Let's make it a THREE-peat! For the third year in a row, we'll be back at
Con of the North to run more games than we've ever run before! How many star systems and alternate realities can you explore in a single weekend? Scan for life readings below and find out!
CHOOSE A REALITY TO EXPLORE!
We topped ourselves by scheduling
118 hours of games for you to choose from! There's something for
everyone this year. Online registration is now closed, but there's still a chance to pick up tickets on-site. Bookmark this page to watch for any last-minute updates to the program and schedule.
WHEN AND WHERE IS CON OF THE NORTH?
February 15-17, 2018
Mark your calendars and make sure your winter gaming schedule includes some space opera adventures!
All games are intended for general audience except where specifically noted otherwise.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Title: STAR TREK ADVENTURES: THE REPUBLIC INCIDENT
Description: The Constitution-class starship USS Republic is on a routine patrol along the Romulan Neutral Zone, when suddenly everything becomes... non-routine. A Star Trek Discovery/Original Series era adventure! Rules are simple and will be taught!
Game system: Star Trek Adventures
Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment
Game master: John Everett Till
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)
Title: SPACE PATROL ORION: FROGS ATE MY HOMEWORK
Description: In this retake on classic German science fiction TV show, your crew will be investigating a research station gone quiet. Why is it quiet? The frogs are the typical invaders, but even they are quiet. What is with all of the quiet?
Game system: Stars Without Number
Publisher: Sine Nomine
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)
Title: NOT ALONE
Description: In this hidden movement game you are trapped on an Alien planet, trying to send an SOS before the mysterious alien planet assimilates you forever. Beware, the Alien is experienced, so this game won't be easy. Can you and your fellow humans escape?
Game system: Not Alone (board game)
Publisher: Geek Attitude Games
Game master: Jenifer Doll
Game time: 12:00-14:00 (2 hours)
Title: ECLIPSE PHASE: TIME OF OUR LIVES
Description: There's suspicious events being reported on the rim. What started as a temporal research experiment is growing out of control. Get your morph there safely, and fix it, or time's up.
Game system: Eclipse Phase
Publisher: Posthuman Studios
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)
Title: THE STRANGE: SPLIT STRAIGHT
Description: Out on The Fringe, far from the Shoals of Earth, lie weird recursions hiding unknown secrets. Will your band of dauntless agents succeed where others have only vanished, out where the Blue Fades Into Black?Tier Four Strange, pre-gens provided.
Game system:The Strange
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master: Matt Towle
Game time: 14:00-18:00 (4 hours)
Title: FORTNITE: SAVE THE COLONY
Description: One day, 98% of the the population disappeared, and the remaining colonists found the skies covered in dense clouds that dropped husks. Teams of heroes are charged with going out to find resources, survivors, and other allies to help expand their storm shield and find a way to return the colony to its normal state.
Game system: Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master: Erik Mornes
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)
Title: ECLIPSE PHASE: THRESHOLD
Description: This dive into Genesys will allow us to quickly make our own, Space Opera, Sci-Fi, Steam, or Cyber Punk world and characters. Everything will be off the cuff so come in ready to be creative, work together, and perhaps learn a new generic system. If you've been curious about Genesys, generic systems, improv style gaming, or shared narrative. This session is for you!.
Game system: Genesys
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Game master: Spencer Hayes
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)
Title: RAD ASTRA: WARRIORS OF THE WARP!
Description: Charge your friction rifle and activate your origami overthruster--adventure awaits you and your crew of Starbucklers, Astrosassins, Astrocasters and Starbarians! This rules-light, mash-up of classic 70s/80s science fiction and fantasy B-movies, TV, and comic books!
Game system: Rad Astra
Publisher: Rad Astra Entertainment
Game master: Jay Mac Bride
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Title: MINECRAFT: RPG MODE: MOONCRAFT
Description: Take a rocket to The Moon! Explore dungeons, gather resources, build your base, and defend yourself against mobs. Can you survive an experience that is out of this world?
Game system: No Thank You, Evil!
Game master: Oskar Mornes
Game time: 10:00-12:00 (2 hours)
Kids Only
Title: TMNT: Turtles Out of Town
Description: Krang has rolled into downtown New York City in a shiny new Technodrome! Donnie, Mike, Raph, and Leo are nowhere to be found. You and your friends have stumbled upon a canister of mutagen OOZE and been transformed into a band of mutant ninjas! Save the city before it’s too late! This homebrew system is geared toward younger, more novice players and rewards creative problem-solving.
Game system: Homebrew
Publisher: Homebrew
Game master: Jay Mac Bride
Game time: 10:00-12:00 (2 hours)
Kids Only
Title: TRAVELLER: APOTHEOSIS
Description: Marquis Natan Kaan has spent the past five years believing his wife and infant son lost in a pirate attack on their starliner. He’s recently learned that due to quick action on his mother’s part, the boy may yet live. But his safe haven is a forbidden world under the thumb of strict religious authorities. The heroes are hired to rescue the boy, but soon find danger, deception, and a deep mystery!
Game system: Traveller
Publisher: Mongoose Publishing
Game master: Matt Towle
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)
Title: LOST IN SPACE
Description: Space colonists, the Robinson family, has escaped the destruction of the hostile planet Priplanus, only to be hurled through a wormhole to a distant galaxy. Danger, Will Robinson! Based on the hit Netflix reboot of the classic TV series.
Game system: Cortex Plus
Publisher: Margaret Weis Productions
Game master: Erik Mornes
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)
Title: KINGDOM: TAMBU
Description: Your ship has just offered its service to warlord Tambu and his interstellar security fleet. Maintain the peace of merchants for paying planets while dealing with aggression from neutral planets and the Defence Alliance. Based on retro sci-do classic Tambu by Robert Lynn Asprin.
Game system: Kingdom
Publisher: Lame Mage Productions
Game master: Patrick Schifano
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)
Title: CYBERPUNK 2077: MIRROR SHADES & KATANA BLADES
Description: You and your crew stumble onto a caper where street samurai are being hunted for sport by street gangs. One of your own could be next if you don't find out who put them up to this most dangerous game. See if you can unravel the mystery and survive the neon-soaked streets of Night City in Cyberpunk 2020 updated for a 2077 era.
Game system: Cyberpunk 2020
Publisher: R. Talsorian Games
Game master: Jay Mac Bride
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)
Title: STAR CREATURES STOLE THEIR EYES
Description: You were taken from your place in the human timeline, whisked away to an alien future and to a strange land where the dimensions bleed into one another as worlds collide. You and a handful of others are searching for a way back home, but you may be destined for something far grander...
Game system: Cypher System
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master: Jenifer Doll
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)
Title: STAR FLEET BATTLES: JUGGERNAUT
Description: The Juggernaut is here! It's big, bad, and it's not been programmed with a prime directive of non-interference. Play one of several races trying to stop it. Based on material from "Captain's Log" No. 1.
Game system: Star Fleet Battles
Publisher: Amarillo Design Bureau
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 16:00-18:00 (2 hours)
Title: FOLLOW: THE WORLDS OF PHILLIP K. DICK
Description: The literature of PKD often challenges our conceptions of consistent reality as much as our relationship with society and technology. Explore these themes and play his fiction using the game 'Follow' by Ben Robbins. We will play as a rag tag fellowship assembled to complete a quest. As a table we will determine the setting, the quest, create the fellowship, and follow the story that unfolds.
Game system: Follow
Publisher: Lame Mage Productions
Game master: Patrick Schifano
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)
Title: FLASH GORDON: HIGH TREASON
Description: Flash, AAAAH! Ming the Merciless sends wave after wave of minions to shakedown the kingdoms of Mongo for tribute. Arboria, Coralia, and the Sky City look to your band of heroes to save them from Imperial raids. Relive the pulp adventure of this classic space opera saga using the new Savage World's setting made just for Flash via Kickstarter.
Game system: Savage Worlds Flash Gordon
Publisher: Goodman Games
Game master: Jay Mac Bride
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)
Title: PLANETARIUM
Description: Matter swirls incandescently about a newborn star. In this board game, you grow, build, and form the new systems' planetary bodies into desired types, based on your short term and long term goals.
Game system: Planetarium (board game)
Publisher: Sparkworks
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 18:00-20:00 (2 hours)
Title: MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 TRIVIA
Description: Do you want to see how well you'll do in your knowledge of MST3K trivia? See if you can get enough credits to escape the Satellite of Love! Homebrew trivia questions and answers.
Game system: Trivial Pursuit (board game)
Publisher: Homebrew version
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 20:00-22:00 (2 hours)
Title: MUTANT CRAWL CLASSICS: DEAD MAN'S HAND
Description: For long centuries it has drifted through radioactive oceans, the last great vessel of the last navy on Terra AD. No captain commands it, no crew serves it, but it is far from empty. Deep in the hangars and cargo holds lurk unknown menaces, some made by man in his folly. How long can even your canny mutants and seekers survive when faced with the unspeakable horror of the Death Ship?!
Game system: Mutant Crawl Classics
Publisher: Goodman Games
Game master: Matt Towle
Game time: 20:00-24:00 (4 hours)
Title: STAY FROSTY: ROSETTA BASE
Description: Rosetta Base: a deep space listening post on the edge of the solar system. If there's a $#!+ mission, the Penal Marines will get it. This time some research base on a comet has been out of contact for a month. Sounds easy, but they wouldn't have sent the Penal Marines if it wasn't practically a suicide mission. Whatever, man. Better than being executed. Usually.
Game system: Stay Frosty
Publisher: Garske Games
Game master: Casey Garske
Game time: 20:00-24:00 (4 hours)
Mature Audience
Title: STAR WARS: FORCE AND DESTINY
Description: "The Jedi are extinct. Their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion." With the Jedi Order abolished under the tyranny of the Emperor, life for a Force-sensitive hero is one of exile and secrecy. Join a band of heroes on the run from Imperial rule, looking to live another day in the fight for freedom in the galaxy.
Game system: Star Wars RPG
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Game master: Spencer Hayes
Game time: 20:00-24:00 (4 hours)
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Title: POKEMON: THE FINAL FRONTIER
Description: Megacorps, eat your heart out. In this board game you traverse the solar system claiming moons while trying to conserve fuel to escape the next gravity well.
Game system: Spaceopoly
Publisher: Valen Brost Game Co.
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 10:00-12:00 (2 hours)
Kid Friendly
Title: STARS WITHOUT NUMBER: ZAMIATIN'S WE
Description: We, the dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin is now set in a Traveller-based system. Your characters are either for or against the One State. With the next interplanetary spacecraft, the Differential, set to launch soon, will it be a successful mission bringing the joy of the Time Tables to the unsuspecting aliens, or will you stand in the way of progress. DA or NYET?
Game system: Stars Without Number
Publisher: Sine Nomine
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 12:00-14:00 (4 hours)
Title: STEVEN UNIVERSE
Description: As an "off color" Gem, can you escape the tyranny of Homeworld by stealing Golden Beryl's prize ship, Heart of Gold?
Game system: No Thank You, Evil!
Publisher: Monte Cook Games
Game master: Erik Mornes
Game time: 12:00-14:00 (2 hours)
Kids Only
Title: CITY OF LIGHT
Description: On the Earth below us Human minds have exiled Machine minds. Those who are exiled have gathered into the citadel of megacity Zero-One. Instead we will form a utopian City of Light where Machine and Man live together in the Mare Cognitum on Luna. Play as founding factions trying to forge a utopia, while the war that leads to the Matrix unfolds below on Earth. Loosely inspired by the Animatrix.
Game system: At the Hands of an Angry God: a Game of Utopias
Publisher: High Rock Press
Game master: Patrick Schifano
Game time: 12:00-18:00 (6 hours)
Title: STAR FRONTIERS: FREEBOOTERS FOREVER!
Description: Come roll up a crew of mercenary space pirates in the TSR classic space opera from the 80s! Create a team, acquire a vessel, and seek fame and fortune among the stars! Play a shape-changing dralasite, winged yazirian, multi-legged vrusk, or plain old human.
Game system: Star Frontiers
Publisher: TSR
Game master: Jay Mac Bride
Game time: 12:00-16:00 (4 hours)
Title: ANACHRONY
Description: Earth is doomed and its various factions prepare to flee the planet, leveraging their command of time travel to gain an advantage for themselves and ensure a powerful place in the new world after Earth. This is a complex worker-placement game. Rules will be taught at the table, but some experience with worker-placement games is highly recommended.
Game system: Anachrony
Publisher: Mindclash Games
Game master: Jenifer Doll
Game time: 14:00-16:00 (2 hours)
Title: BLAKE'S 7: GAN'S BACK
Description: Olag Gan's back--well not 100%. But he's been corrupted by Servalan's best cybersurgeons to aid her toward her long-sought-after goal, the demise of his former friends, Blake's freedom fighters. Can Avon, Blake, Orac, Cally, Jenna, and Vila restore his mind, or has too much of his brain been rewired?
Game system: Blake's 7 Roleplaying Game
Publisher: Horizon, the Blake's 7 Appreciation Society
Game master: Jeff Conrad
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)
Title: STAR WARS: BUSTED FLUSH
Description: Your Resistance team has infiltrated a former Imperial research facility, but something has gone terribly wrong! Can you find a way off world, ideally with the experimental prototypes you've liberated, before the Metal Hits the Bone? Experienced characters, pre-gens provided.
Game system: Star Wars RPG
Publisher: West End Games
Game master: Matt Towle
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)
Title: STAR WARS SNUBFIGHTER
Description: Snubfighter is a miniatures wargame focused on cinematic sci-fi dogfighting. Take command of a squadron of Rebel, Imperial, or Pirate snubfighters and get ready to make your best TIE Fighter engine and laser blaster sounds. "PEW PEW PEW!"
Game system: Snubfighter
Publisher: Garske Games
Game master: Casey Garske
Game time: 16:00-20:00 (4 hours)
Title: ROBOTECH: ROGUE ZENTRADI
Description: After investigating a Zentraedi Salan class scout ship, the United Earth Expeditionary Force uncovers a force of rogue Malcontent Zentraedi. To make matters worse, another Zentraedi ship defolds, and its battle-hardened veterans want to capture the scout ship for themselves!
Game system: Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles Role-Playing Game
Publisher: Robotech RPG Tactics (miniatures wargame)
Game master: Erik Mornes
Game time: 18:00-22:00 (4 hours)
WE'LL SEE YOU AT THE CON!
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