Round One's Awesome Sponsor: Nord Games!
A new and exciting partner has joined our party for D&D in a Castle Round 1 (March 26 - 30).
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Nord Games will gift Round 1 adventurers with some incredible free treasures upon arrival at the castle and questers can play a three-day campaign with the best of the best from Nord Games. Players who join the Nord Games campaigns will receive other exclusive Nord Games gifts!
Nord Games is a designer of intensely diverting Board Games, Card Games, and Role-Playing Games (RPGs) focused on producing family-friendly games that challenge players and promote a positive atmosphere.
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In addition to awesome swag, Nord Games is also sending their top talent to the Castle. Ralph Stickley and JVC Parry will be running 3-day campaigns, and Lou Fryer will be enhancing the player experience by running one shots and playing NPCs, all at Round 1 (March 26th-30th).
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One Shot Quips: March 28, 2025
Lumley Castle, UK

Ralph Stickley
Ralph Stickley is the co-designer and co-writer of Nord Games’ first book, Ultimate NPCs: Skulduggery. He has since taken on the layout and art direction for subsequent projects, as well as continuing in his role as lead writer on the Ultimate NPCs and Ultimate Bestiary series, along with bits and pieces of writing and editing on other book series and card decks. Ralph will be running “Rule of Three”, a wide-ranging mini-campaign based around undeath and putting right the mistakes of the past.

JVC Parry
JVC Parry (Josh) is a freelance TTRPG author, and has been publishing material since 2016. His work ranges from best-selling adventures on the DMs Guild to self-published indie games, on top of work for 3rd party publishers. While JVC Parry is probably best known for his DMs Guild campaign ‘Call from the Deep’, he’s also garnered years of writing experience with companies such as Nord Games, LoreSmyth, Jetpack7, and many more.
JVC will play ‘Shadow War’, a gothic murder mystery with a limited timeframe and rising tensions.

Lou Fryer
Lou Fryer is part of the British contingent of Nord Games, and the resident grammar geek, mostly managing to be on the case of every writer in the company from a whole continent away. Almost all Nord Games’ titles come through her as an editor, but she is also the co-writer of the Ultimate NPCs and Ultimate Bestiary series.
Lou will lend her talents to One-Shots and NPCs at the castle!
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