The Chambers of Ordo Eclipticus – BX D&D

Friday, 6 PM – 9 PM | Douglass 420

Gabi Jackel-Dewhurst

The prince has always been inquisitive, but after a series of increasingly late nights in his study, he has disappeared altogether. It seems he has become obsessed with the moon. A rumor has spread through court: he has gone to seek the forbidden knowledge of Ordo Eclipticus.

This is a “noble funnel” dungeon adventure in B/X D&D. Like a peasant funnel, each player controls a handful of civilians unskilled at adventuring. In this case, you are society’s blue-blooded elite, not the unwashed masses, but rest assured, you are no better prepared for the mysteries of the Chambers.

No prior experience with RPGs is needed!

The Shadow King’s Lost Heir – Intro Dungeon Crawl for Mork Borg (16+)

Friday, 7 PM – 10 PM | Douglass 302

John Madigan

You face execution for heretical theft but a masked Seer, a Courtier of the Shadow King, offered you a chance at life. The King’s one true heir, his son Aldon, is missing. Without an heir the Shadow King will eventually be forced to hand his crown to his imbecile brother. Get him back discreetly and wealth, life and freedom will be yours. It’s believed Aldon is imprisoned in an infamous underground locale, a place no free man would willingly go, a place called The Accursed Den.

Danger in the Air! – Intro to Dungeon Crawl Classics

Friday, 7 PM – 11 PM | Douglass 420

Brian Escobar

Three days ago a farmer’s field and sheep were splattered with blobs of curious translucent material with the consistency of raw steak. He found a golden ring and three odd silver coins in two of the blobs. Other strange rumors are spreading.

This morning, a gargantuan creature hangs in the air, slowly drifting on the breeze. It resembles a titanic jellyfish crossed with an immense butterfly. A nest of pale tendrils trail across the ground carving grooves into the earth as it moves.

A few villagers decide to take a closer look…

You each play four level 0 peasants with different occupations, from radish farmers to astrologers. With the tools of your trade you venture into incredible danger. Any who make it through alive, reach level 1 and gain a class, becoming an adventurer!

C2 The Ghost Tower of Inverness – AD&D 1e

Friday, 8 PM – 12 AM | Douglass 404

Jason Smith

Come play this “gem” of an Old School D&D module from the heyday of TSR!  Beginners and experienced players are welcome. Pre-generated characters provided.

Companion’s Tale: Diaspora

Friday, 9 PM – 12 AM | Douglass 307 & 308

Sophia King & Lara Stroud

Companion’s Tale is a collaborative storytelling and map-making game. The players take on the roles of Companions and tell the story of their hero while building the world around them. Create the Hero’s journey and learn: Who is your hero?

In this session we will start as one group and eventually split into two games running in tandem, telling the story of a people torn apart. No materials, prep, or experience necessary, just come prepared to tell a story!

Menagerie at Sea

Sunday, 11 AM – 2 PM | Douglass 307

Kylie Stives

Using the Realms of Pugmire system, play as a motley crew of pirates! Engage in ship combat as you try to reclaim your stolen treasure from a rival crew of pirates.

Will have two pre-made characters for each animal family: dogs, cats, rodents (mouse and rat), lizards (snake and turtle), birds (parrot and crow). We will be using UNO cards for initiative (normally, 52-card are used for this system). Family-friendly game.

3:10 to Borghold – An Introductory Heist for Cy_Borg (16+)

Saturday, 11 AM – 2 PM | Douglass 308

John Madigan

“Time for some thrilling heroics.” – Fase, Discharged Corp Killer

An anonymous in-between contacts the PCs with a job offer. Infiltrate a prison train on its route to Borghold and extract-or kill-a high-risk target by the name of Cassian Benarte.

Note: This game is for players 16+

Of Sorrow and Clay – Call of Cthulhu

Saturday, 12 PM – 4 PM | Douglass 403

David Schneider

Of Sorrow & Clay delves deep into the history of an old Moonshiner, Carson Taft, and his family.  Carson himself has now been missing a good few days, and Jack has gathered you all, Carson’s family and friends, to help search the dark woods in hopes of finding the old fool.

EX1 Dungeonland – AD&D 1e

Saturday, 1 PM – 5 PM | Douglass 302

Jason Smith

Come play an old school D&D adventure written by Gary Gygax himself! No experience needed and pre-generated characters will be provided. Dungeonland is a mad cap place that Gary used to love springing on unsuspecting players. Will you survive your visit to this crazy realm?

The Wailing Well – An Introductory Adventure for Mork Borg (16+)

Saturday, 2 PM – 5 PM | Douglass 420

John Madigan

Deep in Sarkash, where the trees creak and groan, And graveyards and tombs in the warm earth are sown, And spirits and monsters alike feel at home, Waits a nightmarish well built of blood and stone.

Note: The game is for players 16+.

Total Fiasco

Saturday, 2 PM – 6 PM | Douglass 307

Bill Horst-Kotter

Fiasco is a GM-less open shot RPG where the characters have high ambition and low impulse control.  Difference between Fiasco and other RPGs is it is heavy on role and light on roll.  Players will pick one of the four scenarios and build a relationship between them.

Here is My Power Button RPG

Saturday, 3 PM – 7 PM | Douglass 404 and 407

Charlotte Caldwell and Liam Hainsworth

A new research project has been initiated, recruiting a consumer focus group and following them as they interact with an assigned AI. The project’s AI consist of cutting edge technology designed to grow and respond both through interactions with their
matched consumer and their peer enrichment group.

Here is My Power Button is a semi-structured LARP game, where players are placed into consumer-AI pairs. Over the course of the game you will explore themes of wonder, loss, shared discovery, and the nature of sentience – growing your relationship with each other while also growing yourself. This game is for you if you are interested in dice-less collaborative storytelling, science, philosophy, or if you have ever wondered what it means to be human. No LARP experience required, just bring your enthusiasm.

Exit 23 [East Texas University]

Saturday, 4 PM – 8 PM | Douglass 308

Mike Sprague

Caught in an unseasonable blizzard, the students are fortunate enough to make it to a Rest Stop along the freeway.  You have warmth, some food, and companionship while awaiting the snow plows.  But something else is also at the rest stop … and it’s not looking for any of those things.

Players take on the role of students in this Savage Worlds ETU adventure.

Uptown Saturday Night

Sunday, 4 PM – 8 PM | Douglass 302

Wayne Brown

A group of friends attend an after hours club at the Black Hole Lounge orbiting Europa.

Lucky Flight Takedown – An Introductory Heist for Cy_Borg (16+)

Sunday, 5 PM – 8 PM | Douglass 307

John Madigan

The PCs are approached by Charlie Sand, a struggling salaryman with

a surprising sense of community spirit. His neighborhood on the

Ports/Bigmosse border has been manipulated into debilitating debt to the Lucky Flight Casino. Pleading and talks have led nowhere, so now he needs the help of extralegal troubleshooters to destroy any record

of debt and possibly shut down the casino permanently.

Note: This game is for players 16+.

Sun Dome

Saturday, 5 PM – 9 PM | Feldman Ballroom

Wayne Brown

You are on Venus trying to find your way to a Sundome

Want to create a character? Stop by and see Wayne at the Astronomicon table at any point during the convention

ST1 Up the Garden Path – AD&D 1e

Saturday, 6 PM – 10 PM | Douglass 302

Jason Smith

ST1 – Up the Garden Path is one of the rarest D&D modules out there! It was written by the UK branch of TSR specifically for the 1986 National Garden Festival in Stoke-on-Trent, England as a promotional item. The adventure puts the characters (pre-gens supplied by me) into a pocket dimension that parallels our own world and is superimposed on the garden festival environs. This world is based on “improbability” and is rife with bad puns and hijinks. No experience necessary!

The Guardians of the Holy Grail

Saturday, 7 PM – 12 AM | Douglass 404

Alex Chatterjee

A king lingers on the edge of death. A knight walks a path unseen. A question remains unanswered. The Holy Grail, long sought after, now waits in silence. Called by Merlin himself, a select few are chosen to investigate the past—where myth and reality blur, where choices long made still whisper for resolution. Through forces beyond mortal understanding, they must relive the journey of a man who should have become legend, tracing his steps to uncover where fate fractured. However, the past is not always willing to be rewritten, and some truths are meant to stay buried.

Charm Mart One Shot

Saturday, 8 PM – 11 PM | Douglass 407

Jade Selch

Working at Charm Mart, the one-stop-shop for all Wizardly needs, is never easy, and amidst union negotiations, the employee team is just hoping for one day to go by without a major issue. Play as incredibly mediocre practitioners of the forbidden arts in this homebrew ttrpg system.

The Corridor

Saturday, 8 PM – 12 AM | Douglass 307

Bill Horst-Kotter

Welcome to The Corridor. A long twisting corridor of all white walls with buzzing fluorescent lights overhead. All the signs are written in a language you have never seen. You open a door and…..will you get back to the world you know?

Mimic Madness

Sunday, 10 AM – 1 PM | Douglass 404

Stuart T. Farrell

As you wake, you find yourself in a tavern.  That in itself is not unusual.several things are however:   * Aside from those at your table, who look as if they woke up themselves, there is no one in the room * There are several doors  * you don’t remember ever setting foot into this place Before you have a chance to ponder your situation …….

Babbling Stream

Sunday, 12 PM – 1 PM | Douglass 407

Lila Voytek

Description of the game: “Babbling Stream is a game of communication between people that share very few known words. Using only 10 pictographs (the numbered Uno cards), two people groups will try to communicate important cultural needs. It may be tricky, it may be frustrating, but by the game’s end you will have told a story of what happens when we really try to talk to each other.”

The Godfeather: Be Birds, Do Crimes

Sunday, 12 PM – 4 PM | Douglass 302

Maegan Fish

Running a heist at the behest of one of the local mafia bosses is no laughing matter – getting your score could have big payoffs, but any slip-up could lead to your goose being cooked. Or pigeon, as it were, if you’re employed by The Nest, the pigeon mafia of New York. Your task: infiltrate Billy the Gull’s headquarters and steal back control of their illicit stash of contraband french fries. Be careful not to slip up, though. The future of Central Park could be at stake.

Pigeon’s Eleven is a fast-paced, narrative game in the fate system. Open to beginners, but be prepared to bring a full set of dice with you to session. If you’re interested, we’re gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse: be birds. do crimes.

Pilgrimage of Peace

Sunday, 2 PM – 6 PM | Douglass 420

Lee Block

Today is the tenth annual Peace Day, the anniversary of the end of the war between the six nations of the Continent. You have been chosen as the representative of your nation for the Pilgrimage of Peace, bringing a dragon’s egg from one end of the continent to the other. It should only take three days. But peace is not so easily kept, and more awaits on the Pilgrimage than any of you could know…

A Dungeon out of Time

Sunday, 3 PM – 6 PM | Douglass 407

Ryan Huber

A classic fantasy dungeon crawl in a homebrew system inspired by older editions of D&D. A new mysterious structure has appeared, and your band of adventurers has been summoned to investigate! Rules and pre-generated characters will be provided. 

Death of a Duke – Unknown Armies

Sunday, 4 PM – 8 PM | Douglass 404

Gabi Jackel-Dewhurst

In an out-of-the way, suburban hospice home, an infamous player in the so-called “occult underground” lays on his deathbed, poised to take untold forbidden knowledge with him to his grave. Inevitably, weirdo magicians and estranged family converge on him at this final hour, with inevitably disastrous results.

Unknown Armies is an occult horror RPG; subject matter that may arise in this scenario include depictions of death and end of life medical care and self harm. This is a roleplay-oriented scenario and conflict of various kinds between player characters is likely.

Players don’t need any prior experience with TTRPGs.

Thirsty Sword Lesbians

Sunday, 6 PM – 10 PM | Douglass 308

Charlotte Caldwell

The Highballers Casino is hosting its yearly gala, and rumors are swirling that Marjorie Sterling, heiress to the prodigious Sterling fortune, is going to be in attendance wearing a necklace inset with the famed Carbana Emeralds. An opportunity like that can mean only one thing: time to get a group together, and get ready for the heist of your lives.

Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a Powered by the Apocalypse game focused on larger than life scenes, madcap plans, and of course…a sweeping romance amongst the thievery. For fans of lesbians, heist movies and Cate Blanchett in Ocean’s Eight, grab your two d6s and get ready to hit the jackpot.