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GAMES

WHEN: All con long WHERE: Boardroom II FORMAT: RPG GM: Games on Demand GMs SYSTEM: Choose from a menu of games GAME LENGTH: 2 and 4 hour blocks CHARACTERS: Created in play WHAT IS IT?

Games on Demand is an area with tables, materials, and a constant supply of GMs prepared to run a variety of indie and cutting-edge games. All you have to do is show up ready to try out new systems and play some games. It is, in short, your source for the game you want, when you want it!

Parsely Games DATE/TIME: Oct 5, Midnight–1:00AM FORMAT: RPG GM: Shaun Hayworth and Noam Rosen SYSTEM: Parsely VARIATIONS: NEVER. EVER. NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 50 CHARACTERS: Just the one. DESCRIPTION: Parsely games are based on text

adventure games from the late 1970s and early 1980s, a time when games came on cassette tapes or floppy disks. But even if you didn’t grow up during that time, you can still enjoy Parsely with friends and family. Shaun and Noam will be running the Parsely game of their choice for everyone that can fit into the Forum Room and wants chance at the glory of saying “Go North”.

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As a gamer you may have heard that improv is closely tied to role-playing, especially in narrativebased games. It’s true, improv theater teaches many skills that can make your game rock: collaboration, embracing failure, and taking risks. The goal of this workshop series is to highlight those skills (and more!) as they apply to role-playing games through improv exercises and scene work. Level 1: This workshop focuses on exploring dynamic characters, collaborative scene-building, and the success/complication model. Beginners to improv are welcome and encouraged! Lead by local instructor Mia Blankensop with coinstructors Karen Twelves and Jennifer Warner.

WHEN: Oct 5, 2013 3:30PM-7:30PM WHERE: Boardroom 5

big

bad gm

Every year Big Bad GM pits four GMs against each other in a cage match that rocks the house.

Oct 6, 3:00PM–9:00PM

Each contestant is randomly assigned four players and knows only that they must run a game using the Fate system. After that everything is uncertain… Just as the competition starts, our judges reveal the secret ingredients. A genre, antagonist, and location. The GMs must brainstorm with the players, make characters and run a game using those secret ingredients all in four hours. The entire experience is a blast for the GMs, players, and judges alike. What’s even better is that the players get to pick the contestants! Last year, based on the 200+ feedback forms received, we took the top rated GMs and invited them to participate this year.

ERIC ZIMMERMAN

HIGH CONCEPT: Pop Culture Anthropologist TROUBLE: Daddy Issues ASPECT: “…just rolled three negatives!” YOUR ADVENTURE: Wild Talents. In a Roman superheroes game, the final bad guys, essentially Germanic Gods, take a surprise shot at the PCs, but instead of fighting back, the PCs talked them into a parley. I had no idea what was going to happen. They wrestled with the moral dilemma of betraying Rome (especially the Emperor who can control them) because they could not disagree with all of the “enemy’s” complaints. It wasn’t until after it was over that I realized the game didn’t falter, but something amazing just happened. IF YOU COULD BE ANYONE IN ANY WORLD: The Great A’Tuin from Discworld.

BRYAN HITCHCOCK

HIGH CONCEPT: The Metal Friar TROUBLE: So Many Games, So Little Time ASPECT: Six-string Troubadour YOUR ADVENTURE: One year at Dunrdacon in the 90s, one person showed up out of six who signed up for a Werewolf the Apocalypse game. An hour after start time, I finally managed to rustle up a full table. Some of them had never played a White Wolf game at all. But we managed to have a fun game, slay a Nexus Crawler and end it with a climactic duel between two of the PCs for leadership of the pack. Awesome game in spite of an awful beginning.

JOSEPH HARNEY

HIGH CONCEPT: Reenacting Renaissance Man TROUBLE: Doesn’t deal well with Stupid ASPECT: Rules Jedi YOUR ADVENTURE: There was the one time where Aphrodite stabbed the Earl King’s Daughter’s Gay White Court Vampire Husband in the heart with the Spear of Leonidas. Does that count as going good or bad, or both?!? IF YOU COULD BE ANYONE IN ANY WORLD: Either a Dresden Shide Lord or a 40k Space Marine.

IF YOU COULD BE ANYONE IN ANY WORLD: The Doctor, but the Metal Realms version. #13.

EZRA DENNEY

HIGH CONCEPT: Paranoia Proselytizer TROUBLE: There are other games besides Paranoia? ASPECT: Why are there plus signs on these dice? YOUR ADVENTURE: Is this where I tell you about my 20th level Kensai Evoker? Because he was pretty sweet…

IF YOU COULD BE ANYONE IN ANY WORLD: Werner Herzog, or the Funbot 3000

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Sunday, Oct. 6 7AM–8AM

Meet in front of Building 5 (See map page 7)

WHEN: Oct 6, 7:00AM–8:00AM GM: The Wolf SYSTEM: Running VARIATIONS: Not being eaten POWER LEVEL: Hope you have enough MATURITY RATING: Very little GAME LENGTH: 5k CHARACTERS: Welcome

A few people have told The Wolf they’d like to get a little exercise at Big Bad Con. How about running for your lives so The Wolf doesn’t devour you whole? This route goes around Martin Jr. Regional Shoreline, so you might have a chance of losing The Wolf in the woods. Check out the route online at BIGBADCON.COM/EVENTS/WOLF-CHASE-2013/. 4

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WALKING WELCOME: The Wolf gets tired chasing Little Red all day and night. If you’re up for getting a little fresh air and some exercise, but running isn’t your, er, speed, have no worries, walking the route is just fine too, and there should be plenty of time to get back, shower (yes please) and get to your morning games.

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Big Bad Con is proud to announce the EVIL HAT ROOM. In addition to Big Bad GM and the Evil Hat games offered in Games on Demand and other scheduled games, Evil Hat will have its own abode at Big Bad Con to hang up its, well, er…hat! Here are the games you can find in the Evil Hat Room: SHADOW OF THE CENTURY - Morgan Ellis - Get a first glance at Evil Hat’s upcoming Shadow of the Century. More 80s action than Kurt Russell could shake a stick at! RACE TO ADVENTURE! - Eric Lyltle - Fate Core + Race To Adventure? Indeed. Play our favorite centurions Sally Slick, Jet Black, and more… ATOMIC ROBO - MORGAN ELLIS - Mike Olson’s Atomic Robo will hit the shelves later this year, but why wait? Morgan Ellis has Atomic Awesomeness RIGHT NOW! STAR WARS: HEROES OF THE CLONE WARS - Colin Jessup - Remember when Jedi were Wushu bad asses with glowing swords? Get your Force on! STRUGGLE FOR MOONBASE ALPHA - Brian Isikoff - Science Fiction Fate! Inspired by the Moodbase Alpha war-game and Space 1999!

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TAKE BACK THE VOID! - Edmund Methny - Void Engineers trapped behind enemy lines. Mage meats Fate where Mass Effect meets Battlestar Galactica!

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THE QUIET YEAR - Joe Mcdaldno - The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a postapocalyptic community, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every action is set against a backdrop of dwindling time and rising concern. MONSTERHEARTS - Joe Mcdaldno - Create stories about sexy monsters, teenage angst, personal horror, and secret love triangles. Explore the terror and confusion that comes both with growing up and feeling like a monster.

Big Bad Con is delighted to have Joe Mcdaldno (Buried without Ceremony) and Jackson Tegu (Photographs of Lightning) running their games at the “Buried Without Lightning” table. ROOKVALE - Joe Mcdaldno - The kingdom of Rookvale

is beset by demons. Rookvale is a setting/campaign/ remix for Anima Prime. It’s all about cinematic battles, awesome powers, and badass flare.

CARL RIGNEY, luminary of gaming, will be running not one or two, but five, yes FIVE games at Big Bad Con. Oh, and in his spare time he might run some games at Games on Demand Friday afternoon too.

SILVER & WHITE - Joe Mcdaldno - This story is about personal change. It expects to be played by people who want to experience vicarious transformation, and hopes to help those people reach into themselves and connect with feelings of uncertainty, longing, and exhilaration. ALL NIGHT COFFEE - Jackson Tegu - High school is over, but you haven’t done any growing up. You moved to SF to find yourself, or because it seemed like something to do, or to get the fuck out of your shit town.

Here are Carl’s Games: A PEACEFUL TOWN - GOLDEN SKY STORIES A GAME OF YOU - MONSTERHEARTS A BUTTERFLY’S DREAM OF FREEDOM - TENRA BANSHO ZERO THE BIG PARTY - MONSTERHEARTS ONE SUMMER EVENING - GOLDEN SKY STORIES OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 5

dealers room The Wolf won’t leave you stranded without games when you need them most! “EndGame is very proud to support Big Bad Con! We will be on hand to handle all your gaming needs, including representing such folks as Indie Press Revolution, and stocking a wide variety of your favorite role-playing games. We are really looking forward to seeing you all there!” – Chris Hanrahan

Saturday, Oct. 5 & Sunday, Oct. 6 10AM–6PM Boardroom 1

EndGame will donate 10% of its sales from our dealers room booth to Child’s Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 60 hospitals worldwide.

childsplaycharity.org

EndGame is a full-line game store and community hub located in downtown Oakland. We sell board games, card games, classic games, puzzles, role-playing games, miniatures games, and gaming-related hobby supplies. 921 Washington St. (at 10th) Oakland, CA 94607 510-465-3637 endgameoakland.com featuring art by

Divine Cheshire Whimsycore, n.—An aesthetic combined of both delightful and transgressive elements; a portmanteau of ‘whimsical’ and ‘hardcore,’ conveying a most ingenious paradox of frivolity and fervor; singleminded dedication to serious playfulness. 6

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Hotel MAP

WOLF CHASE STARTS HERE

All game events take place in Building 5

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Where To Eat McDonald’s 8400 Edgewater Drive (510) 639-1595 Quiznos Sub Sandwiches 8450 Edgewater Drive (510) 777-9200

Starbucks 8450 Edgewater Drive (510) 635-2418 Le Bistro (510) 569-4808 433 Hegenberger Road Hegen Burgers 280 Hegenberger Rd. (510) 569-9115

Francesco’s Restaurant 8520 Pardee Dr. (510) 569-0653

Amelia’s Cafe In the Hotel (510) 635-5000

Diamonds Sports Edition Bar & Grill (510) 638-7777 77 Hegenberger Rd. Big Bad Con! Hilton Oakland Airport 1 Hegenberger Road Oakland, CA 94621 (510) 635-5000

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Jamba Juice 8460 Edgewater Dr. (at Hegenberger Rd.) (510) 430-1482 Chipotle Mexican Grill 8460 Edgewater Drive (800) 686-8000

Carrows Restaurant 405 Hegenberger Road (510) 635-3295 Subway 280 Hegenberger Rd. (510) 562-1010

Yoshino Sushi 296 Hegenberger Rd. (510) 430-2552

Take Out

Menu

AMELIA’S RESTAURANT

SPORTS EDITION BAR

Call Ext. 3032

Call Ext. 3030

Take-out Service Hours: 9:00AM–1:00PM (Saturday and Sunday)

Take-out Service Hours: 1:00PM–9:00PM (Saturday and Sunday)

Hotel Main Number: 510-635-5000

Hotel Main Number: 510-635-5000

*To meet the demand of our attendees, three additional staff will be working in the kitchen during the con. If you don’t see the Goats Gruff all weekend…you know where they are!

SANDWICH PLATES Sandwich Plates include a soda or bottled water and potato chips FATE CORE STEAKHOUSE BURGER Choice of Cheese, Bacon or Sautéed Mushrooms on a Brioche Bun. . . 9.50 SAVAGE WORLDS TURKEY & AVOCADO SANDWICH ON WHOLE WHEAT BREAD Lettuce and Tomatoes with Pasta Salad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.00 DON’T REST YOUR HEAD HOT DOG Simple and ruthless. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.50 GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.50

ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS

MONSTERHEARTS PIZZA Your choice of two strategic toppings on an 8’’ pie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11.00 FIASCO QUESADILLAS Chicken & cilantro w/ pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.00

Macaroni & Cheese Bowl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.00 Mini-Cobb Salad………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.00 Chili Fries…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00 Nachos Supreme ~ Made to Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.00 Rice, Bean & Cheese Burrito & Tortilla Chips (Add Chicken or beef for $2.25 extra) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 Can of soda or bottle of water. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 Potato chips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 Fresh fruit cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00

food trucks

Check with the Reg Desk for times and locations!

FIST OF FLOUR PIZZA CO. wheresthefist.com

NO WORRIES FILIPINO VEGAN CUISINE www.filipinoveganfood.com

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Schedule Friday, Oct. 4 TABLE

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Shadow of the Century - Fate Core GM: Morgan Ellis

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The Quiet Year - The Quiet Year GM: Dylan Nix

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CAMELOT Trigger: Peril at the Gate - Fate Accelerated GM: Sophie Lagacé

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Dungeon Crawl Classics #77.5 - Tower out of Time - Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG GM: Thom Hall

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Great Lakes of Iowa - Monsterhearts GM: Jackson Tegu

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Day of the Runt - Runequest GM: Dan Pradanamus

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Monsterhearts - Monsterhearts GM: Monte Lin

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S.O.S Deep Space Station: ISS Icarus - Cthulhu Rising GM: Damon Gregory

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Games on Demand - GMs: Justin Evans

Games on Demand - GMs: Justin Evans, Erin Sara Beach-Garcia, and Kevan Forbes

Games on Demand - GMs: Kevan Forbes and Erin Sara Beach-Garcia

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Slave Pits of the Undercity - Dungeon World GM: Adam Koebel

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A Victorian Prometheus - Hazard GM: Daniel Hodges

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Always/Never/Now - Always/Never/Now GM: Lenny Balsera

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Dark Tides from the Devil's Triangle - Fate Core GM: Brian Isikoff

All Hail King Torg! - Kobolds Ate My Baby! GM: David Hamaker

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Thy Will - Unknown Armies GM: Todd Furler

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Rookvale - Rookvale GM: Joe Mcdaldno

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Sirai: Civil War - Custom Morningstar

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Race to Adventure! FATE edition - Fate Core GM: Eric Lytle Creature Creature Features - Monster of the Week GM: Bryan Hitchcock An Excellent Vintage - Fate Accelerated GM: Edmund Metheny Metal Militia - Cloven Hoof * Dominator - Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG GM: Thom Hall A Peaceful Town - Golden Sky Stories GM: Carl Rigney Bacchanal - Bacchanal GM: Kris Miller The Mystery of Black Lake - Trail of Cthulhu GM: William Lee Three Kings - Achtung! Cthulhu GM: Paul "Bezultek" S. The Demon of Ominous Keep - Fate Core GM: Eric Zim

Games on Demand - GMs: Jeremy TIdwell, Erin Sara Beach-Garcia, and Brian Williams

Games on Demand - GMs: Jeremy TIdwell, Erin Sara Beach-Garcia, and Brian Williams

Burning Witches: Heresy & Sand - Burning Wheel GM: Sam Tlustos Witch: The Road to Lindisfarne - Witch: The Road to Lindisfarne GM: Jesse Burneko

The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen GM: David Gallo

The Angels of Salvation - Apocalypse World GM: Michael Garcia

Fiasco: Dallas 63 playset 50th anniversary - Fiasco GM: Chris Bennett

“That’s A Lot Of Paperwork... - Panty Explosion Perfect GM: Ryan Burton” Psychopomp & Circumstance - World of Darkness GM: Ian Grey Iron Road - Apocalypse World GM: Mike Murray Attack Of The GamesWorkshop(R) Trademark Marines - Dreadanoia GM: Duane O’Brien Is A Terrible Idea The Dark Zone - The Sprawl GM: Hamish Cameron The Bunker of Thule - Fate GM: Paul "weregamer" Meyer

m GM: Jason

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Midnight Tribunal - Tribunal GM: Karen Twelves and Daniel Hodges

Manic Pixie Dream Girl/Guy LARP - The Sparkling! - GM: Colin Fahrion Open Gaming

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Queer & Present - Apocalypse World GM: Joe Mcdaldno

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Atomic Robo the Role-Playing Game - Fate Core GM: Morgan Ellis

Race to Adventure! FA

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Operation Reservoir - The Regiment: Colonial Marines GM: Hamish Cameron

Mega Bread, Incorpor Hamaker

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Psi*Run - Psi*Run GM: Dylan Nix

Habemus Papam - Fa

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Thy Will - Unknown Armies GM: Todd Furler

Monster of the Week

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A Game of You - Monsterhearts GM: Carl Rigney

A Butterfly's Dream o

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Sagas of the Icelanders - Sagas of the Icelanders GM: Jason Morningstar

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Fall 1153: Barkstone Fog - Mouse Guard GM: Noam Rosen

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The War Party - Houses of the Blooded GM: Colin Jessup

TABLE 10 Games on Demand - GMs: Sophie Lagacé, Justin Evans, and Kevan Forbes

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Games on Demand - GMs: Sophie Lagacé, Justin Evans, and Kevan Forbes

Games on Demand - GM Dwight Ockert, Monte L Allbee

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ChronoPlus - Cortex Plus GM: Sam "The Moose" Tlustos

The Dreadful Secrets Things GM: Jesse Bur

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Blockbuster Adventures - Primetime Adventures GM: Lenny Balsera

Apocalypse Pony - Ap

The lack of money is the root of all evil - Mutants & Masterminds GM: Rachel Tevlin [ADVENTURE SITE] of the [OMINOUS ADVERSARY] - Dungeon World GM: Andrew Linstrom

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Engaged in Jolly Coop

Snow Trip - Monsterh

Hot Pudding!! - HōL GM: Christopher Ory

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At the Movies - A Pen

A+ In Explosions?! - Panty Explosion Perfect GM: Ryan Burton

Polaris: Chivalric Trag

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Descent into Sendic's Tomb - Torchbearer GM: Shaun Hayworth

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The Millennium City Stalker - Champions 6th Edition GM: Michael S. Ripley

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Pokémon Apokélypse - PDQ GM: Joseph Rossi

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haven't we seen this before? - Dresden Files GM: Mattea Ezgar

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The Quiet Year - The Quiet Year GM: Joe Mcdaldno

Monsterhearts - Mon

He Who Laughs Last - Cthulhu Dark GM: Dave Sokolowski

Steel Horizon: Iron Ro

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"Saturday Morning Heroes & Villains - The Musical Teenagers From Outer Space (modified for LARP) GM: Greg Wirth, Sarah Hawklyn, & Craig Vilbig"

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The Social Wetwork (AGOP) - Hunter: the Vigil GM: Richard Taylor

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ATE edition - Fate Core GM: Eric Lytle

Star Wars: Heroes of the Clone Wars - Fate Core GM: Colin Jessup

rated - Dresden Files RPG GM: David "The Infinite Bob"

Mission Boston - The Regiment (Apocalypse World hack) GM: John Aegard

ate GM: Ezra Denney

The Climb GM: Jason Morningstar

- Monster of the Week GM: John Kim

A Flower For Mara - American Jeepform GM: Jesse Burneko

of Freedom - Tenra Bansho Zero GM: Carl Rigney

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Hot Guys Making Out GM: Ben Lehman

Deep Green - Dread GM: Candace Carpenter

D-Day, the Fifth of June - Godlike GM: Gil Trevizo A Merry Romp through Alpha Complex - Paranoia XP GM: David Hamaker

The Mystery of Black Lake - Trail of Cthulhu GM: William Lee Our Little Town - Nemesis/ORE GM: Matt “Matthulhu” Steele A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Risa - Star Trek (Decipher) GM: Rian McMurtry

Ms: John Aegard, Lin, and Kimmi

Games on Demand - GMs: John Aegard, Dwight Ockert, Monte Lin, and Kimmi Allbee

Games on Demand - GMs: Joseph Rossi, Kimmi Allbee, and Monte Lin

Games on Demand - GMs: Joseph Rossi, Kimmi Allbee, and Monte Lin

of Candlewick Manor - Monsters and Other Childish rneko

Final Fantasy CorTactics - Cortex Plus GM: Sam "The Moose" Tlustos

pocalypse World GM: Edmund Metheny

Colony Wars: We've Lost Contact with Epsilon-3... - Drama System GM: Sophie Lagacé

peration - Torchbearer GM: Adam Koebel

Faith - Faith GM: Daniel Hodges

hearts GM: Alan Hodges

[ADVENTURE SITE] of the [OMINOUS ADVERSARY] - Dungeon World GM: Andrew Linstrom

nny For My Thoughts GM: Morgan Hua

The Demon of Ominous Keep - Fate Core GM: Eric Zim

gedty at the Utmost North - GM: Ben Lehman

Fiasco! - Fiasco GM: Colin Fahrion

In the House of Faceless Men - Numenera GM: Ian Grey

Hell Rides For Delamar - Boneslingers GM: Duane O'Brien Is A Terrible Idea

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Lost in the World - Deadlands Classic GM: Mattea Ezgar

nsterhearts GM: Joe Mcdaldno

The Play's the Thing - The Play's the Thing GM: John Kim

oad Part II - Apocalypse World GM: Scott White

Into The Woods - A Penny For My Thoughts GM: Lalita Devi

amers - Workshop GM: Mia Blankensop and Karen Twelves

“The Vault Beneath Haida Gwaii - Renegade Jennys and Boilerplate Jacks (LARP Playtest) GM: Josh Roby”

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Fallen Sons - Unknown Armies GM: Todd Furler

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S.O.S Deep Space Station: ISS Icarus - Cthulhu Rising GM: Damon Gregory

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Mass Effect: Head to Head - Savage Worlds GM: Sam Hock and Justin Rhodes

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Struggle for Moonbase Alpha - Fate Core GM: Brian Isikoff Live Freeside or Die. A Fallout: New Vegas Game - Apocalypse World GM: Michael Garcia Into the Lion's Den - Lacuna Part 1: The Creation of the Mystery and the Girl from Blue City GM: Colin Fahrion Sagas of the Icelanders - Sagas of the Icelanders GM: Jason Morningstar The Big Party - Monsterhearts GM: Carl Rigney

Boots on the Ground - Twilight 2000 GM: Dennis Jordan

TABLE 10 Games on Demand - GMs: Jeremy TIdwell, Edmund Metheny, and Adam Koebel

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Games on Demand - GMs: Jeremy TIdwell, Edmund Metheny, and Adam Koebel

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White Hole - Fiasco GM: Mike Murray

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Big Bad B-Movie - Microscope GM: Lalita Devi

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Savage Shadowrun - Savage Worlds GM: Eric Ullman

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The Red Plague - World Of Dungeons GM: Noam Rosen

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Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire - Mage: The Ascension GM: David "The Infinite Bob" Hamaker

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(Reluctantly) Bound for Adventure! - Hirelings GM: Dylan Nix

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Into the Deep, Dark Woods - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition GM: Rian McMurtry

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Lotus Blossom's Bridal Path - Tenra Bansho Zero GM: Shaun Hayworth

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Deeds and Doers GM: Ben Lehman

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Silver & White - Silver & White GM: Joe Mcdaldno

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Another - Monsterhearts GM: Scott White

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Murder on the Western Express - GM Fiat / rumor mill GM: Mae Linh Fatum, Jarys Maragopol

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Emerging Threats Unit - Emerging Threats Unit GM: Mike Bogan Wolf Chase 2013

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Take Back the Void! - Fate Core GM: Edmund Metheny

The Only Good Bug is a Dead Bug! - Nemesis/ORE GM: Morgan Hua Ribbon Drive - Ribbon Drive GM: Joe Mcdaldno One Summer Evening - Golden Sky Stories GM: Carl Rigney Detour to Mars - The Void GM: Matt "Matthulhu" Steele The Cattlegrind (AGOP) - Hunter: the Vigil GM: Richard Taylor Chaos Strikes Back! - Runequest GM: Dan Pradanamus

Games on Demand - GMs: Brian Williams, Hamish Cameron, and Adam Koebel

Games on Demand - GMs: Brian Williams, Hamish Cameron, and Adam Koebel

Spookybeans - Spookybeans GM: Jesse Burneko Into the Aether - BRP GM: Dwight Ockert Jack and the Beanstalk - Numenera GM: Eric Ullman

Big Bad GM - Fate GM: Big Bad Contestants!

OPEN The Mines of Moria - Dungeons and Dragons 3. GM: David “The Infinite Bob” Hamaker

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All Night Coffee - Monsterhearts GM: Jackson Tegu On this benighted Earth... - Mutants & Masterminds GM: Rachel Tevlin

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The Third Dream Gate - Cthulhu Live GM: Jim Sullivan and Kimmi Allbee Open Gaming

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OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 15

Games Friday 10/4 GAMES ON DEMAND

GM GM

DATE 10/4/13

START 1:00 PM END 5:00 PM

SYSTEM By GM

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS By Game

PLAYERS Varies ROOM Boardroom II

MATURITY RATING TABLE Varies

DESCRIPTION Games on Demand is an area with tables, materials, and GMs prepared to run a variety of games just as soon as you can present them with a group of players who are interested in playing them! Just come by 15 minutes before games start and sign up.

S.O.S DEEP SPACE STATION: ISS ICARUS

GM Damon Gregory

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Cthulhu Rising

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 6

CHARACTERS Provided

ROOM 5109

MATURITY RATING Horror with blood and violence TABLE 9

DESCRIPTION First Responder team “Hamilton’s Heroes” has received a distress call from the ISS Icarus-space pirates. As the team prepares for boarding, a thought, unspoken but shared by all, quiets the ship. Please let there be survivors...this time.

A VICTORIAN PROMETHEUS

GM Daniel Hodges

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Hazard

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS Provided

PLAYERS 6 ROOM Boardroom III

MATURITY RATING TABLE 15

DESCRIPTION Pressing a note into your hand, a breathless messenger sets in motion a series of events that begin with a missing child and end with a descent into madness.

ALWAYS/NEVER/NOW

GM Lenny Balsera

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Always/Never/Now


PLAYERS 4 ROOM Boardroom IV

MATURITY RATING Hard “R” TABLE 18

DESCRIPTION You were the best. Underground, cyberpunk street samurai, agents of a mysterious spymaster with half a name, zero history, and a plan. You always won, never quit, lived in the now. 11 years ago he disappeared. Now he’s back and in trouble.

CAMELOT TRIGGER: PERIL AT THE GATE

GM Sophie Lagacé

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Fate Accelerated

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS Created in play

PLAYERS 5 ROOM 5103

MATURITY RATING All ages TABLE 3

DESCRIPTION “CAMELOT Trigger” is Rob Wieland’s anime Arthurian Myth setting played out across the Solar System in Big Stompy Robots. This version is streamlined to use FAE instead of Fate Core in order to provide faster convention setup. 16

PROGRAM

DARK TIDES FROM THE DEVIL’S TRIANGLE

GM Brian Isikoff

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Fate Core

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS Provided, completed in play.

PLAYERS 5

MATURITY RATING PG-13

ROOM Boardroom IV

TABLE 19

DESCRIPTION For you and your shipmates, piracy is a means to an end, and that end is killing the supernatural. When rumors of rising darkness from the Devil’s Triangle reach your ears, you set sail with a mind to make some trouble for evil.

DAY OF THE RUNT

GM Dan Pradanamus

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Runequest


PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5106

MATURITY RATING PG-13 TABLE 6

DESCRIPTION While all the other runts were cooking, cleaning, getting beaten and/or eaten by the big UZ, Bugdoctor Zais protected you, made you untouchable in the tribe. He said you were gifted, “special runts.” Maybe it’s time to use all that learnin’.

DUNGEON CRAWL CLASSICS #77.5 - TOWER OUT OF TIME

GM Thom Hall

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 6

MATURITY RATING Adult themes

CHARACTERS Created at table

ROOM 5104

TABLE 4

DESCRIPTION From out of the past comes an ancient evil! A mystifying tower crowned by a blinding blood-red light has appeared in the forest, arriving as a never-before-seen comet burns in the sky above. Is its arrival a harbinger of terrible times ahead?

GAMES ON DEMAND

GM GM

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM By GM





GREAT LAKES OF IOWA

GM Jackson Tegu

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Monsterhearts

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 4

MATURITY RATING


ROOM 5105

TABLE 5

DESCRIPTION Out in the Great Lakes, it won’t be the minigolf that gets your attention, or the 50’s diner. It’ll be those other kids that seem a little bit like you. This summer, much more will be explored than the amusement park or docks along the lakeside. OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 17

MONSTERHEARTS

GM Monte Lin

DATE 10/4/13



GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 4

MATURITY RATING Mature themes


ROOM 5107

TABLE 7

DESCRIPTION High school sucks. Your feelings are out of control, you’re treated with indifference at best, with scorn at worst. But you aren’t like the others. You have power. If others found out, you’d be feared, hated, or destroyed. And you still can’t find a date to the dance.

ROOKVALE

GM Joe Mcdaldno

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Rookvale

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 4

MATURITY RATING


ROOM Forum Room

TABLE 25

DESCRIPTION Rookvale is beset by demons. You’re one of the ragtag groups of adventurers, mages, and outcasts tasked with driving them out of our homeland and defeating the Demon Princes. To defeat demons, one must control demons.

SHADOW OF THE CENTURY

GM Morgan Ellis

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Fate Core

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 4



ROOM 5101

TABLE 1

DESCRIPTION It’s 1984 and the Shadows have won. The Century Club has been disbanded; those Centurions and Spirits who are still active are hunted by the authorities. But in there place a New Wave of Heroes has risen up to defy the power of the Shadows.

SLAVE PITS OF THE UNDERCITY

GM Adam Koebel

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Dungeon World

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 5

MATURITY RATING


ROOM Boardroom III

TABLE 14

DESCRIPTION For several years, bands of pirates and slavers have raided the coastal towns on the Sea of Gearnat. The local lords are finally taking action, forgetting their petty squabbles to unite against the marauders of the yellow sails!

THE QUIET YEAR

GM Dylan Nix

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM The Quiet Year

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS N/A

PLAYERS 3 ROOM 5102


DESCRIPTION We’ve driven off The Jackals and are left with one quiet year to build up our community. Come Winter, the Frost Shepherds will arrive and we might not survive. What we know is that right now, in this moment, there is opportunity. 18

PROGRAM

THY WILL

GM Todd Furler

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Unknown Armies


PLAYERS 6 ROOM Forum Room


DESCRIPTION Some murders make you question the killer’s humanity. Others make you question his sanity. This murder will make you question everything you’ve ever believed.

GM David “The Infinite Bob” Hamaker

ALL HAIL KING TORG! DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Kobolds Ate My Baby!

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS No need



DESCRIPTION King Torg (All Hail King Torg!) needs you--yes, you--to go out to the nearby human town and bring back the freshest, tastiest, plumpest human babies you can find--or the King will be eating you (and Kobold’s pretty darn tasty)!

SIRAI: CIVIL WAR

GM Jason Morningstar

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Custom

GAME TYPE LARP CHARACTERS Provided

PLAYERS 16 ROOM Boardroom V

MATURITY RATING Mature themes TABLE LARP

DESCRIPTION Sirai is poised to explode into war, and six factions want to either prevent it or profit from it. Offworld peacekeepers stand between the government and the well-armed rebels. Business interests seek common ground with religious factions.

ATTACK OF THE GAMESWORKSHOP(R) TRADEMARK MARINES

GM Duane O’Brien Is A Terrible Idea

DATE 10/4/13

START 7:00 PM END 1:00 AM

SYSTEM Dreadanoia




DESCRIPTION You and your fellow troubleshooters thought you were onto something when you created Loyal Alpha Complex Space Marines In Space. This rec activity would bring joy to all the citizens of Alpha Complex. Then the Trademark Marines showed up.

CREATURE FEATURES

GM Bryan Hitchcock

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Monster of the Week


PLAYERS 5 ROOM 5102


DESCRIPTION A bloody good time for five awesome monster slayers. Solve a mystery, uncover a monster, slay it. Warning: Creativity required. Laughter and Funny Voices may be involved. Use with caution. OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 19

IRON ROAD

GM Mike Murray

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Apocalypse World

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 6

MATURITY RATING Adult Themes


ROOM Forum Room

TABLE 23

DESCRIPTION When the world caught fire, we got dirty black rain, gritty dust, and that damn Fire. We started working on that old rusty steam engine to leave it all behind. Now, a white plume of steam is an unintended signal to everyone for miles around.

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE

GM Ian Grey

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM World of Darkness




DESCRIPTION Welcome to Point Pleasant, West Virginia. A nice place to visit. But lately strangers have been showing up, and strange things are happenings. Funny lights, black-tinted windows on black sedans, people missing time, unbelievable things!

GM Paul “weregamer” Meyer

THE BUNKER OF THULE DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Fate



MATURITY RATING PG TABLE 26

DESCRIPTION A strike team composed of commandos, resistance members, and “special consultants” (the only ones who know the mystic truth) invades Nazi Germany to loot and destroy an ultrasecret bunker.

THE MYSTERY OF BLACK LAKE

GM William Lee

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Trail of Cthulhu


PLAYERS 5 ROOM 5107

MATURITY RATING Adult Themes TABLE 7

DESCRIPTION Nestled among the redwoods in coastal Northern California, the town of Black Lake is quiet, friendly, scenic, and an all-around nice place to live. But after the earthquake, things in Black Lake don’t seem quite right...

THREE KINGS

GM Paul “Bezultek” S.

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Achtung! Cthulhu


PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5108


DESCRIPTION 1939. The Nazis occupy Czechoslovakia. You, and other members of the British intelligence service Section D, will parachute into Czechoslovakia. Your mission is to contact the Three Kings, leaders of the Czech resistance movement.

A PEACEFUL TOWN

GM Carl Rigney

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Golden Sky Stories

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 4

MATURITY RATING All Ages


ROOM 5105

TABLE 5

DESCRIPTION Animals with enough magic to make themselves look human (more or less) and do a few tricks live quietly alongside humans in a small rural town. There are many RPGs where you can solve problems with violence. This is not one of them. 20

PROGRAM

AN EXCELLENT VINTAGE

GM Edmund Metheny

DATE 10/4/13

START 8:00 PM END Midnight

SYSTEM Fate Accelerated


PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5103


DESCRIPTION August, 1916. Somewhere over the Alps, six brave men and women leap into the darkness with one goal in mind - to capture or destroy a bottle of wine over 1500 years old, and prevent the Kaiser’s chemists from destroying France’s wine supply.

BACCHANAL

GM Kris Miller

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Bacchanal


PLAYERS 5 ROOM 5106

MATURITY RATING Mature TABLE 6

DESCRIPTION In the south of Rome, 61 AD, the city plays unexpected host to the god Bacchus and its citizens are caught up in the madness of wine. Your plans for a hasty departure are lost to this decadence which separates you from your traveling companion.

BURNING WITCHES: HERESY & SAND

GM Sam Tlustos

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Burning Wheel



MATURITY RATING Mature themes TABLE 14

DESCRIPTION The Kaldi act as judge, tribunal, and Reckoning of the Imani people. Rumors of sorcery, murder, and giant spiders are afoot. Will you take up the White and bring salvation to the village, be it through justice or cleansing fire?

FIASCO: DALLAS 63 PLAYSET 50TH ANNIVERSARY

GM Chris Bennett

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Fiasco



MATURITY RATING TABLE

DESCRIPTION November 22, 1963. The President is coming to Dallas, although he really shouldn’t. And for a group of people with boundless ambition and poor judgement, you could run quite a scheme while everyone else is paying attention to JFK’s visit.

GAMES ON DEMAND

GM GM

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM By GM



MATURITY RATING TABLE 10/13/13


METAL MILITIA - CLOVEN HOOF * DOMINATOR

GM Thom Hall

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS Created at table

PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5104

MATURITY RATING Adult themes TABLE 4

DESCRIPTION Heavy Metal inspired DCC RPG! Episode 1 - Cloven Hoof * Dominator. Each encounter is inspired by tracks on the album and you can expect all sorts of corruptive behavior. \m/ \m/ OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 21 Characters off in the slammer, like many rock videos.

QUEER & PRESENT

GM Joe Mcdaldno

DATE 10/4/13




PLAYERS 4 ROOM 1121


DESCRIPTION The year is 2014. Depending on who you are, the apocalypse has already happened. This game explores liminal spaces: between genders, homes, economies, between society and its total collapse. What do you do when you’ve fallen outside the borders of civilization?

RACE TO ADVENTURE! FATE EDITION

GM Eric Lytle

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Fate Core


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5101


DESCRIPTION Do you want to travel the world? Battle pulp villians? Find Ancient Atlantean artifacts? Then this game is for you. You’ll play as heroes from The Spirit of the Century universe as they travel the globe on a scavenger hunt for adventure.

THAT’S A LOT OF PAPERWORK...

GM Ryan Burton

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Panty Explosion Perfect

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 5

MATURITY RATING PG-13 and Higher, depending on players

CHARACTERS Created In Game

ROOM Forum Room

TABLE 21

DESCRIPTION As a Field Agent at the secret spy organization I.S.I.S., you were told that you had won an expensive trip to a luxury resort! A weekend of relaxation and calm... There’s just one catch.

THE ANGELS OF SALVATION

GM Michael Garcia

DATE 10/4/13






DESCRIPTION On a 500 mile trek across the Wasteland your caravan is hit by a dust storm. Your engine stalls, the sun is blotted out. In the howling darkness, monsters pounce upon your loved ones, their screams lost in the wind. These are the Angels.

THE DARK ZONE

GM Hamish Cameron

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM The Sprawl




DESCRIPTION We call it The Slice because it’s the sharp end of the bleeding edge. The corporations call it the Dark Zone because they don’t enter it, don’t control it, can’t see inside. You carry the law with you in the Slice. That’s where he is, for sure.

THE DEMON OF OMINOUS KEEP

GM Eric Zim

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Fate Core


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5109


DESCRIPTION Wanted: 1d4 Adventurers to assist in removing every valuable from Ominous Keep. Be prepared to “deal with” current residents. Shares = even split. If interested in Adventuring Party, meet at Pink Pony Tavern. NO DRUIDS OR RHINOMANCERS! 22

PROGRAM

WITCH: THE ROAD TO LINDISFARNE

GM Jesse Burneko

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Wi




DESCRIPTION A woman has been taken prisoner by the Church after confessing the use of Witchcraft to bring the blight upon us. The woman must be taken in a caged cart to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. This is the story of that journey.

MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL/GUY LARP - THE SPARKLING!

GM Colin Fahrion

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM Manic Pixie Dream Girl/ Guy LARP

GAME TYPE LARP CHARACTERS Created in play


MATURITY RATING All ages TABLE LARP

DESCRIPTION In the Pixieverse, Manic Pixie Dream Girls/Guys are special people in touch with the magic of everyday fun. There are many wondrous classes of MDPG, from Sparkle Summonor to Mystic Dancer to Cat Whisperer!

GM Karen Twelves and Daniel Hodges

MIDNIGHT TRIBUNAL DATE 10/4/13

START Midnight END 2:00 AM

SYSTEM Tribunal



MATURITY RATING Mature TABLE LARP

DESCRIPTION Two soldiers from your unit have been charged with stealing bread. If found guilty, they will be shot. You know they are innocent. Each of you will face the judges alone, not knowing what the others will say. You need to discuss and deal now.

THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN

GM David Gallo

DATE 10/4/13


SYSTEM The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS Generated upon arrival

PLAYERS 16

MATURITY RATING Adult themes

ROOM 5105

TABLE 5

DESCRIPTION I had just escaped from a dumbwaiter after 18 hours trapped with the Duke of Portland when we were beset by thirsty savages. Down to my last dram of scotch, I decided to regale them with the tale of when I was visiting Morocco with Marco Polo...

Saturday 10/5 DESCENT INTO SENDIC’S TOMB

GM Shaun Hayworth

DATE 10/5/13

START 9:00 AM END 3:00 PM

SYSTEM Torchbearer

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 5

CHARACTERS Provided

ROOM Forum Room

MATURITY RATING Graphic Violence TABLE 21

DESCRIPTION The tomb of the Dwarven hero, Sendic Ironkeg, is rumored to be the resting place of both the warrior’s bones and his legendary jeweled shield. Such an artifact would command a great price to the right buyer, if it could be found. OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 23

HAVEN’T WE SEEN THIS BEFORE?

GM Mattea Ezgar

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Dresden Files



MATURITY RATING Gore TABLE 24

DESCRIPTION You and your confidants managed to save San Francisco from being sucked into oblivion. Now, another dead body has brought the SFPD to your doorstep. Has this nightmare come back to haunt you or is this a new horror altogether?

HE WHO LAUGHS LAST

GM Dave Sokolowski

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Cthulhu Dark




DESCRIPTION Hollywood - Your friend Becca’s tragic suicide has brought you together, but still doesn’t make sense. Perhaps her job as a personal assistant to a wildly successful comedian is related?

HOT PUDDING!!

GM Christopher Ory

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM HË∫∫ L




DESCRIPTION You have your fudge dice, your tooth caps, and your cool fez, but you still don’t quite understand why, with all the locales in the Confederation of Worlds, Imperial Con-Sultan, Sean Nittner XLVII chose to hold Bic Bad Con 8975 on HË∫∫ L.

POKÉMON APOKÉLYPSE

GM Joseph Rossi

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM PDQ

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS #VALUE!



DESCRIPTION In the world of Pokemon, battling is illegal, the economy has tanked. Team Rocket is now Rocket Industries and owns almost everything. Professer Oak has diasppeared. Can Ash, Misty, Brock, and Gary Oak find him and stop Rocket Industries?

SATURDAY MORNING HEROES & VILLAINS THE MUSICAL

GM Greg Wirth, Sarah Hawklyn, & Craig Vilbig

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Teenagers From Outer Space (modified for LARP)



MATURITY RATING Not Much TABLE LARP

DESCRIPTION Our Teenage Heroes face off against some truly Evil Bad Guys. Schticks include air guitar, dancing, posing in heroic stances, poetry readings, big messy fights, piloting flying saucers, weird science, nosy reporters, and singing!

THE MILLENNIUM CITY STALKER

GM Michael S. Ripley

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Champions 6th Edition



MATURITY RATING Mature Themes TABLE 22

DESCRIPTION Being a super-hero crime fighter has its perks. Most criminals just throw down their weapons and surrender rather than face your awesome power. But something is lurking late at night on the streets of Millennium City that will test even you. 24

PROGRAM

THE SOCIAL WETWORK (AGOP)

GM Richard Taylor

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Hun


PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5108


DESCRIPTION In the past week, three people have been killed while alone in their homes. The cause of death was electrocution. The circumstances are too similar and too mysterious to be mundane.

[ADVENTURE SITE] OF THE [OMINOUS ADVERSARY]

GM Andrew Linstrom

DATE 10/5/13



GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 5

CHARACTERS Created in play

ROOM Boardroom IV

MATURITY RATING Graphic Violence, PG-13 TABLE 17

DESCRIPTION Glory and gold await in the dungeon, guarded by magic and monsters and worse. It will take a band of hard-hitting heroes to win it by spell and blade and guile.

A GAME OF YOU

GM Carl Rigney

DATE 10/5/13




PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5105


DESCRIPTION Monsterhearts is an RPG about small town teens and monsters playing with each others’ hearts and bodies, inspired by things like Vampire Diaries, Ginger Snaps, True Blood, and Twilight.

A+ IN EXPLOSIONS?!

GM Ryan Burton

DATE 10/5/13


GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 5

CHARACTERS Created In Game

ROOM Boardroom IV

SYSTEM Panty Explosion Perfect MATURITY RATING G to R, depending on players. TABLE 19

DESCRIPTION You and your friends have been feeling a little weird lately. You may be getting mutant powers! Two places want you to study with them to better understand your powers and place in the world. But which one offers the better Spring Break?

ATOMIC ROBO THE ROLEPLAYING GAME

GM Morgan Ellis

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Fate Core


PLAYERS 5 ROOM 5101


DESCRIPTION In 1923 Nikola Tesla unveiled The Atomic Robot. After nearly a century, you too can join Atomic Robo and the Action Scientist of Tesladyne as they explore strange scientific phenomena around the world. Action! Intrigue! Banter! Science!

BLOCKBUSTER ADVENTURES

GM Leonard Balsera

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Primetime Adventures




DESCRIPTION Make the greatest Hollywood movie that never was. Anything you’ve ever dreamed of seeing is possible - fantasy romance on strange planets? Zombie apocalypse in Biblical times? A comedy of errors in the cyberpunk future? Done. OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 25

GM Sam “The Moose” Tlustos

CHRONOPLUS DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Cortex Plus




DESCRIPTION The Heroes of Time have returned to their lives after stopping the world ending calamity known as Lavos. But not all is well. Guardia, 1004 A.D. The township of Porre is up to some unusual activity. Could this spell the end of peace in Guardia?

FALL 1153: BARKSTONE FOG

GM Noam Rosen

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Mouse Guard

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 4

MATURITY RATING Gore, Graphic Violence

CHARACTERS Provided, completed in play.

ROOM 5107

TABLE 7

DESCRIPTION The village of Barkstone has prospered over the past year, largely thanks to the Guards’ increased “care and attention.” But in recent weeks, mice have gone missing and villagers speak of hearing wailing in the night...

GAMES ON DEMAND

GM GM

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM By GM





OPERATION RESERVOIR

GM Hamish Cameron

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM The Regim


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5102


DESCRIPTION Flight leader, this is your Forward Air Controller. Your first target is a blockhouse, target number 11 at the north-east corner of the combat zone, request antimatter. Transmitting coordinates. Antimatter drop in 40... mark.

PSI*RUN

GM Dylan Nix

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Psi*Run


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5103


DESCRIPTION They will stop at nothing to capture you. You’ll stop at nothing to stay free. Stay one step ahead of the Chasers long enough to fill in the holes in your memory, and hope your startling psychic powers don’t go wild. Run!

SAGAS OF THE ICELANDERS


DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Sagas of the Icelanders


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5106


DESCRIPTION Powered by the Apocalypse World engine, Sagas of the Icelanders brings all the blood and thunder of 10th century Vikings to the table in a freezing deluge of pure awesome. For mature players. 26

PROGRAM

THE LACK OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL

GM Rachel Tevlin

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Mutants & Masterminds




DESCRIPTION Your unique abilities are needed on a mission of utmost importance. It is too late to change the history of your world, but there is a world where Nihar Patel has not risen to power. You can still save at least one world from this tyrant.

THE QUIET YEAR

GM Joe Mcdaldno

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM The Quiet Year

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS None Needed



DESCRIPTION We’ve driven off The Jackals and are left with one quiet year to build up our community. Come Winter, the Frost Shepherds will arrive and we might not survive. What we know is that right now, in this moment, there is opportunity.

THE WAR PARTY

GM Colin Jessup

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Houses of the Blooded


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5109


DESCRIPTION On the eve before a secret and illegal war of Unsanctioned Revenge breaks out between two Dukes, both sides have come together for a party. Tonight is the time for wine, romance, changing sides and settling debts for tomorrow all may be lost.

THY WILL

GM Todd Furler

DATE 10/5/13




PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5104


DESCRIPTION Some murders make you question the killer’s humanity. Others make you question his sanity. This murder will make you question everything you’ve ever believed.

A BUTTERFLY’S DREAM OF FREEDOM

GM Carl Rigney

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Tenra Bansho Zero


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5105


DESCRIPTION In a land torn apart by centuries of war, sinister forces have stolen the plot description and four loners, tough and cool, must band together to overcome the dark fates hidden within their hearts to find victory, and perhaps friendship.

APOCALYPSE PONY

GM Edmund Metheny

DATE 10/5/13






DESCRIPTION Celestia is dead. The sun doesn’t rise. Nobody plants the crops. Nobody harvests the food. Ponyville is a wasteland. Canterlot is a breeding pit for unremitting horror. A nightmare moon hangs in the sky. Friendship is hard. So is survival. OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 27

AT THE MOVIES

GM Morgan Hua

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM A Penny For My Thoughts




DESCRIPTION Players will pick a movie that they haven’t seen yet, but have seen the trailer. We’ll improv our way through our own version of that movie.

ENGAGED IN JOLLY COOPERATION

GM Adam Koebel

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Torchbearer




DESCRIPTION Adventurer is a dirty word. We’re scoundrels, villains, cutthroats. Cash flows out of our hands as easily as the blood from our wounds. But at least it’s our life. And if we’re lucky, smart, and stubborn, we might come out on top.

GAMES ON DEMAND

GM GM

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM By GM





HABEMUS PAPAM

GM Ezra Denney

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Fate


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5103


DESCRIPTION The pope is dead. A new pope must be chosen. The Cardinals have all been sequestered until the ceremonial declaration “Habemus Papam” (We have a Pope) can be made. But is being Pope a job worth killing for?

MEGA BREAD, INCORPORATED


DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Dresden Files RPG

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 6

CHARACTERS Provided

ROOM 5102

MATURITY RATING Graphic Violence TABLE 2

DESCRIPTION Why does a bread company need a full time guard and razor wire around the building? *This modern faerie tale will explore dark themes.

MONSTER OF THE WEEK

GM John Kim

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Monster of the Week


PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5104


DESCRIPTION Create a series about monster hunters in the style of Supernatural or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Pick playbooks like the Chosen, the Initiate, or the Professional, we’ll create the setting and situation for a premiere of a series. 28

PROGRAM

MONSTERHEARTS

GM Joe Mcdaldno

DATE 10/5/13






DESCRIPTION Create stories about sexy monsters, teenage angst, personal horror, and secret love triangles. Explore the terror and confusion that comes both with growing up and feeling like a monster.

POLARIS: CHIVALRIC TRAGEDY AT UTMOST NORTH

GM Ben Lehman

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Polaris




DESCRIPTION Once upon a time, as far north as north can go, there lived the greatest people this world will ever see. They are gone now, destroyed just as the world destroys all beautiful things. All that remains are these moments we call memories, moments frozen from the flow of time.

RACE TO ADVENTURE! FATE EDITION

GM Eric Lytle

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Fate Core


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5101


DESCRIPTION Do you want to travel the world? Battle pulp villians? Find Ancient Atlantean artifacts? Then this game is for you. You’ll play as heroes from The Spirit of the Century universe as they travel the globe on a scavenger hunt for adventure.

SNOW TRIP

GM Alan Hodges

DATE 10/5/13





MATURITY RATING Adult TABLE 17

DESCRIPTION The terror and confusion of growing up feeling like a monster will soon come to a head: the high school snow trip. You had something to do with what happened last time. The chaperones are looking out for whatever dirty deeds you have in mind now.

STEEL HORIZON: IRON ROAD PART II

GM Scott White

DATE 10/5/13






DESCRIPTION The old-timers warn you that the old bridge is a deathtrap, quarter mile long and over three hundred feet high. If it can bear the weight of this old steam engine, maybe you’ll live to see the promised land on the other side.

THE DREADFUL SECRETS OF CANDLEWICK MANOR

GM Jesse Burneko

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Monsters and Other Childish Things




DESCRIPTION The Dreadful Secrets of Candlewick Manor sees doleful foundlings with murky pasts in a great, dreary orphanage filled with dangerous truths. Players must face the monstrous dangers of their new home and uncover their own forgotten secrets. OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 29

GM Mia Blankensop and Karen Twelves

IMPROV FOR GAMERS DATE 10/5/13

START 3:30 PM END 19:30:00

SYSTEM Workshop

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS Welcome!



DESCRIPTION Improv theater teaches many skills that can make your game rock: collaboration, embracing failure, and taking risks. This workshop highlights those skills (and more!) as they apply to role-playing games. Beginners welcome!

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO RISA

GM Rian McMurtry

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Star Trek (Decipher)


PLAYERS 8 ROOM 5109


DESCRIPTION Your first leave! The new ensigns from the Galaxy-Class USS Beagle are taking the runabout from Starbase 542 to Risa, home to the greatest resorts in the Federation. Then comes the coded message to “All Starfleet ships” in your sector...

D-DAY, THE FIFTH OF JUNE

GM Gil Trevizo

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Godlike


PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5106


DESCRIPTION June 5, 1944: This day the soldiers of the First United States Army Group set upon a mighty endeavor to storm the beaches of Calais, liberate occupied France from the yoke of Nazi tyranny, and begin the Allied invasion of Western Europe.

HELL RIDES FOR DELAMAR

GM Duane O’Brien Is A Terrible Idea

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Boneslingers




DESCRIPTION Getting by as an undead gunslinger is tough. You hope this job in Delamar will give you a chance to lift your burden. It’s time to kill some bad men.

IN THE HOUSE OF FACELESS MEN

GM Ian Grey

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Numenera




DESCRIPTION Beyond the Vale of Midnight Stars, in the realm of the Floating Island, sits the Lonely House of the Faceless Men. No one who visits comes back willing to divulge of what they have seen, though some scream at night of nameless colors... 30

PROGRAM

LOST IN THE WORLD

GM Mattea Ezgar

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Deadlands Classic



MATURITY RATING Gore TABLE 24

DESCRIPTION Can you find out why people are suddenly disappearing? Can you bring them home or at least their bodies? Can you bring peace to their families and their town? Can you rest knowing that you you put evil in its place?

GM Matt “Matthulhu” Steele

OUR LITTLE TOWN DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Nemesis/ORE


PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5108


DESCRIPTION You wake up in a quaint hotel in a quaint little town. You don’t remember checking into the hotel. You’re trying to recall what happened before you arrived here. Hey, why is the door locked? Is there anybody out there? Hello?

THE MYSTERY OF BLACK LAKE

GM William Lee

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Trail of Cthulhu


PLAYERS 5 ROOM 5107


DESCRIPTION Nestled among the redwoods in coastal Northern California, the town of Black Lake is quiet, friendly, scenic, and an all-around nice place to live. But after the earthquake, things in Black Lake don’t seem quite right...

[ADVENTURE SITE] OF THE [OMINOUS ADVERSARY]

GM Andrew Linstrom

DATE 10/5/13



GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 5


ROOM Boardroom IV

MATURITY RATING Graphic Violence, PG-13 TABLE 17

DESCRIPTION Glory and gold await in the dungeon, guarded by magic and monsters and worse. It will take a band of hard-hitting heroes to win it by spell and blade and guile.

A FLOWER FOR MARA

GM Jesse Burneko

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM American Jeepform


PLAYERS 7 ROOM 5104


DESCRIPTION The immediate family of Mara, a woman who has died unexpectedly, struggles through the first year after her death. Will they lay aside their grief, or will they be trapped by their sorrow, unable to move forward?

COLONY WARS: WE’VE LOST CONTACT WITH EPSILON-3...

GM Sophie Lagacé

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Drama System




DESCRIPTION Are you the last best hope for peace? The setting designed by Emily Care Boss for Robin Laws’ Drama System takes us to Jupiter and Mars, as humanity expands through the solar system in “Colony Wars.” OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 31

DEEP GREEN

GM Candace Carpenter

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Dread


PLAYERS 5 ROOM 5105


DESCRIPTION As the skeleton crew on an oil platform, you’ll keep it running while the rest of the crew evacuates to avoid an oncoming hurricane. Strange readings are coming from the sea floor, where the you’re testing a new and highly experimental drill.

FAITH

GM Daniel Hodges

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Faith




DESCRIPTION 1 biological weapon. 4 people at a crossroads. 8 million reasons someone’s about to have a very bad day. Forget politeness and good manners, there’s no honour amongst thieves.

FIASCO!

GM Colin Fahrion

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Fiasco




DESCRIPTION Fiasco is a game of powerful ambition and poor impulse control. There will be big dreams and flawed execution, small time capers gone disastrously wrong in a glorious heap of treachery, failure, jealousy, murder, and recrimination.

FINAL FANTASY CORTACTICS

GM Sam “The Moose” Tlustos

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Cortex Plus




DESCRIPTION With the Queen dead, the King bedridden, and no heir, strife engulfs the country of Ivalice. The Death Corps rises again. The Glabados Church plots and schemes. And a scholar finishes a book that could ignite the flames of War once again.

GAMES ON DEMAND

GM GM

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM By GM





INTO THE WOODS

GM Lalita Devi

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM A Penny For My Thoughts




DESCRIPTION Practically a Big Bad Con tradition at this point, the fairy godmother beckons you to come Into The Woods. In the deep dark woods, there are stories of true love, wealth, magic, fame, power... But also loss, betrayal, pain, and death. 32

PROGRAM

MISSION BOSTON

GM John Aegard

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM The Regiment (Apocalypse World hack)


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5102


DESCRIPTION It’s the eve of D-Day. Your team is jumping out of a transport plane into Normandy to raise hell inland so the Germans can’t counterattack against the Allied divisions that will hit the beach at dawn. Your gear is 100lbs. It’s your first jump.

STAR WARS: HEROES OF THE CLONE WARS

GM Colin Jessup

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Fate Core


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5101


DESCRIPTION A game of mighty wushu Jedi Knights fighting for the Old Republic in the Clone Wars. Over the top lightsaber high action powered by Fate Core.

THE CLIMB


DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Custom


PLAYERS 5 ROOM 5103


DESCRIPTION Six climbers are on an illegal expedition in Bhutan. They are close to the summit, but only three will ascend - who stays and who goes? The Climb is a structured freeform LARP in the Nordic tradition.

THE DEMON OF OMINOUS KEEP

GM Eric Zim

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Fate Core




DESCRIPTION Wanted: 1d4 Adventurers to assist in removing every valuable from Ominous Keep. Be prepared to “deal with” current residents. Shares = even split. If interested in Adventuring Party, meet at Pink Pony Tavern. NO DRUIDS OR RHINOMANCERS!

THE PLAY’S THE THING

GM John Kim

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM The Play’s the Thing




DESCRIPTION Create actors with types like the Lead, the Ham, or the Ingenue; bid on the parts in a Shakespearean play; then rewrite the roles you’ve been given. Everyone plays their parts, while dealing with everyone’s changes made to the story.

THE VAULT BENEATH HAIDA GWAII

GM Josh Roby

DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Renegade Jennys and Boilerplate Jacks (LARP Playtest)



MATURITY RATING TABLE LARP

DESCRIPTION Notorious sky pirate Reginald Black has the coordinates of an Atlantean Vault. He’s gathered all the scoundrels of the World Atlantis Broke to help him get the loot. Will Black’s shindy result in riches, or a circle of bloody retaliation? OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 33

A MERRY ROMP THROUGH ALPHA COMPLEX


DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Paranoia XP


PLAYERS 8 ROOM 5107


DESCRIPTION You’ve been a troubleshooter for a week now. The promotion has been wonderful. Today’s To Do list looks downright entertaining... and all you have to worry about is a secret society of mutant commie traitors.

HOT GUYS MAKING OUT

GM Ben Lehman

DATE 5-Oct

START 10:00 PM END 0:00:00

SYSTEM Hot Guys Making Out


PLAYERS 3 ROOM 5103


DESCRIPTION HonorÊ≥∞, a former nobleman, and Gonsalvo, his ward, are both totally gorgeous and have the hots for each other. Also pretty often there are other people trying to kill them. Set in a remote village in the Pyrenees during the Spanish Civil War (1930s).

GM Shaun Hayworth and Noam Rosen

PARSELY GAMES DATE 10/5/13


SYSTEM Parsely

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS Just the one.



DESCRIPTION Parsely games are based on text adventure games from the late 70’s and early 80’s, a time when games came on cassette tapes or floppy disks. Even if you didn’t grow up during that time, you can still enjoy Parsely with friends and family.

Sunday 10/6 WOLF CHASE 2013

GM The Wolf

DATE 10/6/13

START 7:00 AM END 8:00 AM

SYSTEM Running

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS Welcome

PLAYERS 20 ROOM Outside

MATURITY RATING Very little TABLE Run

DESCRIPTION A few people have told The Wolf the’d like to get a little exercise at Big Bad Con. What, is running from your lives so The Wolf doesn’t devour you whole not enough? Well, you got it.

FALLEN SONS

GM Todd Furler

DATE 10/6/13




PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5106


DESCRIPTION A town must determine how to respond when a hate group announces they will picket the funeral of a favorite son. Players will be exposed to the rhetoric of a real-world hate group. 34

PROGRAM

INTO THE DEEP, DARK WOODS

GM Rian McMurtry

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition




DESCRIPTION The Passarax Forests have long been quiet, but the old heroes are gone now, and monsters return. The village of Mohassoit was ravaged. Farmsteads, elves, hunters, slaves, even orcs, dead, bodies eaten. A new generation of heroes are needed!

LOTUS BLOSSOM’S BRIDAL PATH

GM Shaun Hayworth

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Tenra Bansho Zero




DESCRIPTION The Ayanokoji and Takatsukasa clans have been at war for many decades. Lord Ayanokoji will wed his daughter, Lotus Blossom, to the young lord of Takatsukasa as a gesture of goodwill. But Lotus Blossom’s bridal path will be paved in blood.

MASS EFFECT: HEAD TO HEAD

GM Sam Hock and Justin Rhodes

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Savage Worlds


PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5108


DESCRIPTION Two teams of C-Sec operatives and Eclipse mercs must race one another to recover intel vital to both groups. Two teams of three players will each be run by a separate GM. What happens when the teams collide is completely up to the players!

MURDER ON THE WESTERN EXPRESS

GM GM

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM GM Fiat / rumor mill



MATURITY RATING TABLE LARP

DESCRIPTION The transcontinental railroad is complete. This marvel of engineering offers adventure, a new life, and a chance to start over. And it seems that this particular trip will have a celebrity on board. Buy your ticket, what could go wrong?

S.O.S DEEP SPACE STATION: ISS ICARUS

GM Damon Gregory

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Cthulhu Rising

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 6

MATURITY RATING Horror with blood and violence

CHARACTERS Provided

ROOM 5107

TABLE 7

DESCRIPTION First Responder team “Hamilton’s Heroes” has received a distress call from the ISS Icarus-space pirates. As the team prepares for boarding, a thought, unspoken but shared by all, quiets the ship. Please let there be survivors...this time. OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 35

(RELUCTANTLY) BOUND FOR ADVENTURE!

GM Dylan Nix

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Hirelings




DESCRIPTION Imagine being shoved into a dark, cavernous room with only a torch, maybe towards gruesome monsters, deadly traps, or piles of gold while armed, competent adventurers wait to see what happens. You’ll get the idea of the life of a hireling.

ANOTHER

GM Scott White

DATE 10/6/13






DESCRIPTION The Halloween sleepover is a favorite time at Hart High School. This is the night for couples, and evading the chaperones in order to hook up is a rite of passage. Thing is, there’s someone here this year who doesn’t belong.

BIG BAD B-MOVIE

GM Lalita Devi

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Microscope




DESCRIPTION Re-create as much of a terrible B-movie as we can bear to remember. Was it a mystery? A monster thriller? A terrible teenybopper romance with horrific one-liners? Bring a bag of popcorn and prepare to snark or be snarked.

BOOTS ON THE GROUND

GM Dennis Jordan

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Twilight 2000

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 5

MATURITY RATING Riffraff, dirty hippy gamer and loud mouth malcontent antics.


ROOM 5109

TABLE 9

DESCRIPTION “Leave no man behind,” they kept repeating right up to when the 5th Divison got overrun by Russian armor units outside Lodz, abandoned over 100 miles behind enemy lines. In the end, all you have is the soldier to the left and right of you.

DEEDS AND DOERS

GM Ben Lehman

DATE 6-Oct


SYSTEM Deeds and Doers




DESCRIPTION Deeds and Doers is a short, light version of D&D. We will be playing Ara Kooser’s Module series Brass Tomb of Abaan and Mountain of Swords. Estimated play time is 90 minutes.

EMERGING THREATS UNIT

GM Mike Bogan

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Emerging Threats Unit


PLAYERS 5 ROOM 5309


DESCRIPTION There are three lines of defense the United States has against paranormal threats. You’re who they send in when the first line fails. Welcome to the secret paramilitary wing of the Centers for Disease Control--the Emerging Threats Unit. 36

PROGRAM

GAMES ON DEMAND

GM GM

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM By GM





INTO THE LION’S DEN

GM Colin Fahrion

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Lacuna Par


PLAYERS 5 ROOM 5103


DESCRIPTION You’re on a mission. This you know. You’re sharply dressed in a black suit, blue tie, and fedora. What you don’t know is what the mission is, who you are, and what in the world you are doing laying on the ground in this dark musky cave.

LIVE FREESIDE OR DIE. A FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS GAME

GM Michael Garcia

DATE 10/6/13




PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5102


DESCRIPTION The lights of New Vegas pour out from the southwest. Outside the walls of the Strip, you struggle to survive in absolute squalor. You dream of getting out, of drinking champagne in the Ultra Lux casino. Best of luck, baby, you’re gonna need it.

OUT OF THE FRYING PAN, INTO THE FIRE


DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM M




DESCRIPTION Your cabal of Awakened Willworkers has been ousted from your hometown. You scramble for your lives as the Technocracy hunts you for being reality deviants. Will the hunted become the hunters, or will you die like the animals they think you are?

SAGAS OF THE ICELANDERS


DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Sagas of the Icelanders


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5104


DESCRIPTION Powered by the Apocalypse World engine, Sagas of the Icelanders brings all the blood and thunder of 10th century Vikings to the table in a freezing deluge of pure awesome. For mature players. OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 37

SAVAGE SHADOWRUN

GM Eric Ullman

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Savage Worlds




DESCRIPTION Things haven’t seemed right since you disembarked in St. Petersburg. Or maybe it was before that, on the boat. So far everything has gone according to plan. And when you put your finger on it, that’s why things just feel wrong.

SILVER & WHITE

GM Joe Mcdaldno

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Silver & White




DESCRIPTION Four suburban teenagers encounter the mystery that will shape their lives. They step into the unknown, pausing at every awkward touch, hopeful despite everything to come.

STRUGGLE FOR MOONBASE ALPHA

GM Brian Isikoff

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Fate Core

GAME TYPE RPG CHARACTERS Provided, completed in play.

PLAYERS 5


ROOM 5101

TABLE 1

DESCRIPTION Moonbase Alpha is Earth’s Space Research Centre. Mankind has been storing its nuclear waste on the far side of the Moon. Moonbase personnel are reporting anomalies in radiation levelss, and have requested UN Investigators for assistance.

THE BIG PARTY

GM Carl Rigney

DATE 10/6/13




PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5105


DESCRIPTION Monsterhearts is an RPG about small town teens and monsters playing with each others’ hearts and bodies, inspired by things like Vampire Diaries, Ginger Snaps, True Blood, and Twilight.

THE RED PLAGUE

GM Noam Rosen

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM World Of Dungeons




DESCRIPTION The city of Greystone has been struck by a mysterious illness. Was the well poisoned? Is it retribution for an ancient betrayal? Or simply poor food handling? You must seek out and eliminate whatever force is behind The Red Plague!

WHITE HOLE

GM Mike Murray

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Fiasco




DESCRIPTION The heroes on Star Station Sigma took one look at that dimensional anomaly and ran. The station’s orbiting a white hole, everyone’s trying to kill each other, and we’re just a clump of space-waste circling the drain. Shoulda stuck to smuggling. 38

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ALL NIGHT COFFEE

GM Jackson Tegu

DATE 10/6/13





MATURITY RATING Provacative TABLE 25

DESCRIPTION High school is over, but you haven’t done any growing up. You moved to SF to find yourself but found other monsters! You keep it hush for the normals, but you can spot each other a mile away. Who wouldn’t be lookin’ for someone as fine as that?

BIG BAD GM

GM Big Bad Contestants!

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Fate



MATURITY RATING TABLE TBD

DESCRIPTION Every year Big Bad GM pits four GMs against each other in a cage match that rocks the house. Each contestant is randomly assigned four players and knows only that they must run a game using the FATE Core. After that everything is uncertain.

CHAOS STRIKES BACK!

GM Dan Pradanamus

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Runequest


PLAYERS 8 ROOM 5108


DESCRIPTION Sick of being oppressed and licking their wounds, tonight is the night; Bad guys takin’ over. No-limit Texas Evil. (Don’t expect a lot of story, or bells and whistles. Expect: combat, dark absurdity, and scene-stealing roleplay).

GM Matt “Matthulhu” Steele

DETOUR TO MARS DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM The Void


PLAYERS 5 ROOM 5106


DESCRIPTION You’re a bunch of rookie Wardens outbound from Earth, delivering a ship to the Warden station in orbit around Saturn. You’re fast asleep in your grav couches when you wing past Mars. Too bad. The Red Planet looks beautiful from here.

GAMES ON DEMAND

GM GM

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM By GM




DESCRIPTION Games on Demand is an area with tables, materials, and GMs prepared to run a variety of games just as soon as you can present them with a group of players who are interested in playing them! Just come by 15 minutes before games start and sign up. OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 39

INTO THE AETHER

GM Dwight Ockert

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM BRP




DESCRIPTION The armistice is crumbling. The only hope to avoid another Great War lies in a lone lightship running a blockade of Mercy Point station. The artifact they carry may promise a return to Earth... or spell doom for all.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

GM Eric Ullman

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM NumenÊ£†Êø†ra




DESCRIPTION Rising up out of the Plains of Kataru is the Beanstalk, a tall tower of metal and glass. No one has ventured inside for millennia, but a recent encounter with a dying woman in the Jagged Wastes has you believing that may soon change.

ON THIS BENIGHTED EARTH...

GM Rachel Tevlin

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Mutants & Masterminds




DESCRIPTION Earth 0210 is in trouble; hostile aliens have invaded. Don’t let propaganda convince you that we should not help this benighted planet because of some claptrap about letting it develop naturally. Your world could be next.

ONE SUMMER EVENING

GM Carl Rigney

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Golden Sky Stories


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5105


DESCRIPTION Animals with enough magic to make themselves look human (more or less) and do a few tricks live quietly alongside humans in a small rural town. There are many RPGs where you can solve problems with violence. This is not one of them.

RIBBON DRIVE

GM Joe Mcdaldno

DATE 6-Oct


SYSTEM Ribbon Drive


PLAYERS 4 ROOM 5104


DESCRIPTION We will create a story about a road trip. We’ll let the music guide us and shape the story as it unfolds. We’ll let the road throw us curves. Our characters will rethink their attachment to the future. A game about road trips, music, and self-discovery.

SPOOKYBEANS

GM Jesse Burneko

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Spookybeans




DESCRIPTION Spookybeans is the roleplaying game of dark, quirky, off-the-wall, somewhat macabre gothic toons. Inspired by the worlds of: Serena Valentino, Jhonen Vasquez, Voltaire, Roman Dirge, Ted Naifeh, Charles Addams, Edward Gorey and Tim Burton. 40

PROGRAM

TAKE BACK THE VOID!

GM Edmund Metheny

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Fate Core

GAME TYPE RPG

PLAYERS 5


CHARACTERS Provided, completed in play.

ROOM 5101

TABLE 1

DESCRIPTION A handful of Void Engineers are stranded in space after a firefight, behind enemy lines. Will you fight your way out and reunite with your comrades, or turn this into an opportunity for a suicide run against such inhuman foes?

THE CATTLEGRIND (AGOP)

GM Richard Taylor

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Hun


PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5107


DESCRIPTION Take a step back into the late 1980s, in Chicago, in the growing Industrial music scene. Something is stalking the people of Chicago, and it’s time to strike back. The cops can’t be relied on, and they wouldn’t believe you anyway.


THE MINES OF MORIA DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Dungeons and Dragons 3.5




DESCRIPTION A mid level dungeon crawl with a Tolkien flavour. Will the Fellowship do better or worse than its literary counterpart?

THE ONLY GOOD BUG IS A DEAD BUG!

GM Morgan Hua

DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Nemesis/ORE


PLAYERS 6 ROOM 5103


DESCRIPTION Mars settlement went dark and your squad of Space Marines have been sent in to find out if Bugs have infested Mars. Your mission: find survivors, kill bugs, and get out alive. Solider, what else do you need to know?

GM Jim Sullivan and Kimmi Allbee

THE THIRD DREAM GATE DATE 10/6/13


SYSTEM Cthulhu Live



MATURITY RATING Adult themes TABLE LARP

DESCRIPTION It’s rush week at Miskatonic University and 16 students are pledging to the co-ed fraternity Iota Delta Omega. They find themselves playing the Doom That Came to Atlantic City and soon discover it is much more than a simple board game! OCTOBER 4–6, 2013 41

FEED THE SHOGGOTH

When: Sunday 10am-2pm Where: Open Games (Empire room) GM: Badger McInnes

Feed the Shoggoth is a

fast and furious card game in which you play the leader of a cult faction. A very angry and hungry shoggoth roams around the table; to appease the shoggoth (and gain points to win the game), you must feed the minions of your cult to the shoggoth if it’s in front of you on your turn. The other cult faction leaders can cast spells and use artifacts to disrupt your sacrifice. But watch out—if you can’t feed the shoggoth on your turn, the shoggoth eats *you*, and you’re out of the game!

GET EARLY ACCESS TO STORIUM Wish you could keep playing with your friends after the con is over? You can! As a Big Bad Con attendee you’re entitled to early access to Storium, the new online storytelling game from Will Hindmarch and Protagonist Labs. Just visit this link to sign up:

storium.com/bigbadcon

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LITTLE RED’S Basket

Proceeds from Big Bad Con are going to Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organization working in nearly 70 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe. In 1999, MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize. Just by attending Big Bad Con, you help people in need. You ARE an action hero!

Drop off non-perishable items in the ACCFM donation barrel next to Registration and get a pin! ABOUT US The Alameda County Community Food Bank has been in business since 1985, with a vision toward a day when we can go out of business. We are the hub of a vast collection and distribution network that provides food for 275 nonprofit agencies in Alameda County. In 2010, the Food Bank distributed 20.1 million pounds of food—52% of it fresh fruits and vegetables. Since moving into our permanent facility near the Oakland Airport in 2005 and leading the national food bank movement for a ban

on the distribution of carbonated beverages, the Food Bank has ramped up distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables by 845%.

WHAT WE DO Through a network of 275 strategically placed member agencies—food pantries, soup kitchens, child-care centers, senior centers, after-school programs and other community-based organizations—the Food Bank distributes enough food for 300,000 meals weekly.

DONATE WITH CONFIDENCE For every $1 donated, the Food Bank distributes $5 worth of food. To donate, make checks payable to “ACCFB” and mail it to: PO Box 2599, Oakland, CA 94614 or visit our website:

accfb.org

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credits GMS

EXECUTIVE OFFICER Kristin Hayworth LARP COORDINATOR Devon Apple REGISTRATION AND VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT Eric Fattig GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION Katie Stapko INSPIRATION FOR BIG BAD CON Anja and Mara Nittner

ADVERTISING SUPPORT

EndGame, Terror Rabbit, Bully Pulpit Games, Evil Hat, Hazard Gaming, and Stapko Design

CONVENTION SUPPORT

CelestiCon, Dundra Con, KublaCon, Good Omens Con, Go Play Northwest, Dead of Winter, and EndGame Minicons

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Shaun Hayworth, Noam Rosen, Carl Rigney, Chris Hanrahan, Fred Hicks, Jason Morningstar, Matt Steele, Duane O’Brien, Karen Twelves, Joe McDaldno, Jackson Tegu, John Stavropoulos, Sarah Hawklyn, Greg Wirth, Edmund Metheny and Mike Bogan

BIG BAD GM JUDGES

Leonard Balsera, Bruce Harlick, and Mike Bogan

HOTEL LIAISONS

Elizabeth Cardoza and Brooke Scallion

PODCAST SUPPORT

Ace of Geeks, Penny Red

EDITING AND DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT Karen Twelves

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Adam Kobel Alan Hodges Andrew Linstrom Badger McInnes Ben Lehman Brian Isikoff Brian Williams Bryan Hitchcock Candace Carpenter Carl Rigney Chris Bennett Christopher Ory Colin Fahrion Colin Jessup Craig Vilbig Damon Gregory Dan Pradanamus Daniel Hodges Dave Sokolowski David Gallo David Hamaker Dennis Jordan Duane O’Brien Dwight Ockert Dylan Nix Edmund Metheny Eric Lytle Eric Ullman Eric Zim Erin Sara Beach-Garcia Ezra Denney Gil Trevizo Greg Wirth Hamish Cameron Ian Grey Jackson Tegu Jarys Maragopoulos Jason Morningstar Jennifer Baumgardener Jeremy Tidwell Jesse Burneko Jim Sullivan Joe Mcdaldno John Aegard John Kim Joseph Harney Joseph Rossi Josh Roby Justin Evans Justin Rhodes

Kevan Forbes Kimmi Allbee Kris Miller Lalita Devi Leonard Balsera Mae Linh Fatum Matt Steele Mattea Ezgar Mia Blankensop Michael Garcia Michael Ripley Mike Fatum Mike Murray Monte Lin Morgan Ellis Morgan Hua Noam Rosen Paul Meyer Paul Shestople Rachel Tevlin Rian McMurtry Rich Taylor Ryan Burton Sam Hock Sam Tlustos Sarah Hawklyn Scott White Shaun Hayworth Sophie Lagacé Thom Hall Todd Furler William Lee Renee Ritchie

VOLUNTEERS Lawrence Chinn Tiffany Frederickson Bruce Harlick Jesse Coombs Julia Carter Katie Stapko Mike Bogan Haley Rose Xander Mathews Matthew Frederickson

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