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Come play Azul in the Quick Play Zone! Select the best tiles at just the right time to complete your mosaic. Planning and timing, with a little luck, are all important to building the best sets and not breaking any tiles. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 45-60 minutes.
Calico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats, in which players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colors and patterns. Try out this classic game with a new Knitting Circle twist! Knitting Circle is the brand-new game designed by RinCon special guest Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games), where the rondele mechanism dovetails with Calico.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Autumn is coming to an end in the Savernake Forest… Help the animals gather and store food for the winter! Savernake forest is a game where 2-4 players build their own section of the forest with paths where animals and food will appear. To get the highest score, players must ensure that on each path the animals can collect their favorite food.
Become the greatest wizard of the Annual Grand Rite by collecting and managing your Materia to feed your familiar and learn your spells. Act quickly to use your powers early...or wait to unleash them at full strength. Your path to victory is full of choices and combined tactics!
In SpellBook, each player, accompanied by a familiar, possesses a grimoire and collects Materia to master spells and feed their familiar. The game provides pre-drawn spell sets for use in the early rounds, but soon players start drawing spells randomly or create their own spell combinations that are common to all players. Each spell combination gives an effect that lasts the rest of the game, and the more ingenious the combination, the more powerful the effect. As the rounds progress, the game becomes a different experience every time, with more than 2,100 spell combinations being possible.
TacTile is an abstract strategy engine building game. Race across the modular board while building your action engine. Chain wild combos each turn if you can land on the right tiles!
Prehistory. Hot. Primordial. Dull. You’ve been dominating the Earth for longer than you can remember. Then again, with a brain the size of a walnut, you’ve also been standing there for longer than you can remember. Nevertheless, you’re completely sure that it’s been ten million and twenty-five years since anything interesting has happened. So you decide to cajole your buddies into a race across Skull Island. The winner is the first dinosaur to jump headfirst into the volcano. And you’re gonna need that head. Join RinCon special guest James Ernest in a session of his 25th anniversary game. This session is part of the Kids' Track
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am MST
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Looking to try a new game? Have a game you no longer play but think someone else might enjoy? Visit the Game Trade Station! Throughout the weekend, we’ll have a table stocked with a variety of games available for trade (board games, card game, RPG's, etc.). Attendees are invited to bring a gently used game or two from home and swap it for any other item on the table. Please ensure that the items you leave are complete and in good condition, ready to be enjoyed by someone else. Don’t see something you want right away? No worries! The inventory is expected to change continuously throughout the weekend, so check back later for new options.
This year, we are offering our 3D Printing services to print your custom designed miniatures from services like Titan Craft and Hero Forge! Check the RinCon Discord for more information, and the final date to submit your miniatures for printing is November 8th!
What's better than being a hero who goes on adventures and fights monsters? Why, owning the shop they spend their treasure at of course! In Bargain Quest, players take the role of shop owners who draft equipment cards to outfit the various heroes who come to town. Points are scored based on how well your hero does in combat, as well as how much money you earn along the way. Hire employees and expand your shop to be the best after three monsters have been defeated.
Cyberpunk 2077: Gangs of Night City is a big box strategy game with miniatures in which gangs fight for control of a city, with the city also being a living part of the game.
1 to 4 players take on the role of ruthless gangs vying for control of the underground in the glittering hellhole that is Night City. Clash with other Gangs in the meat or on the Net, as your enterprising band of toughs seeks to gain dominance over the criminal underworld that rules the streets. Only the boldest will be remembered, and your Street Cred will pave your way to the top.
In Single Player mode, you are pitted against an opposing Gang and an Edgerunner (Johnny or either V's) in a free-for-all for Night City. Similar to the multiplayer mode, the faction with the most Street Cred wins.
In the game, players assume the role of a gang leader, with you organizing your gang members to take power in the city. Your actions affect not only your game and your opponents but the city itself. Each gang has different attributes and goals, giving each player a different gaming experience.
MLEM: Space Agency is a family board game where you step into the shoes of fearless captains of cosmic expeditions. But hold on, these aren't your ordinary explorers - they're cats! These intrepid felines have long conquered the Earth with their unmatched bravery, and now they've set their sights on conquering the entire cosmos. However, their clumsiness might lead to some purrfectly chaotic cat-astrophes. Take the helm of a cosmic rocket, reach for the stars, or trust your cat instincts and bail out before things go up in flames. Fame and admiration from the entire meowing world await the most exceptional leader of the feline space agency. Get ready for an adventure that's out of this world!
This is a pirate-themed tactical race game with player interaction and side goals (e.g. detouring for treasure). The winner is the player who best balances their position in the race with their success at the side goals. The game ends on the turn when at least one player's ship reaches the finish line, completing one circuit around the island of Jamaica. At that point, players are awarded different amounts of gold in accordance with how far away from the finish line they were when the race concluded. This gold is added to any gold a player gathered along the way by detouring from the race to search for valuable treasure, by stealing gold or treasure from other players, or just by loading gold as directed by the cards the player played during the race. The player with the most total gold acquired through all these means is then declared the winner.
Endless Winter: Paleoamericans takes place in North America, around 10,000 BCE. Players guide the development of their tribes across several generations—from nomadic hunter-gatherers to prosperous tribal societies. Over the course of the game, tribes migrate and settle new lands, establish cultural traditions, hunt paleolithic megafauna, and build everlasting megalithic structures. Teach 20 minutes Playtime 120 minutes
Travel the amazing 800 mile long Arizona Trail from Mexico to Utah, through Saguaro National Park, the Four Peaks, San Francisco Peaks and the Grand Canyon and so many other beautiful sites. Create a personal mural of your journey through sightings of Flora and Fauna along the way. Seek the aid of the Lost Dutchman and the Jackalope while avoiding the Gila Monster as you manage your resources to amass the most Superstition Gold and Arizona Grit. Happy Trails...
Union Stockyards is a mid-weight economic euro game with unique features: - A supply/demand driven market that is central to game play. - Low randomness -- market changes due to player decisions. - A worker-placement game where your workers may go on strike. - Extensively-researched historical theme about one of the great industrial wonders of U.S. Gilded Age.
This session will include the published game plus a prototype of the Westward Expansion. The expansion adds more years (rounds), more actions, and a deeper decision space.
"What did you wish you knew the very first time you sat down to GM a tabletop RPG?"
This is the question that our panel of experienced GMs is going to address this year. If you've ever wanted to GM a tabletop RPG but felt intimidated, anxious or uncertain about it, you will be our honored guest! If you have started to GM a tabletop RPG but ran into a problem, struggled or couldn't quite find your feet. we welcome you to a community of practitioners who have all "been there." And if you're an experienced GM in our community, please come and share your wisdom and let us learn from your mistakes as well. The GM's Conference has been a place for the community to meet for many years, and this year it is turning to how to cultivate that community's best practices from the very first session.
A beautifully crafted 2-player abstract strategy game from Smirk & Laughter. Your turn is in two parts. First, a player may move one of their stones up to two spaces in any direction, including diagonally, in what is called a passive (or set up) move. Second, they take a more aggressive move, which must be the same direction and number of spaces as the first move. It is this second move that allows you to push stones across the board - or off the board's edge. Remove all four of your opponent's stones from just one of the four boards to win. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2025 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2025)!
Distilled is a highly thematic strategy card game about crafting spirits in a distillery, with resource management and push-your-luck elements. In the game, you have inherited a distillery and are hoping to someday achieve the title of master distiller through purchasing goods, building up your distillery, and creating the world's most renowned spirits.
Purchase new ingredients and invest in upgrades to your distillery, all while eventually distilling the spirit and sending it to the warehouse. Once in the warehouse, age your spirit to enhance its flavor and bottle it to sell it for major profits!
Achieve the title of Master Distiller by having the most spirit points at the end of the game. Points are obtained by distilling and selling spirits.
Join a band of three other heroes as you are tasked with seeking a nefarious jewel known as the Soul of the Night, racing against the malignant forces of Zargon. This powerful relic must not fall into the hands of the enemy.
HeroQuest is a classic dungeon delving quest game where heroes seek riches and fame as they fight their way through hordes of monsters in terrifying dungeons.
Build your very own thriving jungle by discovering various wild animals, insects, and plants in this beautiful board game.
Life of the Amazonia is a strategic meeple placing game that combines bag building and pattern building. Players will restore land, place various animals, and plant trees and flowers to enrich their jungles and create the most ecologically rich jungle. Various lives must be placed in the jungle taking into account each unique characteristic of the plants and animals in order to create synergies within one another. To carry out these actions, bag building that fits in with the player’s strategy is crucial. With 60,000+ various ways to set up the animal cards and diverse strategic options, every game of Life of Amazonia will differ from the next.
Heavy game. Imagine a dozen or so random humans, robots, and none-of-the-aboves, each with their own abilities, goals, and secret relationships, have been turned loose on a space station that is going to be incinerated upon its inevitable reentry into Earth's atmosphere. You are one of these characters. Godspeed.
Clash of Spears is a set of miniatures wargames rules intended for skirmished of roughly 30-60 men per side in the last few centuries before the birth of Christ. Troop definitions are provided for Romans, Carthaginians, Greeks, Gauls, Iberians, Italians, and Macedonians, but the rules are intended to have wider applicability and the rules provides design rules to create your own troop profiles.
7th Sea is a roleplaying game by John Wick. In this one-shot, you are in a crew of Montaigne-sponsored privateers looking to exculpate your secretive patron's compatriot, Henri des Canons, by finding the treasure that his Castillean rival, Margarita del Mar, buried and showing that it was indeed this rival who stole the royal seal of the Eisen Herzog von Meineigenwaffeln.
10 players, 2 Tables, 2 GMs! Alien RPG is a Sci-Fi Horror/Suspense RPG based on the movie franchise. I can’t lie to you about your chances, but… you have my sympathies. The multinational cargo ship “The Fishbone” has suffered an explosion in deep space. Was this a simple accident? Or was it more sinister? Passengers: On your way to start your new life out in the colonies but something has gone wrong! Low on power, running out of air, and something is moving in the vents.
10 players, 2 Tables, 2 GMs! Alien RPG is a Sci-Fi Horror/Suspense RPG based on the movie franchise. I can’t lie to you about your chances, but… you have my sympathies. The multinational cargo ship “The Fishbone” has suffered an explosion in deep space. Was this a simple accident? Or was it more sinister? Command Crew: The Fishbone is dead in space. Can you fix it? Is it sabotage? Who can you trust? Passengers: On your way to start your new life out in the colonies but something has gone wrong! Low on power, running out of air, and something is moving in the vents.
In this world the gods are real. All of them, from every pantheon, at the same time. You were born to a mixed couple, one mortal one divine. That makes you a demigod. That means you're special. That also means you have a giant target on your back. In this PbtA game players take on the roles of a rag tag group of young half bloods, thrown together by the Fates. Will you help fulfill the prophesy or will you try to prevent it from happening? Either way you're bound to upset somebody's family. Good luck No Experience needed. Rules taught at the table, character creation and world building together.
I love playing new games and I love teaching people how to play new games. Board games✅ Card games✅ Role playing games✅ CCGs❌ Newest Favorite Game- Anywhere but Here! It isn't out yet. Matt Sanders created and is running it at conventions. Least favorite game ever ? Diplomacy... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 9:00am - 1:00pm MST
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In a time when the world balances on a knife’s edge, a perilous mission awaits. A Fire Nation princess has been abducted, and rumors swirl of her being taken to the Temple of Four Elements, an ancient, long-forgotten structure hidden deep within the mountains. Once a sanctuary for benders of all nations, the temple now stands as a dark monument to ancient power.
Set during the era of Avatar Kyoshi, your team of heroes must unite their bending skills and cunning to infiltrate the temple, unravel its mysteries, and rescue the princess before her captors unleash a force that could tear the world asunder. But be warned—within the temple, the very elements themselves are restless, waiting to test your resolve.
Will you master the ancient energies of the temple or fall prey to its forgotten dangers? The fate of the Four Nations may rest in your hands.
In a world where tales are shattered, heroes are villains, and villains are given a second chance, your suicide squad of fairy tale villains is called into an industrial age city to cut out an infection that threatens to destroy everything.
The students at Lincoln High School are off for summer - finally - and the Saunders Lake Drive-In is showing a double feature on a full-moon Friday night. But what happens when the spooky monster movies come to life and terrorize the town? Can you and your motley band of classic 1950s archetypes make it to dawn? Survival horror meets sock-hops and Chevys in this session where each player will have multiple characters available - because you'll need them. This session will feature American Hauntings, a new one-shot RPG. All players will be provided with a rules reference, a selection of pre-made characters, and a free copy of the forthcoming game via DriveThruRPG.
Death in space is about surviving in an abandoned frontier system where resources are scarce, and competition is fierce. Light-weight rules, intended to be easy to use and quick to learn A system for quickly generating player characters & their spacecraft or space-station
Fantasy and Sci-Fi collide in the Post Apocalyptic world of Dystopian Dawn! Join me in play testing a new scenario for the upcoming Source Adventure Book "Cowboys & Mutants!" This is the 6th Dystopian Dawn book and all who play will have their names entered in the Credits and receive a FREE Digital PDF of the book. The Territories of Alamex and New Rome are under siege by the threat of Mutant armies, renegade Legionnaire deserters, Draught, and more! Add an outcast Wizard searching for ancient artifacts of power from the "time before" and new monsters of Myth and Legend creeping across the lands and you have "Cowboys & Mutants!". No experience needed! I'll provide pre-generated characters for you. I'll also have SWAG and Raffles and Discounts on goodies!
Who is Tony?Hi! I'm Tony Garcia and I'm a gamer.I've been playing/running RPGs since 1980 and finally created my own system after decades of modding other systems. A few games that I've played/ran include D&D, Stormbringer, Runequest, Arduin Grimoire, Marvel, DC, V&V, T&T, Gangbusters... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 9:00am - 1:00pm MST
RPG10
The town of Stineville is a great place to have a fresh start. Interesting neighbors, plenty to do, a good assortment of local businesses. It’s enough to make anyone not want to leave. Except you’ve been noticing things. Things that make you question the reality of the town. Perhaps Stineville is a little more strange than everyone would have you believe. Fiasco is a mostly dice-less TTRPG where players act out scenes together to create a fiasco of events.
It's October, 1999, and you're at a nondescript rest stop off I-90 in northern Idaho. A somewhat unseasonal blizzard has stranded you, a few other travelers, and a skeleton shift of employees for the duration. You're content to settle in with a hot cup of what passes for coffee and some idle conversation with the other patrons, but something feels... off.
Which is when the lights go out.
"Exit 23" is an adventure from the Dark*Matter horror-conspiracy setting created by WotC, but we'll be using the venerable GURPS. Knowledge of shows like "The X-Files" and "Millenium" is helpful, but not necessary. Knowledge of late '90s trivia may also enhance your experience, but is also not necessary.
Pregens will be provided and rules will be taught.
If you are a fan of stuff like Final Fantasy, Elder Scrolls, Starfield, Destiny, Ark: Survival Evolved, Monster Hunter World or Diablo - then Legends of Kralis is right up your alley. Come play characters types from these games and many others!
Your a band of Void mercenaries are contacted by the Senate of the great City of Dardura Sheva. They are requesting for you to retrieve a vital Crystal Data Device from the lost VoidShip the GreyDawn. You are about to turn down the job when your void ship’s engines sputter then come back to life. Your group is broke and any job is better than no job. You accept the job and the following comes over the coms. - Travel to the Drukhan Asteroid Field - Locate the missing Void Ship - Determine reason for loss of communication - Locate the CDD - Other merc groups are looking for the ship as well
This adventure is Sci-fi based and is an introduction to the Legends of Kralis game system.
Creator/Designer/CEO, Talarius Gaming and Publishing
Caught between the majesty of the old world, and the marvels of the new, the world of Kralis is filled with discoveries waiting to be uncovered. From the secrets of thundersmoke, to the lost arts of Kara’Zim, knowledge and power await you… if you’re brave enough to seek them... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 9:00am - 1:00pm MST
RPG01
Root: The Roleplaying Game is the officially-licensed tabletop RPG based on the award-winning Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right board game by Leder Games. In Root: The RPG, you play vagabonds, individual outlaws whose adventures and alliances define the Woodland forever.
Pig at a Wedding (Grant Howitt): It's going to be the wedding of the year! There's a string quartet, fireworks, an open bar, individualized party favors, and the most charismatic priest this side of Chicago. But there's one element that hasn't been factored into the plan: you're going to hide a whacking great pig in the building and then release it to cause maximum carnage. That'll show them.
Unkindness (James D'Amato): When a Raven reaches adolescence, they leave the nest... AND JOIN GANGS. Any gathering of ravens is called an UNKINDLESS, but TEENS wear the name well. In Unkindness you are a TEEN RAVEN. You live to cause MISCHIEF AND DESTRUCTION, and to experience EMOTION.
A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 3-6. On an island off the coast of Jalmeray, the Pathfinders are called to action! The Society's friends at the Monastery of Unbreaking Waves are faced with a horde of sea devils seeking to level their recently rebuilt temple beneath the waves and claim it for themselves. The Pathfinders arrive just as the invasion reaches a crescendo and must fight for their lives in pitched underwater combat if they hope to protect themselves and their allies! Written by: Dustin Knight Scenario tags: Repeatable
A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 5th- through 8th-level characters.
It's time for a trip to the Grand Bazaar of Absalom! This thriving market hosts wondrous shops of all sorts, whose proprietors are experts in a variety of wares. Having recently acquired a vast number of strange magic items, the Pathfinder Society needs groups of agents to visit the Grand Bazaar and exchange favors with these interesting shopkeepers in order to better understand some of the treasures that have fallen into the Society's hands. Thankfully, the Society's new ally, Biglock, has a good idea of where to start!
The Maze of the Open Road has mostly been stabilized, and yet agents are still ending up at the wrong destination. While no one has been hurt, Venture-Captain Sigvard Tornkvist fears that it might be a matter of time until injury or worse results. She tasks the PCs with investigating the cause of these mishaps, and dealing with it if possible. Little do the PCs know what they've gotten themselves into, but there's a nonzero chance they'll find themselves in a dance-off before their mission is complete. Written by Mikko Kallio
Beginners welcome. Level 1-4. Repeatable. Pre-generated Characters available if you do not have a character.
In Tales from the Loop, a story told through play is called a Mystery. The players play as the Kids, a group of friends, aged 10-15, living in the late 1980s. The Kids encounter machines and creatures that have come to exist because of the Loop, a huge underground particle accelerator built in the late 1960s.
The Mystery is titled Summer Break and Killer Birds
A level 5 Post Apocalyptic Mutant Crawl Classics romp. Stories of a rogue "smart metal" being the size of a mountain heading to your village are discounted by the elders until the treaded 10-story tall monstrosity begins cutting a gigantic swath through your jungle homeland. Can you find your way into this behemoth and stop its menacing march? DCC dice will be provided for use as well as pre-gen characters. DCC swag will be given out!
Say yes to this specialty job, and you are in good with a powerful Xcrawl DJ in a position to really help your career. The catch: this is a real-world dungeon. No referee, no rules, no time outs. The answer to all your questions lie somewhere inside the Tucson death storm. This is a 2nd level play-with-the-creator event.
Imagine being the Captain of your own star ship. Come join us with your crew and fly around the galaxy in a star ship, killing bad guys, being amazed by space dragons, and avoiding black holes! Operate the ship together, and defend the sector from evil aliens.
Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the main screen, while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Science, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room (bridge) , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle and tells everyone what to do.
We will have 2 full bridges and some fighter stations, so you can do joint or head to head missions.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
A Halloween, Horror, and Spooky card game - kid friendly, no gore-. Start as human and become a monster to be the last person standing. Create more of your monster type to become the Master of the brood. A fun game with a twist. losing the last heart converts you to a ghost and you keep playing!
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Come play Nunatak: Temple of Ice in the Quick Play Zone! Select cards from the display to place your ice pillars on the board and build the mighty temple. Points are earned for careful placement as well as clever card selection. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 60 minutes.
Autumn is coming to an end in the Savernake Forest… Help the animals gather and store food for the winter! Savernake forest is a game where 2-4 players build their own section of the forest with paths where animals and food will appear. To get the highest score, players must ensure that on each path the animals can collect their favorite food.
Become the greatest wizard of the Annual Grand Rite by collecting and managing your Materia to feed your familiar and learn your spells. Act quickly to use your powers early...or wait to unleash them at full strength. Your path to victory is full of choices and combined tactics!
In SpellBook, each player, accompanied by a familiar, possesses a grimoire and collects Materia to master spells and feed their familiar. The game provides pre-drawn spell sets for use in the early rounds, but soon players start drawing spells randomly or create their own spell combinations that are common to all players. Each spell combination gives an effect that lasts the rest of the game, and the more ingenious the combination, the more powerful the effect. As the rounds progress, the game becomes a different experience every time, with more than 2,100 spell combinations being possible.
TacTile is an abstract strategy engine building game. Race across the modular board while building your action engine. Chain wild combos each turn if you can land on the right tiles!
As one of the owners of the RPG convention Crit Hit, in Phoenix Arizona, I have been in the tabletop gaming convention scene since 2016. I primarily enjoy boardgames myself, especially games with worker placement, open drafting, and tile placement mechanics. Some RPGs I've enjoyed... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am MST
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Verdant is a puzzly spatial card game in which you take on the role of a houseplant enthusiast trying to create the coziest interior space by collecting and arranging houseplants and other objects within your home
Prehistory. Hot. Primordial. Dull. You’ve been dominating the Earth for longer than you can remember. Then again, with a brain the size of a walnut, you’ve also been standing there for longer than you can remember. Nevertheless, you’re completely sure that it’s been ten million and twenty-five years since anything interesting has happened. So you decide to cajole your buddies into a race across Skull Island. The winner is the first dinosaur to jump headfirst into the volcano. And you’re gonna need that head. Join RinCon special guest James Ernest in a session of his 25th anniversary game.
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am MST
GIANT Games (53)
Dinosaur Tea Party is a game of pure deduction for 2-5 homo sapiens that plays in about 15 minutes. Each player takes a card corresponding to one of the dino guests. Players take turns asking each other questions or guessing a dinosaur’s name. If someone guesses your name, draw a new card. The first player to correctly guess three names, wins the game.
This year, we are offering our 3D Printing services to print your custom designed miniatures from services like Titan Craft and Hero Forge! Check the RinCon Discord for more information, and the final date to submit your miniatures for printing is November 8th!
In a world unified by the Empire, it is forbidden to raise armies and make war. All major conflicts get solved in the ARENA, where the best fighters represent entire Nations. Such fighters, with good reason, are called HEROES.
In this turn-based tactical combat boardgame, players recruit teams of three or four from a wide pool of Heroes, all of them experts in a Combat Role, like Tactician, Healer and Bruiser. There are countless combos, counterpicks and strategies to explore in the attempt to build a powerful and synergistic team.
Gnome Hollow is a spatial, tile-placement, worker-placement game in which you grow a tabletop garden of mushrooms and flowers. Every piece is a hand-painted watercolor that captures the whimsical feel of gnomes and nature. Turns are deceptively simple: Players place tiles into the garden, and move a gnome to take a single action on their turn. Come to Gnome Hollow and experience a peaceful garden, the thrill of competing to harvest buckets of mushrooms, and the reward of gathering in all your shiny treasures!
The Mayor has enlisted some of humanity's greatest visionaries to help build Skyrise: a magnificent city in the sky, dedicated to art, science, and beauty. But only one artisan can be remembered as the greatest! Prove your genius by using a brilliant spatial auction system to win sites to build in, earning favor across Islands and factions, scoring secret and public objectives, courting mysterious Patrons, and building your own unique Wonder. Skyrise tells an interactive story of a growing cityscape, hard decisions, scarce resources, and ever-rising stakes that will keep you enthralled until the final scores are revealed.
Night has fallen in Vienna and it's ball season. Your hotel guests are all dressed up, the champagne is flowing and the society is far from ready to retreat to their bedrooms. Everybody wants to enjoy the nightlife, what better way than to dance in one of Vienna's famous ballrooms until dawn?
This it's also the title of the first expansion to the popular Grand Austria Hotel board game by Simone Luciani and Virginio Gigli. In Grand Austria Hotel: Let's Waltz!, your hotel guests can visit Vienna's famous ballrooms, opening up new and exciting strategic possibilities. Especially popular, despite all the socializing at balls: The solo campaigns! For this purpose, Vienna has the Séparée. But that's a whole other story... :)
The nefarious Marquise de Cat has seized the great woodland, intent on harvesting its riches. Under her rule, the many creatures of the forest have banded together. This Alliance will seek to strengthen its resources and subvert the rule of Cats. In this effort, the Alliance may enlist the help of the wandering Vagabonds who are able to move through the more dangerous woodland paths. Though some may sympathize with the Alliance’s hopes and dreams, these wanderers are old enough to remember the great birds of prey who once controlled the woods.
Meanwhile, at the edge of the region, the proud, squabbling Eyrie have found a new commander who they hope will lead their faction to resume their ancient birthright. The stage is set for a contest that will decide the fate of the great woodland. It is up to the players to decide which group will ultimately take root.
In Root, players drive the narrative, and the differences between each role create an unparalleled level of interaction and replayability.
Imagine being the Captain of your own star ship. Come join us with your crew and fly around the galaxy in a star ship, killing bad guys, being amazed by space dragons, and avoiding black holes! Operate the ship together, and defend the sector from evil aliens.
Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the main screen, while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Science, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room (bridge) , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle and tells everyone what to do.
We will have 2 full bridges and some fighter stations, so you can do joint or head to head missions.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Race to collect a winning hand of colorful Galaxy Children and Dracos in this all-ages card and dice game. But Explorers beware! There are dangers lurking in the depths of space, and your decisions – combined with fate – may save or doom fellow players. Demo game winners can earn up to 6 limited edition Explorer Badges!
Illustrator and Designer, SaReSai: The Art of Sarah Rebecca
Sarah Rebecca has been illustrating and storytelling for nearly 20 years. From comics to artbooks to novels to card games, she endeavors to bring her unique view of the world into every project she creates. She can often be found selling her work at numerous Arizona conventions and... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm MST
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As one of the owners of the RPG convention Crit Hit, in Phoenix Arizona, I have been in the tabletop gaming convention scene since 2016. I primarily enjoy boardgames myself, especially games with worker placement, open drafting, and tile placement mechanics. Some RPGs I've enjoyed... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm MST
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Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Come play Project L in the Quick Play Zone! Use your various pieces to complete your selected puzzles, earning you points and additional pieces towards larger puzzles. Select the right puzzles and plan your actions carefully to maximize your points. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 45-60 minutes.
Become the greatest wizard of the Annual Grand Rite by collecting and managing your Materia to feed your familiar and learn your spells. Act quickly to use your powers early...or wait to unleash them at full strength. Your path to victory is full of choices and combined tactics!
In SpellBook, each player, accompanied by a familiar, possesses a grimoire and collects Materia to master spells and feed their familiar. The game provides pre-drawn spell sets for use in the early rounds, but soon players start drawing spells randomly or create their own spell combinations that are common to all players. Each spell combination gives an effect that lasts the rest of the game, and the more ingenious the combination, the more powerful the effect. As the rounds progress, the game becomes a different experience every time, with more than 2,100 spell combinations being possible.
TacTile is an abstract strategy engine building game. Race across the modular board while building your action engine. Chain wild combos each turn if you can land on the right tiles!
A family board game that lets players visit America's National Parks in a fun and competitive way. Players compete for points visting national parks, claiming park cards and collecting bonus stones. From 2-6 players. Ages 13+ as listed on the box.
Verdant is a puzzly spatial card game in which you take on the role of a houseplant enthusiast trying to create the coziest interior space by collecting and arranging houseplants and other objects within your home
Boop is an absolutely adorable 2-player abstract strategy game. Kittens and cats are on a bed (the board is a little bed with a gridded quilt), and boop each other off the bed; 3 grown up cats snuggled in a row win!
This event is intended as an easy meetup time for folks who participated in the online Math Trade and/or Virtual Flea Market to exchange items. All exchanges for this meetup have been pre-arranged, so if you have no idea what a Math Trade or Virtual Flea Market are, you can ignore this :) If you're interested in buying or selling at a flea market during RinCon, check out the Used Game Flea Market on Saturday at 2-4!
For folks doing exchanges, we will plan to meet near the Quick Play Zone just inside the main gaming hall. You are more than welcome to arrange another meetup time for your individual trades, but please communicate with your trade partners if you know you will not be able to attend this event. You are also welcome to send someone else to complete your trades, but again, please communicate this ahead of time with your trade partners.
Link to Math Trade BGG Geeklist: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/344336/tucson-rincon-2024-no-ship-math-trade
Link to Virtual Flea Market BGG Geeklist: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/344369/tucson-rincon-2024-no-ship-virtual-flea-market
This year, we are offering our 3D Printing services to print your custom designed miniatures from services like Titan Craft and Hero Forge! Check the RinCon Discord for more information, and the final date to submit your miniatures for printing is November 8th!
What's better than being a hero who goes on adventures and fights monsters? Why, owning the shop they spend their treasure at of course! In Bargain Quest, players take the role of shop owners who draft equipment cards to outfit the various heroes who come to town. Points are scored based on how well your hero does in combat, as well as how much money you earn along the way. Hire employees and expand your shop to be the best after three monsters have been defeated.
Cyberpunk 2077: Gangs of Night City is a big box strategy game with miniatures in which gangs fight for control of a city, with the city also being a living part of the game.
1 to 4 players take on the role of ruthless gangs vying for control of the underground in the glittering hellhole that is Night City. Clash with other Gangs in the meat or on the Net, as your enterprising band of toughs seeks to gain dominance over the criminal underworld that rules the streets. Only the boldest will be remembered, and your Street Cred will pave your way to the top.
In Single Player mode, you are pitted against an opposing Gang and an Edgerunner (Johnny or either V's) in a free-for-all for Night City. Similar to the multiplayer mode, the faction with the most Street Cred wins.
In the game, players assume the role of a gang leader, with you organizing your gang members to take power in the city. Your actions affect not only your game and your opponents but the city itself. Each gang has different attributes and goals, giving each player a different gaming experience.
Flip & Skip is a two-player abstract strategy game that combines the simple skipping mechanics of games like Checkers with the challenging tactics of games like Chess. This is a tournament, so players who win their games will play other game winners until there is one overall winner.
MLEM: Space Agency is a family board game where you step into the shoes of fearless captains of cosmic expeditions. But hold on, these aren't your ordinary explorers - they're cats! These intrepid felines have long conquered the Earth with their unmatched bravery, and now they've set their sights on conquering the entire cosmos. However, their clumsiness might lead to some purrfectly chaotic cat-astrophes. Take the helm of a cosmic rocket, reach for the stars, or trust your cat instincts and bail out before things go up in flames. Fame and admiration from the entire meowing world await the most exceptional leader of the feline space agency. Get ready for an adventure that's out of this world!
In PARKS, players will take on the role of two hikers as they trek through different trails across four seasons of the year. While on the trail, these hikers will take actions and collect memories of the places your hikers visit. These memories are represented by various resource tokens like mountains and forests. Collecting these memories in sets will allow players to trade them in to visit a National Park at the end of each hike.
Each trail represents one season of the year, and each season, the trails will change and grow steadily longer. The trails, represented by tiles, get shuffled in between each season and laid out anew for the next round. Resources can be tough to come by especially when someone is at the place you’re trying to reach! Campfires allow you to share a space and time with other hikers. Canteens and Gear can also be used to improve your access to resources through the game. It’ll be tough to manage building up your engine versus spending resources on parks, but we bet you’re up to the challenge. Welcome to PARKS!
Find your cabin assignment, wring out your swimsuit, and relive the days of canoeing, friendship bracelets, and s'mores with Summer Camp, a competitive deck-building game where players race to earn merit badges and collect the most experience points to win. Each player has their own deck of cards to play, and as the game progresses you add new cards to your deck to make it even stronger.
I will create a "camping" experience with a "fire ring", summer camp treats, and other goodies.
John is a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) programmer. He has been a software developer for more than 25 years. He is the designer of "Treasure Fleet" the card game, published in 2006. He has been a Tucson resident for 17 years.
Saturday November 16, 2024 11:00am - 1:00pm MST
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Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions).
I love strategy board games, especially euro games. I have a large collection and am willing to play my games with anyone who is interested. If there's a game you would like to try, ask me, I probably own it. lol In addition to board games, I DM a RPG group that takes place... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 11:00am - 1:00pm MST
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Are you a table top role-playing enthusiast? Do you play with family, friends, or at a school club? Maybe you've never gotten a chance to play yourself and this is your time to finally experience the magic! Come play this quick to jump into one-shot adventure with others just like you. Participants will receive the campaign module to take home for replay opportunities. Characters will be premade as far as stats, but you get to decide who they are trait-wise. This will be a collaborative and team building adventure with a mystery the party needs to solve together. Each challenge will highlight and give each player the chance to show off their combat, problem-solving, and role playing skills.
Plant, then harvest bean cards in order to earn coins. Each player starts with a hand of random bean cards, and each card has a number on it corresponding to the number of that type of beans in the deck. You can't rearrange the order of cards in hand, so you must use them in the order that you've picked them up from the deck - unless you can trade them to other players, which is the heart of the game. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2025 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2025)!
Imagine being the Captain of your own star ship. Come join us with your crew and fly around the galaxy in a star ship, killing bad guys, being amazed by space dragons, and avoiding black holes! Operate the ship together, and defend the sector from evil aliens.
Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the main screen, while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Science, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room (bridge) , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle and tells everyone what to do.
We will have 2 full bridges and some fighter stations, so you can do joint or head to head missions.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Race to collect a winning hand of colorful Galaxy Children and Dracos in this all-ages card and dice game. But Explorers beware! There are dangers lurking in the depths of space, and your decisions – combined with fate – may save or doom fellow players. Demo game winners can earn up to 6 limited edition Explorer Badges!
Illustrator and Designer, SaReSai: The Art of Sarah Rebecca
Sarah Rebecca has been illustrating and storytelling for nearly 20 years. From comics to artbooks to novels to card games, she endeavors to bring her unique view of the world into every project she creates. She can often be found selling her work at numerous Arizona conventions and... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST
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Come play Gizmos in the Quick Play Zone! Collect the right marbles to buy new parts for your machine, making future actions more powerful and creating fun combos. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 60 minutes.
A Halloween, Horror, and Spooky card game - kid friendly, no gore-. Start as human and become a monster to be the last person standing. Create more of your monster type to become the Master of the brood. A fun game with a twist. losing the last heart converts you to a ghost and you keep playing!
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Become the greatest wizard of the Annual Grand Rite by collecting and managing your Materia to feed your familiar and learn your spells. Act quickly to use your powers early...or wait to unleash them at full strength. Your path to victory is full of choices and combined tactics!
In SpellBook, each player, accompanied by a familiar, possesses a grimoire and collects Materia to master spells and feed their familiar. The game provides pre-drawn spell sets for use in the early rounds, but soon players start drawing spells randomly or create their own spell combinations that are common to all players. Each spell combination gives an effect that lasts the rest of the game, and the more ingenious the combination, the more powerful the effect. As the rounds progress, the game becomes a different experience every time, with more than 2,100 spell combinations being possible.
TacTile is an abstract strategy engine building game. Race across the modular board while building your action engine. Chain wild combos each turn if you can land on the right tiles!
A family board game that lets players visit America's National Parks in a fun and competitive way. Players compete for points visting national parks, claiming park cards and collecting bonus stones. From 2-6 players. Ages 13+ as listed on the box.
We need to keep talking about this, until we don't need to anymore. This panel will focus on the many faces of inclusion, what diversity means, and how to support them at our gaming tables, throughout our events, and in our industry.
Panelists: Chaz Kemp (Chaz Kemp Art) Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games) Weyodi Old Bear Wuratsaakupu (Coyote & Crow)
This year, we are offering our 3D Printing services to print your custom designed miniatures from services like Titan Craft and Hero Forge! Check the RinCon Discord for more information, and the final date to submit your miniatures for printing is November 8th!
Ya gotta eat! The lunch hours of the convenient concession stand in the conference center are 12:30-2:30. You can use your pre-purchased, super-discounted meal tickets there, or you can buy your meal there with cash or card 30% more.
Never been to RinCon before? Want to know what it’s all about? Grab yourself a lunch from the concession stand or one of the resort venues and bring it to this informal discussion about all that the convention has to offer. Board members will be on hand to satisfy your curiosity about all things RinCon, including scheduled programming, how to sign up for events, what’s where in the convention site, and questions like, “Where do I get these RinCoins, and what the heck do I do with them?”
Imagine being the Captain of your own star ship. Come join us with your crew and fly around the galaxy in a star ship, killing bad guys, being amazed by space dragons, and avoiding black holes! Operate the ship together, and defend the sector from evil aliens.
Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the main screen, while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Science, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room (bridge) , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle and tells everyone what to do.
We will have 2 full bridges and some fighter stations, so you can do joint or head to head missions.
In many ways 7 Wonders Duel resembles its parent game 7 Wonders. Over three ages, players acquire cards that provide resources or advance their military or scientific development in order to develop a civilization and complete wonders. What's different about 7 Wonders Duel is that, as the title suggests, the game is solely for two players.
Players do not draft cards simultaneously from decks of cards, but from a display of face-down and face-up cards arranged at the start of a round. A player can take a card only if it's not covered by any others, so timing comes into play, as it can with bonus moves that allow the player to take a second card immediately. As in the original game, each acquired card can be built, discarded for coins, or used to construct a wonder. Each player also starts with four wonder cards, and the construction of a wonder provides its owner with a special ability. Only seven wonders can be built, though, so one player will end up short.
Players can purchase resources at any time from the bank, or they can gain cards during the game that provide them with resources for future building; as they are acquired, the cost for those resources increases for the opponent, representing the owner's dominance in this area.
You can win 7 Wonders Duel in one of three ways: each time you acquire a military card, you advance the military marker toward your opponent's capital (also giving you a bonus at certain positions). If you reach the opponent's capital, you win the game immediately. Or if you acquire six of seven different scientific symbols, you achieve scientific dominance and win immediately. If none of these situations occurs, then the player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
In Mississippi Queen, players race their paddle wheelers down the Mississippi, picking up passengers along the way. But onboard coal supplies are limited, so each ship's acceleration and maneuvers must be carefully planned. The twists and turns of the river are unknown at the start of the game and are revealed only as ships progress downstream, so captains need to be alert at the wheel and ready to change course.
A whimsical set collection game of piracy and pastries! Enter a charming world where you play as tea-loving pirates competing to serve the perfect afternoon tea with a pinch of piracy and a dash of destruction. RinCon special guest Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games) demos her newest creation.
Shake That City is a family puzzly tile-laying game for 1-4 players, that plays under an hour! The game is played over a series of rounds. The active player shakes the Cube Shaker and presses its slider to reveal a 3x3 pattern, based on which they need to place the corresponding building tiles of a single color of their choice on their board. The building tiles correspond to roads, factories, shops, parks and of course, homes. The other players then pick any building color other than the one the active player picked, then place matching colored tiles in the matching pattern on their board. Players earn points for tile-placement combinations and for the completed bonus point tiles around the edge of their board.
The king is dying and refuses to name an heir! As prince or princess in line for the throne you must secure support from the three main factions. Along the path of succession, you will have to step over the bodies of your royal siblings.
Whisper Rings is a competitive medieval fantasy storytelling game. Players are members of the Royal Court and use their storytelling skills to spread rumors and innuendo to advance through the ranks. They compete to create “whisper rings” that allow them to destroy the perception of others and advance their own reputations. Players place agents in four main categories, including: military, religion, nobles, and merchants. Next, they begin to spread rumors to undermine their rivals and work their way up to the highest seat at the table: the throne.
Widgets n' Digit$ is a race against the clock engine builder about building your own business! Each turn you'll make and sell Widgets, using the profits to purchase resources and upgrade your business. Unique market mechanics allow demand from your competitors to set prices creating dynamic market-driven play!
This year, we are offering our 3D Printing services to print your custom designed miniatures from services like Titan Craft and Hero Forge! Check the RinCon Discord for more information, and the final date to submit your miniatures for printing is November 8th!
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
Betrayal at House on the Hill quickly builds suspense and excitement as players explore a haunted mansion of their own design, encountering spirits and frightening omens that foretell their fate. With an estimated one hour playing time, Betrayal at House on the Hill is ideal for parties, family gatherings or casual fun with friends. It is a tile game that allows players to build their own haunted house room by room, tile by tile, creating a new thrilling game board every time. The game is designed for three to six people, each of whom plays one of six possible characters. Secretly, one of the characters betrays the rest of the party, and the innocent members of the party must defeat the traitor in their midst before it’s too late! Betrayal at House on the Hill will appeal to any game player who enjoys a fun, suspenseful, and strategic game.
This session will play with the Widow's Walk expansion.
You're an eager youth in the quaint village of Rainbow Corners, fighting to survive Doctor Sweet's gauntlet of terrifying carnival games in pursuit of her friendship and an infinite supply of candy. Come test this whimsical candy horror game with game inventor James Ernest.
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 2:00pm - 4:00pm MST
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Furnace is an engine-building Eurogame in which players take on the roles of 19th-century capitalists building their industrial corporations and aspiring to make as much money as they can by purchasing companies, extracting resources, and processing them in the best combinations possible.
Come learn and play this medium weight hybrid vehicular combat game. Two teams of custom-built robotic monstrosities fight it out with flamethrowers, gatling guns, and everything in between. We will playing with a hand-built copy using the 2011 update, converted mechwarrior minis, and maybe even the unpublished experimental chassis... what could go wrong?
In The Flood players are taken back in time to the pre historic world before the flood. Their objective is to build a network of Huts and Camps and collect & forage enough resources to build the Ark before the flood. Each player has a unique Mighty Beast - the hero miniature that can forage strategic resources.
The Flood has 2 modes, co-op scenarios and solo gameplay.
In the Main mode: Each turn players will choose a tile to activate and collect resources from their structures on the hexagons. Commodities include: Gopher wood, Tar, Wool, Vegetables, Limestone.
In the Classic mode: Luck is paramount! Each turn players will roll the tool and two commodity dice to collect resources from their structures bordering hexagons. Commodities include: Gopher wood, Tar, Wool, Vegetables, Limestone.
The board includes 27 hexagons and a board edge that includes a trade track, faith points and a market. Tool tokens are placed on each hexagon. When the correct commodity or Tool is rolled or tile is activated the players will receive resources. During their turns players will build, forage, deploy mines, control their Mighty Beast, collect resource cards, obtain event cards. Story cards control the weather and yeild multiple other bonuses.
Trading is a strategic part of the game. Players are able to trade resource cards with each other and the supply. After the First player that finishes the Ark and the animal token the game stops and faith points are counted. The player with the most faith points wins!
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions).
I love strategy board games, especially euro games. I have a large collection and am willing to play my games with anyone who is interested. If there's a game you would like to try, ask me, I probably own it. lol In addition to board games, I DM a RPG group that takes place... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 2:00pm - 4:00pm MST
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It's just like Cascadia, but GIANT! Play this year's brand new giant game crafted by Karen, your very own RinCon convention chair. Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. The Landmarks expansion adds beautiful natural landmarks, which give each environment its own look and feel, while also providing dynamic endgame scoring bonuses!
Test your might in a fight against an ancient threat in the Tanglewilds. As a Humblewood oneshot you will be playing as a anthormophic animals. I will be providing a variety of pre made characters.
Blood on the Clocktower is a bluffing game enjoyed by 5 to 20 players on opposing teams of Good and Evil, overseen by a Storyteller player who conducts the action and makes crucial decisions. The goal of the game is to successfully deduce and execute the demons before they outnumber the townfolk. During a 'day' phase players socialize openly and whisper privately to trade knowledge or spread lies, culminating in a player's execution if a majority suspects them of being Evil. During a 'night' time, players close their eyes and are woken one at a time by the Storyteller to gather information, spread mischief, or kill.
This game will be played in the foyer area just inside the glass doors leading to the casino area.
Join us for a fantastic opportunity to buy and sell board games!
Sellers: Bring your priced games and set up on Saturday at 2:00 PM. You will need to purchase the $10 “Table at the Flea Market” add-on with your RinCon registration via Zeffy. If you’re already registered, you can buy it separately. You’ll get half of a large six-foot round table, with potential for more space depending on the number of sellers. Be ready to manage your own items and sales. Most buyers will have cash, but it’s great to have QR codes available for digital payments. Buyers: The doors open at 2:30 PM. Come with cash in hand and hunt for fantastic deals until 4:00 PM! Whether you’re looking for a rare find or just a great bargain, there’s something for everyone.
In Barcelona, you will take on the role of builders in 19th-century Barcelona who are working on the new expansion to the city. Your main goal is to construct buildings to accommodate the citizens who want to leave the old city, and in the process, you will also build streets, create tram lines, and build public services. You may even decide to explore "Modernisme", a new architectural and arts style that has been gaining popularity among the rich. Teach 20 minutes Playtime 120 minutes
A team of heroes, all with impressive powers and abilities stand between the world and the forces of evil. Will you help them? Answer the call to protect the multiverse!
Sentinels of the Multiverse is a cooperative, fixed-deck card game with a comic book flavor. Each player plays as one of ten heroes, against one of four villains, and the battle takes place in one of four different dynamic environments.
Each player, after selecting one of the heroes, plays a deck of 40 cards against the villain and environment decks, which "play themselves", requiring the players to put the top card of the appropriate deck into play on the villain and environment turns. On each player's turn, they may play a card from their hand, use a power printed on one of their cards in play, and draw a card from their deck. Each round starts with the villain turn, continues clockwise around the table, then concludes with the environment turn. Each villain has various advantages, such as starting with certain cards in play, as specified by the villain character card. Play continues until the heroes reduce the villain to 0 or fewer HP, or until the villain defeats the heroes, either via a win condition or by reducing all the heroes to 0 or fewer HP.
This age of art and capitalism has created a need for a new occupation - The Gallerist.
Combining the elements of an Art dealer, museum curator, and Artists’ manager, you are about to take on that job! You will promote and nurture Artists; buy, display, and sell their Art; and build and exert your international reputation. As a result, you will achieve the respect needed to draw visitors to your Gallery from all over the world.
There's a lot of work to be done, but don't worry, you can hire assistants to help you achieve your goals. Build your fortune by running the most lucrative Gallery and secure your reputation as a world-class Gallerist!
Maximize your money and thus win the game by: having visitors in your gallery; exhibiting and selling works of art; investing in artists’ promotion to increase art value; achieving trends and reputation as well as curator and dealer goals.
Travel the amazing 800 mile long Arizona Trail from Mexico to Utah, through Saguaro National Park, the Four Peaks, San Francisco Peaks and the Grand Canyon and so many other beautiful sites. Create a personal mural of your journey through sightings of Flora and Fauna along the way. Seek the aid of the Lost Dutchman and the Jackalope while avoiding the Gila Monster as you manage your resources to amass the most Superstition Gold and Arizona Grit. Happy Trails...
A deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging abstract strategy game for two players. Every time you place a kitten on the bed, it goes “boop.” Which is to say that it pushes every other kitten on the board one space away. Line up three kittens in a row to graduate them into cats… and then, get three cats in a row to win. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2025 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2025)!
Spirit Island is a complex and thematic cooperative game about defending your island home from colonizing Invaders. Players are different spirits of the land, each with its own unique elemental powers. Every turn, players simultaneously choose which of their power cards to play, paying energy to do so. Using combinations of power cards that match a spirit's elemental affinities can grant free bonus effects. Faster powers take effect immediately, before the Invaders spread and ravage, but other magics are slower, requiring forethought and planning to use effectively. In the Spirit phase, spirits gain energy, and choose how / whether to Grow: to reclaim used power cards, to seek for new power, or to spread presence into new areas of the island.
**Roll Player** Mighty heroes don’t just appear out of thin air -- you must create them! Race, class, alignment, skills, traits, and equipment are all elements of the perfect hero, who is ready to take on all opposition in the quest for glory and riches.
In Roll Player, you will compete to create the greatest fantasy adventurer who has ever lived, preparing your character to embark on an epic quest. Roll and draft dice to build up your character’s attributes. Purchase weapons and armor to outfit your hero. Train to gain skills and discover your hero’s traits to prepare them for their journey. Earn Reputation Stars by constructing the perfect character. The player with the greatest Reputation wins the game and will surely triumph over whatever nefarious plot lies ahead!
**Stonespine Architects** Dungeon-crafting is an ancient Minotaur art that you’ve studied for a decade under Master Hortgully. To demonstrate your skill as your final project, you must carve your own perilous labyrinth into the base of the Stonespine Mountains.
Stonespine Architects is a card-drafting game for 1-5 players where you compete to construct the most dangerous labyrinth. Players simultaneously draft and play cards to expand their dungeons, one chamber at a time. Follow a unique blueprint and a variety of scoring challenges. Choose between mapping a path through your underground tunnels, placing key elements in your rooms, or searching for extra riches. Spend gold between rounds to customize your labyrinth with monsters, traps, treasures, and secret passages. At the end of four years, the player with the most treacherous dungeon will earn the title of Master Architect!
**LockUp** Lockup is a competitive worker-allocation game for one to five players. In the game, players manage groups of minions -- gnolls, kobolds, bugbears, goblins, or insectoids -- locked up in Kulbak Prison.
Each round, players try to keep their suspicion from the guards under control while allocating their crew to d
Far back in the mists of antiquity, a poet sings of great deeds wrought by mighty heroes defiant of the gods themselves. In Agon, you create and play these heroes, crafting their epic tale into an immortal legend. System allows for a lot of story telling and player directed narration.
The year is 2045. You live life on the edge as a street merc in the dark future's city upon the hill. Chromed out and armed to the bone under the blood red skies of the Time of the Red, you and your Edgerunner crew just pulled off the perfect heist on the recovering docks of South Night City. All you gotta do now is call your Fixer and get paid. Sound easy? If it does, you must be new to Night City, choom...
Cyberpunk RED is the latest edition of the classic TTRPG of the Dark Future, featuring updated mechanics and new lore set midway between the events of the tabletop Cyberpunk 2020 and CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. We'll be using the latest rulesets as provided in the Cyberpunk RED: Easy Mode book for fast, streamlined play. Dice and pregenerated character sheets will be provided. The game primarily uses d10 and d6 and players will be able to take home one of each as a souvenir.
This is an introductory type of session meant for players of all skill levels. Players will choose one of five available character roles and briefly work together to create a backstory for their crew. We'll hit the ground running with the fallout of a successful mission and learn some of the intricacies of the game as we go. Teamwork will be everything. The game features the Interlock system from R Talsorian Games and works best as a vehicle for storytelling. Look forward to working together with the GM and some new or established choombas to tell a gritty story worth the mirror shades you bring to the session.* Rule of Cool absolutely applies here. See you on the Streets!
*Mirror shades recommended but certainly not required.
Fantasy and Sci-Fi collide in the Post Apocalyptic world of Dystopian Dawn! Join me in play testing a new scenario for the upcoming Source Adventure Book "Cowboys & Mutants!" This is the 6th Dystopian Dawn book and all who play will have their names entered in the Credits and receive a FREE Digital PDF of the book. The Territories of Alamex and New Rome are under siege by the threat of Mutant armies, renegade Legionnaire deserters, Draught, and more! Add an outcast Wizard searching for ancient artifacts of power from the "time before" and new monsters of Myth and Legend creeping across the lands and you have "Cowboys & Mutants!". No experience needed! I'll provide pre-generated characters for you. I'll also have SWAG and Raffles and Discounts on goodies!
Who is Tony?Hi! I'm Tony Garcia and I'm a gamer.I've been playing/running RPGs since 1980 and finally created my own system after decades of modding other systems. A few games that I've played/ran include D&D, Stormbringer, Runequest, Arduin Grimoire, Marvel, DC, V&V, T&T, Gangbusters... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 2:00pm - 6:00pm MST
RPG10
Be a spoooooky Halloween monster on student vacation with your pals! Solve a mystery! Make college break memories to last a (un)lifetime! Lighthearted, light RPG.
A My Hero Academia style romp using Comic Crawl Classics (Dungeon Crawl Classics supplement by Ed Stanek). Pre-gen characters will be available, however we will also be generating characters at the table for any who want to be creative (and/or random). Our heroes will be enjoying a Sunday of mini-putt golf when they are called upon to save the world from a crazy rift created by a teen garage band refining their new sound. DCC dice will be provided for use and swag will be handed out!
Ready to sample some of the freshest new RPGs? Are you in a bit of an RPG rut and not sure what to try next? Or maybe you are new to RPGs and don't know where to start. Come on down to the Indie RPG arcade! We have a short list of GMs bringing new and exciting games, and at the start of the time slot they all pitch their games to the assembled players. The players then sort themselves by what they want to play, and game on! Each session will have a new crop of GMs pitching different games so you are sure to find something to your liking.
If you are a fan of stuff like Final Fantasy, Elder Scrolls, Starfield, Destiny, Ark: Survival Evolved, Monster Hunter World of Diablo - then Legends of Kralis is right up your alley. Come play characters types from these games and many others!
The scenario starts as your band of Void mercenaries are contacted by a well known mining guild, the Blue Scarab Trading Company. They are requesting to investigate why one of their mining facilities has lost communication on a large asteroid known as Lotus 1. You are about to turn down the job when your void ship’s, the Radiant Mirage, engines sputter then come back to life. Your group is broke and any job is better than no job. Plus maybe the mining facilities has some spare parts to fix your ship. You accept the job and the following comes over the coms. 1) Travel to Jenzeer Station on a large asteroid not far from your location 2) Verify and secure safety of miners and staff 3) Determine reason for loss of communication 4) Aid in reestablishing communication 5) Standard payment
Creator/Designer/CEO, Talarius Gaming and Publishing
Caught between the majesty of the old world, and the marvels of the new, the world of Kralis is filled with discoveries waiting to be uncovered. From the secrets of thundersmoke, to the lost arts of Kara’Zim, knowledge and power await you… if you’re brave enough to seek them... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 2:00pm - 6:00pm MST
RPG01
Cartel is a Mexican narcofiction tabletop roleplaying game that makes use of the same rules-light engine as Apocalypse World, Monsterhearts, and Urban Shadows. Cartel creates adult fiction in the vein of Breaking Bad, The Wire, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, making it a perfect fit for lovers of crime fiction and Mexican melodramas alike. Cartel has the mechanical strength and narrative flexibility to create stories that are alternately tragic and darkly humorous, set against the backdrop of an eternal drug war.
Welcome to the gauntlet grinder that is the Marble Hall of the Megawizard, a fun house dungeon where great fortune can be attained, but only at even greater risk! Using the Shadowdark RPG, this will be a dungeon delve for 1st and 2nd Level characters. Bring your guts, your grit, your appetite for danger, your own characters if you have them (premades will be available at the table) and don't forget your torch!
You are a Seeker: A scifi hero with amazing powers rocketing to an alien world on the brink of extinction. Can you figure out its mystery and how to solve it before it's too late? Part high action away team mission, part inception in space, there's something for everyone here.
The Pathfinder Society is approached by the Queen of Kyonin for their assistance in investigating a demon-obsessed elf noble and his ominous plans for an isolated town within the forests of Kyonin in exchange for allowing the Society to once again operate within the nation. The travel there is treacherous, however once the Pathfinders arrive, the town is besieged by a power beyond any one elf no matter his plans and ambition. The teams of Pathfinders must work together effectively and quickly to prevent the corruption of the forest and the town! (this game is repeatable with a different character)
A Pathfinder Society Special designed for 1st- through 8th-level characters (subtiers 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 & 7-8).
The Pathfinder Society is approached by the Queen of Kyonin for their assistance in investigating a demon-obsessed elf noble and his ominous plans for an isolated town within the forests of Kyonin in exchange for allowing the Society to once again operate within the nation. The travel there is treacherous, however once the Pathfinders arrive, the town is besieged by a power beyond any one elf no matter his plans and ambition. The teams of Pathfinders must work together effectively and quickly to prevent the corruption of the forest and the town!
A Pathfinder Society Special designed for 1st- through 8th-level characters (subtiers 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 & 7-8).
The Pathfinder Society is approached by the Queen of Kyonin for their assistance in investigating a demon-obsessed elf noble and his ominous plans for an isolated town within the forests of Kyonin in exchange for allowing the Society to once again operate within the nation. The travel there is treacherous, however once the Pathfinders arrive, the town is besieged by a power beyond any one elf no matter his plans and ambition. The teams of Pathfinders must work together effectively and quickly to prevent the corruption of the forest and the town!
Lumber operations in Vinland have come to a screeching halt due to logging crews being at each other's throats. The posse of Six-Gun Sven has been engaged to stop this conflict by any means necessary, as this could have potentially far reaching economic consequences. But all isn't what it seems in the cold north.
Sagas and Six-Guns is a western/Viking hybrid setting, combing the Old West with the Old Norse, using the Savage Worlds RPG system.
A squad of Tomorrow Legionnaires is forced to take refuge during a deadly ley line storm. They find themselves sharing a pre-Rifts prison with a Coatlition Squad. And both are trapped there with something far more dangerous...
After several weeks of adventure, a relaxing break in the natural hot spring of a quiet mountain town could really do wonders for your soul! However, the approaching roar of a dragon quickly breaks that peace and serenity. Now you find yourself defending the town from a winged beast from above.
Returning to the Society HQ late one foggy winter's night. Four members of the Society sit wrap in blankets & sipping brandy to hold off the winter chill. Their coach rattles over cobbled stones and the driver pulls the coach to a halt. The driver calls down that they must have taken a wrong turning, and that they have arrived at a dark and unfamiliar town. The church bell rings out, breaking the otherwise eerie silence.
The freighter Belle ran aground on the rocky shore near Brenton Point, Rhode Island two months ago. There were no survivors, and the ship’s remained perched on the rocks ever since as the authorities argue over who’s responsible for removing the wreck. While they bicker, something unwholesome is festering on board the rotting ship...
Ron's been a gamer since 1984 and with his wife, Veronica, is proudly raising two more gamers for the next generation. He first delved into the game industry as a podcaster, beginning with The Game's the Thing in 2006, and working on others including the venerable Pulp Gamer. In 2008... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 2:00pm - 6:00pm MST
RPG19
A Supernatural Investigation team hunts down strange occurrences in New York subway. Takes place in the 80's. This is a sequel to the multi-table event The Curse of Violet Hill.
Say yes to this specialty job, and you are in good with a powerful Xcrawl DJ in a position to really help your career. The catch: this is a real-world dungeon. No referee, no rules, no time outs. The answer to all your questions lie somewhere inside the Tucson death storm. This is a 2nd level play-with-the-creator event.
There's always someone up to no good in the Chelish capital of Egorian, and this time it hits a little too close to home! A corrupt banker discovered there was something magical about The Terrific Toyshop beyond just the magnificent creations within. Greedy and unprincipled, this wealthy noble found a loophole in the diabolically complicated laws of the city and exploited it to seize the deed to the toyshop and threaten to boot the toy maker and his lovely creations out on the streets. What are sentient toys to do in the face of such reprehensible actions? Break in and steal the deed back, of course!
In The Great Toy Heist, you take on the role of one of four unique poppets—living toys with strong wills of their own. While your gentle creator is beside himself with worry, you and your friends enact a risky plan to save your home and livelihoods with stealth, subterfuge, and no shortage of luck!
Take command of your own unique faction as you explore, build, quest, and battle your way to victory over the course of 6 rounds. 6 Asymmetric factions to choose from. NOTE: Has a dinner break at 6:00 PM.
Imagine being the Captain of your own star ship. Come join us with your crew and fly around the galaxy in a star ship, killing bad guys, being amazed by space dragons, and avoiding black holes! Operate the ship together, and defend the sector from evil aliens.
Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the main screen, while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Science, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room (bridge) , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle and tells everyone what to do.
We will have 2 full bridges and some fighter stations, so you can do joint or head to head missions.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Race to collect a winning hand of colorful Galaxy Children and Dracos in this all-ages card and dice game. But Explorers beware! There are dangers lurking in the depths of space, and your decisions – combined with fate – may save or doom fellow players. Demo game winners can earn up to 6 limited edition Explorer Badges!
Illustrator and Designer, SaReSai: The Art of Sarah Rebecca
Sarah Rebecca has been illustrating and storytelling for nearly 20 years. From comics to artbooks to novels to card games, she endeavors to bring her unique view of the world into every project she creates. She can often be found selling her work at numerous Arizona conventions and... Read More →
A Halloween, Horror, and Spooky card game - kid friendly, no gore-. Start as human and become a monster to be the last person standing. Create more of your monster type to become the Master of the brood. A fun game with a twist. losing the last heart converts you to a ghost and you keep playing!
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
In Mississippi Queen, players race their paddle wheelers down the Mississippi, picking up passengers along the way. But onboard coal supplies are limited, so each ship's acceleration and maneuvers must be carefully planned. The twists and turns of the river are unknown at the start of the game and are revealed only as ships progress downstream, so captains need to be alert at the wheel and ready to change course.
A whimsical set collection game of piracy and pastries! Enter a charming world where you play as tea-loving pirates competing to serve the perfect afternoon tea with a pinch of piracy and a dash of destruction. This session is hosted by creator and RinCon special guest, Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games).
The king is dying and refuses to name an heir! As prince or princess in line for the throne you must secure support from the three main factions. Along the path of succession, you will have to step over the bodies of your royal siblings.
Widgets n' Digit$ is a race against the clock engine builder about building your own business! Each turn you'll make and sell Widgets, using the profits to purchase resources and upgrade your business. Unique market mechanics allow demand from your competitors to set prices creating dynamic market-driven play!
In many ways 7 Wonders Duel resembles its parent game 7 Wonders. Over three ages, players acquire cards that provide resources or advance their military or scientific development in order to develop a civilization and complete wonders. What's different about 7 Wonders Duel is that, as the title suggests, the game is solely for two players.
Players do not draft cards simultaneously from decks of cards, but from a display of face-down and face-up cards arranged at the start of a round. A player can take a card only if it's not covered by any others, so timing comes into play, as it can with bonus moves that allow the player to take a second card immediately. As in the original game, each acquired card can be built, discarded for coins, or used to construct a wonder. Each player also starts with four wonder cards, and the construction of a wonder provides its owner with a special ability. Only seven wonders can be built, though, so one player will end up short.
Players can purchase resources at any time from the bank, or they can gain cards during the game that provide them with resources for future building; as they are acquired, the cost for those resources increases for the opponent, representing the owner's dominance in this area.
You can win 7 Wonders Duel in one of three ways: each time you acquire a military card, you advance the military marker toward your opponent's capital (also giving you a bonus at certain positions). If you reach the opponent's capital, you win the game immediately. Or if you acquire six of seven different scientific symbols, you achieve scientific dominance and win immediately. If none of these situations occurs, then the player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
This year, we are offering our 3D Printing services to print your custom designed miniatures from services like Titan Craft and Hero Forge! Check the RinCon Discord for more information, and the final date to submit your miniatures for printing is November 8th!
Astra Adventures is a competitive strategy game that features action selection, resource management, and worker placement. Each player is the captain of a space ship owned by an intergalactic corporation that mines space crystals. The crystals are used to create everything from lasers to engine fuel and the player who ultimately controls them will rule the universe.
The friendly engine-building game of birds, habitats, food, and eggs is bigger and better than ever! The Wingspan Asia expansion introduced the flocking mode for up to 7 players (technically 2 partially separated groups of players). This plays much faster than you might think at around 2.5 hours. Swoop on in for some fun!
Imagine being the Captain of your own star ship. Come join us with your crew and fly around the galaxy in a star ship, killing bad guys, being amazed by space dragons, and avoiding black holes! Operate the ship together, and defend the sector from evil aliens.
Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the main screen, while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Science, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room (bridge) , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle and tells everyone what to do.
We will have 2 full bridges and some fighter stations, so you can do joint or head to head missions.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
What does it take to become top dog? Find out in this family-friendly card game about moving man’s best friend! The game is super-easy to learn and supports drop-in play so come by and pick your puppy.
Come play Scout in the Quick Play Zone! This is a "ladder-climbing" card game where players play cards from their hand to try to beat the most recent set. But plan carefully, because you cannot change the order of the cards in your hand. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 45-60 minutes.
Widgets n' Digit$ is a race against the clock engine builder about building your own business! Each turn you'll make and sell Widgets, using the profits to purchase resources and upgrade your business. Unique market mechanics allow demand from your competitors to set prices creating dynamic market-driven play!
The Minotaur protects a Secret Temple inside a Labyrinth. Be the first to lead your men to the Temple while avoiding the Minotaur, which can be used by players to attack their opponents and knock them out of the maze. You can cleverly place walls to block your opponents and reshape the maze during play.
Clear and simple rules make this game playable for all ages from 5-6 and up. Primarily a children's game, but also fun for adults, particularly when played with their kids. This game is played on a board made of real LEGO pieces.
In many ways 7 Wonders Duel resembles its parent game 7 Wonders. Over three ages, players acquire cards that provide resources or advance their military or scientific development in order to develop a civilization and complete wonders. What's different about 7 Wonders Duel is that, as the title suggests, the game is solely for two players.
Players do not draft cards simultaneously from decks of cards, but from a display of face-down and face-up cards arranged at the start of a round. A player can take a card only if it's not covered by any others, so timing comes into play, as it can with bonus moves that allow the player to take a second card immediately. As in the original game, each acquired card can be built, discarded for coins, or used to construct a wonder. Each player also starts with four wonder cards, and the construction of a wonder provides its owner with a special ability. Only seven wonders can be built, though, so one player will end up short.
Players can purchase resources at any time from the bank, or they can gain cards during the game that provide them with resources for future building; as they are acquired, the cost for those resources increases for the opponent, representing the owner's dominance in this area.
You can win 7 Wonders Duel in one of three ways: each time you acquire a military card, you advance the military marker toward your opponent's capital (also giving you a bonus at certain positions). If you reach the opponent's capital, you win the game immediately. Or if you acquire six of seven different scientific symbols, you achieve scientific dominance and win immediately. If none of these situations occurs, then the player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
This year, we are offering our 3D Printing services to print your custom designed miniatures from services like Titan Craft and Hero Forge! Check the RinCon Discord for more information, and the final date to submit your miniatures for printing is November 8th!
Have you ever made a mistake? Hurt someone’s feelings? Said something you wish you hadn’t? Hurt Party: A Game of Bad Apologies is a party game that pokes fun at all the unfortunate ways we say we’re sorry. It hurts to know we've hurt someone, especially when we know we didn't mean to. We never want to hurt the people we love, but inevitably, being human means we make mistakes. And because we value those relationships, we apologize! But it doesn't always go the way we planned. Hurt Party is designed for 2-7 players. Officially, Hurt Party is for ages 14 and up, though none of the cards in the deck are inappropriate for younger players. Gameplay takes 10-20 minutes, based on the number of players.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
Betrayal at House on the Hill quickly builds suspense and excitement as players explore a haunted mansion of their own design, encountering spirits and frightening omens that foretell their fate. With an estimated one hour playing time, Betrayal at House on the Hill is ideal for parties, family gatherings or casual fun with friends. It is a tile game that allows players to build their own haunted house room by room, tile by tile, creating a new thrilling game board every time. The game is designed for three to six people, each of whom plays one of six possible characters. Secretly, one of the characters betrays the rest of the party, and the innocent members of the party must defeat the traitor in their midst before it’s too late! Betrayal at House on the Hill will appeal to any game player who enjoys a fun, suspenseful, and strategic game.
This session will play with the Widow's Walk expansion.
Last Night on Earth pits two teams of players against each other, the zombies and the survivors. The survivors must race to complete their objectives before the zombies overrun the town or eat them all!
In The Flood players are taken back in time to the pre historic world before the flood. Their objective is to build a network of Huts and Camps and collect & forage enough resources to build the Ark before the flood. Each player has a unique Mighty Beast - the hero miniature that can forage strategic resources.
The Flood has 2 modes, co-op scenarios and solo gameplay.
In the Main mode: Each turn players will choose a tile to activate and collect resources from their structures on the hexagons. Commodities include: Gopher wood, Tar, Wool, Vegetables, Limestone.
In the Classic mode: Luck is paramount! Each turn players will roll the tool and two commodity dice to collect resources from their structures bordering hexagons. Commodities include: Gopher wood, Tar, Wool, Vegetables, Limestone.
The board includes 27 hexagons and a board edge that includes a trade track, faith points and a market. Tool tokens are placed on each hexagon. When the correct commodity or Tool is rolled or tile is activated the players will receive resources. During their turns players will build, forage, deploy mines, control their Mighty Beast, collect resource cards, obtain event cards. Story cards control the weather and yeild multiple other bonuses.
Trading is a strategic part of the game. Players are able to trade resource cards with each other and the supply. After the First player that finishes the Ark and the animal token the game stops and faith points are counted. The player with the most faith points wins!
Experience the magic like never before with The UAG's custom-made oversized version of the beloved game, Potion Explosion. Dear students, it's time for the final exams of the Potions class! The rules are always the same: Take an ingredient marble from the dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode and you can take them, too! Complete your potions using the marbles you collect, and drink them to unleash their magical power. Remember, though, that to win the Student of the Year award, being quick won't be enough: you'll also need to brew the most valuable potions in Potion Explosion!
Blood on the Clocktower is a bluffing game enjoyed by 5 to 20 players on opposing teams of Good and Evil, overseen by a Storyteller player who conducts the action and makes crucial decisions. The goal of the game is to successfully deduce and execute the demons before they outnumber the townfolk. During a 'day' phase players socialize openly and whisper privately to trade knowledge or spread lies, culminating in a player's execution if a majority suspects them of being Evil. During a 'night' time, players close their eyes and are woken one at a time by the Storyteller to gather information, spread mischief, or kill.
This game will be played in the foyer area just inside the glass doors leading to the casino area.
Kind of like "Whose Line Is It, Anyway" for game designers. Watch and participate as our illustrious team of board game designers (James Ernest of Crab Fragment Labs and Emily Vincent of Pink Hawk Games) come up with silly new games from scratch. The twist is that you, the audience, get to add to the fun by submitting concepts, mechanics, and materials along the way that they must then build into the final products.
"Sooo, it's a dice drafting game... about taco trucks that are really a front for DC-based spies... and we're supposed to incorporate WHAT?!?"
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Snow White, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and many other fairy tale princesses are celebrating a five-day party. The prince charmings, who have not been invited, will try to infiltrate the ball to propose marriage to the girls. As a princess, you have to avoid marriage proposals and remain single and independent after the celebrations. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2025 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2025)!
Imagine being the Captain of your own star ship. Come join us with your crew and fly around the galaxy in a star ship, killing bad guys, being amazed by space dragons, and avoiding black holes! Operate the ship together, and defend the sector from evil aliens.
Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the main screen, while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Science, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room (bridge) , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle and tells everyone what to do.
We will have 2 full bridges and some fighter stations, so you can do joint or head to head missions.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
A Halloween, Horror, and Spooky card game - kid friendly, no gore-. Start as human and become a monster to be the last person standing. Create more of your monster type to become the Master of the brood. A fun game with a twist. losing the last heart converts you to a ghost and you keep playing!
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Come play Splendor in the Quick Play Zone! Splendor has players collecting gems and trading them for tiles, which provide points as well as discounts towards more valuable gems. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 45-60 minutes.
Widgets n' Digit$ is a race against the clock engine builder about building your own business! Each turn you'll make and sell Widgets, using the profits to purchase resources and upgrade your business. Unique market mechanics allow demand from your competitors to set prices creating dynamic market-driven play!
This year, we are offering our 3D Printing services to print your custom designed miniatures from services like Titan Craft and Hero Forge! Check the RinCon Discord for more information, and the final date to submit your miniatures for printing is November 8th!
I hear the dinner bell ringing! If you have meal tickets, use them at the concessions stand right in the conference center - it will be open for dinner from 5:30-8:30, and the bar station will be open from 5:30 to midnight. Or if you don't have meal tickets, you can try one of the restaurants on the rest of the casino property - there are lots of options!
Imagine being the Captain of your own star ship. Come join us with your crew and fly around the galaxy in a star ship, killing bad guys, being amazed by space dragons, and avoiding black holes! Operate the ship together, and defend the sector from evil aliens.
Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the main screen, while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Science, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room (bridge) , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle and tells everyone what to do.
We will have 2 full bridges and some fighter stations, so you can do joint or head to head missions.
Play a 4v4 live-action battleship! This fast-paced game involves a team of four people who must navigate their submarine, avoid detection, and try to sink their opponents.
Knitting Circle is a stand-alone follow up to the hit spatial puzzle game Calico! In this gorgeous puzzly tile-laying game for the whole family, players are knitters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful assortment of garments. Learn to play this brand-new game with its creator and RinCon special guest, Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Game).
In Red Dragon Inn, you and your friends are a party of heroic, fantasy adventurers. You've raided the dungeon, killed the monsters, and taken their treasure. Now you're back, and what better way to celebrate your most recent victory than to spend an evening at the Red Dragon Inn. You and your adventuring companions will spend the night drinking, gambling, and roughhousing. The last person who is both sober enough to remain conscious and shrewd enough to hold onto his Gold Coins wins the game.
It appears you have Inherited the abandoned Twilight Manor, which has sat dormant for decades since the family was chased away by the resident ghosts. No one knows for certain what transpired within these walls, but the hauntings have left the property untouched and possibly cursed.
It’s now up to the Twilight sisters to try to bring new life into their ancestral home. How far will they get as troublesome hauntings make things even more challenging while they try to restore the manor? It seems the ghosts aren’t too happy with the renovations and will do everything in their power to stop you! Tanto Cuore 6 offers several new game mechanics. In here, the players are in a rush to complete dilapidated rooms, avoid the ghosts, and perform seances to help with their goals. However, the spirits are not always willing to play along, and they can at times go out of their way to mess up your strategy if they turn evil!
Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. To win the game, your team will need to contact all of your agents in the field before the other team finds their own agents. And watch out for the assassin – meet him in the field and your team is done!
Codenames is simple to explain and easy to understand, with no limit to size of the teams – you can play in four people as well as in twelve!
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. Dragons are specialized (bread, meat, iron, crystal, plant and potion) and the Flamekeepers know which shops are the best home for each. Visit a shop to gain items and a favor from one of the dragons there. Gathered items can be used to enchant a shop, gaining reputation and the favors of all the dragons in the shop. If you are fortunate enough to attract fancy dragons then you will have opportunities to secure even more reputation.
Kingdoms Unbound is a tactical trading card games that draws inspiration from both traditional TCGs and board games. Our unique movement system allows for a more tactile gameplay experience, which in turn allows for new players to learn the base gameplay quickly.
Snow White, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and many other fairy tale princesses are celebrating a five-day party. The prince charmings, who have not been invited, will try to infiltrate the ball to propose marriage to the girls. As a princess, you have to avoid marriage proposals and remain single and independent after the celebrations.
Rebel Princess takes place over five rounds, representing the five days of a party, and each round has a special rule that makes each game totally different. The general mechanisms are those of trick-taking games, in which each player plays a numbered card into each trick, following one of the four suits in the game. The player with the highest number of the suit that started the trick takes all the cards of that trick — but that's not necessarily good as players want to avoid taking cards with prince charmings, who each bring one marriage proposal, aside from the enchanted frog who brings five proposals. The player with the fewest marriage proposals after five rounds wins.
GM will be playing as the beast and the 3 players will need to work tighter to defeat it.
Welcome to the Northern Expanse, a place where nature is still unexplored, mystical and dangerous. When the humans first arrived, they thought they found an unspoiled paradise, filled with bountiful forests, lakes swimming with fish and cold freshwater flowing from the mountains. But as their settlements expanded and the surrounding forests grew thinner, nature itself pushed back. Great creatures known as Beasts emerged, and with their fangs, claws and mystical powers, they proved an incredible threat to the humans. In order to protect the settlements, humans enlisted specialised hunters, tasked with tracking and killing the Beasts before too many of their kin perish.
The Beast uses a deck of direction cards to move over forests, swamps and caverns, using guile and deceit to hide its track from the hunters. However, whenever a hunter moves over a location where the Beast has previously been, a trail appears. Only when a hunter searches a location or the Beast itself attacks an unsuspecting target is the Beast's actual position revealed. More so, each hunter has but one chance of searching each round, making it a tense and difficult decision. Hunters seldom have full information whether the trail they’re pursuing contains the Beast’s actual location, or if the trail has already gone cold.
Each action you perform in this game is done by playing a card from your hand (up to a maximum of two cards per turn). This means that if a player wants to search, attack or move, they need to have a card in their hand that lets them do that. Before each round, both hunters and Beast participate in a draft for the most important cards. All action cards can be used by both Beast and hunters alike.
In order to win this game, you either need to cooperate every step of the way if you play as a hunter, or skillfully outmaneuver your opponents if you play as Beast. On their own, hunters are never
"Gentes" is a pleonasm of the Latin plural word for greater groups of human beings (e.g., tribes, nations, people; singular: "gens"). In this game, players take the role of an ancient people who are attempting to develop by building monuments and colonizing or founding new cities in the Mediterranean sea. Teach 20 minutes Playtime 120 minutes
Meadow is an engaging set collection game with over two hundred unique cards containing hand-painted watercolor illustrations. In the game, players take the role of explorers competing for the title of the most skilled nature observer. To win, they collect cards with the most valuable species, landscapes, and discoveries. Their journey is led by passion, a curiosity of the world, an inquiring mind, and a desire to discover the mysteries of nature. The competition continues at the bonfire where the players race to fulfill the goals of their adventures.
I love strategy board games, especially euro games. I have a large collection and am willing to play my games with anyone who is interested. If there's a game you would like to try, ask me, I probably own it. lol In addition to board games, I DM a RPG group that takes place... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 8:00pm - 11:00pm MST
BG26
Travel the amazing 800 mile long Arizona Trail from Mexico to Utah, through Saguaro National Park, the Four Peaks, San Francisco Peaks and the Grand Canyon and so many other beautiful sites. Create a personal mural of your journey through sightings of Flora and Fauna along the way. Seek the aid of the Lost Dutchman and the Jackalope while avoiding the Gila Monster as you manage your resources to amass the most Superstition Gold and Arizona Grit. Happy Trails...
Worldspanner Factions is the grand successor to the Duel of Ages series of games. A combination of tactical RPG and adventure, Factions carries on the tradition of intensity and uniqueness. Two decades have proven that you've never played a game like this.
Two teams of heroes from past, present, and future descend into the Worldspanner Arena and compete to earn the most glory by acts of renown--and by facing down the enemy. Earn the alliance of one of the six factions, or the queen mother of the Games. For 2-8 players who divide into two teams. In effect, a co-op game with excellent opponent AI (unless your friends dump-statted INT).
The teams take turns, conducting an action with each hero--move, attack, unleash a minion. This is followed by reactions from the opposing team, after which the current team conducts adventures. Play continues for 9 or 12 turns, after which objective points are tallied. Most objective points are earned from non-combat activities such as alliances with the different factions.
Contains 49 heroes, 90 treasures and a selection of map pieces, making each play different--new teams gathering new treasure on a completely new map. Expansions bring both the treasure count and the hero count up to 360--The Full Degree.
With a ruleset significantly streamlined from Duel of Ages, Factions has half the rules word count of Duel of Ages I and over a third less than DoA II. Factions is now a game system capable of pulling in a universe of heroes (and their miniatures).
"The soft glow of the willowisps and fireflies dance amidst the moon dappled grove of the ancient woods. The heady scents of flowers and earth waft upon the cool evening breeze. The gentle rustle of leaves, the babbling brook, and denizens of the forest, entwine with the soft music of flutes and harps floating through the velvety night. Before you stand a henge of tall stone pillars reflecting the brilliant light of the full moon. A shock shudders through you as you take in the grisly scene before your eyes! In the center of the standing stones, lies a battered and bloody form.
Who could have wrought such violence in the very heart of the Enchanted Forest? Who had the motive, means and opportunity to commit this crime? Are you up to the challenge of finding the killer?
Join us at RinCon 2024 for "An Untimely End in the Enchanted Forest - A Murder Mystery Event". You can be a creature of legend and find the culprit who committed murder! You, and the other forest folk, will strive to find who had the motive, means, and opportunity.
to take another's life. Role play is encouraged, but not required. There will be swag for all our participants and a prize for the winner! Join us and enter a magical and deadly world!
Step into the magical world of Crab Fragment Labs, as James Ernest teaches some of the finest quick non-gambling games in his collection. Players can bounce freely between tables of Tresotti, Autumn Leaves, Tablero di Berona, and Prudh, and play a mix of quick-playing board and card games!
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 8:00pm - 11:00pm MST
BG43
If Mari has to sit at the Registration Desk, then there's going to be music involved. There will be no music with expletives, but her taste can be all over the place. You are guaranteed to feel the need to dance at least 5% of the time. No requests accepted, just take the journey.
The quintessential quantum trick-taking card game for cool cats, where your card's color isn't defined until you play it! Hypothesize how many tricks you will win, and record your bid. Place tokens on the community research board as you play your hand, and connect large groups of tokens to score even more points. Plan your tricks carefully as you cannot claim the color of a card with the same number that has already been declared. Doing so would be pawsitively catastrophic as you have just created a paradox! The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2025 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2025)!
Rolling Hills Arena welcomes autodueling back with a boom! Duelists from all over Arizona have come to prove their worth. Will you go home with a trophy or as one? Whether you're a seasoned road warrior or a rookie looking for your first taste of fame and glory, this is your chance to shine. No experience? No problem! We provide everything you need to jump right into the action.
In the vast emptiness of the cosmos, secrets lurk in the darkness of nothingness. An ancient evil promises death to any who fight it, fortune to any who capture it, and glory to any who kill it. From Free League Publishing is the ALIEN RPG, based on the film/game series of the same name. This module, named "Chariot of the Gods" serves as a cinematic introduction to the game and world of ALIEN, and features a full one-shot adventure with pre-generated characters.
As one of the owners of the RPG convention Crit Hit, in Phoenix Arizona, I have been in the tabletop gaming convention scene since 2016. I primarily enjoy boardgames myself, especially games with worker placement, open drafting, and tile placement mechanics. Some RPGs I've enjoyed... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 8:00pm - Sunday November 17, 2024 12:00am MST
RPG02
Travelers far from home must unravel an ancient riddle to prevent a potentially civilization-destroying war. The clues lie in a ravaged township, where shadows hide horrors beyond imagining. What will you ask of the Anchorite? This is a 1st level play-with-the-designer event.
Dungeon World - The RPG system that bases the entire world on what the players want to see! This will be a super light-hearted one-shot, and is great for those who want to dip their toes into RPGs, but get hives just glancing at the rules of D&D. Pre-generated character sheets for the basic classes will be available, along with a few curated Playbooks (the term for class types and their abilities). Dungeon World is very easy to do homebrew Playbooks, but we'll stick with the basics and what I already know is balanced. We'll do a 30-minute primer to explain the rules, roll some math rocks to get the feel for them, then go around the table to build out the environment(s), scenery, points of interest, and possible dangers. https://www.dungeonworldsrd.com/ is a good reference for all of the basic rules of Dungeon World, but don't forget you can get MOST of the game primers from the official site https://dungeon-world.com/
You are a group of adventurers hired by the Silver Key Adventurers Guild, a business that takes care of anything that is outside the jurisdiction of the local garrison of Winterhaven. This is a level 5 adventure where you can either build your own character using the PHB+1 (Player's Handbook + 1 supplemental book), or use the plethora of premade characters I will have available for use. The games will have a larger focus on game mechanics and combat rather than roleplay, so please do keep this in mind. All games will have a different adventure, so feel free to sign up for multiple sessions if so inclined.
Fantasy and Sci-Fi collide in the Post Apocalyptic world of Dystopian Dawn! Join me in play testing a new scenario for the upcoming Source Adventure Book "Cowboys & Mutants!" This is the 6th Dystopian Dawn book and all who play will have their names entered in the Credits and receive a FREE Digital PDF of the book. The Territories of Alamex and New Rome are under siege by the threat of Mutant armies, renegade Legionnaire deserters, Draught, and more! Add an outcast Wizard searching for ancient artifacts of power from the "time before" and new monsters of Myth and Legend creeping across the lands and you have "Cowboys & Mutants!". No experience needed! I'll provide pre-generated characters for you. I'll also have SWAG and Raffles and Discounts on goodies!
Who is Tony?Hi! I'm Tony Garcia and I'm a gamer.I've been playing/running RPGs since 1980 and finally created my own system after decades of modding other systems. A few games that I've played/ran include D&D, Stormbringer, Runequest, Arduin Grimoire, Marvel, DC, V&V, T&T, Gangbusters... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 8:00pm - Sunday November 17, 2024 12:00am MST
RPG10
Ready to sample some of the freshest new RPGs? Are you in a bit of an RPG rut and not sure what to try next? Or maybe you are new to RPGs and don't know where to start. Come on down to the Indie RPG arcade! We have a short list of GMs bringing new and exciting games, and at the start of the time slot they all pitch their games to the assembled players. The players then sort themselves by what they want to play, and game on! Each session will have a new crop of GMs pitching different games so you are sure to find something to your liking.
If you are a fan of stuff like Final Fantasy, Elder Scrolls, Starfield, Destiny, Ark: Survival Evolved, Monster Hunter World of Diablo - then Legends of Kralis is right up your alley. Come play characters types from these games and many others!
Through out the world there is always some wild-eyed old man raving in a local tavern or inn about them finding some lost mine or cave that has hidden treasure and relics. This happens to be the exact situation that the party has found them staring at. Old man Bowditch, a ragged old man, dressed in torn and tattered clothes. He seems to be a part of the tavern, sitting in corner hovering over his drink and whatever food he gets. He is always muttering to himself, and occasionally has an outburst as though he is arguing with some one or something else. Recently, his muttering have changed and now all he talks about is a series of caves in the near-by mountains filled with gold, silver and other relics. And he also talks about how he cannot find his way back. He also seems to be wearing an ancient cloak covered in what looks like runes, and possibly a map. His ramblings describe a cave filled with treasure and artifacts. He is constantly rubbing his thumbs over a large gold item of unusual design. You are currently running low on funds, your armor could be better and your weapons are dull, so if there is lost treasure to be found you might just be the ones to locate it
This adventure is Sci-fi based and is an introduction to the Legends of Kralis game system.
Creator/Designer/CEO, Talarius Gaming and Publishing
Caught between the majesty of the old world, and the marvels of the new, the world of Kralis is filled with discoveries waiting to be uncovered. From the secrets of thundersmoke, to the lost arts of Kara’Zim, knowledge and power await you… if you’re brave enough to seek them... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 8:00pm - Sunday November 17, 2024 12:00am MST
RPG01
Root: The Roleplaying Game is the officially-licensed tabletop RPG based on the award-winning Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right board game by Leder Games. In Root: The RPG, you play vagabonds, individual outlaws whose adventures and alliances define the Woodland forever.
Quest 16 Level (3-6). Repeatable: The ruler of Irrisen, Queen Anastasia found a number of strange dollhouses when going through her aunt's vaults. She sent one to the Pathfinders for study. When Aslynn's magic was unleashed in the vaults of Skyreach, the dollhouse's magic was reactivated. In reality, these dollhouses were prisons which would shrink down those who angered Elvanna, the former queen. Now the magic is poised to ensnare the PCs. What's more, the animate doll servants have awakened as poppets, and while some are happy to help, others are not so welcoming. Written by Brite Cheney
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Quest 7 Level (1-4): Money is power in the land of Druma and those who know how best to manipulate the economics of the land have the most of both. The PCs are sent to Druma to investigate a missing ship and the particulars of an insurance claim related to its disappearance, though both ravenous undead and agents of one of the Pathfinder Society's fiercest rival organizations seek to keep them from the truth behind the ship's sad end. Written by: Dennis Muldoon
Beginners welcome. Pre-generated Characters available if you do not have a character.
This game is not part of Pathfinder Society, and will use pre-generated characters. Vermin have infested Rattigan's Rest, chewing (and worse) on priceless scrolls and tomes of lore, scratching on the walls at all hours, and causing a great nuisance for Rattigan's acolytes. They're tried using cats to deal with the vermin, and now they're desperate enough to try something radical. Awakened Cats. 2nd level adventure for 3-6 cool cats of human level intelligence.
What can one say about the entity known as Zolgar?He's a strange being, that much is certain, after all he's writing this in the third person for no apparent reason.Zolgar has been in tabletop RPGs since the days of D&D 3rd edition, and really cut his teeth as a GM on 3.5. These days... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 8:00pm - Sunday November 17, 2024 12:00am MST
RPG20
A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters.
Time after time, enemies of the Society have attacked the Grand Lodge in Absalom. Following the sudden surge in disasters befalling the Society's lodges across the Inner Sea, the Society's leadership sought the expertise of one of its strongest new allies—the hobgoblin nation of Oprak—in bolstering the Grand Lodge's defenses. These new defenses prove their worth when they signal a sudden infiltration by shadowy foes. With the Society's forces stretched thin, will the few agents stationed at the Grand Lodge be enough to repel this sudden attack? If they succeed, what might the agents learn about the enemies orchestrating the Society's recent troubles?
A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters.
Many newer agents are often sent to the Three Gates Lodge to make sure that the wildlife on the island isn’t out of control, and that the various allies that the Society made when claiming the lodge are rewarded for their continued aid. The tasks are routine, as the greatest threats were dealt with when initially setting up the lodge, and Venture-Captain Kukuha Mukai performed a ritual utilizing the ley-lines. This ritual is a form of powerful defensive magic and almost guarantees safety from all but the direst threats.
The PCs are the latest agents dispatched for this duty. Unfortunately for them, shortly after they arrive, so too does the direst of threats: a god dies, and a strange rain falls over the island, just as the PCs are being briefed. Now they have to deal with the literal fallout, as no one else is near, and no help can come for some time.
Event Name: Savage Rifts: Carnival of Cadavers Event Type: A Savage Worlds Saga RPG System: Savage Worlds Adventure Edition Experience Required? Helpful, but not required. The event is designed to help new players learn the system. Characters Required? Pre-made characters provided. Summary: The Tomorrow Legion investigates foul play in southern Arizona where a new carnival is at the center of missing person cases.
Rifts® is a multi-genre role-playing game that captures the imagination unlike any other. Elements of magic, horror, and the supernatural co-exist with science, high technology and the ordinary. The game spans countless dimensions, making anything and everything possible. Players are truly limited only by their imaginations!
Before the Great Cataclysm, Arizona was moderately populated and housed the greatest number of its residents in and around the capital of Phoenix, very near the geometric center of the state. In Rifts®, the population is much less concentrated, with small ranches, homesteads, towns and nomadic tribes scattered throughout the region. Arizona is very expansive and foreboding to would-be settlers. Dinosaurs, monsters, vampires and creatures from the Rifts roam the land, as do bandits, thieves, outcasts, Simvan, and adventurers.
Recently several missing persons have centered around a new carnival that has popped up at the southern edge of the area. The Tomorrow Legion is investigating along side Alba (Dawnbringers) as vampiric activity is suspected.
Join us to exterminate any evil found in the area
IF YOU ARE NOT SURE WHAT TO PLAY, THIS IS THE EVENT YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS!
THIS WILL BE A CHARITY EVENT. YOU CAN PURCHASE BENNIES (Rerolls of a sort) FOR 1 DOLLAR.
Welcome to the 21st century...the sixth world...chummer...The Megacorps dominate the world, you live outside the system a shadowrunner. There is rumor of an item that has been floating around since the 1600’s. This item gives the holder the ability to ask any one favor of the current CEO of Wuxing, also known as the Tai-Pan. Word of this item’s location is starting to hit the nets and everyone is going to be looking for it, the rumored third coin of luck. All characters will be pre-gen for your, just bring a fistful of d6's and your imagination. No previous experience is needed. Recommended for Teens and older.
In modern day Portland, Oregon, players play as supernatural beings or extraordinary humans fighting for power within the city. In this session, your characters will deal with a powerful Fae creature exploiting the citizens of Portland, in a desperate attempt to appease their Kahn.
Stranded in the GIlead system, the Inquisition has had to make do with the resources available. They press the best and the brightest — and, sometimes, the questionable — into service to defend the Imperium. As its agents, you are sent to the darkest corners of this forsaken system to fight the xenos, the heretics, and the servants of Chaos.
Wrath & Glory is an action-adventure RPG set in the world of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000, a grim and violent SF setting with a gothic twist. Some knowledge of the setting will enhance your enjoyment of this event.
Pregens will be provided, and rules will be taught — no previous experience with Wrath & Glory is required.
Imagine being the Captain of your own star ship. Come join us with your crew and fly around the galaxy in a star ship, killing bad guys, being amazed by space dragons, and avoiding black holes! Operate the ship together, and defend the sector from evil aliens.
Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the main screen, while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Science, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room (bridge) , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle and tells everyone what to do.
We will have 2 full bridges and some fighter stations, so you can do joint or head to head missions.
Play a 4v4 live-action battleship! This fast-paced game involves a team of four people who must navigate their submarine, avoid detection, and try to sink their opponents.
Knitting Circle is a stand-alone follow up to the hit spatial puzzle game Calico! In this gorgeous puzzly tile-laying game for the whole family, players are knitters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful assortment of garments. Learn to play this brand-new game with its creator and RinCon special guest, Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Game).
In Red Dragon Inn, you and your friends are a party of heroic, fantasy adventurers. You've raided the dungeon, killed the monsters, and taken their treasure. Now you're back, and what better way to celebrate your most recent victory than to spend an evening at the Red Dragon Inn. You and your adventuring companions will spend the night drinking, gambling, and roughhousing. The last person who is both sober enough to remain conscious and shrewd enough to hold onto his Gold Coins wins the game.
Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. To win the game, your team will need to contact all of your agents in the field before the other team finds their own agents. And watch out for the assassin – meet him in the field and your team is done!
Codenames is simple to explain and easy to understand, with no limit to size of the teams – you can play in four people as well as in twelve!
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, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2025 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2025)!
Imagine being the Captain of your own star ship. Come join us with your crew and fly around the galaxy in a star ship, killing bad guys, being amazed by space dragons, and avoiding black holes! Operate the ship together, and defend the sector from evil aliens.
Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the main screen, while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Science, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room (bridge) , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle and tells everyone what to do.
We will have 2 full bridges and some fighter stations, so you can do joint or head to head missions.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
Cascadia: Rolling is a series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia.
In Red Dragon Inn, you and your friends are a party of heroic, fantasy adventurers. You've raided the dungeon, killed the monsters, and taken their treasure. Now you're back, and what better way to celebrate your most recent victory than to spend an evening at the Red Dragon Inn. You and your adventuring companions will spend the night drinking, gambling, and roughhousing. The last person who is both sober enough to remain conscious and shrewd enough to hold onto his Gold Coins wins the game.
It appears you have Inherited the abandoned Twilight Manor, which has sat dormant for decades since the family was chased away by the resident ghosts. No one knows for certain what transpired within these walls, but the hauntings have left the property untouched and possibly cursed.
It’s now up to the Twilight sisters to try to bring new life into their ancestral home. How far will they get as troublesome hauntings make things even more challenging while they try to restore the manor? It seems the ghosts aren’t too happy with the renovations and will do everything in their power to stop you! Tanto Cuore 6 offers several new game mechanics. In here, the players are in a rush to complete dilapidated rooms, avoid the ghosts, and perform seances to help with their goals. However, the spirits are not always willing to play along, and they can at times go out of their way to mess up your strategy if they turn evil!
Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. To win the game, your team will need to contact all of your agents in the field before the other team finds their own agents. And watch out for the assassin – meet him in the field and your team is done!
Codenames is simple to explain and easy to understand, with no limit to size of the teams – you can play in four people as well as in twelve!
In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. Dragons are specialized (bread, meat, iron, crystal, plant and potion) and the Flamekeepers know which shops are the best home for each. Visit a shop to gain items and a favor from one of the dragons there. Gathered items can be used to enchant a shop, gaining reputation and the favors of all the dragons in the shop. If you are fortunate enough to attract fancy dragons then you will have opportunities to secure even more reputation.
In Nestlings, players assume the role of birds competing to gain priority across four biomes: savannah, alpine, freshwater, and desert. Some of the game mechanisms include, area majority, set collection and dice worker placement.
Cascadia: Rolling is a series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia.
In Red Dragon Inn, you and your friends are a party of heroic, fantasy adventurers. You've raided the dungeon, killed the monsters, and taken their treasure. Now you're back, and what better way to celebrate your most recent victory than to spend an evening at the Red Dragon Inn. You and your adventuring companions will spend the night drinking, gambling, and roughhousing. The last person who is both sober enough to remain conscious and shrewd enough to hold onto his Gold Coins wins the game.
