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Welcome to Westside Tabletop Adventure Games, your gateway to thrilling and imaginative escapades in the vibrant West side of Los Angeles and surrounding areas! Our Meetup Group is a place to discuss and play exciting tabletop adventure games together.
We use "tabletop adventure games" to include various games and communities - roleplaying games, miniature games, board games, old-school, new-school, and many other sources. Such games blend authentic peril, inventive problem-solving, and episodic narratives. In such games, you can expect to encounter the following:
- Genuine risks and the possibility of loss, making your victories even more gratifying.
- A sense of wonder, with the promise of unexpected twists, enigmatic riddles, and breathtaking locales.
- Diverse and compelling experiences, as each session unfolds like an ever-evolving classic pulp tale.
- Challenges that require ingenuity, creativity, and teamwork rather than brute force, endless combat, or solving problems by enumerating abilities from a character sheet.
- Iconic and diverse characters inspired by pop culture and fiction, such as Conan, T'Challa, Ellen Ripley, Lagertha, Indiana Jones, and Nausicaä, to name a few.
- A strong, independent Do-It-Yourself attitude - empowering players and referees to make the games they play their own and even to write their own games whole cloth.
Our mission is to create a welcoming, inclusive, and unpretentious gaming community that values fun and camaraderie. We believe in fostering an environment where everyone, regardless of background or experience level, can gather around the table, unleash their imagination, and embark on unforgettable journeys.
Join Westside Tabletop Adventure Games today and become a part of our growing community of explorers, heroes, and adventurers!
Members are welcome to and encouraged to co-host and suggest new meetups for the group!
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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- The Battle for Zenit'raal (RPG one-shot, beginner's welcome!)Justin's Apartment, Los Angeles, CA
The Battle for Zenit'raal
The floating city of Zenit’raal is under siege! The enigmatic Ecliptarchs, a society of post-human sorcerer-philosophers, are on the verge of activating the Starforge Sigil, an artifact capable of reshaping reality itself, and the cybernetic war-machine empire of the Adamantium Collective seeks to take it for their own. As members of the Order of the First Sun, your mission is clear: infiltrate the war-torn city, fight through collapsing citadels and warring factions, and either seize or destroy the Sigil before it’s too late. But time is against you—every moment brings the ritual closer to completion, and the infiltrating cyborgs will stop at nothing to claim the Sigil for themselves.
This is a fast-paced, one-shot adventure using Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine, blending science-fantasy action, tactical choices, and high-stakes decisions.
No prior experience needed—just bring your wits and your will to fight! Pre-generated characters, dice, and pencils will be provided.
- Chronicle of the Cosmic Wound (RPG open table, new & beginning players welcome)Paper Hero's Games, Los Angeles, CA
In a world scarred by forgotten calamities, humanity clings to the remnants of a fading age. Crumbling castles loom over plague-ridden hovels, while in the wild places, things that should not be stir once more.
The old gods lie silent in their graves, yet their blood still seeps into the earth, twisting all it touches. You are the descendants of a broken realm - survivors, seekers, or perhaps something darker. In your veins runs the echoes of ancient power, a curse and an ambition that sets you apart from the cowering masses. Every ruined keep may hide blasphemous secrets, every mist-shrouded forest a gateway to realms beyond mortal comprehension.
From torch-lit cities to forgotten cairns, from moonlit moors to the very edges of sanity, your choices will shape the fate of a world teetering on the brink of oblivion. Will you seek to mend this dying world, or will you embrace the chaos that seeps through its ragged edges?
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Chronicle of the Cosmic Wound is a bi-weekly open-table medieval fantasy adventure game, using a home-brewed version of OpenQuest 3e, which itself is a simplification of Basic Roleplaying (the same system used by Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest). Our current in-progress player's document is located here: CotCW Player's Handbook.
New and beginning players are welcome, and you do not need any supplies - all materials will be provided, but you are free to bring whatever you wish. You are welcome to create a character at the table during the session, or you can contact me and we can schedule a time to create one before hand.
We emphasize player agency, exploration, and world interactivity. Our campaign uses a flexible drop-in/drop-out system that allows you to play when you are available and want to, but not require any kind of a commitment. Read our Open Table Info document for more details.
We also have a World Anvil Wiki for our setting info, lore, and session reports! If you have a character, feel free to use this link to join the wiki as a player character.
Reach out if you have questions or concerns, and I hope to see you in game soon!
- Monthly HangoutQ's Billiard Club, Los Angeles, CA
THIS MONTH'S LOCATION IS Q'S BILLIARD CLUB
Let's organize a roughly monthly meet-and-greet at a local bar, cafe, restaurant, or residence. This is an informal time to get to hang out with other members of the meetup outside of gaming sessions - chat, grab a drink, get to know each other.
We will try to rotate between locations, both for variety, as well as to ensure we do not lean too heavily towards any particular type of establishment.
Generally we will not have a reservation, and mostly be looking at casual hang outs at locations that we've vetted to have enough seats for about a dozen of us or so. Suggestions on other locations are always appreciated!
Plus ones and twos are always welcome! Feel free to comment or contact us with any questions or concerns, thank you!
- Gradient Descent (open table RPG, new and beginning players welcome)Justin's Apartment, Los Angeles, CA
In the dark of rimspace looms THE DEEP - once the CLOUDBANK Synthetics Facility, now a twisted labyrinth ruled by Monarch, a rogue AI. As Artifact Hunters known as Divers, you're drawn to its promised riches, slipping past corporate Troubleshooters to plumb its mechanical depths. But beware: there are fates worse than death within this nightmare of a fabrication facility. Each Artifact discovered could make your fortune - if you can escape with your sanity intact. Descend into silicon dreams and human nightmares. Will you uncover revelations, or become another echo in THE DEEP's endless, mechanical hymn?
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Gradient Descent is a bi-weekly open-table scifi horror adventure game, using the Mothership system. (We will post our Player Document here when it is available).
New and beginning players are welcome, and you do not need any supplies - all materials will be provided, but you are free to bring whatever you wish. You are welcome to create a character at the table during the session, or you can contact me and we can schedule a time to create one before hand.
We emphasize player agency, exploration, and world interactivity. Our campaign uses a flexible drop-in/drop-out system that allows you to play when you are available and want to, but not require any kind of a commitment. See our Open Table Info document for additional details.
Reach out if you have questions or concerns, and I hope to see you in game soon!
