Events

Game: Super Gachapon Fighter Omega Infinity! Description: Japanese Capsule toys meets street fighter, on a table. The team with the most points when the timer reaches zero, wins! Players: 4-6 Day/Time: FRI 8PM, SAT 8PM Age: 12+ (Any age really)

• Game: The Mountain Witch
• Title: Red Blood, White Snow
• Description: "Seven Samurai" meets "Reservoir Dogs". Materials will be provided, and rules will be taught.
• Players: 2-5
• Day/Time: Saturday Afternoon
• Age: 16+

Jared Sorensen: FreeMarket Saturday 2PM "Jared Sorensen will run FreeMarket, the game formerly known as Project Donut. FreeMarket is a transhumanist science fiction roleplaying game designed by Jared Sorensen and Luke Crane. It is inspired by the works of authors such as Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Jim Munroe."

Luke Crane Burning Wheel Demos Any single slot on Saturday Luke Crane will run walk-in Burning Wheel demos for any who wish to fight for what they believe in.

Run by: Kevin Allen Jr.

• Game: Empire of Dust
• Title: Lead with Metal
• Players: 4-6
• Preferred: Saturday 8PM
• Description: An action packed sci-fi/fantasy RPG set in the midst of a desperate battle for a war-torn desert planet. A Group of native shamanic biker monster warriors led by a violent revolutionary robot take arms against the drugged out demon worshippers that have pulled the entire planet into a war. Needless to say, it's a pretty epic game, it's also a super fun tactical action adventure romp.
• All materials provided
• Rules taught (they are really easy)
• 18 and over

GAMES 1 & 2

See Judd's post re: Agon Tournement = The Kleos Cup.

GAME 3

• The Game you are running: Annalise
• The title of the event for that game: Pain, Hunger & Redemption (Part 1)
• A description of that event: Out there, watching you, is the Vampire. You are it's victims, it's servants, it's hunters, it's lovers. Can you overcome the darkness?

This is Part 1 of a two-part event, in which the foundations of a Vampire story are laid. The characters created for the game will continue into Part 2. It is not necessary for you to play in both games.

• The number of players you can run this game for: 4
• The Day and time slot you'd prefer: Saturday Afternoon
• If you'd prefer: Over 18

GAME 4

• The Game you are running: Annalise
• The title of the event for that game: Pain, Hunger & Redemption (Part 2)
• A description of that event: Out there, watching you, is the Vampire. You are it's victims, it's servants, it's hunters, it's lovers. Can you overcome the darkness?

This is Part 2 of a two-part event, in which the confrontation of the Vampire story is faced and resolved. The story will continue from the end of Part 1, with the same characters in play. It is not necessary for you to play in both games.

• The number of players you can run this game for: 4
• The Day and time slot you'd prefer: Sunday Morning
• If you'd prefer: Over 18

• Game: Dread
• Title: Wreck of the SS Morro Castle
• Players: 5-6, character questionnaires emailed in advance (Age 18 or over)
• Friday Midnight or Saturday Morning
• Description: The SS Morro Castle was a luxury ship, making the three-day run between Havana and New York. She left Havana on Sept. 5th, 1934. On Sept. 7th, with increasing rain, rising winds and rough seas, Captain Robert Willmott begged off from the traditional dinner at the Captain's Table, asking a steward to bring his meal to his cabin. Hours later, he was found dead. Early in the morning of Sept. 8th, a fire broke out and quickly swept through the ship. 137 passengers and crew lost their lives before the burned-out hulk beached itself near Asbury Park, New Jersey. This is all true. To this day, no one is certain what happened during the last voyage of the Morro Castle. Let's find out.
• Dramatis Personae (character choices available):

1. James Billings, a businessman whose import/export interests take him to Cuba regularly
2. Maria Flores, a worker aboard the ship, on her third cruise
3. Eduardo Martinez, a steward aboard the ship, responsible for the first-class passengers
4. Charles Darabont, former assistant to the American ambassador to Cuba
5. Stephan Lucas, an auditor for the Ward Line.
6. Sister Lisa, a Franciscan nun returning from missionary work in Cuba
7. Katherine McGee, a schoolteacher on vacation
8. Sir Geoffrey Harrison-Smythe, professor of history, returning from a field trip

Players who register will need to email tom.cadorette@gmail.com in order to request and receive their preferred character's questionnaire, which needs to be completed and returned several days before the game session/con.

Could I add the following sentence on the end of the Agon Tourney entry?

The Winner of this event will be granted an original t-shirt made by John Harper in order to proclaim their glory to all.

Event Title: 1st Quest - Warlock Corner Game: 1st Quest, a Solar System hack

Players: 2-4 Preferred Time Slots: Saturday morning

Age: 12 and older

Description:

Your best friend was shot last week and no one on the street is sure if it was a cop, a warlock or something summoned from hell. Next week is the school's first formal dance and you don't yet have a date. There is a bad-ass troll under the bridge leading to your borough, zombies lurk in abandoned buildings and the streets are rife with magic.

It is just another winter on Warlock Corner.

Inspirations: One part Harry Potter, one part The Wire season four, one part Brick and a touch of Ars Magica

Event Title: 1st Quest - Honored Guests of the Sleeping Emperor Game: 1st Quest, a Solar System hack Players: 2-4 Preferred Time Slots: Friday Afternoon Age: 12 and older Description:

You are an Honored Guest of the Sleeping Emperor, kept hostage to make sure that your family remains true to the throne. Young, talented and on your own for the first time in your life with the amazing capital city of the Empire all around you. At night the noble kids put on masks fashioned like oni, traversing the rooftops, having adventures in Edo's shadows. During the day, you take lessons with your tutors and text your friends.

The emperor's nightmares are threatening to rip the empire apart. What is a young Samurai to do...

Inspirations: One part Legends of the Five Rings, one part Avatar the Last Airbender and one part High School Drama.

Event Title: Agon Tournament - The Kleos Cup, First Round and the Glory Eternal Round

Game: Agon

Preferred Time Slots: Friday Evening for the first round and then Saturday Evening for the second round

Players: 4-8 for the first round, 4 for the second round

Age: 18 and older

Description: Compete in the Kleos Cup, the Agon Tournament, officially sanctioned by John Harper and the Gods of Olympus.

Face brutal tests from the gods in this competitive RPG of oath-swearing and trashing talking in ancient, mythic Greece.

Those who cover themselves in Glory shall move on to the second round.

Those who lose will go home in shame in order to tend to their cattle while their names fade from memory into nothingness.

GMed by: Nathan and Judd, two tables needed.

• Event Title: The Distant Hallow From Within
• Game: The Whispering Vault
• Preferred time slot:FRI 8PM
• Minimum & Maximum number of players: 3-5
• 18 and Older ONLY
• Description: This early '80s story game pits Nightbreed like characters against those that have dreamt this world into existance and have come to feed upon it's rich experiences. Join the hunt for a horrifying nightmare bent on enslaving the one's the Stalkers love most.

• Event Title: Something Wicked This Mouse Comes
• Game: Mouse Guard
• Preferred time slot: FRI 9AM
• Minimum & Maximum number of players: 3-4
• 18 and Older ONLY
• Description: Your mission, a mysterious stranger has undermined the guard's influence in a small towm. Word of his travels has reached the halls of Lockhaven and Gwendolan wants to know what's all about and to determine if he is a threat to the Mouse Territories or or just a crazy old man that claims to know magic?!

• Event Title: Expedition to the Tomb of R'lyeh
• Game: D&D 4e DMG
• Length of game: (usually 4 hrs for most RPGs) 4 hours
• Preferred time slot: FRI 2PM
• Minimum & Maximum number of players: 4-6
• 18 and Older ONLY
• Description: What happens when a badass group of adventurers travels into the cold wastelands to save their comrade from the icy grip of Hell itself? This D&D Story Game pits players against the GM using agrresive scene framing, stake setting and ending in a deadly encounter in a horrific tomb. Character, maps and minis provided.

• Game: Annalise
• Event: Vampire in Disney
• Description: Disney World; The place where dreams come true. However, what lurks within Space Mountain is the kind of thing nightmares are made of.
• Players: 4
• Time slot preferred: Friday Morning
• Age preferred: Over 18

• Game: Annalise
• Event: Vampire in Disney
• Description: Disney World; The place where dreams come true. However, what lurks within Space Mountain is the kind of thing nightmares are made of.
• Players: 4
• Time slot preferred: Sunday Afternoon
• Age preferred: Over 18

• Game: 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars.
• Event: Fish Kill
• Description: "I watch the kill counter on my energy rifle steadily rise. With a smirk of satisfaction I blow away the last fish head, bring my kills to 137. Time to report back to the ship. Another planet cleaned of Alien Filth. Wait, id that movement I see? What the..." "WE NEED BACK UP!"
• Players: 3-4
• Time preferred: Saturday Morning
• Age preferred: Over 18

Added all the Events to the event chart and added the name pages up to Rachel Walton. 11am wendnesday...WOOT!

In a Wicked Age "A Nest of Vipers"

In which fast and fun character & setting creation is followed by gods and mortals contending with one another for their greatest desires. When a simple midwife can bring the downfall of an empire, what matters isn't who you are, but what you do.

For 4 players.

Sunday, 9am

Over 18

Event Title: Dragons & Dungeons
System: Unistat
Length: 4 Hours Time Slot: Thursday Midnight
Min. Players: 2
Max. Players: 6
Player Responsibilities: All materials for this game are provided by the GM
Experience: Beginners welcome, rules taught if necessary
Attitude: Fun
Age Rating: Under 18, parental clearance necessary
Description: Unlike games that promise both dragons and dungeons but never deliver, this game will have at least one dungeon and one dragon. Everything else is up to you. And yes, you'll be cool enough to kill the dragon. Or befriend it. Or whatever you want.

Event Title: Last Meal
System: Unistat
Length: 4 Hours
Time Slot: Friday Evening
Min. Players: 2
Max. Players: 6
Player Responsibilities: All materials for this game are provided by the GM
Experience: Beginners welcome, rules taught if necessary
Attitude: Very Serious
Age Rating: 18 and older only
Description: The dead have risen, and they hunger for your flesh. Trapped and isolated, without supplies of food or fresh water, your small group of survivors must make some hard choices to survive. When society breaks down, are the other humans your allies, or your enemies?

Event Title: Bloodlines
System:Unistat
Length: 4 Hours
Time Slot: Saturday Morning
Min. Players: 2
Max. Players: 6
Player Responsibilities: All materials for this game are provided by the GM
Experience: Beginners welcome, rules taught if necessary
Attitude: Serious
Age Rating: Under 18, parental clearance necessary
Description: In this session, you don't play one character, you play a whole noble house, using different individuals as needed, from generation to generation as you vie for the crown.

Event Title: Sunday Burnout
System: Unistat
Length: 4 Hours
Time Slot: Sunday afternoon
Min. Players: 2
Max. Players: 6
Player Responsibilities: All materials for this game are provided by the GM
Experience: Beginners welcome, rules taught if necessary
Attitude: Fun
Age Rating: Under 18, parental clearance necessary
Description: You're tired, worn out, drained of creativity...but you still want to get some awesome game on, right? Sign up for this session of Unistat, and we'll muster up our collective strength and tell an exciting story with cool characters doing amazing things. Convert your end-of-con weariness into a blast of gaming happiness to take with your on your trip home.

carry: a game about war "The Devil's Harvest"

Lay your war game tactic aside and fill the boots of U.S. soldiers deep in the rugged jungles of Vietnam near the end of the war. Carry your burdens through carnage and brotherhood and see what kind of man you become.

For 5 players.

Thursday, 8pm

Over 18

Oops, small correction:

Red Sky Gambit: Number of Players = 4

Scions of the Superspy: Number of Players = 6

Game: Homeworld Project, the Astral Space Opera RPG

Title: Red Sky Gambit - PLAYTEST

Description: The treasure of the infamous space pirate Chaladni has been located on the planet Red Sky, your ship has no sooner arrived than a space battle breaks out - pirates, smugglers, rebels, imperials, and merchant houses all fighting over the planet. Can you land, take the treasure, and get out before they get you?

Preferred Slot: Friday Afternoon

Ages: Over 12

Game: Coming of Age

Title: Scions of the Superspy

Description: You play James Bond's illegitimate sons and daughters as you team together for the first time to stop the villain who has captured your (deadbeat) dad and now threatens to take over the world. I seriously doubt this one will be kid friendly.

Number of Players: 4

Preferred Slot: Friday Evening

Ages: Over 18

Game: Coming of Age

Title: Magic Academy

Description: First we'll create a school of magic, and then you'll save it.

Number of Players: 6

Preferred Slot: Saturday Morning

Ages: All Ages

Game: Christmas Ninjas

Title: The Mistletoe Stratagem

Description: As Christmas Ninjas, join with your brothers and sisters, penguins and pandas to save Christmas from the most nefarious plot yet. Santa's elves are infiltrating the Hasboro corporation - for as goes Monopoly(TM), so goes world.

Number of Players: 6

Preferred Slot: Sunday Morning

Ages: All Ages

As a head's up, I am not available for the block before and during the Indie Party, as my lady and myself are going to be handling the food.

Dread

A horror game that uses Jenga instead of dice. So bring your steady hand.

3-4 players

Friday Evening

Over 18

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Time & Temp

Temp workers employed to save the world from reality-crushing paradoxes and anachronistic villains. May include dinosaurs, cowboys, the Trojan War, Jack the Ripper, Nazis, or any combination thereof.

3-5 players

Saturday Morning

Over 18

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Trial & Terror: Supernatural Victims Unit

A short-form 3-player police procedural game following the classic format of the Law & Order TV show. Set in a New York City populated by horror movie monsters who are (almost) all legal citizens and protected equally under the law. The players will play the detectives and district attorneys investigating a vile, supernatural crime.

2 players

Saturday Afternoon

Over 18

Game: Mythender [playtest] Title: The Endless Maw

Description: The people of the north are not yet free from the tyranny of monsters, and it is your solemn due to end these myths, for you are Mythenders!

Preferred times: [Would like to run two of this game] Friday Afternoon Saturday Evening

Players: 2-4, 4 preferred

Over 18, please

Mouse Guard “The Pirates of Rustleaf” Part of the INDIE GAMES EXPLOSION! Mouse Guard is mice with swords! The autumn shipments from Rustleaf have been waylaid by bloodthirsty, redfurred pirates! Can the Mouse Guard foil the villains and save the harvest? 4 players. New players welcome. All rules taught. THU--8pm and FRI--9am

Serial Homicide Unit “Nowhere is Safe” Part of the INDIE GAME EXPLOSION! A killer hunts the innocent. Can you stop the murders? Bring a rampaging serial killer to justice as you portray investigators of the elite Serial Homicide Unit. Thrill to the terror as you follow the lives of the killer's next victims. 6 players. New players welcome. All rules taught. SAT--9am and SUN--9am

Mechaton “Bricks! Good God, y'all, what are they good for?” Part of the INDIE GAME EXPLOSION! Take your team of fighty robots made of LEGO bricks and inflict the enormous hurt upon your foes. Say it again! 9 players. New players welcome. All rules taught. FRI--2pm

Game: Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple

Title: First Flight

Preferred time slots (Whichever are available):

  THU 8PM
  FRI 2PM
  FRI 8PM
  SAT 9AM
  SAT 2PM

3-6 Players

Description: Young travelers fly to distant worlds getting into trouble.

For more information see: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Do-Pilgrims-of-the-Flying-Temple/19402239259

Game: Inspectres

Title: Twilight Knights

Description: For centuries, the Crown has bestowed the honor of knighthood upon respected and august senior personages of the United Kingdom (and beyond). For these aging icons, the honor has, to date, been symbolic. But now, in this hour of need, Britain faces a supernatural threat that only those called Sir and Dame can -- and indeed due to ancient mystical bindings *must* -- face.

4 players preferred, 6 maximum, Saturday afternoon. (Please do not schedule in the same slot as Daniel Solis' Do playtest)

18 or over preferred.

Game: Don't Rest Your Head

Title: The Bad Man

Description: A small group of orphans, each one carrying a piece of the same nightmare, takes a dangerous plunge into the world of the Mad City. Based on the DRYH scenario by Ryan Macklin.

4 players, Friday afternoon or evening (please do not schedule in the same slot as Daniel Solis' Do playtest)

18 or over preferred.

Game: Verge

Title: Even Philip K. Dick Wasn't This Crazy

Description: This is a playtest of my very non-traditional science-fiction/cyberpunk role-playing game. Play begins with quickly snapping together a strange future world, and then plunges your characters into it.

4 players, Friday night (please don't schedule at the same time as Daniel Levine's Unsung)

Over 12

Game: carry: a game about war Title: 1969

Description: Action and drama in Vietnam. Face issues like violence, racism, and drugs while your friends die around you.

5-6 players, Saturday night

Rated R, 18+, very serious

Game:Sorceror

Title:Nothing's Free

Description:You are the heirs of powerful sorcerous bloodlines, born with demonic powers. Now you must stand between your families and an ancient enemy, without being expelled from high school.

2-6 players

friday afternoon and saturday morning

18 and over

Game:Spirit of the Century(After the Rise) Title:Escape from Twin Pines Description:You have been trapped in the quarantined town of Twin Pines. But when the dead begin to rise you must escape if you want to live. 3-6 players friday and saturday at midnight 18 and over

GM: Michael P. O'Sullivan

Game: Criminal Element

Event Title: "Blood and Money"

Description: Design your own heist. Create your own crook. Put it all on the line to take home the biggest score of your criminal career. Criminal Element, the heist movie role-playing game inspired by Heat, Reservoir Dogs, the Parker novels, and Brubaker and Phillips' Criminal.

Number of players: 3-5

Day and Time Slot: two different events on Friday Afternoon and Saturday Afternoon

Age restriction: 18+

Game: Criminal Element

Event Title: "Blood and Money"

Description: Design your own heist. Create your own crook. Put it all on the line to take home the biggest score of your criminal career. Criminal Element, the heist movie role-playing game inspired by Heat, Reservoir Dogs, the Parker novels, and Brubaker and Phillips' Criminal.

Number of players: 3-5

Day and Time Slot: two different events on Friday Afternoon and Saturday Afternoon

Age restriction: 18+

GAME: Unsung

TITLE: The Pale Blue Line

DESCRIPTION: After a bitter civil war, Equatorial Kundu has held elections, the world's attention has turned to the next crisis, and the UN force there is in the midst of draw-down. As members of one of India's all-female formed police units, you're just trying to finish your job of leaving the national police ready to do theirs in the still-fragile country before you pull out at the end of the month.

UNSUNG is a game that focuses on the moral challenges faced by people in difficult and often violent situations, such as war and police work. The game encourages players to add details to the fiction that will force difficult moral choices on other characters.

PLAYERS: 3-5, serious, over 18

DAY/TIME: I could take pretty much anything from Friday evening - Sunday morning, but would prefer to avoid the midnight slots.

[Note for the current-events-minded: the scenario is inspired by the experiences of India's actual female FPUs in Liberia, but the details will fictionalized.]

GAME: Geiger Counter (Beta) TITLE: Exit Strategy

DESCRIPTION: Your spaceship crash landed on an unknown planet. All you have to do is survive until help arrives. A single-session cooperative survival horror RPG in the mode of "Alien" and "Pitch Black."

PLAYERS: 4-5.

SLOT: Saturday Afternoon.

RATED: R (over 18).

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GAME: The Best of Murderland TITLE: 6 and 30 Blackbirds

DESCRIPTION: Murderland was an Oct 2008 design competition to create short RPGs that could be played in a hour, based around the theme of "ravens." Thirty six games were submitted. Come play 2-4 of the best Murderland games, back to back.

PLAYERS: 3-4.

SLOT: Friday Evening.

RATED: R (over 18).

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GAME: Mist-Robed Gate TITLE: Step Up and Dance

DESCRIPTION: A motley group of kids from the local public high school has to get their act together and challenge their cross-town rivals for the State Dance Championship. Yes, it's every dance movie ever.

PLAYERS: 5-7.

SLOT: Sunday Morning.

RATED: PG-13 movie, but needs over 18 players.

Sign in Stranger

Human Colony Alpha

Take the role of humans leaving Earth behind to create a colony on a planet inhabitated by sentient alien species. Working together, players create a truly alien environment using mechanics inspired by mad-libs: random words are chosen as creative spring-boards for describing the beings and world around the humans. Wacky and touching by turns.

3-5 players

Two sessions: Friday Evening Saturday Morning

Over 12

Under my Skin: Matters of the Heart

A group of friends get together and secret loves and passions erupt. Partners and lovers have to face up to their fears and jealousies as they find that time has taken its toll on their relationships.

A live action game, a separate space or room is needed.

4-6 players

Saturday Afternoon

Over 18 for adult themes

Shock: Social Science Fiction Make A World And Its Apocalypse

The glint of flexing steel skin and the challenges it brings to its owner. An alien language, whispered in a dream telling truths no one wants to know. Towers a thousand miles tall, populated by coarse corporate overlords and surrounded by its impoverished workers.

Explore the hopes and dreams you have for science and technology. Plumb the depths as they go awry and turn on their masters.

Grab that raygun and put it in the service of your ideas.

Friday 8PM Saturday 8PM

Two slots running simultaneously on each evening

Over 18 for sexuality, politics, and an uncaring world operated by adults with dark senses of humor.

Universalis Title of the Event: A game of Unimagined Stories.

The Original storygame. Compete for the privilege of telling the story you want while collaborating to create the best story.

There is room for 8 players. prefer Sunday Morning, but would be ok with Thursday Evening if Sunday Morning as more then 3 games scheduled. Just don't put in in the same time slot as 1001 nights, or Steal away Jordan, I think that the same kind of player would love all of those games..

All Ages

3:16, Title of the Event: A soldier's diary.

Description of the event: Join the Expeditionary Force, see new worlds. And blow them to hell! Welcome to the EF son, it will make a man out of you.

There is room for 5 players. Thursday Midnight Over 18, for war, dismemberment, and strong language.

Covenant Title of the Event: Architects of the new American dawn

Description of the event: Covenant is a story game of failing conspiracies. Just because Apocalypse didn't come doesn't mean your you can quit. Our Great Work is not done. Do you doubt the Word? Who do you trust?

There is room for 3 players. Friday Afternoon Over 18, for action, betrayal, and My language.

Houses of the Blooded -- The Curious Happenings at the Duke's Soiree -- Among the Ven, the word for Love and Revenge is the same. It's all a matter of stress. Duke Ato Yvarai is having a Grand Unveiling Party at his castle. Days and nights of swirling intrigue, illicit romances and flashing duels all capped off by the presentation of the Duke's new masterpiece. It's sure to be the social event of the year and you and your companions were lucky enough to make the guest list. If you're lucky enough to survive it, you'll be the envy of your peers. This is a game for 4-6 players using John Wick's Houses of the Blooded game. One part Elric, one part Dangerous Liaisons, and always very stylish. Over 18 only, please.

I'd like to run this twice during the con and my preferred times are Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon (in particular) and Friday or Saturday (in general).

I'm running 3 slots of pregen PTA.

Bleeding Hearts - PTA - Episode 1 : Visiting Hours - Come join the overacting cast, the plot inconsistencies, and all the double entendres of this new hit soap opera. The staff and patients of Memorial Hospital will never be the same.

Using the PTA rules, we will play through an episode of this new, over the top, medical soap opera. Characters are pregenerated, as is the starting situation. This will be the first episode in an ongoing convention play PTA series.

3-6 Players Funny, over 18. Friday 9am or any Thursday/Friday Slot

Cold Sleep - PTA - Episode 1 : Wake Up Call - A spaceship with a crew in cryosleep, is about to wake up its inhabitants. Only a few problems remain to be solved before landing the colonists on their new home :. The ships psychiatrist has died in transit, the maintenance clerk wants to take over the ship, and the ships quartermaster is receiving signals from a unknown ship following close behind.

Using the PTA rules, we will play through an episode of this new, sci-fi drama. Characters are pregenerated, as is the starting situation. This will be the first episode in an ongoing convention play PTA series.

3-6 Players Serious, over 18 Friday 8pm or any Friday/Saturday Slot

Super Villain Rehab - PTA - Episode 1 : New Beginnings - Follow the exploits of a group of somewhat reformed super villains, their normal parole officer, and the jaded super hero sent to mentor them.

Using the PTA rules, we will play through an episode of this new, super powered comedy. Characters are pregenerated, as is the starting situation. This will be the first episode in an ongoing convention play PTA series.

3-6 Players Funny, over 12 Saturday 2pm or any Saturday Slot

Sorcerer Title: Heartless Void Description:

	Heartless Void is a science fiction setting for Sorcerer.  Mankind has spread to the stars, and there are those who say others walked there before him.  Some even claim to have found artifacts created by alien races.  What you really have to watch out for though, are those that find such things and say nothing.  Especially the ones mad enough to use them.  Of course, that would be you.

Players: 2-4 Time Slot: Any time Friday through Sunday Ages: Over 18.

Primetime Adventures Title: Who's show is it, anyway? Description:

	Together we'll design a TV series that should have been but never was, and play out an episode at our table.  The style and genre will depend on what we pitch as a group, so bring your favorite ideas with you.

Players: 3-5 Time Slot: Any time Friday through Sunday Age: Over 12

Star Wars SAGA Title: A Noble Cause Description:

	On the small rim world of Dantikor, tensions were mounting concerning the succession to the throne.  Two Jedi Knights were dispatched, but arrived too late to maintain the peace.  Now it can only be restored by the young heir, with the help of the Jedi and the royal guard.

Players: 2-4 Time slot: Any time Friday through Sunday Ages: Any.

I am running Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries.

Title: Committee Meeting

Description: You braved crocodiles, Nazis, necromancy, and devolved ape men to find the mythical city and the secrets it holds. You tested your skills and resolve to their limits, driven by a secret desire that motivates you to greater deeds just as it blinds you to possible pitfalls.

  Now you have returned from your expedition and must report to your peers on your daring exploits, proving to the hardened adventurers, geniuses, and polymaths gathered before you that you are worthy of their respect in your every endeavor. You’ve gone into danger and survived driven by your desire—now is the time to bring it to fruition. The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries is a storytelling game of exploration inspired by the pulps and tales of Victorian adventure.

Number of players: up to 5 besides myself.

Prefer Saturday morning.

18 and over.

I am running Mouse Guard.

Title: Mail Run

Description: Join the Mouse Guard and defend the Mouse Territories against predators and dangers. It's a big world full of scary predators and harsh weather. You will have to work together as a team to survive and carry out your mission.

2-4 players besides myself.

Prefer Sunday Morning.

All ages.

I am running a playtest of my game, Showdown.

Title: Showdown

Description: Taking on the role of daring Heroes and scheming Villains, the players of Showdown create an action movie in the style of such classics as Die Hard and Lethal Weapon.

Up to 3 players besides myself, minimum 1.

Prefer Friday Morning.

Over 18.

I am running Misery Bubblegum

The title is: "How many heartbreaks in four hours?"

Description: Misery Bubblegum is the fast, light game of teenage romance, shame, joy, betrayal and heartache. Join together with us to see how many sessions of this fast-paced game we can cram into a single four-hour slot!

Up to five players, over 18, any time slot

I am running Capes

The title is: "Invasion from Earth Prime"

Description: What better villain than a hero gone too far? From a world where superheroes created a utopian dictatorship, Lady Victory and her heroic minions are breaching the walls between realities to bring Freedom, Democracy and Decency to our world ... by FORCE.

Up to four players Any time slot Over 12

The Fifth World "Jimmy's Haunt" Description: Four hundred years after the collapse of civilization, humanity thrives in feral tribes. No dice, no GM, just the tension of conflicting relationships and the force of your own will. A playtest for 3-8 over 18 players, any afternoon or evening acceptable. Would like to run multiple (3-4?) times.

Fiasco "It Seemed Like Such a Good Idea at the Time" Description: Fiasco is inspired by cinematic tales of small time capers gone disastrously wrong – particularly films like Blood Simple, Fargo, The Way of the Gun, Burn After Reading, and A Simple Plan. You’ll play ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impulse control. For four over 18 players. Friday evening? I could also run this twice, or whenever as a two-hour pickup game.

Grey Ranks "Elegy for Kosciuszko" Description: Grey Ranks takes place during the Warsaw Uprising in the summer and autumn of 1944. You take the role of a Polish teen. The game forces you to balance the personal needs of your character - love, intimacy, and belonging - with those of a nation being torn to pieces from three directions. Four over 18 players. Saturday morning?

How We Came to Live Here "White Cavern Village" Description: 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. 4 players Friday Evening Over 18

Mortal Coil "Tesla Coil" Description: The 5th Annual PanEuropan Fair of Marvels is about to take place, and Dr. Cornelius Attison plans to reveal his greatest invention of all, a mechanical man! Steampunk magic using the Mortal Coil system. 6 players Friday Afternoon Over 12

Spirit of the Century "Spirit of the Musketeers" Description: Jeannette Martineau has been kidnapped by the nefarious Marquis Du Briel, his goal a forced marriage! Can an unlikely band of heroes put a stop to his schemes and rescue the maid? 6 players Saturday Evening Over 12

Duty & Honour "The Guns of Salamanca" Description: Wellington marches on Salamanca, as does the French commander Marshal Marmont. Can your small band slip behind enemy lines and prevent the French setting up a line of guns to slow the British advance? 6 players Saturday Afternoon Over 18

Ganakagok "Hunting Dawn" Description: Players use an oracular game system to create a myth-like saga of a primitive people confronting the end of their icy world of night. 4 players Friday Morning, Saturday Evening

Trail of Cthulhu "I, Governor; or, the Unpleasant Profession of Upton Sinclair" Description: California, 1934. The Great Depression means desperate times in the Golden State, but will gubernatorial candidate Upton Sinclair's radical plans bring about a socialist utopia, or some darker future? 4 players Saturday Morning

Misspent Youth

Description: Create a screwed-up science fiction world, then take on the bad guy with your teenage heroes. Think Bruce Sterling meets Oceans 11 meets The Goonies.

I can run the game for 3-4 players.

I'd like to run this on Friday evening, Saturday afternoon, and Sunday morning.

Over 12 with parents' permission.

I am running: With Great Power

the title is: "Side Kicks"

Description: Side kicks are the unsung heroes of hero stories. You and your friends happen to be the Side kicks of high profile heroes and second in commands of Super villains. Its time the world knew what real heroes were like.

Number of Players: 5

Day and Time: Friday. Evening.

All Ages are good for this game