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Saturday Tournaments

11am-3:00pm - Wingspan Tournament
Enter round one – and win – to advance to the final game!

5-8pm - Azul Tournament
Test your skill in a tournament based on one of the most popular tile placement games!

Saturday Featured Game Demos

10-9:30pm: Break My Game
Playtest still in-development games!

10-9:30pm: Blood on the Clocktower
Register at the Labyrinth play space during the Con!

10am-8pm: All-Day Play: Concept Challenge!
Stop by the Labyrinth game area each hour to guess the new clue in the game Concept, the most correct answers gets a $50 gift card!

11-3pm: Kids' Gaming Corner with local publisher Upbounders
No registration necessary!

11-2pm - Game Demo: LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick Taking Game
Multiple copies will be set up with game teachers present to help learn this game!

11-2pm - Demo with the Designer: Chi Nwogu, designer of PickUp
No registration necessary!

12-3pm - Demo with the Publisher: Looney Labs (including unreleased prototypes!)
No registration necessary!

1-3pm - Meet & Greet: Elizabeth Hargrave
No registration necessary!

2-4pm - Meet & Greet: Connie Vogelmann
No registration necessary!

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

3-5pm - Demo with the Designer: Dave Chalker, designer of Talisman

3-6pm - Looney Labs presents: Andy vs Everybody

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

4-6pm - Demo with the Designer: Dave Cassar, designer of Arboretum

6-8pm - Demo with the Designer: Joseph Frederick, designer of We're Sinking

6-8pm - Game Demo: Forest Shuffle
Multiple copies will be set up with game teachers present to help learn this game!

7-9pm - Demo with the Designer: Dave Chalker, designer of Thunder Road: Vendetta

7-9pm - Game Demo: Harmonies
Multiple copies will be set up with game teachers present to help learn this game!

7-9pm - Two Rooms and a Boom

 

Saturday 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!

11am-1:30pm - 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!

11-1:30pm - 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?!

12-3pm - Pokémon Build & Battle Event
Players receive a 40 card prebuilt deck and 4 additional booster packs. After building a 40 card deck, players compete for prizes in swiss round tournament.

1-4pm - Lorcana Sealed League Tournament
Dive into the chaos with a deck constructed from packs from 3 sets! Then, enter a thrilling 3-round swiss tournament. The more you win, the more prize tickets you’ll earn to use at our Prize Wall!

4-7pm - 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 Flesh & Blood
 No registration necessary!
Experience 1v1 battles in the land of Rathe! Begin your journey towards legend in Flesh and Blood combat which was created – and rigorously tested – by trading card game fanatics! Let Labyrinth staff teach you how to equip your hero with weapons, armor, and abilities; take actions; and try to outlast your opponent! Labyrinth Games & Puzzles will lend you cards to use while you learn!

4-8pm - Star Wars: Unlimited Sealed League Tournament
All players will receive 6 SWU booster packs, and will build a 30 card deck.

5-9pm - MTG: Tarkir Dragonstorm Prerelease
Tarkir is back with powerful new dragons! Ride the storm with the newest Magic: The Gathering set. Be among the first to play with this new set at an official Labyrinth-hosted prerelease event at Awesome Con. This will be a 3-round, sealed swiss tournament. Players will earn tickets that can be used to claim prizes from the incredible MTG Prize Wall.

Saturday RPGs

10:30-9:30pm - 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.

10.30-9.30pm - Designed in DMV RPG's
Take a look at different indie RPG's made in the DMV area. Some local DM's will also be on hand to walk you through their systems!

11-1pm - 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!

11-2pm - D&D: Masks & Mayhem
After completing a mission, you and your party arrive in the beautiful port city of Islington where you receive an invite from Count Frederico Borgia, a mysterious noble

11-2pm - D&D One Shot
Experience the thrill of a one-part encounter in the world’s most famous role-playing game.

11-2pm - 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.

11-2pm - Star Wars RPG
The Star Wars Roleplaying Game allows players to create their own unique characters and embark on exciting adventures within the beloved Star Wars universe.

11-2pm - 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.

11-2pm - 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!

11-2pm - Pathfinder Adventure
Adventure through a fantasy world that is easier to learn, faster to play, and offers deep character customization.

11:30-2:30pm - 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.

12-2pm - Pathfinder Quests
Beginner friendly shorter adventures, perfect to get a taste of the Pathfinder system! No registration is required.

12-3pm - 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.

12-3pm - Electrum Archive
The Electrum Archive is a science-fantasy TTRPG zine series inspired by the worlds of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Dark Sun and Ultraviolet Grasslands. It uses simple core rules inspired by other OSR games to quickly get you started playing. The game is set in the world of Orn, a place long ago abandoned by an alien race now known as the Elders. The magical ink left behind in the shipwrecks of these ancient aliens is now used as currency and inhaled by warlocks as fuel for their spell casting. Adventurers called inkseekers venture out into the decaying world beyond the cities ruled over by scheming Merchant Houses to look for Elder artefacts and ink.

12-3pm - D&D: The Lonely Tower
A mystery one-shot exploring the lonely tower of Roseward, and the curse it carries with it.

12-3pm - Intro to D&D
Experience the thrill of a one-part encounter in the world’s most famous role-playing game.

12-3pm - D&D: The Haunting of Doctor Hollow's Tower
A fellow adventuring party has reached out to you for help when one of their companions goes missing. When you all arrive to the sleepy town of 'Rockwater' where you agreed to meet, they are nowhere to be found except for the local legend of a mysterious dark wizard who haunts the surrounding forest.

1-4pm - 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!

1-4pm - Cypher System
At an archeological dig, you discover a strange high-tech device with a message calling for help. It's time to go on a mission of rescue - but you're in the Cretaceous Era, when dinosaurs rule the Earth.

1-4pm - Intro to D&D
Experience the thrill of a one-part encounter in the world’s most famous role-playing game.

1-4pm - Starfinder 2 Adventure
Join the crew of a starship and explore a weird, science-fantasy universe full of aliens, magic, and adventure.

1:30-4:30pm - 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?

1:30-4:30pm - 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?

2-5pm - 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.

2-5pm - D&D Mysterious Adventure

2-4pm - Intro to RPG's (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!

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

3-6pm - Lady Blackbird RPG
Lady Blackbird is on the run from an arranged marriage to Count Carlowe. She hired a smuggler skyship, The Owl, to take her from her palace on the Imperial world of Ilysium to the far reaches of the Remnants, so she could be with her once secret lover: the pirate king Uriah Flint.

3-6pm - Knockabout!
Take the role of wacky cartoon characters struggling to go about their day-to-day lives in a world where they are the punchline. Play as characters built for failure, as each flub creates a change in the environment that the rest of the party can take advantage of to improve their own chances (or make things worse!).

3-6pm - D&D: Delivery! Riding the Unicorn Express
Congrats Adventurer! You've done it! You have just graduated from the Franklin Adventuring Academy! What's your first mission? Fighting a dragon? Fighting an aboleth? No. It's just delivering mail, surely adventuring can be more exciting than that. Right?

3:30-6:30pm - Outgunned
A cinematic action RPG inspired by movies like Die Hard, John Wick, Ocean's 11, and James Bond.

3:30-6:30pm - Everyday Heroes: Pacific Rim
The world is assaulted by titanic monsters from another dimension, and only by building robotic titans—the Jaegers—of our own, can we stop them. With the Pacific Rim Cinematic roleplaying products, you can take on the role of hero of humankind by taking on the monstrous Kaiju head-on to save our planet. It is time to cancel the apocalypse!

4-7pm - Pathfinder Quests
Beginner friendly shorter adventures, perfect to get a taste of the Pathfinder system! No registration is required.

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 - Strange Tales of Songlings
Explore supernatural mysteries and quick-paced fighting in a horror TTRPG based on supernatural Chinese accounts from writers Pu Songling and Yuan Mei. The game is set in worlds haunted by ghosts, vampires, and fox spirits.

4-7pm - D&D One-Shot
Experience the thrill of a one-part encounter in the world’s most famous role-playing game.

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

5-7pm - Pathfinder Adventure
Adventure through a fantasy world that is easier to learn, faster to play, and offers deep character customization.

5-7pm - 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!

5-8pm - 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.

5-7pm - D&D: A Mephit into His Madness
An unscrupulous rogue named Zalli has acquired a Rod Of Minor Elemental Summoning, and is using it to conjure mephits to extort local merchants for “protection.” Fed up, a few of the merchants have banded together to hire a group of adventurers to put an end to Zalli’s schemes.

5:30-8:30pm - 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?

5:30-8:30pm - D&D: The Haunting of Doctor Hollow's Tower
A fellow adventuring party has reached out to you for help when one of their companions goes missing. When you all arrive to the sleepy town of 'Rockwater' where you agreed to meet, they are nowhere to be found except for the local legend of a mysterious dark wizard who haunts the surrounding forest.

6-9pm - Starfinder 2 Adventure
Join the crew of a starship and explore a weird, science-fantasy universe full of aliens, magic, and adventure.

6-9pm - 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!

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 - Cypher System
At an archeological dig, you discover a strange high-tech device with a message calling for help. It's time to go on a mission of rescue - but you're in the Cretaceous Era, when dinosaurs rule the Earth.

6-9pm - D&D: Murder on the Ebberon Express
Solve the mysterious murder of Egan Bakker before the train reaches its destination, and the murderer escapes. A dark, pulp noir game good for both newer and veteran players.

6-9pm - Intro to D&D
Experience the thrill of a one-part encounter in the world’s most famous role-playing game.

6:30-9:30pm - Eat the Reich: Off the Rails
Nazi Germany is putting finishing touches on the largest railway gun in the world. The vampire agents of F.A.N.G. have been called in to destroy the gun, and perhaps turn it on its creators. In this fast paced game players will take on the role of vampires tearing and drinking their way through Germany during World War II.

6:30-9:30pm - 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?

7-10pm - 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!

7-10pm - 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?

7-10pm - D&D: Waterdeep - Dragon Heist
If you’re looking for a fantasy-driven Ocean’s Eleven-style heist adventure, look no further! Flex your roleplay and investigation skills to navigate the political underbelly of Waterdeep and come out on top with treasure!

 

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