Here are some featured games available at Gamesfest.
9 a.m. TIME BLOCK
For the Good of All Mankind!
Fistful of Lead – 2+ players – all provided
GM: Phil
It’s June 6, 1944, and Allied paratroopers have an important job to do. You won’t be doing that job. The Nazi Occult Scientist Dr. Rudolf Seltzman was spotted near the ruins of the St Augustine church and your mission is to capture the vile scientist at any cost!
Carnival of Madness
Call of Cthulhu – 2-6 players – All provided
GM: Ross Hearne
The Carnival of Madness is a single-session scenario produced by Chaosium based on the grindhouse/slasher movies of the 1970s-80s. Save the children!
Road to Glory
Volley and Bayonet – 2+ players – All provided
GM: Kim Harris
The Road to Glory is a card-based Grand Tactical planning. Commanders draw cards and choose a plan suited to their style and troops. Commands are deployed on a tabletop battlefield and the subordinate commanders (if any) maneuver and lead their troops.
Tomb in the Sudan
One 10 System – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Dale Painter
Players – 2-6
Your archaeological expedition is headed deep into the Sudan, searching for answers to some strange artifacts, and even stranger rumors that you have come across. Victorian England meets the American Old West, all with a touch of Lovecraft thrown in. Miniatures and Terrain will be used.
Orcs Night Out
Fistful of Lead – 1-6 players – All provided
GM: Glen Allison
Tired of playing a 27th-level Paladin? Come see how the other half lives. Do you have what it takes to be an NPC? Orc’s Night Out is back. You get three orcs apiece because you’ll need them. You are playing NPCs after all.
Warhammer 40K Tournament
A Warhammer 40K tournament starts on Saturday at 10 a.m. Prizes are offered for the winner. No additional fee is required this year. Players can bring 2,000-point armies. There are a few armies available for use.
Hometown Heroes
Renewal & Riot rules – 2-5 players – Characters made at the table
GM: Daniel T
It’s the modern-day. You live in a small neighborhood that’s seen better days. You and your neighbors want to work together to revitalize it. But something is threatening your neighborhood, and you all must work together to stop the threat and bring your piece of the city back to life.
Woeful & Wild Ride
GURPS 4e – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Chip Campbell
Just another day riding the elevator up to work till the lights go out and the floor buttons stop working, What happened? What’s GOING to happen? You’ll find out when the doors open.
2 p.m. TIME BLOCK
Battle Royal: Office Space
Last Man Standing – 6-24 players – All provided
GM: Bill Stevenson
It is 5 minutes to 5 p.m. and Friday and the boss speaks through the phone intercom, “Umm … Yeah. I need everyone to work overtime this weekend. Everyone, except the last person standing.” The doors lock and weapons start dropping from the ceiling. The winner receives the red stapler!
Survival of the Fittest,
Part One: Cunning
Shadowrun Anarchy – 2-6 players – All provided
GM: Chris
Your team of futuristic mercenaries are sent to Denver to investigate corruption inside of a cult that worships the most feared creatures in the sixth world: Dragons. This is the first in a trilogy of missions using Shadowrun Anarchy, a rules-lite variant of the classic cyberpunk-and-magic roleplaying game.
Orcs Night Out
Fistful of Lead – 1-6 players – All provided
GM: Glen Allison
Tired of playing a 27th-level Paladin? Come see how the other half lives. Do you have what it takes to be an NPC? Orc’s Night Out is back. You get three orcs apiece because you’ll need them. You are playing NPCs after all.
Napoleon
Order of Battle from Talavera – 2+ players – all provided
GM: Kim Harris
It’s a large Napoleonic battle using the Order of Battle from Talavera rules.
Car Wars
Car Wars Classic 3.5 rules – 4+ players – All provided
GM – Edgar Lincoln
Road rage is embraced in vehicular competition. Drivers in Div. 25 cars battle it out to win in an arena, You can smell the gas, gunpowder, and blood.
Cthulhu Wars
Cthulhu Wars board game – 3-6 players –All provided
GM: Ross Hearne
Take on the persona of an Elder Thing from the Cthulhu mythos and battle for the domination of Earth and mankind!
The Lost Shelter of House Nalu
Ultraviolet Grasslands rules
2-5 players – All provided
GM – Quin
The adventurers are recruited to locate a long-forgotten sandstorm shelter somewhere in the wastelands. An agent of House Nalu stored a valuable item there for safekeeping during the chaos of the Bone Spore Pandemic and only an audit of their pre-collapse asset records alerted House Nalu to this lost treasure.
7 p.m. TIME BLOCK
Marshal Bill versus the Fanged Foreigner!
Fistful of Lead 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Phil Bedard
Word spread about a strange sickness that kills its victims, only to have them rise from the grave with a thirst for blood. Marshal Bill thinks he’s found the cause. A mysterious coffin-sized box arrived in town guarded by a group of oddly clad foreigners. With the sun going down, there’s no time to spare …
Chaos in the London Sewers
One 10 System – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Dale Painter
Your archaeological expedition has just returned to London tracing some very disturbing evidence derived from some very strange artifacts. Victorian England meets the American Old West, all with a touch of Lovecraft thrown in. Miniatures and Terrain will be used.
Ski Lodge of Hell
Call of Cthulhu – 2-6 players – All provided
GM: Ross Hearne
On the ice slopes of the Colorado Rockies, a killer stalks the forest. Meanwhile, a group of strangers go on vacation. In the chilling conclusion, a new terror is born. This homebrew scenario is created based on the grindhouse/slasher movies of the 1970s-80s, GM Ross’s favorite theme for convention games.
Battle of Coronel
Nimitz WWI rules – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Chuck Hamack
It’s November 1914 and the Germans face the British in a WWI naval battle. The game uses 1/3000 scale miniatures.
Survival of the Fittest,
Part Two: Balance
Shadowrun Anarchy 2-6 players – All provided
GM: Chris
A draconic conspiracy expands to Hong Kong where your team must pit corp-against-corp and dragon-against-dragon to change the balance of power around the Pacific Rm. This is the second in a trilogy of missions using Shadowrun Anarchy, a rules-lite variant of the classic cyberpunk-and-magic roleplaying game.
The Dwarven Wonder of Bokimakaz
Dungeon World – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Scott Philips
Should be a simple job! Get in, grab the legendary mining tool – a relic – and get out. Dungeon World is an improv-heavy system for the Gamemaster.
Basic Fantasy
Basic Fantasy rules – 2-6 players – Pre-gens or level 3
GM – Chris Albrecht
It will be an introductory game to the system inspired by early editions of D&D with some favorable 3e mechanics thrown in. It will be a classic town to tavern-to-dungeon adventure with a mystery to solve. Everyone who loves or is curious about classic adventuring will have a great time.
Calvacade of Games
Nuclear War, Settlers of Cataan, and more games
GM – Edgar Lincoln
The guru of games Edgar Lincoln is running a variety of games based on players’ choice, including Nuclear War, Settlers of Cataan, Terraforming Mars (with the new Kickstarter stuff), and Dark Tower.
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