We are delighted to announce the schedule for Lynne Hardy, Gaelcon’s Guest of Honour for Gaelcon 2023 (XXXV).

Multi-award-winning games designer Lynne Hardy first discovered roleplaying games at university. Over the last few decades, she has worked for Nightfall Games, Pelgrane Press, Cubicle Seven, Modiphius, and Green Ronin—amongst numerous others—as a writer, editor, or both. She also created her own steampunk pulp adventure game: Cogs, Cakes & Swordsticks. More recently, she formed part of the team responsible for updating Chaosium’s legendary Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign. She now works full-time for the Chaosium as Associate Editor for the Call of Cthulhu RPG and Line Editor for the ENnie award-winning Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game. 

Saturday 28th October 2023

1.00pm to 1.50pm: Interview with GoH – Panels Room

2.30pm to 5pm: Running ‘Going Underground’ (Rivers of London RPG) – tickets at RPG desk

Sunday 29th October 2023

1.00pm to 1.50pm: Getting Started in the Gaming Industry (with Mark Corrigan, Sionach Games, and Ciara Costelloe, Decking Awesome Games) – Panels Room

2.30pm to 5pm: Running ‘Going Underground’ (Rivers of London RPG) – tickets at RPG desk

Monday 20th October 2023

Morning – time TBC: Running a special scenario for Rivers of London RPG for successful bidders in the IGA Charity Auction 

Further information will be announced at Charity Auction on Sunday 30th October 2023

The Blurb for Lynne’s Saturday and Sunday afternoon RPG’s is as follows:

Going Underground
Author: Lynne Hardy
Game Moderator: Lynne Hardy

The late shift at the Folly, aka the home of British magic, receives a call from their British Transport Police liaison, Sgt Jaget Kumar. There’s trouble on the London Underground. But just what did a terrified workman see down there in the maze of tunnels that runs beneath London’s streets? And what are the investigators going to do about it?

System: Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game
Number of Players: 4