Game Session | Game Title | Game System | Game Company | Game Type | Con Day | GM | Description |
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| 5 | 1690s: Pirates on the Cthulhian Main | Call of Cthulhu | Chaosium | RPG | Saturday | Kevin Hazslip | Pirates! Cultists! Cthulhian Monstrosities! A Horror that arises from Dave Jones Locker! Can you ignore that wrenching, foreboding terror that arises from your gut at the very thought of this nightmare? And all you signed on for was a wee bit ‘o pirating on the Spanish Main. |
| 5 | 1813-The Year of Nationalism | Bonaparte | Mark Johnson | Miniature | Saturday | Mark Johnson | Era: Napoleonic Ground Combat with 25mm scale. Throughout 1813, France’s satellites struggled to accommodate their loyalty to Napoleon, the military threat of Coalition powers, and their national interests and preservation. Presenting battles from a hypothetical campaign in Eastern Europe. Active French occupation and fortress troops, and regional allied brigades, face off against Austrian and other Coalition forces. |
| 5 | 2017 Midwest Regional 49 Championship | 49 | Breaking Games | Board | Saturday | Double Exposure Envoy | Starting with $49 apiece, players in The Game of 49 bid to buy spaces on the 49-square (7-by-7) game board. Randomly drawn number cards are auctioned one at a time, with the highest bidder placing a chip on the matching board space. Wild/Payoff cards give players a choice of where to place their chip and also award cash to all players for their chips on the board: $7 per chip, with a payoff maximum of $49. The first player to claim four spaces in a row, in any direction, wins. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, a seat at the first elimination round of the U.S. National Championship at Gen Con 2017, plus a FREE 4-day badge for Gen Con 2017 and a FREE room share with up to 3 other people for 3 nights at Gen Con 2017. |
| 5 | 2017 Midwest Regional Skull King Championship | Skull King | Grandpa Beck Games | Board | Saturday | Double Exposure Envoy | Brent Beck's Skull King is a trick-taking game similar to Oh Hell!, Wizard and Spades, with players needing to state how many tricks they think they'll win each round. Pirates and other special cards add to the strategy. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, a seat at the first elimination round of the U.S. National Championship at Gen Con 2017, plus a FREE 4-day badge for Gen Con 2017 and a FREE room share with up to 3 other people for 3 nights at Gen Con 2017. |
| 5 | Adventures in Zombiewood | Adventures in Zombiewood | Baskerville Production | Board | Saturday | Michael McClure | Zombiewood is a co-operative card/dice-based game that pits you and other unfortunate survivors against a horde of undead Z-lebrities as you fight your way through the plots of 20 of the most influential movies and TV series of the zombie genre. |
| 5 | AEG Five Minute Fun Games | AEG Five Minute Fun Games | AEG | Board | Saturday | AEG Staff | AEG Five Minute Fun box of Games. Featuring Light & Dark, Love Letter Premium and other AEG titles |
| 5 | Aventuria | Aventuria: The Adventure Card Game | Ulisses Spiele | Board | Saturday | Tammie Davis | Gather your weapons, your magic, and any nasty tricks you might know. You’ll need them all to take down your opponent in this fast-paced fantasy card game set in the world of The Dark Eye. |
| 5 | Blood Rage | Blood Rage | Cool Mini or Not | Board | Saturday | Jerry Collins | Ragnar is coming. Can you lead your faction of Vikings and get the most fame and fortune? Come learn to play Blood Rage, a Cool Mini or Not game. |
| 5 | Cash 'n' Guns Tournament | Cash 'n' Guns | Repos Production (Asmodee) | Board | Saturday | Frank Kallal | Event Fee $7. The party game of Grand Theft. Fast and Fun, and easy to learn you don't have to have played before to do good here. This is a Tournament so you will need to be the Best to Get the Top prize. We will use Asmoplay's suggested Tournament Structure, two tables of 4 - 8 playing 4 Rounds. Prestige points will be allocated and at the end the highest wins. However, everyone will get something for playing. Prizes can include a foam Uzi, alternate character card of Cthulhu, etc. Prizes are based on attendance. If we have a full 10 players one random player will win a copy of the game. More info at http://piasapro.com/events/ |
| 5 | CCC-SALT-01-03 Broken Halls of Goldahroud (1-4) | Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition | WotC | RPGA | Saturday | Adventure League | Beneath the moorlands of Thar, hidden from all for centuries, lies the Broken Halls of Goldahroud. It seems to have been inhabited until recently as the blood marks on the walls are only a few weeks old. What mysteries lie beyond the doorway from the Tomb of Kered? Fear of the markings have forced the SALT Consortium to turn again to hiring adventurers to face what horrors await them in the Broken Halls of Goldahroud. |
| 5 | CMP 2016-07 World Tour - Singapore | Shadowrun, 5th Edition | Catalyst Game Labs | RPG | Saturday | Kelly Morris | There’s one problem in hiding needles amidst a stack of needles. Everyone is sharp. Shadowrun Living Campaign requires approved character; a pre-gen can be provided. |
| 5 | Colony | Colony | Beizer Games | Board | Saturday | Atomic Squash | In Colony, each player constructs and upgrades buildings, while managing resources to grow their fledgling colony. In a clever twist, dice are used as resources, with each side/number representing a different resource. Some resources are stable, allowing them to be stored between turns, while others must be used right away. Buildings provide new capabilities, such as increased production, resource manipulation, and additional victory points. Using dice-as-resources facilitates a dynamic, ever-changing resources management mini-game while players work to earn victory points by adding building to their tableau on their way to victory. |
| 5 | Eldritch Horror | 5th Ed D&D | WotC | RPG | Saturday | Nick Davis | 5th ed Dungeons and Dragons set in an Eldritch Horror World. |
| 5 | Fantahzee | Fantahzee | AEG | Board | Saturday | AEG Staff | Defend the town from tons of monsters! But you aren’t alone, you’ll be able to recruit warriors, mages, and steam-dwarves. |
| 5 | Fire & Ice: The Open Seas | Chronopia | WarZone | Miniature | Saturday | Dennis Moler | Will the seas boil with the passionate heat of Helios or freeze like the cold heart of Chrystal Lotus? Come choose a side or choose your own house. All materials will be provided and rules will be taught. New players welcome. |
| 5 | Food Chain Magnate | Food Chain Magnate | Splotter Spellen | Board | Saturday | Atomic Squash | Food Chain Magnate is a heavy strategy game about building a fast food chain. The focus is on building your company using a card-driven (human) resource management system. Players compete on a variable city map through purchasing, marketing and sales, and on a job market for key staff members. The game can be played by 2-5 serious gamers in 2-4 hours. |
| 5 | Ice Cool | Ice Cool | Brain Games | Board | Saturday | Dave Walton | Ice Cool is a flicking game in which each round one of the players takes the role of the Hall Monitor (also called "the Catcher") – his aim will be to catch each other penguin and get points for that. The others (also known as "Runners") will try to run through several doors, thus gaining fish (that give them points) on their way. When either the Hall Monitor has caught each other penguin once or any of the others has gone through all 3 doors that have fish on them, the round is over. Each player will take the role of the Hall Monitor once and at the end of the game the winner will be the one with the most points on their fish cards. |
| 5 | Large trouble in small China | Deadlands | Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc | RPG | Saturday | Michael Rectenwald | Strange things are happening in Chinatown. Lightning storms, kidnappings, and gang fights in the street. Enough to make a very reasonable man believe he's seen some very unreasonable things. |
| 5 | Mansions of Madness | Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition | Fantasy Flight Games | Board | Saturday | Atomic Squash | Mansions of Madness: Second Edition is a fully cooperative, app-driven board game of horror and mystery for one to five players that takes place in the same universe as Eldritch Horror and Elder Sign. Let the immersive app guide you through the veiled streets of Innsmouth and the haunted corridors of Arkham's cursed mansions as you search for answers and respite. Eight brave investigators stand ready to confront four scenarios of fear and mystery, collecting weapons, tools, and information, solving complex puzzles, and fighting monsters, insanity, and death. Open the door and step inside these hair-raising Mansions of Madness: Second Edition. It will take more than just survival to conquer the evils terrorizing this town. |
| 5 | Men in Black Dusters! | QAGS 2nd Ed. | Hex Games | RPG | Saturday | David Szucs | The Wild Wild West, 1835: After saving Mexico, the United States, and quite possibly democracy itself, you and your fellow agents are getting a vacation of sorts. You’re headed to an island called Tahiti in the South Pacific to find a ship called the Beagle that’s about to set out for a scientific mission to South America. According to the Predictions Department, there’s a guy named Darwin on the ship who must make this journey, but a group of religious fanatics-turned pirates is planning to attack the Beagle early in the voyage. Your mission is to either get aboard the Beagle and keep it safe or convince Darwin to find another way to complete his journey. If you succeed, a nation that doesn’t even know you exist will be forever in your debt. Good luck! |
| 5 | Mers-el-Kebir | Grand Fleets | Majestic Twelve Games | Miniature | Saturday | Daniel Kast | On July 3, 1940, British forces bombarded the French fleet anchored off the coast of Algeria, in an effort to prevent the ships from falling into the hands of the Germans. In this "what if?" scenario, the French have decided it best to make a run for it but were unable to make it to open sea before the British fleet arrived, leading to a true naval battle. |
| 5 | Monsterpocalypse | Monsterpocalypse | Privateer Press | Board | Saturday | Jason Sharp | Have you ever watch a movie with a big monster crushing a city and say I want to play a game like that, well here's your chance. In monsterpocalypse you chose a towering monster or robot and it's minions and battle others in this 3-D city to prove who is the biggest and baddest around. God help the city stuck between the titans as they battle to the death. Reach out and crush someone. |
| 5 | Race for the Runecarved Key (10-11) | Pathfinder Society | Paizo | RPGA | Saturday | PFS Staff | An ancient Thassilonian artifact has been unearthed in Magnimar and is to be auctioned off by the city government. In order to maintain good relations with those in power in the City of Monuments, the Pathfinder Society must obtain the relic without simply stealing it, although employing any other means necessary. If falls to the PCs to infiltrate the auction, sabotage the other bidders' efforts, and call in favors from those in the Society's debt to ensure the Runecarved Key (and the secrets it unlocks) belongs to the Pathfinders when the adventure draws to a close. |
| 5 | Race for the Runecarved Key (1-2) | Pathfinder Society | Paizo | RPGA | Saturday | PFS Staff | An ancient Thassilonian artifact has been unearthed in Magnimar and is to be auctioned off by the city government. In order to maintain good relations with those in power in the City of Monuments, the Pathfinder Society must obtain the relic without simply stealing it, although employing any other means necessary. If falls to the PCs to infiltrate the auction, sabotage the other bidders' efforts, and call in favors from those in the Society's debt to ensure the Runecarved Key (and the secrets it unlocks) belongs to the Pathfinders when the adventure draws to a close. |
| 5 | Race for the Runecarved Key (12+) | Pathfinder Society | Paizo | RPGA | Saturday | PFS Staff | An ancient Thassilonian artifact has been unearthed in Magnimar and is to be auctioned off by the city government. In order to maintain good relations with those in power in the City of Monuments, the Pathfinder Society must obtain the relic without simply stealing it, although employing any other means necessary. If falls to the PCs to infiltrate the auction, sabotage the other bidders' efforts, and call in favors from those in the Society's debt to ensure the Runecarved Key (and the secrets it unlocks) belongs to the Pathfinders when the adventure draws to a close. |
| 5 | Race for the Runecarved Key (3-4) | Pathfinder Society | Paizo | RPGA | Saturday | PFS Staff | An ancient Thassilonian artifact has been unearthed in Magnimar and is to be auctioned off by the city government. In order to maintain good relations with those in power in the City of Monuments, the Pathfinder Society must obtain the relic without simply stealing it, although employing any other means necessary. If falls to the PCs to infiltrate the auction, sabotage the other bidders' efforts, and call in favors from those in the Society's debt to ensure the Runecarved Key (and the secrets it unlocks) belongs to the Pathfinders when the adventure draws to a close. |
| 5 | Race for the Runecarved Key (5-6) | Pathfinder Society | Paizo | RPGA | Saturday | PFS Staff | An ancient Thassilonian artifact has been unearthed in Magnimar and is to be auctioned off by the city government. In order to maintain good relations with those in power in the City of Monuments, the Pathfinder Society must obtain the relic without simply stealing it, although employing any other means necessary. If falls to the PCs to infiltrate the auction, sabotage the other bidders' efforts, and call in favors from those in the Society's debt to ensure the Runecarved Key (and the secrets it unlocks) belongs to the Pathfinders when the adventure draws to a close. |
| 5 | Race for the Runecarved Key (8-9) | Pathfinder Society | Paizo | RPGA | Saturday | PFS Staff | An ancient Thassilonian artifact has been unearthed in Magnimar and is to be auctioned off by the city government. In order to maintain good relations with those in power in the City of Monuments, the Pathfinder Society must obtain the relic without simply stealing it, although employing any other means necessary. If falls to the PCs to infiltrate the auction, sabotage the other bidders' efforts, and call in favors from those in the Society's debt to ensure the Runecarved Key (and the secrets it unlocks) belongs to the Pathfinders when the adventure draws to a close. |
| 5 | Scooby Doo: Wednesday Mourning | FAST | FAST Games | RPG | Saturday | Larry Babb | A teenage heiress contacts Mystery, Inc to investigate a creepy old mansion. Local legend has it that the dead walk the decaying halls by night. It’s up to those meddling kids to get to the bottom of the mystery. Join Scooby and the gang with special guest star Wednesday Addams for this Lovecraftian twist on the classic Saturday morning cartoon. |
| 5 | Season of Plundered Tombs | Pathfinder Adventure | Paizo | Board | Saturday | PFS Staff | Catastrophe struck the world 10,000 years ago, and mighty Osirion was one of the first great nations to rise from the ashes. For centuries its pharaohs oversaw a golden age of expansion and innovation while crushing rivals such as the Tekritanin League and the golem armies of the Jistka Imperium. Eventually, though, the kingdom began to stagnate, its leaders unable to match the splendid accomplishments of their forebears. Following millennia of decline and foreign occupation, Osirion is once again autonomous and prospers under the Ruby Prince Khemet III. Hoping to uncover forgotten secrets that his kingdom might employ while encouraging foreign traffic into the increasingly prosperous land, the Ruby Prince opened Osirion to foreign explorers approximately a decade ago. The archaeological wealth of all Osirion is yours to explore. What you uncover might not just change your fortunes; it could change the world! |
| 5 | Season of Plundered Tombs | Pathfinder Adventure | Paizo | Board | Saturday | PFS Staff | Catastrophe struck the world 10,000 years ago, and mighty Osirion was one of the first great nations to rise from the ashes. For centuries its pharaohs oversaw a golden age of expansion and innovation while crushing rivals such as the Tekritanin League and the golem armies of the Jistka Imperium. Eventually, though, the kingdom began to stagnate, its leaders unable to match the splendid accomplishments of their forebears. Following millennia of decline and foreign occupation, Osirion is once again autonomous and prospers under the Ruby Prince Khemet III. Hoping to uncover forgotten secrets that his kingdom might employ while encouraging foreign traffic into the increasingly prosperous land, the Ruby Prince opened Osirion to foreign explorers approximately a decade ago. The archaeological wealth of all Osirion is yours to explore. What you uncover might not just change your fortunes; it could change the world! |
| 5 | Sticks and Stones | Sticks and Stones | Home Rules | Miniature | Saturday | Jon Bancroft | Standing on the ledge overlooking his Valley, Og, chief of the yellowhairs feels there is something different about his valley today. Returning to the campsite he grunts his orders to the rest of the tribe. Time once again to defend what is theirs. |
| 5 | The Battle of Tamatave-20 May, 1811 | Post Captain | Old Dominion GameWorks | Miniature | Saturday | Ray Runge | Era: Napoleonic Naval Combat with 1/1000 scale. The Battle of Tamatave, fought off Tamatave in Madagascar between British and French frigate squadrons, would be the final engagement of the Mauritius campaign of 1809 - 1811. A reinforcement squadron of frigates (loaded with troops and supplies for the French garrison at Mauritius) under the command of Commodore Francois Roquebert in Renommee, had been dispatched from Brest in February 1811. Unknown to the French, however, Mauritius had already fallen in December 1810 to a British invasion fleet. The reinforcement squadron reached Mauritius on 6 May, only to discover the following day that the island was now in British hands and narrowly escaped a trap laid by a squadron of British frigates ordered to pursue and destroy them. |
| 5 | The Captain is Dead | The Captain is Dead | AEG | Board | Saturday | AEG Staff | Imagine in the last 10 minutes of your favorite science fiction TV show things have gone so badly that the captain is dead. Surviving members of your crew must pull together to survive the day! |
| 5 | The Changelings | Star Wars: Edge of the Empire | Fantasy Flight Games | RPG | Saturday | Peter Ruocco | The PC’s are sent on a rescue mission and in the process, make some disturbing discoveries. All materials provided. Newcomers are welcome. |
| 5 | The Hunt | Battletech | Catalyst | Miniature | Saturday | Glen Grissom | Inner Sphere mercenaries hunt down remnants of a clan garrison in the ruins of former mech factory. |
| 5 | The Joust At Lyons | Joust | Two Hour Wargames | Miniature | Saturday | Glenn Wilson | Era: Medievil Tourney Combat with 28mm scale. Challenge France's finest knights at Lyons for honor and glory. |
| 5 | Ticket to Ride: Rails and Sails | Ticket to Ride: Rails and Sails | Days of Wonder | Board | Saturday | Atomic Squash | Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails takes the familiar gameplay of Ticket to Ride and expands it across the globe — which means that you'll be moving across water, of course, and that's where the sails come in. |
| 5 | To The Death | To the Sound of the Guns | Tabletop Games | Miniature | Saturday | Steve King | Era: Napoleonic Ground Combat with 15mm scale. A Saxon Guard brigade is ordered to hold a position against overwhelming odds. Will they hold against the advancing British, or will help arrive in time? |
| 5 | Wet Hot American Monsters: Staff Week | Cinemechanix | Hex Games | RPG | Saturday | Steve Johnson | Being a monster is hard. Being a teenager is hard. Imagine being a teenage monster. Luckily, there’s a place where young monsters can forge new friendships, enjoy the great outdoors, and make all kinds of terrible mistakes with limited adult supervision. Welcome to Camp Windigo, the only summer camp catering exclusively to teenage werewolves, young Frankensteins, sons of Dracula, and other monster-Americans. You’ve been there as a camper before, but this year you’re getting paid well below minimum wage to be a camp counselor for the first time. You’ve only got a week to get everything ready for the campers and prove to the other counselors (especially the cute ones) that you’re not lame. Test out Hex’s new Cinemechanix system in this game where summer camp movies meet campy movie monsters. |
| 5 | Yeti | Yeti | AEG | Board | Saturday | AEG Staff | The Himalayas: freezing cold, peaks covered with snow, and steep crags. You take the role of a bold adventurer and mountaineer in search of the legendary snowman known as the Yeti, hoping to find its footprints somewhere in this inhospitable mountain region. |
| 5 | Your Wizard Uncle | Castles and Crusades | Troll Lord Games | RPG | Saturday | Tyler Morrison | You receive an official parchment from your wizard uncle. In the event he doesn't return he leaves his tower, and all of its contents, to you. That said, your uncle was known for creating undead abominations, which likely inhabit the structure. Castles and Crusades is the fantasy game you've played for years, made simpler by the Siege Engine mechanic. |
| 5 | Zombies!!! | Zombies!!! 1st Edition | Twilight Creations | Board | Saturday | Cheryl Cloninger | Here's your chance to live your own version of the Walking Dead. When it comes to survival, it's every man for himself! Don't worry about your high school buddy or sweet heart (you can always get another). When you leave them behind or give them a gun and forget to leave the extra ammo, you'll be the one laughing your way out of town on the only way out. Zombies!!! is a fast paced game where you fight your way through the zombie infested town that you build tile by tile racing to be the first to the waiting helicopter. No experience necessary, game will be taught. |