Hidden away in his mountain fortress, the Mountain Witch destroys the lives of men. A group of ronin have gathered to make the perilous journey up Mt. Fuji to destroy the evil there. Will the ronin bond together in trust and brotherhood and overcome their enemy? Or will the Mountain Witch be triumphant and ruin more lives?
Hidden away in his mountain fortress, the Mountain Witch destroys the lives of men. A group of ronin have gathered to make the perilous journey up Mt. Fuji to destroy the evil there. Will the ronin bond together in trust and brotherhood and overcome their enemy? Or will the Mountain Witch be triumphant and ruin more lives?
Once again Jared and Luke very politely ask you three simple questions about your game designs. Through the three questions we help erstwhile designers sharpen the focus of their designs. This is part one of a series of three seminars.
If you don't have an adventure ready, or your normal GM is sick, what do you do? Role play anyway with StoryCards. We'll show you how. While one GM helps you create characters, the other will busy crafting a custom adventure based on players' suggestions. Instead of dice, we will use a special deck of cards for randomization and character creation. If you're tired of "Roll the d20; hit the orc" then you've come to the right place.
If you don't have an adventure ready, or your normal GM is sick, what do you do? Role play anyway with StoryCards. We'll show you how. While one GM helps you create characters, the other will busy crafting a custom adventure based on players' suggestions. Instead of dice, we will use a special deck of cards for randomization and character creation. If you're tired of "Roll the d20; hit the orc" then you've come to the right place.
You are a bad ass! The Baron has fallen, so many stories say he died, others say he disappeared. This bastard has been your Nemesis for years now, and he let you down by dying. Now, who is taking his place?
Numerous indie/small press games will be available for anyone interested. Sign up for games with the table custodians and play a new game immediately. Availability of particular games will be determined by the table custodians and the available game masters. Generic tickets only.
Numerous indie/small press games will be available for anyone interested. Sign up for games with the table custodians and play a new game immediately. Availability of particular games will be determined by the table custodians and the available game masters. Generic tickets only.
Numerous indie/small press games will be available for anyone interested. Sign up for games with the table custodians and play a new game immediately. Availability of particular games will be determined by the table custodians and the available game masters. Generic tickets only.
Numerous indie/small press games will be available for anyone interested. Sign up for games with the table custodians and play a new game immediately. Availability of particular games will be determined by the table custodians and the available game masters.
Numerous indie/small press games will be available for anyone interested. Sign up for games with the table custodians and play a new game immediately. Availability of particular games will be determined by the table custodians and the available game masters.
Play child soldiers in the doomed Warsaw uprising of 1944. Childhood innocence is shattered by the horrors of guerilla war. Take part in a new kind of intense role-play experience. Winner of the 2008 Diana Jones award for Excellence in Gaming. For mature players.
I, Governor..., or; The Unpleasant Profession of Upton Sinclair
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In 1934, California is wracked by the woes of the Great Depression, and muckraking ex-Socialist Upton Sinclair has a plan to "End Poverty in California." But has Sinclair's campaign rhetoric awoken a slumbering evil? Join young Navy veteran Bob Heinlein, Berkeley professor Paul Taylor, girl reporter Adela St. Johns, and movie producer Irving Thalberg in a Mythos adventure ripped from the pages of history.
You are a commanders of a hammer raiding fleet. Your ships stands poised over a ripe, undefended Vaylen world. The world is full of lost treasures and technologies and, more problematically, millions of civilians. They are seemingly uninfected. Do you save them? Or do you take the technology and raze the rest?
When Gina learns that her friend-and-doormat Stacey has manifested divine powers (as high school kids sometimes do), she sets out to form a Squad to right wrongs and rid her school of injustice... even if she has to invent the injustice from whole cloth, in order to have it to fight. Will Gina get her way? Will Stacy work up the nerve to talk to Roger? And what about Meg?
A group of neighbors in an apartment building discover themselves thrust violently into the Mad City when the diabolical Sandman steals the very sleep from their minds. Can they find a way out of his nightmare maze before they succumb to exhaustion and madness?
A group of neighbors in an apartment building discover themselves thrust violently into the Mad City when the diabolical Sandman steals the very sleep from their minds. Can they find a way out of his nightmare maze before they succumb to exhaustion and madness?
What do your dreams hold? What nightmares lurk in the growing darkness? What strange and twisted realms exist just beyond your sight? Enter a world of magic and myth. You will take the part of strange creatures, powerful sorcerers, or mundane people swept up in the mystery. Play a game where magic can take any form and your character could change the world.
The Oracle has foretold a terrible famine following the sudden death of the Corn Handmaiden. But the girl chosen to take her place is the focus of an unlikely love triangle. Will someone step up and be a hero to the village or will the heroes risk everything to follow the forbidden desires of their hearts?
How many dice do I roll? Should I have a strength stat? Do I need trust mechanics? Come and talk nuts and bolts game design with us. This panel focuses specifically on design and playtesting tabletop RPGs. Please bring a game you're working on!
Join Rex Rich and his friends as they launch the Redhawk rocket-plane to win a War Department contract for an intercontinental interceptor. But little do they realize that Rex's old enemies the Futurians are up to no good, and their machinations may embroil the whole world in an interplanetary war!
Shaggy, Scooby and the rest of the gang travel to sunny California on vacation, and it looks like vampires are running wild! The Scooby Gang (Fred, Daphne, Velma, Scooby, and Shaggy) meets the "Scooby Gang" (Buffy, Xander, and Willow) in this crossover adventure.
You are the Dunedain Rangers, sworn defenders of the Realms and personal envoys of King Elessar. A new danger has cut off contact with your people in the struggling Northern Realm of Arnor. At the same time new incursions from the edges of Ithilien have stretched Gondor's Rangers dangerously thin. The King has sent you to restore contact, discover the cause of the problems and, if possible, resolve the situation.
Hold onto your seats as Luke, author of the infamous Burning Wheel, Burning Empires and Mouse Guard roleplaying games hoses you down with a torrent of information about how and why to self publish your super awesome roleplaying game!
Global geopolitics in a world of declining resources. Win by bringing about a new era of prosperity, or by being the best hoarder of the remaining wealth. Multiple games over the session, no experience required.
Global geopolitics in a world of declining resources. Win by bringing about a new era of prosperity, or by being the best hoarder of the remaining wealth. Multiple games over the session, no experience required.
When casting calls go out for the Drama Club's new production of Romeo and Juliet, simmering romantic tensions start to come to a boil. Who will get the coveted roles, and the on-stage kiss (not to mention rehearsals!)? Will jealousies erupt into cat-fights and breakups? We can only hope!
Sleepy Illinois town becomes boomtown thanks to the miraculous healing power of its mineral springs. Are the springs actually magical or is it all a hoax? And why are there so many ghosts?
Sleepy Illinois town becomes boomtown thanks to the miraculous healing power of its mineral springs. Are the springs actually magical or is it all a hoax? And why are there so many ghosts?
Sleepy Illinois town becomes boomtown thanks to the miraculous healing power of its mineral springs. Are the springs actually magical or is it all a hoax? And why are there so many ghosts?
Sleepy Illinois town becomes boomtown thanks to the miraculous healing power of its mineral springs. Are the springs actually magical or is it all a hoax? And why are there so many ghosts?
Magister Gause has been found dead in his chambers; an engraved dagger plunged into his back. The Gray College of Westmark is in shock. There is a murderer loose in the halls of the college and a chair on the school's governing council that needs to be filled. Any one of the men vying for the empty chair could have had a hand in Magister Gause's death; but which one?
Magister Gause has been found dead in his chambers; an engraved dagger plunged into his back. The Gray College of Westmark is in shock. There is a murderer loose in the halls of the college and a chair on the school's governing council that needs to be filled. Any one of the men vying for the empty chair could have had a hand in Magister Gause's death; but which one?
Princess Xelda has been kidnapped... again! And the elf-suited heroes of Myrule will have to travel through strange temples - collecting hearts, fighting rock-throwing octopi, and finding pieces of the Golden Triangle - to rescue her. Who knows what cool weapons they'll pick up?
Forever have the people lived in starlight cold, but now the Dawn is coming. A tarot-like oracle drives the play of this narration-intensive game of people facing the end of their world.
A dark well has opened at the edge of your Count's lands. Since he is away at the Senate it has fallen to you, his 'trusted' advisors and vassals to resolve this matter before his return. Although deep in Winter, your master is cunning and cruel. No one dares to ignore a threat (or opportunity)... you must learn what the growing shadow represents at all costs.
A year has past and the greatest hunter in the village has failed to find and kill the water serpent who will soon return to take another child. The aging chief has promised his rank to the hero that destroys the serpent, but the honor only goes to one, and there are many who seek it. Will the chief's challenge unite his troubled people or will their own ambitions tear them apart?
Our adventure series continues! Word of your murder of the Lord Stravit has reached the Duke's Constable's ears. Apparently, he's displeased at one of the Duke's vassals and relations having been murdered. You've been summoned to court to explain yourself and the intrigues abound!
What if the Care Bears were pushing smack, and He-Man was a homosexual craving for Skeletor's affection? This is the game where you can find out! Very free form, and very mature, and crazy... and odd. The rest is up to you!
Scheme your way through a banquet of political intrigue at the 12th century manor of Roger de Beaumont, the Earl of Warwick. Make allies and enemies throughout the medieval feast and then hash out your differences on the field of the melee tournament.
Scheme your way through a banquet of political intrigue at the 12th century manor of Roger de Beaumont, the Earl of Warwick. Make allies and enemies throughout the medieval feast and then hash out your differences on the field of the melee tournament.
Two brothers love the same woman. Will kinship or desire win out, or will everyone fall prey to whatever lurks in the White Cavern below the village. A fantasy based on myths of the American Southwest.
China, 1937. The soldiers of the Yangtze Rocket Patrol guard the interests of the U.S. at the International Settlement in Shanghai, little realizing that the schemes of their deadly nemesis Warlord Hong will embroil them in their deadliest adventure yet!