Saturday Morning

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ALT NYC 88 (18+): It is 1988 in New York City. The players are members of one of the many gangs that operate in the subway, the sewers, and sometimes deeper down in the underworld. Forays up to street level are dangerous and undertaken in disguise or under the cover of night. The players' gang struggles for territory and control against other gangs, ninja clans, supervillains, lizard people, and worse. On ground level, organised crime and corrupt cops rule with an iron fist... One part 'The Warriors', one part TMNT comics, one part 'Escape from New York'... did we mention that Rutger Hauer is an eternal being that has occupied his current form since 1966 but is effectively over 2000 years old?!"

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Questlandia (18+): In Questlandia, players create a bizarre, fantastical kingdom at a turning point in its history. Each person becomes a character in this shared world, exploring their hopes, dreams, and flaws as they navigate a changing landscape. Through collective storytelling, players shape not only their characters' journey, but the fate of their world during strange and unpredictable times.

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​Cairn: Cairn is an adventure game about exploring a dark and mysterious Wood filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities. Character generation is quick and random, adventures are tense and reward careful exploration, and combat is frantic and deadly. The game was written by Yochai Gal.

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Burn 2D6: BURN 2d6 is a flexible system with a unique BURN mechanic that keeps the game moving and allows for a complete adventure to be run by the Moderator in a single short session! Ever get a group together with limited time, perhaps late at night at a convention? Or want to introduce folks to roleplaying games? With BURN 2d6 you can get to the fun in moments and play a complete adventure in 90 minutes. The system also promotes and encourages character progression and campaign play.

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Troupe: Doomsday: A grisly murder, a missing child, and a rogue acolyte suspected of the terrible act. Will you answer the call to solve this crime and bring bring those responsible to face justice?

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Escape from Wonderland (18+): Escape from Wonderland follows a group of guests trying to escape from a surreal amusement park. It's a game about liminal spaces and temptations born from private fears. It favors a feeling of creeping unease over overt horror. It draws inspiration from Ray Bradbury's classic horror fantasy novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes.

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Wilderlands: Wilderlands is an adventure game where players take on the role of larger than life fantasy characters, inspired by the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Using the tried and true framework of Into the Odd by Chris McDowall and Cairn by Yochai Gal, game masters can get Wilderlands to the table quickly and players can easily immerse themselves into a well-realized fantasy world.

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Cairn: Players will roll up fantasy adventurers at the table to explore a dark, dangerous world of hideous monsters and bizarre strangers, in search of gold and glory... or something deeper.

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Dungeon Crawl Classics: THE FUNNEL

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Necromunda: Necromunda is a skirmish tabletop war game, a spin-off of Warhammer 40,000, where players control gangs battling each other in the dangerous Underhive of the Hive City on the planet Necromunda.

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Turnip28: Turnip28 is a tabletop miniatures game and setting developed by British artist Max FitzGerald. The world of Turnip28 is a combination of post-apocalyptic with napoleonics and root vegetables, and it's "about turnips"

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Dragonbane, The Sinking Tower: Many years ago, the great wizard Kamandur constructed Magdala’s Tower (in memorial for his departed sister) along a rocky coast to lure sailor's to their death to avenge HER death! Ever since, the tower has risen from the bottom of the sea every twenty years, on the day of Magdala’s death, but only for a few hours before disappearing again. Many adventurers have tried to reach the top of the tower to steal the priceless emerald beacon at the top, but none have succeeded. Now the tower has risen from the sea once more and its ghostly green light once again shines over the water. Will you succeed where others have failed?

Dragonbane is a classic fantasy tabletop roleplaying game full of magic, mystery, and adventure. It is designed from the ground up to facilitate fast and furious play, with very little prep time and adventures that are a breeze to run. This is a game with room for laughs at the table, while still offering brutal challenges for the adventurers. We call this playstyle “mirth and mayhem roleplaying” – great for long campaigns, but also perfect for a one-shot.

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Wanted! Reward: CC10,000* (18+): "In the dim-bleakness of the far future, there is not much war… but plenty of bounties!" W!R:CC10K is a casual narrative sci-fi bounty hunter simulator with light RPG elements.

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Saturday Afternoon

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Old School Essentials, The Moonlight Kitchen*: Everyone is talking about the new soup shack at the crossroads just outside town. During the day the front window is shuttered, the back door is locked, and the place is silent as a grave. But as sunset arrives, so does the smell of seared mushrooms and exotic foreign spices. Folks who eat there can’t seem to get enough. The whole village seems to adore The Moonlight Kitchen. What’s not to love? (An investigative dungeon crawl adventure for an adventuring party of levels 2-3)

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Burn 2D6, Zero Punk*: Life of a Zero Punk in the Megapolis sits on a razor’s edge. A walled city bursting at the seams, an apocalyptic wasteland beyond. Zero Punks, born without the sanction of the Corps, their genetically coded bio-clocks hover near zero. But, more than just time counters, bio-clocks ensure near immortality, distributing genetic fixes and countering the latest viral or genetic attack. As a Zero Punk, take a job and earn more hours and days. Should you fall behind, the Reclamation Society is ready to take you. A Zero Punk quickly learns that on the streets and in the slums life is literally hard won. Inspired by Judge Dredd, Logan's Run, Cyber Punk, and Altered Carbon, can you survive? Part of the all new Book of Z supplement for the BURN 2d6 roleplaying game system (coming soon).

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Weird Heroes of Public Access*: Introducing Weird Heroes of Public Access - the table-top roleplaying game that lets you and your friends step into the shoes of quirky public access TV personalities battling monsters, angry moms, and juvenile delinquents to save your beloved town of Fairhaven.

Under the glow of a relentless full moon, you and your crew of public access heroes will use a simple d6-pool system to quickly get into the action. Time is of the essence as you race to uncover Fairhaven's darkest secrets and protect your show from being canceled!

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Cairn 2e*: Cairn is an adventure game about exploring a dark and mysterious Wood filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities. Character generation is quick and random, adventures are tense and reward careful exploration, and combat is frantic and deadly.

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Cy-BORG (18+): A Nano-infested doomsday RPG about cybernetic misfits and punks raging against a relentless corporate hell.

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Critical Core: Critical Core is a D&D5e offshoot developed specifically to support neurodivergent players who may (or may not!) face difficulties in one or more aspects of imaginative, collaborative roleplaying. Created in collaboration with autistic adults and mental health professionals, Critical Core creates a space for players of any skill level to grow their own skills and help others. As a GM, I have run Critical Core games for two years, for a variety of players, primarily middle school age.

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Cairn 2e, N3: Destiny of Kings: The prince has disappeared just before his coronation! You must rescue him to save the kingdom! This is a twisted version of the original AD&D 1e module, altered and run in Cairn 2e.

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Barrows & Borderlands*: A weird science fantasy old-school style roleplaying game set in a dark radioactive wasteland of magic, black-powder, and dragons!

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SPACE GITS (18+): SPACE GITS is a dexterity-based miniatures skirmish game about drunk-ass space orcs lootin', shootin' and scootin' from award-winning designer Mike Hutchinson (Gaslands, A Billion Suns, Hobgoblin: Brutal Fantasy Battles).

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Traveller '77: Science fiction adventures on the frontier of space! No experience necessary, bring a pencil. This is your chance to finally die in character generation!

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Battletech; Bright Lights, Big City!: Getting into the city was easy - getting out alive, not so much. 4 on 4 battle in an urban environment on a large-scale map using large-scale 'Mechs!

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Saturday Evening

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Goblinville*: Goblinville is a scrappy dungeon crawl game about broke goblins venturing into dark and dangerous places to make rent and to drag back resources to keep their little town alive.
Character creation is collaborative, building a sense of teamwork and community, creating both the band of goblins themselves and their Goblinville as a whole.

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Cairn 2e: Cairn is an adventure game about exploring a dark and mysterious Wood filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities. Character generation is quick and random, adventures are tense and reward careful exploration, and combat is frantic and deadly. The game was written by Yochai Gal.

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Cairn 2e "Under the Caustic River Ahnd" (18+): Prepare for liquefactive necrosis. Under a raging river of turbulent, caustic water that melts organic material in moments lies the decrepit remains of a nefarious wizard’s lair. Opening a passage under the river would mean commerce and prosperity, and every brave adventurer worth their salt knows that a wizard’s den is guaranteed to have some reality-bending magical loot!

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Delta Green, Kali Ghati: The war in Afghanistan is winding down. Now a Delta Green agent has gone missing from a remote base & it's up to you to bring him home. But can any of you make it out of the Black Valley alive?

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Shadowdark: Lost tomb of the Thief King.

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Cave Evil: In Cave Evil, each player takes the role of an ancient Necromancer. Located deep within an earth, their Necropolises have now merged, each seeking the Darkest Pit, the location of all evil. The dark wizards must build minions with precious resources from their Lairs to send forth and destroy, or dig further tunnels to locate other creatures, resources or to ambush another sorcerer.

The game is won when only one remaining Necromancer stands. A Necromancer can either be destroyed by combat, or an enemy minion may venture into their Lair and crush the wizard's shadow power, a Chthonic Crystal. BUT an even greater darkness may befall the players. As they build and destroy creatures the Dark Pit absorbs the shadowflame and may awaken the ultimate cave evil...

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Hunter 5th edition (18+): Fraught with controversy and scandal since its groundbreaking, The Wraithcliff Sanitarium holds over 100 tortured souls. A catastrophe during construction, accidental deaths rumored to be murders and torturous, sadistic staff all contribute to the facility’s bone-chilling reputation. Now, patients have vanished into thin air. You are part of a small team investigating the most recent tragedies. ***A Hunter fifth edition game for all experience levels with no system knowledge required. Please be aware that this is a horror game with mature themes involving mental health.

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Lich's Plot*: Lich's Plot is a quick, casual, 2-4 player card game about ancient evil wizards having flower growing competitions. Simple, expandable rules make for a game that's quick to learn but with a surprising amount of depth and strategy. All that's needed to play is a regular deck of playing cards and a few six sided dice!

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HELLSPAWN*: A doomed tabletop RPG of infernal contracts and demon hunts, forged in the fires of MÖRK BORG. You are Hell’s bounty hunters—damned tools chasing worse things across collapsing realms. The Wheel turns. The Hunt begins. OBEY. BURN. REPEAT

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Sun Rot: Sun Rot is a GM-led, card-flipping, rules light RPG for 1+ players and a GM where you'll:
Race through multiple terrain filled boards representing districts of a dying city. Flip unique cards for unexpected outcomes when you succeed at tasks. Experience real-time events every 10 minutes that change the game state. Choose between escaping the doomed city or attempting to seal the void. Great for people who love minis but hate mountains of rules. In this tense survival experience, players control multiple characters trying to outrun the collapse of reality itself. Will you rise or will you rot?

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Inhumane Harvest: An unfair, unbalanced, and hyper violent miniature game that sets the players up to loot and shoot their way through the raiders and overwhelming hordes of the zombie apocalypse with a randomly rolled character! This will be a bespoke semi-roleplay scenario for Arcanecon! Nothing is required, and everything will be provided, if you’d like to bring a modern miniature to represent your survivor, go for it!

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Golem Parade: The Mages have taken over. They got rid of their former companions, there are no more adventurers, no one able or willing to resist them. Dwarves, elves and humans alike bow down to their new masters. You are a golem. You and your companions were created by a Mage to do his bidding. Serve him well and you might earn your freedom. Failure or disobedience will result in death or worse. Any questions?

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Bleeding Sin: Bleeding sin is a skirmish game that pits covens of vampiric warriors in a battle against each other, encroaching beasts, and their own minds. Set in a gothic fantasy setting heavily inspired by works like Bloodborne, Bleeding sin creates a pvpve skirmish experience that forces the player to make hard decisions and be careful with their movements, as any wrong move could spell doom for the whole team.

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PUNKX* (18+): PUNKX is a grim-dark, non-magical, dystopian rebuild of 5e. Caliginous Nightmares have become reality. A reality so void of light that only violence can shatter the veil. Cadavers of nostalgia infect many in hopes of a bright new day.  Influenced by the creators own night terrors and a hodgepodge of numerous exploitation, existential, and horror based media.