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Note: It is a manual process to transfer tickets from Zeffy to sched.com - Updates will occur each evening.
We’ll be leaving this site open for sign-ups throughout the event, so you’ll be able to sign up here to play games all weekend, and you’ll check in at the beginning of each session when you sit down to play.
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.
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!
Deep in the forests of the North lives an enchanting elf tribe called the Frogriders. Each spring, they hold a tournament in which their four major squads perform a mock battle. Whoever best manages to capture valuable units and make clever use of their special abilities will take the victory!
Frogriders is a tactical family game in which you collect the custom-molded plastic figures by making them leap over one another. Each of the collected Frogriders enables you to keep it for scoring or return it to the tribe's village in order to use its special ability. Due to the many different privilege cards and several scoring cards (of which only a few are used each game), there are a lot of tactical nuances to discover and many strategies to employ to win at Frogriders!
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.
The Painting Table returns for Paint & Take! Come and paint a free figure from our curated selection! See us at our setup table, select your miniature, and we will find a seat for you and set you up with brush water and a palette! This is an open-seating style event from 10am to 5pm (with the hour lunch break at 1pm-2pm), and while we will try to seat sign-up folks first, seating is not a guarantee (some folks take an hour to paint, some folks take three or four hours). Reaper Miniatures' Master Series Paints (MSP) are at the table, ready to go directly on most figures without primer, along with all of the brushes you might need to get a figure ready for the tabletop. BYOM is welcome as well! Feel free to bring a miniature you have bought from an exhibitor or one from home! 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!
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.
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 →
Sunday November 17, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am MST
UnPub A
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! Come play this GenCon hit!
he stakes have been raised. Imagine living in a place so wretched that it's not plagued by one, two, or even three monsters — but seven of the most horrifying fiends!
In this game, you'll come face to face with them all as you work together to rid the town of the maniacal or misunderstood creatures…before it's too late.
Horrified includes high-quality sculpted miniatures (Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon). Its innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay has players working together against the monsters with varying levels of difficulty. Just as each monster is unique, they require different strategies and tactics to be defeated.
In Kingsburg, players are Lords sent from the King to administer frontier territories.
The game takes place over five years, a total of 20 turns. In every year, there are 3 production seasons for collecting resources, building structures, and training troops. Every fourth turn is the winter, in which all the players must fight an invading army. Each player must face the invaders, so this is not a cooperative game.
The resources to build structures and train troops are collected by influencing the advisers in the King's Council. Players place their influence dice on members of the Council. The player with the lowest influence dice sum will be the first one to choose where to spend his/her influence; this acts as a way of balancing poor dice rolling. Even with a very unlucky roll, a clever player can still come out from the Council with a good number of resources and/or soldiers.
Each adviser on the King's Council will award different resources or allocate soldiers, victory points, and other advantages to the player who was able to influence him/her for the current turn.
At the end of five years, the player who best developed his assigned territory and most pleased the King through the Council is the winner.
Many alternate strategies are possible to win: will you go for the military way, disregarding economic and prestige buildings, or will you aim to complete the big Cathedral to please the King? Will you use the Merchant's Guild to gain more influence in the Council, or will you go for balanced development?
A world of peace has been torn asunder by the opening of a vile portal from the goblin kingdom. Nasty goblins pour into the peaceful groves and villages of the elf world, setting the realm ablaze. Now you, the heroes, must quest in order to right this wrong. There are two paths to victory: closing the portal or slaying all the goblins. Which one will you choose? Either way, your quests will be aided by the help of the surviving mushroom folk — and by the epic items that have been lost in the realm's deep dungeons. The world is ending quickly, so you must act fast to save it, but you also need to know when your luck will run out...
In Tiny Epic Quest, players embark on a sandbox adventure. Each player controls a band of three elf heroes questing to save the world and the sacred mushroom folk from the intruding goblins.
Each round is broken into two phases: day and night. During the day, players travel far and wide, visiting villages to acquire quests, monuments to learn powerful spells, mushroom groves to seek guidance, and treacherous locations in search of artifacts! Acquiring artifacts empower the heroes with unique abilities; this may improve a heroes' movement or combat, or their ability to learn spells or mitigate harmful dice rolls.
Heroes must travel by foot, by horse, by raft, by boat and by gryphon to get to everywhere they need to go to satisfy their quests — or to position themselves for what night brings. As each type of movement is different, and limited, players need to take careful consideration when traveling, and how they travel, if they wish to accomplish all of their goals.
During the night, players must face the challenge of their quests, and decisions, by rolling dice, hoping for fortune, and knowing when to quit. Will you press on? Or is it time to save your progress and rest? Tomorrow is another day.
The game ends once the portal is closed or all the goblins have been eradicated. The player who has acquired the most victory points by slay
Lost amidst the surreal and bizarre unknowns of the far reaches of the cosmos, your crew of explorers must pull together to discover the resources necessary to survive the long journey home.
Unsettled is a 2-4 player cooperative survival adventure set in the wondrous and unnerving fringes of uncharted space. There are no enemies and no combat, only an environment where every step, every breath, every particle around you could mean immediate, terrifying, death. Enemies are the least of your concerns.
In these incredible conditions you must complete a series of tasks necessary to your continued survival. Perhaps the water reclamation system on the ship needs repair, or (as usual) food supplies are running low. Before you lies a strange alien landscape - it’s up to you to complete these tasks using…whatever you find out there.
Each time you play you will have a different combination of survival tasks to complete and the things you discover (and their weird properties) will be different as well. So while you always start out knowing what problems you need to solve you have no idea how you’re going to use the world before you to do so (or what the world is going to do to you while you try).
As you explore the environment, encountering wild & unique opportunities along the way, you will work closely with the rest of your crew to achieve your goal of continued existence. The only thing you can be sure of is each other; lose that trust and you’ll lose all hope of survival.
The aggressive spread of empires threaten the forested homes of the Druids. Some fight back, but others brave the deep forest for a new home. It's here you and your fellow young druids must quickly learn a new way of survival in the Fangroot forest, or become someone's, or something's, lunch.
In The Fox Experiment, you’ll breed your own domesticated foxes. In each round you'll select a pair of fox parents who have certain traits. You'll gain those specific trait dice, roll them, then try to move them around to make complete trait symbols which you'll then mark off on your pup card. You'll then gain trait tokens depending on how many traits you marked off which you'll use to upgrade tracks on your personal player board.
I'm a Phoenix-based board-game writer, rulebook editor and podcaster. I love playing heavy euros and wargames, and meeting fellow gamers. I'm active on Twitter and Instagram, where I enjoy spreading my love of the hobby to all types of gamers.
Crown of Emara skillfully combines card actions with worker movement actions, allowing players to plan their turns carefully during their downtime. The two counselors available to every player move in two separate roundabouts, requiring players to optimize every move. Additionally, two scoring tracks lead to a multidimensional playstyle as only the lower score counts towards victory and thus both tracks have to be advanced equally. 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...
Welcome to the world full of fantastic creatures! You are an admirer, a creature enthusiast who will join the journey of forming the world’s leading creature reserve.
100+ Different Creature Cards: Collect and combine various different creature cards. Every creature holds its own distinctive ability and provides a deep strategic tableau building experience. Each card beautifully illustrated by Sophia Kang, will immerse you into a wonderful world of Wondrous Creatures.
In Ark Nova, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically managed zoo. With the ultimate goal of owning the most successful zoological establishment, you will build enclosures, accommodate animals, and support conservation projects all over the world. Specialists and unique buildings will help you in achieving this goal.
This session is intended for folks who are new to this game!
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.
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.
Classic DCC Funnel adventure for zero level characters. Each player will control 3-4 zero level characters braving the cursed manor house on Cob Hill in search of members of their family and village who have gone missing. Explore the wild overgrown manor grounds and garden and unravel the mystery of the forgotten nature goddess Narafaltha and her battle with the corrupting Demon Seed. DCC dice will be provided for use and game swag will be given out!
More than 700 years ago, a massive disaster changed the course of history. The world was plunged into centuries of darkness, but the event also introduced the Adanadi, a strange mark that appeared on all life. This mark would have an enduring impact on humanity. Centuries later, the Earth is healing. New, advanced nations have risen. Ancient legends stir.
But you're no hero. All you want is to do the job and get compensated. This job alone will pay enough nizi that you can spend the rest of the year focusing on what really matters to you. The job: you signed onto a crew leaving Cahokia on their Yutsu Barge to collect rare plant specimens necessary for printing many important materials. It'll be good to get out of the city, live off the land again. What could go wrong?
Coyote & Crow is a tabletop roleplaying game set in an alternate future where colonization of the Americas never happened. In this world that is both familiar and entirely new, you'll take on the role of heroic characters adventuring in a changing landscape.
In the Misty Vale lies the Riddermound. It is a feared place, haunted by the undead form of a powerful knight in the Dragon Emperor’s service—but the death knight is also said to be watching over hidden treasures. What will you risk to have those treasures?
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 →
Sunday November 17, 2024 9:00am - 1:00pm MST
RPG02
The concept is to play a Leverage show (2008-2012) inspired setting. The city is Las Vegas. All characters are pre-generated minor talents. A fun campy romp based in an approximation of Las Vegas through the lens of the Dresden Files RPG. "And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas." - or something close to this.
Come have fun with one of Goodman Games' AZ Road Crew! This will be a DCC Adventure for four (maybe five) Level 1 or Level 2 characters. Pre-Gens will be provided and no prior DCC experience necessary.
Hello! I am a Visual Artist and Game Designer. I have been involved in the Arizona convention scene since 1995 (moved here in 1994). I am the Owner/Founder of MaricopaCon, which is Arizona's first and finest Kickstarted Game Convention (2013-2023). I am an Air Force Veteran... Read More →
Sunday November 17, 2024 9:00am - 1:00pm MST
RPG09
What if Mario Kart took place in the setting of Dungeons and Dragons? Come play as your favorite character while battling against your fellow competitors. This is a 5e module made for level 3 characters. Choose from premade characters or bring your own to participate in this fast paced adventure. Bring dice!
Fantasy and Sci-Fi collide in the Post Apocalyptic world of Dystopian Dawn! Join me in creating your own character and if there is time - we'll do some additional play testing 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. No experience needed! 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 →
Sunday November 17, 2024 9:00am - 1:00pm 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.
Masks: A New Generation is a superhero roleplaying game in which a team of young heroes fights villains, saves lives, and tries to figure out who they are—noble paragons? Dark avengers? Or regular kids? All against the backdrop of Halcyon City, the greatest city in the world.
Take up the sword and don the whiskers of a brave mouse adventurer in Mausritter, the rules-light fantasy adventure roleplaying game.
It’s a huge and dangerous world out there, and it does not look kindly on a small mouse. But if you are very brave and very clever and just a bit lucky, you might be able to survive. And if you survive long enough, you might even become a hero amongst mice. Science & Sorrorow: A human child once turned the Garden Shed into a lab. Experiments were conducted with soap, bleach, dishwash, green toy slime, and other things best not to speak of. What the human wanted, no-one knows. But from the slime came Two-Skulls, a rat strangely twisted by the chemical brew.
With the lab abandoned, Two-Skulls now lives in a maze of forgotten drainage tunnels under the Shed, followed by his cult of chemically-altered minions. From there, he seeks to carry on his master’s research. Do you dare explore the humid waste tunnels, where mysterious fumes fill the air and substances linger?
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!
A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 1–4 (subtiers 1–2 and 3–4).
The Pathfinders travel to Iobaria, where elven druids and centaur warriors are united against an unlikely threat: a self-propogating horde of corrupted leshys! The source of the Abyssal corruption may be tied to a previous trip to Iobaria by the Pathfinder Society, so it falls to the PCs to seek out the source of the leshy incursion and restore balance to the woodlands.
A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters.
One of the most urgent letters to reach the Grand Lodge in the recent flood of troubling correspondence contained grim news indeed: a renowned Pathfinder Venture-Captain vital to the Society's operations in the oppressive nation of Cheliax has gone missing! Fearing the worst, the Society dispatches experienced agents to the venture-captain's home in search of any clue as to what might have happened.
The Devil-Wrought Disappearance is part of the ongoing story of the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries. It is the first scenario in a two-part arc detailing the events befalling a Pathfinder Society lodge in the nation of Cheliax. Other arcs explore other locations across the Inner Sea. While the arcs can be played in any order, it is recommended that players experience the scenarios within each individual arc in order.
Pathfinder Society Scenario #6-04: An Enkindled Carnival A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters. In her latest venture to help fund the Knights of Lastwall and to bring some needed cheer to Absalom, Lady Hesla Embersplitter has announced a carnival within the Foreign Quarter, inviting the children of Absalom to come and spend some time among games and entertainment. As a sign of goodwill, the Pathfinder Society has decided to send along a group of Pathfinders to make a show of being around and keep an eye on some of the visiting students from the Dacilane Academy. However, the mysterious Godsrain doesn't seem to be finished quite yet and a strange storm seems to be brewing over the Puddles... Written by Mike Kimmel Scenario tags: Faction (Verdant Wheel, Vigilant Seal), Metaplot (Immortal Influence)
It is that time again, time for the Rincongard Brewers Fest from across the continent come together to compare, taste, and brag about their personal brews and see whoose is best! You are dwarves from a far away clan, that have come to your first Great Brewers Convention. The first night consisted of tastings, as any good celebration should start. And needless to say the night ends blurry. The lot of ya wake up, in a start, in the storage room. And well, all the alcohol is gone, every last drop! Now you need to figure out where it went, before the other convention goers figure out it is missing and blame you!
Welcome to the 21st century...the sixth world...chummer...The Megacorps dominate the world, you live outside the system a shadowrunner. There is a rumor that a certian company wants revenge, but isn't always about revenge? 25 years ago an incident happened and the company lost face, now they want to regain that face. "A perfect reason." He shrugged. "If you can do something, why not do it? A person kills because they can, a person steals because they can. Sure, there can be reasons like revenge or so, but in the end the action is done because they can do it. In this case however, the company wants revenge." 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.
Revisit the enchanting world of Hyrule in this unlicensed fan-made campaign! Princess Zelda, Link, and Ganondorf unite to claim the Triforce and protect their beloved kingdom. In this lighthearted adventure for beginners, learn the ropes of a new 3d6 game system while you face off against mythical foes and unearth hidden treasures. With puzzles to solve, creatures to defeat, and friends to trust, it’s time to make your mark on the legend! Fun, friendship, and fantasy await! Players can use one of the available pre-made characters or create their own from scratch.
This tactical narrative game system blends strategic combat, immersive storytelling, and familiar mechanics, with rules inspired by some of the best tabletop RPG systems. Built collaboratively with the help of AI and my gaming community, the 3d6 system puts a fresh spin on traditional gameplay. Players develop their characters through Character Archetypes, which shape their skills and abilities in the game world. The Effort Points system—spanning Stamina, Focus, and Resolve—adds a layer of strategy, as players must decide when to use their resources for powerful feats or maintain abilities over time. This game encourages players to balance risk and reward while emphasizing collaborative storytelling. Whether you're solving puzzles, battling foes, or navigating social and environmental hazards, this open development system is designed to be accessible for beginners yet deep enough to engage veteran players.
January 1760. Six months ago, British troops captured Fort Niagara from the French, and with it, control of the Great Lakes region and the Ohio River valley. Now snow piles high against the walls of the fort, and somewhere beyond the shadowy pines, something ancient stirs, awakened by the European conflict. Pregens provided.
The friendly engine-building game of birds, habitats, food, and eggs also has a competitive side!? Inspired by the enthusiastic Winspan Tournaments online community, this mini-tournament will include a preliminary round and a final round for winners of the first game, which will occur back to back. There will not be a full teach of Wingspan before the game, but David will be just a call away if you have questions. Prizes and awards will be up for grabs, as well as Arizona-wide bragging rights! NOTE: Has a lunch break at 1:00 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.
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.
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!
Build your kingdom and try to have the most glorious one! In Kingdomino, the more connected plots of the same landscape you have, the more points you gain. But be careful: if you don’t have the related buildings you won’t score any points! Play this classic game on a grand scale with RinCon's GIANT game!
The Painting Table returns for Paint & Take! Come and paint a free figure from our curated selection! See us at our setup table, select your miniature, and we will find a seat for you and set you up with brush water and a palette! This is an open-seating style event from 10am to 5pm (with the hour lunch break at 1pm-2pm), and while we will try to seat sign-up folks first, seating is not a guarantee (some folks take an hour to paint, some folks take three or four hours). Reaper Miniatures' Master Series Paints (MSP) are at the table, ready to go directly on most figures without primer, along with all of the brushes you might need to get a figure ready for the tabletop. BYOM is welcome as well! Feel free to bring a miniature you have bought from an exhibitor or one from home! 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!
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.
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 →
Sunday November 17, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am MST
UnPub A
Fractured Sky is a game of deduction, sneaky strategy, and resource management set on a fantastical island. Players lead their kingdom in the hunt for shards of fractured falling stars, which are rumored to grant wishes to those that can amass enough of them. Using airships, players send their armies to regions with the star shards, but finding those is not always easy and hiring seers to predict their falls can be worth the investment. Over time, players will increase their presence on the island, placing permanent buildings to give them advantages like extra resources or increasing the size of their troop numbers. Only one wish will be granted, so who will amass the most shards before the final star falls?
In River of Gold, players take on the role of river merchants allied with legendary samurai clans, each vying to exploit the river to earn wealth, glory, and wisdom. Will you invest in developing ports, markets, shrines, and more along the banks of the busy river? Or will you rely upon sailing the river of gold, growing your wealth and influence through delivery contracts, visiting the nobility, and garnering a bit of divine favor during tough times?
In the world at large as well as in gameplay we are routinely presented with economics as a dichotomy, capitalism on one side and communism on the other. What if someone were to tell you there was another option, one so common in fandom that almost everyone has experienced it in one form or another? What would you say if someone were to tell you successful cultures have organized themselves along the same principles? Discover a third option in this exploration of the gift economy in Comanche culture and in fandom. Stop by and visit Weyodi Old Bear, RinCon special guest and writer on the Coyote & Crow RPG, at the presentation venue next to her booth in the vendor area.
A fast-paced, innovative puzzle game that takes place in three dimensions with 60 colorful spheres. All of the players play at the same time. Everybody tries to position the spheres on their trays to earn as many points as possible. The task cards indicate how the spheres must be placed to earn points. Complete these tasks while racing against the timer. You get a point for each sphere you use and a bonus token for using all five colors, but you lose two points for each task card you don't follow correctly. Prove to your opponents that you are the master of multi-dimensional thinking! 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.
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 →
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).
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.
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 →
Sunday November 17, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm MST
BG23
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 Painting Table returns for Paint & Take! Come and paint a free figure from our curated selection! See us at our setup table, select your miniature, and we will find a seat for you and set you up with brush water and a palette! This is an open-seating style event from 10am to 5pm (with the hour lunch break at 1pm-2pm), and while we will try to seat sign-up folks first, seating is not a guarantee (some folks take an hour to paint, some folks take three or four hours). Reaper Miniatures' Master Series Paints (MSP) are at the table, ready to go directly on most figures without primer, along with all of the brushes you might need to get a figure ready for the tabletop. BYOM is welcome as well! Feel free to bring a miniature you have bought from an exhibitor or one from home! 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!
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.
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 →
Sunday November 17, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm MST
UnPub A
Peace has come at last to the great Bunny Kingdom! Lead your clan of rabbits to glory by gathering resources and building new cities across the land!
Draft cards and pick the right ones to position your warrens on the 100 squares of the board, provide resources to your colonies, build new cities to increase your influence, and plan your strategy to score big at the end of the game. Settle in lakesides or fields to collect water and grow carrots, gather mushrooms in the green forest, and climb the highest mountains to discover rare and precious resources... Secretly rally rabbit lords and recruit skillful masters to make your cities and resources even more valuable at the end of the game.
After each turn, your groups of contiguous warrens grant you points depending on the cities and different resources they include. The game ends after 4 rounds, and the player with the most points wins the game.
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!
In Habitats, each player builds a big wildlife park without cages or fences. The animals in your park need their natural habitats: grassland, bush, rocks or lakes. The zebra needs a big area of grass and some water adjacent, for example, while a bat needs rocks and bush and water, a hart needs bush and grass, and a crocodile needs mainly water. There is a snake, baboon, bee, elephant, otter, lizard, turtle, eagle, meerkat, scorpio, hog, catfish, rhino, etc., each with its own landscape requirements — 68 different animals in total.
Each player starts their individual park with an entrance tile, and they are each represented in the marketplace of animal tiles by a ceramic figure (or a wooden ranger meeple in some editions). On a turn, a player takes the tile to their left, right or front; moves their figure to the space just vacated; then draws a tile to place where their figure started the turn.
When adding an animal tile in your park, you add its main landscape — the base space for the animal — to your park, too. While placing this new animal, its own piece of landscape can help to fulfill the requirements of your other animals' requirements, e.g., the water on a hippo tile fulfilling the adjacent otter's need for water. Thus, fulfilling every animal's desire for land becomes a more and more difficult task with each tile you add.
Aside from expanding your park with different landscape types, flora and animals, you can improve its profitability by building extra entrance roads, trek spots, and watchtowers.
Habitats lasts three seasons, with each season giving each player 6-9 new tiles for their parks. Whoever has best met the goal of the season receives bonus points, with a smaller number of points for second and third place. At the end of the game, each player scores for each tile in their park based on whether that tile's requirements are satisfied. Whoever scores the most points wins!
Here to Slay is a competitive role-playing fantasy strategy card game that's all about assembling a party of Heroes and slaying monsters (and sometimes sabotaging your friends too) from the creators of Unstable Unicorns.
In this game, you’ll assemble a full party of heroes to slay dangerous monsters while working to avoid the sabotage of your foes. The game also includes items you can equip to your heroes, 1V1 challenge cards, and roll modifiers to tip the odds in your favor.
The first person to successfully slay three monsters, or build a full party with six classes, wins the game!
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?
Centuries ago, the kingdom of Greycastle was founded through a pact between the great guild leaders of the realm. Under the pact, only a guild can rule the kingdom, and only a guild leader may claim the throne. Now, with the king on his deathbed, the Council of the Wise will convene. As one of the guild leaders of Greycastle, you must prove your guild’s prestige so you can take the crown and claim your rightful place as the King’s Guild.
The King’s Guild is a strategy board game where 1-6 players compete to establish the most renowned guild. Lead your guild to prosperity by crafting powerful equipment, sending heroes on quests to earn treasure, and upgrading your guild with unique characters and rooms.
A world of peace has been torn asunder by the opening of a vile portal from the goblin kingdom. Nasty goblins pour into the peaceful groves and villages of the elf world, setting the realm ablaze. Now you, the heroes, must quest in order to right this wrong. There are two paths to victory: closing the portal or slaying all the goblins. Which one will you choose? Either way, your quests will be aided by the help of the surviving mushroom folk — and by the epic items that have been lost in the realm's deep dungeons. The world is ending quickly, so you must act fast to save it, but you also need to know when your luck will run out...
In Tiny Epic Quest, players embark on a sandbox adventure. Each player controls a band of three elf heroes questing to save the world and the sacred mushroom folk from the intruding goblins.
Each round is broken into two phases: day and night. During the day, players travel far and wide, visiting villages to acquire quests, monuments to learn powerful spells, mushroom groves to seek guidance, and treacherous locations in search of artifacts! Acquiring artifacts empower the heroes with unique abilities; this may improve a heroes' movement or combat, or their ability to learn spells or mitigate harmful dice rolls.
Heroes must travel by foot, by horse, by raft, by boat and by gryphon to get to everywhere they need to go to satisfy their quests — or to position themselves for what night brings. As each type of movement is different, and limited, players need to take careful consideration when traveling, and how they travel, if they wish to accomplish all of their goals.
During the night, players must face the challenge of their quests, and decisions, by rolling dice, hoping for fortune, and knowing when to quit. Will you press on? Or is it time to save your progress and rest? Tomorrow is another day.
The game ends once the portal is closed or all the goblins have been eradicated. The player who has acquired the most victory points by slay
Lost amidst the surreal and bizarre unknowns of the far reaches of the cosmos, your crew of explorers must pull together to discover the resources necessary to survive the long journey home.
Unsettled is a 2-4 player cooperative survival adventure set in the wondrous and unnerving fringes of uncharted space. There are no enemies and no combat, only an environment where every step, every breath, every particle around you could mean immediate, terrifying, death. Enemies are the least of your concerns.
In these incredible conditions you must complete a series of tasks necessary to your continued survival. Perhaps the water reclamation system on the ship needs repair, or (as usual) food supplies are running low. Before you lies a strange alien landscape - it’s up to you to complete these tasks using…whatever you find out there.
Each time you play you will have a different combination of survival tasks to complete and the things you discover (and their weird properties) will be different as well. So while you always start out knowing what problems you need to solve you have no idea how you’re going to use the world before you to do so (or what the world is going to do to you while you try).
As you explore the environment, encountering wild & unique opportunities along the way, you will work closely with the rest of your crew to achieve your goal of continued existence. The only thing you can be sure of is each other; lose that trust and you’ll lose all hope of survival.
Asteroyds is a racing and pre-program game similar to RoboRally but with enough significant differences to make it stand out as its own design.
The UAG designed the components from the ground up with over 40 3D printed parts and a massive 3x4 ft map!
Each player takes on the role of a famous Shuttle Racer Pilot and they have been drawn to a deadly event put on by a mega-rich entrepreneur that has recently bought the Ujitos system.
The aim of Asteroyds is to navigate the highly dangerous asteroid field and pass through four gates. What sets the game apart from other games of this design is that almost everything in the race zone can move position, so the players need to plan with that in mind.
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.
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 →
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).
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.
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!
Easy to learn and quick to play, Ticket to Ride: First Journey is the perfect introduction to the Ticket to Ride series. Players collect train cards, claim routes on the map, and try to connect the cities shown on their tickets to achieve victory. So climb aboard and embark on your very own railway adventure!
The Painting Table returns for Paint & Take! Come and paint a free figure from our curated selection! See us at our setup table, select your miniature, and we will find a seat for you and set you up with brush water and a palette! This is an open-seating style event from 10am to 5pm (with the hour lunch break at 1pm-2pm), and while we will try to seat sign-up folks first, seating is not a guarantee (some folks take an hour to paint, some folks take three or four hours). Reaper Miniatures' Master Series Paints (MSP) are at the table, ready to go directly on most figures without primer, along with all of the brushes you might need to get a figure ready for the tabletop. BYOM is welcome as well! Feel free to bring a miniature you have bought from an exhibitor or one from home! 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!
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.
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 →
Sunday November 17, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST
UnPub A
This is your last opportunity to use any lunch/dinner meal tickets you've purchased. Spend 'em if ya got 'em! :-) 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.
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.
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!
Build a coral reef! In the game Reef, players take on the role of a coral reef, carefully selecting colors and patterns in which to grow and expand. On each turn, players can choose to pick up a new card from a choice of four, or play a card that is already in hand. Each card provides two reef pieces and a pattern that scores points if the existing reef has it (after placing the two new pieces). Whoever has the most points when the reef pieces (or card deck) run out wins!
The Painting Table returns for Paint & Take! Come and paint a free figure from our curated selection! See us at our setup table, select your miniature, and we will find a seat for you and set you up with brush water and a palette! This is an open-seating style event from 10am to 5pm (with the hour lunch break at 1pm-2pm), and while we will try to seat sign-up folks first, seating is not a guarantee (some folks take an hour to paint, some folks take three or four hours). Reaper Miniatures' Master Series Paints (MSP) are at the table, ready to go directly on most figures without primer, along with all of the brushes you might need to get a figure ready for the tabletop. BYOM is welcome as well! Feel free to bring a miniature you have bought from an exhibitor or one from home! 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.
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.
Neversnake is a strategic storytelling game based on the Hero’s Journey: a story template about a hero who goes on an adventure, overcomes great obstacles, and returns home transformed.
In this adventure you will be playing as a group of children trying to get back their pet Owlbear that a Mysterious Circus stole from them. Will you be able to save your pet?
You and your opponents represent powerful developers in a burgeoning Nevada city. You will earn money and prestige by building the biggest and most profitable casinos on "The Strip," the town's backbone of dust and sin. You start with nothing but parking lots and dreams, but from there you build, sprawl, reorganize and gamble your way to victory. Score the most points investing in the most profitable development companies and putting the best bosses in control of the richest casinos. Put your dollars on the line . . . it's time to roll!
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...
This year, RinCon is partnering with the Diana Jones Award’s Emerging Designer Program. This is a scholarship fund to amplify the voices of up-and-coming designers, with a focus on creators from marginalized communities. Help us help the EDP bring fresh, new, and diverse voices to the tabletop games community.
So, what IS this event? Watch in awe and amazement as Brendan LaSalle, creator of Xcrawl, writer on Dungeon Crawl Classics from Goodman Games, and GM extraordinaire, leads a group of RinCon luminaries on a madcap adventure through a Dungeon Crawl Classics world. The twist? For a donation to the EDP fund, you, the audience, will get to throw in whatever idea, concept, or event you like, and Brendan will have to incorporate it into the session on the fly, and our special guest players will have to roll with it! We promise, hilarity will ensue! And one lucky RinCon attendee will have a chance to play in this game, too - there will be a silent auction for the final player seat at the table.
A Dungeon Crawl Classic's level 0 funnel scenario - each player starts with three level 0 characters. Local farmers, sheep-herders, rat-catchers, cheesemakers, tinkers, washer-women, hunters or peddlers take their chance to become heroes!
The peaceful rural village of Harrowbrook, known for its bountiful harvest festival, awakens after a night of bad dreams to a perplexing phenomenon: a sprawling corn maze, intricate and otherworldly, stands at the village's edge. More worryingly, two of the village elder's grandchildren are missing, and the elder worries they are lost in the maze. Who from the village will step forth to save them?
A low-level, OSR style game requiring ingenuity and stout hearts.
DCC is by Goodman Games (quick start rules linked below), and the scenario is very loosely based on the Cursed Corn Maze Festival by Kenneth Surls.
The Spendoza family’s desperate marriage into the Duchy of Krohnshire was meant to secure their faltering fortunes, but instead, it has unleashed horrors upon the land. Since the arrival of the new Duchess, monstrous creatures have begun terrorizing the grain shipments vital to all of Zytost. Hulking, savage beasts are burning wagons and driving farmers from their fields, threatening to cripple the region’s breadbasket.
Zytost’s cities, mines, and border armies all depend on Krohnshire’s grain to survive. If this vital supply falls, the entire nation could follow. Your party has been tasked with uncovering the origin of these monsters, putting a stop to their attacks, and ensuring the next shipment leaves Krohnshire intact. With the fate of the duchy—and perhaps all of Zytost—hanging in the balance, failure is not an option. Will your group be able to track down the sinister force behind these attacks and restore order to the region, or will Krohnshire and all of Zytost fall to ruin?
Crest Saga is a high-fantasy tabletop RPG currently in open beta, focusing on a customizable and collaborative experience for players. It uses a "dice suite" system with exploding dice, which adds unpredictability and excitement to gameplay. One of its standout features is the Crest magic system, allowing players to combine various magical abilities to shape their character's journey—whether for good or corruption. The game emphasizes flexibility, offering room for role-playing, character development, and tactical combat without restrictive classes, making it accessible for a wide range of play styles.
Developed by a group of friends passionate about RPGs, Crest Saga aims to break away from traditional systems, providing more freedom in character creation and storytelling. The game world is designed as a multiverse where magic and monsters constantly reshape reality, and players can explore different settings within that framework. If you're interested in trying it, Crest S
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.
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.
Q15: The PCs are tasked with exploring an underground complex now cleared of threats (powerful lich) and cataloguing what's there. The ritual, though, while incomplete, has still linked the site to its counterpart in the Netherworld, and once they enter the PCs find that their task will not be as simple or boring as promised, as they have to fight through the shadowy mirror of the Netherworld complex just to get back home, with unknown threats that most assuredly were not cleared out. Written by Shan Wolf (repeatable) And Q06: Prince Zinlo, ruler of the city-state of Aspenthar, has offered several potentially interesting contracts to explore and document ancient sites within his holdings. As the PCs are sent to secure one of these sites, will they uncover new secrets long lost to modern recollection, or will they find that the Prince Zinlo's offer truly is too good to be true? Written by: Quinn Murphy (repeatable) Newcomers welcome!
(For 3rd- through 6th-level characters) The Pathfinder Society recently dispatched a group of experienced agents to search for a missing venture-captain with a secret operation in the infernal-bound nation of Cheliax, where Pathfinder Society activity is forbidden. In their search, the agents learned that a nefarious group of Hellknights had taken the the venture-captain prisoner and hidden him in a secure site that the Society had assumed was abandoned. Now, more of the Society's agents must infiltrate the site, find the venture-captain, and learn why these Hellknights are moving against the Society. The future of Pathfinder Society activities in Cheliax is at stake!
The Locked Lodge is part of the ongoing story of the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries. It is the second scenario in a two-part arc detailing the events befalling a Pathfinder Society lodge in the nation of Cheliax.
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.
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.
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.
The magic of the Theatre runs in your veins. You are a theatrical agent, sending Shakespearian actors to work in various plays, earning fame and favors. Come and test this new game with designer 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 →
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!
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. This game will be taught by the designer.
The Painting Table returns for Paint & Take! Come and paint a free figure from our curated selection! See us at our setup table, select your miniature, and we will find a seat for you and set you up with brush water and a palette! This is an open-seating style event from 10am to 5pm (with the hour lunch break at 1pm-2pm), and while we will try to seat sign-up folks first, seating is not a guarantee (some folks take an hour to paint, some folks take three or four hours). Reaper Miniatures' Master Series Paints (MSP) are at the table, ready to go directly on most figures without primer, along with all of the brushes you might need to get a figure ready for the tabletop. BYOM is welcome as well! Feel free to bring a miniature you have bought from an exhibitor or one from home! 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!
Compliments get competitive in Flatter Me, a new party game for friends, family, and partners. Each of the 250 unique compliment cards includes a thoughtful sentiment to play.
The Marquis de Cat has controlled the forest for too long! Viva la revolution! Root is a true asymmetrical boardgame. Each player plays in a completely different style as they prove they can rule the forest. Includes both the river folk, underground, and marauders expansions.
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.
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.
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.
The magic of the Theatre runs in your veins. You are a theatrical agent, sending Shakespearian actors to work in various plays, earning fame and favors. Come and test this new game with designer 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 →
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!
Can you and your fellow ninja claim the four golden weapons and keep them away from the skeleton general and his army before they overrun the ninja fortress? You would think so, given that the weapons are hidden within your fortress, but ninja are sometimes so sneaky that they forget where they hid things. Start looking, ninja!
In Ninjago: The Board Game, players must work together to claim the weapons and fight back the skeleton guards you'll encounter. This game is played on a board made of real LEGO pieces.
The Painting Table returns for Paint & Take! Come and paint a free figure from our curated selection! See us at our setup table, select your miniature, and we will find a seat for you and set you up with brush water and a palette! This is an open-seating style event from 10am to 5pm (with the hour lunch break at 1pm-2pm), and while we will try to seat sign-up folks first, seating is not a guarantee (some folks take an hour to paint, some folks take three or four hours). Reaper Miniatures' Master Series Paints (MSP) are at the table, ready to go directly on most figures without primer, along with all of the brushes you might need to get a figure ready for the tabletop. BYOM is welcome as well! Feel free to bring a miniature you have bought from an exhibitor or one from home! 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!
You’ve played the games, attended the special events and panels, and bought yourself some new swag, and you’re ready to head home with all your great memories. In this event, we’ll all celebrate and thank this year’s special guests; RinCon will highlight the money we’ve raised for our chosen charities and announce the winners of the Flora/Fauna raffle; and you can meet the masterminds behind the convention. Join us to cap off your RinCon experience in style.
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.
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!
