RinCon 2024

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

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!

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.

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!

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.

Pregenerated characters provided

A Weird Frontiers 0-Level funnel set in the Arizona Desert and the Superstition Mountains.

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.

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.

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.

A murder mystery adventure for Coyote and Crow. The players will follow the trail left behind by a murderer in Cahokia, and will be left with a moral dilemma should they uncover the murderer's identity.  This session is hosted by RinCon special guest Wynnona West!

Dieminion is a game inspired by Knucklebones with a sprinkle of rules from Uno. In this luck and strategy based two-player dice game, the player's objective is to score the highest amount of points while utilizing unique powers to benefit their position or hinder their opponent. Games can be fast-paced or long and thought-provoking. Players must think wisely about which powers they choose to use.

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.

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?

Experience competitive intergalactic exploration and warfare in this roll & write version of Twilight Imperium

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.

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.

This module is an easy to play, beginner scenario where the players (hopefully) defend themselves from a pirate attack.

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)
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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.

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!

Your party arrives in the Village of West Downing. You are poorly mounted, badly equipped, and have no large sums of cash. In fact, all you have is what you wear and what you ride, plus a few coins that are hidden in purses and pockets. What you do possess in quantity, though, is daring and a desire to become wealthy and famous. Thus your group comes to West Downing to learn if this is indeed a place for adventurers to seek their fortunes. You all hope, of course, to gain riches and make names for yourselves. What the outcome of this will be is uncertain, but your skill and daring, along with a good measure of luck will be the main ingredients of what follows, be it weal or woe.
Your ears are tickled by rumors of a ruined Moathouse and some strange happenings. Ready your swords and spells. Fortune awaits!
This adventure is fantasy based and is an introduction to the Legends of Kralis game system. Players will get to choose what game level to play when they arrive at the table.

Pregenerated characters provided

An offer of rich reward leads you from the secure walls of the Gold Goose tavern across lands untamed and wild. Brought together by fate and guided by a map cradled in whispers of a time long past, your band is set upon a path few have traveled.
In a land of scattered kingdoms and ancient mysteries, the bustling market town of Rivertown holds secrets ripe for discovery. A fortuitous encounter with the enigmatic Lord Berengar catapults your group of adventurers onto a path long forgotten as you are bestowed with the task of retrieving an ancient medallion lost to the sands of time. From deciphering a time-worn map to navigating treacherous terrains and crossing perilous obstacles, you and your companions will face trials of courage, wit, and strength. At the end of their journey lies the crypt of a long-dead king, a place shrouded in darkness and echoing with the ghosts of the past. As you venture deeper into the unknown, your team must keep their wits about them, for riches and dark secrets await in the buried depths. Each step draws you closer to the medallion - a relic of unimaginable power that promises wealth and glory to its possessor, but at what cost?
This quest is tailored for a party of 6th to 7th-level adventurers. Pre-gens will be available.
Rolemaster is a game system filled with gritty realism and exciting open-ended dice roles where the only limit is your imagination. The most recent is edition is Rolemaster Unified, a brand new system bringing together everything that was great about previous versions and updating them for the 21st century. T

During your crew's quest to pillage and plunder the Caribbean for its wonders and treasures, you were captured by the East India Trade Company. Branded "the worst pirates they ever heard of," you have been locked in a prison cell, awaiting your day at the gallows. If you wish to survive, you'll have to prove them wrong and use your cunning and guile to escape, arm yourselves, and commandeer a ship to sail off into the horizon.

Pirate Borg is a rules-light game based on the Mork Borg system. You play as pirates in the Dark Caribbean, an alternate history where magic and myth are real. Be warned, the game is deadly and you can expect your character to die. But fret not, the rules light system, and well-designed character sheets make it a trivial matter to make a new one and keep playing! Beginners are welcomed and encouraged; all rules will be taught and you are not required to bring anything other than yourself 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.