RinCon 2024

Never been to RinCon before? Want to know what it’s all about? Grab yourself a lunch from the concession stand or one of the resort venues and bring it to this informal discussion about all that the convention has to offer. Board members will be on hand to satisfy your curiosity about all things RinCon, including scheduled programming, how to sign up for events, what’s where in the convention site, and questions like, “Where do I get these RinCoins, and what the heck do I do with them?”

Kick off your weekend with a social mixer! Enjoy high-tea refreshments and play a sampling of lighter fare from our curated list of garden-themed games, taught by a team of fantastic table hosts (including RinCon special guest Emily Vincent of Pink Hawk Games). Don your fanciest tea-time togs and compete to be society’s best dressed gamer. For each different game you play you will earn an entry into the prize drawings. Yes! There will be multiple prizes! You must be present to win!

Game selection: A Gentle Rain, Bohnanza: Dahlias, Garden Guests, Tussie Mussie, The Garden, High Society, Floriferous, Herbaceous, Honshu, Walking in Provence, Lacuna, Prosperitea, and Pirates of the High Teas.

Prize selection: Votes For Women, Obsession, Darwin's Journey, Last Will, Tussie Mussie, Floriferous, Bohnanza: Dahlias, High Society, and A Gentle Rain

Join some of your favorite game designers for an informal mixer event - go grab your dinner from one of the casino venues and bring it to our panel room, find a seat, and have a chat!  No agenda, no formal questions, no moderator, no brakes!!  

Play one of the new Cascadia Rolling roll and writes with up to 24 people

"What did you wish you knew the very first time you sat down to GM a tabletop RPG?"

This is the question that our panel of experienced GMs is going to address this year. If you've ever wanted to GM a tabletop RPG but felt intimidated, anxious or uncertain about it, you will be our honored guest! If you have started to GM a tabletop RPG but ran into a problem, struggled or couldn't quite find your feet. we welcome you to a community of practitioners who have all "been there." And if you're an experienced GM in our community, please come and share your wisdom and let us learn from your mistakes as well. The GM's Conference has been a place for the community to meet for many years, and this year it is turning to how to cultivate that community's best practices from the very first session.

We need to keep talking about this, until we don't need to anymore. This panel will focus on the many faces of inclusion, what diversity means, and how to support them at our gaming tables, throughout our events, and in our industry.

Panelists:
Chaz Kemp (Chaz Kemp Art)
Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games)
Weyodi Old Bear Wuratsaakupu (Coyote & Crow)

Never been to RinCon before? Want to know what it’s all about? Grab yourself a lunch from the concession stand or one of the resort venues and bring it to this informal discussion about all that the convention has to offer. Board members will be on hand to satisfy your curiosity about all things RinCon, including scheduled programming, how to sign up for events, what’s where in the convention site, and questions like, “Where do I get these RinCoins, and what the heck do I do with them?”

Join us for a fantastic opportunity to buy and sell board games!

Sellers: Bring your priced games and set up on Saturday at 2:00 PM. You will need to purchase the $10 “Table at the Flea Market” add-on with your RinCon registration via Zeffy. If you’re already registered, you can buy it separately. You’ll get half of a large six-foot round table, with potential for more space depending on the number of sellers. Be ready to manage your own items and sales. Most buyers will have cash, but it’s great to have QR codes available for digital payments.
Buyers: The doors open at 2:30 PM. Come with cash in hand and hunt for fantastic deals until 4:00 PM! Whether you’re looking for a rare find or just a great bargain, there’s something for everyone.

Kind of like "Whose Line Is It, Anyway" for game designers. Watch and participate as our illustrious team of board game designers (James Ernest of Crab Fragment Labs and Emily Vincent of Pink Hawk Games) come up with silly new games from scratch. The twist is that you, the audience, get to add to the fun by submitting concepts, mechanics, and materials along the way that they must then build into the final products.

"Sooo, it's a dice drafting game... about taco trucks that are really a front for DC-based spies... and we're supposed to incorporate WHAT?!?"

Hilarity will ensue, we feel certain!

"The soft glow of the willowisps and fireflies dance amidst the moon dappled grove of the ancient woods. The heady scents of flowers and earth waft upon the cool evening breeze. The gentle rustle of leaves, the babbling brook, and denizens of the forest, entwine with the soft music of flutes and harps floating through the velvety night. Before you stand a henge of tall stone pillars reflecting the brilliant light of the full moon. A shock shudders through you as you take in the grisly scene before your eyes! In the center of the standing stones, lies a battered and bloody form.

Who could have wrought such violence in the very heart of the Enchanted Forest? Who had the motive, means and opportunity to commit this crime? Are you up to the challenge of finding the killer?

Join us at RinCon 2024 for "An Untimely End in the Enchanted Forest - A Murder Mystery Event". You can be a creature of legend and find the culprit who committed murder! You, and the other forest folk, will strive to find who had the motive, means, and opportunity to take another's life. Role play is encouraged, but not required. There will be swag for all our participants and a prize for the winner! Join us and enter a magical and deadly world!

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.

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.