Event Catalog
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Featured Events
Murder Mystery
Friday, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm | Side Ballroom
Enigma Engineers: The Murder (Mystery) Crew
The planned demonstration of the Temperago University Physics Department’s new time machine has gone horribly awry! Instead of going back in time as planned, Dr.Wells was killed by his machine and all signs point to sabotage by one of his colleagues or friends. Come try your hand at finding whodunit by interviewing suspects and finding clues!
FANTASY TAROT READINGS
Saturday, 10 pm – 11 pm | Main Ballroom
Mysterious Mystics: Josh Stead-Dorval and Jeremy Reguer
Gaze into the endless depths of the soul and discover the secrets of the universe with a fantasy-themed tarot reading! Learn the future of your favorite RPG character, or even your own…
GODZILLA VS. BATTLETECH MINIATURES GAME
Saturday, 1 pm – 4 pm | Main Ballroom | Limited Space
Game Guru: Boldo’s Armory
Godzilla and other monsters are tries are trying to the city. Players will try to save the said. Players will us the battles of Battletech to stop the monsters under until it is too late.
PAINTING MINIS
Saturday, 3 pm – 5 pm | Hawkins-Carlson Room | Limited Space
Artistic Advisors: Towers and Tabletops
Come join Towers & Tabletops for Mini Painting 101! Learn the basics of mini painting and practice on your very own mini painting kit. No experience necessary! Materials are limited.
MINECRAFT BATTLE ROYALE
Saturday, 6 pm – 8 pm | Room 404 | Limited Space
Server Mods: Jack Andersen and UR Computer Interest Floor
Players will be able to make teams of three and will be spawned all around the center of a vanilla world. There will be a 30 minute grace period where opposing teams cannot fight each other and players can prepare for the battle ahead. After the grace period ends the world border will start shrinking, causing teams to get closer together and eventually clash. The last team standing wins.
QUADBALL PRACTICE & SCRIMMAGE
Sunday, 1 pm – 4 pm | River Campus Recreational Field
Ministers of Magic: Evalien Duyvesteyn and UR Quadbal
Quidditch is now Quadball! Quadball is a competitive and gender inclusive sport with collegiate and club teams across the nation. The University of Rochester team will be running a introduction to Quadball with a few warm up drills then a game. Don’t worry if you haven’t played!
Come try our fun sport!
The Terminator
Sunday, 7 pm & 9 pm | Hoyt Auditorium
Game Guru: UR Cinema Group
Two screenings of 1984’s “The Terminator”, being shown in Hoyt Auditorium. Admission is free, and no SIMCON ticket is required to view the movie.
Board Game Events
SECRET HITLER
Friday, 9 pm – 11 pm | Main Ballroom | Limited Space
Game Guru: Alexis Barrientos
Secret Hitler is a social deduction game with secret roles- you’ll be assigned to either the liberal or fascist team, and work to enact policies without giving away your secret agenda!
Oviraptor Extinction
Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm | Main Ballroom | Limited Space
Game Guru: Jacob Yaple
In Oviraptor Extinction, time travel to when dinosaurs ruled the earth, but were annoyed by pesky egg thieves. Be the player whose pack steals enough eggs to survive catastrophic climate changes.
CAPTAIN SONAR
Saturday, 2 pm – 5 pm | Room 404
Game Guru: Yasha Rubakha
We’ll play somewhere between 2 and 4 games of Captain Sonar. This is a 4v4 game where each person has a different role in contributing to the team’s goal of sinking the enemy submarine before the enemy sinks yours, in a style similar to Battleship but much more elaborate, speed-based, and very intense. Each game takes 8 people and about 45 minutes, and people can rotate between games.
Saturday, 4 pm – 9 pm | Main Ballroom | Limited Space
Game Guru: URSGA
Come play a game of Libertalia: Winds of of Galecrest, and be entered in a drawing to win the game at the end of the day!
“In the world of Galecrest, sky pirates set sail on the winds in search of adventure, treasure, and glory. As an admiral, you command a vast and varied crew … but so do your rivals sailing other ships in the pirate fleet. Each day the fleet lands on a different island where you’ll send a crew member to collect your share of the loot, hoping they’ll return to boost your growing group of characters..” ~from StoneMaier Games
There will be two rounds of the game, on at 4pm and one at 6pm, you may play in as many as there is space available, but the raffle is limited to one entry per person.
The winner will be announcement by 9pm on Saturday.
TWO ROOMS AND A BOOM
Saturday, 5 pm – 6 pm | Rooms 401 and 404
Game Guru: Alex Torrez
Come play Two Rooms and a Boom, a team-based social deduction/party game played across two rooms.
MEGA CATAN
Saturday, 5 pm – 8 pm | Main Ballroom
Game Guru: Dalton Moore
Love Settlers of Catan? Come join us as we merge boards together to create one massive island and play a game of Mega-Catan! Turns will be limited in time for overall time consideration.
BLOOD ON THE CLOCKTOWER
Saturday, 8 pm – 10 pm | Room 403
Game Guru: Jianhao Gao
There is blood on the Clock tower! Converse, scheme and deduce with your fellow players to either work out who the demon is, or work to ensure the evil team victory in this engaging social deduction game!
UNO
Saturday, 10 pm – 11 pm | Main Ballroom
Game Guru: Alex Torrez
Come play Uno at SIMCON!
ROOT
Sunday, 11 am – 2 pm | Room 403 | Limited Space
Game Guru: Lila Voytek
Two games of the board game Root, an asymmetric wargame. Welcome to those familiar to the game and those who want to learn!
Sabotage
Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm | Main Ballroom | Limited Space
Game Guru: Yasha Rubakha
Sabotage tournament! Sabotage is a 2v2, asymmetrical but well-balanced game with a divider in the middle, with each team trying to figure out the other’s location on the 4×4 board and outsmart the other team by moving and playing actions unpredictably. There is a doomsday dungeon theme. This is a strategy game that is intense but goes slowly, so prepare to think hard and spend long.
BETRAYAL AT HOUSE ON THE HILL
Sunday, 3 pm – 5 pm | Main Ballroom | Limited Space
Game Guru: Ashlyn Brown
Come play Betrayal at House on the Hill! This is a game where players explore a haunted house, and once the haunt begins a player turns traitor.
Sunday, 4 pm – 9 pm | Main Ballroom | Limited Space
Game Guru: URSGA
Come play a game of Red Rising, and be entered in a drawing to win the game at the end of the day!
“Red Rising is a hand-management, combo-building game for 1-6 players (45-60 minute playing time). You start with a hand of 5 cards, and on your turn you will deploy 1 of those cards to a location on the board, activating that card’s deploy benefit. You will then gain the top card from another location (face up) or the deck (face down), gaining that location’s benefit and adding the card to your hand as you enhance your end-game point total. If at any point you’re really happy with your hand, you can instead use your turn to reveal a card from the top of the deck and place it on a location to gain that location’s benefit.” ~from StoneMaier Games
There will be two rounds of the game, on at 4pm and one at 6pm, you may play in as many as there is space available, but the raffle is limited to one entry per person.
The winner will be announcement by 9pm.
BLOOD ON THE CLOCKTOWER
Sunday, 8 pm – 10 pm | Room 403
Game Guru: Omri Goldenberg
There is blood on the Clock tower! Converse, scheme and deduce with your fellow players to either work out who the demon is, or work to ensure the evil team victory in this engaging social deduction game!
RPG Events
VAESEN: SOMETHING WICKED
Friday, 7 pm – 11 pm | Room 302 | Limited Space
Game Master: Angela Murray
The march of progress carries England forward into the future, but at what cost to the hidden worlds around us? Vaesen is a game of Mythic Horror set in a version of the 1880s where industrialization wars with the supernatural creatures that have always lived at the edges of the world.
WOMEN ARE WEREWOLVES
Friday, 8:30 pm – 11:30 pm | Room 404 | Limited Space
Game Master: Charlotte Caldwell
Women are Werewolves is a collaborative card-based storytelling game where you play the nonbinary members of a family that believe only women transform into werewolves.
This is game about self-discovery and whether you can find, or make, a space for your authentic self within a family that might not understand you. This is a game centered around queer topics. You do not need to be queer to play but be prepared for a dice-less, question-driven story game about gender, family, and our relationship to both.
LOVE, DEATH, AND MONSTERS
Saturday, 10 am – 2 pm AND 3 pm – 7 pm | Room 307 | Limited Space
Game Master: Dan Stacy from Avenue Studios
Freshly inducted into the Hunters Guild, you are ready to use your skills against the preternatural horrors of the world. Your team is sent to investigate a series of strange deaths in the Prefect of Lingyi. Secret affairs, family drama and dark horrors are wrapped up in a mystery that must be solved before there’s another victim!
Level 1 Pregens in Open Legend RPG
DARK RITES OF THE YELLOW WOMAN
Saturday, 10 am – 2 pm | Room 403 | Limited Space
Game Master: Mike Sprague
While on a camping trip during spring break, a group of junior high students stumble across an ancient evil in this Savage Worlds “Pinebox Junior High” adventure. Uses premade characters.
D&D 5e BATTLE ROYALE
Saturday, 11 am – 2 pm | Side Ballroom | Limited Space
Dungeon Master: Jeremy Reguer
Are you a fan of battle royales? Do you like d&d? Well now you can! Please bring a pre-made level 5 d&d 5e character that uses the player’s handbook and 1 source book.
MONSTER OF THE WEEK ONESHOT
Saturday, 11 am – 2 pm | Room 302 | Limited Space
Game Master: Jade Selch
A one shot in the Monster of the Week system. As agents of the Adjunct Bureau for Blocking Abnormalcies, you’ve been sent to investigate strange happenings in a small town mall.
PATHFINDER 2e
Saturday, 2 pm – 6 pm | Room 308 | Limited Space
Game Master: Jacob from AVS
This will be a level 0 Pathfinder 2e survival game.
D&D 5e: ALEXANDER’S QUEST
Saturday, 4 pm – 7 pm | Room 403 | Limited Space
Dungeon Master: Ryan Huber
15th level D&D 5e characters & EXPERIENCED PLAYERS ONLY.
You are great adventurers, pulled out of time by shamans commanded by Alexander of Macedonia. He is desperate, and in dire need of force capable of dealing with a new unknown threat that threatens the world. In it for each of you, a wish of any kind, so long as you can take it.
IT’S RAINING CATS AND DOGS IN A LAND OF HUMANS
Saturday, 4 pm – 7 pm | Room 407 | Limited Space
Game Master: Kylie Stives
Level 3 Realms of Pugmire/Monarchies of Mau One-Shot with 12 Pre-Made Characters
Play as a level-3 cat or dog in post-human world. As your party ventures through the ruins of humanity, you come across a magical artifact. The party is whiskered away many years back in time, to when humans still dominated the planet. Will you manage to make it back to your own time? Do you even want to, confronted with the mythical beings that uplifted your kind? As you interact with humans and humanoids, you may find that humanity does not live up to expectations.
D&D 5e: THE LADY OF PEARLBREACH
Saturday, 7 pm – 10 pm | Room 302 | Limited Space
Dungeon Master: Delaney Cummins
The Lady of Pearlbreach is getting married! However, all is not as it seems— the night before her wedding, she hires you and your party-mates for a rather unusual job. Your task: derail the wedding by any means necessary. If you do it in a ridiculous way, she’ll pay you extra.
THIRSTY SWORD LESBIANS
Saturday, 7:30 pm – 11:30 pm | Room 407 | Limited Space
Game Master: Charlotte Caldwell
In the vaguely historical kingdom of Belgravia, you have been advertising yourself as a group of ‘fixers’…little do you know your next job may soon involve quite a bit of romance as well.
Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a system for fans of Powered by the Apocalypse, romancing npcs, or anyone who thought Bridgerton should have had more lesbians. Bring 2d6 and a desire to swoon.
FATE ONE SHOT
Saturday, 8 pm – 11 pm | Room 307 | Limited Space
Game Master: Jade Selch
A one shot in the FATE system. A dear coleague has been convicted of murder, but you know they didn’t do it. It’s up to your team of legal practitioners and experts to get them acquited.
MURDER IN SLEEPY HILL
Sunday, 10 am – 1 pm | Room 407 | Limited Space
Game Master: Chelsea “Rem” Marsh
A beginner-friendly Scooby-Doo-style horror game for 1-4 players in the Fate Accelerated Edition system. Players will take on the roles of child-sized Halloween monsters to solve a murder mystery and learn what kinds of monsters adults can be. Seriously, no system knowledge necessary!
DISNEY VILLAINS VICTORIOUS: SECRET RECIPE
Sunday, 11 am – 3 pm | Room 302 | Limited Space
Game Master: Jordan Smith
Enter the chromed up city of San Fransokyo for one reason and one reason only: heisting a fast food restaurant. Play as Disney-inspired characters in this homebrew, easy-to-learn system! Join a team of misfits from the settings of Big Hero Six, The Incredibles, Lilo and Stitch, Star Vs and more in a comedic espionage adventure. Pre-build characters will be provided, or make your own!
RINGS OF SATURN
Sunday, 11 am – 3 pm | Room 404 | Limited Space
Game Master: Wayne Brown
You are on a cruise ship traveling through the rings of Saturn. There’s a Robotics seminar going on, and you are there
COMPANION’S TALE: DIASPORA
Sunday, 2 pm – 7 pm | Rooms 307 and 308 | Limited Space
Game Master: Sophia King
Companion’s Tale is a collaborative storytelling and map-making game. The players take on the roles of Companions and tell the story of a hero. The hero is a cipher who is viewed through the opinionated lens of the Companions that the players control. Create the Hero’s journey and learn: Who is your hero?
In this expansion to Companion’s Tale, two groups split from a common origin to opposite corners of the land. Will they reunite or grow only further apart? This session will have two games running in tandem. It is especially fun to players familiar with Companion’s Tale, but open to new players as well!
A PIECE OF THE PUZZLE
Sunday, 4 pm – 7 pm | Room 403
Game Master: Ryan Huber
2nd-level Blam characters.
In the kingdom of Kas, a dungeon out of time has appeared where a town used to be. You, a group of mercenaries, have been sent to investigate what happened to the town, and what became of the citizens.
D&D 5e: THE FOREST OF TIME
Sunday, 4 pm – 7 pm | Room 407 | Limited Space
Dungeon Master: Kylie Stives
Level 4 Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition One-Shot with 13 Pre-Made Characters – Beginner Friendly
The forest is both ever-changing and constant, in a state of flux. You’re not sure how you got here, but you know you must leave. It is not safe to linger in the Forest of Time. The longer you stay, the more the Madness sets in. Can you escape in time?
D&D 5e: LOST BOUNTY, NO HOPE
Sunday, 6 pm – 10 pm | Room 302 | Limited Space
Dungeon Master: Ariel Saracho
One shot in 5e.
SCUM AND VILLANY
Sunday, 7 pm – 10 pm | Room 404 | Limited Space
Game Master: Mallorie Plevyak
It is the day of the fragile porcelain objects expo here in the Galactic
Central Spaceport and you are here for mischief. One shot in Scum
and Villainy, a Forged In The Dark system.
Magic: The Gathering Events
Planechase Commander
Friday, 7 pm – 11 pm | Room 401
Mana Mage: Jakob Riches
Come play casual Commander while the whole room travels through the multiverse together using Planechase!
BOOSTER DRAFT: MURDERS AT KARLOV MANOR
Saturday, 10 am – 2 pm | Main Ballroom
Mana Mage: Boldo’s Armory
This is a booster draft. You get 3 booster drafts for 3 packs of Murder at Karlov’s Manor This will have 3 rounds and them prizes for those that score at least one win.
MAGIC: THE GATHERING TRIVIA
Saturday, 12 pm – 2 pm | Room 401
Mana Mage: Jeremy Reuger
MTG Trivia 2: “This time it’s extra hard!” Show off your trivia knowledge!
Wacky Draft
Saturday, 2 pm – 6 pm | Room 401
Mana Mage: Boldo’s Armory
Each will bring any 3 booster pack with at least 14 cards in it. Players will than play a booster draft with the packs they bring to the draft. Players will them play a 3 round tournament and the players will get prizes.
Box Draft
Saturday, 7 pm – 11 pm | Room 401 | Limited Space
Mana Mage: Boldo’s Armory
This is the typical MtG box draft. This is a booster draft where players will draft cards following rules of my choosing, in ways that will be more active than most expect. Then there will a a group game with ante focused on fun, It will best the most fun you can have playing magic and do not forget to bring things to bribe the judge.
cEDH Tournament
Sunday, 10:30 am – 6:40 pm | Side Ballroom | Limited Space
Mana Mage: Dalton Moore
Come play the most competitive version of Magic: the Gathering’s most popular multiplayer format! Bring your cEDH deck to participate in 4-player pods in a tournament style setting with prize support. No proxies or maybe proxies allowed? idk ill do this later
F360 Legacy Cube
Sunday, 1 pm – 5 pm | Room 401 | Limited Space
Mana Mage: Jakob Riches
Draft F360, a medium-power Legacy Cube hand-crafted to create engaging gameplay!
Pauper Tournament
Sunday, 7 pm – 11 pm | Room 401
Mana Mage: Jakob Riches
Play the exciting and accessible Pauper format! 4 rounds of Swiss.
Proxies allowed. Prize support.