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Come save a universe or two at Con of the North 2020!

We're back at Con of the North for our fourth year in a row! Join us for an epic weekend of far-out sci-fi adventure, with more games than you can shake a sonic screwdriver at!

CHOOSE A UNIVERSE. BE A HERO!

With more than 100 hours of games, there's sure to be something for every gamer in 2020. Online registration is now closed, but there's still a chance to pick up tickets on-site.

Do yourself a favor and bookmark this page to watch for any last-minute updates to the program and schedule.

WHEN AND WHERE IS CON OF THE NORTH?

February 14-16, 2018 

Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West Hotel 

Mark your calendars and make sure your winter gaming schedule includes some space opera adventures!

All games are intended for general audience except where specifically noted otherwise.

Friday, February 14 

12:00 p.m.

Minecraft: RPG Mode: Mooncraft 
Take a rocket to The Moon! Explore dungeons, gather resources, build your base, and defend yourself against mobs. Can you survive an experience that is out of this world?
System: No Thank You, Evil!
Length: 2 hours
GM: Oskar Mornes

Note: Kids Only


MCC: Seeking the Post Humans
You hail from a village so successful, it approaches a genuine bronze age civilization! Sadly, you’re now threatened by a bizarre weather event that leaves your once-thriving city-state unable to thrive. As you go on the first Rite of Passage your tribe has undertaken in generations, you find an AI willing to trade salvation for a danger! Will you find the key to a lost colony circling Terra AD?
Length: 4 hours
System: Mutant Crawl Classics
GM: Matt Towle

New Recruits and Rebel Guns
To join the Rebellion, the players are smuggled to a planet to find the agents that will send them to the rebel base. The agents have a little side quest to prove their worth: they must bring a shipment of stolen Imperial guns to the rebels.
System: Macchiato Monsters
Length: 4 hours
GM: Brett Slocum

Ruins of Xanator
Strange energies have been seen coming from the dead Martian city of Xanator. You and your party have been dispatched to explore the ruins and report back the source of the disturbances. Pre-gens will be included for this exploratory sword & planet adventure of non-canonical Barsoom flavor. No prior experience with the system is required as it is a fairly rules-light game.
System: Warriors of The Red Planet
Length: 4 hours
GM: Chris Hall

2:00 p.m.

Space Dust
Space Dust is a solo and cooperative board game where the players interact with tiles (SPACE and DUST) to recreate different environments and scenarios that challenge and lead them on a sci fi quest in a similar vein to space operas of the past. Each of 6 episodes in Space Dust like a separate game with its own rules and objectives.
System: Space Dust
Length: 4 hours
GM: Leo Winstead

4:00 p.m.

Big Trouble in CHI Sector
An action-packed tribute to 80's violence, er, movies, as seen through the twisted lens of the latest (and best--just ask them!) iteration of the Paranoia RPG, from Mongoose Games. Blame them, not us.
System: Paranoia (2017)
Length: 4 hours
GM: Matt Towle

Inquisition of Ombro Profunda
A plague spreads through the underhive of Ombro Profunda. The Ordo Hereticus suspects a chaos cult is responsible and sends some of its most ruthless investigators to find the cure and root out the cult. A cooperative narrative miniatures game in the world of Warhammer 40,000.
System: Rangers of Shadow Deep
Length: 4 hours
GM: Casey Garske

At the Hands of An Angry Universe
Utopia will not be possible upon the Earth. We must set out to edges of human civilization in space to create our own. Players represent factions within an ideologically focused and isolated colony trying to create their Utopia. Will this Utopia survive internal divisions and the hands of an angry universe?
System: At the Hands of an Angry God: a Game of Utopias
Length: 6 hours
GM: Patrick A. Schifano

6:00 p.m.

Offworlders
Offworlders is a science fiction roleplaying game about adventurers, outlaws, and guns-for-hire making their fortune on the rough end of the galaxy. The player characters in Offworlders are the owners of a small starship in a time when humans have spread to many worlds. Together, they explore the universe, completing profitable jobs and overcoming dangers together.
System: Powered by the Apocalypse
Length: 4 hours
GM: Leo Winstead

8:00 p.m.

LEGO Gaslands
Orcs and humans race for domination of the Gaslands of future earth in heavily armed Lego cars and trucks. Gaslands is a miniatures game of auto-dueling destruction.
System: Gaslands
Length: 4  hours
GM: Casey Garske

No Static At All
A group of freshly-minted Vislae (wielders of magic) struggle to return to Shadow against forces that they can barely comprehend. Invisible Sun is a premiere-level roleplaying game of surreal fantasy from house that Monte built!
System: Invisible Sun
Length: 4  hours
GM: Bob Cook

Saturday, February 15 

10:00 a.m. 

Dreams of Tomorrow
Change the future by sending dreams into the past. Dreams of Tomorrow is a competitive set collection game about weaving dreams, manipulating action spaces, and careful timing of abilities.
System: Dreams of Tomorrow
Length: 2 hours
GM: Jeff Conrad

Cold Ascension's Edge: A Marvel/DC Crossover
You've awoken on Edenguard, and nothing is as you thought! This Marvel/DC Crossover world is having strange sightings, and it's your job to set things right. Play an established classic hero, or bring your own from the past (within limits). Who are these blue-skinned warriors emerging out of Lake Superior onto the beaches of Duluth?
System: Marvel Super Heroes (TSR/FASERIP)
Length: 4 hours
GM: Chip Lewis

Star Trek (RE) Animated
Saturday morning was a great time for cartoons when the Star Trek Animated Series was broadcast, and now 40+ years later we finally have a series guide that describes its greatly expanded range of not-so humanoid aliens and worlds. So let's go there, and have a Saturday morning animated adventure in the Star Trek Animated Series era!
System: Star Trek Adventures
Length: 4  hours
GM: John Everett Till

Yesterday's Armageddon
On an airless moon orbiting gas giant Coronado 7, your research base has been a quiet corner of the galaxy ever since the Last War with the Computer Interdict. Interstellar travel became a story told to children. But something still travels between the stars. Call it what you will: vampire ship, rogue AI, or nightmare destroyer. You know it by the name humanity gave it during the war: BERSERKER!
System: Star Crawl
Length: 4  hours
GM: Matt Towle

12:00 p.m 

Minecraft: RPG Mode: Mooncraft 
Take a rocket to The Moon! Explore dungeons, gather resources, build your base, and defend yourself against mobs. Can you survive an experience that is out of this world? All ages, 4-hour version.
System: No Thank You, Evil!
Length: 4 hours
GM: Oskar Mornes

Note: Kids Only

2:00 p.m.

Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away…The remnants of the Resistance face the First Order once again—while reckoning with the past of their own inner turmoil. Meanwhile, the ancient conflict between the Jedi and the Sith reaches its climax.
System: No Thank You, Evil!
Length: 2 hours
GM: Erik Mornes

The Starlost: 37 Years Later
Based on the Cordwainer Bird-written 70s Television Series. The 200 mile-long Earthship Ark is over 500 years into its interstellar voyage, 800 years into the future. Only 37 years ago three young people tried to save the Ark but never reported back. Can you solve the improbable crisis or will the Ark crash into a star?* Using Roll for Shoes modified for scaling effects and damage.
System: Roll For Shoes
Length: 2 hours
GM: Jeff Conrad

4:00 p.m.

Blakes 7: Mutoid
Blake's niece has gone missing--could she be en route to the secret Mutoid assembly plant on K-14? Can Blake save another family member and sabotage the Mutoid Mill? Is it true about what they say about the experiments that go on there? Vila’s scared ... maybe we all should be?
System: Blake's 7 Roleplaying Game
Length: 4  hours
GM: Jeff Conrad

Guardians of the Galaxy: Guardians Disassembled
Hang on to your light-speed engines, True Believers! With Star-Lord missing and the entire galaxy gunning for the Guardians of the Galaxy, it's time to bring in a little help from Captain Marvel. Everyone, including the Kree, Badoon, Shi'ar, SKrulls, and Spartoi want a piece of plucky misfits. Excelsior!
System: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
Length: 4  hours
GM: Erik Mornes

Inquisition of Ombro Profunda
A plague spreads through the underhive of Ombro Profunda. The Ordo Hereticus suspects a chaos cult is responsible and sends some of its most ruthless investigators to find the cure and root out the cult. A cooperative narrative miniatures game in the world of Warhammer 40,000.
System: Rangers of Shadow Deep
Length: 4  hours
GM: Casey Garske

Rad Astra: Pirates of the Painted Void
Charge your friction rifle and activate your origami overthruster--adventure awaits you and your crew of Starbucklers, Astrosassins, Astrocasters and Starbarians! This rules-light, mash-up of classic 70s/80s science fiction and fantasy B-movies, TV, and comic books!
System: Rad Astra
Length: 4  hours
GM: Jay Mac Bride

8:00 p.m.

KRULL
This, it was given me to know: That the Beast would come to our world, the world of Krull, and his Black Fortress would be seen in the land. But one thing I cannot know: Whether the prophecy be true that a girl of ancient name shall become queen, that she shall choose a king, that together they shall rule our world, and that their son shall rule the galaxy.
System: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Ed.
Length: 4  hours
GM: Erik Mornes

LEGO Gaslands
Orcs and humans race for domination of the Gaslands of future earth in heavily armed Lego cars and trucks. Gaslands is a miniatures game of auto-dueling destruction.
System: Gaslands
Length: 4  hours
GM: Casey Garske

The Dubious Travels of Intergalactic Space Bums
A day in the life of a group of space miscreants trying to survive on the fringes of the known universe. Scum and Villainy is based on the acclaimed Forged in the Dark roleplaying game system, updated for an outer-space scifi setting.
System: Scum and Villainy
Length: 4  hours
GM: Bob Cook

The Expanse: The Goodall Gate
Based on the hit TV series and books series by James S.A. Corey. Travel through the Ring with your fellow Beltalowda. What you find you bring back to help strengthen the OPA. Don't mess wid' da inners, we need you back in one piece!
System: The Expanse Roleplaying Game
Length: 4  hours
GM: Jeff Conrad

Sunday, February 16 

10:00 a.m.

Bubblegum CRISIS: AD POLICE - Paulom City 2025
Regular police, fall back! Rage against the machines with your team of elite BOOMER-eradicating AD Police Officers. Get into your palpable megagauss-generating electric police car or bike, don your battle armor, 'cause it's election season and 90% of all Paulom’s City’s ballot machines were all produced by a single Industrial Megacorp, and they no longer even bother with PR cover-ups.
System: Core Fuzion
Length: 2 hours
GM: Jeff Conrad

MCC: In Through the Out Door
This third-level scenario for MCC finds the Seekers desperately searching for an airlock--any airlock!--back inside the enormous spaceship they thought was their home planet. Their mutant powers and steely determination will certainly overcome any challenges outside in airless space, or back inside the miles-long starship ... right?
System: Mutant Crawl Classics
Length: 4  hours
GM: Matt Towle

Space Alert
Space Alert is a cooperative team survival game. Players become crew members of a small spaceship scanning dangerous sectors of the galaxy. The missions last just 10 real-time minutes (hyperspace jump, sector scan, hyperspace jump back) and the only task the players have is to protect their ship. This session will include a training course for new crew members.
System: Space Corps
Length: 4  hours
GM: Patrick A. Schifano

Star Trek Ascendancy
Boldy go where no one has gone before, as interstellar civilizations compete for galactic ascendancy. Play as the Federation, Klingons, Romulans, Ferengi, or Cardassians to rule the final frontier.
System: Star Trek Ascendancy
Length: 4  hours
GM: Erik Mornes

12:00 p.m

Star Frontiers: In Search of Sarmine
War! A furtive attempt at fleeing the carnage on Outer Reach thrusts the heroes into a desperate mission to retrieve the cure for the “blue death.” Play as a dralasite, yazirian, human, or vrusk and wander the strange remote highlands of Inner Reach’s northern expanse. What surprises await? There’s only one way to find out!
System: Star Frontiers
Length: 4  hours
GM: Leo Winstead

2:00 p.m.

Duck Dealer
Duck Dealer is a game of involved, complex planning, set against a background of intergalactic trade. It is a game about recognizing routes, and developing profitable infrastructures; but above all, it's a game of racing your opponent to that one great opportunity.
System: Duck Dealer
Length: 4  hours
GM: Patrick A. Schifano

Last Call at the Floating Vagabond
The last scenario for Tales From the Floating Vagabond you will ever need. Violates the Pan-Galactic Absurdity Limitation Treaty. Contains more bad jokes than a Marx Brothers convention. A tribute to Lee Garvin. Using resources from the original Avalon Hill version as well as the newer Reality Cheque version.
System: Tales from the Floating Vagabond
Length: 4  hours
GM: Matt Towle

Star Trek: A Banderole Conquest
The Klingon Starship Squadron D'ktahg is looking for its latest world to bring into the Empire. Oddly, a message has been received from Glade, a planet found near the Gorn Empire, asking for consultation--maybe even annexation into the Klingon Empire. Klingons may not be the only ones interested in this opportunity. Play your own ship as captain (no experience necessary). Who's glory will it be?
System: Star Trek: Starship Tactical Combat Simulator
Length: 4  hours
GM: Chip Lewis

WE'LL SEE YOU AT THE CON!

Come play with us at Con of the North 2019!

Let's make it a THREE-peat! For the third year in a row, we'll be back at Con of the North to run more games than we've ever run before! How many star systems and alternate realities can you explore in a single weekend? Scan for life readings below and find out!

CHOOSE A REALITY TO EXPLORE!

We topped ourselves by scheduling 118 hours of games for you to choose from! There's something for everyone this year. Online registration is now closed, but there's still a chance to pick up tickets on-site. Bookmark this page to watch for any last-minute updates to the program and schedule.

WHEN AND WHERE IS CON OF THE NORTH?

February 15-17, 2018 

Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West Hotel 

Mark your calendars and make sure your winter gaming schedule includes some space opera adventures!

All games are intended for general audience except where specifically noted otherwise.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15

Title: STAR TREK ADVENTURES: THE REPUBLIC INCIDENT
Description: The Constitution-class starship USS Republic is on a routine patrol along the Romulan Neutral Zone, when suddenly everything becomes... non-routine. A Star Trek Discovery/Original Series era adventure! Rules are simple and will be taught!

Game system: Star Trek Adventures

Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment
Game master:  John Everett Till 
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)

Title: SPACE PATROL ORION: FROGS ATE MY HOMEWORK
Description: In this retake on classic German science fiction TV show, your crew will be investigating a research station gone quiet. Why is it quiet?  The frogs are the typical invaders, but even they are quiet. What is with all of the quiet?
Game system: Stars Without Number
Publisher: Sine Nomine
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)

Title: NOT ALONE
Description: In this hidden movement game you are trapped on an Alien planet, trying to send an SOS before the mysterious alien planet assimilates you forever. Beware, the Alien is experienced, so this game won't be easy. Can you and your fellow humans escape?
Game system: Not Alone (board game)
Publisher: Geek Attitude Games

Game master: Jenifer Doll

Game time: 12:00-14:00 (2 hours)

Title: ECLIPSE PHASE: TIME OF OUR LIVES
Description: There's suspicious events being reported on the rim. What started as a temporal research experiment is growing out of control. Get your morph there safely, and fix it, or time's up.
Game system: Eclipse Phase
Publisher: Posthuman Studios
Game master:  Jeff Conrad
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)

Title: THE STRANGE: SPLIT STRAIGHT 
Description: Out on The Fringe, far from the Shoals of Earth, lie weird recursions hiding unknown secrets.  Will your band of dauntless agents succeed where others have only vanished, out where the Blue Fades Into Black?Tier Four Strange, pre-gens provided.
Game system:The Strange
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master:  Matt Towle
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)

Title: FORTNITE: SAVE THE COLONY
Description: One day, 98% of the the population disappeared, and the remaining colonists found the skies covered in dense clouds that dropped husks. Teams of heroes are charged with going out to find resources, survivors, and other allies to help expand their storm shield and find a way to return the colony to its normal state.
Game system: Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master: Erik Mornes
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: ECLIPSE PHASE: THRESHOLD 
Description: This dive into Genesys will allow us to quickly make our own, Space Opera, Sci-Fi, Steam, or Cyber Punk world and characters. Everything will be off the cuff so come in ready to be creative, work together, and perhaps learn a new generic system. If you've been curious about Genesys, generic systems, improv style gaming, or shared narrative. This session is for you!.
Game system: Genesys
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Game master: Spencer Hayes
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)

Title: RAD ASTRA: WARRIORS OF THE WARP! 
Description: Charge your friction rifle and activate your origami overthruster--adventure awaits you and your crew of Starbucklers, Astrosassins, Astrocasters and Starbarians! This rules-light, mash-up of classic 70s/80s science fiction and fantasy B-movies, TV, and comic books!
Game system: Rad Astra
Publisher: Rad Astra Entertainment
Game master:  Jay Mac Bride
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Title: MINECRAFT: RPG MODE: MOONCRAFT

Description: Take a rocket to The Moon! Explore dungeons, gather resources, build your base, and defend yourself against mobs. Can you survive an experience that is out of this world?
Game system: No Thank You, Evil!
Game master: Oskar Mornes
Game time: 10:00-12:00 (2 hours)
Kids Only

Title: TMNT: Turtles Out of Town 
Description: Krang has rolled into downtown New York City in a shiny new Technodrome! Donnie, Mike, Raph, and Leo are nowhere to be found. You and your friends have stumbled upon a canister of mutagen OOZE and been transformed into a band of mutant ninjas! Save the city before it’s too late! This homebrew system is geared toward younger, more novice players and rewards creative problem-solving.
Game system: Homebrew
Publisher: Homebrew
Game master:  Jay Mac Bride
Game time: 10:00-12:00 (2 hours)
Kids Only

Title: TRAVELLER: APOTHEOSIS
Description: Marquis Natan Kaan has spent the past five years believing his wife and infant son lost in a pirate attack on their starliner. He’s recently learned that due to quick action on his mother’s part, the boy may yet live. But his safe haven is a forbidden world under the thumb of strict religious authorities. The heroes are hired to rescue the boy, but soon find danger, deception, and a deep mystery!
Game system: Traveller
Publisher: Mongoose Publishing
Game master:  Matt Towle
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)

Title: LOST IN SPACE
Description: Space colonists, the Robinson family, has escaped the destruction of the hostile planet Priplanus, only to be hurled through a wormhole to a distant galaxy. Danger, Will Robinson! Based on the hit Netflix reboot of the classic TV series.
Game system: Cortex Plus
Publisher: Margaret Weis Productions
Game master: Erik Mornes
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)

Title: KINGDOM: TAMBU
Description: Your ship has just offered its service to warlord Tambu and his interstellar security fleet. Maintain the peace of merchants for paying planets while dealing with aggression from neutral planets and the Defence Alliance. Based on retro sci-do classic Tambu by Robert Lynn Asprin.
Game system: Kingdom
Publisher: Lame Mage Productions
Game master:  Patrick Schifano
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)

Title: CYBERPUNK 2077: MIRROR SHADES & KATANA BLADES
Description: You and your crew stumble onto a caper where street samurai are being hunted for sport by street gangs. One of your own could be next if you don't find out who put them up to this most dangerous game. See if you can unravel the mystery and survive the neon-soaked streets of Night City in Cyberpunk 2020 updated for a 2077 era.
Game system: Cyberpunk 2020
Publisher: R. Talsorian Games
Game master:  Jay Mac Bride

Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)

Title: STAR CREATURES STOLE THEIR EYES
Description: You were taken from your place in the human timeline, whisked away to an alien future and to a strange land where the dimensions bleed into one another as worlds collide. You and a handful of others are searching for a way back home, but you may be destined for something far grander...
Game system: Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master: Jenifer Doll
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: STAR FLEET BATTLES: JUGGERNAUT
Description: The Juggernaut is here! It's big, bad, and it's not been programmed with a prime directive of non-interference. Play one of several races trying to stop it. Based on material from "Captain's Log" No. 1.
Game system: Star Fleet Battles
Publisher: Amarillo Design Bureau
Game master:  Jeff Conrad
Game time: 16:00-18:00 (2 hours)

Title: FOLLOW: THE WORLDS OF PHILLIP K. DICK 
Description: The literature of PKD often challenges our conceptions of consistent reality as much as our relationship with society and technology. Explore these themes and play his fiction using the game 'Follow' by Ben Robbins. We will play as a rag tag fellowship assembled to complete a quest. As a table we will determine the setting, the quest, create the fellowship, and follow the story that unfolds.
Game system: Follow
Publisher: Lame Mage Productions
Game master:  Patrick Schifano
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: FLASH GORDON: HIGH TREASON
Description: Flash, AAAAH! Ming the Merciless sends wave after wave of minions to shakedown the kingdoms of Mongo for tribute. Arboria, Coralia, and the Sky City look to your band of heroes  to save them from Imperial raids. Relive the pulp adventure of this classic space opera saga using the new Savage World's setting made just for Flash via Kickstarter.
Game system: Savage Worlds Flash Gordon
Publisher: Goodman Games
Game master:  Jay Mac Bride
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: PLANETARIUM
Description: Matter swirls incandescently about a newborn star. In this board game, you grow, build, and form the new systems' planetary bodies into desired types, based on your short term and long term goals.
Game system: Planetarium (board game)
Publisher: Sparkworks
Game master:  Jeff Conrad
Game time: 18:00-20:00 (2 hours)

Title: MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 TRIVIA 
Description: Do you want to see how well you'll do in your knowledge of MST3K trivia? See if you can get enough credits to escape the Satellite of Love! Homebrew trivia questions and answers.
Game system: Trivial Pursuit (board game)
Publisher: Homebrew version
Game master:  Jeff Conrad
Game time: 20:00-22:00 (2 hours)

Title: MUTANT CRAWL CLASSICS: DEAD MAN'S HAND 
Description: For long centuries it has drifted through radioactive oceans, the last great vessel of the last navy on Terra AD. No captain commands it, no crew serves it, but it is far from empty. Deep in the hangars and cargo holds lurk unknown menaces, some made by man in his folly. How long can even your canny mutants and seekers survive when faced with the unspeakable horror of the Death Ship?!
Game system: Mutant Crawl Classics
Publisher: Goodman Games
Game master:  Matt Towle
Game time: 20:00-24:00 (4 hours)

Title: STAY FROSTY: ROSETTA BASE 
Description: Rosetta Base: a deep space listening post on the edge of the solar system. If there's a $#!+ mission, the Penal Marines will get it. This time some research base on a comet has been out of contact for a month. Sounds easy, but they wouldn't have sent the Penal Marines if it wasn't practically a suicide mission. Whatever, man. Better than being executed. Usually.
Game system: Stay Frosty
Publisher: Garske Games
Game master:  Casey Garske
Game time: 20:00-24:00 (4 hours)
Mature Audience

Title: STAR WARS: FORCE AND DESTINY 
Description: "The Jedi are extinct. Their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion." With the Jedi Order abolished under the tyranny of the Emperor, life for a Force-sensitive hero is one of exile and secrecy. Join a band of heroes on the run from Imperial rule, looking to live another day in the fight for freedom in the galaxy.
Game system: Star Wars RPG
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Game master:  Spencer Hayes
Game time: 20:00-24:00 (4 hours)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17

Title: POKEMON: THE FINAL FRONTIER 
Description: Megacorps, eat your heart out. In this board game you traverse the solar system claiming moons while trying to conserve fuel to escape the next gravity well.
Game system: Spaceopoly
Publisher: Valen Brost Game Co.
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 10:00-12:00 (2 hours)
Kid Friendly

Title: STARS WITHOUT NUMBER: ZAMIATIN'S WE 
Description: We, the dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin is now set in a Traveller-based system.  Your characters are either for or against the One State.  With the next interplanetary spacecraft, the Differential, set to launch soon, will it be a successful mission bringing the joy of the Time Tables to the unsuspecting aliens, or will you stand in the way of  progress.  DA or NYET?
Game system: Stars Without Number
Publisher: Sine Nomine
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 12:00-14:00 (4 hours)

Title: STEVEN UNIVERSE 
Description: As an "off color" Gem, can you escape the tyranny of Homeworld by stealing Golden Beryl's prize ship, Heart of Gold?
Game system: No Thank You, Evil!
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master:  Erik Mornes
Game time: 12:00-14:00 (2 hours)
Kids Only

Title: CITY OF LIGHT 
Description: On the Earth below us Human minds have exiled Machine minds. Those who are exiled have gathered into the citadel of megacity Zero-One. Instead we will form a utopian City of Light where Machine and Man live together in the Mare Cognitum on Luna. Play as founding factions trying to forge a utopia, while the war that leads to the Matrix unfolds below on Earth. Loosely inspired by the Animatrix.
Game system: At the Hands of an Angry God: a Game of Utopias
Publisher: High Rock Press
Game master: Patrick Schifano
Game time: 12:00-18:00 (6 hours)

Title: STAR FRONTIERS: FREEBOOTERS FOREVER! 
Description: Come roll up a crew of mercenary space pirates in the TSR classic space opera from the 80s! Create a team, acquire a vessel, and seek fame and fortune among the stars! Play a shape-changing dralasite, winged yazirian, multi-legged vrusk, or plain old human.
Game system: Star Frontiers
Publisher: TSR
Game master:  Jay Mac Bride
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)

Title: ANACHRONY  
Description: Earth is doomed and its various factions prepare to flee the planet, leveraging their command of time travel to gain an advantage for themselves and ensure a powerful place in the new world after Earth. This is a complex worker-placement game. Rules will be taught at the table, but some experience with worker-placement games is highly recommended.
Game system: Anachrony
Publisher: Mindclash Games
Game master: Jenifer Doll
Game time: 14:00-16:00 (2 hours)

Title: BLAKE'S 7: GAN'S BACK
Description: Olag Gan's back--well not 100%. But he's been corrupted by Servalan's best cybersurgeons to aid her toward her long-sought-after goal, the demise of his former friends, Blake's freedom fighters. Can Avon, Blake, Orac, Cally, Jenna, and Vila restore his mind, or has too much of his brain been rewired?
Game system: Blake's 7 Roleplaying Game
Publisher: Horizon, the Blake's 7 Appreciation Society
Game master:  Jeff Conrad
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: STAR WARS: BUSTED FLUSH
Description: Your Resistance team has infiltrated a former Imperial research facility, but something has gone terribly wrong!  Can you find a way off world, ideally with the experimental prototypes you've liberated, before the Metal Hits the Bone? Experienced characters, pre-gens provided.
Game system: Star Wars RPG
Publisher: West End Games
Game master:  Matt Towle
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: STAR WARS SNUBFIGHTER
Description: Snubfighter is a miniatures wargame focused on cinematic sci-fi dogfighting. Take command of a squadron of Rebel, Imperial, or Pirate snubfighters and get ready to make your best TIE Fighter engine and laser blaster sounds. "PEW PEW PEW!"
Game system: Snubfighter
Publisher: Garske Games
Game master:  Casey Garske
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: ROBOTECH: ROGUE ZENTRADI  
Description: After investigating a Zentraedi Salan class scout ship, the United Earth Expeditionary Force uncovers a force of rogue Malcontent Zentraedi. To make matters worse, another Zentraedi ship defolds, and its battle-hardened veterans want to capture the scout ship for themselves!
Game system: Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles Role-Playing Game
Publisher: Robotech RPG Tactics (miniatures wargame)
Game master: Erik Mornes
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)

WE'LL SEE YOU AT THE CON!

All times are listed in 24-hour format by Con of the North. Programming subject to change. Watch for updates.

Check out our 2018 Con of the North Schedule!

Let's make it a THREE-peat! For the third year in a row, we'll be back at Con of the North to run more games than we've ever run before! How many star systems and alternate realities can you explore in a single weekend? Scan for life readings below and find out!

WHAT UNIVERSE WILL YOU CHOOSE?

We topped ourselves by scheduling 100 hours of games for you to choose from! There's something for everyone this year. Online registration is now closed, but you can still pick up tickets on-site. Bookmark this page to watch for any last-minute updates to the program and schedule.

WHEN AND WHERE IS CON OF THE NORTH?

February 16-18, 2018 

Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West Hotel 

Mark your calendars and make sure your winter gaming schedule includes some space opera adventures!

All games are intended for general audience except where specifically noted otherwise.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16

Title: STAR TREK ADVENTURES: TRANSPORTER ACCIDENT!
Description: They happen all the time...that is, about .0000154% of the time. But your starship's had three accidents in quick succession! What's going on?

Game system: Star Trek Adventures

Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment
Game master:  John Everett Till 
Game time: 12:00-14:00 (2 hours)
Program guide page: 28

Title: TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
Description: A group of replicants, all very close to the end of their lives, must decide how to spend their last days while living in hiding in the Shadow Zone of Titan Colony.
Game system: Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master: Matt Towle
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 33

Title: HOLY WAR
Description: Battle head-to-head in this two player strategic game of religious space war. Ship types include: Rangers, Probes, Warp Line Generators, Luck Ships, Star Busters, Jammerswarms, Pressorships, Psycheship, Emissary of Prayerships, and more.
Game system: Holy War (board game)
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 14:00-16:00 (2 hours)
Program guide page: 37

Title: STAR TREK ADVENTURES: THE BLACK FLEET
Description: Defend the Federation's dangerous border with hostile Klingon space in this Star Trek: Discovery/early Original Series era game!
Game system:Star Trek Adventures
Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment
Game master:  John Everett Till
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 49

Title: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: ROBOT APOCALYPSE 
Description: You have received visions of an impending attack on the colony by Cylons. A group of scientists have been working on an escape plan, and they may hold the key to warning the other colonies, before humanity is annihilated. All of this has happened before. But the question remains, does all of this have to happen again?
Game system: Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game
Publisher: Margaret Weis Productions
Game master:  Erik Mornes
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 49
Teen and older

Title: FOUNDATION ODYSSEY
Description: The Estate has lost contact with an agent exploring a presumed stable recursion born from 1950s to 1970s science fiction called Foundation Odyssey. Your mission is to translate to this recursion and find him but once you arrive on Foundation Odyssey you realize it?s anything but stable! Can you survive the mission with robot riots and laser death rays?
Game system:The Strange
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master: Erich Doll
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 57

Title: ECLIPSE PHASE: THRESHOLD 
Description: After sending a distress signal through the Mars gate and scientific mission has gone dark. Your team of gatecrasher ops investigate what might have gone wrong.
Game system: Eclipse Phase
Publisher: Posthuman Studios
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 57

Title: RAD ASTRA: SKIPGATE SCOURGE 
Description: Pack your ray blaster, charge your laser sword and take off on a far-out, interstellar adventure! Join a team of Starbucklers, Astrosassins, Astrocasters and Starbarians in this rules-light, mash-up of classic 70s/80s space opera, B-movies and comics!
Game system: Rad Astra
Publisher: Rad Astra Entertainment
Game master:  Jay Mac Bride
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 59

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17

Title: MINECRAFT: RPG MODE: MOONCRAFT

Description: Take a rocket to The Moon! Explore dungeons, gather resources, build your base, and defend yourself against mobs. Can you survive an experience that is out of this world?
Game system: No Thank You, Evil!
Game master: Oskar Mornes
Game time: 10:00-12:00 (2 hours)
Program guide page: 86
Kids Only

Title: STAR TREK: TO A FLAME 
Description: USS Hopper, Captain's Log: Stardate 43417.1. "While in a remote sector of the Alpha Quadrant, we picked up what might be a distress signal although the language was not in the Federation Database. As the only ship nearby, I decided we should investigate. We found a ship, but it didn't respond to hails. I transported an away team onto the ship and this is their report..."
Game system: Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master:  Erich Doll
Game time: 10:00-14:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 92

Title: STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
Description: Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away...Following the destruction of Starkiller Base, Kylo Ren flees with General Hux to unite with Supreme Leader Snoke. Join the Resistance to fight the New Order, and battle Kylo Ren before he completes his training.
Game system: No Thank You, Evil!
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master: Erik Mornes
Game time: 12:00-14:00 (2 hours)
Program guide page: 100
Kids Only

Title: FOUR SEASONS OF MAD SCIENCE, SUMMER BREAK AND KILLER BIRDS
Description: Summertime in Boulder City Nevada. Never ending days spent roaming the countryside looking for something to do. Boredom and bliss in equal measure. But, underneath the city, something stirs. Something is wrong. It begins with a talking bird, and soon you kids are involved in a nefarious plot. Can you solve the mystery before it's to late?
Game system: Tales From The Loop
Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment
Game master: Bob Cook
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 102
Kid-Friendly
This game's description is subject to change. The original GM dropped out but we're able to keep it on the schedule with a new GM.  

Title: ASHEN STARS: WHERE DARK ORCHIDS GROW
Description: A nightmare is blossoming in a remote colony of Sakuntala: dark alien flowers stealing away the wills and bodies of the inhabitants. An evacuation has been ordered, but impossibly, even the blissful emptiness of space isn't enough to stop the carnage. It's a mystery for the ages and you have been sent to unravel the truth and save the lives that are left.
Game system: Gumshoe
Publisher: Pelgrane Press 
Game master:  Jenifer Doll
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 101

Title: CHILDREN OF A DEAD WORLD
Description: The decades since the launch of the UNSS Unity saw steadily decreasing levels of communication traffic from home. Now all is quiet from Sol leaving you as the sole surviving children of Earth. Play as one of the several ideologically charged factions which make up the Unity. In this unique system you will try to push forward your vision of humanity's future.
Game system: At the Hands of an Angry God: a Game of Utopias
Publisher: High Rock Press
Game master:  Patrick Schifano Everyone

Game time: 14:00-20:00 (6 hours)
Program guide page: 117

Title: REN'S REJECTS
Description: You?ve screwed up again and Captain Phasma has had enough. You're being assigned the most dangerous punishment duty in the First Order: retrieval of Sith artifacts for Kylo Ren. And he has a new planet to search: Rappan Athuk. Sounds lovely. Ages 10 and up.
Game system: Stay Frosty
Publisher: Garske Games
Game master: Casey Garske
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 114
Kid-Friendly

Title: BLAKE'S 7: RENEGADES
Description: Explore the world of 1970s space opera as we traipse through a future filled with low-cost special effects, monsters, robots, and space models!
Game system: Blake's 7 Roleplaying Game
Publisher: Horizon, the Blake's 7 Appreciation Society
Game master:  Jeff Conrad
Program guide page: 122
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: CORIOLIS: THE THIRD HORIZON 
Description: You and your crew mates enter a far-flung, star-spanning future with mysticism and supernatural elements. Coriolis is often described as "Arabian Nights in space."
Game system: Coriolis: The Third Horizon
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
Game master: Christian Barrett
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 122
Unfortunately, this game is cancelled. Watch for updates during the convention for a replacement game.

Title: SCREAMS OF ROSETTA BASE 
Description: A deep space listening post on the edge of the solar system. 37 days ago: they broadcast that they had detected an extraterrestrial signal. 32 days ago: their transmission said it had been decoded. 31 days ago: their final signal was received: 17 minutes of screaming. 29 days ago: Earth sends the Penal Marines.
Game system: Stay Frosty
Publisher: Garske Games
Game master:  Casey Garske
Game time: 20:00-24:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 138
Mature Content

Title: BACK IN THE VILLAGE
Description: A band of Seekers, tired but triumphant, return to their village after weeks of exploring the wastelands, and are met with fanfare and a mighty feast. At dawn, the Seekers discover that every other villager is gone, and they are the only living beings they can find. What could have happened to their little village?
Game system: Mutant Crawl Classics
Publisher: Goodman Games
Game master:  Matt Towle
Game time: 20:00-24:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 137

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Title: POKEMON: THE FINAL FRONTIER 
Description: Team Rocket is at it again, and it's up to you and your intrepid team of trainers to save the day IN SPACE.Kids and teens welcome.
Game system: Call of Cthulhu
Publisher: Chaosium
Game master: Bob Cook
Game time: 10:00-14:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 157
Kids Only

Title: VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENDER: ESCAPE FROM PLANET DOOM 
Description: Activate interlocks! Dyna-therms connected! Infra-cells up! Mega-thrusters are go! The members of Lion Force Voltron have gone missing. Galaxy Garrison has outfitted your group of cadet space explorers with a Voltron of your own, as your search for clues leading you to Planet Doom. Can your team bring back the legend of Voltron: Defender of the Universe?"
Game system: No Thank You, Evil!
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master:  Erik Mornes
Game time: 10:00-12:00 (2 hours)
Program guide page: 154
Kids Only

Title: GUARDIANS OF THE POWER COSMIC! 
Description: The Fantastic Four has gone missing at the other end of the universe and you and your super pals must form a new team to find them! We're mashing up our own Awesome Mixtape of old and new Guardians of the Galaxy from comics and films and maybe even an Avenger or two!
Game system: Marvel Super Heroes
Publisher: TSR Games
Game master: Jay Mac Bride
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 165

Title: STAR TREK: EXCALIBUR - THE SLAVER RUINS 
Description: While investigating the remains of a 9 billion-year-old Slaver outpost, Federation archaeologists are taken hostage by Cardassians, and the USS Excalibur (NCC-26517) is dispatched to rescue the scientists. Does a newly discovered stasis box contain an ancient weapon that could destabilize the Alpha Quadrant?
Game system: Star Trek: The Role Playing Game
Publisher: FASA
Game master:  Erik Mornes
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 165

Title: RUNNING COLD 
Description: You and your squadron mates have been sent to escort the deep space cruise liner Titan to its destination in the notoriously wealthy Korarian system. Your ColdFusion fighters are nimble enough to outrace both space pirates and hostile alien militias but unfortunately for you, a much greater danger lies in wait."
Game system: WorldGate
Publisher: 
Game master: Jenifer Doll
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 173

Title: STAR WARS: ACES HIGH 
Description: A war-weary group of pilots fighting for the rebel alliance try to snatch victory from almost certain defeat. Can the best pilots in the galaxy somehow stop the nearly limitless might of the Empire?
Game system: Star Wars RPG
Publisher: West End Games
Game master:  Matt Towle
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 180

Title: ROBOTECH: THE DERELICT 
Description: In search of the Robotech Masters' homeworld, the United Earth Expeditionary Force is constantly on guard for remnants of their Zentraedi army. While investigating the disappearance of several vessels in uncharted space, a Veritech fighter squadron detects a derelict Salan class scout ship. Is it a lifeless hulk, from a bygone era, or does it yet contain secrets, guarded by Spectres?
Game system: Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles Role-Playing Game
Publisher: Palladium Books
Game master: Erik Mornes
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 182

Title: WEIGHT OF A FEATHER 
Description: You just want to make rent in Manchester. A box of blue (well, probably blue) feathers was mistakenly mailed to you and your flatmates and after stocking a few feathers away for a rainy day you decide to sell the rest quick and on the cheap. A shame nothing is easy and your rent is the least of your worries now.
Game system: VURT: The Tabletop Roleplaying Game (uses Cypher System by Monte Cook Games)
Publisher: Ravendesk Games
Game master: Erich Doll
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)
Program guide page: 182
Mature Content

WE'LL SEE YOU AT THE CON!

All times are listed in 24-hour format by Con of the North. Programming subject to change. Watch for updates.

UPDATED: Con of the North programming changes

CH-CH-CH-CHANGES FOR SATURDAY NIGHT SPACE OPERA CON SCHEDULE

We've got a few updates for our upcoming Con of the North programming. One of our GM's had to bow out of the Con this year but we've filled his open game spots with two more awesome additions.

CANCELLED:

• Sunday at 16:00 - SPRAWL OF DUTY: ICE OPS / Powered by Apocalypse
• Saturday at 10:00 - THE GATE ESCAPE / Posthuman Studios, LLC

See below for the newly added games on the schedule...

CHOOSE YOUR UNIVERSE
We've got FIFTY HOURS (50!) of games planned, making for one packed schedule. See the full listings below and then watch for even more gaming surprises when you arrive on-site!

February 17-19, 2017 

Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West Hotel 

Mark your calendars and make sure your winter gaming schedule includes some space opera adventures!

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17

Title: YOUNG CENTURIONS - REVENGE ON MARS
Description: On the eve of WW I, Martian artifacts are uncovered hinting at a new Tripod Invasion. The teen heroes of the Century Club must find a way to defeat the Martian foes before they once again wrap their slimy tentacles around the Earth.  Try out this easy, fun-to-play pulp RPG prequel to Evil Hat’s Spirit of the Century.

Game System: Young Centurions - Fate Core

Publisher: Evil Hat Productions
Game Master:  John Everett Till 
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)

Title: ESCAPE FROM PLANET ARES
Description: Game over, man! The dropship crashed on this godforsaken rock before the Major could even tell you what the mission was. You’ve got your gear, a map, and some sensor readings you don’t like the looks of.  Can you survive until the cavalry arrives? Stay Frosty is an unholy chimera, mixing old-school D&D, Aliens, Doom, and Starship Troopers.
Game System: Stay Frosty
Publisher: Garske Games
Game Master:  Casey Garske
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

NEW! Title: FAR TREK: BRING BACK VULCAN
Description: Can Romulans and the Federation work together to reverse the greatest disaster in the history of the Alpha Quadrant? See for yourself, as teams from both civilizations come together to rescue the Vulcan homeworld from oblivion. Character templates provided. No previous experience with Far Trek necessary.

Game System: Far Trek

Publisher: Far Trek

Game Master:  John Till 

Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: THE MASK OF EONS
Description: Even as war rages and sentient nanites hunt humans and their alien allies to the brink of existence, guard duty on an interstellar civilian transport vessel is usually uneventful. But one passenger has brought along a dangerous artifact that the nanite threat would do anything to possess. Can you and your small team find a way to stop them before the ship's meager defenses are overwhelmed?
Game System: Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master:  Jenifer Dol
Game time: 20:00-24:00 (4 hours)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18

NEW! Title: LAST CALL ON DANTOOINE
Description: A team of out-of-touch rebels arrive at the main rebel base on Dantooine, months after the Alliance has moved on. It won't be long before they have a little company--Imperial company! A free-form adventure that might lead anywhere, from the badlands of Dantooine to the spice mines of Kessel!

Game System: Star Wars, 2nd Edition

Publisher: West End Games

Game Master:  Matt Towle 

Game time: 10:00-14:00 (4 hours)

Title: ESCAPE FROM PLANET ARES 
Description: Game over, man! The dropship crashed on this godforsaken rock before the Major could even tell you what the mission was. You’ve got your gear, a map, and some sensor readings you don’t like the looks of.  Can you survive until the cavalry arrives? Stay Frosty is an unholy chimera, mixing old-school D&D, Aliens, Doom, and Starship Troopers.
Game System: Stay Frosty
Publisher: Garske Games
Game Master:  Casey Garske
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)

Title: THE LAST MOONBASE
Description: It's been 200 years since the end of civilization on Earth. 200 years since anyone even entered orbit, much less went to the moon. Now your band of mutated brothers is blasting off to The Last Moonbase!
Game System: Mutant Crawl Classics
Publisher: Goodman Games
Game Master:  Matt Towle 
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)

Title: THE VAST UNSPOKEN SIN
Description: Ancient alien ruins may hold the key to combating the sentient nanites who are hunting mankind into extinction, but many of them are hidden on dangerous planets near the galaxy's center. You and your team are on the verge of a major discovery, but what you uncover on your archaeological mission doesn't just have the potential to save your world--it also has the potential to destroy it.
Game System: Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master:  Jenifer Dol
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: RAD ASTRA: RALLY FOR THE GALAXY
Description: Welcome Starbucklers, Astrosassins, Astrocasters and Starbarians! Charge your friction pistol and plug in your hyperspace key, 'cuz you're racing a suped-up interstellar freighter in the greatest race in the galaxy! Be a real space ace in this rules-light, mash-up of 70s and 80s space opera. Materials provided.

Game System: Rad Astra

Publisher: Rad Astra Entertainment
Game Master:  Jay MacBride 
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19

Title: THE VOICE OF THE UNAWARE
Description: When humans gained access to the nanite sub-reality during their continuing war with the nanite threat, they found many strange things therein. None so strange, however, as the now infamous nanite forged complex of stasis pods which contain non-combat human-like androids who lie silent but show brain activity. What could they be for? You and your team have been sent to unravel this mystery.

Game System: Cypher System

Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master:  Jenifer Dol
Game time: 10:00-14:00 (4 hours)

Title: TYCHO BRAHE'S MOM IS CANCELLED (GM is out ill)
Description: Tycho's Mom has gone missing, and the astronomer requires your help to find and retrieve her safely. The game may include Adult Themes and concepts prevalent in the Weird Fantasy genre. Pregen characters will be provided.

Game System: Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Publisher: Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Game Master:  Bob Cook

Game time: 14:00-16:00 (2 hours)

Title: THUNDER ON EUROPA
Description: They say Replicants don't have real feelings. They say the conditioning Replicants undergo is too strong to break. They say the Colony on Europa is a model for the whole Solar System. They might be wrong.  A Cypher System/Bladerunner game.

Game System: Cypher System

Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master:  Matt Towle
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)

Title: STAR TREK EXCALIBUR: GOLD SUN
Description: A Federation commissioner, young and impetuous, disappeared while checking into rumors that a mysterious water world holds the secret of Gold Sun, a legendary power of unknown origin. Now the crew of USS Excalibur (NCC-26517), an Ambassador-class starship, undertake a desperate rescue mission, guided by the commissioner's now half-sane Arkenite aide. Dive to depths, where no one has gone before.

Game System: Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game (Second Edition)

Publisher: FASA

Game Master:  Erik Mornes
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)

SEE YOU AT THE CON!

All times are listed in 24-hour format by Con of the North. Programming subject to change. Watch for updates.

Saturday Night Space Opera at 2017 Con of the North!

SATURDAY NIGHT SPACE OPERA STRIKES BACK!

We're returning to Con of the North with more spacey and scifi fun! All weekend long you can get your fill of ray-blastin', science fiction, role-playing games!

CHOOSE YOUR UNIVERSE

We've got FIFTY HOURS (50!) of games planned, making for one packed schedule. See the full listings below and then watch for even more gaming surprises when you arrive on-site!

REGISTER ONLINE

New this year for the con is a super convenient online registration system. You also can sign up for games online! That feature hasn't gone live yet, but we'll remind you when it does.

February 17-19, 2017 

Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West Hotel 

Mark your calendars and make sure your winter gaming schedule includes some space opera adventures!

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17

Title: YOUNG CENTURIONS - REVENGE ON MARS
Description: On the eve of WW I, Martian artifacts are uncovered hinting at a new Tripod Invasion. The teen heroes of the Century Club must find a way to defeat the Martian foes before they once again wrap their slimy tentacles around the Earth.  Try out this easy, fun-to-play pulp RPG prequel to Evil Hat’s Spirit of the Century.

Game System: Young Centurions - Fate Core

Publisher: Evil Hat Productions
Game Master:  John Everett Till 
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)

Title: ESCAPE FROM PLANET ARES
Description: Game over, man! The dropship crashed on this godforsaken rock before the Major could even tell you what the mission was. You’ve got your gear, a map, and some sensor readings you don’t like the looks of.  Can you survive until the cavalry arrives? Stay Frosty is an unholy chimera, mixing old-school D&D, Aliens, Doom, and Starship Troopers.
Game System: Stay Frosty
Publisher: Garske Games
Game Master:  Casey Garske
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: SPRAWL OF DUTY: ICE OPS
Description: What began as a simple case of stolen identities proves to be more convoluted than originally thought. The door is opened into a world of crime that could change the status quo of your city. What do you do?

Game System: Sprawl (First Edition) 

Publisher: Powered by Apocalypse

Game Master:  Christian Barrett 

Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: THE MASK OF EONS
Description: Even as war rages and sentient nanites hunt humans and their alien allies to the brink of existence, guard duty on an interstellar civilian transport vessel is usually uneventful. But one passenger has brought along a dangerous artifact that the nanite threat would do anything to possess. Can you and your small team find a way to stop them before the ship's meager defenses are overwhelmed?
Game System: Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master:  Jenifer Dol
Game time: 20:00-24:00 (4 hours)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Title: THE GATE ESCAPE
Description: When the Gateway discovery on Mercury was first announced yesterday, people have been bidding enormous prices for the first chance to step through and claim what's on the other side. However, you have been offered a free exclusive ticket and the news was released to the universe that your corporation is sponsoring you. Everyone is happy about that ... right?

Game System: Eclipse Phase, 1st Edition

Publisher: Posthuman Studios, LLC

Game Master:  Christian Barrett 

Game time: 10:00-14:00 (4 hours)

Title: ESCAPE FROM PLANET ARES 
Description: Game over, man! The dropship crashed on this godforsaken rock before the Major could even tell you what the mission was. You’ve got your gear, a map, and some sensor readings you don’t like the looks of.  Can you survive until the cavalry arrives? Stay Frosty is an unholy chimera, mixing old-school D&D, Aliens, Doom, and Starship Troopers.
Game System: Stay Frosty
Publisher: Garske Games
Game Master:  Casey Garske
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)

Title: THE LAST MOONBASE
Description: It's been 200 years since the end of civilization on Earth. 200 years since anyone even entered orbit, much less went to the moon. Now your band of mutated brothers is blasting off to The Last Moonbase!
Game System: Mutant Crawl Classics
Publisher: Goodman Games
Game Master:  Matt Towle 
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)

Title: THE VAST UNSPOKEN SIN
Description: Ancient alien ruins may hold the key to combating the sentient nanites who are hunting mankind into extinction, but many of them are hidden on dangerous planets near the galaxy's center. You and your team are on the verge of a major discovery, but what you uncover on your archaeological mission doesn't just have the potential to save your world--it also has the potential to destroy it.
Game System: Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master:  Jenifer Dol
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)

Title: RAD ASTRA: RALLY FOR THE GALAXY
Description: Welcome Starbucklers, Astrosassins, Astrocasters and Starbarians! Charge your friction pistol and plug in your hyperspace key, 'cuz you're racing a suped-up interstellar freighter in the greatest race in the galaxy! Be are real space ace in this rules-light, mash-up of 70s and 80s space opera. Materials provided.

Game System: Rad Astra

Publisher: Rad Astra Entertainment
Game Master:  Jay MacBride 
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19

Title: THE VOICE OF THE UNAWARE
Description: When humans gained access to the nanite sub-reality during their continuing war with the nanite threat, they found many strange things therein. None so strange, however, as the now infamous nanite forged complex of stasis pods which contain non-combat human-like androids who lie silent but show brain activity. What could they be for? You and your team have been sent to unravel this mystery.

Game System: Cypher System

Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master:  Jenifer Dol
Game time: 10:00-14:00 (4 hours)

Title: TYCHO BRAHE'S MOM
Description: Tycho's Mom has gone missing, and the astronomer requires your help to find and retrieve her safely. The game may include Adult Themes and concepts prevalent in the Weird Fantasy genre. Pregen characters will be provided.

Game System: Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Publisher: Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Game Master:  Bob Cook

Game time: 14:00-16:00 (2 hours)

Title: THUNDER ON EUROPA
Description: They say Replicants don't have real feelings. They say the conditioning Replicants undergo is too strong to break. They say the Colony on Europa is a model for the whole Solar System. They might be wrong.  A Cypher System/Bladerunner game.

Game System: Cypher System

Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master:  Matt Towle
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)

Title: STAR TREK EXCALIBUR: GOLD SUN
Description: A Federation commissioner, young and impetuous, disappeared while checking into rumors that a mysterious water world holds the secret of Gold Sun, a legendary power of unknown origin. Now the crew of USS Excalibur (NCC-26517), an Ambassador-class starship, undertake a desperate rescue mission, guided by the commissioner's now half-sane Arkenite aide. Dive to depths, where no one has gone before.

Game System: Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game (Second Edition)

Publisher: FASA

Game Master:  Erik Mornes
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)

SEE YOU AT THE CON!

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SNSO at Con of the North 2016!

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

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