April SNSO: Swashbucklers and Rocket Packs!

It's here! Spring! And we've got a double dose of sci-fi fantasy for you! Mando Force Five is back for another mission and we've got a brand new adventure on Barsoom (Mars!) for John Carter fans!

Saturday, April 17 at 6:00 pm

Leading the way is John Carter of Mars, the classic tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs re-spun into a fantastic roleplaying game!

JOHN CARTER OF MARS: The Canal Demons

GM: John Till
Game system: John Carter of Mars from Modiphius
Chat platform: Zoom

MISSION: Something has interrupted food shipments along Barsoom's subterranean canals to the Twin Cities of Helium. Starvation, food riots, and worse will break out if someone doesn't get the food barges flowing again. It's up to you to take a plunge into the darkness and discover the truth!   

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Mando Force Five: PART III

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

NOTE: Players should have viewed all of Seasons 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian.

You are Mandalorians. The Nevarro covert was exposed when Din Djarin--one of your own--made a daring escape off-world with a mysterious child. Without a home for your tribe, five of you took up the quest to build a home for your tribe on a new world. Bounty hunters are trailing you. Imperial warlords are closing in. But your loyalty runs as deep as your creed. To be a Mandalorian is to be both hunters and the hunted ... This is the Way.   

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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. 

March SNSO: Mutants and Mandos!

Spring is almost here and we've whipped up some wild adventures to usher in the season! Shipwrecked or on the run--March's games are filled with mayhem and madness! Join us for two old school sci-fi adventures . . .

Saturday, March 20 at 6:00 pm

Gamma World: Isle of Woe

GM: Leo Winstead

Game system: Gamma World (First Edition) 
Chat platform: Zoom

Seating: Six (6) spots available

Your party's ship wrecks off the ruined coast of an ancient land, once called ... "Wisconsin".

You meet an eccentric scientist who lords over a compound of strange beings. Soon you discover the dark secret he's hiding from you. And that you're not the first ones to find themselves marooned here on the Isle of Woe! Join us for a macbre and mysterious Gamma World scenario inspired by classic science fiction!

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Mando Force Five: PART III

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 Seasons 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian.

You are Mandalorians. The Nevarro covert was exposed when Din Djarin--one of your own--made a daring escape off-world with a mysterious child. Without a home for your tribe, five of you took up the quest to build a home for your tribe on a new world. But enemies look to expose you and Imperial warlords are closing in! But your loyalty runs as deep as your creed. To be a Mandalorian is to be both hunters and the hunted ... This is the Way.   

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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. 

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

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December SNSO: Worlds of Fortune and Glory!

It's finally here! The end of 2020! Let's celebrate with two games that will have you exploring galaxies and strange worlds far, far away from here! Register now and a Zoom link will be sent upon confirmation. As usual, seating is first come, first served--so don't wait!

Saturday, December 12 at 6:00 pm

The Mandalorian: MANDO FORCE FIVE

UPDATE: 1 Seat 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: Spoilers for the TV series will be in play through the end of Season 1. It will be highly beneficial for you to have seen the entire first season to play. Please don't spoil Season 2 for other players.

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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Swords of Maruzar!

UPDATE: 2 Seats Open! 

GM: John Till

Game system: Vivid System by Hari Ragat Games
Chat platform: Zoom

Seating: Six (6) spots available

Note: The game designer may sit in as an observer to this game. 

Former throne-world of an interplanetary empire, Maruzar is a desert world of warring tribes and cultures and devastated by a fallen moon. Every year more fertile land is consumed by the Swarm, while space pirates fight tomb robbers for the treasures of abandoned cities. As if that's not enough, encouraged by the scheming spaceclans, a decaying empire dreams of reconquering the planet. Come experience this new pulp science fiction setting powered by the fast-paced Vivid System! 

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May SNSO: SPACE SCOUNDRELS!

We've got not one, but TWO great games, packed with excitement this month! Just in time for that giant Avengers crossover movie and the new Han Solo flick. Play a slimy, double-crossing, no-good swindler or scruffy-looking nerf herder, looking for fame and fortune as you gallivant across the galaxy!

Choose from one of the misfit Guardians of the Galaxy from the Marvel universe or play a quick-draw space smuggler with a wry smile. Either way, space outlaws rule the day!

Mission One: Guardians of the Galaxy: The Mad Titan

The insidious Thanos has stolen a Cosmic Cube, and a combined team of mighty Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy pursue him to Moord, homeworld of the warlike Badoon. Facing a gigantic Badoon warship, can our heroes stop Thanos before he unlocks the unspeakable power of the Cosmic Cube? Hang on to your ray guns, True Believers!
Game System: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying by Margaret Weis Productions
GM: Erik Mornes  

Mission Two: Star Wars: Tern, A Prophet...

Eagle-eyed smuggler Tern Heldo threw you a party last night, and late in the evening let on that he was worried someone was out to "close his accounts". Today, he's missing. Will your band of scoundrels, rapscallions, and ne'er-do-wells find out who--or what-- got him before your oldest surviving friend is gone for good?
Game System: Star Wars Roleplaying Game by West End Games
GM: Matt Towle  

6:00 pm / Saturday, May 12

Source Comics + Games

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HEY PLAYERS:

• All materials provided--just sit down and play!
• Pre-generated characters provided!
• No prior experience needed!
• This is a FREE event!

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.

DEC SNSO: Hoth for the Holidays and Kylo's S.O.B.s

The premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi is just weeks away! We've whipped together a huge holiday bash only a wookiee could love! Come galaxy hopping with us on one of two Star Wars adventures before the hyperdrive goes out on 2017!

PLAY REBELS: HOTH FOR THE HOLIDAYS 

It's up to your team to reach Hoth in time to rescue a fellow Rebel trapped on the frozen planet. Might be hard to get there in time, since you're trapped on Dagobah! Worse yet, the New Order is building some kind of Dark Side Amplifier, and the only allies available a group of opportunistic aliens that want to sell you toys and candy! Will time run out for your comrade? Or can you make it to Hoth for the Holidays? 

Game System: Star Wars RPG 2nd Ed. by West End Games

GM: Matt Towle

PLAY IMPERIALS: 501st LEGION: S.O.B.

As troopers of the 501st Legion of the First Order, you report directly to Kylo Ren. As members of the Special Operations Battalion, you handle all the jobs too sensitive for the power of the Legion.  The missions will be dangerous and the enemies familiar--so Stay Frosty troopers!

Game System: Stay Frosty by Garske Games

GM: Patrick Schifano

LAST GAMES OF THE YEAR
6:00 pm / Saturday, December 2

Source Comics + Games

Click the image below to RSVP directly on our Google Plus Event page!

PLAYERS:

• All materials provided--just sit down and play!
• Pre-generated characters provided!
• No prior experience needed!
• This is a FREE event!

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.

Old-school Star Wars RPG meets classic Marvel comics!

To celebrate Free Comic Book Day--which was two Saturdays ago--we're running a special session of Star Wars RPG by West End Games (2nd Edition)! If you like your space opera wild, wooly, and full of blaster fire, this is for you. THIS IS AS GONZO AS IT GETS!

6:30 pm / Saturday, May 21
Fantasy Flight Games Event Center

RSVP now and let us know you're coming!

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

HEY, PLAYERS:

• No previous experience with WEG rules necessary
• BYO dice (d6s)
• Character templates provided
• As always, this event is FREE

Join a Jedi Search Party for January STAR WARS!

The FORCE HAS AWAKENED! So naturally, our first game for 2016 must be STAR WARS! And we're going old school, using the 2nd Edition of West End Games' classic role-playing rules.

Game master Matt Towle returns for an original adventure called THE OLD MAN AND THE DUNE SEA! It's time to find out what Luke has been after all these years. It's time to go back to where it all began...

MISSION DETAILS:

Shortly after the Battle of Hoth, Luke Skywalker calls for volunteers to search the home of Obiwan Kenobi on Tatooine for Jedi relics. Heroes must be prepared to face Imperial spies, Mos Eisley lowlife, and the dangers of...

THE DUNE SEA! 

6:00 pm / Saturday, January 2

Source Comics + Games

RSVP now and let us know you're coming!

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

HEY, PLAYERS:

• BYO dice (d6s)
• Character templates provided
• As always, this event is FREE

IMPERIAL HEIST: PART 2 - APRIL 4

Join us for the final chapter in our daring heist to steal the Death Star plans! A rival Hutt gang has already tried to eliminate the competition (our heroes). Soon the Empire will be hot on our trail!

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Join us at the Source on Saturday, April 4!

[UPDATE: the flyer previous had the wrong date]

WANTED: Rebels and Space Mercenaries

Ripped from rumor-soaked Internet headlines, we bring you this bulletin:

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Join us tomorrow night and help pull off the biggest heist in the galaxy--stealing the plans to the Death Star!

This Saturday: The FORCE is with you!

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We're running Star Wars, West End Games (WEG) 2nd Edition at the game table this Saturday! Bring your d6 and your old game book! (We'll have extras on hand if you don't have one.)

RSVP your attendance and check out the Players page.

Bring your Wookie sidekick with you too!