Paisley Wizard Games

10/25/2025

Looks like a busy weekend. Come down and play some games. All proceeds go to the Children's Hospital Foundation.

Full Schedule - Saturday, Nov 1

9 am - Doors Open

All Day
Video Games - Free to Play Consoles
Battalia Chess (Clean Win Games)
Free tables and board game library

Board Games brought to you by Dragon's Den Games

Learn to Play (ToonCon):
11 am Blokus
12 pm Ramen Fury
4 pm SETI
6 pm CLANK!

Tumblin’ Dice Gambit (ToonCon):
Round 1: 9 am-3 pm
Round 2: 3-9 pm

Collectable Card Games
1-6 pm Disney Lorcana Chaos Draft
1-6 pm Yu-Gi-Oh GENESYS Tournament

TTRPGs brought to you by Dragon's Den Games
10 am-2 pm Daggerheart: The Sablewood Messengers (Paisley Wizard Games)
4-8 pm Call of Cthulu: None More Black (Paisley Wizard Games)
DMU Games (All D&D 5e, games to begin once a party has been gathered)
To INFINITY.... And Beyond!!! (Beau)
Upheaval in Parnast (Beau)
The Elemental Divide (Micha)
Quick Encounters (Scott)

7 pm - Raffle Draw
9 pm - Doors close

Sunday, Nov 2

9 am - Doors Open

All Day
Video Games - Free to Play Consoles
Battalia Chess (Clean Win Games)
Free tables and board game library

Board Games brought to you by Dragon's Den Games

Learn to Play (ToonCon):
12 pm Cascadia
4:30 pm Steam Power

Tumblin’ Dice Gambit (ToonCon):
Round 1: 9 am-3 pm
Round 2: 3-9 pm

Starship Combat Playtest
10 am - 2 pm

Collectable Card Games
1-6 pm Disney Lorcana Theme Deck Tournament
5-9 pm Magic: The Gathering Spider-Man Draft

TTRPGs brought to you by Dragon's Den Games
10 am-2 pm Call of Cthulu: Servants of the Lake (Paisley Wizard Games)
4-8 pm Daggerheart: The Marauders of Windfall (Paisley Wizard Games)

DMU Games (All D&D 5e, games to begin once a party has been gathered)
To INFINITY.... And Beyond!!! (Beau)
Upheaval in Parnast (Beau)
A Minecraft Adventure (Aric)
Quick Encounters (Scott)

7 pm - Raffle Draw

9 pm - Doors close

The Extra Life Saskatchewan Game Day 2025, presented by Miner’s Construction, runs from 9am to 9pm on Saturday, November 1st and Sunday, November 2nd! Get your individual or family pass for one or both days at pattisonchildrens.ca/community-fundraiser/extra-life-game-day-event

10/24/2025

If you are looking for a TTRPG experience a little different from your meat-and-potatoes DnD, join Paisley Wizard Games, who will be running four one-shots over the course of the weekend! Dip your toes into:

Daggerheart - The Sablewood Messengers
Saturday, Nov. 1 from 10 am - 2 pm

Journeying through the Sablewood forest on a secret mission for the King you encounter strange
beasts while delivering a mysterious artefact to the Whitefire Arcanist. When he asks for your aid in
completing his ritual, will you survive?

Call of Cthulhu – None More Black
Saturday, Nov. 1 from 4-8 pm

Arkham, 1925 – A dangerous new drug is popular with the students of Miskatonic University, called
The Black. When a good friend, Walter Resnick, dies from an overdose, the investigators are drawn
into a mystery that even the Mob is unable to solve.

Call of Cthulhu – Servants of the Lake
Sunday, Nov. 2 from 10 am – 2 pm

When a student from Miskatonic University disappears on his way to visit his girlfriend in Kingsport
his friends decide to investigate his disappearance. What horrors do the country roads hold?

Daggerheart – The Marauders of Windfall
Sunday, Nov. 2 from 4-8 pm

Having booked passage on a brand new sky-ship, the heroes discover their special talents may be
required to help it complete its maiden voyage.

The Extra Life Saskatchewan Game Day 2025, presented by Miner’s Construction, runs from 9am to 9pm on Saturday, November 1st and Sunday, November 2nd! Get your individual or family pass for one or both days at pattisonchildrens.ca/community-fundraiser/extra-life-game-day-event

09/09/2025

The Roleplaying Game of the Planet of the Apes review

I was excited to receive my Planet of the Apes RPG books in the mail last week. Production values are very high, and the art is beautiful. My Kickstarter fulfillment included the Core Rulebook, the ANSA Files, the boxed Into the Forbidden Zone campaign set and a number of Kickstarter exclusives. Overall, the books are very faithful to the PotA canon established by the original movies, the TV show, and supporting books and comics.

The Core Rulebook starts with a primer on the future history of the Planet of the Apes. This is the history of the world from the first two movies, Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes, before Zira and Cornelius traveled back in time in Escape from the Planet of the Apes. In this history, mankind continues thrive until the year 2550, when, with the world on the brink of another world war the ape Aldo speaks up and leads the ape rebellion. The second rule book, the ANSA Files has more information on different timelines and eras of the PotA universe.

The book goes on to a rules primer. The game is based on the D6 system from West End Games, made popular in the first Star Wars RPG of the 1990’s. Magnetic Press has updated the rules somewhat for modern gaming audiences. The rules are straight forward and simple enough to run the game and keep the focus on the story rather than the rules. In a nutshell, the game uses dice pools of d6s to roll over a target number. Stats and skills are listed as the number of dice to be rolled.

Each of the playable races - apes, humans, and mutants gets its own chapter with information on culture, politics and hierarchy. Apes can be chimpanzees, gorillas, or orangutans. Human characters can either be wild humans or astro-nauts from the past. The chapter on mutants presents two factions of mutantkind to choose from, the Fellowship of the Holy Bomb, or a splinter group called simply the Underdwellers. Within each chapter are a number of archetypes to specialize your character.

The following chapters cover detailed combat rules, weapons & equipment, vehicles, and GM (or Law Giver) advice. Equipment and vehicle entries cover both artefacts from the past to equip your astro-naut, and modern equipment for the discerning ape. As well as the usual advice on how to run NPCs, character advancement, etc., the GM chapter has many charts for environmental challenges, structures, and conditions.

The Limits of the Known World covers most of the setting material and is divided into the nation of Simia, the Border Region, the Forbidden Zone, the Underworld, the Eastern Sea, and the Northern Wastelands. Each subsection is full of description, charts for sandbox creation, and NPCs & monsters. The game is intended to be run as a sandbox, and doesn’t contain any maps of the land, however.

The final chapter contains an introductory adventure, pregens, and advice on different campaign styles. It is recommended that players decide on which racial campaign they want to play as a group, for example a mutant campaign, a human campaign or an ape campaign. In the polarized world of the Planet of the Apes a mixed group would be difficult to run.

I only have two complaints about the book, that is the lack of map for the setting. Even in a sandbox campaign it’s nice to have a general map to improvise off. The second thing, which is a failing for many RPG books, is the lack of an index in the back of the book. Why you would make a reference book without an index is a mystery to me. Overall, I’m really happy with the book and glad I backed it; not only for the RPG possibilities, but also for the nostalgia of the original movies that I enjoyed so much as a child.
I plan to continue the review of the series as I read my way through the books.

07/25/2025

While you're at the EX, stop by the Co-op Family Fun Zone for some gaming. Toon Con will be there with board games and DMU will be there with some D&D one shots. I'll be running a few sessions of Daggerheart too!

1 week until 📣🎡🎆🎇🎲. We'll be hanging out in playing games with our friends and Dungeon Master University and we want you to stop by to say Hi and discover a new game!👋😁

07/07/2025

is over for another year. I had a blast with some great role-players! We got in two games of Avatar, and one of Call of Cthulhu.

Next up - Saskatoon Ex!!

07/06/2025

All set up for Call of Cthulhu at Ganbatte this morning

07/05/2025

All set up at Ganbatte for Fallout the RPG at 4:30

07/04/2025

Come and try a new game at Ganbatte!!

🎲 Ready for adventure? Paisley Wizard Games returns to Ganbatte with some thrilling tabletop RPG sessions!
Grab a seat at the table and jump into one of his fun-filled campaigns — you never know what stories you’ll discover!

06/30/2025

Want some adventure this weekend? Join Paisley Wizard Games and heed the call for action! Mystery! The thrill of the unknown!

Sign up for one of our amazing sessions below in the Games Room at Ganbatte!

Saturday, July 5th:

11:30 - 2:30
Avatar Legends RPG
During the 100 years war, the heroes lead a band of Earth Kingdom refugees hiding in the abandoned Western Air Temple. But will a vengeful spirit drive them back into the hands of the Fire Nation Army that is pursuing them?

4:30 - 7:30
Fallout the RPG
A Brotherhood of Steel airship has gone down in the Wasteland, and when the heroes go to salvage it, they discover a mysterious signal that threatens the entire region.

Sunday, July 6th:

11:30 - 2:30
Call of Cthulhu RPG
When a party yacht sinks off the coast of Nova Scotia on October 31, 1925, the survivors find refuge in an isolated lighthouse. However, will they survive the night? Or would it have been better to die at sea?

4:30 - 7:30
Avatar Legends RPG
During the 100 years war, the heroes lead a band of Earth Kingdom refugees hiding in the abandoned Western Air Temple. But will a vengeful spirit drive them back into the hands of the Fire Nation Army that is pursuing them?

Want to learn more about Paisley Wizard Games, a GM for Hire service in the Saskatoon Area?

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https://paisleywizardgames.wordpress.com
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06/30/2025

Paisley Wizard Games will be at Ganbatte this weekend running Avatar, Fallout, and Call of Cthulhu. Drop by for a game!

Hey hey, Ganbatte is a week away! Can you believe it? We can't wait.

Wait to see people in cosplay, that is. And if you'll be performing cosplay next weekend, and can't wait a whole week to show everyone, Ganbatte would love to see what you've got prepared!

has made this amazing template we'd love to see our enthusiastic cosplayers try out!

See ya at Ganbatte!

06/20/2025

I'm running a game of Skyrealms of Jorune (a 1980's era science fantasy game with a fantastic setting but clunky rules.) to playtest my Savage Worlds conversion, and looking for a couple more players. This is a no-charge game since it's a playtest, if anyone is interested message me.