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ValorCon 2015

5:00pm CDT

Cypher System

Limited Capacity seats available

You and your friends like to get scared, really scared. Before the end of spring break, you decide to visit one last ghost town…

Moderators

Mike Goldrich

MAMS Gaming

At Gen Con 2012, MAMS Gaming started running a few independent games with RPGs we thought were under served there. Starting small, we have tried to grow to provide more each year. This past year, we provided nearly 30 events in 5 RPG systems.Our goal is to provide a great experience... Read More →

Friday October 16, 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 12

5:00pm CDT

Iron Kingdoms

Limited Capacity seats available

A group of outcasts must band together to stop old enemies from destroying a human encampment so they can destroy it first! This is the Iron Kingdoms Unleashed Adventure Kit Scenario.

Everything needed to play will be provided, including pre-generated characters if requested.

Moderators

Matt Goldrich

MAMS Gaming

Friday October 16, 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 9

5:00pm CDT

ndp Microgame Sampler

Limited Capacity seats available

Come peruse the assortment of microgames veteran game designer Nathan Paoletta has offered to personally teach and run for you! Choose from:

Witness the Murder of Your Father and Be Ashamed
Young Prince
Vesna Thaw
The Death of the Gilded Age
Haunted

Descriptions available on Nathan's Website.

GameRunners

Nathan Paoletta

Nathan D. Paoletta is an independent game designer, publisher and graphic artist in Chicago, IL. See his catalogue of unique games and works in progress at ndpdesign.com

Friday October 16, 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 11

5:00pm CDT

Outbreak Undead

Limited Capacity seats available

When the outbreak starts, there is no warning. Caught in morning rush hour, you find yourself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse unprepared.

Moderators

Chris Thomann

Star Wars, pathfinder, d&d and the Chicago Cubs enough talking lets throw some dice!

Friday October 16, 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 13

5:00pm CDT

Ehdrigohr

Limited Capacity seats available

Ehdrigohr is a tabletop role-playing game where you get to play a character struggling to survive in this recovering world. It is a fantasy game of high heroics, myth and culture, powerful magic, and survival horror. The tides of darkness are overwhelming but this is not meant to be a game of nihilism. It is about hope. Your characters are the mythic heroes who do impossible things that push back the tide.

Culturally, Ehdrigohr is a non-traditional fantasy world. Rather than fantasy seen through a Euro-Medieval lens, Ehdrigohr is instead crafted to take inspiration from the myth and folklore of tribal, and indigenous, cultures around the world.

GameRunners

Allen Turner

Game Designer/Owner, Council Of Fools LLC

Allen Tuner is a Chicago area game designer who created and published Ehdrigohr: The Roleplaying Game, which he is running at ValorCon! He is also faculty and instructor at DePaul CDM (College of Computing and Digital Media) for Game Development and Interactive Media at the School... Read More →

Friday October 16, 2015 5:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Host Organization https://www.facebook.com/Ehdrigohr
Location Table 15-16

6:00pm CDT

The Quiet Year

Limited Capacity seats available

The Quiet Year is a map building game. You define the struggles of a community as they attempt to build something good in the quiet year between devastating visits from the Frost Shepards. Best for players 13+, no experience necessary.

Moderators

Megan Pedersen

Wheel Tree Press

Megan Pedersen is a Chicago based performer, podcaster and game designer. She currently serves as one of the core hosts of the Jank Cast, a podcast focused on topics in gaming, RPG actual plays and interviews with industry leaders. Megan is also one of the founding members of... Read More →

Friday October 16, 2015 6:00pm - 8:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 14

6:00pm CDT

13th Age: The Wreck of Volund's Glory

Limited Capacity seats available

The dwarven airship Volund’s Glory has crashed in a sacred canyon in Midgard's Wasted West, and your iconic patron has charged you with recovering the stolen artifact it carried. Not only will you have to negotiate your way through the local Ghost Goblin tribe and magic-warped abominations, but other mercenaries seek the wreck, as well.

[Level 2 characters provided]

GameRunners

J. Michael Bestul

J. Michael Bestul has been a GM for two decades, ever since he ran "The Haunting" as a Call of Cthulhu session with his brother. When not dreaming up new 13th Age or Delta Green plots, he writes about games, comics, cocktails, and hockey for the Addison Recorder... Read More →

Friday October 16, 2015 6:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 10

6:00pm CDT

Steamscapes

Limited Capacity seats available

Who has sabotaged the Great Peninsular Railway? Find out quickly & prevent a war between Maratha and Hyderabad in this Indian steampunk adventure.

Uses the Savage Worlds system.

GameRunners

Eric Simon

Eric Simon is a writer of games, plays, and fiction, incuding the RPGs Steamscapes and the soon-to-be-released Rockalypse, both of which he is running at ValorCon! He is also an occasional teacher, musician, and storyteller.

Friday October 16, 2015 6:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 30

6:00pm CDT

The Three Rocketeers

Limited Capacity seats available

The Queen’s enemies have disbanded the Rocketeers but duty cannot be set aside so easily. The Rocketeers now work from the shadows to protect the queen from threats both foreign and domestic. A deadly cabal of nobles and clergy threaten to usurp Her Majesty Queen Marie-Hélène’s throne and hand Gallia over to Pope Regulus IV. Only you and your compatriots can unravel the conspiracy. Journey through the Holy Roman Stellar Empire and the worlds of Britannica Solaria. Foreign spies and papal agents lurk in every shadow as the trap draws ever closer. A sharp blade and sharper wits will serve you well as interstellar powers play the game of puppets and shadows. The fate of the crown is in your hands. All for one and one for all!

Uses the FATE Core system.

GameRunners

PK Sullivan

PK is a game designer in Chicago who created The Three Rocketeers, which he will be running (among other titles) at ValorCon!

Friday October 16, 2015 6:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 5

7:00pm CDT

Cypher System: Numenera

Limited Capacity seats available

Scenario Title: The Hideous Game

No materials necessary, new players encouraged!

Description: Numenera is set on Earth - a billion years in the future. Humans today survive and sometime thrive on the bones of the past civilizations (some human, some certainly not), discovering and using ancient technology to improve their lives. However, the inner workings of these artifacts, or "numenera," are so mysterious as to be considered magic. And who are we to say they're wrong? Adventure: From a simple night of revelry about the great city of Qi, the players are drawn into a dark plot by insidious creatures. Will they find the location of the Hideous game? Will they find it in time to stop it?

Moderators

Darcy Ross

Darcy L. Ross is by day an Enthusiastic Biologist who Creates Molluscan Monsters, and by night an Effervescent Gamemaster who Loves the Cypher System. She is known for GMing the Numenaaaaara episode on the One Shot RPG podcast, and co-hosts a Cypher System discussion podcast called... Read More →

Friday October 16, 2015 7:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 9

8:00pm CDT

The Final Girl (Age 18 and up)

Limited Capacity seats available

The Final Girl is a horror movie RPG meant to emulate slasher films or any other horror movie where characters are picked off one by one until only one survivor remains. Best for ages 18+ due to horror themes. No experience necessary.

Moderators

Megan Pedersen

Wheel Tree Press

Megan Pedersen is a Chicago based performer, podcaster and game designer. She currently serves as one of the core hosts of the Jank Cast, a podcast focused on topics in gaming, RPG actual plays and interviews with industry leaders. Megan is also one of the founding members of... Read More →

Friday October 16, 2015 8:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 18-19
Subject 18+

10:00am CDT

Space Cadets: Away Missions

Limited Capacity seats available

Join local Podcast star and RPG expert Kat Kuhl as she demonstrates the gameplay and rules of Stronghold Games' Space Cadets:

It’s always been your life long dream to join the Star Patrol and be in the crew of an interstellar Starship.

You’ve worked hard, graduated from the academy, and received your first assignment as part of a team of young recruits.

You are confident in your abilities.

Nothing can possibly go wrong.

You are prepared for anything.

You are the…SPACE CADETS!

Space Cadets is a fun, frantic, real-time cooperative game where players take on the roles of Bridge Officers of a Starship.

GameRunners

Kat Kuhl

Kat is the co-founder of the Campaign and One Shot podcasts, and is a living spell cast by the Urwitch to summon beautiful stories into this world. She possesses the intellect of any three men of genius, a comprehensive knowledge of all things that never were, and eyes of a deeply... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Track Room 2 Block 37 3rd Floor

10:00am CDT

Ghosts of Albion: Dinosauria

New Year's Eve, 1853.

You are cordially invited to a special and most unique diner party. You will be the guests of Richard Owen as he unveils the most exciting scientific discovery of our time. You will behold Owen's incredible Dinosauria!

Dinosauria is an introductory adventure for the Ghosts of Albion Role-Playing Game. Take on the role of power mages, ghosts, vampires or humans that hunt the darkness to protect the shores of England in the early Victorian Age. Ghosts of Albion is powered by the fast and easy to learn Cinematic Unisystem game engine. The same system found in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Army of Darkness. No knowledge of the game needed. Game Master provides character sheets, dice and rule book.

Moderators

Timothy Brannan

Saturday October 17, 2015 10:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

10:00am CDT

Night's Black Agents Demo: 'Blood Red Sea'

Limited Capacity seats available

It should have been a simple, if dirty, job: intercept a rogue salaryman before he could sell a flash drive full of corporate secrets. But when your local contact is found murdered -- and drained of blood, maybe you've gotten into something not simple at all.

An introductory adventure of espionage vs vampires for 2-6 players.

Night’s Black Agents puts you in the role of a deadly secret agent, taking down the forces of darkness. Bring your favorite high-octane spy thrillers to the table with Night’s Black Agents from legendary designer Kenneth Hite (Trail of Cthulhu). Have friends who love console shooters? This is the tabletop RPG for them!

(Uses the GUMSHOE system)

Moderators

Samuel Crider

Samuel started running RPGs with AD&D in 1976. I love running a lot of different kinds of games, especially ones with lots of player contribution to shaping the adventure and the world we make up together.

Saturday October 17, 2015 10:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 1

10:00am CDT

Rockalypse

Limited Capacity seats available

The world as we know it has ended. Only music can save what’s left! Choose from several apocalypse scenarios, then grab your instruments to head out into the wasteland! Uses the FATE Core system.

GameRunners

Eric Simon

Eric Simon is a writer of games, plays, and fiction, incuding the RPGs Steamscapes and the soon-to-be-released Rockalypse, both of which he is running at ValorCon! He is also an occasional teacher, musician, and storyteller.

Saturday October 17, 2015 10:00am - 1:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 30

10:00am CDT

D&D 5th Edition Intro: Lost Mines of Phandelver

Limited Capacity seats available

This is the Starter Pack adventure for the new D&D 5th Edition set.

Moderators

Jonathan Andersen

Jonathan is a local GM who will be running introductory Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition sessions.

Saturday October 17, 2015 10:00am - 2:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

10:00am CDT

Funnel World

Limited Capacity seats available

Come and help me tell the bloody story of a dozen brave peasants trying to escape a meat-grinder dungeon, the cursed fortress of the Mad Mechnomancer! Watch blacksmiths, farmers, and swineherds either become heroes or corpses as they explore the dungeon; there will be death, dismemberment, and also hilarity!

For 3-6 players, Should take 4 hours. Unlike the usual RPG, you'll be controlling more than one character. Uses the Funnel World mod of the Dungeon World RPG, which is rules-light, fast, and fiction-first. No experience needed, all materials will be provided.

GameRunners

Joseph Madigan

Joseph is an accomplished Chicago-area game runner with some excellent Funnel World & Dungeon World action for you!

Saturday October 17, 2015 10:00am - 2:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 9

12:00pm CDT

Hope Inhumanity (Age 13 and up)

Limited Capacity seats available

Hope Inhumanity is a card based RPG about ordinary people survivng an extraordinary journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape. How far will you go to survive? Best for ages 13+, no experience necessary.

(PG 13)

Moderators

Megan Pedersen

Wheel Tree Press

Megan Pedersen is a Chicago based performer, podcaster and game designer. She currently serves as one of the core hosts of the Jank Cast, a podcast focused on topics in gaming, RPG actual plays and interviews with industry leaders. Megan is also one of the founding members of... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 12:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 10
Subject 13+

12:00pm CDT

13th Age: At Land's Edge

Limited Capacity seats available

You set off with a fair wind behind you and the blessings of the Icons lighting your way. You hoped for an easy voyage.That was before the unnatural storm shipwrecked you.That was before a gigantic living dungeon rose out of the ocean and vomited a swarm of monsters.That was before everything went wrong.

[Level 3 characters provided, or bring your own.]

GameRunners

J. Michael Bestul

J. Michael Bestul has been a GM for two decades, ever since he ran "The Haunting" as a Call of Cthulhu session with his brother. When not dreaming up new 13th Age or Delta Green plots, he writes about games, comics, cocktails, and hockey for the Addison Recorder... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 12:00pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 5

2:00pm CDT

Time Cellist (Age 13 and up)

Limited Capacity seats available

One of the most awesome aspects of attending a gaming con is the opportunity to not only try unusual, inventive RPGs you might not normally run across, but occasionally you can play them with the designer who created it - like now!

Let your inner history buff run wild as you pick the setting where the forces of good and evil square off in their epic battle! Feudal Japan, Victorian England, Ancient Egypt, or America in the 1980s...whatever you like! Players take on the role of a plucky group of kids saving the world from the Maestro of Maliciousness, a time traveling super villain bent on taking over the time stream. But the kids don’t have to take on The Maestro by themselves. They’ll be aided in their quest by Time Cellist, a cello-wielding hero, traveling through time making sure The Maestro’s plans are foiled.

The game’s set-up and mechanics are designed to emulate the frenetic, ensemble cast feel of movies like the Goonies or E.T., or TV shows like Young Justice or Doctor Who. You and your friends are creating a heroic story about how saving the world just so happens to bring your gang closer together and helps you to overcome obstacles as a group.

Moderators

Megan Pedersen

Wheel Tree Press

Megan Pedersen is a Chicago based performer, podcaster and game designer. She currently serves as one of the core hosts of the Jank Cast, a podcast focused on topics in gaming, RPG actual plays and interviews with industry leaders. Megan is also one of the founding members of... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 2:00pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 10
Subject 13+

2:00pm CDT

Palace of the Silver Princess

"Not long ago, the valley was green and animals ran free through golden fields of grain. The Princess Argenta ruled over this peaceful land and the people were secure and happy. Then one day, a warrior riding a white dragon appeared in the skies over the castle, and almost overnight the tiny kingdom fell into ruin. Now only ruins and rumors remain, and what legends there are tell of a fabulous treasure still buried somewhere within the Palace of the Silver Princess." Play in the very first D&D adventure written by a woman! This adventure was redone based on its artwork and some content, but we'll be playing through the original version. Pregens will be provided.

Moderators

Sarah Richardson

Co-Organizer, ConTessa

Sarah is a Role-Playing Game designer/creator, a writer for Women Write About Comics, and a co-organizer of ConTessa, a group focused on getting more women interested and active in the running, playing, and designing of RPGs. She works as a freelance graphic artist in Chic... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 2:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
TBA

Location Table 8
Area TableTop Gaming

2:00pm CDT

Rockalypse

Limited Capacity seats available

The world as we know it has ended. Only music can save what’s left! Choose from several apocalypse scenarios, then grab your instruments to head out into the wasteland! Uses the FATE Core system.

GameRunners

Eric Simon

Eric Simon is a writer of games, plays, and fiction, incuding the RPGs Steamscapes and the soon-to-be-released Rockalypse, both of which he is running at ValorCon! He is also an occasional teacher, musician, and storyteller.

Saturday October 17, 2015 2:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 30

2:00pm CDT

Ehdrigohr

Limited Capacity seats available

Ehdrigohr is a tabletop role-playing game where you get to play a character struggling to survive in this recovering world. It is a fantasy game of high heroics, myth and culture, powerful magic, and survival horror. The tides of darkness are overwhelming but this is not meant to be a game of nihilism. It is about hope. Your characters are the mythic heroes who do impossible things that push back the tide.

Culturally, Ehdrigohr is a non-traditional fantasy world. Rather than fantasy seen through a Euro-Medieval lens, Ehdrigohr is instead crafted to take inspiration from the myth and folklore of tribal, and indigenous, cultures around the world.

Moderators

Allen Turner

Game Designer/Owner, Council Of Fools LLC

Allen Tuner is a Chicago area game designer who created and published Ehdrigohr: The Roleplaying Game, which he is running at ValorCon! He is also faculty and instructor at DePaul CDM (College of Computing and Digital Media) for Game Development and Interactive Media at the School... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 2:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Vendor Area

3:00pm CDT

Ironrise

Limited Capacity seats available

"Ironrise," is a highly thematic story and art driven "American" style board game, telling a tale which is advanced through competitive and strategic card play.

Play with the game's creators!

GameRunners

Ironrise Games

Ironsire Games

https://static.sched.org/a7/2258451/avatar.jpg.320x320px.jpg?ad3

Saturday October 17, 2015 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 14

3:00pm CDT

World Wide Wrestling

Limited Capacity seats available

World Wide Wrestling is a game of narrative professional wrestling excitement, action and drama. Play a heel or a face and compete for that "top spot" while you entertain the viewing audience with your own brand kayfabe! Knowledge of professional wrestling not necessary.

GameRunners

Nathan Paoletta

Nathan D. Paoletta is an independent game designer, publisher and graphic artist in Chicago, IL. See his catalogue of unique games and works in progress at ndpdesign.com

Saturday October 17, 2015 3:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 12

3:00pm CDT

D&D 5th Edition Intro: Lost Mines of Phandelver

Limited Capacity seats available

This is the Starter Pack adventure for the new D&D 5th Edition set.

Moderators

Jonathan Andersen

Jonathan is a local GM who will be running introductory Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition sessions.

Saturday October 17, 2015 3:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

3:00pm CDT

Firefly RPG

Limited Capacity seats available

Come join the crew of the Serenity - it's an RPG of the fan-favorite show, Firefly!

Moderators

PK Sullivan

PK is a game designer in Chicago who created The Three Rocketeers, which he will be running (among other titles) at ValorCon!

Saturday October 17, 2015 3:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 13

3:00pm CDT

Flight of the Robins

Limited Capacity seats available

When Batman is missing it is up to Roben to save the day! All of them. Players take on the roles of Dick Grayson, Tim Dread, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Kane, and Damian Wayne to navigate the underworld of gotham to find their missing Bat-Dad.

GameRunners

James D'Amato

James is the Co-creator of the ONE SHOT Podcast (oneshotpodcast.com), a comedian, and writer.

Saturday October 17, 2015 3:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

4:00pm CDT

Dread

Limited Capacity seats available

(Age 18 and up)

Dread is a horror based RPG that uses a Jenga tower for action resolution.

GameRunners

Megan Pedersen

Wheel Tree Press

Megan Pedersen is a Chicago based performer, podcaster and game designer. She currently serves as one of the core hosts of the Jank Cast, a podcast focused on topics in gaming, RPG actual plays and interviews with industry leaders. Megan is also one of the founding members of... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 4:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 12
Subject 18+

4:00pm CDT

Mouseguard

Limited Capacity seats available

After a long and bitter cold winter, the first days of spring are a welcome sight; and the mice of the Guard are preparing themselves for the upcoming new season. While waiting for the weather to break, Patrol Leader Cherry is summoned into the Matriarch's map room to receive an urgent mission.

Moderators

Christian Feltman

Voted "least likely to be voted "most likely to succeed"" in high school. oh, and something about running games about semi-anthropomorphic mice.

Saturday October 17, 2015 4:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 23

4:00pm CDT

Outbreak Undead

Limited Capacity seats available

When the outbreak starts, there is no warning. Caught in morning rush hour, you find yourself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse unprepared.

Moderators

Chris Thomann

Star Wars, pathfinder, d&d and the Chicago Cubs enough talking lets throw some dice!

Saturday October 17, 2015 4:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 18

4:00pm CDT

Vampire: The Requiem

Limited Capacity seats available

It was a night like any other, except you wake up in a dark dank room full of strangers feeling an insatiable thirst.

Moderators

Anthony Rose

Saturday October 17, 2015 4:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 17

4:00pm CDT

Dresden Files

Limited Capacity seats available

Looking to live the rest of their lives in peace, four heroes must return to save their community from the threat of a bunch of punk wannabe villains. Get off my lawn!

Moderators

Matt Goldrich

MAMS Gaming

Saturday October 17, 2015 4:00pm - 8:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 19

4:00pm CDT

Ehdrigohr

Limited Capacity seats available

Ehdrigohr is a tabletop role-playing game where you get to play a character struggling to survive in this recovering world. It is a fantasy game of high heroics, myth and culture, powerful magic, and survival horror. The tides of darkness are overwhelming but this is not meant to be a game of nihilism. It is about hope. Your characters are the mythic heroes who do impossible things that push back the tide.

Culturally, Ehdrigohr is a non-traditional fantasy world. Rather than fantasy seen through a Euro-Medieval lens, Ehdrigohr is instead crafted to take inspiration from the myth and folklore of tribal, and indigenous, cultures around the world.

GameRunners

Allen Turner

Game Designer/Owner, Council Of Fools LLC

Allen Tuner is a Chicago area game designer who created and published Ehdrigohr: The Roleplaying Game, which he is running at ValorCon! He is also faculty and instructor at DePaul CDM (College of Computing and Digital Media) for Game Development and Interactive Media at the School... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 4:00pm - 8:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 5

4:00pm CDT

Pathfinder: Trouble at House Highmarrow

Limited Capacity seats available

The One Shot Wonders is a boxed set of campaigns that can be played at levels 1-6 or 7-11 at a moments notice without any preperation for the GM

No materials needed, for level 3

When a young boy goes missing in the night, it is up to the heroes to discover the young man's fate. When clues begin to point to the noble family the Highmarrow's, the mystery deepens.

Moderators

Edgeland Games

Creator, Edgeland Games

We are an up and coming tabletop gaming company located right here in Chicago. We look to create our own 3.5 OGL system, along with a boxed set of campaigns called "One Shot Wonders". It is a collection of campaigns that have easily adjusted challenge ratings and a variety of environments... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 4:00pm - 8:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Host Organization Edgeland Games
Location Table 10

4:30pm CDT

DramaSystem: First Contact Session 1

Limited Capacity seats available

Note: This Session is one of three - you must sign up for all of them:

Saturday 4:30PM-6:00PM DramaSystem introduction and character creation
Saturday 7:00PM-10:00PM DramaSystem Part 1
Sunday 3:00PM-6:00PM DramaSystem Part 2

Six months ago the first human mission to Mars vanished without a trace. Now it has reappeared -- with no earthly explanation. The United Nations First Contact Team has its chance to prove it is more than a joke and a place to transfer eccentrics and lost causes. This multi-session game uses Robin Laws' DramaSystem for an improvised tale of character conflict, rivalries, and emotional struggle against a background of science fiction mystery and international tensions. For 3-6 players.

GameRunners

Samuel Crider

Samuel started running RPGs with AD&D in 1976. I love running a lot of different kinds of games, especially ones with lots of player contribution to shaping the adventure and the world we make up together.

Saturday October 17, 2015 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 14

6:00pm CDT

Ironrise

Limited Capacity seats available

"Ironrise," is a highly thematic story and art driven "American" style board game, telling a tale which is advanced through competitive and strategic card play.

Play with the game's creators!

GameRunners

Ironrise Games

Ironsire Games

https://static.sched.org/a7/2258451/avatar.jpg.320x320px.jpg?ad3

Saturday October 17, 2015 6:00pm - 7:30pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 14

6:00pm CDT

Steamscapes

Limited Capacity seats available

Who has sabotaged the Great Peninsular Railway? Find out quickly & prevent a war between Maratha and Hyderabad in this Indian steampunk adventure.

Uses the Savage Worlds system.

GameRunners

Eric Simon

Eric Simon is a writer of games, plays, and fiction, incuding the RPGs Steamscapes and the soon-to-be-released Rockalypse, both of which he is running at ValorCon! He is also an occasional teacher, musician, and storyteller.

Saturday October 17, 2015 6:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 30

6:00pm CDT

Trail of Cthulhu: Voices From The Other Side

Limited Capacity seats available

The Lochmann Psychical Trust's mission is to find proof of the supernatural in 1930s London. So far they've found only charlatans. Could medium Sarah Hill, who claims to have real powers, be genuine?

[Characters provided]

Moderators

J. Michael Bestul

J. Michael Bestul has been a GM for two decades, ever since he ran "The Haunting" as a Call of Cthulhu session with his brother. When not dreaming up new 13th Age or Delta Green plots, he writes about games, comics, cocktails, and hockey for the Addison Recorder... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 6:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 11

7:00pm CDT

Axon Punk: Overdrive

Axon Punk: Overdrive is a sci-fi roleplaying game set in a cyberpunk world 70 years in the future. The game's ultralight mechanics are geared toward player improvisation, story-telling and collaboration in a gritty, dystopian world hyper-infused with digital/neural connections. Try out a taste of the system in a fast-paced, 2 hour demo where your team infiltrates a mid-level corporate lab. Play one of the game's five classes: Hacker, Engineer, SlumMerc, Cyberized, or Artificial Intelligence (A.I., also called Ghosts). Each class can improvise and gain narrative control using specific abilities to build new tech, write software or navigate society and the Net. After the game, please stick around and share your highly valued feedback on our rules, setting and very experimental A.I. class.

Moderators

Colin Kyle

Saturday October 17, 2015 7:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 12

7:00pm CDT

DramaSystem: First Contact Session 2

Limited Capacity seats available

Note: This Session is one of three - you must sign up for all of them:

Saturday 4:30PM-6:00PM DramaSystem introduction and character creation
Saturday 7:00PM-10:00PM DramaSystem Part 1
Sunday 3:00PM-6:00PM DramaSystem Part 2

Six months ago the first human mission to Mars vanished without a trace. Now it has reappeared -- with no earthly explanation. The United Nations First Contact Team has its chance to prove it is more than a joke and a place to transfer eccentrics and lost causes. This multi-session game uses Robin Laws' DramaSystem for an improvised tale of character conflict, rivalries, and emotional struggle against a background of science fiction mystery and international tensions. For 3-6 players.

GameRunners

Samuel Crider

Samuel started running RPGs with AD&D in 1976. I love running a lot of different kinds of games, especially ones with lots of player contribution to shaping the adventure and the world we make up together.

Saturday October 17, 2015 7:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 13

8:00pm CDT

RPG Vice

Limited Capacity seats available

RPG Vice is a frenetic crime drama RPG set in a Hollywood version of the Roppongi nightlife district in Tokyo.

A hack of Gregor Hutton's Remember Tomorrow, RPG Vice follows the intersecting paths of the Kings and the Factions of Roppongi as they indulge in their vices and try to get not what they need, but what they want.

Do they make it big or make it out before they burn out?

GameRunners

Nathan Paoletta

Nathan D. Paoletta is an independent game designer, publisher and graphic artist in Chicago, IL. See his catalogue of unique games and works in progress at ndpdesign.com

Saturday October 17, 2015 8:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 5

9:00pm CDT

Giant Dread

Dread is a horror game that uses a Jenga tower instead of dice to determine success. If the tower falls you die. Join the cast of the OneShot podcast as they navigate treacherous waters with crew of improv artists who will try (in vain) to avoid meeting horrible ends.

GameRunners

James D'Amato

James is the Co-creator of the ONE SHOT Podcast (oneshotpodcast.com), a comedian, and writer.

Kat Kuhl

Kat is the co-founder of the Campaign and One Shot podcasts, and is a living spell cast by the Urwitch to summon beautiful stories into this world. She possesses the intellect of any three men of genius, a comprehensive knowledge of all things that never were, and eyes of a deeply... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 9:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Town Square Block 37 3rd Floor

10:00am CDT

Night's Black Agents

Limited Capacity seats available

Night’s Black Agents puts you in the role of a deadly secret agent, taking down the forces of darkness.

Bring your favorite high-octane spy thrillers to the table with Night’s Black Agents from legendary designer Kenneth Hite (Trail of Cthulhu). Have friends who love console shooters? This is the tabletop RPG for them!

(Uses the GUMSHOE system)

GameRunners

Samuel Crider

Samuel started running RPGs with AD&D in 1976. I love running a lot of different kinds of games, especially ones with lots of player contribution to shaping the adventure and the world we make up together.

Sunday October 18, 2015 10:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 1

10:00am CDT

Rockalypse

Limited Capacity seats available

The world as we know it has ended. Only music can save what’s left! Choose from several apocalypse scenarios, then grab your instruments to head out into the wasteland! Uses the FATE Core system.

GameRunners

Eric Simon

Eric Simon is a writer of games, plays, and fiction, incuding the RPGs Steamscapes and the soon-to-be-released Rockalypse, both of which he is running at ValorCon! He is also an occasional teacher, musician, and storyteller.

Sunday October 18, 2015 10:00am - 1:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 30

10:00am CDT

13th Age: The Gauntlet

Limited Capacity seats available

You thought it to be little more than dwarven legend. Now you find yourself deep in the gullet of the living dungeon known as the Stone Thief, who welcomes all unwelcome adventurers with a cavalcade of death traps. Enchantments mean it has to play fair… depending on how you define 'fair'.

[Level 4 characters provided, or bring your own.]

GameRunners

J. Michael Bestul

J. Michael Bestul has been a GM for two decades, ever since he ran "The Haunting" as a Call of Cthulhu session with his brother. When not dreaming up new 13th Age or Delta Green plots, he writes about games, comics, cocktails, and hockey for the Addison Recorder... Read More →

Sunday October 18, 2015 10:00am - 2:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 5

10:00am CDT

D&D 5th Edition Intro: Lost Mines of Phandelver

Limited Capacity seats available

This is the Starter Pack adventure for the new D&D 5th Edition set.

Moderators

Jonathan Andersen

Jonathan is a local GM who will be running introductory Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition sessions.

Sunday October 18, 2015 10:00am - 2:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

12:00pm CDT

Axon Punk: Overdrive

Axon Punk: Overdrive is a sci-fi roleplaying game set in a cyberpunk world 70 years in the future. The game's ultralight mechanics are geared toward player improvisation, story-telling and collaboration in a gritty, dystopian world hyper-infused with digital/neural connections. Try out a taste of the system in a fast-paced, 2 hour demo where your team infiltrates a mid-level corporate lab. Play one of the game's five classes: Hacker, Engineer, SlumMerc, Cyberized, or Artificial Intelligence (A.I., also called Ghosts). Each class can improvise and gain narrative control using specific abilities to build new tech, write software or navigate society and the Net. After the game, please stick around and share your highly valued feedback on our rules, setting and very experimental A.I. class.

Moderators

Colin Kyle

Sunday October 18, 2015 12:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 9

2:00pm CDT

Rockalypse

Limited Capacity seats available

The world as we know it has ended. Only music can save what’s left! Choose from several apocalypse scenarios, then grab your instruments to head out into the wasteland! Uses the FATE Core system.

GameRunners

Eric Simon

Eric Simon is a writer of games, plays, and fiction, incuding the RPGs Steamscapes and the soon-to-be-released Rockalypse, both of which he is running at ValorCon! He is also an occasional teacher, musician, and storyteller.

Sunday October 18, 2015 2:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 30

2:00pm CDT

Wes Anderson Fiasco

This is a fiasco playset based around Wes Anderson films. There is more heartfelt comedy and emotional clarity than your typical Fiasco, but it still has the great easy to play roleplay.

(Fiasco is a role-playing game billed as "A game of powerful ambition and poor impulse control" and "inspired by cinematic tales of small time capers gone disastrously wrong—films like Blood Simple, Fargo, The Way of the Gun, Burn After Reading, and A Simple Plan.)

GameRunners

Kat Kuhl

Kat is the co-founder of the Campaign and One Shot podcasts, and is a living spell cast by the Urwitch to summon beautiful stories into this world. She possesses the intellect of any three men of genius, a comprehensive knowledge of all things that never were, and eyes of a deeply... Read More →

Sunday October 18, 2015 2:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

3:00pm CDT

Magical Fury

Limited Capacity seats available

Magical Fury is a dark magical girl RPG, inspired by anime series like Madoka Magica, Sailor Moon and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Players start as normal girls that discover during play that they are reincarnated magical girls. They awaken to their powers under fire and it will be up to you to decide where they go with their new life. ***Powered by the Apocalypse Engine***

Moderators

Megan Pedersen

Wheel Tree Press

Megan Pedersen is a Chicago based performer, podcaster and game designer. She currently serves as one of the core hosts of the Jank Cast, a podcast focused on topics in gaming, RPG actual plays and interviews with industry leaders. Megan is also one of the founding members of... Read More →

Sunday October 18, 2015 3:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 11
Subject 10+

3:00pm CDT

DramaSystem: First Contact Session 3

Limited Capacity seats available

Note: This Session is one of three - you must sign up for all of them:

Saturday 4:30PM-6:00PM DramaSystem introduction and character creation
Saturday 7:00PM-10:00PM DramaSystem Part 1
Sunday 3:00PM-6:00PM DramaSystem Part 2

Six months ago the first human mission to Mars vanished without a trace. Now it has reappeared -- with no earthly explanation. The United Nations First Contact Team has its chance to prove it is more than a joke and a place to transfer eccentrics and lost causes. This multi-session game uses Robin Laws' DramaSystem for an improvised tale of character conflict, rivalries, and emotional struggle against a background of science fiction mystery and international tensions. For 3-6 players.

GameRunners

Samuel Crider

Samuel started running RPGs with AD&D in 1976. I love running a lot of different kinds of games, especially ones with lots of player contribution to shaping the adventure and the world we make up together.

Sunday October 18, 2015 3:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 13

3:00pm CDT

World Wide Wrestling

Limited Capacity seats available

World Wide Wrestling is a game of narrative professional wrestling excitement, action and drama. Play a heel or a face and compete for that "top spot" while you entertain the viewing audience with your own brand kayfabe! Knowledge of professional wrestling not necessary.

GameRunners

Nathan Paoletta

Nathan D. Paoletta is an independent game designer, publisher and graphic artist in Chicago, IL. See his catalogue of unique games and works in progress at ndpdesign.com

Sunday October 18, 2015 3:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 11

3:00pm CDT

D&D 5th Edition Intro: Lost Mines of Phandelver

Limited Capacity seats available

This is the Starter Pack adventure for the new D&D 5th Edition set.

Moderators

Jonathan Andersen

Jonathan is a local GM who will be running introductory Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition sessions.

Sunday October 18, 2015 3:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

3:00pm CDT

Pathfinder: The Hollow One

Limited Capacity seats available

The One Shot Wonders is a boxed set of campaigns that can be played at levels 1-6 at a moments notice, it comes in three different environments (Urban, Woodland, and Dungeon) designed to be played with 3.5 OGL Pathfinder or Dungeons and Dragons 3.5

New Players and experienced alike are welcome.

The Dryad's forest has become corrupted by the presence of The Hollow One. What is a Hollow One you ask? Gather your companions and ventrure into the dark and forbodding jungle and find out.

Moderators

Edgeland Games

Creator, Edgeland Games

We are an up and coming tabletop gaming company located right here in Chicago. We look to create our own 3.5 OGL system, along with a boxed set of campaigns called "One Shot Wonders". It is a collection of campaigns that have easily adjusted challenge ratings and a variety of environments... Read More →

Sunday October 18, 2015 3:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Host Organization Edgeland Games
Location Table 5

4:00pm CDT

Cypher System

Limited Capacity seats available

You and your friends like to get scared, really scared. Before the end of spring break, you decide to visit one last ghost town…

Moderators

Mike Goldrich

MAMS Gaming

At Gen Con 2012, MAMS Gaming started running a few independent games with RPGs we thought were under served there. Starting small, we have tried to grow to provide more each year. This past year, we provided nearly 30 events in 5 RPG systems.Our goal is to provide a great experience... Read More →

Sunday October 18, 2015 4:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 17

4:00pm CDT

Vampire: The Requiem

Limited Capacity seats available

It was a night like any other, except you wake up in a dark dank room full of strangers feeling an insatiable thirst.

Moderators

Anthony Rose

Sunday October 18, 2015 4:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 18

4:00pm CDT

Dresden Files

Limited Capacity seats available

Looking to live the rest of their lives in peace, four heroes must return to save their community from the threat of a bunch of punk wannabe villains. Get off my lawn!

Moderators

Matt Goldrich

MAMS Gaming

Sunday October 18, 2015 4:00pm - 8:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 19

4:00pm CDT

Mouseguard

Limited Capacity seats available

After a long and bitter cold winter, the first days of spring are a welcome sight; and the mice of the Guard are preparing themselves for the upcoming new season. While waiting for the weather to break, Patrol Leader Cherry is summoned into the Matriarch's map room to receive an urgent mission.

Moderators

Christian Feltman

Voted "least likely to be voted "most likely to succeed"" in high school. oh, and something about running games about semi-anthropomorphic mice.

Sunday October 18, 2015 4:00pm - 8:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 23

4:00pm CDT

Night's Black Agents: The Harker Intrusion

Limited Capacity seats available

A mysterious tip-off sends you to Morocco. There’s a journalist there. She knows too much, and won’t see the dawn unless you save her.

[Characters provided]

GameRunners

J. Michael Bestul

J. Michael Bestul has been a GM for two decades, ever since he ran "The Haunting" as a Call of Cthulhu session with his brother. When not dreaming up new 13th Age or Delta Green plots, he writes about games, comics, cocktails, and hockey for the Addison Recorder... Read More →

Sunday October 18, 2015 4:00pm - 8:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 10

4:00pm CDT

The Three Rocketeers

Limited Capacity seats available

The Queen’s enemies have disbanded the Rocketeers but duty cannot be set aside so easily. The Rocketeers now work from the shadows to protect the queen from threats both foreign and domestic. A deadly cabal of nobles and clergy threaten to usurp Her Majesty Queen Marie-Hélène’s throne and hand Gallia over to Pope Regulus IV. Only you and your compatriots can unravel the conspiracy. Journey through the Holy Roman Stellar Empire and the worlds of Britannica Solaria. Foreign spies and papal agents lurk in every shadow as the trap draws ever closer. A sharp blade and sharper wits will serve you well as interstellar powers play the game of puppets and shadows. The fate of the crown is in your hands. All for one and one for all!

Uses the FATE Core system.

GameRunners

PK Sullivan

PK is a game designer in Chicago who created The Three Rocketeers, which he will be running (among other titles) at ValorCon!

Sunday October 18, 2015 4:00pm - 8:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 6

6:00pm CDT

Dungeon World

Limited Capacity seats available

NOTE: This game is full, but I'm running Funnel World at 10am on Saturday - it'll be just as fun, if not more, so join me!

When the forces of Chaos wage war against the city of Skystead, you and your band of adventuring companions are the only thing that can make a difference; what will you do? Hack and slash until your enemies are gone? Infiltrate forbidden places, to do what must be done? Will you distort the very fabric of reality to bend the world to your will? Let's find out!

For 3-6 players, Should take 4-5 hours. We're using Dungeon World, which is a rules-light, fast, fantastical, fiction-first RPG where the players have serious control over the direction of gameplay. No experience needed, all materials will be provided.

GameRunners

Joseph Madigan

Joseph is an accomplished Chicago-area game runner with some excellent Funnel World & Dungeon World action for you!

Sunday October 18, 2015 6:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 1

7:00pm CDT

Cypher System: Superheroes

Limited Capacity seats available

Scenario title: Dread Expectations

No materials necessary, new players encouraged!

Description: You are part of a team of elite superheroes known as The New York Sentinels. Headquarters has just received word of an attack on the Museum of Art by those dastardly doers of dread, the Dread Corps! Will our heroes be able to save the day, even in the face of the evil, maniacal Doctor Doom, who cackles as she summons dangers from beyond our planet? Only YOU can discover!

GameRunners

Darcy Ross

Darcy L. Ross is by day an Enthusiastic Biologist who Creates Molluscan Monsters, and by night an Effervescent Gamemaster who Loves the Cypher System. She is known for GMing the Numenaaaaara episode on the One Shot RPG podcast, and co-hosts a Cypher System discussion podcast called... Read More →

Sunday October 18, 2015 7:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
Tabletop Gaming Area Block 37

Location Table 5