AURA Announcements

  • Mon 24 Mar 2025 20:03
    @everyone
  • Mon 24 Mar 2025 20:00
    @everyone Hello, people of the AURA discord!! We are currently wondering if you fine folks would be interested in a building and painting night at the Warhammer store in the city. It would be at the end of April or the beginning of May on a Wednesday evening. More details will come depending on interest. You would be able to build, paint, and take home a mini for free. There are fantasy (stormcasts) and 40k (space marines) miniatures available to paint. Between 10 and 15 people would be able to attend. This is a great time to determine whether you are interested in mini-building in general or Warhammer specifically. Please fill out the form below so we can gauge your interest! https://forms.gle/N7vounoc63BSzku29
  • Sat 22 Mar 2025 11:34
    Hark and hail @everyone <@&1069981608490307706> ! A quick reminder about our event in a week's time - our Renfaire LARP, happening on the 29th March at 12pm, on King's Pitches. We'll have various carnival games to play, as well as some rounds in Archery Tag and a few tournaments. To sign up to these tournaments please: - Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/cMWQ2G56RtekVv578 - Go to our respective AUSA pages to buy tickets: https://www.ausa.org.uk/organisation/aura/ for tickets to the Swordfighting Tournament and https://www.ausa.org.uk/sports/club/archery/ for the Archery Tournament Please be aware that you have to be signed into an account on the AUSA page to buy tickets. If you are not a student at UOA, but would like to get involved, please make a guest account and be prepared to provide proof of purchase on the day. If you don't want to take part in the tournaments, don't worry! You don't have to buy a ticket, simply fill out the form and turn up on the day. We're also hoping to make role-play more of a focus at this Renfaire, so while you don't have to have a character, it is encouraged! Our fortune teller has been foretelling a rainy day, and he might be right, although he tells me that's not what he means. So please be aware if you are planning a costume to take the weather into account. There will be covered spaces available. Hope to see you all there, and if you are planning on attending fill out the form attached so we know of any potential dietary requirements or portents of doom that you have seen. See you there!


The Aberdeen Univeristy Roleplaying Association (AURA) exists to help connect fans of TTRPGs, Wargames, TCGs, LARPing, Board Games, and other activites, and to provide them with a space to play and any other resources they may need.

When it comes to setting up groups, we allow Game Masters to advertise their games through us, and give them access to room bookings. This is true both for continuing long-term games, as well as single-session one-shots. We also have an enormous library of rpg source books from various systems that we are happy to lend out to those interested, to help encourage people to play these games without needing to spend all your cash on the books.

In addition to setting up groups of players, in the past we have had large events such as pizza and boardgames, barbecues, pub quizes, bonfires, costume contests, and so forth. We are looking forward to being able to host these events again within physical safety guidelines in the future.

If you want to get more in touch with our community, we have a Discord group for our society as well (Join here: https://discord.gg/hAfFG3nyTJ), which will allow for more cohesive and direct communication between members.

If you are interested in running your own campaign of games through AURA, please email us, and we can book a room for you and post an advertisement for players, or you can join our discord and do it yourself.

If you want to join a game through AURA, keep an eye on our Discord server, games are usually run on campus.

Finally, part of our goal is to provide a safe-space both for Game Masters and players, so if you are having difficulties with someone in your group and you want someone to help mediate the issue, then email us and we'll see what we can do.

We look forward to you joining our community, whether it be online or in-person. Please feel free to email us at roleplaying@ausa.org.uk if you have any questions or concerns.

Committee Members 2024/2025
Zuzanna Wróbel, President
Kirsty Morrice, Vice-President
Calvin Wallace, Treasurer
Craig Bainton, Secretary
Thunder Rothery, Social Convener
Ben Kantor, Webmaster
Robert Ferguson, Associate Member Representative
Ellie Parr, Live Action Roleplay Coordiantor
Wargaming Coordinator: VACANT
Griffon Todd, First Year Representative

 

AURA is now selling hoodies and hats. The hoodies are black and have our AURA logo on the left breast and large on the back in white embroidery. The hats are black with a white front panel with the AURA logo in black on it.

(Final hat design may vary)

 

Events

The Renfaire
29th March noon - 4:30pm
King's Lawn
A joint event with AURA and Archery featuring sword-fighting and archery tournaments, carnival games, and archery tag.