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The Dancing Congress

by Brian Cameron

22 Mar 2025

Anerley Town Hall

Although not yet open for payment, you can book now to hold a place on the waiting list. When it is open, then you will receive an email.
Game fee is £35.00

A lot of interest has been expressed in another run of my 2019 game, The Dancing Congress, so it will run again on 22nd March 2025. The game is about the Congress of Vienna which met in 1814 and 1815 to map out Europe following the defeat if Napoleon. The player teams represent the countries attending, each with their own agenda for regaining territory lost / gaining new territory while ensuring that no power is in a position to dominate Europe. Please note that there are no military operations in the game, this is a meeting of statesmen and women to negotiate a settlement through a mixture of open, honest exchanges and dodgy deals made in back rooms. If you've played and enjoyed Washington Congress you may well enjoy this game.

Designer's Comments

1930s gangland America. An urban gangsters game set int he 1930 with the addition of pulp masked vigilantes and mad scientists!.

This was mainly Jim as I wasn’t well at the time. This started off as a conversation about a game in a Victorian setting, veered towards a superhero game and finally settled as a game set in the 1920s about gangs, rackets and a few ‘mystery men and women’ who would be able to choose whether to be heroes or not. Players represented various gangs, the police, ‘Feds’ the city mayor and council and those mysterious strangers. Along with a number of ‘eccentric’ scientists, each out to prove they were madder, sorry more brilliant, than the others regardless of the cost to human life and property damage. The ‘public outrage index’ went up as gang fights etc occurred and forced the police to act otherwise the ‘untouchables’ could arrive in force. A certain amount of co-operation thus had to be combined with the rivalry to avoid that outcome.

Somehow it was unsurprising how quickly megagamers fitted into an almost universally corrupt society. I might add that I still want to do a game in a Victorian setting and have a several rough designs as notes.

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