Jan. SNSO: New Year of Excitement!

Happy New Year! Congrats--we vanquished 2020 and a new year has begun. Let's kick it off with some awesome scifi adventures! We're looking for a few more good Mandalorians and we've got loads of fun as either teenagers in space or mutants in the post-apocalypse! 

Saturday, January 9 at 6:00 pm

Mando Force Five: PART II

UPDATE: 2 Seats Open

GM: Jay Mac Bride
Game system: Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game by West End Games (2nd Ed.)
Chat platform: Zoom

Seating: There are exactly five (5) seats for this game. No more, no less. I have spoken.

NOTE: Players should have viewed all of Season 1. Discussion about Season 2 may occur as well, in case you are avoiding spoilers--this is your warning.

You are Mandalorians. The Nevarro covert was exposed when one of your own made a daring escape off-world with a mysterious child. Five of you made a run for it. Without a home for your tribe--and on the run from Imperial warlords--you need to establish a new covert, find work, seek Beskar, and rebuild. So the Mandalorian creed can live on. You are both hunters and the hunted ... This is the Way.   

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Teens in Space: Plague Memory

GM: Jeff Conrad

Game system: Teens in Space
Chat platform: Zoom

Seating: Six (6) spots available

Wearing hand-me-down space gear from your older siblings, on a "Salvagable Resources" academy-funded field trip to collect some lost data from a softened tundra planet. You've heard of Valvasor VII? That planet in the vidtexts, where the sky is soft violet, the deer have forward facing eyestalks, the silicon trees sing, and  the inhabitants live in karst caverns? However, even the student instructor does NOT know that the Academy's research vessel in orbit has crashed to the surface. Can the Teens handle an emergency rescue? For extra credit? 

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MCC: Down, Down, Nine Fathoms Deep!

GM: Matt Towle

Game system: Mutant Crawl Classics
Chat platform: Zoom

Seating: Six (6) spots available

Buried under the murky water of the Glowing Sea sleeps a stronghold of the Ancient Ones. What treasures will you find, and what danger lurks there? Your only clue is etched into the side of a crystalline key. Will you open the portal to the unknown? 

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SNSO Online Games Primer

Once you sign up, kindly read upon our online gaming FAQ and be familiar with how we're running games these days (tips hat). All games begin at the same time, so you may only choose one. 

Free RPG Day Online Games and Webinars!

Looking to try out new roleplaying games without spending a dime? We've got a day of thrilling RPG adventures lined up!

This year's Free RPG Day has been pushed back due to the pandemic. As stores scrambled to find a way to offer events with stay at home orders or reduced store capacity. So we partnered with Source Comics & Games to bring you our first-ever all online Free RPG Day event!

We've got a buncha' space and scif-fi excitement in five roleplaying sessions. AND if you're looking to level-up as a GM, we're offering free game master clinic webinars! Choose from a variety of topics in game design or learning more about what games are out there!

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We'll send you a link to the Zoom event a few days prior. Be sure to check out our Online Game FAQ before you attend.

Here's the schedule of events:

SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2020

2:00 P.M.

RPG: STAR TREK ADVENTURES: Requiem for Miri

A century after USS Enterprise visited Earth Two and its inhabitants, the Onlies, Federation scientists are still unraveling the circumstances surrounding the Life Prolongation Project. USS Excalibur (NCC-26517) is dispatched to uncover a mystery, only to find echoes of the past. This is a TNG sequel to TOS episode "Miri."
Game time: 2 hours
Rule System: Star Trek Adventures by Modiphius
Game Master: Erik Mornes
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3:00 P.M. 

WEBINAR: Beyond D&D: Cool Games You May Not Have Tried
Want to learn more about games you've not played or had a chance to run? Get an overview of what's out there by major publishers as well as what's going on in the indie RPG scene. And get your questions answered about them!
Webinar time: 1 hour with Q&A
Presenter: Jenifer Doll
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4:00 P.M. 

WEBINAR: Creating Star Trek RPG Adventures That Feel "Trek"
Two SNSO game masters discuss their approaches to creating Star Trek roleplaying adventures, using sci-fi concepts (time travel, AI, generation ships, etc.) steeped in Star Trek mythos. Discussion also includes how the mechanics of various Star Trek game systems enable certain kinds of play and stories.
Webinar time: 1 hour with Q&A
Presenters: Erik Mornes and John Till
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RPG: STARS WITHOUT NUMBER: Pharma Couriers

Fans of Firefly and spaghetti westerns listen up! On a supply mission a medical supply ship, you and your crew travel to a distant mining colony. Save lives and help solve the colony get back on its feet before its too late--and make a few extra credits while you're at it!
Game time: 4 hours
Rule System: Stars Without Number by Sine Nomine Publishing
Game Master: Jeff Conrad
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RPG: KNAVE: Origins of Discontent (A Scifi Hack)

It was supposed to be a pleasure cruise through the most beautiful wild star systems in the galaxy, a reward for your hard work and dedication to the Galactic Alliance Investigation Bureau. The experience is every bit as grand as you'd been promised--even if slightly marred by the plethora of the insufferably wealthy who keep mistaking you for ship crew. Now, suddenly, someone is dead: an inaccessible human skeleton floating calmly through an arc chamber... but no one on board is missing, and the ship is days away from a safe port. Suspicion among the elite (and their private security teams) is quickly breeding a mutiny and the captain of the vessel is begging you for help...
Game time: 2 hours
Rule System: Knave by Questing Beast Publishing
Game Master: Jenifer Doll
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RPG: MUTANT CRAWL CLASSICS: The Unregarded Passage

In a gonzo, post-apocalyptic future where science seems more like magic and the landscape is filled with mutants of every kind, your band of Seekers finds a nondescript tunnel while exploring a ruined structure. What dangers lurk down below the stones of the past, and what treasures might you find?
Game time: 4 hours
Rule System: Mutant Crawl Classics by Goodman Games
Game Master: Matt Towle
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6:00 P.M. 

WEBINAR: Using Implied Setting in World Building and Game Design
How to use rules, character options, random tables and other tools to streamline and improve your game design and world-building process.
Webinar time: 1 hour with Q&A
Presenter: Casey Garske
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RPG: ALIEN: From A Dead Planet

Your crew is in the wrong place at the right time. The Company has asked you to retrieve a scientific package from a military transport, The Deadfall Hornet. The question is whether you can grab the goods before things go critical. Can you?
Game time: 2 hours
Rule System: ALIEN Roleplaying Game by Modiphius
Game Master: John Till
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Note: Mature audience

8:00 P.M.

WEBINAR: Ask Us Anything Zoom Party!
Saturday Night Space Opera began offering free in-person gaming at Source Comics & Games in 2015. After 5 years and more than 250 public game experiences in the Twin Cities, we've learned a few things!  After a brief overview, attendees can ask us anything game or SNSO related (e.g,event organizing, game design, running one-shot adventures, etc.).
Webinar time: 1 hour with Q&A
Presenters: All Free RPG Day Game Masters!
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SEE YOU SATURDAY, SPACE GAMER!

More details to come! Schedule and programming subject to change. All times are Central US time zone.

TABLETOP TESSERACT 2: THE SCIFI STRIKES BACK!

Our ALL DAY science fiction, FREE game-a-palooza is BACK! Once again, we're beaming up to Source Comics & Games on the second Saturday of September (Sept. 8). for our second all-day tabletop gaming con, filled with stupendous space opera and weird sci-fi excitement!

We'll also have giveaways, a drawing for prizes, and more!

NEW this year: We've mapped our offerings to four themes to choose from:

• BIG SETTING (Star Wars, Star Trek, BSG, etc.)
• MUTANT MAYHEM 
• CYBERPUNK 
• RETRO/PULP

Tabletop Tesseract is a FREE event! 

We'll have games for kids, novice cadets, and veteran space marines. All materials will be provided and no experience with a given system is necessary to play. In many cases, pre-generated characters will be included so you can hop right into the game. Scroll to the bottom of the schedule to save your seat and RSVP!

Most of the games listed are roleplaying games, unless otherwise noted.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

10:15 a.m. 
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?
Max Players: 6 (This adventure is for ages 7-12)
Game System: No Thank You Evil
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master: Oskar and Erik Mornes
Approx. run time: 2 hours
Theme: Big Setting

Title: 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.
Max Players: 5
Game System: Kingdom
Publisher: Lame Mage Production
Game Master:  Patrick Schifano
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Retro/Pulp

12:00 p.m. 
Title: STEPHEN UNIVERSE

Description: Based off the hit TV series, you play an "off color" Gem. Can you escape the tyranny of Homeworld by stealing Golden Beryl's prize ship, Heart of Gold?
Max Players: 6 (This adventure is for ages 7-12)
Game System: No Thank You Evil
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master: Oskar and Erik Mornes
Approx. run time: 2 hours
Theme: Big Setting

Title: SAVE THE STREETS: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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 growling, howling, clawing, scratching band of mutant ninjas! Save the city before it’s too late! This original scenario uses a rules light system geared toward younger, more novice players.
Max Players: 6 (This adventure is for ages 7-12)
Game System: TBD
Publisher: TBD
Game Master: Jay MacBride
Approx. run time: 2 hours
Theme: Mutant Mayhem

Title: JUSTICE OF THE GENE POLICE

Description: Returning from the Blasted Lands, the Seekers run afoul of the most hate-filled people of Terra A.D., the Gene Police!  Trapped in the Halls of Woe, on the Isle of Ryke, will your team of misfits and "impure" mutants escape the torturous fate decreed by the Kromosome Kommissar?
Max Players: 8
Game System: Mutant Crawl Classics
Publisher: Goodman Games
Game Master: Matt Towle
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Mutant Mayhem

Title: RAYGUNS & ROCKETSHIPS

Description: In the frozen heart of space lies a fantastic galaxy of planets populated by space-faring factions called Planeteers, who wage a never-ending battle of Rayguns and Rocketships. This fast-paced strategy, features pulse-pounding, pulp-style action and over 32 original miniatures!
Max Players: 4
Game System: Rayguns & Rocketships (board game)
Publisher: IDW Games
Game Master: Jeff Conrad
Approx. run time: 2 hours
Theme: Retro/Pulp

2:00 p.m. 
Title: ECLIPSE PHASE: ALL THE SMALL THINGS

Description: Eclipse Phase homebrew scenario where you're in one of the most advanced morphs yet.  A Firewall supporter needs help determining a sudden illness in the family. Could this be a corporate biohack, or is it just another new belter virus making its way inward? You'll start out at the uplift octomorph research facility, run by the Hidden Concern on Ceres. It's time to think big, or perhaps even small.
Max Players: 5
Game System: Eclipse Phase (First Edition)
Publisher: Posthuman Studios
Game Master: Jeff Conrad
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Cyberpunk

Title: THE STRANGE: 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, you realize it’s anything but stable! Can you survive the mission with robot riots and laser death rays?
Max Players: 6
Game System: The Strange / Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master: Erich Doll
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Retro/Pulp

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.
Max Players: 8
Game System: Cortex System
Publisher: Margaret Weis Productions
Game Master: Erik Mornes
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Big Setting

Title: STAR TREK ADVENTURES: NO SMALL FAVOR

Description: There's a Klingon saying that "A cloaked ship is no small favor." The Federation has become REALLY tired of asking how many special missions could benefit from a cloaked ship. So when the opportunity comes up to acquire one, without having to ask permission or beg, well, Starfleet demands you go get it!
Max Players: 6
Game System: Star Trek Adventures
Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment
Game Master: John Everett Till
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Big Setting

Title: GHOLA

Description: Within the seedy bars and dark alleys of the Budayeen creep a menagerie of cybernetic spirits sharing the minds of wired citizens wearing Moddies. However recently a true abomination seems to have emerged, a Moddie that has inhabited the dead and brought forth their own life. Be part of a fellowship formed to hunt down this ghola in the Islamic cybernetic future of George Alec Effinger, author of When Gravity Fails and other books in The Budayeen Cycle.
Max Players: 4
Game System: Follow
Publisher: Lame Mage Production
Game Master:  Patrick Schifano
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Cyberpunk

4:00 p.m. 
Title: WARLORDS OF ATOZ

Description: When your hothouse jungle home is suddenly flooded with dispossessed refugees, they all tell the same tale. A conquering horde of warlords wielding magic boom sticks are wiping out whole villages and enslaving the inhabitants — all in the name of a surviving Ancient One they worship as a god. The tribal elders send you and your Seeker team out to investigate, and if possible infiltrate, the temple of the great and powerful ATOZ. (G.G. published module)
Max Players: 8
Game System: Mutant Crawl Classics
Publisher: Goodman Games
Game Master: Matt Towle
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Retro/Pulp

6:00 p.m. 
Title: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: PRELUDE TO WAR

Description: Listen up nuggets--here's the SitRep: The daughter of a prominent Caprican politician has been kidnapped by monotheistic militants. Only you and your team of elite human and toaster--er, Cylon--special forces can save her. SO SAY WE ALL!
Max Players: 6
Game System: Battlestar Galactica - Cortex System
Publisher: Margaret Weis Productions
Game Master:  Erik Mornes
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Big Setting

Title: DOCTOR WHO: DINOSAURS ON A SPACESHIP: PART YOU! (THE REMIX)

Description: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship was one of the best Series 7 Doctor Who episodes. The Doctor and several companions jumped onto the Silurian ark with the Tardis, and saved the ark and its dinosaurs from both the missiles of the Indian Space Agency, and from a particularly disreputable salvager and his sarcastic robots. Then the Doctor left the scene. Now the ark needs YOU! Jump into the sequel, as an expedition from Earth seeks to wrest control of the Silurian space ark from unknown invaders! This is a remix of our July SNSO scenario, with more dinosaurs, and more unearthly threats on the Silurian ark!
Max Players:6
Game System: Doctor Who Roleplaying Game
Publisher: Cubicle 7
Game Master:  John Everett Till
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Big Setting

Title: NUMENERA: THE NIGHT CRAFT

Description: A billion years in Earth's future, you're trying to make a life for yourself among the ruins of eight prior civilizations. Then you find something hiding in cave that bewilders even one who is accustomed to the random strangeness of unfathomable alien technologies. Boarding the Night Craft means seizing a chance to explore the stars and find amazements beyond your wildest imagination. But you aren't the first crew of the Night Craft, and if you aren't careful, you won't be the last.
Max Players: 6
Game System: Numenera / Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master:  Jenifer Doll
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Big Setting

Title: STAR WARS: 501st Legion - S.O.B.s

Description: Reformed in the First Order, the 501st Legion directly serves Kylo Ren and has been called “Kylo's Fist.” The Special Operations Battalion handles matters which require more precision than being callously smashed by the rest of Kylo's Fist. Note: Game book contains mature language.
Max Players: 6
Game System: Stay Frosty
Publisher: Garske Games
Game Master:  Patrick Schifano
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Big Setting

Title: STAR WARS: EDGE OF THE EMPIRE

Description: The Outer Rim is filled with smoky cantinas and shady, back alleys. These are havens for the kind of scum and villainy you--a smuggler, bounty hunter, or other galactic scoundrel--crave. Paying off your debts so you can call your own shots is what it's all about. But the only way to make a fortune under the Empire's chokehold is to make it under the table in some seedy port of call...with a good blaster at your side. You in?
Max Players: 8
Game System: Star Wars: Edge of the Empire (Beginner Box Set)
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Game Master:  Spencer R. Hayes
Approx. run time: 4 hours
Theme: Big Setting

8:00 p.m. 
Title: ESCAPE FROM THE ALIENS IN OUTER SPACE

Description: Set aboard a badly-damaged, deep-space research vessel where all the ship's systems have failed. An alien plague is transforming the crew into terrifying monsters! You can play a human trying to escape by reaching one of the hatches--or an alien hunting the humans down. Each player’s identity and position is secret. Interpret your opponents' movements and behaviors to learn who and where they really are.
Max Players: 8
Game System: Escape From the Aliens In Outer Space (strategy card game)
Publisher: Osprey Games
Game Master:  Matt Towle
Approx. run time: 2 hours
Theme: Retro/Pulp

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PROGRAM LAST UPDATED: 9.7.2018

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.

Oct. TABLETOP TESSERACT Program Schedule!

Charge your pulse rifle and prime your rocket boots--it's almost here: a FULL DAY of sci-fi and space opera adventure! Join us at The Source on the second Saturday of October (Oct. 14) for 19 games (12 hours!) of outer space excitement.

Tabletop Tesseract is a FREE event! 

We'll have games for kids, novice players, and veteran space marines. All materials will be provided--in many cases, than includes pre-generated characters so you can hop right into the game. Scroll down to RSVP!

Feel free to bring your own dice if you like, but we'll have everything you need to get started.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14

10:00 a.m. 

Title: STAR TREK ADVENTURES: VULCAN TROUBLES
Description: Your Constitution class starship comes under attack from an Orion raider as you approach the Vulcan world of P’Jem on a clandestine mission. An original series adventure. Pregens provided.

Max Players: 5
Game System: Star Trek Adventures

Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment
Game Master:  John Everett Till 
Approx. run time: 2 hours

Title: MOONCRAFT: A MINECRAFT RPG
Description: This adventure is for ages 7-12. 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? Come see what this Saturday Morning Space Opera is all about!

Max Players: 6
Game System: No Thank You Evil

Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master:  Oskar and Erik Mornes 
Approx. run time: 2 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." Rules are simple and will be taught.
Max Players: 6

Game System: Coriolis

Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment
Game Master:  Christian Barrett
Approx. run time: 3 hours

Title: THERE BE SPACE MONSTERS
Description: An underwater colony on an oceanic alien world is threatened by what settlers are calling a ‘sea monster’. There is no xenobiological evidence that the creature actually exists, however, so you and a team of scientists have been sent to conduct an ‘investigation’ to calm the settlers.

Max Players: 6
Game System: Cypher System

Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master:  Jenifer Doll 
Approx. run time: 3 hours

Title: UNBROKEN MOON
Description: A century ago the moon colony upon which you were born was severed from all contact with the planet below. Today you are part of the crew who are to rediscover, and hopefully reclaim, your ancestral homeworld.

Max Players: 6
Game System: Savage Worlds

Publisher: Pinnacle Entertainment Group
Game Master:  Ben Pika
Approx. run time: 3 hours

Title: MCC 1: EPSILON CITY BLUES
Description: Manimal! Plantient! Pure Strain! Mutant! Each of you has lived within the secure embrace of the Tribe of Jinn for many sun-cycles, but no more! Cast out into the taboo World Above, you must survive and discover the secrets of the Blue Plague, the wonders of the Ancients, and the terror of the God Who Screams! A zero-level funnel for MCC, set aboard the Starship Warden from Metamorphosis Alpha. Pre-gens provided.

Max Players: 7
Game System: Mutant Crawl Classics

Publisher: Goodman Games
Game Master:  Matt Towle
Approx. run time: 3 hours

1:00 p.m. 

Title: WHAT IN DARKNESS WAITS
Description: A xenoecological research base stationed in an alien cave system is suddenly operating under radio silence and refusing to make contact with local security force patrols despite scans showing normal human activity. Your team has been sent in to investigate.

Max Players: 6
Game System: Cypher System

Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game Master:  Jenifer Doll 
Approx. run time: 3 hours

Title: STARFINDER:  HOMEBREW ADVENTURE
Description: Hey Pathfinders: come explore a brand new outer space setting in the far future where Golarian has mysteriously disappeared and been replaced by an orbiting space station! This streamlined version of the Pathfinder rules system packs a real sci-fi punch--power armor and all. Discover a bold, weird universe where elves and dwarves meet new alien races, and science fiction mingles with swords and sorcery aboard fantastic starships! Pregens provided.

Max Players: 6
Game System: Starfinder Core Rules

Publisher: Paizo
Game Master:  Ben Pika
Approx. run time: 3 hours

Title: MCC 2: OLD MANIMAL AND THE C-DECK
Description: You've endured the Blue Plague and plundered the dread home of the Piranha-Bats, but are you ready to explore What Lies Beneath? If "Hoss" Cartwright is correct, your only hope is to delve where few mutants have dared before: the service tunnels beneath every main deck of the Warden! Will you find the secret to survival, or only a grisly death for you and your friends? A 1st-level adventure for MCC, set aboard the Starship Warden from Metamorphosis Alpha. Pre-gens provided. MCC 1 players may bring a character that survived.

Max Players: 7
Game System: Mutant Crawl Classics

Publisher: Goodman Games
Game Master:  Matt Towle
Approx. run time: 3 hours

2:00 p.m. 

Title: STARFINDER SOCIETY ROLEPLAYING GUILD SCENARIO 1-02
Description: Theft cannot be tolerated, especially when the culprit is a former Starfinder! The PCs travel to the red world of Akiton, hot on the heels of a deserting Starfinder who stole a magical relic from the vaults of the Lorespire Complex. Things get complicated when they discover what should be a dreary town in Akiton's wastelands is now positively jubilant. Could this revelry, not to mention the re-opening of town's formerly defunct mining operations, be related to the wayward Starfinder? This official Starfinder Society scenario is designed for levels 1-4.

Max Players: 6
Game System: Starfinder Core Rules

Publisher: Paizo
Game Master:  Christian Barrett
Approx. run time: 4 hours 

4:00 p.m. 

Title: SNUBFIGHTER: STAR WARS
Description: Rebellion and Imperial pilots dogfight as the battle of Endor rages. This is an original game that uses simple, easy-to-learn miniatures rules. All materials provided.

Max Players: 6
Game System: Snubfighter

Publisher: Garske Games
Game Master:  Casey Garske
Approx. run time: 2 hours

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?

Max Players: 6
Game System: Battlestar Galactica - Cortex System

Publisher: Margaret Weis Productions
Game Master:  Erik Mornes
Approx. run time: 3 hours

Title: TO BOLDLY GO
Description: Your ship the USS Potemkin and its crew of 350 are being sent out to discover new worlds, make contact with new species, and boldly go where no one has gone before: near the Neutral Zone. What decisions will you make to deal with challenges that emerge?

Max Players: 5
Game System: Kingdom
Publisher: Lame Mage Productions

Game Master:  Patrick Schifano
Approx. run time: 3 hours

Title: SPACE DANDY
Description: He's a dandy guy in space. He combs the galaxy--like his pompadour--on the hunt for aliens. Planet after planet he searches, discovering bizarre new creatures both friendly and...not. These are the spectacular adventures of Space Dandy and his brave space crew in space. Based on the anime.

Max Players: 5
Game System: Fate Core

Publisher: Evil Hat Productions
Game Master:  Bob Cook 
Approx. run time: 3 hours

Title: MUTANT CHRONICLES
Description: Part planetary romance, part cyberpunk. Mutant Chronicles is set among battling interplanetary mega-corporations vying for territory on Mars. Brave the forces of demonic space gods, who spread their foul influence throughout the titanic city of Luna on Earth's moon!

Max Players: 6
Game System: Mutant Chronicles

Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment
Game Master:  Ben Pika
Approx. run time: 3 hours

6:00 p.m. 

Title: STARFINDER SOCIETY ROLEPLAYING GUILD SCENARIO 1-03
Description:  A Starfinder expedition's dusty data from an orbital scan shows signs of active technology on a distant, war-ravaged planet. Following up on this old lead, the Society dispatches a team of Starfinders to investigate the far-off world. Between making first contact and exploring the ruins of a dead civilization, long-buried secrets of the past are ripe for discovery. This official Starfinder Society scenario is designed for levels 1-4.

Max Players: 6
Game System: Starfinder Core Rules

Publisher: Paizo
Game Master:  Christian Barrett
Approx. run time: 4 hours

7:00 p.m. 

Title: STAR TREK ADVENTURES: CARDASSIA: PICKING UP THE PIECES
Description: The Dominion War is over, and Cardassia lies in ruins. You are Federation peacemakers, charged with picking up the pieces in that wartorn region of space, which is plagued by Klingon and Maquis privateers, covert Romulan agents, metagenic plagues, and more. What can you and your crew do to make things better and prevent the next war? Set in ST: The Next Generation era.

Max Players: 5
Game System: Star Trek Adventures

Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment
Game Master:  John Everett Till 
Approx. run time: 3+ hours

Title: ROBOTECH: THE SHADOW CHRONICLES
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?

Max Players: 6
Game System: Robotech RPG

Publisher: Palladium Books
Game Master:  Erik Mornes 
Approx. run time: 3+ hours

Title: STAR WARS: 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. All materials provided.

Max Players: 6

Game System: Stay Frosty

Publisher: Garske Games
Game Master:  Casey Garske 
Approx. run time: 3+ hours

Just a reminder that this event is FREE! 
Space will be limited to table capacity. Mark your calendar and get there early on...

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14

RSVP HERE: We can't take reservations, but please let us know you're coming! Click the image below to RSVP:

Arrive early, stay late! 

Seating is first-come, first served. Plan to arrive before posted game time. Program schedule is subject to change. 

Remember to bookmark this website so you can follow along with the latest updates!

August is a Mutant Mashup: EPSILON CITY BLUES!

August tabletops are HEATING UP, but it's not the seasons--it's the RADIATION! We've got a special treat--two in fact--a mashup of old and new mutant mayhem: Metamorphosis Alpha and Mutant Crawl Classics! Goodman games has brought the former RPG back from the brink and the latter one is their own mutation, based on the hit Dungeon Crawl Classics! GM Matt Towle leads your party on a wasteland quest.

MISSION DETAILS:

Your tribe has been at peace with the Wolfoids for years. Now, all that has changed. Can your tribe survive the Blue Plague? Can you discover the identity of the God Who Screams? Can you even figure out how to use the elevator? Grab your wooden spear and your glow-balls, it's time for EPSILON CITY BLUES...

6:00 pm / Saturday, August 12

Source Comics + Games

Adventure awaits: RSVP now!

You also can RSVP on the SNSO Google+ Community page. Click the image below:

PLAYERS:

• BYO RPG dice!
• Pre-generated characters provided!
• No prior experience with Metamorphosis Alpha or Mutant Crawl Classics!
• Remember: We meet on the SECOND Saturday of the Month now!