AwesomeCon is now complete. These events were held on Sunday, March 10th!! (View our Friday and Saturday events at AwesomeCon.)
Featured Game Demos • CCGs & TCGs • Roleplaying Games
Sunday Featured Game Demos
11am-1pm - Family Games with ThinkFun
Join us for a pinch of genius and a dash of silliness with a game publishing company!
11am-12:30pm - Flamecraft
Artisan dragons! Try this engine-building game with a delightful theme.
12-1pm - Forbidden Jungle
You’ve crash-landed on a jungle planet. Work together to shift tiles, power the portal, and survive!
12-1pm - Gaming with Hachette Board Games
The publisher of the hot 2023 release, Sky Team, will teach products from their line - everything from kid-friendly fun to strategic brain burners.
1-2pm - Gaming with Hachette Board Games
The publisher of the hot 2023 release, Sky Team, will teach products from their line - everything from kid-friendly fun to strategic brain burners.
1-2pm - Shores of Tripoli with designer Kevin Bertram
Play a historical wargame on the First Barbary War.
1-3pm - First Monday in October with designer Talia Rosen
Decide the fate of the free world! Recreate the history of the Supreme Court!
1-3pm - Scythe
An engine-building game set in an alternate-history of 1920s Europa – play with asymmetrical resources and hidden goals!
2-3pm - Shores of Tripoli with designer Kevin Bertram
Play a historical wargame on the First Barbary War.
2:30-4pm - Marvel Champions: The Card Game
As iconic heroes of the Marvel universe you must stop infamous villains from enacting their devious schemes.
3-5pm - Star Wars: X-Wing
Physically fly (move) starship miniatures, and create space battles on the tabletop!
3:30-5pm - Daybreak
Control a world power and work with the other players (world powers) to reduce global emissions!
Sunday CCGs & TCGs
11am-3pm - 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-2pm - Learn to Play Magic: The Gathering
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!
11am-2pm - Learn to Play Pokémon
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!
11am-3pm - Learn to Play Star Wars: Unlimited
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?!
11am-2pm - Magic: The Gathering Bulk & Build
Dig through bulk cards to craft a 40-card deck that’s yours to keep! Let the casual, league-style fun begin! First, you’ll have access to a wide swath of bulk cards from which you’ll select 40! Create a deck from these cards along with provided basic lands. Then, you’ll play in a casual tournament of epic best-of-1 matches. The deck you build is yours to keep! And, each win means more prize tickets for you!
2-5pm - Learn to Play Disney Lorcana
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!
3-5pm - Last-Chance Casual Commander
No registration necessary!
Bring your own homebrew- or preconstructed-deck to battle for prize tickets in casual Commander play! This is your final shot to earn tickets and splurge at our amazing Prize Wall. Don't miss out!
Sunday RPGs
10am-1pm - Pathfinder: Guardians Covenant
Experience an adventure in the Pathfinder world.
11am-12:30pm - Introduction to RPG Sessions for Kids at AwesomeCon (AGES 11-16)
Calling all parents eager to ignite their children's creativity and critical thinking skills! Dive into the captivating world of role-playing games (RPGs) with our specially curated introductory sessions designed for budding adventurers, led by a games master with years of experience running kids RPGs under Deadly Penguin Games.
11am-2pm - Fantasy AGE
Learn the basics of Green Ronin Publishing's Fantasy AGE, as you hunt down an evil cult in the sewers of Freeport!
11am-2pm - Space Kings
Space Kings is an improvisational tabletop roleplaying game. Players and Hosts use decks of 54 standard playing cards to fight evil space governments, thwart unethical corporations, host fancy dinner parties, and overcome other devious challenges.
11am-2pm - D&D 3rd Level Adventure
Characters are sent to investigate why a local village is no longer sending taxes to the local baron. When they arrive, only bones picked clean remain, with a grisly trail leading into the depths a long abandoned tomb."
11am-2pm - Pathfinder: The Crocodile's Smile
Experience an adventure in the Pathfinder world.
12-3pm - Misspent Youth (Mature Content)
Friends! Fight authority, stand up to bullies, forge bonds, and make the world a better place.
12-3pm - Intro to Dungeons & Dragons
Experience the thrill of a one-part encounter in the world’s most famous role-playing game, taught by an expert.
12-3pm - Wanderhome
Wanderhome is a pastoral fantasy role-playing game about traveling animal-folk, the world they inhabit, and the way the seasons change. It is a game filled with grassy fields, mossy shrines, herds of chubby bumblebees, opossums in sundresses, salamanders with suspenders, starry night skies, and the most beautiful sunsets you can imagine.
12-3pm - D&D Spelljammer
Spelljammer is a campaign setting originally published for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, which features a fantastic outer space environment.
1-4pm - DCC #79 - Frozen in Time
Eons-old secrets slumber beneath the forbidden Ghost Ice. Since the time of the Elders, the local tribes have shunned the crawling glacier, knowing it as taboo land that slays all who tread its frigid expanse. Now, the Ghost Ice has shattered, revealing hints at deeper mysteries entombed within its icy grasp. Strange machines and wonderful horrors stir beneath the ice...
1:30-3pm - Introduction to RPG Sessions for Kids at AwesomeCon (AGES 6-10)
Calling all parents eager to ignite their children's creativity and critical thinking skills! Dive into the captivating world of role-playing games (RPGs) with our specially curated introductory sessions designed for budding adventurers, led by a games master with years of experience running kids RPGs under Deadly Penguin Games.
1-4pm - Xenolanguage with creator Thorny Games
Make first contact with alien life, have messy human relationships, and see what happens when they mix together. Play centers on the Platform: a custom channeling board of mysterious origin. Use a planchette-like Lens to channel over alien symbols as you receive and interpret messages. Players will progressively discover meanings for the alien symbols on the board, grapple with what they learn, and experience how it changes them.
1-5pm - D&D: Temple of the Basilisk Cult
Sinister forces wreak havoc at an archaeological dig site. You must stop the bloodbath!
1-4pm - The Walking Dead (Mature Content)
Face impossible choices in an unforgiving world.
2-5m - Fantasy AGE
Learn the basics of Green Ronin Publishing's Fantasy AGE, as you hunt down an evil cult in the sewers of Freeport!
2-5pm - Vampire the Masquerade (Mature Content)
Play as "gothic-punk" vampires, known as the "Kindred". Manage night-to-night struggles!
2-5pm - Mausritter (Ages 10-14)
A sword-and-whiskers roleplaying game in which you play a brave and clever mouse in a fantasy world! Inspired by adventure stories like Watership Down and Redwall. This is a rules-lite game that's a great introduction to tabletop roleplaying.
2-5pm - Star Wars RPG
Explore locations where the Empire’s laws and influence are dimmed or muted. Meet shady characters, independent thinkers, and insurgents looking to break free of Imperial law.
