Dec. SNSO: CHROME For the Holidays!

The end of 2018 is near! And the season of giant robot fighting has officially begun! This December we we're giving you a titanic twofer three-fer and going CHROME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! What better way to top off a fantastic year of scifi adventures than with massive mecha-load of fun to get your servos spinning?

Choose from two fantastic RPGs. The first is a Mecha Vs. Kaiju Fate Core game from John Till...

WIDOW-MAKER BOMBARDIER BEHEMOTH!

You are a member of the  elite Widow-Maker Bombarder team on Science Island in the Philippines. Of course, you're a teenager! Of course, your parents are mad scientists who created two generations of mecha: first to fight the Marcos Dictatorship, and later to defend your homeland against the monstrous Leviathans and Behemoths who invade from foreign lands and boil out of the very seas around the Philippine Islands.

And in case you're in for some rock'em-sock'em robots style fun via Savage World: RIFTS, from Matt Towle...

WHEN THE LIGHTS GO DOWN ON ISHPEMING!

Sunday! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!! At the Robodome!! What happens when a colossal robot crashes town during the semi finals of the Robot Gladiator Championships? Dwarfing even the largest human-piloted mechs, the gleaming silver titan seems to have nothing but destruction on its mind. The army can't stop it, the police can't stop it, but can your tricked-out gladiators come together as a team and put a stop to the COLOSSUS OF ISHPEMING?

You'd THINK we'd run out of room with all those giant robots running around, but word has it there might be a Robotech miniatures game to take on a few challengers.

If you're nice to Erik Mornes, maybe he'll let you roll dice while he slaughters your forces on the battlefield!

6:00 pm / Saturday, December 8

Tower Games
3920 Nicollet Ave #150
Minneapolis, MN 55409

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• Limited seating for all games--arrive early to ensure your spot!

Now mark your calendar, power up your rocket punch, and get prepare for battle!

#chromefortheholidays

Fight alongside FLASH GORDON this November!

We've got an EPIC adventure set for November! You've got TWO chances to DIVE into the brand new Flash Gordon roleplaying game using the Savage Worlds system--known for it's fast-paced, pulp-adventure action! Both missions have the same setting:.

Flash Gordon and his Earthling friends need your help! They've managed to unite some of the kingdoms of Mongo to stand against Ming the Merciless. Together with Prince Barin and Princess Aura of Arboria and Prince Vultan of Sky City, Flash and his allies form the Freemen of Mongo, a league of heroes dedicated to overthrowing the tyrant that's enslaved their world for so long. But now Ming has them on the run, and they need you and your friends to join the fight for freedom! 

6:00 pm / Saturday, November 10

Tower Games
3920 Nicollet Ave #150
Minneapolis, MN 55409

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• Limited seating, arrive early to ensure your spot!

Now hop on your rocket cycle and get down to Tower Games! All together: FLASH...AAAAAAAHHH!!

Upcoming changes regarding our host venue

Saturday Night Space Opera has always been a wholly volunteer-run organization with game masters and players from around the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota and Wisconsin. We strive to create communities where all our participants feel welcome and valued. We enjoy rolling dice, building worlds together, and having fun. Our aim has always been to spread the joy of science-fiction gaming to the general public in a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere.

We first established our organization in 2014 at Source Comics & Games and it's become our home--the heart of our activities, our friendships, and where we put roots into the gaming community. We grew from just two game masters running roleplaying games to a rotating roster of a dozen active GMs. All of that happened through connections made at the Source.

In the last week, it's come to our attention that management at the Source has not supported as inclusive an environment as we'd hoped. Specifically, two former employees have come forward to share their experiences over several years while working at the store.

They’ve shared painful stories of bias and hate towards women, people on the autism spectrum, and members of the LGBTQ community. Since then, many customers have shared similar encounters experienced at the store, due in part from management or other employees.

While language in the Source’s communications states they are "...proud to be a part of your community and welcome you to ours!" some of us also know from our own experiences there that this has not always been the case.

In light of this, we’ve decided to host our events at several other area game venues, until we begin to see progress made by the Source in establishing a truly welcoming environment for all participants.

We hope management at the Source will take time to reflect—and in good faith act upon—the feedback from the local gaming and comic community and create a space that truly welcomes everyone. It would be our pleasure to return to gaming in such a setting.

We would like to extend our deep gratitude to current and former employees and other members of the gaming community at the Source that have made it a welcome space for us in the past. We could not have grown and thrived without you!

Heading into the fall and on to 2019 we look forward to new opportunities with other partner organizations and retailers around the Twin Cities. Watch for scheduling updates to come. We're also working on updating our website.

Thank you to everyone for coming to play games with us and we'll see you soon at the next Saturday Night Space Opera event!

Sincerely, the Game Masters of SNSO:

Jeff Conrad
Bob Cook

Erich Doll

Jenifer Doll

Casey Garske

Adam Hall

Spencer Hayes

Jay Mac Bride

Erik Mornes

Ben Ojanen

John Everett Till

Matt Towle

Do you dare unravel the mystery of DEAD MAN'S HAND?

We've got a spooky scenario lined up for October's game! DEAD MAN'S HAND is an original adventure for the wild and weird Mutant Crawl Classics RPG. You'll join a team of mutants and seekers as you go delving into a ghastly, ghostly, long-lost vessel...

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, and others from the Great Black--or even Beyond the Veil of this world. How long can even your canny mutants and seekers survive when faced with the unspeakable horror of the Death Ship?!    

6:00 pm / Saturday, October 13

Source Comics + Games

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Join us for SCI FI CON at the Science Museum of Minnesota!

We're bringing RPG Academy back to the Science Museum of Minnesota for Social Science: SCI FI CON! We'll be there to give a primer on sci-fi roleplaying and tabletop board games for the 21+ crowd.

Join us on Thursday, October 11 to learn about roleplaying games, test your mettle with geek trivia, and enter to win cool prizes. Everyone who plays games with us will take home a free d20 die!

SCI FI CON is a spectacle for all fans of cosplay, comics, and nerd-series classics. Dress up as your favorite superhero, Jedi, or other pop culture hero. Social Science is a unique, 21+ museum event where you can roam the halls explore the exhibits at night!

6:00 pm / Thursday, October 11

Science Museum of Minnesota

We're going to blast-off into the future for some roleplaying game fun:

• Try out an exciting tabletop game in our RPG Academy booth!
• Test your knowledge of geeky pop culture! 
• Enter to win cool tabletop game gear!
• The first 50 participants will take home a twenty-sided die!

If you've ever wondered about roleplaying games, this is the event for you! You'll get a crash course in RPGs and learn all about tabletop games!

RSVP on SMM's Facebook event page.

Need a ride? 

Metro Transit offers free transportation via bus and light rail from 5-11 p.m. for Social Science. Get your free ride pass NOW!

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

AUGUST: GET TINY IN THE INFINTESIMAL WAR!

Infinity War might be all the rage these days, but another microscopic conflict could determine the fate of our planet. Join Ant-Man, The Wasp, Doctor Strange, and the Fantastic Four in an Outer-Space-to-Inner-Space adventure. The heroes may be tiny, but the stakes are GINORMOUS! 

Go on a Fantastic (Four) Voyage ... inside your friendly neighborhood wall crawler!

Only your team of miniaturized superheroes can save Spider-Man--and the world. Alien symbiotes are invading Earth and taking control of humans on every continent. They seemed to be  controlled by a single specimen. One that traveled here ... and never left. 

The answer lies within patient zero: Peter Parker. But he’s fallen into a coma. Battle your way through Spidey's immune system to unlock the secrets of the symbiotes before our planet drowns in Venom!
Game System: Marvel Super Heroes (TSR's F.A.S.E.R.I.P. system)
    

6:00 pm / Saturday, August 11

Source Comics + Games

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• All materials provided, including pre-generated characters!
• No prior experience needed!
• This is a FREE event!

RUN FOR COVER: IT'S JURASSIC JULY!

Summer cineplex season is in high gear! Dinosaurs and other giant monsters are on the loose and we've got two GINORMOUS reasons to come out The Source this July--a pair of prehistoric adventures is on the agenda! Choose your adventure:

Mission 1: Doctor Who: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship - Part YOU!

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!
Game System: Doctor Who by Cubicle 7
GM: John Everett Till  

Mission 2: Skull Island: A Three-Hour Tour

You and your veteran team are handed an easy assignment from your boss in the Estate: Penetrate a quarantined bubble of reality drifting near the Shoals of Earth.  Ignore any reports you may have heard about the hazards of Skull Island, giant monsters fighting for dominance, weird Fay creatures singing to moths in caves, or fire-breathing three-headed dragons. Pack your hiking boots and a spare pair of socks, because it's going to be a working vacation!
Game System: The STRANGE by Monte Cook Games
GM: Matt Towle   

6:00 pm / Saturday, July 14

Source Comics + Games

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• All materials provided, including pre-generated characters!
• No prior experience needed!
• This is a FREE event!

JUNE SNSO: Inter-dimensional Summer Vacation!

School is out! Summer is here! Time to air up the tires on your BMX dirt bike and tear off on a strange, sci-fi adventure in the suburbs!

In the spirit of Stranger Things, E.T., The Goonies, The Explorers, and many other 80s adventure flicks that became pop culture icons, we bring you TALES FROM THE LOOP!

Based on the stunning, nostalgia-infused art of Simon Stålenhag, this roleplaying game from Modiphius Entertainment superbly weaves massive, industrial robots, strange creatures, and thrilling mysteries into a wistful and moody, 80s landscape.

Tales From the Loop won five ENnies (the Oscars of tabletop RPGs) in 2017 including Best Game, Best Setting, Best Writing, Best Internal Art, and Product of the Year!

Mission details:

The police consider you a nuisance. Your parents want you to back by dinner. But you and your band of tweenage misfit pals are too busy exploring the mysteries dredged up from the reality-ripping "Loop," a massive space-time altering machine guarded in secrecy at a nearby facility in your hometown. 

6:00 pm / Saturday, June 9

Source Comics + Games

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• All materials provided, including pre-generated characters!
• No prior experience needed!
• This is a FREE event!

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!

Encore at the Science Museum of Minnesota!

We're heading BACK to the Science Museum of Minnesota's Social Science event COSMOS, on Thursday 12. We'll be there to give a primer on sci-fi roleplaying and tabletop board games for the 21+ crowd. Come join us for this starlit soirée where you can get your geek on, roam the halls of the museum, and explore the exhibits at night!

6:00 pm / Thursday, April 12

Science Museum of Minnesota

We're going to blast-off into the future for some roleplaying game fun:

• Play in one of three exciting tabletop adventures!
• Test your logic in a science fiction trivia challenge! 
• Enter to win game gear!
• The first 50 to participate will take home a twenty-sided die!

If you've ever wondered about roleplaying games, this is the event for you! You'll get a crash course in RPGs, take on some outer space invaders, and bring home an alien artifact!

Need a ride? 

Metro Transit offers free transportation via bus and light rail from 5-11 p.m. for Social Science. Get your free ride pass NOW!

April SNSO: Siege of the Star Pirates!

UPDATE: DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS, TONIGHT'S GAME IS CANCELLED. SEE YOU ON OUR NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED NIGHT - MAY 12 AT THE SOURCE!

Join us for one of the first-ever and finest space opera roleplaying games: TRAVELLER! This latest edition is streamlined and optimized for smooth-sailing when it comes to adventure. This is your chance to try out the latest system from Mongoose Publishing--or just swing your space cutlass and growl pirate puns all night. Either way, it's guaranteed to be an atomic-powered, powder keg of fun!

Mission Details: 

Fly the not-so-friendly frontier in a galaxy filled with shadowy empires and renegade space pirates making their living among the stars! Choose which side of the law you'll play--as a mercenary of the cosmos or a working class crew trying to avoid marauders.
Game System: Traveller by Mongoose Publishing (Second Edition)
GMs: In John Till's game players will play as pirates. In Matt Towle's game players will play a crew beleaguered by buccaneers.  

6:00 pm / Saturday, April 14

Source Comics + Games

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PLAYERS:

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

HEY SCIENCE MUSEUM FRIENDS: 

If you're one of the folks we met at the Science Museum of Minnesota's Social Science: Cosmos event--this is the game we were telling you about! Come join us for a chance to try out an RPG for FREE!