We all know a group of Redheads is a Blaze and gathering unicorns is a fantasy! Well what do you call a collection of gamers? A STINK of course! For the 7th annual event the Indianapolis Mavens have decided to clean up our act. Oh it will still be the same old Wednesday night rockem sockem action event you'd expect for the Gen Con Forumites. Games, excitement, trills and some swag. Join us for the Gen Con Kick Off event.
Come join Tabletop Gamers (TTG) and learn the superhero skirmish game from Pulp Monsters, Pulp City, where genetically-altered apes battle villains from outer space and heroes encased in steel.
The newest game in the Conflict of Heroes series, Storms of Steel!™, makes you a witness to the greatest tank battle in history! After their stinging defeat at Stalingrad, the Germans mass their best forces for an all-out attack against the growing Soviet bulge at Kursk.
You are specialists at the CDC/Atlanta where you watch several virulent diseases break out simultaneously all over the world. The team mission is to prevent a world-wide pandemic outbreak, treating hotspots while researching cures for each of the four plagues before they get out of hand.
Fast paced and easy to learn. This is a qualifying event for the Ticket to Ride Midwest Tournament. Your best score from 4 different types of T2R games will be combined and the top ranking players will compete in the Semi-finals on Sat at 8pm followed immediately by the finals. See Puffing Billy HQ for information about the tournament format. PBT
Ticket to Ride Europe Mega - Midwest Tournament Qualifier
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Fast paced and easy to learn. This is a qualifying event for the Ticket to Ride Midwest Tournament. Your best score from 4 different types of T2R games will be combined and the top ranking players will compete in the Semi-finals on Sat at 8pm followed immediately by the finals. See Puffing Billy HQ for information about the tournament format. PBT
Join us for this updated, just off the shelves, new and exciting version of Axis & Allies Europe 1940. This, when combined with the new Pacific 1940 game, makes a great world game. But this event is just for the new Europe 1940 only. Game rules will be review at event. Little experience required. This is not a tournament.
Building is Exciting – In Vegas – A Challenge – manage your people, money, fame, and Marketing to build the best Casion-Hotel w/ top food Service. Best player of board advances to final. Win with Pride and recognition for the best run company.
Orc Stomp is a 5k Fun Run through the White River State Park. Come get a morning workout with us. Explore the White River Waterfront Walk. Run hard and beat your time, or run easy and enjoy yourself. This event will be held rain or shine. We will gather at the Hyatt North Entrance and walk to the park together. Participants should be capable of running or run/walking a moderate distance. Everyone will get a small token for participation.
The days of chasing starlets and wannabes around Hollywood for photos are over. Cryptozoology is the new celebrity. Your mission is to hunt monsters. Every piece of evidence you record of a mythical beast brings you points closer to winning the game. However while being the hunter you also play the hunted in this game of cat and monster. Prototype game.
Grab a squad and enter the arena in this version of our Head to Head play. Each player gets a squad and competes against other players to see who gets the most Battle Honors. The one with the most points at the end of the event wins a squad of Mecks.
The lords of the kingdom struggle to improve their place and standing. New borders are drawn, and expanded through strength of arms and subtle maneuver. Can you control enough territory to become the most prestigious duke before the king's return? Try this on our oversize set!
Do you have the soul of an Angel, the resolve of a Paladin, or the courage of a Pries? Come try a soon to be favorite at GenCon where you control one or more monsters against the forces of evil in this annual struggle to be the Last Monster Standing. We call the rules D&D Skirmish 3.99. Quick and Fast play for everyone.
At the pole your penguins are jumping from ice floe to ice floe hunting fish. They’re also trying to block other penguins and secure the best fishing grounds for themselves. The penguin colony that catches the most fish by the end of the game wins. Play on big ice floes with stuffed penguins!
Come to our bigger beautiful 3-d Pompeii with this exciting game! You will use cards to attract your Roman friends and relatives to the town. But hidden in the deck is the dreaded Vesuvius card! Once this card is drawn, the volcano will erupt, raining fire onto the unsuspecting city! Will you be able to save them all? The player with the most survivors will be the winner!
Are you wicked like the Devil, have the greed of a Dragon, or the hunger of a Lich? Come try a soon to be favorite at GenCon where you control one or more monsters against the forces of good in this annual struggle to be the Last Monster Standing. We call the rules D&D Skirmish 3.99. Quick and Fast play for everyone.
If you're ready for exciting two-fisted adventure, journey back to the pulp era where a seemingly natural death leads the Midnight Watch on the trail of a most unnatural conspiracy. Roleplaying, Problem Solving, and a good right hook are requirements for this one.
Facing an imminent invasion from draconians in the Plane of Shadow, the royal army is spread thin. Mercenaries are being hired to scout the Plane for clues to the draconian army's intentions. You have been hired to investigate a rumored draconian laboratory. Does it offer any clue to the draconian battle plan? A stand alone adventure with a plot spun off the popular Bobs story line. Some role playing, more roll playing. Level 5 characters.
The 3D city of mangled cars and fire is back. With cars, guns, explosions, who has time for physics? Using matchbox cars and a combination of Pocket Edition and Compendium rules it is all about fun. Car provided & rules taught.
The Wardens are looking for help in rescuing one of their scouts and they've asked for your help. Can you find their man and escort him to safety? Part 1 of the Vidal Conspiracy, you do not have to play all parts. An AO:Evolutions campaign event, bring your own character or one can be provided.
You Too Can Cthulhu: The Only Thing We Have to Fear
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Are you new to Cthulhu? Come see what all the screaming and insanity are about! Join in the desperate struggle to keep humanity safe from terrible entities and knowledge 'man was not meant to know' in the RPG based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. It has been providing folks with a unique role-playing experience for 24 years now. Our events will show you how much fun it really is.
The fight to regain control of the top of the food chain continues in the fourth year of the Zombie War! What is behind this plague and can it be stopped once and for all? Will you find answers or will you be eaten?
In the fertile land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, thousands of years ago, you compete to create a civilization. Strategically place your leaders to benefit in their spheres of influence. Will your play bring a balanced victory?
Game of colonial developement. Populate the island while building your plantations and the manufacturing facilities to ship from the New World to the Old World. The more mature the city the less dependent the player is on export.
This will teach you the basics to make a simple game using the program Scratch. It will be shown how to upload your game to a gallery offered by Scratch so others can play your game. A charged laptop is high recommended for you so you can participate. You do not have to have a laptop though to learn about programming and making a game. Scratch is recommended to have downloaded before coming to this workshop if you are bringing your own laptop.
40 B.C. Pirates fleeing with the Roman coin collection are intercepted by Roman Bireimes. Can the main fleet Tririemes catch them. Will you end up with the most coins or sunk?
After an excellent clan gathering, where you swindled, cheated and basically made bantha poodoo out every other clan - again - you are heading back to your sandcrawler to button things up before the approaching sandstorms. Life is good. Wait - was that an explosion?
A routine delivery run for a crew of hardened criminals goes horribly wrong... and THEN the Nightmares start. When even the road is conspiring against you, it's going to take more than a pistol to win the day.
Flung into the past, the X-Men find themselves caught between two powerful enemies - perhaps more powerful than they can defeat. In order to avert a future engulfed in a millennia-long war, they will need to find a way. Bring your inner super-hero!
In the near future, a handful of disparate kung fu academies stand against the totalitarian dominion of the wicked clone masters, but internal rivalries have foiled all attempts to unify the academies against the overlords. Now, one visionary preaches the potential of victory over the masters, if only the academies can put aside their differences. Cinematic, melodramatic, kung fu RP required.
Explore the land, acquire items, craft, strength by defeating foes and other players. Enter the inner realm and make your way to the Crown of Command. Use it to kill all the other players! Generics welcome.
The clerics of Wee Jas have tasked your group with a new quest... And this time it's a really large challenge! (Or maybe huge... or gargantuan... or even colossal!)
It was supposed to be a run-of-the-mill job. Deliver some parts to a droid factory on an airless moon, get paid and then move on. How hard could it be? This is a Rebellion Era scenario.
Her Majesty’s government has asked an untested band of Explorers for assistance in delivering an ancient jade dragon to the canal prince of Euxinus Lacus. They face miles of wilderness, canal pirates, Oentorian spies, raiding high Martians and the machinations of other earth powers for this token of diplomacy. Using the Savage Worlds core system, up to eight novice Explorers journey the red sands of Mars for an adventure of a lifetime!
Taking medical supplies to a plague ravaged world sounds like a great deal. The money is more than right, cargo isn’t too hard to handle, & it pulls at the good captain’s heart strings in just the right way. Can the crew deliver the supplies in time? Fight for your lives in this tense, action, & RP heavy session based in the Traveller universe. Standard Traveller rules have been modified to reward in-character role play. RP heavily emphasized.
Psychic Mystery novelist Vivianne Trevalyanne, Reporter Dianna Manderley and Company have their hands full as usual, but in Egypt, not Chicago. Assassins, drugged camels, mummies, life-size ushabtis and the usual suspects. Role Playing and Problem Solving stressed.
When the world is threatened, it calls upon gatherings of it's greatest and most unique individuals; When the World is Annoyed, Inconvenienced, and all the really cool heroes are too busy, it calls upon these idiots. Oh boy, are we in trouble now! Very Rules Light, Comedy stressed.
Last year, your mixed up group was brought together by coincidence and wound up battling the forces of Evil. This year, you may have to try again. Set in the world of the Dresden Files, with original characters. A 'Mechanics light' event, role playing stressed.
The magic and mystery of a museum is completely overrated, especially if you work there. Underpaid, under-appreciated and always taking budget cuts, you're lucky to still have your job. Your only hope lies with a new touring Egyptian 'blockbuster' exhibit. With the media going nuts over rumors of curses and theft it's sure to bring the tourists in. Set in modern times. Role-playing stressed.
Late Late Late Show: The Movie!! After being hailed as the Heroes of Miller's Grove, where could you possibly go next. Only one place... Hollywood! This game is being run one-camera-larp style, see our web site for details. Role playing stressed with emphasis on humor.
On a planet desperate for their survival an agreement is made with the Empire. This agreement will insure the planet of Adalli it's future, but strike a fatal blow to the Rebellion and the galaxy as whole. WEG ongoing campaign. Start a character or bring an existing Sparks character. By E. Moore.
In the heart of the Arkanis sector lays the desert world of Socorro. Can our team of rebel smugglers make the necessary connections to supply the Rebellion and survive this world of smugglers and dangerous natives? WEG ongoing campaign. Start a character or bring an existing Sparks character. By D. Demarest.
While acquiring a new warship for the cause, our Rebel team must vacate with their prize being pursued by the Imperials. What could go wrong with having rushed the temp repairs on a derelict ship and immediately fleeing into hyperspace with the Imperials hot on your trail? WEG ongoing campaign. Start a character or bring an existing Sparks character. By J. Guillmette.
Touch the Cold Iron and Speak Not of the Man with the White Collar
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What is the Cap’n thinking? Everyone knows that raising sail in the Great Lakes is treacherous enough in the winter, liken to dancin’ with the Furies, without invitin’ e’en more trouble by carrying a priest! Tis a bad omen, but a’ least the cargo promises a hefty penny……
You were celebrating your victory over the dragons when Prince Edmund arrived in Oxford looking frantic. He begged you to come quickly to London to save his people. You arrive in London to find surprises around every corner. Perhaps that thick fog hides the source of the bizarre things you’ve found. Knowledge (History) encouraged, combat inevitable. 9th to 11th level characters provided.
Resource Management Game of many strategies in City of Havana, 6 turns. Best player of board advances to final. Win with Pride and recognition for the best run company.
After a 2 yr absence - 8AM SHADOWS IS BACK!!! Become a kinght at King Arthur's round table and help defeat the evil that surrounds camelot. But beware there is a traitor in your midst. Rules taught and there should be enough time for 2 games in this 4 hr slot.
Experience the thrill of Hollow Earth Expedition in the time of Sherlock Holmes. A few zealots believe that Nemo was not a work of fiction. Those same people are willing to do anything to possess the work found in the diaries. Can you survive the London social scene, a Jules Verne inspired high jacking, dealings with a shadowy underground figure, and an auction filled with the most despicable criminals the London underworld has ever spawned?
War is coming, and the military needs support from it's rulers. A band of heroes has been gathered to get the support of a king. He won't give his support for free. The first labor.
Rumors of an alliance between the Council of Blades in Mulmaster and a group of Banite Warlock Knights of Vaasa portend evil for the entire Moonsea region. Your patron has asked you to join an expedition to the Delhalls, a mine rich in gems and copper where a recent earthquake has revealed new passages. The miners say that strange, haunting melodies resound in the depths, luring men to their deaths. A LFR Special adventure for char. levels 11-14
A week of guard duty aboard an elaborate cruise ship? Not a bad gig, except that there's something just a tad odd about the kid you're supposed to helping have a good time...
This is the swan song for our corporate warriors. Tensions rise off the coast of Africa as Petrochem and SovOil threaten to start the fourth corporate war. In this act, the Militech team is tasked with uncovering evidence that SovOil has been sabotaging PetroChem's drilling platforms.
While the Remarkable Wrong-Righters want to make superheroing fun again, life may become too much fun when a strange visitor appears in their Malibu beach house headquarters. Role-playing emphasized.
Set in the Gears of War universe, using a modified rule system. The Coalition of Ordered Governments has coordinated the first ever exercise incorporating the militaries of the recently conquered Union of Independent Republics. Khimera Company must restore Ostri's national pride and honor. Lieutenant Alaric Gryfon’s platoon takes the lead in this action-packed scenario.
Anna wanted to be something more than a Necro's side woman. She found the true path to Jikadell's love. Can you stop her now that she wants to spread that love and kill innocents?
A century ago, the vampire lord Dessian cast a foul curse intended to set the sun his domain forever. The people now live in constant fear of their dark lord's terrible hunger as well as the host of terrifying undead that infest the city like rats. Can you and your companions find a way to break the curse? Can you put an end to Dessian's evil rule? Will you live to ever see the sun again?
Knights of the Dragon Ongoing Campaign - The King opens the new Hope Bridge across the river Knox; when the realm faces a crisis & needs new heroes. You will need to make a new character, or bring an existing 1st-3rd level KotD character.
Play any of the 18xx variants. 1856, 1835, 1870 will be provided but bring any others variants/kits would like to play as well. This event is a qualifier for18xx Tournament (Finals Saturday 6pm) PBT.
The Germans got their hand on De Gaul's private yatch and are bringing it back to Berlin for their general. You need to get that ship back at all costs without damaging it. Played in BIG 54MM scale.
Annual favorite… Triple-scale (Big!). Sign up, grab a starfighter, and duke it out against up to 11 other players in this fast-paced, easy-to-learn space dogfight game.
Try this new game from Red Shirt Games. Our take on the pirate game pits each player with his own ship and crew against other players. Fight other ships, seek hidden treasures, and find the rare casks of rum for your crew.
It is 1928 and you have been invited to the housewarming party of Enfield Irving, a dear friend, who has built a large manse upon Beacon Isle. Rumors are that he will make a big announcement. Could it be an engagement to the lovely Emily Hull-Beaumont?! The stormy weather won’t keep you from attending this party, even if the night seems more eerily black and the stars glitter in strangely unsettling ways.
Welcome to the new World of Darkness. Join this on-going campaign set in a world with an alternate history. In this introductory module learn the back-story and create a natural or supernatural character to rise up against a police-state government bent on absolute control of the populace and the destruction of all supernatural creatures. Only first time players allowed.
Rumors of an alliance between the Council of Blades in Mulmaster and a group of Banite Warlock Knights of Vaasa portend evil for the entire region. Your patron has learned that a weapon of power, lost since the long-ago death of the Ice Queen Iyraclea, may be up for grabs, and the Warlock Knights have dispatched an expedition to retrieve it. A LFR Special adventure for char. levels 14-17.
Rumors of an alliance between the Council of Blades in Mulmaster and a group of Banite Warlock Knights of Vaasa portend evil for the entire Moonsea region. Two years ago, a great earthquake rattled northern Vaasa and Damara. The ruined Castle Perilous sloughed off crumbling stone and the marks of age, revealing a sleek and dark edifice beneath, covered with shimmering black runes of unknown purpose. A LFR Special adventure for char. levels 17-20.
Ravens Bluff has long been known as the City of Adventurers. In spite of the changes to the city wrought by the Spellplague, Ravens Bluff still offers untold opportunities for adventurers hoping to make a name for themselves. A new group of heroes are about to get their chance, when dangers from the city's past collide with the intrigue, greed, and pride of the present. A Living Forgotten Realms adventure set in Ravens Bluff for char. levels 1-4
The tale of Ravens Bluff continues as a new generation of heroes find themselves caught in the whirl of intrigue and menace that only the City of Adventurers can provide. A Living Forgotten Realms adventure set in Ravens Bluff for characters levels 1-4. This is the second part of the three-part 'Return to Ravens Bluff' mini-campaign. It is recommended (but not required) that you play the mini-campaign adventures in order, using the same char.
Create your own character, any kind of character, and watch as an insane GM custom crafts an adventure for your party on the spot with no preparation. Author of Instant GM from the RPGnow Best Sellers list.
A group of terrified Huguenot refuges urge you to help them. They claim they are being hunted – but they can’t say who or what is pursuing... maybe those riders in red might be able to help you sort things out! The Solomon Kane setting.
A group of apes from the planet of the apes run into more than they can handle when the humans they are hunting start turning into zombies. Matters only get worse for the apes when they take cover in a forbidden zone site where rumors of mutated humans exist.
Investigative Edwardian Gothic Horror Introductory Event designed to introduce players and new characters to the Fellowship of the White Star campaign of Earth, 1907. The pre-generated characters given in the event fit the adventure the best; if they are not used, the players will need to supply their own role-playing reason for being there. (I-301)
Stranded on the mysterious Blackrift Island, you and your companions must survive the elements, fierce predators, and a band of bloodthirsty pirates seeking treasure in an ancient ruin. This is the return of the Pirates of the Grey Coast event from Gen Con 2009.
Fifteen years ago Seattle was plagued by a number of vicious animal attacks. These attacks seem to be on the rise again but Knight Errant is not taking them seriously, a retired Lone Star cop takes matters into his own hands. Is this just a coincidence or is Seattle about to repeat history?