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2010 Table-top Gaming

How can I get my game on at MechaCon?

Come learn a new game, like Munchkin, or Voltron: Defender of the Universe. Come experience RPGs such as Robotech, or Dungeons and Dragons. Naturally, we have ccg tournaments for you to show off your deck-building skills. And last, but definitely not least, our epic, unique Star Wars Meta Scenario, The Sith Prophecies continues to roll on!

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MechaCon Table-top Gaming Schedule:

Friday, July 16th

The following is the schedule for Friday's table-top gaming rooms:

Gaming Room 1

  1:00pm   Free Play
  2:00pm   Star Wars Miniatures SESSION 1
  3:00pm   Munchkin DEMO AND TOURNAMENT
  7:00pm   Star Wars RPG EVENT 2
10:00pm   Arkham Horror ADVANCED SCENARIO

Gaming Room 2

  1:00pm   Free Play
  2:00pm   Robotech RPG SHADOWS OF THE PAST - PART 1
  5:00pm   Free Play
  6:00pm   Shadowrun RPG AFTER THE STORM - PART 1
  9:00pm   Legend of the 5 Rings RPG LEGACY OF DISASTER
Midnight    World of Darkness RPG THE HIGH PRICE OF EDUCATION - PART 1

Gaming Room 3

  1:00pm   Free Play
  2:00pm   Spirit of the Century RPG BLOODMOON RISING
  5:00pm   Warhammer / Warhammer 40K DEMO
Midnight    Zombies! BOARD GAME

Saturday, July 17th

The following is the schedule for Saturday's table-top gaming rooms:

Gaming Room 1

  2:00am   Free Play
10:00am   Magic: The Gathering CONSTRUCTED DECK TOURNAMENT
  3:00pm   Star Wars RPG SESSION 2
  6:00pm   Star Wars Miniatures SESSION 2
  8:00pm   Star Wars RPG SESSION 3
11:00pm   Dungeons & Dragons RPG

Gaming Room 2

  3:00am   Free Play
10:00am   Arkham Horror DEMO
  2:00pm   Robotech RPG SHADOWS OF THE PAST - PART 2
  5:00pm   Free Play
  6:00pm   Shadowrun RPG AFTER THE STORM - PART 2
  9:00pm   Voltron: Defender of the Universe MINIATURES DEMO
Midnight    World of Darkness RPG THE HIGH PRICE OF EDUCATION - PART 2

Gaming Room 3

  6:00am   Free Play
10:00am   Yu-Gi-Oh! SEALED DECK TOURNAMENT
  2:00pm   Free Play
  3:00pm   Yu-Gi-Oh! CONSTRUCTED DECK TOURNAMENT
  7:00pm   Gaslight Victorian RPG THE PRICE OF IMMORTALITY
10:00pm   Free Play
Midnight    Humans! BOARD GAME

Sunday, July 18th

The following is the schedule for Sunday's table-top gaming rooms:

Gaming Room 1

  3:00am   Free Play
10:00am   Monsterpocalypse DEMO
12:00pm   Magic:The Gathering SEALED DECK TOURNAMENT
  5:00pm Gaming Room 1 closes

Gaming Room 2

  3:00am   Free Play
10:00am   Robotech RPG SHADOWS OF THE PAST - PART 3
  1:00pm   Free Play
  2:00pm   Shadowrun RPG AFTER THE STORM - PART 3
  5:00pm Gaming Room 2 closes

Gaming Room 3

  6:00am   Free Play
10:00am   Star Wars Miniatures SESSION 3
11:00am   Dungeons and Dragons RPG VALLEY OF SMOKE
  2:00pm   Star Wars Miniatures SESSION 3
  5:00pm Gaming Room 3 closes

Gaming Descriptions

This year, MechaCon's Tabletop Gaming Department has a jam packed schedule! Come learn a new game, like Munchkin, or Voltron: Defender of the Universe. Come experience RPGs such as Robotech, or Dungeons and Dragons. Naturally, we have CCG tournaments for you to show off your deck-building skills. And last, but definitely not least, our epic, unique Star Wars Meta Scenario, The Sith Prophecies continues to roll on! This year's events include, (but are not limited to):

Customizeable / Trading Card Games

Naturally, Mechacon will give you the chance to compete for prizes and glory in one of our tcg tournaments, (all sealed deck tournaments will be handled by the good folks from BSI Comics). This year we will have the following games:

Magic - The Gathering
From Wizards of the Coast
The Magic: The Gathering game, created by Richard Garfield, established the Trading Card Game category in 1993. Today, it continues to offer a fan base of more than 6 million players the opportunity to play both socially and competitively through leagues, tournaments and in-store events. MTG is the world's best trading card game, and we support it with our best efforts.

Yu-Gi-Oh!
From Upper Deck
In Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, two players face off in an all-out battle, engaging in a Match consisting of three duels. The main battles are waged between incredible monsters split into an amazing 20 types, each with their own unique skills and fighting styles. In addition, players can use Spell, set traps, change the battlefield itself, and even fuse two monsters together to form a monster of immense power!

Non-Trading Card Games

And of course, the ever popular Munchkin is back!

Munchkin
From Steve Jackson Games
Go down in the dungeon. Kill everything you meet. Backstab your friends and steal their stuff. Grab the treasure and run. Admit it. You love it. This award-winning card game, designed by Steve Jackson, captures the essence of the dungeon experience... with none of that stupid roleplaying stuff. You and your friends compete to kill monsters and grab magic items. And what magic items! Don the Horny Helmet and the Boots of Butt-Kicking. Wield the Staff of Napalm... or maybe the Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment. Start by slaughtering the Potted Plant and the Drooling Slime, and work your way up to the Plutonium Dragon... And it's illustrated by John Kovalic! Fast-playing and silly, Munchkin can reduce any roleplaying group to hysteria. And, while they're laughing, you can steal their stuff.

Miniatures

This year, Mechacon gives the chance to lead a powerful army across the field of battle, as both and Warhammer and Warhammer 40K return. Also, we'll give you the opportunity to smash a city, with the always fun Monsterapocalypse. And last but not least, we give you the chance to use a blazing sword to cut those evil robeasts down, with the Voltron: Defender of the Universe Battle Miniatures Game.

Warhammer / Warhammer 40,000
From Games Workshop
Warhammer, the game of Fantasy Battles, allows you to wage war with armies of Citadel miniatures across tabletop battlefields in the ultimate contest of strategy and skill. Each player is a general, who must choose his finest warriors, decide upon cunning battle plans and strategies and lead his followers to victory or death.

Monsterpocalypse
From Privateer Press
This is Monsterapocalypse, a fast-moving, action-packed strategy game played with high-quality collectible miniatures portraying the most fearsome giant monsters on Earth! Each battle takes place in a city that you and your opponent construct by placing buildings on a city map. Players choose their forces from their respective collections of figures and then battle one another with giant monsters and supporting units such as tanks, flying vehicles, and all manner of creatures. When the battle begins, you command your monster and lead your units into the city to hunt down and destroy your opponent's monster. To accomplish your mission, your monster and units each have weapons and abilities that are activated by special dice. The last monster standing wins the game!

Voltron: Defender of the Universe
From Privateer Press
The evil Drule Empire threatens to enslave the entire galaxy. Against this evil stands the Galaxy Alliance, led by the legendary Voltron, Defender of the Universe! Now in the darkness of space, the fate of untold galaxies is about to be decided. Which side will you choose?

Take control of the mighty Voltron and the Galaxy Alliance or Lo-Tron of the fiendish Drule Empire as you wage battle across the unforgiving reaches of space. Launch searing energy blasts, smash your opponent into rogue asteriods, and form blazing sword as you unleash the awesome power of two of the universe's mightiest beings to achieve total victory!

Board Games

This year, Mechacon's tabletop gaming department is proud to add board games to the line up! Come sit down with your follow congoers and enjoy these following games:

Arkham Horror
From Fantasy Flight Games
Arkham Horror was originally published by Chaosium, Inc., in 1987. This new, updated edition features stunning new artwork and graphical design (including a new gameboard, counters, cards, and playing pieces) as well as revised and expanded rules from the game's original creator, Richard Launius.

Players can select from 16 unique playable investigator characters, each with unique abilities, and will square off against the diabolical servants of 8 Ancient Ones, including Ithaqua, Hastur, and the terrible Cthulhu! No fan of the Cthulhu Mythos will want to miss the opportunity to acquire this classic Call of Cthulhu board game!

Arkham Horror is a cooperative game for 1-8 players ages 12 and up, and can be played in 2-3 hours.

And we'll be giving you two chances to play the game, the first one being an advanced scenario for the game which will be part of our Midnight Madness line up:

Beginner's Demo
Monsters have invaded the City of Arkham - will the investigators find the clues, kill the monsters, and close the gates in time? Or will Azathoth awaken and eat them all? A custom Arkham Horror scenario designed to introduce new players to the rules of this classic horror board game based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.

Advanced Scenario
The year is 1922; something evil stirs in the streets of Arkham, sowing chaos and destruction in its wake. A thousand tentacles sit on the edge of reality, waiting for their chance to slip past the threshold... This is an advanced scenario for Arkham Horror, including the "guest appearance" of a custom Herald bringing a small amount of giant robot flavor to the game.

Zombies!!!
From Twilight Creations
Zombies!!! puts you in the middle of the action as you try to escape the ever advancing zombie horde. Players must use a combination of wits and brawn to be the first to the heliport and certain escape. The only problem is, the zombies are everywhere, they appear to be very hungry and your opponents would really prefer if you didn't escape.

Humans!!!
From Twilight Creations
This time you are playing the zombies and trying to infect as many people in town as possible. This game will be able to be played with Zombies!!! - some players playing humans and some players playing zombies.

Role-playing Games

Friend of Mechacon and head of Battlefield Press, Jonathan Thompson will be stopping by to run the following games:

Dungeons and Dragons
FMA: Valley of Smoke
While on a routine mission for the State, Ed and Al find themselves at odds with Roy Mustang. Not believing that the city of Ishmael is inhabited by ghosts, he comes out to assist in their investigation. And to make matters worse, Winry is on a train only a few miles out side of town. Can the brothers Elric find the source of the ghosts and a new lead on the philosophers stone?
Players: 2 - 4

Gaslight Victorian Fantasy
The Price of Immortality
After a most eventful evening involving a corpse at the theater, the player characters are hired to locate a young woman from Liverpool who's fleeing an abusive husband. Are these two events related and, if so, for what nefarious purpose?
Players: 2 - 4

Plus, we'll also have the following additional RPGs:

Legend of the 5 Rings
Legacy of Disater
Try out the new 4th Edition Legend of the Five rings with the free RPG day module "Legacy of Disaster". A game of investigation and action, can the PCs track down the culprit of a heinous crime before tensions between feuding daimyos spill into outright war?
Players: 5 - 6

Spirit of the Century
Bloodmoon Rising
London high society is in an uproar over a rash of murder's and disappearances. Admits unrest in the streets the papers are filled with news of the eccentric Lady Whitethorns annual costume ball. In a dark government office a lonely agent has begun to put together the pieces of a dark mystery that threatens the entire city, if not the country, if not the world...

Bloodmoon Rising is a steampunk game which uses the FATE system as given in the Spirit of the Century role playing game. This module is designed as a one-shot. While pre-generated characters will be used, players will be able to customize them before and during the game.

World of Darkness
The High Price of Education
Over the last 50 years, violence in schools has been on the rise. Most dramatically, the instances of otherwise quiet, intelligent students going on a killing spree which inevitably ends with the gunmen themselves being killed, have been happening more and more often. There is seemingly no root cause to this problem, and many just consider it a sign of the times that we live in.

They are wrong.

In this story the players are all directly involved in this mess. One is a teacher, one is a cop, one is a former priest, one is a psychic.

Note: Due to the mature themes of this game, players must be 18 and older.

Shadowrun
After the Storm
A freak mana storm has ravaged New Orleans, turning the Big Easy into Hell On Earth. Many organizations and individuals have entered the city to help with the government's recovery efforts, including one Dr. Richard Weston, son of Alan Weston, a member of the Confederated American States Senate. Senator Weston's none too keen on his son's involvement, especially given the tales of ghouls, insect spirits, and worse coming out of the city in the wake of the storm. When he loses contact with Richard, he has to turn to a group of shadowrunners - deniable assets who will take on any job for the right price - to find and extract the young man from what may be the deadliest place in the world.

Shadowrun: After the Storm is a three-part Shadowrun campaign for six to eight players. Characters will be provided – just bring your dice and your A-game and show us you've got what it takes to survive in the Sixth World!

ROBOTECH
Shadows of the Past
Following the loss of the SDF-3 during the opening battles of what is becoming known as the Shadow War, the leaders of the Robotech Expeditionary Force have decided to send scout ships to nearby systems to search for the missing ship. One such ship is the RSS Pike, a newly-commissioned Garfish-class cruiser, which will begin its search in the Fomalhaut system. The ship is also to gather information of Fomalhaut b, the first visually-confirmed planet beyond the Sol system, which might be of use to the REF as a staging area for future missions. As the ship leaves Moon Base ALUCE, no one can imagine what awaits it at its destination - a nightmare from times past waits for their arrival, and its awakening...

Robotech: Shadows of the Past is a three-part Robotech campaign for six to eight young heroes. Characters will be provided, so join the crew of the Pike in its attempt to hold back an all but forgotten evil!

Star Wars Meta-Scenario

Finally, last but certainly not least, we have an epic and unique Star Wars Meta Scenario, that combines both the Star Wars Miniatures Game, and the Star Wars RPG, into a massive, week-end long gaming event, that continues our epic, six year long story arc!

Hear me...
When the galaxy is divided by war, a warrior shall rise
to lead his people. He shall fight with the heart of the
dragon and all shall seek him, for whoever wins
his favor will achieve ultimate victory.
Hear me...

Thousands of years after they've been uttered, the words of the mad Sith Prophet Darth Pyrus still reverberate throughout the Galaxy. But now, in an age of unprecedented war, these words may hold greater significance. Team Mechacon is proud to present:

STAR WARS
The Sith Prophecies:
Episode II - The Dragon-Hearted Warrior

The violence of the Clone Wars has come to the strategically important Republic system of Eriadu. Amongst the Republic's defenders of the system is Ginga, a native of the system. But the joy of Ginga's homecoming is cut short when a destined revelation casts cruel, twisted shadows upon everything she knew to be true. Now, with her lineage beckoning to her to fulfill her destiny, and her loyalties hanging in the balance, where will her lot ultimately be cast? And, is this star-crossed warrior really the prophesied descendant of the legendary Col. Urtzek? Fulfill your destiny by shaping theirs at Mechacon.

The prophecies have been spoken, let the Galaxy quake!

Star Wars Miniatures
From Wizards of the Coast:
The Star Wars Miniatures line features hundreds of ready-to-play miniatures from the Star Wars universe. You'll find heroes, villains, droids, creatures, and aliens of all descriptions. Now you can play out your favorite movie scenes, add the miniatures to your roleplaying sessions, or trade and collect the miniatures set by set.

Star Wars RPG
From Wizards of the Coast:
Take on the role of the heroes of the Star Wars universe and fight against the forces of evil! You might play a Duros smuggler, a Wookiee copilot, a human Jedi, or any of countless possibilities. The only limit to the stories you can tell is your imagination!