March 2008 MiniCon Schedule

Updated 3/14/08 11am

Breaking news! And boy howdy, is this cool! Our friends over at Evil Hat Productions have chosen our MiniCon do do something pretty darn nifty. At our MiniCon you will be able to pre-order the very first Spirit of the Century supplement: Spirit of the Season. Why is this cool? Because as you pre-order, we will hand you an EHP fully authorized CD with a PDF of SOTS on it. So, pre-order from us, get a PDF of the book gratis from Evil Hat on the spot. How cool is that? I will have a printout of the book on hand (also sanctioned by EHP) for you to glance through. Good times!

We are currently accepting GM submissions for the March 2008 MiniCon. If you are interested in running a game, please refer to the example template below and email Chris. If you are curious about wether something you want to run will go over well with the crowd, email me. I have a pretty good gauge of what is hot, and what is not. ;) As always, we don't have many restrictions: Please make certain the game is in print, and we tend to skew to a more Indie Publisher type bent. You can also refernce the list of past games for ideas. Again, email me if you have questions.

Players, there will be a $3 fee per time slot, with GM getting $5 in store credit for running the game.

Please see our Home Page for information about FREE PARKING (which opens no earlier than 11am).

If you would like to submit a game, here is an example of a past description to make it a little easier:

NOTE, this is an example template...not an actual game!
Game System: Mutants & Masterminds (2nd ed)
Scenario Name: Night of the Reich (A Good Omens Production)
GM: Bob Kuzmeski
Variations: None
Power Level: PL 10
Number of Players: FULL
Characters provided? Yes

Description: It's been 5 years since your team pushed back a deadly invasion, an event that paved the way for the creation of Victory City. While your memory of the events that day are a bit murky, you look forward to attending the celebration in your honor. But some people do remember the details, and they hold a grudge.
SIgn me up!

Saturday March 15, 10:00am

Game System: Monsters and Other Childish Things
Scenario Name: Best Christmas Ever!
GM: Carl Rigney
Variations: none
Power Level: Monsters! Run!
Number of Players: 0 of 4 seats available (zero people on wait list)
Characters provided? Yes

The Stars have Aligned and Santa left you a Monster! It's your
best friend ever, even if others might not understand how cool it
is to have a friend that will messily devour anyone who deserves
it starting with the toes, but you wouldn't ask because it's wrong
to devour people, right? Right? A light-hearted look at childhood
dreams and the end of the world. Hey! If the world ends does that
mean we don't have to study for the history test on Monday? Cool!
The game's coming out in late March but you can play it early,
because you've been good. System will be taught, beginners welcome!
Sign me up!

Game System: The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries
Scenario Name: Axis in the East
GM: Paul Strack
Variations: Minor Dice Varient
Power Level: Monsters! Run!
Number of Players: 0 of 4 seats available (zero people on wait list)
Things are growing dark in the Orient, under the growing shadow of the Japanese empire and their Nazi allies. What mysteries could the Axis power be seeking in the mountainous Himalayas? Can our brave explorers find it before they do?

The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries is a collaborative story creation game in which all players work together to create a pulp action adventure. Using an innovative system, the players portray both the heroes and their opposition without ever leaving character. System will be taught, beginners welcome!
Sign me up!

Game System: In A Wicked Age
Scenario Name: In A wicked Age!
GM: Alvin Frewer
Variations: None
Power Level: Begining
Number of Players: 0 of 4 seats available (zero people on wait list)
Characters Provided? Created together at the start
Description: In a wicked age, there was little difference between magic and evil. In a wicked age, the blade mattered more than the word. Heroes and villains will be made as a forgotten world unfolds, in this wicked age.
Sign me up!

Game System: Wushu
Scenario Name: Roanoke
GM: Justin Evans
Variations: None
Power Level: You tell me
Number of Players: 3 of 4 seats available (zero people on wait list)
Characters Provided? Yes
Description: In 1587 one hundred and seventeen men, women, and children set sail from Plymouth, England to found a new colony on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. Almost from the moment they set sail their journey was fraught with hazards and delays. The governor of the colony, John White, set sail back to England within the month to raise more supplies. When he returned three years later, the colony had vanished. They had disappeared completely from history, their final fate unknown.

This is their story.
This is Roanoke.
Sign me up!

Game System: InSpectres
Scenario Name: The Bonny Doon Horror
GM: Matt Steele
Variations: None
Power Level: N/A
Number of Players: 1 of 4 seats available (zero people on wait list)
Characters Provided? Created at Start. Takes about 15 minutes - really!
Description: INSPECTRES - Fighting the forces of Darkness... so you don't have to. A fast, simple collaborative story-telling game that mixes horror and comedy in a world of start-up culture and supernatural frights. You're a co-owner of a licensed paranormal investigators franchise is a GHOSTBUSTERS style setting.

The phone rings. A babbling stable hand mumbles that a dead horse has just bitten someone. Sounds like a job for the InSpectres...
Sign me up!

There are five games currently scheduled, no GM slots are avaliable at 10am

Saturday March 15, 3:00pm

Game System: Dogs in the Vineyard
Scenario Name: Nightingale Falls
GM: Carl Rigney
Variations: none
Power Level: N/A
Number of Players: 0 of 4 seats available (zero people on wait list)
Characters provided? created together at start

Sickness is leading to bickering and bad feeling, and it's up to
the Dogs to uncover the town's dark secrets and put things right
to save the community, no matter what it takes. Roleplay God's
Watchdogs protecting the faithful in a West that never was.
Mercy, Judgement. Life, Death. They're all in your strong hands.
System will be taught, beginners welcome.
Sign me up!

Game System: Mutants & Masterminds (2nd ed)
Scenario Name: Who Watches the Watchmen Now? (A Good Omens Production)
GM: Bob Kuzmeski
Variations: None
Power Level: Iron Age
Number of Players: 0 of 6 Seats Available (zero people on wait list)
Characters provided?Yes

Description:
Sigh me up!

Game System: Shadowrun (Fate)
Scenario Name: Ill-met in Seattle
GM: Brian Isikoff
Variations: Uses the Spirt of the Century rules
Power Level: N/A
Number of Players: 0 of 6 seats available (zero people on wait list)
Characters provided? YES

Description: It's been six years since your "little mission" hit the skids, leaving you and your chummers down, out and worse. Six years out of Seattle, and six years out of practice. Now, there's a chance to get back in the game and earn little fame and a little new yen.

Oh yea, and a little payback.
Sign me up!

Game System: World of Darkness
Scenario Name: Red-eye Flight (A Good Omens Production)
GM: Richard Taylor
Variations: None
Power Level: Some XP used
Number of Players: 0 of 6 seats available (Zero people on wait list)
Characters provided? YES

Description: The flight took off like normal. You are all strapped in, there's a little turbulence, but you will be reaching SFO in the next four hours. Except . . . why does it seem that people are disappearing?
Sign me up!

Game System: Basic Role Playing (Chaosium)
Scenario Name: The Green Menace
GM: Matt Steele
Variations: Non-Mythos
Power Level: N/A
Number of Players: 3 of 5 seats available (Zero people on wait list)
Characters provided? YES

Description: An R-rated Blood Brothers/Grindhouse/B-movie style modern-day horror mayhem adventure. You really needed to get away for awhile and a free weekend at the newly remodeled Jasper Grand Hotel nestled in the Sierras above Lake Tahoe seemed like just the ticket. That was until the other guests turned into freakin' zombies. You battled your way our of the hotel and the military arrived in time to mop up. Now you're safe at a secret military base. What else could possibly go wrong???
Sign me up!

There are five games currently scheduled, no GM slots are avaliable at 3 pm

Saturday March 15, 8:00pm

Time slot: 8pm
Game System: Don't Rest Your Head
Scenario Name: The Bad Man Over Your Shoulder
GM: Ryan Macklin
Variations: None
Power Level: N/A
Number of Players: 0 of 4 Seats available (zero people on wait list)
Characters provided? Created together at start

Description: Have you ever been so exhausted that the world shifted
before your very eyes? The shadows are tangible, the howl of wind
deliberate, every glance a malicious stare? This is only the beginning
for the Awake, people who have been without sleep for so long that
they've discovered a strange place filled with nightmares made real,
held at bay only by the fantastic powers these people find in their
insomnia.
Sign me up!

Game System: Dark Heresy (Warhammer 40,000 roleplay)
Scenario Name: At the Gates of War
GM: Brian Isikoff
Variations: None
Power Level: N/A
Number of Players: 0 of 6 Seats available (two people on wait list)
Characters provided? Yes

An Acolyte in the service of the Inquisition, your duty is to root out the foul stench of heresy, hunt the vile xeno, and purge the twisted influence of Chaos. There have been disturbing reports of unnatural attacks upon Imperial citizens on the feudal, war-torn world of Acreage. The Inquisition deems it wise to investigate, and calls upon your services.
Sign me up!

Game System: World of Darkness
Scenario Name: CSI: Punktown (A Good Omens Production)
GM: Mike Bogan
Variations: Cyberpunk/Sci-fi Horror
Power Level: Medium
Number of Players: 0 of 4 Seats available (zero people on wait list)
Characters provided? Yes

In Paxton, affectionately known as "Punktown" by its inhabitants, it's your job to solve crimes. Murder is a fact of life in this gritty colony on the planet Oasis, but this recent rash of killings has you baffled and more than a little worried. Are you tracking a serial killer, or something much worse? (Set in the world created by author Jeffrey Thomas)
Sign me up!

Game System: Spirit of the Century
Scenario Name: Crash Landing on Ganymede
GM: Alvin Frewer
Variations: Retro-Sci-Fi; fewer stress boxes
Power Level: N/A
Number of Players: 0 of 6 Seats available (one person on the wait list)
Characters provided? Yes, with some aspects left blank to fill in during play.

Welcome to the future! It's 2008 and mankind has never seen such progress! We have flying cars, rocket pads in every city, hotels on the moon, and picture radio. And with all of our vast technology, we've finally defeated the Martians in the Great Space War opening up deep space for exploration. But when the crew of the rocketship USS Clio investigate a mysterious radio transmission on Jupiter's largest moon, their ship is struck by something from the surface and they soon find themselves stranded on an alien world!
Sign me up!

There are four games currently scheduled, one GM slot avaliable at 8pm

Games we have played at Past MiniCons (and the people who ran them):

October 2007 -
Scion Hero (Mike Bogan)
Dogs in the Vineyard (Carl Rigney)
Spirit of Serenity: "Stagecoach" (John Kim)
Paranoia XP (Brian WIlliams)
The Mountain Witch (Mike Montessa)
Seven Leagues (Richard Taylor)
Zombies in the Vineyard (Carl Rigney)
Call of Cthulhu (Jack Young)
The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries (Paul Strack)
Bliss Stage (Carl Rigney)
Deadlands Reloaded (Mike Parker)

July 2007 -
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (Bob Kuzmeski)
Exalted (Michael Cerbone)
Dogs in the Vineyard (Carl Rigney)
Truth and Justice (John Kim)
Spirit of the Century (Brian Isikoff)
Spirit of the Century (Michael Parker)
Paranoia XP (Matt Steele)
Dog Eat Dog (William Burke)
Agon (Carl Rigney)
Zombies in the Vineyard (Carl Rigney)
Spirit of Serenity (John Kim)
Call of Cthulhu (Matt Steele)

April 2007 -
Dogs in the Vinyard (Carl Rigney)
BESM 3rd Ed. (Rich Taylor)
Spirit of the Century (Brian Isikoff)
The Princes Kingdom (Chad Lynch)
Paranoia XP (Brian Williams)
Call of Cthulhu (Matt Steele)
Mortal Coil (Carl Rigney)
City of Brass (Sam Stephenson)
Essoterrorists (Greg Eichner)
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd (Andy Kim)
Primitive (Chris Bennett)
True20 (Michael Parker)
Best Friends (Carl Rigney)
Spirit of the Century (Sam Stephenson)
Carry (Chad Lynch)
Prime Time Adventures (Paul Strack)
Serenity (bob Kuzmeski)
The Shab-Al-Hiri Roach (Mike Sugarbaker)

January 2007 -
Dogs in the Vineyard (Carl Rigney)
The Princes Kingdom (Carl Rigney)
The Mountain Witch (Chris Bennett)
Pendragon 5th Edition (Wayne Coburn)
Faery's Tale (Chad Lynch)
Panty Explosion (Sean Nitter)
Spirit of the Century (Brian Isikoff)
The Essoterrorists (Brian WIlliams)
Orpheus (Scott Trono)
True20 (Michael Parker)
Macho Women With Guns (John Kim)
Best Friends (Carl Rigney)
Mutants and Masterminds (Paul Strack)
Promethean: The Created (Mike Bogan)