought. HUNT THOSE ALIENS DOWN AND KILL THEM ALL. You are a Space Marine, sent on Earth's most important mission: to track down the fleet that almost annihilated mankind. To do that you'll need to travel to other planets, meet the aliens there, and kill them all. No diplomacy, no freaking prime directive, no trade missions: KILL. THEM. ALL.

Storytelling Game

Storytelling / Narrative Game (18+)

Fiasco // Blue Beard's Bride // Trophy Dark

Let's play a narrative game. Fiasco, Blue Beard's Bride, or Trophy Dark! Sign up and we can decide what we are playing when we are all together! Narrative games are wonderful for poets, writers, actors or others who enjoy really getting deep into a messy character in a bad situation. We have at LEAST three such games to choose from for this session and we will talk through which one everyone is interested in doing! Fiasco is a game about messed up people desperate to do something dangerous and/or stupid and pulling it off... well... like a fast train skipping the rails at a sewer treatment plant. In Bluebeard's Bride, players are voices in a new bride's head as she explores the horrifying mansion of her new husband while he away at sea. This game tackles difficult, painful subjects and is quite dark. Trophy is a game about desperate people entering a haunted forest seeking treasure they MUST attain at any cost. Almost no one escapes alive, and those who do are irrevocably damaged or saved.