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Friday Featured Game Demos

1-9:30pm: Break My Game
Playtest still in-development games!

1-7pm: Blood on the Clocktower
Register at the Labyrinth play space during the Con!

2-4pm - Demo with the Designer: Matthew Hocker, designer of Bittersweet

2-4pm - Game Demo: Catan New Energies
Multiple copies will be set up with game teachers present to help learn this game!

3-6pm - Demo with the Publisher: North Star Games
No registration necessary!

4-6pm - Demo with the Designer: Joel Sparks, designer of Cats of Catthulhu

4-6pm - Game Demo: Wingspan
Multiple copies will be set up with game teachers present to help learn this game!

5-7pm - Demo with the Publisher: Hachette Board Games
No registration necessary!

6-9pm - Game Demo: Arcs
Multiple copies will be set up with game teachers present to help learn this game!

7-9pm - Massive Multiplayer Cartographers

Friday CCGs & TCGs

All Day - Command Zone: Casual Commander
No registration necessary!
Grab a seat and join a pod, where the focus is on fun, social, casual play – not wins or losses. You’ll earn prize tickets to use at our Prize Wall, simply for participating!

1-2:30pm - Learn to Play Pokémon
No registration necessary!
Join us to learn how to be a Pokémon Trainer! We’ll teach you the rules of the game and how to master the adorable creatures of the Pokémon universe. Labyrinth Games & Puzzles will lend you cards to use while you learn!

2-4:30pm - Learn to Play Magic: The Gathering
No registration necessary!
Experts will teach you everything from the game’s fundamentals like casting spells and summoning creatures to basic strategy and deck-building advice. You’ll even shuffle-up, draw, and battle! Labyrinth Games & Puzzles will lend you cards to use while you learn!

4-5:30pm - Learn to Play Disney Lorcana
No registration necessary!
Let us teach you all about Lorcana! Learn to play as an “Illumineer” who wields magical ink (cards) of beloved Disney characters and builds teams (decks) to race other Illumineers for lore! Labyrinth Games & Puzzles will lend you cards to use while you learn!

4-5:30pm - Learn to Play Star Wars: Unlimited
No registration necessary!
Unleash your inner Jedi or Sith! Come learn the brand-new Star Wars: Unlimited trading card game! We’ll teach you how to fill your deck with iconic characters, command starships, and then settle debates like: Wookiee v. Sith, who will dominate?! 

6-9PM - Pokémon Ditto Draft Event
Players receive a Build & Battle deck with 40 cards and 4 additional booster packs, then draft the packs to build a 40 card deck. A special ditto marker is given to each player. They can, once per turn, use the ditto marker to evolve any Pokemon one evolution step into any other Pokemon.

6-10pm - MTG: Tarkir Dragonstorm Sealed League Prerelease
Explore the post-nuclear world of Fallout! Grab your spot in a 4-person pod for casual, fun play. Your entry fee includes a Commander deck from the set, but you can bring other unaltered decks from the set to try out as well. The first 20 arrivals each day will get a mystery promo card! And, you'll earn prize tickets for our Prize Wall!

Friday RPGs

2-9:30pm - RPG Games on Demand
Didn’t get a chance to register for an RPG event but still want to play? Games on Demand will be available for walk-up gaming throughout the Con.

1.30-9.30pm - Designed in DMV RPGs
Take a look at different indie RPGs made in the DMV area. Some local DMs will also be on hand to walk you through their systems!

2-4pm - Pathfinder Quest
Beginner friendly shorter adventures, perfect to get a taste of the Pathfinder system! No registration is required.

2-5pm - Mothership
A mix of retro-futurism and the unfathomable terrors of space await you in this award-winning sci-fi horror TTRPG. In a universe of mysterious distress calls, mad scientific experiments, and hostile alien life forms, you and your crew of rough and ready spacers have a job to do.

2-5pm - Fallout Alaska
Ever wondered what's going on in Alaska in the Fallout universe? Well, now you can find out in this completely unauthorized and non-canonical adventure using the original Powered by the Apocalypse game.

2-5pm - Trepallium
Trepallium is loosely based on Traveller; it's a fantasy setting, level-less, class-less, hitpoint-less system, focusing on skill use and problem-solving.

2-5pm - Alter Arms
Based on Henshin Hero shows like Kamen Rider, Power Rangers, and Sailor Moon, players take on the role of ordinary citizens who discover their ability to transform as their city is faced with an alien invasion. Players will lean into their hero's theming to form creative solutions to problems and change into different forms to switch up their role on the team. Full of flamboyant posing, dramatic explosions, and kicking monsters so hard that they explode!

2-5pm - Intro to Vampire the Masquerade
Experiencing a sudden urge to drink blood? Feeling woozy in the sunlight? You might be a vampire! Join us for an introductory VtM session to learn the rules, engage in politics between clans, and maybe bite a rat or two.

2-5pm - D&D Mysterious Setting
Experience the thrill of a one-part encounter in the world’s most famous role-playing game.

2-5pm - Everyday Heroes: Core Rules
From the excitement of blockbuster action films to the combat options and tactical gear of first-person shooters, adventures in contemporary settings offer a wide range of opportunities and challenges for tabletop gamers. The Everyday Heroes Roleplaying Game provides everything you need to run a modern-day d20-style campaign with elements such as car chases, computer hacking, radiation hazards, or gunplay.

2-5pm - Intro to D&D
Experience the thrill of a one-part encounter in the world’s most famous role-playing game. Perfect for new players.

2:30-5:30pm - Pathfinder Adventure
Adventure through a fantasy world that is easier to learn, faster to play, and offers deep character customization.

3-5pm - Intro to RPG's (6-10 Year olds)
Don't miss out on this opportunity to introduce your child to a world where storytelling knows no bounds! Sign up today and embark on a thrilling adventure that will leave a lasting impression on your child's development. Let the quest begin!

3-6pm - D&D One-Shot
Experience the thrill of a one-part encounter in the world’s most famous role-playing game. Perfect for new players.

3-6pm - Misspent Youth
Create an oppressive authoritarian regime with the others at the table, and then rise up against it! Your teenage group of delinquents will chip away at whatever you create, from an overbearing teacher to an evil corporation!

3-6pm - Achtung Cthulhu!
In the Achtung! Cthulhu universe, a band of Allied heroes fight the Secret War against the Nazi Black Sun and their rivals Nachtwolfe. Powered with ancient secrets and terrible Mythos allies, Black Sun and Nachtwolfe are on the verge of unleashing terrible weapons upon the Allied forces.

3-6pm - Snakes on a Plane
As the most esteemed members of the United States mythos-combating organization, you are all being recalled to Washington, DC, to attend a conference with others in your line of work. As you experience the flight, odd bits and pieces start coming to your awareness. Someone on this flight is not who they appear to be. Will you find the threat or end up like many lost planes before you?

3:30-6:30pm - Pathfinder Adventure
Adventure through a fantasy world that is easier to learn, faster to play, and offers deep character customization.

4-7pm - Intro to D&D
Experience the thrill of a one-part encounter in the world’s most famous role-playing game. Perfect for new players!

4-7pm - Monster of the Week: Dead in the Water
You are a group of hunters who have been brought out onto the ocean to investigate an abandoned cruise ship and try to piece together what happened to those on board. The problem? The fact that the ship looks abandoned doesn’t mean those onboard are actually gone and when you’re out on the water, with no land in sight, there’s nowhere to run.

4-7pm - Star Wars: Age of Rebellion (Rescue at Glare Peak)
A rebel ship crashed with two agents on board who have information on the location of the rebel base. A local rebel cell must infiltrate the Imperial prison and rescue them from the Imperial garrison before Imperial interrogators turn up.

4-7pm - Project Puppeteer
Generate your team of strange and sinister supervillains, and deploy them from the prison known as the Scar to perform black-ops missions on behalf of the mysterious Project Puppeteer. Gallows humor, the patently ridiculous, a love for the genre and comics melodrama come together as your villains are sent to rob… the Gorilluminati?

4-7pm - D&D: Lost Mines of Phandelver
A classic, beginner-friendly introduction into the world of Faerûn! Investigate secret hideouts, search for lost treasure and of course, battle your way through goblins and dragons alike!

4-7pm - Starfinder 2 Adventure
Join the crew of a starship and explore a weird, science-fantasy universe full of aliens, magic, and adventure.

5-8pm - Never Stop Blowing Up!
The brand new, rules-light system created by Dropout, is based on the popular Kids on Bikes system. Players will engage in a high-octane, action-packed thrill ride through Sin City itself, Las Vegas! Pick your favorite action movie hero and buckle up for a game where you will NEVER. STOP. BLOWING. UP!

5-8pm - The Man from A.R.K.H.A.M.
A tongue-in-cheek eldritch horror spy thriller using the FIST system. Players will take on the role of a team of expendable paranormal operatives battling alien conspiracies, Kafkaesque bureaucracies, and a ticking clock in an alternate 1999 where the Cold War never ended. Pregenerated sheets will be provided for drop-in play, as well as in the event of an agent's untimely demise.

5-8pm - D&D: Western-themed Murder Mavens
D&D 5e meets Brindlewood Bay in this game for a 5th level party playing 70+ year old women in the Wild West. High fantasy meets a Western-themed Murder Mavens adventure.

5:30-9:30pm - Lancer
Pilot mechs into battle 15,000 years into the future.

6-9pm - D&D: Hold Back the Dead
Ironspine Keep is all that stands before a monstrous horde sent by the villainous lich Szass Tam. The heroes must defend a section of the fortress walls from encroaching monsters and internal spies, or the region will fall to Szass Tam’s tide of death. This adventure is designed for 4th level characters

6-9pm - The Between
The Between is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of mysterious monster hunters in Victorian-era London. They are residents of a place called Hargrave House, and their job is to investigate and neutralize monstrous threats terrorizing the city—threats that Scotland Yard won’t or can’t handle themselves. As the story progresses, they become aware of the plans of a Moriarty-style criminal mastermind they will eventually have to face in order to save the Queen and country.

6-9pm - Skrap Packs
Test your creative problem-solving in this deckbuilding/crafting RPG! It's the night of your 10-year high school reunion and you've been invited to the isolated Percival Mansion to meet your old classmates. Suddenly, the doors are locked and supernatural creatures are afoot. Vacuum up everything that's not nailed down, craft impractical weapons, and use your imagination to make do with what you have to survive the night!

6-8pm - Intro to RPGs (11-16 Year Olds)
Don't miss out on this opportunity to introduce your child to a world where storytelling knows no bounds! Sign up today and embark on a thrilling adventure that will leave a lasting impression on your child's development. Let the quest begin!

6-9pm - D&D: Legends of the Skinned Cat Tavern
You and your party find yourselves in a mysterious tavern known as the "The Skinned Cat Tavern." You don't know why you're there, or who you're with, but all you know is that you're looking for The Golden Bell. Can you solve the many mysteries of the tavern?

6-9pm - The Warren
A Powered by the Apocalypse game of rabbits trying to live their life in a world that wants to eat them.

6-8pm - Pathfinder Quests
Beginner friendly shorter adventures, perfect to get a taste of the Pathfinder system! No registration is required.

6:30-9:30pm - Combat the Cold Tide
You are the ranking Delta Green members on loan from the United States to the Canadian government. Your objective is to reinforce the wards protecting Canada and the Northeastern United States from the spread of Ithaqua's ice. Recent events have shown that not all of Canada seeks the warmth of a familial nation. Some seek to drown the world in ice. Cultists have broken into your barracks, and you only have a short time before the wards fully break and a cold tide sweeps away civilization. What will you do?

6:30-9:30pm - Pathfinder Adventure
Adventure through a fantasy world that is easier to learn, faster to play, and offers deep character customization.

7-10pm - Die Laughing!
Inspired by Cabin in the Woods and Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil, take turns starring and directing each other in a horror comedy. Horror and comedy tropes abound! Did your character die? Don’t worry, you’re a ghost and producer now; go ahead and reshoot a scene that sounds really expensive!

7-10pm - Numenera: Ashes of the Sea
Set a billion years in Earth’s future, Numenera allows players to take the roles of explorers and adventurers, uncovering the mysteries of long-vanished prior worlds. In this adventure, an ancient device has sent you and your friends, in the blink of an eye, to distant reaches unknown. The key to returning home—or anywhere else—lies within another prior-world site. But entering the towering Icon, topped by its mysterious, many-armed statue, is taboo to the locals—and the ruin contains a dangerous legacy of its original function …

7-10pm - Intro to D&D
Experience the thrill of a one-part encounter in the world’s most famous role-playing game. Perfect for new players!

7:30-9:30pm - DM 101 Workshop
Have you ever wanted to learn how to run a D&D game but you didn't know where to start? In How to DM 101 our seasoned Dungeon Masters will teach you the basics of running a game with some tips and tricks to get you on your way.

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