This was my “that game looks interesting” list, but it’s now shifted to being my “This Is What I’m Doing” list.
Here’s what it looks like currently; Clearly, there are some gaps I can fill with scheduled events, or I can go a bit free-form on it.
I’m planning on updating that schedule as and when it changes.
Title:
Stink 19
Short Description:
Welcome to the 19th annual meet and greet for gamers.
Long Description:
For over 20 years, a gathering of gamers has been called a Stink. Join us for the original Wednesday night event to meet fellow gamers. Play some games, meet gaming groups, or just hang out. It’s up to you. Joysticks, quarters, and pixelated graphics. Get ready to warp back to the time of arcade classics.
Event Type:
ZED – Isle of Misfit Events
This one’s a ‘maybe’ event for me. I might be turning up at the wrong time or something, but I feel like it’s declined as an event; I remember it being more lively in The Before Times.
Title:
What’s the Damage?
Short Description:
Players take on the role of investigators as a cold case threatens to tear an entire city apart.
Long Description:
When a renowned comedian is accused of a heinous act, the people of Cahokia demand justice. What follows is an investigation that will take players from one end of the city to another as they try to unravel a decades-old mystery.
Event Type:
RPG – Role Playing Game
Game System:
Coyote and Crow
https://www.gencon.com/events/253064
Native American Sci Fi RPG, with
I think some aspects ofspirituality or magic or fantasy, in a setting where European colonisation never happened. Spotted the name and got interested, read up and got more interested.
What absolutely sold me on trying it was the publisher’s stance of “This game is for everyone, but we ask that you play one of the nations we’ve made up, and not as a member of something real-world that you’re not a member of yourself, because you’re pretty likely to accidentally do something offensive”. That and the litany of complaints about that stance from people whose views I despise. 😁A Post From The Game Designer Talking About This
Title:
The Monster is What We Make of It
Short Description:
Everyone knew Randy. He was the rarest breed…the kind of kid that everyone liked and who got along with everyone – jocks, nerds, theater kids, populars…everyone. And then…he was gone.
Long Description:
So when Randy didn’t show up for school one day…or the days after that…or the day after that…it send a shock wave through the school. Rumor is that the police have been camped out at Randy’s house. You have no idea where he might be, but you do know is that the grownups aren’t doing enough to find Randy. It’s time to take matters into your own hands. It’s what Randy would do for you.
Event Type:
RPG – Role Playing Game
Game System:
Tales From the Loop
https://www.gencon.com/events/257534
I only discovered that the art books for TFTL existed by accident; I’d seen images on The Internets, but spotted the book on a chance visit to the Kalamazoo Public Library, which then told me the artist name, …
I didn’t get into the TV series, because it was just too Nordic for my mood at the time.
Title:
Psychic Trash Detectives
Short Description:
Live Fast. Eat Trash. Solve Mysteries. A diceless TTRPG played with actual trash.
Long Description:
The world is electric with supernatural energy, an interconnected web of memory and emotional echoes that only animals can perceive. Nowhere is that energy more present than in human trash — abandoned, lost, and discarded objects with long history, aching with deep psychic wounds. In this collaborative story game for 3-5 players, you play as Psychic Trash Detectives: animals who feel this energy in your bones. Will you be the cozy grandpossum wrapped in an afghan made from shredded plastic? Or the shrewd cockroach who sees right through the lies? Touch trash, have visions, and solve the mystery plaguing your outcast community!
Event Type:
RPG – Role Playing Game
Game System:
Psychic Trash Detectives
https://www.gencon.com/events/260320
Title:
Nerdprov Live! – 10th Anniversary Show
Short Description:
We’re celebrating a decade of nerdy laughs with GenCon! Come join us for a hilarious night of improv comedy, fueled by your suggestions! This is a big deal, and we’re excited to welcome you back home!
Long Description:
Nerdprov is improv comedy for nerds, performed by nerds. We’ll take your weirdest, funniest, and strangest audience suggestions about gaming and nerdom and weave it into comedy gold. Expect raffles, prizes, audience participation, and a whole lot of chaos as we celebrate ten amazing years with GenCon.
Event Type:
ENT – Entertainment Events
https://www.gencon.com/events/248903
I know nothing about this, and refuse to look it up. My friend Tom asked if I’d be interested, I said I’d go if I got a ticket, and I got a ticket, so I’m going.
Title:
Fun and Games
Description:
When you and your crew awaken from a night of drunken revelry, you discover everyone in the port has vanished. Will you unravel the mystery? Or discover you spent shore leave in the company of ghosts?
Event Type:
RPG – Role Playing Game
Game System:
Rapscallion
https://www.gencon.com/events/265879
I’ve written about Rapscallion on here before, from the games I played last year; Pirates, spooky stuff, a map which is a persistent and yet changeable part of the game … I’m in.
Title:
Dad Overboard
Short Description:
The Murder Mavens are once more meddling in a local case. Can they solve the mystery before the suspects leave town?
Long Description:
Come help solve a cozy mystery! Do you like mystery shows like “Murder, She Wrote”? Do you like to solve a mystery in a fun and engaging way? Powered by The Apocalypse system, this light-rules system lets the characters shine.
Event Type:
RPG – Role Playing Game
Game System:
Brindlewood Bay
https://www.gencon.com/events/263532
I was sick a lot as a child, and as a teenager. I’ve watched a lot of Murder, She Wrote & The Golden Girls, so a game of cosy mysteries is an easy sell.
And I backed the Kickstarter.
Title:
Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone
Short Description:
A funeral’s never an easy thing, but when it’s the funeral of a childhood friend you accidentally killed and then brought back to life years ago, well – every debt comes due someday.
Long Description:
Going to the funeral of a childhood friend’s never an easy thing, but when it’s the funeral of someone you accidentally killed and then brought back to life years ago, well – you all have owes, and this one’s about to come due. An Old Gods of Appalachia horror adventure set in a small town full of memories, ghosts, and promises unpaid.
Event Type:
RPG – Role Playing Game
Game System:
Old Gods of Appalachia
https://www.gencon.com/events/258084
Creepy-ass Appalachian horror. And I’ve spent several hours on a stuck train in those parts of the country; It’s beautiful, but you can absolutely see how you could lose a town in those mountains.
Title:
Tomorrow’s Messenger
Short Description:
At an old SATI site you discover a strange, high-tech device with a message calling for help. It’s time to go on a mission of rescue – but this is the Cretaceous Era, when dinosaurs rule the Earth.
Long Description:
Welcome to the Cretacious Era and Grevakc—a land of dinosaurs and danger, of myth and science, of hope and despair. Once upon a time in the far, far future, Space and Time Interglobal (usually just called SATI) sent thousands of people back to this era. But then the time travel stopped working, and those people were trapped (or perhaps abandoned) here. That was all generations ago. Now you’re exploring an old SATI site. It’s been like others you’ve uncovered, filled with interesting things from the future and from the past. Nothing truly astonishing—until that blue cylinder turned up. This is something new—a technologically advanced message, and it’s calling for help. It’s time to take your dinosaur companion and go on a mission of rescue! This adventure is set in the Predation campaign setting—a little bit science fiction, a little bit post-apocalypse, and a whole lot of dinosaurs!
Event Type:
RPG – Role Playing Game
Game System:
Cypher System
https://www.gencon.com/events/258115
I’ve played Cypher System a couple of times, once in it’s Numenera variant, and once as the core system.