Gen Con Event Catalog
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Wednesday 10:00 AM 1h Free Mature (18+) SEM - Seminar
A brief overview of what a licensor is looking for when it comes to tabletop games.
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Wednesday 10:00 AM 1h Free Mature (18+) SEM - Seminar
In this session we will discuss ways to design historical games that include difficult subjects.
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Wednesday 12:00 PM 2h Free Mature (18+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Join us for a lesson in miniature painting and how to host your own painting lesson and/or event for your class, store, or library.
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Wednesday 12:00 PM 1h Free Mature (18+) SEM - Seminar
Learn best practices from seasoned designer Ben Rosset for designing games about real-world topics
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Wednesday 12:00 PM 1h Free Mature (18+) WKS - Workshop
Learn how journey mapping can help your game design process in this interactive workshop.
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Wednesday 1:00 PM 1h Free Mature (18+) WKS - Workshop
This workshop will get your rules draft started, explain the common layout and expected verbiage of rulebooks, and work with you to help refine those tricky written explanations for your awesome game.
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Wednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Mature (18+) SEM - Seminar
Equity aside, designing for accessibility can add 40 million US adults to your market. Through exercises, examples and game testing, learn practical Universal Design techniques for your next project.
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Wednesday 4:00 PM 1h Free Mature (18+) SEM - Seminar
Elizabeth Hargrave interviews publishers about how to make the best possible impression in the pitching and negotiation process, and build lasting relationships along the way.
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Thursday 8:00 AM 4h $34 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Your crew regains consciousness, chained down and in complete darkness, after a hazily remembered heist. Where are you, how did you get here, how can you escape, & what is that scraping sound?
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Thursday 8:00 AM 4h $34 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Your crew faced impossible odds to arrive at the Path of the Immortal, a mythical place of divine treasure. To seize the greatest prize, you'll face a series of challenges to prove you're worthy!
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Thursday 8:00 AM 4h $34 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Your crew's been conscripted by one of the most ruthless pirates of the high seas. Should you overthrow the mad Captain, or is the legendary treasure she seeks worth the risk of almost certain doom?
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GM: Jason JohnstonThursday 8:00 AM 4h $14 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Welcome to a high-chaos G.I. Joe–inspired one-shot where you don’t play the heroes—you play Cobra. Whether you succeed or fail, one thing is certain Cobra will deny all knowledge of you.
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GM: Donald CoatarThursday 8:00 AM 4h $50 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
For over 35 years, the best role-players in the world gather. One shall ascend as an Exalted Cthulhu Master... Join us!
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by Game Base 7GM: William BlazekThursday 8:00 AM 5h $8 Mature (18+) BGM - Board Game
Will history repeat itself, or will you change the outcome?
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by Game Base 7GM: William BlazekThursday 8:00 AM 2.5h $6 Mature (18+) BGM - Board Game
Attract a beautiful and diverse collection of birds to your wildlife preserve.
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GM: Bret ValentineThursday 8:00 AM 4h $20 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Plunge into the far out worlds of Heavy Metal magazine. Seek out the source of the Loc-Nar and ends its evil for all time. Den, Tarrna, and many more. Not for the timid, Rated R. Wanna take a ride?
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GM: Trella BromleyThursday 8:00 AM 4h $4 Mature (18+) ZED - Isle of Misfit Events
Build track & manipulate stock in any of the 18xx variants. A few games will be provided but plan to bring any you really want to play.
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Thursday 8:00 AM 4h $24 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
In 1889, civic-minded ladies at a society event seize a chance to help an unfortunate, only to find themselves in an unexpected adventure.
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Thursday 8:00 AM 5h $26 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
As last-minute hires on the production crew, your job is simple: meet Ronnie, finish the shoot, and bring back a great episode. If you can find enough content to film, that is.
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GM: Kit WessendorfThursday 8:00 AM 5h $26 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Dr. Watson is missing, and Sherlock Holmes needs you, the Baker Street Irregulars, to help find him! A Gaslight mystery in the dark and dangerous streets of London.
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GM: Bart JanssensThursday 8:00 AM 5h $26 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Your former mentor needs your help to counteract an ancient curse. Can you discern fact from fiction, and find the truth behind the legend?
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GM: Kenneth SpencerThursday 8:00 AM 4h $4 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Thrill to the adventures of Rocket Age! A kidnapped prince! A vile plot by foul slavers! Shootouts! Chases! Will the prince’s ransom be paid in gold or in blood!
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GM: Kenneth SpencerThursday 8:00 AM 4h $4 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Thrill to the adventures of Rocket Age! Explore ancient alien ruins! Face off against deadly robomen! Punch Nazis! On Mars!
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GM: Kenneth SpencerThursday 8:00 AM 4h $4 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Thrill to the adventures of Rocket Age! A simple research investigation gone awry! Daring rescues! Vile Nazis! Can you stop the rising of an entire legion of robomen bent on utter destruction!
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Thursday 8:00 AM 4h $64 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Thrill to the adventures of Rocket Age! Twisted mutations caused by mad science! Scheming Soviets! Giant centipedes! What lurks in the Cavern of the Changed!
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GM: Kenneth SpencerThursday 8:00 AM 4h $4 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Coming upon the Jones freestead under attack by pumpkin headed monsters, our heroes intervene to stop to the Headless Horseman and his master, the Demon of Red Hills!
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Thursday 8:00 AM 6h $8 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Something doesn't seem right in Castor. Upon entering the village of Castor, your party notices several strange occurrences.
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GM: Erik NorrisThursday 8:00 AM 4h $16 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Sailor Moon! Fight evil by moonlight and win love by daylight in this take homebrew crossover.
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by WizardTankGM: Adam PhilpottThursday 8:00 AM 4h $44 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Something strange is happening in the quiet hamlet called Frey, at least that's what Lord Frey's daughter believes.
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by WizardTankThursday 8:00 AM 4h $44 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
A colossal fire giant skull hides a rune-sealed door and ancient mysteries within. Descend The Hollow Flame, solve it's mysteries, and face what lies within in this dungeon crawl.
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by WizardTankThursday 8:00 AM 4h $44 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Something strange is happening in the quiet hamlet called Frey, at least that's what Lord Frey's daughter believes.
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Thursday 8:00 AM 4h $16 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Embark into the Unknown on a desperate search for Sister Lillith, a close friend and fabled Gunwitch. What lurks in a forest that can’t stop remembering?
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Thursday 8:00 AM 2h $4 Mature (18+) BGM - Board Game
Give clues by drawing, talking, miming, or humming to help your team guess answers, but avoid the forbidden one! Guessing the wrong thing could cost you the game.
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Thursday 8:00 AM 4h $6 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Gender bent LotR! Glamdalf the Gay has assembled the Flannelship of the Ring. They must survive fearsome Ringwaifs and Helob the spider. But the party's messy relationships may pose the greatest risk.
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GM: Jason FritzThursday 8:00 AM 3h $6 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Gravediggers’ Guild have received a request: the Bonvalet family suffered a recent loss and require a burial to be performed. A group of new initiates travel to Strackon-by-Wick to render services.
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GM: Paul ElpersThursday 8:00 AM 2h $2 Mature (18+) BGM - Board Game
A deeply strategic and replayable city and engine-building contest with an immersive twist. Use your secret planning book to meet 2 of King Zarmund's 3 zany demands, which are different every game!
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GM: Erik NorrisThursday 8:00 AM 4h $30 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
It is 1988, and you are a Technocratic Progenitor field team stationed in a Hollow Earth biosphere containing living prehistoric organisms.
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GM: Greg SmoreyThursday 9:00 AM 6h $10 Mature (18+) BGM - Board Game
This is a casual game. Up to 3 players/side. Bid for sides. Larry Harris' Global '42 rules and setup will be used.
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GM: Greg SmoreyThursday 9:00 AM 2h $6 Mature (18+) BGM - Board Game
Learn to play with designer! Rules taught. Operation Uranus scenario will be used, where the Soviet armies surrounded the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. What will happen this time is up to you!
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by 37 ZombiesGM: Ron RingenbachThursday 9:00 AM 4h $4 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
You're a collection of sidekicks and novice level heroes who have yet to earn membership into DoomGuard. An extradimensional entity offers you purpose and power, how can you refuse?
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by 37 ZombiesGM: Thomas NapierThursday 9:00 AM 4h $4 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
The Mage Council has called you for a secret mission. The Slain form of the Tarrasque is reviving and only your team can save the world. Venture with the beast to slay its heart before it rises again.
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by 37 ZombiesGM: John UlmerThursday 9:00 AM 3h $4 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Caught and sentenced! But the prisoner transport shuttle you were on was forced to make an unplanned stop. The guards left to investigate. Hey, what's that noise from the landing bay?
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Thursday 9:00 AM 3h $4 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Screams drown out the laugh track when cosmic horrors descend upon Gilligan's Island. Can the castaways learn the terrible truth of the Island and stop Gilligan's zany plan Before It's Too Late(TM)?
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Thursday 9:00 AM 4h $24 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Your crew has been hired to locate, recover, and secure a science team's discovery aboard a ship that stopped communicating after announcing said discovery. See Content Warnings in long description.
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Thursday 9:00 AM 2.5h $4 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
You're a woodland creature who has recently gained sentience when you ingested magical cocaine from the satchel of an unlucky traveler in your forest.
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GM: Allen WhiteThursday 9:00 AM 4h $12 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
They who can draw forth the Seven-Tree Spear shall be named king, but are forces more sinister than anyone imagined at play? A 0-Level funnel adventure.
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GM: Betty TatumThursday 9:00 AM 2h $8 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
Discover why someone tried to kill, Kill Magazine publisher, Jelle Schyler.
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GM: Betty TatumThursday 9:00 AM 2h $8 Mature (18+) RPG - Roleplaying Game
This short adventure throws heroes into a deadly predicament as a massive bounty is placed on their heads - one lucrative enough to send every supervillain in the area scrambling to collect.
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GM: Riley NixonThursday 9:00 AM 6h $46 Mature (18+) ZED - Isle of Misfit Events
Mega Mini Monsters is a collectible card and economic megagame about collecting cool monsters for your gym and using them to compete against other gyms! Do you have what it takes to be the very best?
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GM: Summer VergielsThursday 9:00 AM 2h $42 Mature (18+) SPA - Supplemental Activities
Gain supplies and learn techniques of applying and maintaining henna when applied to skin.