EXCITING NEWS: Saturday Night Space Opera is coming to
Con of the North! We're sponsoring a whole weekend of exciting, sci-fi role-playing games! Our game masters have come up with a full menu of spacey adventures in settings both familiar and strange.
Join us for our first-ever convention program!
Registration will open in November. The convention takes place February 12-14 at the Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West hotel (don't worry, we'll remind you). Mark your calendars and make sure your winter gaming schedule includes some space opera fun!
UPDATE: Registration is now open for Con of the North!
UPDATE 2: Make registration a cinch and copy/paste the red "Registration Code" for the game you want into the "Event Registration" field on the Con of the North website!
UPDATE 3: Online registration is now closed, but you can still register onsite at the Con and sign up for tickets to games. Attendees won't know what tickets are available until they stop at the registration table. Visit the
Con of the North website for details. See you at the con!
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Title: STRANGE STARS
Description: Welcome to Trey Causey's "Strange Stars" universe, a pulp- and comics-inspired SF space opera game set in the far, far future. Take original Trek and mix liberally with Jack Kirby comics in this anything goes space opera setting. I wrote the Fate Core Strange Stars rules now out from Hydra Cooperative!
Game System: Strange Stars (Fate Core)
Publisher: Hydra Cooperative
Game Master: John Everett Till
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)
Registration code: FRI14-18 Strange Stars
Title: AMONG STARS AND WOULD-BE GODS
Description: You’ve never seen the world outside the walls of the Project Psion Research Center. Its mission--to improve humanity--has dominated your entire life. You’re used to the automated nature of your world, but you haven’t seen the researchers in weeks and something feels very wrong. It’s been long enough now that you and your fellow subjects have no choice but to try and escape the facility.
Game System: Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master: Jenifer Doll
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)
Registration code: FRI18-22 Among Stars and Would-be Gods
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13
Title: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Description: Space: 1969. While NASA spends millions on cutting-edge rocket technology, your cash-strapped ministry just gave you a wetsuit and a subway token. Next stop: the moon! Join us for this irreverent take on Charles Stross' Laundry novels: Lovecraft meets British spy-fi.
Game System: Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master: Matt Towle
Game time: 10:00-14:00 (4 hours)
Registration code:
SAT10-14 Dark Side of the Moon
Title: NO GOOD DEED
Description: A voyage to Saturn is sent dramatically off-course by a deadly power surge and a desperate crash landing onto the surface of the moon of Rhea. But all is not as it seems, and what starts out as a rescue mission quickly escalates into something more revolutionary. All materials will be provided and no experience is necessary.
Game System: Rocket Age
Publisher: Cubicle 7
Game Master: Christian Barrett
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)
Registration code: SAT14-18 No Good Deed
Title: RAD ASTRA: PEDAL TO THE METALSTAR
Description: Join a band escaped prisoners on the run from Imorta Jove, a tyrannical despot who rules the Junkyard Moons. Only a famed hyperspace key will unlock the jumpgate to escape the system. Face a horde of War-boids, scraplord gangs, and cosmic storms. What a lovely day to meet your mates in Van-Helya! Rules light, mashup of 70s/80s space opera with your fave roadwarrior flicks. Custom classes provided.
Game System: X-plorers
Publisher: Brave Halfling Publishing
Game Master: Jay MacBride
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)
Registration code: SAT 18-22 Rad Astra: Pedal to the Metalstar
Title: SPELLJAMMER: ELVEN MARINES
Description: A routine Wildspace patrol becomes a fight for survival when the Elf-O'-War Titania encounters a fleet of pirates and a mysterious dwarven asteroid mine. Join us for an exciting military science-fantasy adventure set in the classic Spelljammer campaign setting. All materials provided. Just bring dice!
Game System: D&D 5th Edition
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Game Master: Casey Garske
Game time: 22:00-24:00 (2 hours)
Registration code: SAT22-24 Spelljammer: Elven Marines
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Title: MIND DUNES ON THE MOON
Description: A tragic accident at White Sands Rocketry Development Range sparks a mission to the Moon to uncover an insidious alien plot to take over the Earth! What is causing glass to turn to sand, what is really going on in Luna City, what lurks within the silica mines of Tycho Crater and what does "Every grain, a Mind" mean? All materials will be provided and no experience is necessary.
Game System: Rocket Age
Publisher: Cubicle 7
Game Master: Christian Barrett
Game time: 10:00-14:00 (4 hours)
Registration code: SUN10-14 Mind Dunes on the Moon
Title: NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS!
Description: Sign up for an interstellar adventure at the edge of the Empire! Whether you're in debt or have a bounty on your head, you'll be faced with tough choices - help your friends, or help yourself? Hutts, Twi'leks, and Wookiees all collide in the Outer Rim where you and your team tries to scrape by day-to-day and not get noticed by Imperials. Will you become a hero or end up in carbonite?
Game System: Star Wars: Edge of the Empire
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Game Master: Brad Kramer
(Updated GM)
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)
Registration code: SUN14-18 Never Tell Me the Odds!
Title: THE NIGHT AWAITS
Description: More than a billion years in the future, the latest evolution of humans have spread across the land once more. The Aeon Priests have unearthed a powerful artifact that has a message with civilization changing implications for the latest sentient race of Earth. Pre-gens will be available, but are optional.
Game System: Numenera
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master: Christopher Reuber
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)
Registration code: SUN18-22 The Night Awaits
All times are listed in 24-hour format by Con of the North.
