A premium London club for Dungeons & Dragons enthusiasts, which charges members up to £300 a month, has become the subject of a £150,000 legal battle between its founders.
Arcadia Games, located in a 20-room venue near The Strand, opened in May 2025. It was launched by Raonaid Adrianna Ryn with her ex-husband, Alexander Forsyth and his new wife, actress Madeleine Wilson. The club promotes itself as a “safe and inclusive haven” for the tabletop roleplaying community, with a strict code of conduct.
That code of conduct is now central to a court dispute. Arcadia Games Ltd, with Raonaid Adrianna Ryn as sole director, is suing Alexander Forsyth and Madeleine Wilson for £100,000. This follows allegations that Alexander Forsyth breached the club’s rules.
Court papers allege two incidents in May. In one, Alexander Forsyth is alleged to have made a member of the bar staff “uncomfortable” with comments about their outfit and his and Madeleine Wilson‘s “involvement in kink clubs.”
In the second, Raonaid Adrianna Ryn claims she received a report that Alexander Forsyth “burst into one of the private game rooms, sat on the arm of the games master’s chair so that he was partly in her lap and cuddled her in front of a table of customers.”
The club’s website explicitly bans “nonconsensually touching a person in an intimate or sexual way” and “nonconsensually sexualising or sexually objectifying another person.”
Alexander Forsyth and Madeleine Wilson deny the allegations and are countersuing for £56,000. They claim the cuddling complaint was “confected” by Raonaid Adrianna Ryn and her new partner, Keiran Farr, as part of a “hostile takeover” to exclude Alexander Forsyth from the company.
The couple claims they invested £46,000 as seed capital for a 46% share in the company, in addition to £10,000 worth of their own furnishings. They allege that after fractious meetings over the allegations, they “were unlawfully prevented” from returning to the premises.
According to their lawyers, Raonaid Adrianna Ryn “made a false 999 call reporting the risk of a disturbance” and Keiran Farr subsequently “hired a locksmith who changed the locks”.
Raonaid Adrianna Ryn‘s legal team claims that Alexander Forsyth then locked her out of the business’s admin and financial accounts, leading to around £100,000 in losses. This includes £32,000 that Alexander Forsyth allegedly took from the business. His lawyers state this was a “director’s loan” intended to “safeguard a portion of this sum.” Raonaid Adrianna Ryn‘s position is that she has always owned all the shares in the company.
Arcadia Games was set up to provide a full-time space for London’s gaming community, offering a “tavern” with cocktails, “geeky co working,” and hosted sessions of tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons. The TTRPG, first published in 1974, has seen a significant resurgence in recent years and is widely available from specialist retailers like DriveThruRPG.
The case was set for an initial hearing at the Mayor’s and City County Court earlier this month.
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Via The Independent.
