Big Events for 2014

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Join us for some of these tournaments, LARPS, and seminars!  This year we will screen The Gamers: Dorkness Rising on Saturday night following the Smithees!

Friday

3843 Seminar: Gaming With Children, GM: Cheryl Orosz, 20 players, No XP/Simple, Friday 6p-7p. Are you looking for games to play with kids and teens? Looking for gift ideas for nieces or nephews? Let’s get together and share our experiences gaming with younger players. What games have worked? What hasn’t? Do you believe the age rating on the box? What kind of roleplaying have you done with kids and how old were they? Do you like junior versions of popular games? Help usher in a new generation of gamers! Family Friendly (7+) Free!

4050 Are You A Werewolf?, GM: U-Con Staff, 30 players, No XP/Simple, Friday 8p-10p. Each player is secretly assigned a role–Werewolf, Villager, or a unique role. Game play alternates between the Werewolves killing a Villager at night and the Villagers lynching suspects by vote during the day. Mafia-style, multiple rounds, social, and light role-playing. General Audience (13+) Free!

Saturday

3900 Various Abstract Strategy Games: 14th Annual Abstracts Tournament, GM: Clark Rodeffer, 24 players, No XP/Simple, Saturday 9a-1p. Come match wits with your opponents in various combinatorial strategy games. Most of the games can be learned and played to completion within 30 minutes. General Audience (13+) $3.00

3858 Firestorm Armada: 2nd Annual Storm Zone Brawl: The Battle at Omicron Theta, GM: Joshua Linde, 20 players, Some XP/Average, Saturday 10a-10p. Firestorm Armada is an exciting game of space combat by Spartan Games. This tournament is 4 rounds at 900 points. You are allowed two lists, but both must use the same fleet as the base fleet. For mission details and news and information check out www.thewaygate.blogspot.com. Prizes provided by Evolution Games of Lansing and Spartan Games. General Audience (13+) Free!

3876 Rio Grande Sanctioned Dominion Tournament, GM: Scott Colcord, 28 players, Some XP/Average, Saturday 1p-9p. Please join us for the only officially sanctioned Dominion tournament in Michigan! Play in a series of custom-designed Kingdom sets drawing from every published Dominion set. All players receive the new “Prince” promotional card. The top finishers, after a series of Swiss-style rounds, will move on to an elimination stage. Bring your “A” game, and good luck! Sorry, “Play All Games” ribbons not accepted. $10.00

4140 Seminar: Dungeon Mastering Tips for D&D 5E., GM: Rodney Thompson, 11 players, No XP/Simple, Saturday 1p-2p. The fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons blends mechanics and play styles from across D&D’s history, and was designed to be a flexible tool in the hands of the Dungeon Master. Come learn some of the tips, tricks, and methods used by Rodney Thompson, designer and rules developer for 5th Edition D&D, and the man with more 5E Dungeon Mastering experience than anyone on the planet! General Audience (13+) Free!

3917 Auction, GM: U-Con Staff, 30 players, No XP/Simple, Saturday 2p-5p. No ticket needed. Registration of items goes from 2pm to 3pm with the auction itself running from 3pm to 5pm. We charge $1.00 or 10% of the bid, whichever is higher, per item sold. Accounts will be allowed to anyone who states that they will attend the entire auction. No checks will be accepted. No photocopied materials will be sold. U-Con will not be responsible for lost or stolen items. No inspections of lots prior to or during the sale. All sales are final. Free!

4110 PlotLuck: Succession Plot, GM: Anne Moore, 20 players, No XP/Simple, Saturday 2p-6p. LARP. After a reign of more than 25 years, King Snefru is dying. His son and heir, Prince Khufu, may also be dying. The line of succession isn’t clear. Members of the court have gathered in hopes of seeing the throne pass to their preferred candidate. LARP set in 4th Dynasty Egypt. General Audience (13+) $3.00

3836 The Smithee Primaries, GM: Smith-ka-teers, 50 players, No XP/Simple, Saturday 6p-11p. The Smithee Awards are like the anti-People’s Choice awards. We watch a goo-gob of bad movies throughout the year, clip the best bits, and then pit them against each other cage-match style. You the audience gets to vote which clip is the best worst clip of its category. 19 classic B-movie categories (like Stupidest Looking Monster or Worst Science), 5 or more (sometimes less, these ARE the Primaries after all) clips per category, and nothing but bad movie goodness. Adults Only (18+) Free!

4407 Fate Core Design: How & Why It Happened, GM: Shane Harsch, 20 players, No XP/Simple, Saturday 6p-7p. Join us for an hour of unfettered access to the perpetrators responsible for Fate Core. Ask what you will, but be prepared for how the answer might affect you. Facilitator: Shane Harsch. Panelists: Leonard Balsera, Mike Olsen, Ryan Macklin, Rob Donoghue, Brian Engard. General Audience (13+) Free!

TheGamersDorknessRising-Cover4395 The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, GM: Genevieve Stoyak, 40 players, No XP/Simple, Saturday 11p-1a. A parody of fantasy films and the adventure gaming community, The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is a hilarious romp through the world of sword and sorcery–in this case, a world of exploding peasants, giant house cats, and undead roast turkeys. Courtesy of Zombie Orpheus, we’ll be showing this movie right after the Smithees. There may even be popcorn! See www.watchthegamers.com and www.zombieorpheus.com for more about the film. The movie is unrated, but parental guidance is suggested. Family Friendly (7+) Free!

Sunday

4128 Seminar: Boardgame Design Workshop, GM: James Ernest, 40 players, No XP/Simple, Sunday 2p-4p. In this 2-hour workshop, game designer James Ernest will lead the participants trough the process of designing a game, from an initial concept to a working prototype. Family Friendly (7+) Free!