1 Game Storm 8

Contents

Letter From the Chair 2

Policies 3 Dealers 4 Game Designers 5 Guest of Honor 6 Other Industry Guests 7 Game Masters 9 Hospitality 10 How to Sign Up to Play 12 Game Library Info 12

Map 32 What is OSFCI? 62 Committee 64

Programming

Board & Card Games 13 Collectible Card Games 36 Live Action Role Playing 37 Miniatures 41 Panel Programming 49 Role Playing 51 RPGA 60 Cover art by David Schaber

2 Game Storm 8 Musings From the Chair

This past year has been a fun and exciting challenge. My goal this year was to make Game Storm bigger and better than previous years. I hope we have accomplished this.

We have a great Guest of Honor in Richard Garfield. I look forward to his visit to Portland.

I would like to thank the committee for the many hours of work it took to make the convention happen. I feel blessed to be working with all of you. This convention could not have happened without each and every one of you.

Note: Remember, this convention is run on volunteer power, and we can use all the help we can get.

Aaron Nabil Chair, Game Storm 8

3 Game Storm 8 Game Storm Policies

Children

All children must be registered with the convention, and all children purchasing memberships must be accompanied by an adult.

Smoking

Except for any designated smoking areas in the hotel restaurants and bars, smoking is not permitted in any indoor public area at Game Storm

Weapons

The wearing and carrying of weapons is not permitted at Game Storm. Fake weapons (e.g. boffers) may be used only in designated areas. Failure to comply is grounds for immediate expulsion from the convention.

Any weapons purchased in the Dealers' Room must be securely wrapped.

Security Policy

OSFCI and Game Storm staff assume no responsibility for the security of persons or property. Staff will attempt to resolve any problems which arise with convention attendees. In the event of a problem which cannot be resolved by staff, hotel personnel will be called to resolve problem. Under no circumstances will staff engage in physical altercation with attendees, guests, or uninvited personnel.

All attendees are responsible for maintaining security for their own property. Personal property such as games, computer equipment and gaming paraphernalia are used at risk throughout the convention and Game Storm relies on the honesty and integrity of the convention attendees to safeguard this property. In the event of any unusual or suspicious activity, convention attendees are requested to contact a staff member with their concern.

Badges are to be worn at all time by convention attendees. Until the end of the convention, badges remain the property of Game Storm. 4 Game Storm 8 Dealers at Game Storm 8

Due to limited space, Game Storm 8 does not have a separate Dealers’ Room. Instead, dealers’ tables are in the gaming space. They will be open for business during the con at their own discretion; if a table is covered by a drop cloth, please consider it closed and do not disturb the merchandise.

In the Centennial Center:

Games Plus - Everything you ever wanted in gaming but were afraid to look. Don and his family have been in the biz, for a very long time.

Gargoyle Games - RPGs, Boardgames, Cardgames and more. Owner John Williamson is also on the Game Storm committee.

Flying Buffalo - Period Dogfights share space with perhaps the most endearing card game ever. The publishers of Nuclear War, the Card Game and so much more. Last year's Guest of Honor returns!

In the After Deck Room:

Arcadiam Games - The creators of The CrossRoads of Eternity downloadable RPG are here. Fresh from the GAMA Trade Show. Be sure to have your CRoE core rule book handy for autographs.

Crucifiction Games - RPGs and supplements. Everything an RPGer needs. Game Storm welcomes Crucifiction back after a year's absense.

5 Game Storm 8 Game Designers

Game Storm has many Northwest game designers here to present their creations. This is your opportunity to play one of your favorite games with the designer, or learn about a new game from the person guaranteed to know the most about it. You can even get involved in a playtest session for games still in development.

Richard Garfield Live Action RoboRally Paul A. Neufeldt Magic: The Gathering – Garfield Draft Galactic Dominion Rocketville Tournament Clint Griffith James Ernest Intertwyne Diceland: Dragons Enemy Chocolatier Avery McCraw & William Adams Gloria Mundi KONQUER card game

Mike Selinker Nathan David Monger Dungeonville Pyrite Isle - Pirate Deplomacy Gloria Mundi Key Largo Tim Morgan Simulacrum RPG KC Humphrey Havoc Tournament Chris Pender Sunriver Games Prototype Session The Game of REAL LIFE

Travis Brown Lisa Steenson The CrossRoads of Eternity RPG Redneck Life Board Game

E.D. Fleming Lorraine Spiering MagicQuest RPG SYZYGY – That Word Game

Game Storm would like to thank the following game companies for their generous support:

Bridgetown Hobbies & Games Cheapass Games Crucifiction Games Eagle Games Games Plus Kenzer & Co. Rainy Day Games Steve Jackson Games Sunriver Games Wizkids Games 6 Game Storm 8 Guest of Honor Richard Garfield

Richard Garfield (born 1966) is a game designer who created the card games Magic: The Gathering, Netrunner, BattleTech, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (originally known as 'Jyhad'), The Great Dalmuti, Star Wars Trading Card Game, and the board game Robo Rally. Magic: The Gathering is his most successful game and its development is credited with creating the collectible card game genre.

Garfield designed his first game as a teenager. He had a wide range of interests, including math and language. In 1985, he received a bachelor of science degree in computer mathematics. He joined Bell Laboratories and worked there for a couple of years, but then decided to continue his education by attending the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He began designing a game called Magic: the Gathering as a student in the late 1980s. An "East Coast" group of playtesters, comprised mostly of fellow Penn students, formed around the developing game. While searching for a publisher for RoboRally, he found Peter Adkison of newly founded Wizards of the Coast. Adkison agreed to publish his board game and expressed an interest in a game like Magic that would have little setup and short games.

Garfield studied under Herbert Wilf and earned a Ph.D. in combinatorial mathematics from Penn in 1993. Richard believed that game design would not offer a steady living and became a professor of mathematics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He had previously been in contact with Magic playtesters from the west coast and his move brought him closer to them and Wizards of the Coast.

Magic: The Gathering became incredibly popular after its commercial launch in 1993. Garfield left academics to join Wizards of the Coast as a full-time game designer in June 1994.

Garfield was also a primary play tester for the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition bookset. He still sporadically contributes to Magic: The Gathering, most recently (as of 2005) as part of the design team for the 2005 expansion, Ravnica: City of Guilds. 7 Game Storm 8 Other Industry Guests

Andy Collins

After starting in the Organized Play department on April 1st, 1996, Andy Collins moved over to Wizards of the Coast's Roleplaying R&D in 1998. There, he worked first as an editor on Alternity and D&D products, and then as a designer for Alternity, D&D and the Star Wars RPG, until settling down into his current gig as a developer for D&D products. His long list of development credits includes Magic of Incarnum, Weapons of Legacy, Magic of Eberron, and Complete Adventurer. He also served as the lead for the D&D version 3.5 revision team.

Andy is happily married to RPG designer (and fellow gaming enthusiast) Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel. (For their wedding reception, the couple threw a three- day game convention in their home for dozens of friends.) He's been playing D&D since 1981, and currently participates in four or five ongoing campaigns--it's hard to keep track sometimes. When he's not working, gaming, or watching TV, he occasionally updates his website: www.andycollins.net.

Gwendolyn Kestrel

Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel delights in her current career as a game designer, working primarily on D&D products. Current releases include Races of the Dragon and Fane of the Drow. Her varied past lives in the gaming industry include RPG freelancer on products such as d20 Past and Monster Manual III, RPG editor of Oriental Adventures and the Epic Level Handbook, and the events manager of both Origins and GenCon.

Gwendolyn's non-work activities also focus on gaming. She's involved in several D&D campaigns that meet monthly or every other week. Several evenings a week, she plays City of Heroes MMORPG with her husband Andy Collins and other friends from work. In addition, she enjoys boardgames including Carcassone and Puerto Rico, card games including Wizard and Lost Cities, and party games such as Times Up and werewolf.

Chris Lindsay

Born in sunny California, Christopher Lindsay moved to the Northwest early in his life and has lived there ever since. Having lived in Oregon, Alaska, and now Washington, he has nearly forgotten what that great yellow orb in the sky is actually called. Currently, Christopher lives in not-so-sunny Renton, Washington. During the day, Christopher is a dutiful Wizards of the Coast employee. In the evenings he plots the destruction of Dungeons & Dragons characters everywhere. He is looking forward to the upcoming release of Complete Psionic, his first project with Wizards of the Coast. 8 Game Storm 8

Stephen Radney-MacFarland

Born on Christmas day in Washington D.C. during the Nixon administration, the stars were definitely wrong when Stephen Radney-MacFarland came screaming into the world. Since then he's thrived on wasting his life on trivial things. After years of aimlessly wandering the U.S., he settled in Seattle to bilk start-up dot- coms. When that bubble burst, he jumped ship to Wizards of the Coast, where he¹s worked on Dungeons & Dragons Organized Play since a week after the launch of 3rd edition. A roleplaying and miniatures enthusiast, Stephen plays as much D&D (in roleplaying, miniatures, or even Three-Dragon Ante form) as he can, while enjoying the occasional game of Carcassone, Ticket to Ride, Warhammer, or Blood Bowl. He also enjoys the vanishing art of painting miniatures, and some even say he's good at it.

Contrary to his typical ne'er-do-well ways, Stephen is married to a beautiful young lady named Sky. They live a surprisingly mundane existence on the shores of Lake Washington.

Mike Selinker

Mike Selinker is a game designer whose design credits include Pirates of the Spanish Main and Fightball with James Ernest, Axis & Allies Revised with Larry Harris, the Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game, and Risk Godstorm. He was a creative director for the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons and the Harry Potter Trading Card Game. As a puzzle maker, he created the fictional police officer Lt. Nodumbo for GAMES World of Puzzles. He is a founder of the Lone Shark Games design studio with James Ernest, LIVE/WIRE with Tim Beach, and the Maze of Games with Teeuwynn Woodruff. He also writes poker books such as Dealer's Choice: The Complete Handbook of Saturday Night Poker, with James Ernest and Phil Foglio.

Mike Selinker won three 2005 Origins Awards for Pirates, Axis & Allies D-Day, and Betrayal at House on the Hill. His game Alpha Blitz was Games Magazine's 1998 Word Game of the Year.

Dave Howell

Dave Howell was Employee #7 at Wizards of the Coast, holding down positions as Production Manager, creator and head of the online customer support team (as Cyberspace Liaison [email protected]), founder of the book publishing division, and internal playtester for Magic, Jyhad/VTES, Great Dalmuti, Everway, and various other games. He also co-wrote & co-edited the company’s first product, The Primal Order, and the last book in the series, The Planes of Possibility. He reluctantly takes credit for giving James Ernest his first game-industry job, which might be why Dave now moonlights as a Cheapass Guinea Pig when he’s not working at the Seattle Book Company, the company he founded when he left Wizards 9 Game Storm 8

KC Kumphrey

KC Humphrey is Chief Designer and co-founder of Sunriver Games with Chris Brooks and Rita Humphrey. His latest published game is Havoc, The Hundred Years War, available at Funagain.com .

KC has been a boardgamer most of his life. He started playing Magic the Gathering just before Ice Age came out and was introduced to German board gaming through Settlers of Catan. He joined Rip City Gamers, a Portland, Oregon games play group, in 2001. KC began designing games with an entry in Abstract Games Magazine’s game contest in 2002. Acorn made the finals of the competition.

In addition to gaming, KC writes and performs music for guitar, mandolin, and piano. He produced a record album in 1975, and a songbook in 1978. The Humphreys are members of Sunnyside Foursquare Church where KC plays with the worship team.

Marcus Evenstar

Our Fan Guest for 2006, Marcus Evenstar is a successful house-husband, experienced curmudgeon, and long-term volunteer for conventions of many sorts. As Northwest Regional Director for the Men In Black of Steve Jackson Games, his public duties focus on promoting genial gameplay and advancement of the protocols. He is supported in efforts by his wife, Valerie Reese, Mad Scientist Extraordinaire and his ancient cat, Lavinia Lentelus.

Attention Game Masters!

This year's GM Appreciation Raffle will be Sunday afternoon at 500 PM in the Centennial Center.

Please be sure to turn your completed sign-up sheets in to the office after your games are completed. You won't want to miss out on the fabulous prizes we've set aside!

For full details on how the raffle works, please stop by the office in the Poolside Room. 10 Game Storm 8 Hospitality

Game Storm Hospitality, free to all members, is located in Suite 125. Just follow the arrows! We’ll be open:

Friday: Noon to Midnight Saturday: 7 am to Midnight Sun 7 am to 4 pm

It’s more than snacks! Hospitality at Game Storm is truly hospitable. We offer sandwich makings, including meat and cheese, tuna fish, and peanut butter and jelly. Torilla chips and salsa. Veggies with homemade ranch dressing. Fruit, gorp, gummi bears.

For drinks we have soda both caffeinated and non, sugared and sugar-free. Coffee, of course. Hot cocoa and apple cider packets. In the mornings we will have juice and milk.

On Friday night we’ll have a lasagna-like dish; Saturday night we’ll have chili. Both nights will have meat and vegetarian varieties.

Cereal and Toons

On both Saturday and Sunday mornings, we will have Cereal and Cartoons in Hospitality starting at 8 am! Cereal & Milk and Cartoons will be provided. (And bowls and spoons, too!)

While hospitality is included in your membership, donations are wildly encouraged, because we use it to buy More Food! Volunteering to help out is encouraged as well. Because… Game Storm Needs You !

Have an hour or two free between games? Want to help out? Just come to the Office (in the Poolside Room) or Hospitality (in Suite 125) to volunteer.

What's in it for you?  Learn about the Mysterious Inner Workings of the Con  Get a discount on next year's membership  Win cool prizes at the Volunteer Raffle (we have enough stuff that everyone gets something!)  Join us at the Volunteer Appreciation and Meet the Con Com Party (also known as the Dead Dog Party) on Sunday for treats and serious relaxation 11 Game Storm 8

12 Game Storm 8 How to Sign Up to Play a Game at Game Storm

First, find out which room your event is in. CC is the Centennial Center, which is the separate building to the North. AD and QD are the Deck Rooms, to the left as you enter the ballroom; ER and WR, East and West River, are to the right. The Board Room is off the glassed hallway leading to the restaurant. Gull’s Nest and Quayside are to the South of the lobby, in front of you as you walk in the main door.

Second, find the sign up sheet for your event. For games other than LARPs, sign up sheets for events are in the hallway outside the room in question, or just inside the room. They are set up in a grid, with one row for each table and a column for each hour. Find your table on the left and your day and time on the top, then find their intersection to find your sign up sheet.

Third, put your badge number in the first empty slot. If a game you want to play is full, sign up as an alternate. This gives you priority in case one of the initial players who signed up does not show. If you signed up online, your badge number should be listed at the top.

Five to ten minutes before the game starts, the Game Master who is running your event will take the sheet off the wall. Be ready to show him or her your badge to confirm your space.

You may sign up for LARPs in the Quayside room at any time.

Many games fill up, so be sure to sign up early! If you have any questions about the game sign up system, go to the Office in the Poolside Room, or the Game Library in the Centennial Center.

How to Use the Game Library

Game Storm has a huge stock of games available for you to check out and play. Not coincidentally, you are surrounded by other gamers on all sides. Come on down to the Game Library and get in the game!

The Game Library is located in the Centennial Center. You can view the shelves (from your side of the table, please) or read the alphabetical list of games available. When you have decided on a game, enter the game name, your name, your badge number and the day and time on the check out sheet. The helpful volunteer behind the table will verify your badge and give you the game. Then, find a table and play! There are some open gaming tables in the Center. Also, any table that does not have anything scheduled or is otherwise occupied is open gaming. Any scheduled event owns the table during their scheduled hours.

When you are done, return the game to the Library. The helpful volunteer will mark the time and initial that you returned it. That's it! Just be sure you return it before the Library closes at 7pm Sunday, or our Agents will come looking for you… 13 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games 1846 Sat 6 PM-10 PM Dave Blanchard Table CC 16 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Railroad building west to Chicago.

1870 Sun 9 AM-3 PM Dave Blanchard Table CC 12 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Railroad Building in the Lower Mississippi Valley.

A Game of Thrones Fri 8 PM-12 AM Aaron Curtis Table CC 33 Teen (13+) Hard New Players OK War and chaos are engulfing the lands of Westeros in this grand strategy game. The great Houses are vying for control of the Iron Throne using the old tools of intrigue and war. Guide your House to dominance, but beware of your neighbors. When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die.

Age of Renaissance Sun 10 AM-4 PM David Adams Table CC 23 Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed 6 Players attempt to build up their European Merchant cultures during the middle ages through economics and conflict. Avalon Hill game that some say is the successor to Civilization, but with more economics and leader-bashing. We will be playing with the Descartes rules on a modified AH board.

Age of Steam Sun 5 PM-8 PM Aaron Curtis Table CC 33 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Manage your railroad to deliver goods throughout the rust belt.

Amun Re Fri 10 PM-12 AM Timothy Hidalgo Table CC 26 Sat 7 PM-10 PM Jeff DeBoer Table CC 25 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK The classic Egyptian pyramid builder by the Great Dr. Reiner Knizia. Power cards, farmers and bonuses make this a cat and mouse game to see who can win. Game is split into old and new Kingdoms with some great mechanics and a great challenge to pull off a win.

Antike Sat 9 AM-11 AM Chris Brooks Table CC 23 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Play Antike, the light-weight multi-player civ conquering game released at Essen Spiel last fall.

14 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Are you a Werewolf? Sat Midnight-4 AM Aaron Curtis Table CC 28 Everyone (6+) Simple New Players OK A Game Storm tradition. Figure out who is the werewolf while convincing your fellow villagers not to lynch you. New games start every 15 minutes or so. See also the Friday Midnight event in LARP.

Arkham Horror Sat 3 PM-9 PM T Sean Prescott Table CC 19 Mature (18+) Hard New Players OK The End is near! The year is 1926. The place is Arkham, Massachusetts. Gateways to horrible places are opening up all over town, releasing hideous creatures into the streets to stalk the night. Worse, if enough of these gates open up, then a creature of unfathomable power will be unleashed on the world. Pitted against overwhelming odds is a small band of investigators determined to beat back the uncaring forces of the universe. They'll have to delve deep into the mysteries of the Mythos and use all of their skills, weapons, and spells if they want to have even a slim chance of success. This is a cooperative game, which means all players are working towards the same goal. If one wins you all win.

Battle Cattle Fri 7 PM-9 PM Tim McDowell Table CC 26 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Fast, fun, fights between Cows. You can ask for more?

Beer Money Sat 8 AM-10 AM Tim McDowell Table CC 26 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Fight, Beat each other up and steal their Beer Money!

Bohnanza Fri 3 PM-4 PM Jonathan Nichol Table CC 25 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK Wild trading and negotiation game.

Byzantium Sun 10 AM-1 PM Walt Mulder Table CC 5 Mature (18+) Average New Players OK A Euro strategy game by Martin Wallace. Balance the conquests between the Arabs and the Byzantines.

Candamir Fri 5 PM-7 PM Chris Ballowe Table CC 27 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK You never give up! Despite the long journey to your new homeland, and the loss of everything you owned, you have made it: you are a settler of Catan! You begin with nothing more than your own two hands, and each day will bring you a host of new experiences and adventures. Hunting bears and wolves? Building trunks and furniture? Working hides and skins? Not a problem for you! 15 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Car Wars Sat 7 PM-9 PM Tim McDowell Table CC 26 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK The Car Wars boxed set. Fight between cars, the survivor wins.

Carcassonne Sat 5 PM-7 PM Joellen Moyer Table CC 11 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK A deceptively simple tile game that gets better each time you play it! If you've never played Carcassonne before, or if you just love the game (like I do!), this is the game for you. We'll be playing with the River and the Inns & Cathedrals expansions only and we'll be using the original rules from the first edition. Learn how the game was played before the Dragon, Princess & Baron showed up and complicated things!

Cartagena Sat 4 PM-5 PM Mac Moyer Table CC 10 Everyone (6+) Simple New Players OK Aaarrrrr! Is the infamous pirate prison of Cartagena strong enough to hold you? Not as long as you have your bottle of rum and your pirate hat! This simple board game is fast and fun, matey, but keep your good eye open for clever tactics.

Caylus Sat 11 AM-3 PM Jeff DeBoer Table CC 25 Mature (18+) Hard New Players OK The hottest new game since Puerto Rico!! Number Two Rated of all Games in less than 6 months. Come out and help build Philip the Fair's Grand Castle. Be prepared for somewhat of a brainburner, but super fun. So many routes to victory.

Celebrity Deathmatch Candamir Tournament Sat 7 PM-11 PM Dave Eggleston Table CC 10 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK It's Settlers meets Survivor! Celebrity characters have been created using the official character editor for Klaus Teuber's Candamir: the First Settlers. First heat will run 7-9. Three finalists will play 9-11.

Chess, Not Chess, Etc. Fri 2 PM-3 PM Pôl Jackson Table CC 36 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Are you any good at chess? Me neither! Which is why I like Proteus (chess-like strategy game with dice as the pieces), Knightmare Chess (cards change your chess game as you play - chaotic fun!), and Tile Chess (chess without the board). Interested in trying a game or two?

16 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Chez Geek Fri 1 PM-3 PM John Bartley Table CC 24 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Beer. Nookie. Roommates. Just another Friday night at Chez Geek, the card game that lets you set up house with your friends -- for as long as you can stand them. Get a job at the beginning of the game, and spend money and time to accumulate Slack points. What other game gives you points for sleeping?

Chez Geek 3: Block Party Sun 9 AM-11 AM John Bartley Table CC 19 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Chez Geek with 56 new job, thing and activity cards! Now you can be a security guard (gets to sleep a lot), bicycle courier (likes the weed), "enevelope stuffer" (works at home and watches lots of tv), or the Lord of the Fries working the grill at Friedey's.

Chez Grunt Sat 9 AM-11 AM John Bartley Table CC 24 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK It's Chez Geek set in the army! Once again, attempt to gain slack in any way that you can. Food, jobs, nookie...apparently the army is more fun than you thought.

Condottierre Sun 4 PM-5 PM Jonathan Nichol Table CC 25 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK Be an Italian mercenary trying to take over Italy using clever cardplay.

Cosmic Encounter Sat 10 PM-12 AM Jonathan Nichol Table CC 37 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK Players represent alien races that are seeking to spread themselves onto five foreign worlds. Each alien race has a unique power which breaks the rules of the game. With constantly shifting alliances, who will become the dominant alien race?

Counterspy Prototype - Sunriver Games Sat 3 PM-5 PM Chris Brooks Table CC 12 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Come playtest this two-player spy versus spy cardgame with Sunriver Games.

Creatures & Cultists Sun 2 PM-4 PM Marcus Evenstar Table CC 32 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Prepare a slogan, chant, scrawl your sigil and may the most depraved cult win!

17 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Descent: Journeys in the Dark Sat 3 PM-7 PM Travis Holter Table CC 25 Sun 10 AM-2 PM Travis Holter Table CC 1 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK A dungeon crawl game using modular boards and scenarios, this is an updated version of Fantasy Flight's Doom boardgame. Players take on the roles of adventurers cooperatively exploring a fantasy dungeon. The game is set in FFG's "Runebound" universe.

Diceland: Dragons Fri 7 PM-8 PM James Ernest Table CC 8 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Diceland is a game of skill, luck and strategy where you throw paper dice onto the table and maneuver them to take out enemy dice. The latest expansion features Dragons!

Dino Hunt Sat 1 PM-2 PM Becca Morgan Table CC 11 Everyone (6+) Simple New Players OK Use your time machine to capture dinosaurs and bring 'em back alive.

Dork Tower Sun 10 AM-2 PM Marcus Evenstar Table CC 32 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Join Matt, Gilly, Ken, Igor and the rest of the Dork Tower crew in their favorite role-playing scenario. Can you save the land of Aurora from the foul mechinations of the mad wizard, Z'Mindrik? Better go adventuring first for some loot and be mindful of random curses....

Dragon Delta Sat 12 PM-1 PM Jonathan Nichol Table CC 27 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK Plan out your moves and then reveal them simultaneously as you try to build bridges and get to other side before the other players. One wrong move and SPLASH!

Dungeonville Sat 1 PM-2 PM Mike Selinker Table CC 28 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK In James Ernest and Mike Selinker's new card game from Z-Man Games, you're a mad wizard with a dungeon filled with ravenous beasties. Your friends are also mad wizards, and you want to show that friendship by beating the life out of their adventurer stooges.

Enemy Chocolatier Sat 2 PM-3 PM James Ernest Table CC 10 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK New Cheapass board game about chocolate, nuts, and love. In final playtest at Game Storm - play it before it reaches the stores!

18 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Euro Games Extravaganza Sun 12 PM-3 PM David Schaber Table CC 13 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK Come learn some of the best Euro games. Pick a game and we will play! See Game Library for selection.

EVO: The Last Gasp of the Dinosaurs Sat 9 PM-11 PM Forrest Hosier Table CC 26 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK In EVO, you control the survival and evolution of a species of dinosaurs called Dinos. You guide their migrations to temperate climates, you acquire the perfect genes to develop your Dinos and mutate them, and you push out other creatures that have yet to learn the meaning of the term "dominant species". At the end of the game, you and your Dinos will not be the winners unless you've evolved more quickly and successfully than everyone else.

Extinction Sat 1 PM-4 PM Andrew Nisbet Table CC 13 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Control your own species in the attempt to survive and dominate the island of Darwinia.

Family Gaming with SimplyFun Games Sun 10 AM-1 PM Mike Deans Table CC 36 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK Games for the family from SimplyFun. From 4 years old and up.

Formula De Sat 3 PM-5 PM Tristan Jenkins Table CC 8 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Race formula cars, crash into the crowds, and walk away without a scratch, all in a couple of hours. No petrol needed.

Frag Zombies!!! Sat 8 PM-12 AM Marcus Evenstar Table CC 31 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Merging two great games puts hordes of zombies on the table-top and gives players lots of BFGs to blow them away! Can you make it to the helicopter before you're dragged down by the hungry dead?

Fury of Dracula - One vs. All Sat 8 PM-12 AM Eugene Lin Table CC 18 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK In this new Fantasy Flight release of a Games Workshop classic, 4 Hunters, including Van Helsing, must find and kill Dracula. Dracula, played by th GM, utilizes a hidden movement system and is more than a match for a Hunter at night. This is a fun and tense game, combining a deduction and combat game.

19 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Galactic Dominion Fri 8 PM-10 PM Paul A. Neufeldt Table CC 17 Sat 5 PM-7 PM Paul A. Neufeldt Table CC 18 Sun 3 PM-5 PM Paul A. Neufeldt Table CC 16 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK A 4-player stratagy board game of epic proportions. Vie for dominion over the galaxy, using up to five space fleets, while simultaneously fending off the malevolent forces of the rift fiend. The first to close the Rift and pass through the Progenitor’s Gate wins. A rapid fire strategic maelstrom with optional diplomacy and intrigue. This game will be taught by the designer.

Gloom Sat 10 AM-11 AM Antonia Cabal Table CC 18 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK A unique and darkly humorous card game featuring transparent cards played over each other. As the head of a morbid family, you try to bring your relatives to a sad and untimely demise while keeping the other players from doing the same. Macabre and Morbid fun.

Gloria Mundi Sat 10 AM-12 PM James Ernest Table CC 11 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK The Glory of Rome is fading. You’re a Roman statesman struggling to survive in this era of cultural decline and political chaos. While foreign invaders and domestic incompetents devour the last resources of the Empire, youll try to build your career out of the rubble. You will administer your Farms, Cities, and Legions, trying to score points by deciding which of them will be improved, and which will be destroyed. In the end, the points youve scored may be all you have left.

Greed Quest Fri 12 PM-2 PM Marcus Evenstar Table CC 31 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK All the fun of dungeon delving without all the tedious work! This Phil Foglio illustrated twelve- step dungeon gets you to the loot and back out with only a few cards and lots of laughs.

Guillotine Sat 1 PM-5 PM Joshua Badeaux Table CC 27 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK The revolutionary card game where you win by getting a head. Based in the French Revolution, players represent rival guillotine operators vying for the best collection of noble heads, over a three day period.

H2Olland Fri 2 PM-4 PM Walt Mulder Table CC 29 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Euro strategy game of planting the most valuable tulip fields and racing about to claim them for points.

20 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Hacienda Fri 4 PM-7 PM Jeff DeBoer Table CC 24 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK Be a Hacienda owner in Argentina, compete for the prime land and then raise herds of 5 animals and deliver them to market to out compete your fellow Hacienda owners. Very strategic but on the easier side and fun. By German game designer Wolfgang Kramer.

Hacker Sat 4 PM-7 PM Marcus Evenstar Table CC 31 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Inspired by the Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games, this award winning game lets you control the Internet, circa 1991. Hack into systems, install backdoors, phreak their phones and nark on your friends when the feds come knocking. Experience fast-paced computer crime without all the tedious coding or boring jail-time!

Havoc Tournament Sat 8 PM-11 PM KC Humphrey Table CC 38 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Fight battles by drafting poker hands. Hosted by game designer KC Humphrey.

Here I Stand Sun 1 PM-7 PM Doug Bloomer Table CC 26 Teen (13+) Hard New Players OK The Wars of the Reformation. Will Martin Luther be burned at the stake? Can the French conquer the Aztecs? How many times will Henry VIII role on the Henry's wives pregnancy table? New card-driven game from GMT.

IGOR! The Mad Scientist's Lament Fri 9 PM-11 PM Scott Rose Table CC 6 Sat 11 PM-1 AM Scott Rose Table CC 6 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK Ever feel like being a Mad Scientist out to create the ultimate world conquering device? How about finding a convenient use of that box of 1000 papaerclips and the Laquered Frog Marriachi Band that your lackey lab assistant Igor has just brought to you? If so this quaint little card game is for you. Play runs about an hour per game, so we should have time for a couple of rounds. Feel free to join us part way through the session!

Illuminati Deluxe Fri 4 PM-7 PM Marcus Evenstar Table CC 31 Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed Steve Jackson's classic game of conspiracy. Become one of the secret masters and scheme your way to World Control!

21 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Ingenious Sat 9 AM-10 AM George Vriese Table CC 10 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK

Rainer Knizia's award winning four-player abstract game.

Intertwyne Fri 2 PM-3 PM Clint Griffith Table CC 28 Fri 3 PM-4 PM Clint Griffith Table CC 28 Fri 4 PM-5 PM Clint Griffith Table CC 28 Sat 2 PM-3 PM Clint Griffith Table CC 26 Sat 3 PM-4 PM Clint Griffith Table CC 26 Sat 4 PM-5 PM Clint Griffith Table CC 26 Sun 1 PM-2 PM Clint Griffith Table CC 27 Sun 2 PM-3 PM Clint Griffith Table CC 27 Sun 3 PM-4 PM Clint Griffith Table CC 27 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Intertwyne is a strategy game that involves silent teamwork, twists and turns, changing strategy, and mental awareness. Building and blocking of paths that are trying to be created by players.

Junta Sat 8 PM-12 AM Aaron Curtis Table CC 33 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK La Republica de Los Bananas is a poor country, but is backed by a rich superpower that asks no questions. Your goal? To funnel as much of the foreign aid money into your Swiss bank account as possible. If El Presidente doesn't give you your fair share... form a Junta and revolt!

Key Largo Sat 11 AM-12 PM Mike Selinker Table CC 28 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK The brand-new Tilsit Editions board game from Paul Randles (Pirate's Cove), Mike Selinker (Axis & Allies), and Bruno Faidutti (Citadels). You're a treasure hunter diving for gold and jewels off the Florida coast. Get what you can before the hurricane comes!

Kids' Games Sun 10 AM-12 PM George Vriese Table CC 37 Pre-school (4-6) Simple New Players OK Various games for young kids (4-6yr).

Kids Next Door Sat 8 AM-12 PM Joshua Badeaux Table CC 6 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK Has all of your favorite characters from the show (heroes and villains). The first player to capture five cards wins.

22 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Kill Dr. Lucky Sat 4 PM-5 PM Antonia Cabal Table CC 1 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Dr. Lucky has invited you to his mansion. He's also annoyed you for the last time. In this game you compete with fellow players not to solve a murder but to CAUSE a murder, trying to kill Dr. Lucky without the others seeing you!

Kill Dr. Lucky Aboard the SS Afgang Fri 1 PM-2 PM Chris Ballowe Table CC 27 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK You and your unsavory cohorts find yourselves aboard a non-sinking ocean liner, the SS Afgang, along with that detestable old coot, J. Robert Lucky. With no imminent peril and the uncanny notion that you've been here before, you are once again driven to pursue that most ancient and respected of hobbies, murdering an unsuspecting old man. And this time, you can close the doors.

King's Blood Fri 2 PM-4 PM Chris Ballowe Table CC 27 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK King's Blood is a fast-paced multi-player card game. Build the family tree by arranging marriages, exiling rivals, and crowning new royalty. Match a character with a compatible member of the opposite sex, and start a new generation. Play the last family member from your hand, and you've won!

Laughter - Worth 1000 Jokes Fri 10 AM-11 AM Nathan David Monger Table CC 22 Sun 11 AM-12 PM Nathan David Monger Table CC 18 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK A simple party joke game (like a triva game, but also unlike...) This game is for those who love jokes and have a few of their own to share...

Live Action RoboRally Fri 6 PM-10 PM Richard Garfield Table CC 10 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK It's RoboRally on a giant board! Race for the flag in a life-sized maze of deadly traps. This event will be judged. Hosted by RoboRally designer Richard Garfield. Each heat will have 4 teams of 2, robot and controller. Heats will last about 30 - 60 minutes each.

Lunch Money Fri 4 PM-6 PM Tim McDowell Table CC 26 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Fight, beat each other up and steal their lunch money!

23 Game Storm 8 24 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Maharaja Fri 10 PM-12 AM Eugene Lin Table CC 28 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK This 2004 game (not the old Avalon Hill game)is ranked in the top 50 all time board games on both the Internet top 100 poll and Boardgamegeek, yet is not that widely known. Players travel around building palaces for the Maharaja. Each turn players can select a role with special abilities, and even steal each others roles! Come see what all the fuss is about.

Mall of Horror Sat Midnight-1 AM Eugene Lin Table CC 31 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK This atmospheric game is based on the classic zombie movies. Players are trapped in a mall and must survive a zombie onslaught. The mechanism of this game is like the TV show "Survivor" - players vote on everything, including who gets eaten by the zombies! This is a game of negotiation and backstabbing.

Manifest Destiny Sat 1 PM-5 PM Dave Blanchard Table CC 24 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Build a commercial empire in the great US expansion!

Merchant of Venus Sun 4 PM-7 PM Kyle Boyd Table CC 13 Teen (13+) Hard New Players OK Merchant of Venus is an out-of-print Avalon Hill game that has been described by some as a railroading game in space, but it's more complicated than that. Buy low and sell high as you travel between star systems in one of 4 different ships.

Mesopotamia Fri 7 PM-9 PM George Vriese Table CC 13 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Temple building in the Ancient World by Klaus-Juergen Wrede of Carcassonne fame.

MidEvil Fri 7 PM-9 PM Pat Hannum Table CC 5 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Kickin' it REAL old School. If you thought Zombies were bad, you ain't seen nothing yet!

Munchkin Fu Fri 9 PM-11 PM Joshua Badeaux Table CC 24 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK Munchkins with chop-socky Hong Kong action! Collect treasures and learn new styles to build up your character's powers. Includes Monkey Business.

25 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Munchkin Regional Tournament Final Sat 8 PM-12 AM Pat Hannum Table CC 5 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Epic Play, Munchkin, Unnatural Axe, Clerical Errors, Need for Steed and Dice The Western Regional and Eastern Regional Washington Champions will be there, Can you take them out? Can you out-Munchkin the best Munchkins? Oregon's Munchkin Bragging Rights will be yours, if you can win!

Munchkin Regional Tournament Qualifier, Round 1 Fri 4 PM-6 PM Pat Hannum Table CC 5 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Munchkin, Unnatural Axe, Clerical Errors, Need For Steed and Dice! Munchkin captures the essence of the dungeon experience... with none of that stupid roleplaying stuff. Compete to kill monsters and grab 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 work your way up to the Plutonium Dragon! Winner of this game will be invited to the Regional final Saturday night.

Munchkin Regional Tournament Qualifier, Round 2 Fri 10 PM-12 AM Pat Hannum Table CC 5 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Star Munchkin and Clown Wars The Munchkins are back - but now they're in space! Now they're Mutants, Androids, and Cat People ... grabbing Lasers, Vibroswords, and Nova Grenades ... fighting Fanged Fuzzballs, Bionic Bimbos, and the Brain In A Jar. This is a complete game using the best-selling Munchkin rules (with a few new twists like Sidekicks). Winner of this game will be invited to the Regional final Saturday night.

Munchkin Regional Tournament Qualifier, Round 3 Sat 8 AM-10 AM Pat Hannum Table CC 5 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Super Munchkin It's the superheroes' turn to get the Munchkin treatment! Be a Mutant, an Exotic, a Mystic, or a Techno. The higher your Level, the more Powers you can have. Battle dastardly masterminds, devastating monsters, and invading aliens from the next dimension! With the Electro-Mento-Hat, the Telezapinator, and the (jet-powered) Pogo Stick, no foe can stand before you. Winner of this game will be invited to the Regional final Saturday night.

Munchkin Regional Tournament Qualifier, Round 4 Sat 11 AM-1 PM Pat Hannum Table CC 5 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Munchkin Bites & Pants Macabe The Munchkins are now vampires... and werewolves... and changelings. Bash through the haunted house and slay the monsters. The OTHER monsters. You can't slay your fellow munchkins, but you can curse them, send foes at them, and take their stuff. Of course. Winner of this game will be invited to the Regional final Saturday night.

26 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Munchkin Regional Tournament Qualifier, Round 5 Sat 2 PM-4 PM Pat Hannum Table CC 5 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Munchkin Launch Munchkin, Unnatural Axe, Clerical Errors, Dice and NEED FOR STEED The newest expansion of Munchkin to be released - Need for Steed will be included. This is a regional qualifier, winner will be invited to the finals Saturday night.

Munchkin Regional Tournament Qualifier, Round 6 Sat 5 PM-7 PM Pat Hannum Table CC 5 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Munchkin Fu and Monkey Business Munchkin with chop-socky Hong Kong action! The characters are Samurai, Ninja, Yakuza, and Monks. The foes are mooks, demons, and assorted bad guys from all the worst martial arts films you've ever seen. Collect treasures and learn new styles to build up your character's powers. Winner of this game will be invited to the Regional final Saturday night.

Munchkins of the East Sun 4 PM-6 PM Marcus Evenstar Table CC 24 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK When you combine Munchkin Fu with Munchkin Bites, the resulting gold & scarlet flash reveals the wonders of Kung Fu Angst. Wire-Fu Vampires fight Yakuza Werewolves who are both opposed by Samurai Changelings. Which one will make the Great Leap Forward to victory?

Nexus Ops Sat 10 PM-1 AM David Adams Table CC 1 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Science fiction war game from Avalon Hill. Players control an alien race that must battle the other alien races for control of the moon's rubium. By winning battles, you can obtain victory points, although you'll earn more if you plan your battles to correspond with the Secret Mission Cards in your hand to earn bonus points. The game boasts a hexagonal board that is dealt differently every time, as well as cool "glow" miniatures, and satisfying combat.

Ninja Burger Sat 2 PM-4 PM Marcus Evenstar Table CC 31 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Whatever the obstacles, whatever the opposition, you can deliver a burger and fries anywhere. In 30 minutes or less. You will bring honor to your franchise. Failure is not an option. (It's fast. It's fun. You get to be a ninja. What more do you want from a game?)

OD Fri 10 PM-12 AM Andrew Nisbet Table CC 8 Mature (18+) Simple New Players OK The National Lampoon drug game

27 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Pirate's Cove Sat 11 AM-1 PM Ken Dodge Table CC 24 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Join in for some good Pirate-y fun! Sail to Islands! Battle other Pirates! Capture Booty! Arr!

Playtest Fest Sat 10 AM-12 PM Tyler Tinsley Table CC 29 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK If you want to try out some cool new board games you've never heard of before, and will likely never hear of again, then help a game designer out and come playtest a few new games. One game will be a bluffing game, so if you like catching people in their lies you will like it. The other game is a racing game like none other before it. Also if you are a game designer bring in your prototypes and we can give those a try as well!

Puerto Rico Fri 9 PM-11 PM Forrest Hosier Table CC 27 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK In 1493 Christopher Columbus discovered the eastern-most island of the Great Antilles. About 50 years later, Puerto Rico began to really blossom - through you! Which roles will you play in this new world: Prospector? Governor? Settler? Trader? Whatever you do, you have one goal: to achieve the greatest prosperity and highest reputation! Who will have the most fruitful plantation? Who will build the most impressive buildings? And, who will earn the most victory points?

Pyrite Isle - Pirate Diplomacy Sat 8 AM-12 PM Nathan David Monger Table CC 38 Sun 4 PM-8 PM Nathan David Monger Table CC 12 Fri 11 AM-5 PM Nathan David Monger Table CC 37 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK This is a Pirate strategy board game involving ship designing, treasure hunting, sea battles, and most of all, pirate diplomacy that gives it an RPG taste. The designer of this new game will be teaching it.

Quo Vadis? Sun 2 PM-3 PM Aaron Curtis Table CC 33 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK Vie to control Rome by moving your politicians up through the ranks to the Senate.

28 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Railroad Tycoon Fri 7 PM-10 PM Kai Brinkman Table CC 30 Sat 10 AM-2 PM Doug Walker Table CC 21 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Revisit the early days of the Age of Steam! Build your budding railroad network from a small locomotive and a vision into a vast empire. Connect New York to Chicago, earn the most money, develop bigger and faster locomotives, maybe even span North America and build the Transcontinental Railway! Your choices are simple: build track, deliver goods, take an operations card, build an industry or upgrade your engine. What makes the game challenging is deciding when to do these things and in what order.

Redneck Life Sat 6 PM-8 PM Lisa Steenson Table CC 12 Sat 8 PM-10 PM Lisa Steenson Table CC 12 Sat 10 PM-12 AM Lisa Steenson Table CC 12 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK A roll of 2 dice determines the grade you complete in school, which sets you up for one of 11 fabulous careers such as Mullet Salon Operator or Monster Truck Announcer. Players go into debt to purchase a vehicle and a home, get hitched, divorced, re-married, and raise some young'ens. Through accidents and brawls, your character loses teeth during the game. Buy some back if you canas the player with the most teeth remaining at the end of the game wins! This game is being presented by its designer.

Reef Encounter Sun 1 PM-4 PM Jeff DeBoer Table CC 30 Mature (18+) Hard New Players OK Richard Breese's Wonderful Coral Reef Competition. Compete for types of coral in this life and death struggle. Original Limited Edition Version with unique art work on each tile.

Roads and Boats Fri 6 PM-10 PM Dave Blanchard Table CC 25 Teen (13+) Hard New Players OK Start with some logs, bricks and a few geese and build your fortune.

RoboRally - Texas Hold'em Style Fri 10 PM-12 AM David Adams Table CC 7 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK RoboRally with the 2005 version. I'm hoping to get 8 bots out on the floor with the Texas Hold'em variant. Lay your cards down and chant "I hope this works!" Event Type : Board or Card Game

RoboRally "Cubed" Sat 6 PM-10 PM J.R. Gracen Table CC 7 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK 6 boards laid out in an unfolded cube pattern. 4 Flags in 4 hours. Using the Classic (1990s) game and expansions.

29 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Robo-Rally Cube 3rd Annual Tournament Sat 2 PM-6 PM Mary Olsen Table CC 7 Teen (13+) Hard New Players OK In the interest of conservation; this factory has made each plane of the space into an assembly floor. Don't ask how we've transcended the laws of physics. We just do. Go, serve your factory! Survive, if you dare!

Rocketville Tournament Sun 2 PM-5 PM Richard Garfield Table CC 10 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK Richard Garfield's latest published game, with rules taught by the designer. Players race to become mayor of Rocketville by making promises, garnering endorsements, and recruiting robotic assistance.

Russian or Lunar Rails Sat 6 PM-9 PM David Adams Table CC 1 Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed I'll bring my Russian Rails and my Lunar Rails boards, a couple of the Mayfair Games' crayon rail/Empire Builder system games.

Shadows Over Camelot Fri 9 PM-11 PM Michael GrayWolff Table CC 29 Sun 11 AM-1 PM Mac Moyer Table CC 30 Mature (18+) Average New Players OK A cooperative boardgame with a malevolent twist! You have joined the Round Table to help King Arthur defeat the forces of evil working to destroy Camelot. Everyone cooperates to win except that one knight is secretly a traitor!

Sigma File Fri 2 PM-5 PM Andrew Nisbet Table CC 13 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Spies, Killers double dealing a Sid Sackson classic.

SPANC Fri 2 PM-4 PM Marcus Evenstar Table CC 31 Sat 7 PM-9 PM Joshua Badeaux Table CC 24 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Join the Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Cat-girls as they pull capers across the galaxy, gaining loot, toys and pool boys. Fully illustrated by Phil Foglio, this fast-paced card game puts you in the middle of absurd sci-fi adventure.

30 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games St. Petersburg Sun 2 PM-4 PM Forrest Hosier Table CC 29 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK On May 16, 1703, Czar Peter the Great lays the foundation for the first building. Quickly, impressive buildings are erected that are ever more grand and beautiful. Such buildings bring the aristocracy glory and the players victory points. But you need traders to bring the rubles necessary for all this magnificence; otherwise, the buildings are empty and bare. But the competition never sleeps and may grab needed cards right from under your nose.

Star Traders Fri 2 PM-4 PM Aaron Curtis Table CC 33 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK Assume the role of an intragalactic merchant, traveling by hyperjump to carry needed goods from planet to planet. Only the most daring, clever or lucky trader will win the Imperial Favor.

Struggle of Empires Fri 11 AM-2 PM Aaron Curtis Table CC 33 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Struggle of Empires recreates the conflict among the European powers as they attempt to become the dominant force in Europe and the rest of the world of the eighteenth century. Build armies and fleets, make alliances, establish colonies, improve your economic might and ultimately wage war to expand your empire.

Sunday Morning Family Games Sun 9 AM-12 PM Chris Brooks Table CC 38 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK A selection of games for all ages!

Sunriver Games Prototype Session Sat 10 AM-12 PM KC Humphrey Table CC 30 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK See what's cooking at Sunriver Games! Playtest KC Humphrey's latest creations.

SYZYGY - That Word Game! Fri 12 PM-2 PM Lorraine Spiering Table CC 6 Fri 3 PM-4 PM Lorraine Spiering Table CC 6 Sat 12 PM-2 PM Lorraine Spiering Table CC 2 Sat 3 PM-4 PM Lorraine Spiering Table CC 2 Sun 1 PM-4 PM Lorraine Spiering Table CC 8 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK SYZYGY is the Ultimate WORD GAME. Creating Crossword Puzzles faster than the other players is the goal. All you need is the words in your head to compete. Of course you must connect the letter tiles in Crossword fashion at the speed of fun. All ages can play together. Fun for the Whole Family. Stop by any time to learn and play!

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TAC V Sat 6 PM-1 AM Andrew Nisbet Table CC 13 Teen (13+) Hard Extensive Experience Needed Avalon Hill classic land combat rules with home made air, sea, and econ rules.

Texas Hold'Em Tournament Sun 10 AM-3 PM James Ernest Table CC 24 Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed Texas Hold'em poker tournament, $5 buy-in. Tournament prize pool is total of all buy-ins.

The Game of REAL LIFE Sat 3 PM-4 PM Chris Pender Table CC 15 Sat 4 PM-5 PM Chris Pender Table CC 15 Sat 5 PM-6 PM Chris Pender Table CC 15 Sat 7 PM-8 PM Chris Pender Table CC 15 Sat 8 PM-9 PM Chris Pender Table CC 15 Sat 9 PM-10 PM Chris Pender Table CC 15 Teen (13+) Simple New Players OK The Game of REAL LIFE is a parody of The game of LIFE by Milton Bradley. This game is an RPG in that each player flips a coin for gender, plays a role and there are Health Points(HP) in the game. When you run out of HP you die. But happiness wins the game! This game is being presented by the designer.

The Napoleonic Wars Sat 1 PM-8 PM Michael Hopcroft Table CC 20 Teen (13+) Hard Some Experience Needed Sadly, only one of you gets to be Napoleon. The rest of you have to STOP him. Easier said than done.... We'll play all day until the fate of Europe is secured.

Three-Dragon Ante Fri 5 PM-9 PM Joshua Badeaux Table CC 7 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK A Barbarian, a Wizard, and a Cleric Walk into a Tavern, to gather a little information, plan their next dungeon foray--and kick back with a game of Three Dragon Ante. Somewhat like, D&D meets poker.

Three-Dragon Ante Sat 7 PM-9 PM Gwendolyn Kestrel Table CC 27 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK What would D&D characters play sitting around a tavern table? Three-Dragon Ant! Come enjoy a tournament of Wizards' new card game. Industry Guest Gwendolyn Kestrel hosts and competes in this fast, fun card game.

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34 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Ticket to Ride Fri 7 PM-9 PM Michael GrayWolff Table CC 29 Mature (18+) Average New Players OK Ticket to Ride is a cross-country train adventure where players collct cards of various types of train cars that enable them to claim railway routes connecting cities.

Ticket to Ride Sat 12 PM-1 PM Lennart Bjorksten Table CC 10 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Build train routes across North America by collecting train cards and tickets. Fun and easy to learn.

Tongiaki Sun 12 PM-1 PM T Sean Prescott Table CC 29 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK 300 AD: The Polynesians embarked on daring sailing trips and explored thousands of Pacific islands, setting forth into the unkown on simple catamarans called Tongiakis. Each trip became a life-threatening journey, as landfall was often impossible to acheive. This is a tile- placing game, which means the "board" is built as the game is played. It is possible to get more than one game played in an hour. Will your tribe stay alive or will your ships..."Glug-glug- glug"

Torches and Pitchforks Sat 3 PM-5 PM Scott Rose Table CC 6 Sun 2 PM-4 PM Scott Rose Table CC 6 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Life as a villager in Central Europe in the later 1800s is pretty rough. Crops and livestock need tending...homes and storehouses need maintenance....the occassional Monster wanders in from the moors and rampages through town. Life just is not fair. However...there is something you can do about the monsters. Time for the mob to go out into the moors and teach those monsters to mind their own business. This is the card game of Monster Movie Mayhem. Each player takes charge of a small group of townspeople, equips them as best he can and sets out to go stick it to the Monsters. Games are 30-60 mins long. We'll run as many rounds as we can during the time alloted...so don't worry about being late.

Traumfabrik Sat 5 PM-6 PM Ken Dodge Table CC 24 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Who can make the best film? Bid on classic film stars against rival studios to complete your versions of the best Oscar winning films. Marilyn Monroe in Psycho? Anything is possible...

Treehouse Fri 4 PM-5 PM Chris Ballowe Table CC 27 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Treehouse is a simple-yet-challenging new Icehouse game for 2-4 players! The object of the game is to rearrange your trio of pyramids to match the current arrangement of the House.

35 Game Storm 8 Board and Card Games Twilight Struggle Fri 4 PM-8 PM Doug Bloomer Table CC 17 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK New game about the Cold War (USA/USSR), by GMT. Fast playing, card-driven game. I will have two boards available, 2 players each, and will teach the game.

Two-Player Games Tournament Fri 6 PM-11 PM KC Humphrey Table CC 36 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Rounds of 2-player games for 16 people in a Swiss tournament style.

Valley of the Mammoths Sat 10 PM-1 AM Timothy Hidalgo Table CC 27 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK While fleeing from starving wolves and wild sabretooth tigers, will your tribe of cavemen manage to survive in, let alone conquer, the merciless Valley of the Mammoths?

Wallenstein Sat 9 PM-12 AM Kyle Boyd Table CC 24 Mature (18+) Hard New Players OK Wallenstein is a Risk-like game set during the Thirty Years War in Germany. This game is very highly rated but was never released in the USA, so this may be your one chance to try it out. Very strategic but also very chaotic; you can end a battle with more troops than when you started!

X-Bugs Sat 3 PM-5 PM Becca Morgan Table CC 11 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK X-Bugs is a unique new game, combining luck, skill, and strategy. Your armies are microscopic mutated monsters. The battlefield is any tabletop. Each bug is represented by a plastic chip. Flip the chips to attack . . . practice helps!

Zombies!!! Sat 1 PM-5 PM Tim McDowell Table CC 18 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Oh, Gods, the origional Zombies Game. Can you survive the Zombies??? The other players???

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Battlestar Galactica CCG Pre-Release Demo Sat 12 PM-4 PM Steve Hampton Table CC 37 Teen (13+) Simple New Players OK See the soon-to-be-released Battlestar Galactica CCG in action for the first time. Based on the hit Sci-Fi Channel Drama, this game is produced by Wizkids Games and releases in May. Players will be walked through a simple demo of the basics. All Participants receive an exclusive card while supplies last.

KONQUER Demo Fri 12 PM-6 PM William Adams, Avery McCraw Table CC 38 Sat 12 PM-6 PM William Adams, Avery McCraw Table CC 16 Sun 12 PM-6 PM William Adams, Avery McCraw Table CC 35 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK New Card Game from Avery Games. This game has two types: Kingdom and Dungeon. Come play and choose which you would like to KONQUER. Taught by the designers.

Magic:The Gathering - Garfield Draft Sat 2 PM-5 PM Richard Garfield Table CC 38 Everyone (6+) Some Experience Needed Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering, presents a very strange draft event. How strange? You'll find out when he tells you the rules.

Magic-Stravaganza Tournament Sat 5 PM-9 PM John Williamson Table CC 36 Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed Anything goes Magic. The only rule is you must have at least a 60 card deck, but otherwise you can have any cards in it and any number -- no restrictions or limitations! Bring out your banned cards! $5 entry fee, all fees returned as prizes. Games will be timed. Using the most current set of the rules as a guideline, rule ambiguities and disputes will be decided by referee, or cutting cards (Highest manna value wins). Cheating is encouraged. Getting caught will result in random penalties. Winners’ and Losers’ brackets. Prizes for winners and losers. Come and have fun.

Redemption CCG Demo Sat 1 PM-2 PM Tim McDowell Table CC 29 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Redemption CCG demo from Cactus games. Bring your deck or use one of ours! Type I decks only, please.

37 Game Storm 8 Live Action Role Playing Amber Sat 5 PM-8 PM Joseph Bullock-Palser Quayside Mature (18+) Hard Some Experience Necessary Ever wish you could remake the world how you wish? Well, become a member of the royal court of Amber, based on the books of Roger Zelazny. Go to shadow realms and attempt to take the crown of Amber for yourself... if you think you can hold it.

Are you a Werewolf? Fri Midnight-4 AM Joseph Bullock-Palser Quayside Mature (18+) Hard Some Experience Needed Not the Role Playing Game, but the Card game, LARP style. Can you find out who's killing your fellow townspeople? We will be having more defined roles this year and a new way for werewolves to kill (and also, 2 towns running the same time). See also the Saturday Midnight event in the Centennial Center, listed under Board Games.

Blind Date Sat 2 PM-5 PM Mike Peterson Quayside Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Ever have that fear like you two won't click? Like everything will go wrong? Well, god speed my son. We will give you a character and send you off with a few bucks in your pocket to the diner to have a blind date from hell... You know... To get it out of your system.

38 Game Storm 8 Live Action Role Playing Bus Stop / Strangers on a Bus Fri 2 PM-3 PM Scottie Carpenter Quayside Sat 9 AM-10 AM Scottie Carpenter Quayside Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK Two games that start with the same premise, but have dramatically different goals. In Bus Stop, the rules are simple and the goals are social in nature. But in Strangers on a Bus, a cross country bus trip turns into a nightmare. Perfect for beginners!

Chess SLARP Sat 8 PM-10 PM Mike Peterson & James Spiering Quayside Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Like Chess? Hate Chess? Either way, you'll love Chess: the SLARP (Strategy LARP)! Ever wanted to be King? Think you know everything there is to know about winning at chess? Ever wanted to beat those chess pros at their own game? Chess: the SLARP is a strategic roleplaying experience unlike anything you've ever played before. This is no mere life-size chess game but rather a fusion of traditional board gaming and roleplaying. We know you've never played anything like it because we invented it. Come play the first SLARPs ever, presented here at GameStorm 8!

Dead Man's Party Fri 8 PM-12 AM Amanda Fitch Quayside Teen (13+) Average New Players OK It's a dead man's party. Who could ask for more? Everybody is coming, leave your bodies at the door. Not even Oingo Boingo could've said it better.

Divus Ex Sat 10 AM-1 PM Joseph Bullock-Palser Quayside Mature (18+) Hard Some Experience Needed The ultimate roleplaying challenge. Play a God who is the master of his/her particular element. Fight against other Gods for control over the world! Got an ego as big as the room you are in? You'll do just fine here. For those who have played before, this is a restart with actual prepared gods and plotlines.

Enemy Without Sun 3 PM-6 PM Misti McIntyre Quayside Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Who is truly your enemy... Who is truly your friend…

Interwoven LARP Plots Sun 10 AM-11 AM Mike Peterson Quayside Learn from the master himself, Mike Peterson, how you too can come up with LARPs in a short amount of time. We will go over all kinds of ways to interweave plotlines into your LARP, and some of the hazards as well.

39 Game Storm 8 Live Action Role Playing LARP Signup / Open Play Fri 10 AM-2 PM Joseph Bullock-Palser Quayside Everyone (6+) Simple New Players OK The LARP games have a separate registration where we ask for information that will help us give you an enjoyable LARPing experience. We have streamlined the registration procedure, and we won't ask for personal identifying information. This is a great time to stop by and sign up for the open slots. Meet our Gamemasters, enjoy learning about all the games available, and perhaps an improv game will break out!

New World Disorder Sun 4 AM-8 AM James Spiering Quayside Mature (18+) Average New Players OK Learn the dark secrets man was not meant to know. Read about the ancient order of the Illuminati and all its splendor. Now imagine it as a comedy, and that's the idea behind this LARP.

Og Fri 7 PM-8 PM Scottie Carpenter Quayside Sat 8 AM-9 AM Scottie Carpenter Quayside Everyone (6+) Simple New Players OK Clan must hunt, grunt, and figure things out to live. Along the way, you will worship a small hairy thing. Run from a big big smelly thing. Bang things. Eat small smelly things. And no use big words.

Paranoia Sat 1 PM-2 PM Mike Peterson Quayside Sun 3 AM-4 AM Mike Peterson Quayside Teen (13+) Average Extensive Experience Needed Serve the computer and all that goes with it. This is a Live Action event, so please don't sign up if you are easily embarrassed.

Salem Sat 4 AM-8 AM James Spiering Quayside Teen (13+) Average New Players OK You are in Salem, in a small wooden courthouse, in the state of Massachusetts. The date is the 6th of June 1692. The setting is the wooden courthouse, in the middle of the village. There are about 25 people in the courtroom today. It is the time of the Salem witch trials. But are the false accusations of witchcraft what the town really has to worry about?

Science Sat Midnight-3 AM Amanda Fitch Quayside Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Learn how Science has improved our lives and how it makes life so much easui9ahd78ahdb789wdfwb7

40 Game Storm 8 Live Action Role Playing Sidekicks Sun 11 AM-3 PM James Spiering Quayside Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Come.. Live the life of derring do. Learn how to get in trouble at the worst possible time. Awe as you get rescued over and over... and over Such is life as a Sidekick.

Soap Fri 3 PM-7 PM Mike Peterson Quayside Mature (18+) Average New Players OK Suspiciously normal things are happening in Valley Heights. What malevolent forces aren't at work here? What terrible secret isn't Dr. Johnson hiding? Why aren't all the pets in the neighborhood going missing? Find out the answers here. It's Soap.

Superheroes SLARP Sat 10 PM-12 AM Mike Peterson & James Spiering Quayside Teen (13+) Average New Players OK You simply can't go wrong with Superheroes. Can you? Come check out the Strategy LARP (or SLARP), a WHOLE NEW GENRE of LARPs.

The Most Deadly Game Sat Midnight-1 AM Joseph Bullock-Palser Gull’s Nest Come check out all the new features of this LARP and how you can join up with it. Discuss ideas with the storyteller staff. Learn about our unique feeding system and stock market. Learn how much fun it is to put role playing over the rules when necessary. www.mostdeadlygame.com

Write your Own LARP Sat 2 PM-5 PM Joseph Bullock-Palser Gull’s Nest Come help create a new LARP that will be run at next year's Game Storm. Together, we will put stuff into a big fondue pot of ideas and see what kind of cheesy goodness comes from it.

Vampire: The Requiem Sat 10 PM-12 AM Portland Camerilla Gull’s Nest Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Session will include Character Creation, new game world explanations, and much more.

41 Game Storm 8 Miniatures Attack Vector Basic Training Fri 2 PM-6 PM Matthew Picio Table WR 7 Sat 9 AM-1 PM Matthew Picio Table WR 7 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Shoot chocolates! Shoot each other! Origins Winner of Best Miniatures Game of 2004, AV:T is a game of 3-D spaceship combat combining realism and playability. Come learn the rules and fight for chocolate!

Attack Vector: Damso Station Sat 4 PM-11 PM Matthew Picio Table WR 7 Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed The ODF Space Arm takes on the Medinan Star Force at Handelstelle (Damso Station). It's Olympia vs. Medina during the Saladin War!

Classic BattleTech Sat 10 AM-2 PM Mike Foster Table WR 4 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK House rules, scenario and everything else will be provided by Korvik.

Classic Battletech 3025, Phoenix Hawk Down Fri 6 PM-10 PM Craig Erne Table WR 8 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK One Mechwarrior has survived a recon mission into the heart of Kurita Territory. Now, House Davions' 7th Deneb Light Cavalry is on a mission to get him home safe and sound. Or will The 4th An Ting Legion show them the Claws of the Mighty Dragon? (All supplies provided, Mini Conversion rules)

Classic BattleTech: Condition Feral Sat 8 AM-4 PM Chris Snider Table WR 8 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK Join the Wolf Dragoons as they battle through Harlech as you race to save General Jaime Wolf from overwhelming forces...

Classic Battletech: The Grinder Sat 2 PM-10 PM George Paresa Table WR 4 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Come experience the game that spawned a successful line of video games and Mechwarrior Dark Age. In Battletech you command a battlemech with more firepower than a tank battalion. Do you fight for one of the great houses of the Inner Sphere, are you a mercenary gun for hire, or do you fight for your own glory? The Grinder event will allow you to choose from a wide variety of battlemechs where you'll be able to test your skills in one-on-one battle. New and veteran players are welcome. A FanPro Commando will be on hand to help out. All materials will be provided.

42 Game Storm 8 Miniatures Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Tournament Sun 11 AM-4 PM Pôl Jackson Table WR 6 Teen (13+) Average Extensive Experience Required Assault Scenario An official D&D Minis tournament, using the latest rules from the new War Drums set! Bring a tournament-legal map and 200-point army. 3 rounds, Swiss; no final rounds. Current floor rules are at: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mini/tournaments

Dungeons & Dragons Minis RPG Style Fri 2 PM-9 PM Jeremy Swankhuizen Table WR 4 Everyone (6+) Average Some Experience Needed This is the adventure of 6 PCs (Playing Characters) who are assigned to take down the underworld of the evil dwarves as they get many normal dwarf recruitment so they can get the whole world. The PCs have to go to the castle and take it down with a huge catapult, but before they do, they have to get the leader of the band so they can explain what is going on with the dwarves. I cannot give any more information because it would ruin the suprise. Global level of characters: 5 . Point buy system: 32 points.

Federation Commander: Klingon Border Sun 10 AM-4 PM Geof Clark Table WR 4 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Command the legendary starships of the mighty United Federation of Planets' StarFleet as they defend against the aggressive forces of the Klingon Empire. The new Federation Commander game is the offspring of the venerable Star Fleet Battles series, but is specifically designed to be user-friendly, and fast play. Gone are the massive rulebook and complex rules, so that players can focus on maneuvers and tactical prowess.

HeroClix - 400 point Constructed Tournament Fri 10 PM-2 AM Paul Miller Table WR 1 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 400 points. Constructed - Venue Supported Tournament - 3 Actions, All Cards and Pogs are OK. No Duplicate Figures. No Cross Universe Team Abilities.

HeroClix - 500 point Unrestricted Tournament Fri 6 PM-10 PM Paul Miller Table WR 1 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 500 points Unrestricted - Wizkids Supported Tournament - 3 actions, No Duplicate Figures, Cards and Pogs are OK. Cross Universe Team Abilities are OK.

HeroClix - Arial Assault Fri 2 PM-6 PM Paul Miller Table WR 1 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 400 points. Unrestricted Scenario - Venue Supported Tournament - 3 Actions, All Flying Figures, Cards, OK. Duplicate Figures OK, Cross Universe Team Abilities are OK. Outdoor Maps Only, All Flyers start in Soaring Position.

43 Game Storm 8 Miniatures HeroClix 400 point Unrestricted Sun 12 PM-4 PM Paul Miller Table WR 1 Everyone (6+) Average Some Experience Needed 400 points. Unrestricted - Wizkids Supported Tournament - 3 Actions, All Figures, Cards, Pogs are OK. No Duplicate Figures, No Cross Universe Team Abilities.

HeroClix 400 point Unrestricted Venue Supported Sat 8 AM-12 PM Paul Miller Table WR 1 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 400 points. Unrestricted Venue Supported Tournament. 3 Actions, All Figures, Cards, Pogs are OK. No Duplicate Figures, Cross Universe Team Abilities are OK.

HeroClix 569345 Sat Midnight-4 AM Paul Miller Table WR 1 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 400 points. Constructed - Venue Supported Tournament - 3 Actions, All Cards and Pogs are OK. No Duplicate Figures. No Cross Universe Team Abilities.

HeroClix 569346 Sat 8 PM-12 AM Paul Miller Table WR 1 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 300 points. Unrestricted Scenario - Venue Supported Tournament - 3 Actions, All Cards, Pogs are OK. No Duplicate Figures, No Cross Universe Team Abilities. All Collateral Damage Battle Field Conditions will be in play except Ordinary Day.

HeroClix Constructed Event Sat 12 PM-4 PM Paul Miller Table WR 1 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 500 points. Constructed Venue Supported Tournament. 3 Actions, All Figures, Cards, Pogs are OK. No Duplicate Figures, Cross Universe Team Abilities are OK.

HeroClix Constructed Event Sat 4 PM-8 PM Paul Miller Table WR 1 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 300 points. Constructed Wizkids Supported Tournament. 3 Actions, All Cards, Pogs are OK. No Duplicate Figures, No Cross Universe Team Abilities.

HeroClix Constructed Event Sun 8 AM-12 PM Paul Miller Table WR 1 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 500 points. Constructed Venue Supported Tournament. 3 Actions, All Figures, Cards, Pogs are OKDuplicate Figures OK, No Cross Universe Team Abilities.

44 Game Storm 8 Miniatures HeroClix Unrestricted Venue Supported Fri 10 AM-2 PM Paul Miller Table WR 1 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 400 points Unrestricted -- Venue Supported Tournament. All Characters, Cards, Pogs are OK. Cross Universe Team Abilities are OK.

Lord of the Rings Sat 2 PM-4 PM David McNichol Table CC 9 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Minatures game.

MechWarrior - 2006 National Qualifier Sat 1 PM-5 PM Steve Criss Table WR 13 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK Win an invitation to your country's MechWarrior National Tournament! This event will be a constructed event - prove your skills by building the best 450 point army and then dominate the battle field!

MechWarrior - 450 Point Sealed Event Sat 9 AM-1 PM Steve Criss Table WR 13 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 450 points from three (3) boosters to build your army.

MechWarrior - 600 point Sealed Event Sun 1 PM-5 PM Steve Criss Table WR 13 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK Pull 600 point army out of four (4) boosters.

MechWarrior - Fat Boys Sat 9 PM-1 AM Steve Criss Table WR 13 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 1350 points worth of Mechs. Get your fatties out and put them to work!

MechWarrior - Magnificent Seven Fri 7 PM-11 PM Steve Criss Table WR 13 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 600 points with 4 orders, (7) Industrial Mechs. ALL armies MUST include seven (7) Industrial Mechs. Pre-packaged armies are available from the BattleMaster. Players may use Faction Pride, Situational Alliance, and Mercenary Contract cards. No other CECs may be used.

MechWarrior - Midnight Blitz Fri 11 PM-3 AM Steve Criss Table WR 13 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 300 point build, with one (1) Mech of no more then 200 points with pilot and or gear, two (2) orders. Players will be using chess clock timers for each round.

45 Game Storm 8 Miniatures MechWarrior - Payne City Sat 5 PM-9 PM Steve Criss Table WR 13 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK Fight in the styrofoam city built by Chris & Janet Pyne. The city has stargates for instant transport, a junk yard with a killer "junkyard mech," and several other surprises.

MechWarrior - Solaris Stadium Fri 11 AM-3 PM Steve Criss Table WR 13 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK We will be using the Solaris stadium created by Mike Foster and used at Rainy Day Games. Bring your best light, medium and heavy non-LE Mechs, as well as non-LE gear and pilots. Pump the crowd, and/or pump your opponent full of holes!

MechWarrior Chess Clock Blitz Fri 3 PM-7 PM Steve Criss Table WR 13 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 300 points, 2 orders. Using the small demo map from the AoD Starter kit, build an army with one light Mech required, and only one Cap 3 transport allowed. No Infiltration equipment allowed. All terrain will be provided by the BattleMaster.

MechWarrior Demo Fri 10 AM-11 AM Steve Criss Table WR 13 Sat 8 AM-9 AM Steve Criss Table WR 13 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK Come learn to play MechWarrior!

MechWarrior: Kursk Revisited Sun 9 AM-1 PM Steve Criss Table WR 13 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK 1200 point army, with five (5) orders, all of which are vehicles. No VTOLs! Only hindering and water terrain may be used. Artillery-capable units may only use special attack or direct fire, no pog throwing. May use Situational Alliances, Faction Pride cards. No Planetary Conditions or Mission Cards allowed.

Napoleon Bonaparte's War Fri 12 PM-3 PM James Kyler Table WR 6 Fri 3 PM-6 PM James Kyler Table WR 6 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK French troops in 1815 are marching into Belgium to do battle with the combined Allied army when they meet a roadblock comprising a division of Prussian infantry and artillery. The battle is joined. Can the French troops push past the Prussians before more troops can come to the aid of the defending division? We'll use a simple generic set of rules that we at Western Oregon Wargamers have been writing now for 3 years. Players can download them at www.westernoregonwargamers.com or get a copy when they play a game. Miniatures, dice, rules, and rulers will all be provided by the game master. Novice wargamers as well as experienced wargamers either in fantasy or historical gaming periods can have fun with these rules.

46 Game Storm 8 Miniatures Pirates of the Spanish Main - Constructed Fri 12 PM-2 PM Ryan Stoneburg Table WR 4 Everyone (6+) Average Some Experience Needed Standard constructed tournament.

Pirates of the Spanish Main - Fleet Battle Sat 10 PM-12 AM Ryan Stoneburg Table WR 4 Everyone (6+) Average Some Experience Needed Large fleet battle; bring 120 point of ships and crew and see if you can win the fleet melee

Pirates of the Spanish Main Constructed Event Sun 8 AM-10 AM Ryan Stoneburg Table WR 4 Everyone (6+) Average Some Experience Needed Standard constructed tournament.

Pirates of the Spanish Main Sealed Event Fri 9 PM-11 PM Ryan Stoneburg Table WR 4 Everyone (6+) Average Some Experience Needed Open boosters and build a fleet; normal sealed pirates game.

Rocketmen - Castaway Spy Sat 2 PM-5 PM Brian Douglas Table WR 6 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK Special rules for this event include 30-point active fleets and 30-point reserve fleets.

Rocketmen: Waltz of the Fuel Jellies Sat 5 PM-8 PM Brian Douglas Table WR 6 Everyone (6+) Average New Players OK Special rules for this event include 30-point active fleets and 30-point reserve fleets. Resources are split randomly between the two jellies. Roll separately for the rating of each jelly.

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Warhammer 40K Bring & Play Fri 10 AM-12 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Fri 12 PM-2 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Fri 2 PM-4 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Fri 4 PM-6 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Fri 6 PM-8 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Sat 10 AM-12 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Sat 12 PM-2 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Sat 2 PM-4 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Sat 4 PM-6 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Sat 6 PM-8 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Sun 10 AM-12 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Sun 12 PM-2 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Sun 2 PM-4 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Sun 4 PM-6 PM Trent LaClair Table WR 11 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Bring an 1850-2000 point force, sign up for a table, and battle it out with someone new. Terrain will be provided. Be ready to reduce your force roster size to meet that of your opponent. You supply the army & the fun.

Warhammer 40k Mega Battle Fri 10 AM-1 PM GW Club Volunteer Table WR 9 Fri 1 PM-4 PM GW Club Volunteer Table WR 9 Fri 4 PM-7 PM GW Club Volunteer Table WR 9 Fri 7 PM-10 PM GW Club Volunteer Table WR 9 Sat 10 AM-1 PM GW Club Volunteer Table WR 9 Sat 1 PM-4 PM GW Club Volunteer Table WR 9 Sat 4 PM-7 PM GW Club Volunteer Table WR 9 Sun 10 AM-1 PM GW Club Volunteer Table WR 9 Sun 1 PM-4 PM GW Club Volunteer Table WR 9 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Bring a legal 1000 pt Warhammer 40K roster. Only one HQ allowed, have an additional 500 800 points of reserve force including Forge World, no force list restrictions. Game will consist of 2 teams, good & evil, {that is subjective to one's point of view}. The team that controls a majority of the objectives for 2 turns wins. Control a Relic site to summon your reserve force. Game length 2.5 hours

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Warhammer Fantasy Bring & Play Fri 10 AM-12 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Fri 12 PM-2 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Fri 2 PM-4 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Fri 4 PM-6 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Fri 6 PM-8 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Sat 10 AM-12 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Sat 12 PM-2 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Sat 2 PM-4 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Sat 4 PM-6 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Sat 6 PM-8 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Sun 10 AM-12 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Sun 12 PM-2 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Sun 2 PM-4 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Sun 4 PM-6 PM Josh Little Table WR 15 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK

Bring an 1850-2000 point force and battle it out with someone new. Terrain will be provided. One will be a "break the siege" table, the other an open scattering of terrain. Be ready to reduce your force roster size to meet that of your opponent. You supply the army & the fun.

Warhammer Fantasy Skirmish Fri 10 AM-12 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Fri 12 PM-2 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Fri 2 PM-4 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Fri 4 PM-6 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Fri 6 PM-8 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Sat 10 AM-12 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Sat 12 PM-2 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Sat 2 PM-4 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Sat 4 PM-6 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Sat 6 PM-8 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Sun 10 AM-12 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Sun 12 PM-2 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Sun 2 PM-4 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Sun 4 PM-6 PM David Faulkner Table WR 12 Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed Quarg Hunt! Bring a 250-300 point skirmish force. You may include a minor hero or level 1 mage and one champion. Total for magic is limited to 50 points. The Quarg Hunt is a treasure hunt: work your way into the treasure hall/cave and try to get back out with the booty. Watch out for pitfalls and booby trapped treasure hoards. Game length about 1.5 hours.

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WARMACHINE Tour of Duty Sat 2 PM-10 PM Roger Munk Table CC 21 Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed Face off against three players of opposing factions to try to take and hold objectives on a 4.5'X 6' battle board. New players are introduced as players are eliminated. When you get eliminated, sign up to jump back in, or you're free to come and go throughout the day. 500 pt army, changeable between rounds. More info on the www.ordofanaticus.com forums.

World War II Skirmish Fri 6 PM-10 PM James Kyler Table WR 6 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Simplified Battleground rules for small unit combat using 20mm figures.

Panels

Basics of Poker Sat 4 PM-5 PM Chart Room Mike Selinker & James Ernest Two authors of Dealer's Choice: The Complete Handbook of Saturday Night Poker teach you how to play, some strategy, and how to talk like a poker player.

Christian Worship Service Sun 10 AM-11 AM Rodney Barnes Chart Room Non-sectarian worship service. No sacraments will be performed, just worship through scripture reading and a few hymns for those who can't make church due to the con.

Critical Hits & Fumbles Sun 3 PM-4 PM Chart Room Aaron Curtis, Aaron Nabil, Beverly Block Tell us how we did! What was great about Game Storm 8? What could have been better?

Game Design 101: Advice for Newbies Fri 5 PM-6 PM Chart Room Gwendolyn Kestrel, James Ernest, Mike Selinker, Richard Garfield So, you want to be a game designer? Learn the early pitfalls, the roadblocks to success, and how to make a small fortune in game design.

Game Design 102: Playtesting Sat 1 PM-2 PM Chart Room Dave Howell, James Ernest, KC Humphrey, Richard Garfield No game is perfect from first conception; it has to be tested first. Learn how to get the most from your playtest sessions.

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Game Design 103: Prototyping Chart Room Sat 5 PM-6 PM Dave Howell, James Ernest, KC Humphrey, Richard Garfield You've designed your game, and your playtesters all enjoy it. What is the next step? Prototyping. Our panelists bring examples of mock-ups of games. See how a game design evolves while in development, and learn how to make your own prototypes look good.

Game Design 201: Getting Published Sun 1 PM-2 PM Chart Room KC Humphrey, Mike Selinker, Richard Garfield How do you get your great game published? Is self-publishing the answer? Learn the ins and outs of game publishing. Remember, every published game designer, including our panelists, were once unpublished game designers.

Guest of Honor Q&A Sun 12 PM-1 PM Richard Garfield Chart Room Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering and RoboRally (among others), answers your questions.

How to be a Good Game Master Sat 6 PM-7 PM Chart Room Andy Collins, Chris Lindsay, Stephen Radney-MacFarland Learn how to improve your gamemastering techniques from the closest thing there is to professional GMs.

Interwoven LARP Plots Sun 10 AM-11 AM Mike Peterson Quayside Learn from the master himself, Mike Peterson, how you too can come up with LARPs in a short amount of time. We will go over all kinds of ways to interweave plotlines into your LARP, and some of the hazards as well.

The Art of GMing Fri 6 PM-7 PM Tim Brown Chart Room Improve your GM skills by taking some different perspectives: game session as art, as a meeting, as social gathering. Learn the GASP theory and how it can help you understand the dynamics of a game session.

The D&D Life Cycle: Design, Development, the RPGA, and more Fri 5 PM-6 PM Table ER 1 Andy Collins, Chris Lindsay, Stephen Radney-MacFarland Three employees from Wizards RPG talk about Dungeons & Dragons from all sides.

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The Most Deadly Game Sat Midnight-1 AM Joseph Bullock-Palser Gull’s Nest Come check out all the new features of this LARP and how you can join up with it. Discuss ideas with the storyteller staff. Learn about our unique feeding system and stock market. Learn how much fun it is to put role playing over the rules when necessary. www.mostdeadlygame.com

Working for WotC Sat 11 AM-12 PM Chart Room Andy Collins, Chris Lindsay, Gwendolyn Kestrel, Stephen Radney-MacFarland What's it like working for the largest hobby game company in America?

Write your Own LARP Sat 2 PM-5 PM Joseph Bullock-Palser Gull’s Nest Come help create a new LARP that will be run at next year's Game Storm. Together, we will put stuff into a big fondue pot of ideas and see what kind of cheesy goodness comes from it.

Writing D&D Adventures for Publication Sat 12 PM-1 PM Chart Room Andy Collins, Chris Lindsay, Gwendolyn Kestrel, Stephen Radney-MacFarland Learn the important differences between an adventure for your home game and what is needed to get it published. Find out what Wizards of the Coast wants in a D&D adventure, and what they really, really don't want.

Role Playing

AD&D 1st Edition: B2 Little Keep on the Borderlands Sat 8 AM-12 PM Rodney Barnes Table QD 1 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Old School 1st Edition Adventure for characters levels 1-4.

Call of Cthulhu: Beach Party Cthulhu Fri 8 PM-12 AM M. Chrysopher Goodman Herron Table AD 4 Teen (13+) Easy Some Experiencec Needed Cool Kats and Surfers battle beach monsters. 1960s Beach Party movie roughly based on "Beach Blanket Bingo". Moon Dog, Gidget and the gang, along with Erik and the Ratz team up to battle monsters. Comedy Role playing. Role playing not Roll playing. Pregens.

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Call of Cthulhu: Spawn of the Deep Sat 2 PM-6 PM M. Chrysopher Goodman Herron Table QD 3 Teen (13+) Easy Some Expreience Needed Young women have been disappearing from your beach city. Now Everyone in the halfway house was slaughtered, and the girls vanished. Jimmy's girlfriend has vanished. Can you find the girls before they die giving birth to monsters? Bring your own charactor or use pregens. This is a ROLE playing game not a roll playing game.

Castles & Crusades: A1 Assult on Blacktooth Ridge Fri 6 PM-12 AM Rodney Barnes Table QD 1 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Using the new Castles & Crusades RPG from Troll Lord Games. Join a group of adventures as they seek to find the lost Artifact hidden inside Blacktooth Ridge. C&C is a "rules lite" version of D&D 3.0 combined with elements from AD&D and Basic D&D.

Claymore!: Ruins Unearthed Sat 4 PM-8 PM Rodney Barnes Table QD 1 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK A hearty team of adventures are asigned by the University to check out a recently unearthed ruin. Copy of game is given to each player. Claymore is a homebrew kitchen sink RPG with a blend of silliness, post-apocolyptic sci-fi, and cinematic fantasy.

Claymore!: Ruins Unearthed, Continued Sun 1 PM-5 PM Rodney Barnes Table QD 1 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK A hearty team of adventures are asigned by the University to check out a recently unearthed ruin. Copy of game is given to each player. Claymore is a homebrew kitchen sink RPG with a blend of silliness, post-apocolyptic sci-fi, and cinematic fantasy. You don't have to have been at Saturday's session to join in at this one!

D&D 3.5 Arcana Evolved: Temple of Mysteries, In Media Res Sat 8 AM-1 PM James Kundart Table QD 4 Mature (18+) Average New Players OK Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved is a D&D 3.5 variant. Years ago, enigmatic figures known as the Triune created a strange temple and set themselves up as gods. Though they wielded great magic, their religion eventually disintegrated and their temple fell into ruin. Sages speak of unusual magic, bizarre riddles, and ritualized tests within the place. You know, however, that a powerful magic item called the strand of tears may still be lost in these ruins. The Temple of Mysteries: In Media Res is a dungeon adventure for 4th- to 5th-level characters. Its challenge lies not just in overcoming foes in combat, but in solving puzzle-like problems and dealing with unique roleplaying challenges. The Temple of Mysteries is a very difficult adventure that will challenge even the most experienced players, whether they are fans of hack-'n'-slash, puzzle solving, or in-depth roleplaying. Originally created to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of D&D by Monte Cook. Arcana Evolved variant characters are provided, and beginners are welcome.

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D&D 3.5 Eberron: Shadows of the Last War Sat 6 PM-2 AM Russel A. McConnell Table QD 3 Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed WOTC-published module. Pre-gens will be provided. Please come prepared to focus on the game; this module is too long to allow for tangential conversations.

D&D 3.5 Tournament Fri 6 PM-11 PM Jacob Ramey Table AD 1 Teen (13+) Easy Some Experience Needed This will be either a single or double elimination tournament, depending on the number of players. Each player will make a team of three 8th level characters, which will then compete against the other teams. Complete character generation rules will be given at the game table. This game is open to all players, from those with a glancing familiarity with D&D to experienced rules lawyers.

D&D 3.5: Crypt of Brone the Betrayer Fri 4 PM-8 PM Travis Holter Table QD 2 Sat 10 AM-2 PM Travis Holter Table QD 3 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Armed with an old map, an ancient amulet, and your wits, your small band will attempt to recover the crown of King Sarmuln the Gifted from a tomb filled with monsters and traps. Good luck, you'll need it! A 2nd level 3.5 D&D adventure for 4 players. Characters provided, though you may substitute your own with DM approval.

D&D 3.5: I Love the 80s: (Not Quite) The RPG Sun 2 PM-6 PM Andy Collins Board Room Teen (13+) Average New Players OK B.A. Baracus, MacGyver, Detective Axel Foley, and nosy Jessica Fletcher, under the leadership of retired USAF Colonel Steve Austin, must somehow work together to solve the greatest threat the world has ever known! Characters provided; uses streamlined/simplified d20 system rules.

D&D 3.5: Legacy of the Savage Kings Sat 10 AM-2 PM James Kundart Table QD 4 Mature (18+) Average New Players OK In the Great Swamp, which has has long hidden hints of an ancient barbarian culture, the PCs encounter a half-dead dragon driven mad by a mysterious disease tied to the very swamp itself. A Witch Queen is mining the corrupted swamp-earth to produce evil, blighted artifacts. The heroes must enter ancient caves, put to rest the corrupt legacy of the ancient kings' downfall, end the disease that scars the land, and then face off against the Witch Queen herself. Level 5 characters provided, and beginners are welcome to this Dungeon Crawl Classic by Goodman Games.

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D&D 3.5: The Servants of Yeenoghu Fri 10 PM-3 AM Robert Gresham Table QD 2 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK An evil lurks in the hills near Plim's Delve. Can you thwart the Demon Prince? A 10th level adventure. Bring your own character or play a pre gen. Characters must be made acording to the 3.5 players handbook and DMG. No monster characters or optional core classes (ie warlock, ninja). Prestige classes okay.

D&D 3.5: The Sunken Ziggurat Sat 2 PM-6 PM James Kundart Table QD 4 Mature (18+) Average New Players OK A recent earthquake has exposed a Babylonian ziggurat long buried in the earth. When the heroes are called to investigate, they find a crumbling, mud brick structure from which evil magics flow. The heroes must descend into this ancient edifice, solve devious puzzles, face exotic monsters, and replace the seal that prevents evil from leaking into the world!. Level 5 characters provided, and no is experience necessary for this Dungeon Crawl Classic by Goodman Games.

D20 Star [Wars] Munchkin: Revenge of the Swine Fri 8 PM-12 AM Marcus Evenstar Table AD 3 Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed Long ago, in a galaxy far away, munchkins roamed the stars, kicking in airlocks, shooting aliens/ monsters and looting their bodies. This particular group starts the day wrapped in plastic, on a ship with a faulty auto-pilot. Then things get interesting....

Dogs in the Vineyard: Hobbestown Sat 8 PM-12 AM Pôl Jackson Board Room Mature (18+) Easy Some Experience Needed Play God's Watchdogs in a West that never quite was. Hobbestown is a town in trouble; your job is to put things right. Experienced player? Bring a character! Never played before? Stop by early, and we'll make a Dog out of ya.

Extreme Vengeance: That's Classified Information, Bub Sat 4 PM-8 PM Ron Steinhauser Table QD 2 Mature (18+) Easy New Players OK I could tell you, but then... Well, you know the rest. This is the Extreme Vengeance RPG, a tonue-in-cheek RPG based on Action Movie stereotypes. All of the standard action movie cliches are powers in this game. It has only two character statistics, Guts and Coincidence.

GURPS WWII: Join the Maquis! Sun 2 PM-6 PM Catriona Sumrain Table AD 1 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK

Something has to be done about Hitler, and we need your help to do it. This will be a secret mission. with details provided on arrival.

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GURPS: SWAT Sat 8 PM-12 AM Rodney Barnes Table QD 1 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK GURPS 3rd Edition Join the Portland SERT team as they deal with various tactical situations.

HackMaster 4th Edition: The Grey Vale of Morainorth Sat 2 PM-10 PM Scott Conover Table AD 1 Teen (13+) Hard New Players OK Nearby the small town of Bluestone Crossings, past all the traveled roads, there is a Vale shrouded in mist. Darkness awaits you there, and few tread its depths. Only the rumor of the wealth of the ruined town of Calembrel draws you into the fog-laden Vale.

HackMaster: Into the Deep Dark Somewhat Scary Woods, Part 1 Sat 12 PM-4 PM Karl Krehbiel Board Room Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed

Do you have the Moxie to go into the Deep Dark Woods?! We shall see!!

HackMaster: Into the Deep Dark Somewhat Scary Woods, Part 2 Sat 4 PM-8 PM Karl Krehbiel Board Room Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed

Do you have the Moxie to go into the Deep Dark Woods?! We shall see!!

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Hero System 5th Edition: ReVolver Fri 8 PM-12 AM Case Board Room Sat 8 AM-12 PM Case Board Room Mature(18+) Average New Players OK

The crew of the science vessel "ReVolver" finds that a decisive military action has taken over their peaceful nation. Ordered to return and surrender immediately, they are faced with a bleak, miserable life at the mercy of the brutal conquerors. But the crew is not without hope - for the classified experiment they are working on is now complete!

Horror Rules: Scary, Texas Sat 8 PM-12 AM Chris Weedin Table AD 3 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK The town of Scary, TX has big problems. Its citizens crouch in fear, terrorized by an uknown and unseen force. So pull on your tights and fire up the super-mobile - it's up to you to save the day in this horror-comedy-meets-superhero extravaganza!

Horror Rules: The Recyclers Sat 1 PM-5 PM Chris Weedin Table AD 3 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK What do you get when you mix a rundown retirement home, disappearing old folks, malevolent orderlies, too much meat on the menu, and a mysterious, eccentric groundskeeper? We're not telling, but with a title like "The Recyclers," it's bound to be bad.

Lord of the Rings RPG: Into the Greenwood Sat 6 PM-10 PM Catriona Sumrain Table AD 2 Teen (13+) Easy Some Experience Needed It's the middle of the Third Age. A darkness is growing in the Greenwood. You are sent to investigate. Note: There is very little magic in this game. Don't expect to be a wizards.

MagicQuest: Leaving is Such Sweet Sorrow Sun 2 PM-4 PM E. D. Fleming Table AD 2 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK The characters finally reach the part in their lives where they must prove to their mentors and themselves that they are ready to go on thier own in each of the choosen professions. Little do they know what is ahead of them beyound the utopia that they have known. GMed by the MagicQuest author, E.D. Fleming, published by Oregon's own, ComStar Games.

NinjaBurger: Death To Samurai Burger! Sat 12 PM-4 PM Ron Steinhauser Table QD 2 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK This will be a scenario in the tongue-in-cheek RPG NinjaBurger, where players take on the identities of delivery ninja for the local NinjaBurger franchise. The mission will be a raid in the Corporate Headquarters of the hated Samurai Burger.

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NMR5-08 Fighting the Headwind (LG) Sat 6 PM-10 PM James Kundart Table QD 4 Mature (18+) Average New Players OK Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved is a D&D 3.5 variant. Years ago, enigmatic figures known as the Triune created a strange temple and set themselves up as gods. Though they wielded great magic, their religion eventually disintegrated and their temple fell into ruin. Sages speak of unusual magic, bizarre riddles, and ritualized tests within the place. You know, however, that a powerful magic item called the strand of tears may still be lost in these ruins. The Temple of Mysteries: In Media Res is a dungeon adventure for 4th- to 5th-level characters. Its challenge lies not just in overcoming foes in combat, but in solving puzzle-like problems and dealing with unique roleplaying challenges. The Temple of Mysteries is a very difficult adventure that will challenge even the most experienced players, whether they are fans of hack-'n'-slash, puzzle solving, or in-depth roleplaying. Originally created to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of D&D by Monte Cook. Arcana Evolved variant characters are provided, and beginners are welcome.

Noir: 100 Bullets Fri 5 PM-8 PM John McNichol Table AD 3 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK An RPG based on the 100 Bullets series of graphic novels.

Savage Worlds: Gates of Heaven Fri 8 PM-12 AM Tim Brown Table AD 2 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK A Vatican-supported intervention team is dispatched to investigate and "intervene" in suspected demonic activity, in and around the mountains of Colorado (the sequel adventure is on Sunday). Characters provided or bring your own modern-era characters (up to 50 points); or design your own on the spot!

Savage Worlds: Gates of Hell Sun 11 AM-3 PM Tim Brown Table QD 3 Everyone (6+) Easy New Players OK Sequel to "Gates of Heaven" on Friday evening, but you dont have to have played in that to enjoy this. A Vatican-supported intervention team faces a possible Apocalypse of Biblical proportions. Characters provided, or bring your own modern-era characters (up to 50 points); or design your own on the spot!

Savage Worlds: Space Marines Bug Hunt! Sat 12 PM-4 PM Rodney Barnes Table QD 1 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Join the few, the proud, the heavily armed, as they track down the insectoid enemy.

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Serenity RPG: A Simple Delivery Fri 7 PM-12 AM Mac Moyer Table QD 4 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Jack Doniphon lost a delivery ship, and he's all manner of worked up to get a certain parcel retrieved from it. Time to head into the black and earn your pay!

Serenity RPG: Missing in Action Fri 12 PM-4 PM Catriona Sumrain Table AD 1 Everyone (6+) Average Some Experience Needed Serenity RPG A young girl has gone missing, and it's up to the crew to find her.

Shadowrun 4th Edition: Assault: The Final Run Fri 6 PM-12 AM Paul Brinker Table QD 3 Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed The shadows only whisper when something like this comes along. An Ares underground R&D lab has had a breakthrough, and the whispers say it's worth a retirement to anyone who gets it out. Pre-gen Characters provided or bring your own 500 Build point Shadowrunner.

Shadowrun 4th Edition: Welcome to the Shadows Sat 1 PM-4 PM Joe Hatfield Table AD 4 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK A quick introduction to Shadowrun 4th Edition! Characters will be provided, so all you need to bring is your dice (d6s) and your imagination.

Simulacrum RPG: The Bishop's Peril Sun 10 AM-4 PM Tim Morgan Table AD 3 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK The Bishop of Fordara has been attacked on the road! While the Bishop lives, he was escorting a holy relic which has been taken by outlaws. He is offering riches beyond belief for the return of the relic. Can the heroes find the bandits and rescue the relic? Here's your chance to shape the design of a soon to be published game. The Simulacrum RPG has been under development for nearly 3 years and is nearing publication. Try the newest version. Players who make comments and give input will receive playtester credit when the game is published. The rules will be taught. Every participant will receive a prize!

Simulacrum RPG: Tribulation in Branchwood Sat 12 PM-6 PM Tim Morgan Table AD 2 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK A pleasant night's barfight is interrupted by a horrible premonition -- a young girl's life is in peril. Can our heroes manage to save her? Does she even want to be saved? And what will her father say? Here's your chance to shape the design of a soon to be published game. The Simulacrum RPG has been under development for nearly 3 years, and is nearing publication. Try the newest version. Players who make comments and give input will receive playtester credit when the game is published. The rules will be taught. Every participant will receive a prize!

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Teen Champions: Azumanga Daioh: Let's Get Super! Sun 10 AM-2 PM Michael Hopcroft Table AD 1 Teen (13+) Average Some Experience Needed When you're one of the girls in Yukari-sensei's homeroom, life is already surreal. Is there any way it could possibly get any stranger? Two words -- SUPER POWERS! Characters provided, familiarity with Azumanga Daioh helpful, sense of humor a MUST.

The CrossRoads of Eternity: Demo Game Sat 7 PM-11 PM Travis Brown Table AD 4 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK This game will be designed for players of all RPG experience levels, and for anyone who is unfamiliar with our game. We will have pre-made characters to choose from, and will walk through the basics of the system as we play. The session is designed to show players the CrossRoads system in action.

The CrossRoads of Eternity: The Grand Jovian Battle Royal! Sun 1 PM-6 PM Travis Brown Table AD 4 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Hear ye Hear ye! the annual festival of the shrieking drake has come once again, and with it a grand chance to compete to be the best combatant on all of Andora! A grand tournament of 60 combatants will fight in a battle royale and the last 20 standing will fight in a tournament. The winner shall leave richer, more powerful, and with trophies befitting a king, along with a name that will be remembered for many years to come.

TOON: Channel Surfing Sat 10 AM-2 PM Marcus Evenstar Table AD 1 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Grab a bowl of sugary cereal and find out what's on the tube! Your Animator will take whatever crew of characters he's presented and make sure they get their time on screen, no matter what's needed for the laugh.

TOON: Crawl of Catchoolu Sat 8 PM-12 AM M. Chrysopher Goodman Herron Table QD 2 Teen (13+) Easy New Players OK Cartoon characters in a comedy cartoon parody of a Call of Cthulhu game. Role Playing. Not roll playing.

Victoriana RPG Sat 5 PM-8 PM John McNichol Table AD 3 Teen (13+) Average New Players OK Victorian era adventure, with your favorite fantasy races present in a steampunk setting!

60 Game Storm 8 RPGA For more information on RPGA modules, please go to the East River Room.

COR6-01 A Story For Another Day (LG) Sat 8 AM-1 PM Table ER 8 Sat 1 PM-6 PM Table ER 2 Sat 7 PM-12 AM Table ER 1 Sun 10 AM-3 PM Table ER 6 Sun 3 PM-8 PM Table ER 5

CORS5-02 Mines of the Eye (High APL) (LG) Fri 11 AM-4 PM Table ER 3 Fri 11 AM-4 PM Table ER 5 Fri 6 PM-11 PM Table ER 1 Sat 1 PM-6 PM Table ER 5 Sun 10 AM-3 PM Table ER 4 Sun 3 PM-8 PM Table ER 3

CORS5-02 Mines of the Eye (Low APL) (LG) Fri 11 AM-4 PM Table ER 2 Fri 6 PM-11 PM Table ER 3 Sat 1 PM-6 PM Table ER 8 Sat 7 PM-12 AM Table ER 2 Sun 3 PM-8 PM Table ER 2 Sun 3 PM-8 PM Table ER 6

EMH-10 Desolate Endeavor (MoH) Fri 6 PM-11 PM Table ER 8 Sat 8 AM-1 PM Table ER 3 Sat 8 AM-1 PM Table ER 4 Sun 10 AM-3 PM Table ER 1

EMH-9 Mote in the Eye of Chaos (MoH) Sat 1 PM-6 PM Table ER 1 Sun 10 AM-3 PM Table ER 10 Sun 10 AM-3 PM Table ER 8

LA-HP4-02 Bane of Light (LA) Fri 6 PM-11 PM Table ER 6 Sat 8 AM-1 PM Table ER 6 Sun 10 AM-3 PM Table ER 9 61 Game Storm 8 RPGA For more information on RPGA modules, please go to the East River Room.

LA-SP4-09 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (LA) Fri 11 AM-4 PM Table ER 4 Fri 6 PM-11 PM Table ER 2

NMR5-03 Borne Upon an Ill Wind (LG) Sat 1 PM-6 PM Table ER 3 Sat 8 AM-1 PM Table ER 5 Sat 8 AM-1 PM Table ER 7

NMR5-05 Winds of Change (LG) Fri 11 AM-4 PM Table ER 7 Sat 8 AM-1 PM Table ER 9 Sun 10 AM-3 PM Table ER 2

NMR5-08 Fighting the Headwind (LG) Sat 1 PM-6 PM Table ER 6 Sun 3 PM-8 PM Table ER 7

URD5-05 Standing Silently in the Shadows of Castle Seh (LG) Fri 11 AM-4 PM Table ER 6 Fri 6 PM-11 PM Table ER 7 Sat 7 PM-12 AM Table ER 3

URD6-01 An Accidental Murder (LG) Sat 8 AM-1 PM Table ER 2 Sun 10 AM-3 PM Table ER 5 Sun 10 AM-3 PM Table ER 7 Sun 3 PM-8 PM Table ER 4

URD6-I01 The Night Where Nothing Happens (LG) Sun 3 PM-8 PM Table ER 1

URDI-02 Live to Love Again (LG) Fri 6 PM-11 PM Table ER 5 Sat 1 PM-6 PM Table ER 9 Sun 10 AM-3 PM Table ER 3 62 Game Storm 8 RPGA For more information on RPGA modules, please go to the East River Room.

URDI-03 Good For What Ale's Ya (LG) Sat 1 PM-6 PM Table ER 10 Sat 1 PM-6 PM Table ER 7

URDI-04 Overdue Books (LG) Fri 11 AM-4 PM Table ER 1 Fri 6 PM-11 PM Table ER 4 Fri 6 PM-11 PM Table ER 9

What is OSFCI?

You've seen the phrase dozens of times or more -- at the bottom of a convention flyer, in the back of a progress report, or on the inside of a colorful, slick-covered convention memory book - and probably ignored it: "This event is sponsored by Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (OSFCI)." If you are reading this, you've probably take a few moments to wonder "What is OSFCI?"

OSFCI, a non-profit, tax-exempt, all-volunteer (no one gets paid anything) corporation, is the legal entity and umbrella organization under which Orycon and her sister events, Game Storm and CON, operate. The corporation provides year to year continuity for the repeating conventions, and a solid base from which floating events can be run. These events have included CascadeCon, Smofcon (1991 and 2005), World Horror Convention (1996), Potlatch (1996 and 1999), Left Coast Crime (2002) and Westercon (1984, 1990, 1995 and 2001.)

With over 100 corporate members, some from as far away as New York and Boston, OSFCI is a diverse talent pool of convention-running experience. Members range from WorldCon regulars with years of experience to people who have just gotten their feet wet in the heady world of con-running. Membership in the group is easy. It's open to anyone who has been on at least two OSFCI-sponsored event committee lists during the last four-year period. All you need to do to join is volunteer, work on the required number of committees, and then accept the invitation for membership. The corporation holds its annual meeting each May, where the year is reviewed, bylaws changed, and members are elected to the Board of Directors.

The Board decides who will be the chair of Orycon and other repeating conventions, and whether or not to sponsor floating events, such as Westercon or Potlatch. "Sponsorship" means that the event falls under the OSFCI's tax-exempt umbrella, and may use the corporation's post office box, bank accounts and bulk mailing permit, as well as being provided with insurance and a responsible legal entity in the 63 Game Storm 8 unlikely event of a disaster. Occasionally, OSFCI will provide seed money for the development of new events or for bidding committees who wish to bring floating conventions to the area.

Although Board members often work on the events, the Board doesn't run the conventions - the Board's role is that of overseer, ensuring that sponsored events operate within OSFCI's tax-exempt status, as well as that of mentor, providing a source of institutional knowledge and convention experience for the committees. Each convention has a liaison from the Board assigned to the committee. Each committee also assigns an ex-officio representative to the Board.

The Board is made up of up to ten people, elected to two-year terms (usually five each year). The Board meets six times a year -- January, March, May (after the Annual General Meeting), July, September and December -- and everyone with an interest in its activities is welcome to attend those meetings.

OSFCI maintains the capital goods accumulated over the years for use by the various events. Convention committees have use of art show panels, computers, printers, a copy machine, hospitality furnishings, and video and other electronic equipment. These capital goods minimize the equipment that needs to be rented or borrowed, allowing more of convention income to be devoted to producing the quality of events for which OSFCI is well-known.

As part of a being a non-profit, the general membership and Board of Directors of OSFCI feel a strong responsibility to give back to the community that supports the conventions. Often born from specific events, OSFCI sponsors two charitable funds and an award, as well as making liberal donations to a wide range of other charities, museums, schools and libraries - all selected to help improve people's lives and bring the wonderment and joy of knowledge and future to them. The corporation not only offers institutional contributions, but encourages individual ones as well, by maintaining a matching gift fund which matches donations made by OSFCI corporate members to qualified local organizations, such as libraries, museums, schools and the Portland Science Fiction Society, that promote science or science fiction.

The Funds and award are diverse, and provide valuable services to the science fiction community. Both funds are supported by donations, and in the case of the Petrey fund, auctions held at conventions. All donations go directly to the funds for distribution - OSFCI covers the operating and administrative costs of the funds out of general corporate monies. The Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund, OSFCI's oldest fund, annually gives scholarships to students attending the Clarion and Clarion West Writer's Workshops. The Clayton Memorial Medical Fund is a medical emergency fund for needy Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror or Mystery writers in the Pacific Northwest. The Endeavour Award, a juried book award, is handed out annually at Orycon to the best science fiction or fantasy book published by a Pacific Northwest writer. The award includes an honorarium and plaque. OSFCI has also made donations to OMSI, charities, schools and public libraries. Information on the Funds and the Endeavour Award is available at www.osfci.org, or by writing to OSFCI at P.O Box 5702, Portland, OR., 97228.

So -- now you know "what is OSFCI." It's you, it's me, it's us. 64 Game Storm 8

Convention Committee

Aaron Nabil - Chair Steven Criss - Treasurer John Bartley - Secretary Aaron Curtis - Guests Liaison Patty Wells - Hotel Contract Negotiator Mel Schaber - Hotel Liaison Dave Schaber - Registration, Program Book Alexander Smith - Registration Assistant Mary Olsen - Dealer Liaison Beverly Block – Program Book Debra Stansbury - Hospitality Manager E. Ann Stansbury - Hospitality Staff & Con Mom Michael Pinnick - Cereal & Toons, Hospitality Staff Andrew Nisbet - OSFCI Liaison

Operations

Pamela Wilsonsage - Operations Manager Jana Ford - Office Manager Mark Burns - Night Office Shryl Hester - Security Scott Sanford - Daily Zine Renee Schaber - Volunteers Aaron Curtis - Game Library Joe Mihara - Game Library Staff Antonia Cabal - Game Library Staff

Events

Beverly Block - Events Manager Rachael Madsen - Events Assistant Aaron Curtis - Panel Programming Rodney Barnes - RPG Liaison Bryan Blumklotz - RPGA Liaison Ryan Stoneburg - Miniatures Liaison James Spiering - LARP Liaison