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MATT Table # GM GWINN Kayfabe: The Inside Wrestling Game Worlds in Peril

4 - 8 4H 13+ 3- 5 4H 13+

Professional Wrestling from behind the scenes. Welcome to Basti on City, a thriving metropolis Players take on the roles of both the writers and on the path to fi nancial and social prosperity. the wrestlers and put on a wrestling show from But something’s not right; the heroes of the city start to fi nish. Book matches, traverse backstage are disappearing and it is up to you to discover politi cs and real life complicati ons, then put on why. Worlds in Peril is a collaborati ve roleplay- great show for the crowd! Kayfabe approaches ing game designed to bring a comic book world wrestling as if it is fake, and players focus on put- to life by combining descripti ve, creati ve and ti ng on an entertaining show rather than video fl exible powers with a narrati ve structure that game style fi ghti ng. encourages players to take control of their stories. Powered by the apocalypse!

This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv This Game Is: Investi gati on, Storytelling, Com- bat GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 P A U L Table # GM STEFKO Psychedemia OVA: The Anime RPG

3 - 6 4H 13+ 4- 6 4H 13+

You play students with psychic apti tudes at a A party of adventures is hired to fi nd a hidden secret military Academy. Your teachers and of- tower in a land of subtle curses. Inside the tower fi cers think you can lead humanity against its is a tome compiled by an ancient wizard said to alien enemies. With your powers, however, you hold the remedies for most evil magic. Can your discover the aliens share a constructed reality heroes recover the book without losing them- where they interact peacefully. Humans haven’t selves in the dark enchantments of the region? accessed it before, so the aliens don’t know how to communicate with us. You make new friends there, but also new enemies who fear human aggression. Can you fi nd a path to peace?

Designed by Paul Stefk o Designed by Clay Gardner This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on, World This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on, Puzzles, Building, Relati onships, Storytelling Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 BOB Table # GM SMITH Leverage Odd Squad

3 - 5 2H 13+ 4- 5 2H 13+

The kids of Thomas Edison Jr High School are up If there’s a fi re, call the fi re department. A rob- against a demoralized faculty and an administra- bery? Call the police. But if you fi nd that your ti on determined to see the kids pushed off into dog has been doubled, or that your spouse has a for profi t charter school. Can they save their shrunk, or that you are somehow caught in a school? (Based on the themes of Leverage - The weird ti me loop, that’s when you call Odd Squad. rich and powerful, they take what they want. It’s a high-tech agency run by kids equipped We steal it back for you. Someti mes bad guys with the world’s most advanced and unpredict- make the best good guys. We provide... “lever- able gadgetry. age”. )

This Game Is: Acti ng, Investi gati on, Storytelling This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Investi gati on, Rules Mastery, Storytelling

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 C O R Y Table # GM O’BRIEN Leverage, with Actual Robin Hood FATE Core

3 - 5 4H 13+ 4- 6 4H 13+

Play as the core members of Robin Hood’s Merry As part of a crew of seasoned pirates, you are Men (Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, Litt le John, Will bound to each other by a strict code of conduct. Scarlet, and Robin Hood himself) as you att empt When a government vessels corners you and to right the injusti ces of King John and the Sher- asks you to return one of their fugiti ve citi zens iﬀ of Notti ngham by going ... outside the law. or else, you must choose between betraying Come on, crew, let’s go steal a monarchy. your crew and pissing oﬀ a very touchy world power.

This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Investi gati on, Re- This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Combat, Investi - lati onships, Storytelling gati on, Storytelling

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 D U S T I N Table # GM DEPENNING Synthicide RPG Synthicide RPG

3 - 5 4H 13+ 4- 5 4H 13+

In this pre-made Synithicide adventure, you Create your own character back-stories, choose and your fellow players take the role of Sharp- a planet, and choose your own mission and see ers: free agent criminals exploring and looti ng if the GM can keep up with you. society’s corpse. By working jobs, you will make friends and enemies amongst gangs, corpora- This is a fully improvised Synthicide adventure! ti ons, and pirates. And the Tharnaxist Church, the only thing resembling law, will stay well out of your way. But that’s only if the Church doesn’t catch you killing their pride and joy: a syntheti c.

This Game Is: Improv, Combat, Investi gati on This Game Is: Improv, Combat, Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 SEAN Table # GM NITTNER Blades in the Dark Night Witches

3 - 6 4H 13+ 4- 5 4H 13+

Blades in the Dark is a game about a group of As a member of the 588th Night Bomber Regi- daring scoundrels building a criminal enterprise ment, you’ll answer the call of your Motherland on the haunted streets of an industrial-fantasy in her darkest hour. Can you do your duty and city. There are heists, chases, escapes, danger- strike blow aft er blow against the Fascists? Can ous bargains, bloody skirmishes, decepti ons, you overcome discriminati on and outright sabo- betrayals, victories, and deaths. We’ll play to tage and rise above your sexist comrades? Are fi nd out if the fl edgling crew can thrive amidst there limits to patrioti sm – or endurance? Play the teeming threats of rival gangs, powerful no- Night Witches and fi nd out! ble families, vengeful ghosts, the bluecoats of the City Watch, and the siren song of the scoun- Designed by Jason Morningstar drels’ own vices. This Game Is: Improv, Relati onships, Storytell- Designed by John Harper ing, Real Emoti ons This Game Is: Acti ng, Relati onships, Storytelling Content Advisory: Historical sexism and war- ti me drama GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 N I C K Table # GM WEDIG Nameless Horror Psi*Run

3 - 5 4H 18+ 4- 6 4H 13+

Now you’ve done it. You and your friends med- You awaken at the crash site to discover that you dled in aff airs beyond the mortal realm. You have no memories, and that you have strange, have gott en yourselves entangled in a deadly impossible powers. Who are you? What are situati on. Supernatural dangers are hunti ng these supernatural abiliti es you wield? Who are you, thirsty for your blood. Only one of you will the people chasing you? Why do they intend survive. Will it be you? Consult the oracle deck you harm? Can you evade capture long enough and fi nd out. In Nameless Horror, players mix to fi nd out? cooperati on and competi ti on to survive the story. The sinister oracle deck holds the secrets of what is to come. It is up to you to interpret its secrets.

Designed by Nick Wedig Designed by Meguey Baker This Game Is: Improv, Storytelling This Game Is: Investi gati on, Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 SCOTT Table # GM ACKER Fate Core Fate Freeport

2 - 5 4H 13+ 4- 5 4H 13+

Gothelrealm University of Esoteric Studies & Ar- Its coming. The mother of all storms. Batt en cane Arts. Set in an elite Magical University. You down the hatches and pray to your gods if you are the children of the powerful hidden rulers of think they’ll listen. Strange thing is, this is the the world (and a few students on scholarship). wrong ti me of year for a storm like this. Could You may be Wizards, Faerie, Vampires, Were- this be a harbinger of something more sinister? wolves, or other more esoteric monsters. Imag- If so, how do you stop it? ine Dresden Files, Sky High, Grimm, Harry Pot- ter, and other modern fantasy playfully mashed together with Ivy League competi ti on. See you in class. Designed by Leonard Balsera, Brian Engard, Jer- Designed by Brian Engard and Clark Valenti ne emy Keller, Ryan Macklin, Mike Olson. Thanks This Game Is: Investi gati on, World Building, Re- This Game Is: Investi gati on, World Building, Re- lati onships, Uncover the GM’s plot lati onships, Uncover the GM’s plot GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 MCGRAVIN Table # GM Fiasco The Quiet Year

3 - 4 2H 18+ 4- 5 2H 13+

Fiasco is inspired by cinemati c tales of small “For a long ti me, we were at war with The Jack- ti me capers gone disastrously wrong. You’ll play als. But now, we’ve driven them oﬀ , and we ordinary people with powerful ambiti on and have this – a year of relati ve peace. One quiet poor impulse control. There will be big dreams year, with which to build our community up and and ﬂ awed executi on. During a game you will learn once again how to work together. Come engineer and play out stupid, disastrous situa- Winter, the Frost Shepherds will arrive and we ti ons, usually at the intersecti on of greed, fear, might not survive beyond that. But we don’t and lust. It’s like making your own Coen broth- know about that yet. What we know is that right ers movie, in about the same amount of ti me now, in this moment, there is an opportunity to it’d take to watch one. build something.”

This Game Is: Improv, Relati onships This Game Is: World Building, Relati onships, Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 MIKE Table # GM G Night’s Black Agents Trail of Cthulhu

4 - 6 4H 13+ 4- 6 4H 13+

You are a deadly secret agent, and you’ve You are a member of a small society, the The Lo- learned that there are monsters pulling the chmann Psychical Trust. Your mission is to ﬁ nd strings of the world. You’ve damaged their con- proof of the supernatural in 1930s London. So spiracy, thwarted their plans, but you’ve never far you’ve found only charlatans. Could medium gott en close to an actual vampire. Now, you’ve Sarah Hill, who claims to have real powers, be got your hands on a vampire’s travel plans. You genuine? know where he’s going, and how he’s getti ng there. You’ve ﬁ nally got the edge you need. Designed by Kenneth Hite Designed by Kenneth Hite This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on This Game Is: Investi gati on, Suspense

Content Advisory: Acti on movie violence, crime, Content Advisory: Film noir violence and crime, and internati onal terrorism, and horror movie supernatural elements, and Cthulhu Mythos elements horror. GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 MEERA Table # GM BARRY hAurors Howl in the Halﬂ ight

3 - 4 2H 10+ 2- 4 2H 10+

Not all Aurors sit in a loft y tower getti ng the Ever wanted to be a werewolf? Of course you fun jobs like dispelling succubi. Instead you’re have! Do you like demons? Great -- let’s share sent places like East-of-East-of-Worcestershire- recipes! “Howl in the Half-Light” brings all the on-the-Sauce, doing splinch repair with vari- fun of being a werewolf combined with only what ous minor Ministry of Magic mages. You’re a angst you want to bring! You make the choices! highly-trained investi gator specializing in rogue Well, you, and the single d6...all you need to fi nd spellcasters... but the owlery is a mess, and last success, failure, and what’s really at stake. It’s week’s howler about wearing green trousers on usually the fault of plenty of juicy litt le demons Sundays has coff ee stains. with their fi ngers in your brain. Isn’t it always?

Designed by M. Barry, based on InSpectres by- Designed by Meera Barry Jared A. Sorensen This Game Is: Investi gati on, Relati onships, Sto- This Game Is: Investi gati on, Relati onships, Sto- rytelling rytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 STENTOR Table # GM DANIELSON Dread: Laser Kitt ens Dinosaur Editi on

3 - 6 4H 13+ 4- 7 4H 13+

Welcome to Knoll St School for Wayward Kit- It’s the end of the Cretaceous Period, and the tens, where litt le kitt ens learn to grow up to be King of the Dinosaurs has summoned repre- awesome cats. Go on kitt y adventures and learn sentati ves of all of the species to the Dinosaur to use the unique power of your laser. Players Court to discuss the many threats to Dinokind. will share the Class Captain (GM) role and use a Can carnivores and herbivores work together to card bidding system to resolve challenges. save their species? The core mechanic of this game is a tower of wooden blocks -- pull a block out to succeed at a challenge, but if you knock the tower over you will go exti nct!

This Game Is: Improv, Relati onships, Storytelling This Game Is: Improv, Relati onships, Storytell- ing, Physical dexterity GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 J O S H Table # GM ROBY Renegade Jennys and Boilerplate Jacks Jediville

3 - 6 4H 18+ 4- 6 4H 13+

It’s 1878 and you are a crew of picaros – scoun- It has been twenty years since the Great Sith drels and outcasts for hire. You travel the world War ended and peace won. Deep under the sur- of strange atlantean technology, sleek airships, face of the ice planet Hoth, the daughter of a and strange sorcery, doing what jobs you can ﬁ nd ruthless warlord possesses dangerous and un- to keep ﬂ ying another day. Someti mes the jobs trained power. Force-sensiti ve, Deela Tarkin has make you questi on what you value, and some- been her father Ivar’s not-so-secret weapon ti mes (oft en) you have to deviate from your em- since she was 8. Ivar’s peti ti on for admission to ployer’s directi ves before the day is done. the Galacti c Republic has focused scruti ny on his colony and daughter. The Jedi Council has Designed by Josh Roby dispatched one of their own to recruit the girl. This Game Is: World Building, Rules Mastery, Storytelling, Real Emoti ons, Acti on Sequences Designed by Josh Roby Content Advisory: Period Imperialism, colonial- This Game Is: Relati onships, Storytelling, Real ism, slavery, racism, sexism, and other injusti ces. Emoti ons GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 C H R I S Table # GM CZERNIAK Tenra Bansho Zero/ Ruined Empire Tenra Bansho Zero

3 - 5 4H 13+ 4- 5 4H 13+

The small country of Horom has been occupied Lord Kitan, a young noble, has inherited his fa- by the imperial Azumi. Now a group of covert ther’s land aft er his death. However, his vassals agents has a chance to side with Azumi’s ene- do not trust him and he must prove himself to mies and push the imperialists out but are they two of his vassals before they start to war with trading one occupier for another. A game of in- each other. TBZ is the roleplaying game of fan- trigue in a setti ng equal parts tech and magic. tasti c feudal Japan with mecha, samurai, ninja, sorcery, mutant and cyborgs.

This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on This Game Is: Combat, Relati onships

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 DON Table # GM BISDORF Sails Full of Stars Epyllion

3 - 4 2H 13+ 3- 4 2H 13+

When pirates raided a Venusian treetop colony, The Council has sent you and a few of your fel- you were among those captured and carried oﬀ low dragons to borrow a valuable scroll from in the pirate vessel’s hold. In this steampunk-in- the reclusive Graysky clan. The matriarch of the space adventure, you must work together with Grayskys has declined writt en requests to send your fellow capti ves to escape your predica- the scroll to the capital, and the Council hopes ment, before the pirates sell you to the asteroid that sending oﬃ cial representati ves will change mines, or simply cast you out into the endless her mind. To recover the scroll, you and your dark between the planets… friends must learn what secrets are hidden in the Graysky castle.

This Game Is: Storytelling This Game Is: Relati onships, Storytelling

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 B I L L Table # GM WHITE Andromeda Tremulus

3 - 5 2H 13+ 4- 5 2H 13+

The PCs are powerful fi gures who command The PCs are smart and inquisiti ve everyday men mighty solar-scale tools and planet-shatt ering and women who have arrived at (or returned to) weapons carried aboard the space ark in which the creepy town of Bonny Eaves and fi nd them- they’ve fl ed the destructi on of the Milky Way. selves entangled in mysterious goings-on. They With lifespans that encompass the rise and fall are driven to uncover the truth, perhaps at the of civilizati ons, they seek to make a new home cost of their own sanity. for humanity in the hosti le, alien-dominated Andromeda galaxy.

This Game Is: World Building, Relati onships, This Game Is: Investi gati on, Storytelling Storytelling Content Advisory: Cosmic horror GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 JOSH “NINJACAT” Table # GM BRINING I Was A Teenage Creature FIASCO

3 - 6 4H 18+ 2- 4 2H 18+

You are a Teenage Creature in Signal Lakes; it’s FIASCO is inspired by cinemati c tales of small diﬃ cult to come of age, survive high school, ti me capers gone disastrously wrong. You’ll play struggle with your humanity, & deal with the ordinary people with powerful ambiti on and paranormal all at the same ti me. I WAS A TEEN- poor impulse control. There will be big dreams AGE CREATURE is a narrati ve-focused urban fan- and ﬂ awed executi on. During a game you will tasy RPG with focus on the characters’ feelings. engineer and play out stupid, disastrous situa- It doesn’t matt er how strong your werewolf is, ti ons. It’s like making your own Coen brothers or how fast his vampire is, or how beauti ful her movie, in about the same amount of ti me it’d fae is, what matt ers is how they feel. take to watch one.

Content Advisory: Teenage sexuality, supernat- This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, World Building, ural elements, violence Relati onships, Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 K E V I N Table # GM Dungeon World Numenera

3 - 6 2H 13+ 4- 6 4H 13+

Dungeon World is a tabletop roleplaying game A world that is fi lled with all manner of remnants that feels like the fantasy game you thought you of the eight great civilizati ons that came before.. were going to play when you fi rst discovered A world that is fi lled with remnants of all man- fantasy RPGs. It has an Old School style fantasy ner of remnants of the eight great civilizati ons adventure feel but with modern mechanics. Fast that came before it. These remnants have be- acti on and skin of the teeth escapes abound. come known as the Numenera. Player charac- You’ll take on the roles of dwarves, elves, and ters explore this world of mystery and danger to humans in a world of magic. You’ll face danger- fi nd these left over arti facts of the past, not to ous enemies, sweeping plots, and treacherous dwell upon the old ways, but to help forge their locati ons. new desti nies, uti lizing the so-called “magic” of the past forge their desti ny. Designed by Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel Designed by Monte Cook This Game Is: Combat, Storytelling This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 Table # GM KEVIN S. Dungeon World Numenera

3 -6 2H 13+ 4- 6 4H 13+

Dungeon World is a tabletop roleplaying game A world that is filled with all manner of remnants that feels like the fantasy game you thought you of the eight great civilizations that came before.. were going to play when you first discovered A world that is filled with remnants of all man- fantasy RPGs. It has an Old School style fantasy ner of remnants of the eight great civilizations adventure feel but with modern mechanics. Fast that came before it. These remnants have be- action and skin of the teeth escapes abound. come known as the Numenera. Player charac- You’ll take on the roles of dwarves, elves, and ters explore this world of mystery and danger to humans in a world of magic. You’ll face danger- find these leftover artifacts of the past, not to ous enemies, sweeping plots, and treacherous dwell upon the old ways, but to help forge their locations. new destinies, utilizing the so-called “magic” of the past forge their destiny. Designed by Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel Designed by Monte Cook This Game Is: Combat, Storytelling This Game Is: Combat, Investigation

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 ANNA Table # GM KREIDER Propylon: the Door to Heaven The Starlit Kingdom

3 - 4 4H 18+ 4- 4 4H 18+

You’re on one of the fi rst teams getti ng out and Many, many centuries ago, the people of Earth exploring the universe. Your mission: to explore co-existed with the people of the Moon in peace worlds connected to the propylon network, ne- and harmony. It was thought that this golden age goti ate alliances, and secure technology to de- would last forever. Such is the complacency that fend Earth from alien invasion. As a member of peace brings. Now the golden age of humanity Propylon Team Delta, you’re just as likely to see is crumbling; Earth is equally likely to fall to civil negoti ati ons as fi ghti ng. Sure it’s a pain, but the war as declare war on the Moon Queendom. All really weird shit gets saved for Team Alpha. Shit you know is that you have been called to fulfi ll a like alien possession is above your pay grade sacred duty and you will uphold that duty even and you like it that way. at the cost of your life. Designed by Anna Kreider Designed by Anna Kreider This Game Is: Relati onships, Storytelling, Real This Game Is: Relati onships, Storytelling Emoti ons GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 RICHARD Table # GM RUANE OmegaZone WITCH

3 - 5 4H 18+ 4- 5 4H 13+

Using the OmegaZone Instant Setti ng Deck, you In WITCH you play a member of the Fated, a create characters, determine the setti ng, and witch or warlock who has sold their soul to a work with the GM and other players to develop demon for power. Your story is one of struggle, a plot. The players may be inspired by anything strife, but also hope. As a member of the Fated from Gamma World or Thundarr the Barbarian you are able to wield magic, living in a darkened to A Canti cle for Liebowitz, The World Without world where you must manage your power lest Us, or Mad Max. it consume you.

Designed by Tim Rodriguez Designed by Elizabeth Chaipraditkul This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, World Building, This Game Is: Improv, Investi gati on, World Relati onships, Storytelling Building, Relati onships, Storytelling

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 REYNALDO Table # GM MADRIÑAN BREAK!! Ryuutama

3 - 4 2H 13+ 4- 5 2H 13+

Your characters are adventurers; a wise Sage, Your characters are people from all walks of life on mighty Champion, courageous Batt le Princess grand adventure! Merchants, Nobles, even Farm- or a multi tude of others. BREAK!! focuses on ers travel together to see new places and even the new eon of a broken world, where several perform a quest or two from various sources. The powerful forces of diﬀ ering ideals have come greatest dangers aren’t monsters (though they to a grinding stalemate. Unravel the secrets of are no slouch) but the environment itself! Good a lost age, investi gate ruined empires, unite the thing the GM can help you in the form of a myste- downtrodden, batt le boss monsters and claim rious being known as a Ryuujin. treasures both glitt ering and arcane.

Designed by Reynaldo Madriñan and Grey Wiz Designed by Atsuhiro Okada, Andy Kitkowski and Matt hew Sanchez This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on, Explora- This Game Is: Investi gati on, Survival ti o n GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 W I L L O W Table # GM PALACEK Apocalypse West Exploding Kingdoms

3 - 6 4H 18+ 4- 6 4H 13+

The year is 1875, and the apocalypse is here. In Exploding Kingdoms you play Titanblades and Gunslingers, magical Gamblers, insane Junkers, Explodomancers ﬁ ghti ng sorcerers riding drag- holy Saints, and simple Homesteaders are try- ons and also there are Vanadiums, people who ing to eke out whatever living they can. There are made out of swords - why are you sti ll read- are threats on all sides, but the greatest danger ing this? might be the player sitti ng next to you. Pow- ered by the Apocalypse.

Designed by Willow Palecek Designed by Willow Palecek, Abram Busierre, and Sabe Jones This Game Is: Combat, Relati onships, Storytell- This Game Is: Combat, Rules Mastery, Tacti cs ing Content Advisory: Mature themes, including sex and violence GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 F I R E Table # GM ROSE Demon Hunters Call of Catt hullu

3 - 6 4H 13+ 4- 7 4H 13+

You are part of a team in the Brotherhood of In this game, you play as the Cats who are inves- Demon Hunters, not necessarily by your own ti gati ng the odd happenings in their home ter- choice though. Mortal Terror has come to your ritory. Characters could include Clawdius, the town and you must Save The Day! You might ruling tomcat. His size and volume are impres- face the Crazy Cat Lady - who is slaughtering sive, too bad he is clumsy and ﬁ nds every bit of Priests and is terriﬁ ed of Nurses, or you are get- catnip around. Or Nerissa, a prize-winning Sia- ti ng your informati on from the Hot Sheets (aka mese. She may sleep all day, but she is hearing supermarket tabloids) to defeat Zombie Elvis! the Will of the Tiger, so she can instruct the rest Can you survive the danger? Will you destroy of her family. You will need to think like a cat, so the Evil? start checking for Cat-ti tude!

Designed by Dead Gentlemen Producti ons Designed by Catt hullu.com This Game Is: Investi gati on, Uncover the GM’s This Game Is: Improv, Investi gati on, Storytell- plot, Storytelling ing, Cat-ti tude GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 A A R O N Table # GM BERGER Torchbearer Dungeon World

4 - 5 4H 13+ 4- 5 4H 13+

You play down-and-out adventurers struggling Combining high-acti on dungeon crawling with to make a living in a world that has no place for cutti ng-edge rules, Dungeon World is a roleplay- them. Your only opti on is to delve into danger- ing game of fantasy adventure. You and your ous dungeons and ﬁ ght deadly monsters. You’re friends will explore a land of magic and danger not a hero, but maybe one day you can become in the roles of adventurers searching for fame, one. gold, and glory.

This Game Is: Rules Mastery This Game Is: Improv, Combat

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 R A Y Table # GM OTUS Sorcerers & Sellswords Goblintown

3 - 6 2H 13+ 4- 6 2H 13+

Sorcerers & Sellswords is a hack of John Harper’s In Goblintown you play out a couple of hours, Lasers & Feelings. Characters are part of a com- day, or even a week in the miserable lives of pany of adventurers, each with a unique calling fantasy’s most hated race. Players work togeth- and style as well as varying (inverse) abiliti es at er to use cunning and self-destructi ve impulses Swords or Sorcery. No experience needed. to save the town. The GM takes advantage of failures to wreck the town and the goblins’ re- sources. The tone is fairly serious. Mortality is high (you may play more than one goblin in a session).

This Game Is: World Building, Storytelling This Game Is: World Building, Storytelling

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 S T E V E Table # GM SEGEDY The Warren Night Witches

4 - 6 4H 13+ 4- 5 4H 13+

The Warren is a game about intelligent rabbits Night Witches is a game about women at war. trying to make the best of a world fi lled with As a member of the 588th Night Bomber Regi- hazards, predators and, worst of all, other rab- ment, you’ll answer the call of your Motherland bits. Rabbits cannot hope to meet these threats in her darkest hour. Can you do your duty and head on. Only through speed, wits, and keeping strike blow aft er blow against the Fascists? Can a cool head can rabbits bypass the dangers of you overcome discriminati on and outright sabo- the outside world. Inspired by such tales as Wa- tage and rise above your sexist comrades? Are tership Down and using a heavily-modifi ed ver- there limits to patrioti sm or endurance? This sion of the Apocalypse World engine, The War- game uses a heavily-modifi ed version of the ren is a game about survival and community. Apocalypse World engine. Designed by Marshall Miller Designed by Jason Morningstar

Content Advisory: Animal birth and death are Content Advisory: Historical sexism and war- likely ti me drama GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 JUSTIN Table # GM HAMILTON Dungeon World Fiasco

3 - 6 4H 13+ 4- 6 4H 18+

Combining high-acti on dungeon crawling with Fiasco is inspired by cinemati c tales of small cutti ng-edge rules, this is a roleplaying game of ti me capers gone disastrously wrong. You’ll play fantasy adventure. You and your friends will ex- ordinary people with powerful ambiti on and plore a land of magic and danger in the roles of poor impulse control. There will be big dreams adventurers searching for fame, gold, and glory. and ﬂ awed executi on. During a game you will The rules are easy to learn and always drive the engineer and play out stupid, disastrous situa- acti on forward in unexpected ways. Life as an ti ons, usually at the intersecti on of greed, fear, adventurer is hard and dangerous but it’s never and lust. It’s like making your own Coen broth- boring! ers movie, in about the same amount of ti me it’d take to watch one.

This Game Is: Improv, Combat, World Building, This Game Is: Improv, Relati onships, Storytelling Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 MIKAEL Table # GM ANDERSSON Dudebros & Douchebags The Warren

3 - 5 2H 18+ 3- 4 2H 18+

Toxic masculinity, the RPG”. Play fi st-bumping, The Warren is a game about intelligent rabbits collar-popping bros out to score, show off , trying to make the best of a world fi lled with fi ght, and play status games, while pretending hazards, predators and, worst of all, other rab- their world isn’t crumbling around them. The bits. It is a game about survival and community rules emulate the intricate social norms of bro - the seasons and the elements do not care that cliques. Struggle with identi ty, friendship, and rabbits are only litt le things, and rabbits cannot life goals - by destroying them! Hilarious fun, hope to meet these threats alone and head on. but also horrifi c and sad.

Designed by Mikael Andersson Designed by Marshall Miller This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Relati onships, This Game Is: Acti ng, World Building, Relati on- Real Emoti ons ships, Storytelling, Real Emoti ons Content Advisory: Violence, substance abuse, Content Advisory: Animal birth and death are and sexism likely GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 Table # MIKAEL GM ANDERSSON Dudebros & Douchebags The Warren

3 -5 2H 18+ 3- 4 2H 18+

Toxic masculinity, the RPG. Play fist-bumping, The Warren is a game about intelligent rabbits collar-popping bros out to score, show off, trying to make the best of a world filled with fight, and play status games, while pretending hazards, predators and, worst of all, other rab- their world isn’t crumbling around them. The bits. It is a game about survival and community rules emulate the intricate social norms of bro - the seasons and the elements do not care that cliques. Struggle with identity, friendship, and rabbits are only little things, and rabbits cannot life goals - by destroying them! Hilarious fun, hope to meet these threats alone and head on. but also horrific and sad.

Designed by Mikael Andersson Designed by Marshall Miller This Game Is: Acting, Improv, Relationships, This Game Is: Acting, World Building, Relation- Real Emotions ships, Storytelling, Real Emotions Content Advisory: Violence, substance abuse, Content Advisory: Animal birth and death are and sexism likely GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 GARRET Table # GM NARJES Mythender Dark

3 - 4 4H 18+ 3- 4 4H 13+

Mythender is a roleplaying adventure game Dark is an acti on and stealth oriented roleplay- about stabbing gods in the face and sundering ing game. You’ll skulk through shadows, talk every mythic being unti l there’s none left . It’s a your way past guards, grab as much loot as pos- game about power and temptati on, as you are sible and disappear into the night. constantly in danger of becoming the very gods you’re Ending – and when that happens, your friends will End you.

Designed by Ryan Macklin Designed by Will Hindmarch This Game Is: Improv, Combat This Game Is: Investi gati on, Rules Mastery, Puz- zles Content Advisory: Graphic violence GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 A J I T Table # GM GEORGE Bluebeard’s Bride Urban Shadows

3 - 4 4H 18+ 3- 4 4H 18+

You are a new bride and your husband has left Characters will be based in Bangalore, India, you alone in your new home while he att ends to and will be either Indian, or foreigners living in urgent business. He has given you keys to all of the city. The game will explore the complexiti es the mansion’s many rooms, but warns you nev- of the city, and the culture. er to venture into his private chamber. Can you resist the seducti ve and dreadful mystery that lies behind the keyhole?

Designed by Whitney Beltrán, Marissa Kelly, Sar- Designed by Andrew Medeiros and Mark Diaz ah Richardson Truman This Game Is: Relati onships, Storytelling, Real This Game Is: Investi gati on, Relati onships, Sto- Emoti ons rytelling Content Advisory: Mature themes, including Content Advisory: Explores the complexiti es of sexism, horror, and domesti c violence culture and life in Bangalore, India GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 RENEE Table # GM KNIPE Dungeon The Warren Crawl Classics

3 - 5 4H 18+ 4- 6 4H 18+

In the shadow of the pyramids dwell jackals, This is old school role-playing the way you re- cobras, crocodiles, and cat-loving humans. Be- member it (though maybe not the way it actual- tween the baking heat of the desert and pred- ly was): byzanti ne dungeons, weird monsters, ator-rich banks of the Sobat River, there are no gory criti cal hits, and a laughably high body easy choices for Egypt’s gabali bunnies. count. Start with a handful of zero level characters and see who survives!

This Game Is: Relati onships, Storytelling, Real This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on Emoti ons Content Advisory: Animal birth and death are Content Advisory: Cartoonish violence and gore likely GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 M O R G A N Table # GM ELLIS Fate Core Iron Edda

3 - 5 4H 18+ 3- 4 4H 18+

This will be a sample of Fate based games the You play the warriors of Midgard defending your players will decide what setti ng they want to homes and holdfasts from Dwarven Destroyers; play. Whether it’s published setti ngs like Atomic giant constructs forged of metal and magic. To Robo, The Dresden Files, The Day Aft er Ragn- ﬁ ght back against foes of such colossal scale, you arok, or Bulldogs! Or a Media Property setti ng have bonded your soul to the soul and bones of like Star Wars, Star Trek, Tron, or TMNT. long dead Frost Giants.

Designed by Evil Hat Producti ons Designed by Tracy Barnett This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Combat, Investi ga- This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Combat, Investi - ti on, World Building, Relati onships, Storytelling gati on, World Building, Relati onships

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 JJ Table # GM LANZA Neferti ti Overdrive White Books

3 - 6 4H 13+ 2- 4 4H 13+

You are the greatest heroes of the 25th Dynas- White Books is about a group of heroes and ty in Ancient Egypt, protecti ng the royal family their quest in a dangerous place. The dungeon from the predati ons of the Assyrian Empire. As can be anything the players want: the palace the Assyrian war machine draws closer to the of a vampire, a forest full of hobgoblins, a for- Egypti an capital of Waset, the Pharaoh’s ablest gott en spaceship. Depending on the book you councillor – his cousin, the Princess – becomes choose, you get a diﬀ erent share of GMing ti me: a target. As the assassins close in, they face the combat, magic, betrayal... The books guide you furious ﬁ sts, the devious cunning, and the amaz- in creati ng an epic adventure that may very well ing stunts of your legendary warriors. end in everyone’s doom.

Designed by Fraser Ronald Designed by Eric Nieudan This Game Is: Improv, Combat, Storytelling This Game Is: World Building, Storytelling, Ad- venture!

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 HAMISH Table # GM CAMERON The Sprawl Dungeon World

3 - 4 2H 18+ 3- 4 2H 18+

You a badass cyberpunk espionage profession- You are ﬁ ghters, wizards, clerics and thieves in a als; the extended assets of vast multi nati onal fantasy world who explore fantasti c landscapes, corporati ons, operati ng in the criminal under- seek wondrous treasures, and ﬁ ght terrifying ground, and performing the tasks that those monsters! There will be a lot of player input into multi nati onals can’t do – or can’t be seen to do. the story and the world. You are deniable, professional and – ulti mately – disposable.

This Game Is: Acti on This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on, World Building, Storytelling, Acti on Content Advisory: May contain graphic violence Content Advisory: May contain graphic violence and creepy, gross things GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 J E F F Table # GM CROFF FATE Core

3 - 5 4H 13+

The WisMich sniper has been identi ﬁ ed and now the Confederacy is sending in a shadow op to bring her out to stand trial. The catch is no one is gonna like to hear the Confederacy is sti cking there nose anywhere near the devastated out- skirts of Chicago.

This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on, Storytell- ing

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 DAN Table # GM Misspent Youth Durance

3 - 5 4H 18+ 4- 6 4H 13+

You play teenage kids who are the only hope to On a remote planet far from civilizati on, the overcome The Authority, a villain co-created by worst criminal scum from a dozen star systems the group to tap into the players’ outrage at the have been dumped, charged with building new individual and systemic bullying they’ve experi- lives under the watchful eye of Authority. Within enced in their lives. You play a group of friends a brutal hierarchy of savagery and servility, con- who matt er more to one another than anyone victs and guards alike must make hard choices. else. You play revoluti onaries who are trying to Only the shrewdest, the toughest and the lucki- make the world a bett er place at their own ex- est will get a chance to ﬁ nd out. Will you be pense. among them?

Designed by Robert Bohl Designed by Jason Morningstar This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Relati onships, Sto- This Game Is: Improv, World Building, Storytell- rytelling, Real Emoti ons ing

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 Table # GM DAN H. Misspent Youth Durance

3 -5 4H 18+ 4- 6 4H 13+

You play teenage kids who are the only hope to On a remote planet far from civilization, the overcome The Authority, a villain co-created by worst criminal scum from a dozen star systems the group to tap into the players’ outrage at the have been dumped, charged with building new individual and systemic bullying they’ve experi- lives under the watchful eye of Authority. Within enced in their lives. You play a group of friends a brutal hierarchy of savagery and servility, con- who matter more to one another than anyone victs and guards alike must make hard choices. else. You play revolutionaries who are trying to Only the shrewdest, the toughest and the lucki- make the world a better place at their own ex- est will get a chance to find out. Will you be pense. among them?

Designed by Robert Bohl Designed by Jason Morningstar This Game Is: Acting, Improv, Relationships, Sto- This Game Is: Improv, World Building, Storytell- rytelling, Real Emotions ing

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 M A R K Table # GM REDACTED Masks of the Mummy Kings Samsara

3 - 4 2H 13+ 3- 4 2H 18+

You are wanted and mistrustf ul rogues, known It’s monsoon season in Mumbai’s largest slum only to one another by your masks; years of and nothing will stay buried, not even the dead. backalley bargains, cunning plans, and foul rites Load your shotgun with grave dirt, sharpen your have led you to the very brink of the Ziggurat spirit dagger, and get ready to put some psycho- Tomb, where rewards (both metaphysical and kineti c serial killers back in the ground! material) and fearsome dangers (both sinister and sorcerous) await!

Designed by Nathan Paolett a Designed by Dan Bayn This Game Is: Improv This Game Is: Improv, Combat, Investi gati on, Uncover the GM’s plot

Content Advisory: Graphic violence and foren- sic horror GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 STEPHANIE Table # GM BRYANT Magical Fury Mermaid Adventures

2 - 4 2H 10+ 2- 4 2H 10+

You are a “magical girl” (as in anime), with Kaboom! The light from the World Above shift s strange abiliti es, who shift s into your magical to red and orange, and that can only mean form to ﬁ ght the forces of evil... and someti mes, one thing-- ﬁ re! There’s a ship above you, and other magical girls like yourself. it’s sinking fast. You and your mermaid friends aren’t even supposed to be here, but can you Note: all PCs are female in this game. really let innocent land-people drown?

Note: all PCs are female in this game. Designed by Ewen Cluney Designed by Eloy Lasanta This Game Is: Combat, Relati onships, Storytell- This Game Is: Investi gati on, Relati onships, Sto- ing rytelling Content Advisory: Violence, demons, culti sts, death. Same sex att racti on, gender-bending/ non-conformity. GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 P A U L Table # GM SHOWALTER Dread Dungeon World

3 - 5 4H 18+ 4- 5 4H 13+

In 2000 Thomas Clay was convict and sentenced Congratulati ons! Your group of adventures to death for the murder of Sofi a Neumann. A managed to sneak into the heart of Weeping week ago the Supreme Court declined to hear Keep without being noti ced, now you just have his fi nal appeal. You are all witnesses. Through- to fi nd the treasure and escape alive! out the trial and the appellate process Clay has maintained his innocence....

Designed by Nat Barmore and Epidiah Ravachol Designed by Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel This Game Is: Suspense This Game Is: Combat, Mayhem Content Advisory: Mature themes, including the death penalty, violent criminal oﬀ end- ers, prison life, wrongful convicti on, and horror movie elements

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 W I L L Table # GM HINDMARCH Project: Dark Razed

3 - 4 4H 18+ 4- 5 4H 13+

Try the last phase of Project: Dark development. Play survivors in a custom-made post-apoca- Select the treasures you want to steal from sor- lypse we craft together. Survive for freedom, for did lords in a fantasti cal city, investi gate their salvati on, for revenge. It all happens in burnt powers and defenses, then sneak in and take lands and blasted citi es, stalked by alien mon- those treasures! sters and callous machines. Civil or wild, steely or mad, we must explore the future we wrought to survive the mistakes we made.

Designed by Will Hindmarch Designed by Will Hindmarch This Game Is: Improv, Combat, World Building, Relati onships, Storytelling This Game Is: Improv, Investi gati on, World Building, Storytelling Content Advisory: Mature themes, including stress, emoti onal trauma, and death GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 T R E ’ Table # GM GRISBY The Extraordinary Adventures of The Matrix RPG Baron Munchausen

3 - 6 2H 18+ 4- 6 2H 13+

You have been cooped up in Zion for too long. You play a noble. Your goal is to win money wag- Time to have your Residual Self Image loaded ing that your stories are the best told tonight. into the Matrix. In the couple days you have Your challenge is your imaginati on. The Baron been away from the war you have lost com- keeps everyone gripping their seats in anti cipa- rades to the Machine hordes. They don’t sleep, ti on. You must best him at his storytelling game. they don’t dream, but they do die. Captain Sun Bear sends a message to you and the rest of his crew to suit up...We’ve got a message waiti ng for us in the Matrix!

The Matrix RPG designed by Tre’ Grisby Designed by James Wallis This Game Is: Combat, Storytelling This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Storytelling

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 GIOVANNI Table # GM LANZA Dungeon World: Eb- Caress of Steel erron

3 - 6 4H 13+ 4- 6 4H 13+

Play as adventurers caught between the forc- Play as adventurers batt ling against the Order es of Order and Chaos in a world where music of the Emerald Claw, the Lord of Blades, or the makes up the fabric of reality. Do batt le against Dreaming Dark as you travel across the world in the wicked Necromancer, the fallen Prince By- search of glory and gold. Tor, or the sinister Anarchist as such heroes like the Spirit of Radio, the Ghost Rider, or the Body Electric.

Designed by Giovanni & JJ Lanza Designed by Giovanni Lanza This Game Is: Combat, World Building, Story- This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on, World telling Building, Storytelling

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 W J Table # GM MACGUFFIN Demon Hunters Misspent Youth

3 - 6 4H 13+ 4- 6 4H 18+

Join the Brotherhood of the Celesti al Torch to You play teenage kids who are the only hope to seek out and thwart the minions of evil, and overcome The Authority, a villain co-created by survive long enough to keep the mundanes the group to tap into the players’ outrage at the from hearing about it. You are what stands in individual and systemic bullying they’ve experi- the way of innocent people and what wants to enced in their lives. You play a group of friends eat them while you watch, you know, because who matt er more to one another than anyone it’s Tuesday. But you will be tempted to enjoy else. You play revoluti onaries who are trying to short-term success at a price. (And no, it’s not make the world a bett er place at their own ex- $1.99.) pense. Every episode has a beginning, middle, and end, and rules that drive you through a co- herent story. Designed by Dead Gentlemen Producti ons Designed by Robert Bohl This Game Is: Improv, Combat, Investi gati on, This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, World Building, Puzzles, Storytelling Relati onships, Storytelling, Real Emoti ons GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 J O H N Table # GM STAVROPOULOS ATLAS RECKONING Bluebeard’s Bride

3 - 4 4H 13+ 4- 5 4H 18+

Blazing Sword! Missile Swarm! Rocket Fists! You are part of a young bride’s mind, fresh from Fuse your mind with a copilot and stand steady the grey drudgery of her cloistered life at home between the relentless, giant, monstrous Be- with her mother. Now you have been installed in hemoths and the handful of humanity you pro- Bluebeard’s castle, although your new husband tect from certain destructi on. Atlas Reckoning has left you alone while he att ends to urgent busi- is a Paciﬁ c Rim and anime inspired game that ness. You have the keys to every room. He has focuses on the lives and stresses of giant-mech warned you not to venture into his private cham- pilots as they struggle to save the world from ber. Can you resist the pull of your curiosity? the monstrous onslaught of the Behemoths. Designed by Whitney Beltrán, Marissa Kelly, Sar- ah Richardson Designed by Stras Acimovic & Giacomo Vicenzi This Game Is: Investi gati on, Relati onships, Sto- rytelling, Real Emoti ons This Game Is: Math, Combat, World Building, Content Advisory: Mature themes, including Relati onships sexism, horror, and domesti c violence GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 KRISTIN Table # GM FIRTH Zombie Cinema Everyone’s A Suspect

3 - 6 2H 13+ 2- 5 2H 18+

Nobody knew when it started, or why. Only one It’s a small town and somebody has been mur- thing is certain: now the dead walk. This story dered. Everyone is a suspect. Including everyone game is about the zombie apocalypse and the at this table. Especially everyone at this table. desperate choices of the survivors. Not only do these characters scramble over each other try- This game involves dice choices that help you ing to ﬁ nd safety, but they may also cooperate gain cards, which let you add elements to the and even sacriﬁ ce themselves so at least a few murder story. One playtester said it was like a might survive the story. “more focused Fiasco game.”

This Game Is: Storytelling This Game Is: World Building, Storytelling

Content Advisory: Violence Content Advisory: Violence. Murder. GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 DAN Table # GM NOLAND Hillfolk DramaSystem

4 - 7 4H 13+ 4- 7 4H 13+

You play the most infl uenti al members of a tribe You play the crew struggling to get the new sta- of Iron Age raiders. Can you fi nd a way to work ti on up and running. Can you fi nd a way to work with the needs and feelings of others? Your in- with the needs and feelings of others? Your in- terpersonal struggles will aff ect the fate of the terpersonal struggles will aff ect the fate of the tribe. DramaSystem is a game focused on the stati on. DramaSystem is a game focused on the dramati c scenes between the characters rather dramati c scenes between the characters rather than the procedural scenes between the party than the procedural scenes between the party and an external threat. and an external threat.

Designed by Robin D. Laws Designed by Robin D. Laws This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Relati onships, Sto- This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Relati onships, Sto- rytelling rytelling Content Advisory: Historical Iron Age themes, including violence and slavery GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 J E R O M Y Table # GM HASTINGS Monsterhearts Apocalypse World

3 - 4 4H 18+ 3- 4 4H 18+

A game about the messy lives of teenage mon- Somehow, the world as we knew it ended. Now sters, with all the horror and messy relati onships you scrape out a living in the wastelands. How you can pack into it. Based on the Apocalypse do you survive what’s left ? Who can you count World engine, this is a game with emergent on? What do you have that others will try to take story, a structured MC role, and a focus on hard from you? Players embody archetypal charac- choices. Monsterhearts draws on source ma- ters of Apocalypti c stories (e.g. Mad Max, Fall- terial like Buﬀ y the Vampire Slayer, Teen Wolf, out, etc) and att empt to protect what’s theirs, Ginger Snaps, Jennifer’s Body, and The Vampire take what they must, and survive the horrors of Diaries. what remains of the world.

Designed by Avery Mcdaldno Designed by D. Vincent Baker This Game Is: Relati onships, Storytelling This Game Is: Combat, Relati onships Content Advisory: Mature themes, including Content Advisory: Mature themes, including sex,violence, language, and horror sex, language, and violence GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 SENDA Table # GM One Last Job All Outt a Bubblegum

3 - 5 4H 13+ 4- 6 2H 13+

It’s been fi ft een years since this crew of magical Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy but even more girls and their varied companions were acti ve improbable. The Vogon constructor fl eet is in fi ghters for love and justi ce. Aft er the last, di- the skies—how will you save yourself (and may- sastrous event, they went their separate ways, be the earth)? eschewing the masks of humanity’s saviors for more mundane past ti mes. When the darkness Playing as the heroic yet improbable version of returns to claim Earth, defeati ng and absorbing yourself, join together with this random band all the new magical teens one by one, can they of con goers to fi nd a way off planet before the put their past behind them to save the world Earth is destroyed. one last ti me?

Designed by Grant Howitt Designed by Michael Sullivan and Jeﬀ ery Grant This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, World Building, This Game Is: Improv, improbable Relati onships, Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 R A Y Table # GM OTUS The Warren Dungeon World

3 - 5 2H 13+ 4- 7 2H 13+

The Warren is a game about intelligent rabbits Beloved fantasy tropes with fresh twists. Char- trying to make the best of a world ﬁ lled with acters and scenario ideas generated at the ta- hazards, predators and, worst of all, other rab- ble! Character-driven play! Storylines derived bits. Rabbits cannot hope to meet these threats from player input, roleplaying, and the results head on. Only through speed, wits, and keeping of the dice ... not from pre-concieved ideas of a cool head can rabbits bypass the dangers of the GM’s! Learn how to play this modern take the outside world. Inspired by such tales as Wa- on the classic fantasy RPG. tership Down and using a heavily-modiﬁ ed version of the Apocalypse World engine, The War- ren is a game about survival and community. Designed by Marshall Miller Designed by Sage LaTorra & Adam Koebel

Content Advisory: Animal birth and death are This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on, World likely Building, Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 JEREMY Table # GM TIDWELL Companions Fiasco

3 - 5 4H 13+ 4- 5 2H 18+

Something is wrong with the Universe, and you Fiasco is inspired by cinemati c tales of small know exactly what it is. We used to live in a bal- ti me capers gone disastrously wrong. You’ll play anced Universe, protected by its mighty guard- ordinary people with powerful ambiti on and ians, the Time Lords. A great war destroyed all poor impulse control. There will be big dreams but one of them. He was the Earth’s defender. and ﬂ awed executi on. During a game you will He was a god humbled by death. He was your engineer and play out stupid, disastrous situa- friend. He was the Doctor. And then he died. ti ons, usually at the intersecti on of greed, fear, Now the Doctor’s enemies gather and plot, and lust. It’s like making your own Coen broth- scheming to claim the Universe for themselves. ers movie, in about the same amount of ti me It’s a good thing he trained you so well, isn’t it? it’d take to watch one.

Designed by Jeremy TIdwell Designed by Jason Morningstar This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Relati onships, Sto- This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, World Building, rytelling Relati onships, Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 R O N Table # GM FRAZIER Jadepunk Souls of Scale

3 - 5 2H 13+ 3- 4 2H 13+

Ruled by the Council of Nine, Kausao City sits Souls of Scale is a Souls of Steel game about larg- on the world’s largest deposit of mysti c jade. Its er-than-life ace wyvern riders ﬁ ghti ng together people slave away in the mines outside of the against a formidable enemy. But it’s also about city, barely scraping together the most meager how the relati onships between those pilots de- of lives. You are the Jianghu‚ a loose society of velop as they live, love, and batt le. If you want likeminded, yet quarrelsome, individuals and to play a game where Dungeons and Dragons organizati ons. Though you are few, the Council meet Top Gun, where you play wyvern riders in fears you, for you have the hearts of the people. the midst of a war with the goblin empire, this Unite them, and they will ﬁ ght with you. game is for you.

This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on This Game Is: Combat, Relati onships, Storytell- ing GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 D R E W Table # GM Fate Accelerated Danger Patrol

3 - 6 4H 10+ 4- 6 2H 10+

Ever wanted to know what evil lurks in the bzzz...kSSSSSHH -ger Patrol! Repeat, calling all hearts of men? Or swing through the trees as available Danger Patrol! Rocket City is under at- lord of the jungle? Maybe hunt piracy as the tack! The nefarious...(kssshh-BEEE)...and caus- ghost who walks? Perhaps hunt the biggest of ing untold mayhem! ZAP! POW! WA-WA-WA- all game: public enemies even the G-men can- WA-WA! We need you Danger Patrol!Danger not reach?Join me for a Fate Accelerated Editi on Patrol mimics a Saturday morning cartoon so game where each player will have their choice don’t expect a lot of deep and dark introspec- from 12 diﬀ erent classic pulp heroes. The games ti on. Grab your bubble helmet and strap on your maturity level will depend on the kind of game rocket pack. This crisis isn’t going to solve itself! the players would like to run. Danger Patrol, AWAY! Designed by Clark Valenti ne, Leonard Balsera, Designed by John Harper Fred Hicks, Mike Olson, Amanda Valenti ne This Game Is: Cooperati ve, Silly, Serious This Game Is: Cooperati ve, Silly GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 D A V I D Table # GM LEAMAN A Penny for my Mythender Thoughts

3 - 5 4H 13+ 3- 4 4H 13+

Mythender is a roleplaying adventure game In A Penny for my Thoughts you play a psychi- about stabbing gods in the face and sundering atric pati ent with retrograde amnesia. With the every mythic being unti l there’s none left . It’s a help of the game mechanics and the other play- game about power and temptati on, as you are ers you will gradually piece together your lost constantly in danger of becoming the very gods memories and discover how you lost them. you’re Endingñand when that happens, your friends will End you.

Mythender designed by Ryan Macklin Designed by Sean Nitt ner This Game Is: Combat, Storytelling This Game Is: Cooperati ve, Serious, Scary, GM- less Content Advisory: Mature themes, including emoti onal trauma GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 C A R L Table # GM KLUTZKE Hero of Legend Once Upon A Time

3 - 4 2H 13+ 4- 6 2H 10+

You are rival historians telling stories of the hero Once Upon A Time is a game in which the players of your people, and explaining why your es- create a story together, using cards that show teemed colleagues are wrong. typical elements from fairy tales. One player is the Storyteller and creates a story using the ingredients on her cards. She tries to guide the plot towards her own ending. The other players try to use cards to interrupt her and become the Designed by Carl Klutzke new Storyteller. The winner is the ﬁ rst player to play out all her cards and end with her Happy This Game Is: Playtest, Competi ti ve, Gmless, Ever Aft er card. Storytelling, Moral Relati vism Designed by Atlas Games Content Advisory: Players will be required to defend moral positi ons they may not personally This Game Is: Gmless, Improv, Storytelling agree with. GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 P A U L Table # GM STEFKO Feng Shui 2 Wardens of Ouon

4 - 8 2H 13+ 4- 6 2H 13+

Heroes from across ti me and space come to- The unicorn Wardens of the Forest of Ouon gether to kick evil in the face. When mayhem maintain the peace between the spirits of the threatens the wedding of an heroic cop, your forest and the humans who live on its borders. acti on badasses are there to save the day. As beings of both spirit and ﬂ esh, the Wardens are att uned to the concerns of both. Play begins with creati ng the map of the forest, and the locati ons and paths between them drive the story. Makes use of the Deck of Fate.

Designed by Robin Laws Designed by Paul Stefk o This Game Is: Improv, Combat This Game Is: Improv, Investi gati on, World Building, Relati onships, Storytelling

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 SEAN Table # GM NITTNER Save Game The Warren

4 - 5 2H 13+ 3- 4 2H 13+

THE GLITCH HAS COME TO TENDORIA! A vicious The Warren is a game about intelligent rabbits computer virus threatens to corrupt the enti re trying to make the best of a world fi lled with internet, and the only ones standing in its way hazards, predators and, worst of all, other rab- are the characters from your video games. 8-bit bits. While the rabbits in your games will solve heroes batt le monsters and corrupted fi les‚it’s some of their problems and discover things they Wreck-It Ralph meets Lord of the Rings in a fi ght never thought to try before, they are sti ll bound for the fate of the world! PIXELS ARE FALLING. by their basic physiology and nature. The War- IT’S UP TO YOU TO SAVE GAME! ren is primarily a game about survival and community.

Designed by Rob Wieland Designed by Marshall Miller This Game Is: Acti ng, Combat, Investi gati on, This Game Is: World Building, Relati onships, Puzzles Storytelling, Real Emoti ons Content Advisory: Animal death & birth are likely GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 N I C K Table # GM WEDIG Mesopotamians Psi*Run

4 - 5 2H 13+ 4- 6 2H 13+

The evil sorceress Azita has resurrected sever- You awaken at the crash site to discover that you al ancient Mesopotamian warlords to serve as have no memories, and that you have strange, generals of her undead army, leading her con- impossible powers. Who are you? What are quest of the modern world. Instead, you started these supernatural abiliti es you wield? Who are a rock band. You do not understand this strange the people chasing you? Why do they intend new world, with its technological wonders and you harm? Can you evade capture long enough modern customs. But you have a set of used to ﬁ nd out? musical instruments, an Econoline van and a desire to rock your way to music stardom.

Designed by Nick Wedig Designed by Meguey Baker This Game Is: Improv, Storytelling This Game Is: Investi gati on, Storytelling

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 SCOTT Table # GM ACKER Blades in the Dark Don’t Rest Your Head

4 - 5 4H 13+ 4- 5 4H 18+

You have been recruited into an elite special ops A monster has taken up residence in your room, unit. Set within a modifi ed Duskwall that exists one that won’t leave no matt er what you do. Of in a post apocalypti c Zelazny’s Amber universe. course, no one believes you. Everyone says he’s You work for Caine the betrayer and kinslayer. not real, that it’s just your imaginati on. The way Good luck. he looks at you with a deep, deep hunger -- that’s more than just your imaginati on. You know that when you go to sleep, he will completely devour you. So, you don’t sleep, not anymore. One day, he says something diff erent, something... new. He beckons you to open your closet and come inside. Designed by John Harper Designed by Fred Hicks This Game Is: Improv, Combat, Investi gati on, This Game Is: Investi gati on, World Building, World Building, Relati onships, Puzzles, Storytelling Relati onships, Puzzles, Storytelling Content Advisory: Scary moments involving children GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 MCGRAVIN Table # GM C a m p fi r e Goblin Quest

3 - 4 2H 13+ 4- 6 2H 13+

In Campfi re, you play a group of kids on a camping Goblin Quest is a tabletop roleplaying game trip, as well as the characters in the scary stories about slapsti ck violence, fatal inepti tude, and they tell around the campfi re, stories like those in the greatest adventure of your life. Take on the horror anthologies such as Are You Afraid of the role of a band of short-lived goblins and come Dark?. In the traditi on of slasher fl icks, they will up with a zany scheme to make history for gob- also try to sati sfy their teenage desires for sex, lin kind! Set in a fantasy world full of monsters, drugs, and the approval of their peers. But be- it uses a really simple system focused around yond the light of the campfi re, in the dark woods, improvisati on and rati onalizati on to build mad- lurks the enigmati c Slasher. In the end, only one cap, slapsti ck scenes that quickly spiral of you will get out alive... maybe! out of hand. Designed by Travis Scott Designed by Grant Howitt This Game Is: Improv, World Building, Storytelling This Game Is: Silly, Cooperati ve, Everyone GMs Content Advisory: Sex, drugs, death, teenage Content Advisory: Slapsti ck violence, toilet hu- misbehavior, gore, and scary content mor GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 STENTOR Table # GM DANIELSON Laser Kitt ens: Quest to The Basement Fiasco

4 - 6 2H 13+ 4- 5 2H 13+

Welcome to Knoll St School for Wayward Kitt ens, In Fiasco, you’ll play a set of characters with ev- where litt le kitt ens learn to grow up to be awe- ery reason to get themselves into an awful mess some cats. Go on kitt y adventures and learn to and betray each other. The game emphasizes use the unique power of your laser. Players will improv storytelling and bad decisions by your share the Class Captain (GM) role and use a card character. You might be able to walk away from bidding system to resolve challenges (This is a what happens, but where’s the fun in that? (A pregen scenario, for faster play than the 4-hour variety of setti ngs/scenarios are available -- ask Laser Kitt ens game.) your GM)

This Game Is: Improv, Relati onships, Storytelling This Game Is: Improv, Relati onships, Storytelling

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 J O S H Table # GM ROBY The Quiet Year Posthuman Pathways

4 - 6 2H 13+ 4- 6 2H 13+

The Quiet Year is a map game. You deﬁ ne the Technology is changing us. We are transforming struggles of a post-apocalypti c community, and into beings both less and more than human. We att empt to build something good within their abandon the frailti es of human ﬂ esh and our sim- quiet year. Every decision and every acti on is set ple creature comforts. We reach for loft y positi ons against a backdrop of dwindling ti me and rising in this new society, and leave our former heritage concern. in the rubble of our former world. Our minds and cultures expand, changing how we perceive the world. In this game, you ask wondrous questi ons and discover terrifying answers. Every questi on is a path leading to an increasingly alien future.

Designed by Avery Mcdaldno Designed by Jason Pitre This Game Is: World Building, Relati onships, This Game Is: Improv, World Building, Real Emo- Storytelling, Real Emoti ons ti ons, Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 C H R I S Table # GM CZERNIAK Spirit of 77 Final Girl

4 - 5 2H 13+ 5- 8 2H 18+

A science fair project goes horribly wrong taking Something out there is hunti ng us. The captain the characters to the land of dinosaurs. Spirit of the football team was dragged into a man- of 77 is a brand new role-playing system, based hole. The class president was found dead in her on A. Vincent Baker’s “Apocalypse World” set in shower. Now we’re the only ones left . Will any the world of 1970’s pop culture! of us make it out of this alive? The Final Girl is a horror movie roleplaying game meant to emulate slashers or any horror movie where the characters are picked oﬀ one by one unti l only one survivor remains to confront the killer.

Designed by David Kizzia, Bob Richardson Designed by Bret Gillan This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on, Uncover This Game Is: World Building, Relati onships, Im- the GM’s plot prov Content Advisory: Sex, drugs, teenage misbehavior, death, gore, and scary content GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 BILL WHITE Table # GM Inﬁ nite Galaxies Torchbearer

4 - 6 2H 13+ 4- 6 2H 13+

The players are space-faring adventurers who The PCs are adventurers--rapscallions, vagrants, travel to alien worlds in search of fame, fortune, vagabonds, and scoundrels with no place in the and glory. They get in trouble-maybe even de- respectable world of church and guild. Fortune spite their best eff orts-- and have to get out us- awaits in the wilds, but so does death. Which ing their wits, muscle, and fi repower. will our heroes fi nd fi rst?

Designed by Rory McLeod Designed by Luke Crane and Thor Olavsrud This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on, Storytelling This Game Is: Rules Mastery

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 J O S H Table # GM BRINING Supernatural

4 - 6 4H 13+

Set in the CW’s hit show SUPERNATURAL, Play- ers will be a Hunter from Harvelle’s Roadhouse. (Sorry, no Winchesters or angels are available Player Characters. Some show characters ARE, though...) Load up your rocksalt shotguns, pack some silver bullets & holy water, & memorize that exorcism, because there’s people to save & monsters to kill, & Hunters’ luck Sucks Out Loud. Gameplay uses the classic Cortex system, but the emphasis will be on role-playing & the story, not combat or game mechanics. Designed by Jamie Chambers This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Combat, Investi gati on, World Building, Relati onships, Storytelling Content Advisory: Disturbing imagery and some violence GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 RICHARD Table # GM RUANE Misericord(e) In a Wicked Age

4 - 5 4H 18+ 4- 5 4H 18+

Apprenti ces, lovers, mages, and merchants An old-school D&D setti ng meets the escalat- come together in stories of a village’s quests, ing confl icts of Dogs in the Vineyard and takes rescues, rivalries, and intrigues. This is a dice- a slight turn toward Fiasco. In a Wicked Age is less storytelling system driven by Tarot and the a swords-and-sorcery RPG in which the play- choices of the players. During the game, the ers develop both the story and their characters players will take on the rolls of members of two through by drawing cards from a standard deck diff erent guilds. and consulti ng one of the four oracles. You’ll draw the cards, create the characters, and push them into confl ict with each other and the world around them.

Designed by Emily Care Boss Designed by Vincent Baker This Game Is: Improv, World Building, Relati on- This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, World Building, ships, Storytelling Relati onships, Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 W I L L O W Table # GM PALECEK Itras By Monsterhearts

4 - 8 4H 13+ 4- 6 4H 18+

Itras By is a strange city, existi ng in a dream. The You play teenage monsters, struggling with your characters are inhabitants of this strange city, sexuality and your monstrous nature. Some- pursuing their lives and facing the strangeness ti mes the biggest challenge is a pack of were- of the city. Noir tropes combine with surrealist wolves. Someti mes, it’s growing up. techniques to create a game experience unlike anything else.

Designed by Marti n Gudmunsun and Ole Peder Designed by Avery Mcdaldno Giæver This Game Is: Improv, Storytelling This Game Is: Relati onships, Storytelling

Content Advisory: Sex and murder GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 A A R O N Table # GM BERGER The Quiet Year Fall of Magic

4 - 5 2H 13+ 3- 4 2H 13+

The Quiet Year is a map game. You deﬁ ne the We begin by choosing a name and ti tle for our struggles of a post-apocalypti c community, and characters. Each turn we chose an area on the att empt to build something good within their map and use the prompt there to inspire the quiet year. Every decision and every acti on is set next part of our story. The character of the Ma- against a backdrop of dwindling ti me and rising gus is shared between us and on your turn you concern. may choose to play as the Magus, advancing us along the road to a new place on the map.

Designed by Avery Mcdaldno Designed by Ross Cowman This Game Is: World Building, map drawing This Game Is: Relati onships, Storytelling, Real Emoti ons

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 MIKAEL Table # GM ANDERSSON Godbroþor & Weafætels Undying

3 - 5 4H 18+ 3- 4 4H 18+

Dudebros & Douchebags is “toxic masculin- Undying is a soon-to-be-published lovelett er to ity, the RPG”. Godbroþor & Weafætels hacks it Vampire: the Masquerade by way of Apocalypse to cheekily draw parallels between the anti cs of World. It focuses play around epic, century- the modern-day bro to those of of noble knights spanning undead intrigue, the vicious humanity in an archetypal fantasy story. The Brotherhood spiral, and the eﬀ ect the predators have on the is out to slay a wicked beast and rescue a fair community around them. Play is diceless, but princess, but must stop at a local watering hole to oft en competi ti ve, and certainly anything but “stock up” before then. The rules emulate the in- consequence-free. tricate social norms of bro/knight cliques, which the players must navigate in order to maximize their knight’s glory. Designed by Paul Riddle Designed by Mikael Andersson This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, World Building, This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Relati onships Relati onships, Storytelling Content Advisory: Violence, substance abuse, Content Advisory: Violence, sex, death, and and sexism vampires GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 RENEE Table # GM KNIPE Conan Beasts of Burden Road of Queens

4 - 5 4H 13+ 3- 5 4H 21+ Shadizar the Wicked, capital of the spider-haunt- Take on the role of neighborhood dogs (and ed kingdom of Zamora. The drunken tyrant-king and occasional cat), defending the sleepy litt le seemingly rules with an iron-ﬁ st, but the real town of Burden Hill against all manner of super- power dances around him, at the periphery of his natural menaces. Haunted doghouses, undead glassy-eyed gaze. You are a Courtesan of Shadizar, roadkill, and smart-ass witches’ familiars are all looking for your opportunity to advance. Fortu- that stand between you and your evening walk. nately, opportunity just rode in upon the Road of Based on the award winning comic books by Kings. His name is Conan. Surely he can be used Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson. to further your schemes? But the wild Cimme- rian follows his heart and litt le else; if you could Designed by Michael Sands and Renee Knipe but steal it, he would certainly bend to your will. This Game Is: Investi gati on, Relati onships, Un- They call it the Road of Kings, but soon everyone cover the GM’s plot, Storytelling, Real Emoti ons will realize it has been named in error. Designed by Daniel Lewon and Renee Knipe Content Advisory: Animal danger, violence, scary moments Content Advisory: Violence, sex, playtest GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 M O R G A N Table # GM ELLIS Fate Accelerated Editi on Inspectres

3 - 4 2H 13+ 4- 5 2H 13+

You will play proacti ve capable people leading You play Inspectres, members of the premier interesti ng lives. The setti ng will be chosen at paranormal investi gati on and eliminati on ser- the table from a list of well known media prop- vice with their very own start up franchise. It’s erti es converted into the Fate Accelerated sys- a combinati on of Ghostbusters, Dirty Jobs, and tem. Parks and Recreati on.

Fate Accelerated Editi on designed by Evil Hat Inspectres designed by Jared Sorensen Producti ons This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Combat, Investi - This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Investi gati on, gati on, World Building, Relati onships World Building, Relati onships GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 M A R K Table # GM REDACTED Swords Without Technoir Master

3 - 4 4H 13+ 3- 4 4H 18+

The streets buzz with illusory neon lines animat- Rogues! Gather and steel yourselves, for ﬁ erce ed over the grime, fed right into your eyeballs. dangers and strange magicks await! Together, But it’s all one big corporate lie; beneath those we will toil to craft a tale of sword and sorcery! prett y graphics, the city is dirti er than ever, feral and desperate... if you’re not one of the lucky few, you’re dying or worse for their scraps. It’s all linked, from the chip sewn into your jeans, to the DRMed electronics in your cyber-leg, to the e-ink tat under your skin. There’s no escaping the mess you’re in, not clean, anyway. Get moving!

Designed by Jeremy Keller Designed by Epidiah Ravachol This Game Is: Combat, Investi gati on, Relati on- This Game Is: Improv, World Building, Storytelling ships, Rules Mastery, Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 STEPHANIE Table # GM BRYANT Dead Scare Best Friends

2 - 4 2H 13+ 2- 4 2H 13+

It’s 1956, you live in the suburbs, and your hus- You are a group of women “frenemies.” Are you band didn’t come home last night. You’d worry hated for being the pretti est? The smartest? about inﬁ delity, but you have bigger problems How will you manage to overcome the obstacles right now. Undead problems. And you’re prett y you face and sti ll remain friends with your Best sure they’re trying to eat your braaaaaaains. Friends in the world. (Content and setti ng determined by the players) Note: all PCs are female in this game. Note: all PCs are female in this game.

Designed by Elsa S. Henry Designed by Gregor Hutt on This Game Is: Combat, Relati onships, Storytelling This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, Relati onships, Sto- rytelling Content Advisory: Everyday sexism, zombies, Content Advisory: Some PvP conﬂ ict (not nec- violence, gore, possible character death essarily violence) GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 T R E ’ Table # GM GRISBY Microscope

3 - 4 4H 13+

Everyone works together within the games framework to build a world that works for everyone. There is no winning or losing at this game it is all about creati ng. Create something new and explore all the facets you didn’t even know it had. This game will take every bit of the 4 hours but you will enjoy each minute.

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 GIOVANNI Table # GM LANZA Urban Shadows

4 - 6 4H 13+

Play as mortals and those touched by the supernatural in a dark and politi cal city. Try to get ahead (or merely survive) in a dangerous city full of vampire crime lords, werewolf drug deal- ers, and wizardly cabals.

This Game Is: Investi gati on, World Building, Re- lati onships, Storytelling

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 W J Table # GM MACGUFFIN Watch the World Die

4 - 7 2H 18+

Players take turns moving around the table (which represents the world), rolling dice to guide them in improvising global stressors or re- lieving them through politi cal/social acti on. But everything gets worse. And worse. And worse.

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 KRISTIN Table # GM FIRTH The Warren: City Park

3 - 5 4H 18+

About intelligent rabbits making the best of a world ﬁ lled with hazards, predators and, worst of all, other rabbits.

The City Park World is an oﬃ cial playset based loosely on NYC’s Central Park and writt en by the GM!

GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 D A V I D Table # GM LEAMAN Psi*Run

4 - 5 4H 13+

Whoever’s aft er you, you know one thing: they will stop at nothing to capture you and you’ll stop at nothing to stay free. The holes in your memory vie for att enti on with your startling abiliti es - stay one step ahead of the Chasers long enough to answer your questi ons, and hope your psychic powers don’t go wild.

Content Advisory: Mature themes, including emoti onal trauma GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 I R A Table # GM MORNINGSTAR Imaginati on world Dungeon world

3 - 6 2H 13+ 4- 6 4H 13+

Imaginati on World is a game of random charac- You are average run of the mill heroes, contract- ter, pursuing crazy goals, in a strange world. the ed to clear goblins out of a mine. But things are mechanics encourage wacky soluti ons to your not as they seem, and it is left to the heros do crazy problems, and know one, not even the dicide who is on the side of right, and then face GM, knows what will happen next. This is a PG- down the other side. This is a PG-13 game run 13 game run by the 14-year-old who created it by a 14-year-old.

This Game Is: Acti ng, Improv, World Building, This Game Is: Cooperati ve, Serious, Improv, Storytelling, A sense of humor Combat, Investi gati on, Uncover the GM’s plot, Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 L E M M O Table # GM PEW HardWire Monsterhearts

3 - 5 4H 18+ 4- 5 4H 18+

You play as a team of “Angels”, senti ent avatars Based on the Apocalypse World engine, this is of arti fi cial intelligence. You live inside the Glob- a game with emergent story, messy relati onal Virtual Mesh; a virtual reality replacement ships, a structured MC role, and a focus on hard for the internet, which humanity uses to escape choices. Monsterhearts draws on source mate- from the harsh real world of the year 20ZZ. Your rial like Twilight, True Blood, Ginger Snaps, Jen- digital world is fi lled with anonymity, lies, se- nifer’s Body, Buff y the Vampire Slayer, Misfi ts, crets and dangers. But of all the giant monsters The Vampire Diaries, An American Werewolf in that you slay in the nodes, do they truly pose a London, Cursed, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. bigger threat than the virtual tourists that treat your existence as a game? Designed by Lemmo Pew Designed by Avery Mcdaldno This Game Is: Improv, Combat, World Building, Relati onships, Storytelling, Playtest GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 GM MADJAY Table # Dungeon World Fragged Empire

3 -4 4H 13+ 3- 4 4H 13+

From whence comes the Jabberwocky Betrayed by your creators, you are a geneti cally No answer comes to mind engineered remnant, emerging from the ruin of but once it comes, crows and cocks genocidal war… evil comes from behind. -excerpt from the Last Days of Anglekite, Book IV. Joined together by unlikely circumstance or need, you and your oddly matched team are Like dungeons meets dragons and djinn...Oh My! trying to make your way in a hosti le and mysterious galaxy - if you can just avoid capture.

Like Farscape meets Edge of the Empire.

Designed by Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel Designed by Wade Dyer This Game Is: Combat, Competi ti ve, Serious, This Game Is: Cooperati ve, Serious, Combat, Cooperati ve, Storytelling Storytelling GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 JAMES Table # GM MENDEZ HODES Thousand Arrows AfroFuture

3 - 6 2H 10+ 3- 6 4H 13+

A game of medieval Japanese love, warfare, and Agents of the Man threaten your favorite RPG set- magic. You are the samurai on the batt lements of ti ngs: President Andrew Jackson perpetuates rac- her castle, the foot soldier, shoulder to shoulder ism against orcs and dark elves, King Leopold II ter- with his comrades, the courti er stealing through rorizes steampunk with classism and colonialism, the corridors of the Imperial palace towards a and Vivian James stamps on robot rights in cyber- moonlight rendezvous with his lover, the yakuza punk. For liberati on, the people of the multi verse muscle laying a back-alley trap for the government look to the interdimensional soul machine known detecti ve and his deputi es, the Daoist sorcerer as the Mothership, the resurrected historical he- binding demons and vampires, the Buddhist ascet- roes called PsychoAlphaDiscoBetaElderNauts who ic fencing with a cackling tengu on the ice of a fro- pilot it, and you: a culture hero born of song itself, zen mountain stream. Lead a rebellion. Command sworn to bring the funk, bring the noise, and sti ck a ninja clan. Write a poem. Fight a duel. Fall in love. it to the Man wherever he spreads his agenda of Two hours is all it’ll take you to rewrite history. social injusti ce. Designed by Brennan Taylor & James Mendez Hodes Designed by James Mendez Hodes Content Advisory: Classism, Violence Content Advisory: Racism and other forms of systemic oppression GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 EVAN Table # GM TORNER Vast and Starlit Shadow Carnival

2 - 5 2H 13+ 2- 5 2H 18+

A group of space convicts has escaped in a craft A psychologist hypnoti zes his pati ent to kill oth- of unknown origin, and has formed an impromp- ers. A woman from the City tempts a married tu crew. Although tensions and danger both run man from the Country. A desti tute student makes high, the group must nevertheless seek their a deal with the Devil and creates a darker version desired home outside the law... A game that ﬁ ts of himself. A master criminal manipulates mod- on a business card, but one with endless pos- ern urban life from behind his curtain. A roboti cs sibiliti es. inventor programs his hosti le creati on. A wax- work comes to life. Play in a mash-up of German expressionist ﬁ lm plots in this hack of the Norwe- gian surrealist RPG Itras By.

Designed by Epidiah Ravachol Designed by Evan Torner This Game Is: Cooperati ve, Improv, Storytelling This Game Is: Cooperati ve, Improv, Storytelling Content Advisory: Implied silent ﬁ lm sex, murder, trivializati on of psychological disorders, and other mature content are certainly possibiliti es. GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 RACHAEL Table # GM STOREY BURKE In a Wicked Age Monsterhearts

4 - 5 4H 13+ 4- 6 4H 18+

In this game, the players choose plot elements You play teenage monsters, struggling with your randomly from a table, then collaborati vely sexuality and your monstrous nature. Some- build a plot that incorporates them and play to ti mes the biggest challenge is a pack of were- see how it turns out. Characters are created out wolves. Someti mes, it’s growing up. of the words of the oracles, and it’s up to the players to choose what interests and inspires them. In this wicked age, even the gods themselves may be real. Designed by Vincent Baker Designed by Avery Mcdaldno This Game Is: Cooperati ve, Silly, Serious, Scary, This Game Is: Silly, Scary Politi cal Content Advisory: This game features teenag- ers having sex and murdering people. GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 DERRICK Table # GM KAPCHINSKY Cartel Urban Shadows

3 - 5 4H 18+ 4- 5 4H 18+

In Cartel, you’ll take on the roles of members Urban Shadows is an urban fantasy tabletop ro- of the Sinaloa drug cartel, trying to move drugs leplaying game in which mortals and monsters north into El Norte while holding on to power vie for control of a modern-day city, a politi cal at home. This Apocalypse World hack is a tense batt leground layered just under the reality we telenovella, pitti ng players against each other in think we know. Vampires, faeries, hunters, and a world where no one can be trusted. wizards ﬁ ght to carve out a piece of the streets and skyscrapers, ready to make deals with all those who have something to oﬀ er. Cartel designed by Mark Diaz Truman Urban Shadows designed by Andrew Medeiros and Mark Diaz Truman This Game Is: Playtest, Serious, Investi gati on, This Game Is: Serious, Politi cal,Investi gati on, Relati onships, Storytelling Relati onships, Puzzles, Storytelling Content Advisory: Adult content, including mur- Content Advisory: Mature themes, including der, violence, drugs, and profanity violence and the supernatural GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 ZACHARY Table # GM HOLMAN Spirit of ‘77 Atomic Robo Cruise Ship Of The Damned TIME FOR SOME ACTION SCIENCE

3 - 5 2H 13+ 3- 5 2H 13+

Join us on a far-out cruise in 1978 as a celebrity Tesladyne Industries is now recruiti ng for AC- guest aboard the maiden voyage of the SS Tan- TION SCIENTISTS. Applicants should be have gerine. The only thing that might kill the buzz on mensa-level IQs and must be good shots with this groovy vessel is the 100% chance of undead a lightning gun. Ideal candidates will have pat- in tomorrow’s forecast. Team up with some real ented two or more doomsday weapons and be cool cats to lay down some iron and make sure experienced in fending oﬀ a variety of dimen- things don’t come up on the wrong riﬀ in what sional invasions. Skill sets related to improbable just might be The Walking Dead meets the Love causality a plus. Boat. Fluency in jive not necessary, but special considerati on will be given. Can you dig it? I Designed by Mike Olson, Morgan Ellis, Brian SAID: CAN. YOU. DIG. IT.(!?) Solid gone, daddy. Clevinger, Jeremy Keller, Adam Jury, and Brian Designed by David Kizzia Engard This Game Is: Cooperati ve, Silly, Groovy This Game Is: Cooperati ve, Silly, Pulp, SCIENCE GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 ZACHARY Table # GM HOLMAN Fate Core Fiasco Limited Special Editi on Explosion Editi on

3 - 5 4H 13+ 2- 4 4H 13+

This is a scenario designed in real-ti me by the In Fiasco, you engineer and play out stupid, di- players and storyteller. Space Opera? Heist sastrous situati ons, usually at the intersecti on Movie? Zombie Apocalypse? Western shoot- of greed, fear, and desire. It’s the most fun you out? Samurai duel? Fantasy Dragon-slaying? can have creati ng and playing through the cin- Sure. But: Samurai Western Heist Zombie Drag- emati c ruinati on of the character’s lives. Today on-slaying Space Opera? THIS RIGHT HERE IS we’ll pick a playset, and get to work on building WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. Plenty of cre- a truly Bruckheimerian scenario; Michael Bay ati ve hooks provided, this is a great into to the would be proud. This is a great intro for new Fi- Fate Core system or a fun exercise in awesome asco players, or a blast if this is not your ﬁ rst gaming. rodeo. Designed by Jason Morningstar Designed by Leonard Balsera, Brian Engard, Jer- This Game Is: GM-less, Silly, Creati ve emy Keller, Ryan Macklin, Mike Olson Content Advisory: LOTS OF EXPLOSIONS. Prob- This Game Is: Cooperati ve, Silly, Creati ve ably death. No happy endings. GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 K I R A Table # GM MAGRANN A Single Man in Posses- sion of a Good Fortune Strict Machine

3 - 4 2H 18+ 3- 4 2H 21+

It is 1798, the midst of an era of seismic up- The Machine is ﬂ awless. Elegant, deadly, bril- heaval. Sir Percival Orlebar, the much esteemed liant, strong. It is our only... desire... to follow keeper of an army of women has breathed his her directi ves, to maintain ourselves, keep all last. With no immediate male heir, Sir Percival’s our functi ons in pristi ne conditi on. Should the bevy of retainers now live under the horror of Machine want us for her missions, we should a dangerous threat. Enter Weymouth, the heir be at top performance Someti mes we wonder, of the Marquess of Bath. Here is a defender for what is this devoti on that we feel? Could it be Hinwick House, if only he can be swayed from his love? A kinky game about the power exchange meandering course. So it is that several young relati onship between a group of futuristi c tanks women conspire to win his aﬀ ecti ons and steer and their cyborg keeper.? him to their cause. Designed by Melissa Spangenberg Designed by Kira Magrann This Game Is: Flirtati ous, Gender Roles, Mature, This Game Is: Flirtati ous, Gender Roles, Friendly Playtest PvP, Mature, Playtest GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 S H O E Table # GM SKOGEN D&D Flailsnails D&D Flailsnails The Garden of Statues The Moon Marsh

4 - 6 4H 13+ 4- 6 4H 13+

Tatt erdemalion is an enormous, ancient cara- Tatt erdemalion is an enormous, ancient caravan, travelling the Road of All Worlds. Stopping van, travelling the Road of All Worlds. Stopping here and there in citi es far-fl ung and disparate, here and there in citi es far-fl ung and disparate, it spans everything from junked out spaceships it spans everything from junked out spaceships to ancient spice bazaars on its winding route. to ancient spice bazaars on its winding route. Someti mes, the enigmati c Elders of the Caravan Someti mes, the enigmati c Elders of the Caravan have jobs for Outsiders like you. The Elders have have jobs for Outsiders like you. A family has asked you to investi gate a strange wood full of been lost in a marsh the caravan has passed, strange music. They call it the “Garden of Stat- and the Elders want them found. What secrets ues”. What is this forgott en place, and what will and dangers will you fi nd, in a long night under you fi nd there? a bright blue moon?

This Game Is: Dungeons & Dragons This Game Is: Dungeons & Dragons GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015 S H O E Table # GM SKOGEN Trash Planet

2 - 6 2H 10+

Many centuries ago, the humans - already spreading slowly and meti culously through space - discovered the Wormhole. On the other end of the Wormhole was a paradise. Over ti me, anybody with the cash went through, taking their infrastructure with them. Not you, though. You’re one of the teeming masses, stuck at the old homestead. On the bright side, the rich people left all their junk behind.

Content Advisory: Occasionally violent shenani- gans. GENCON GAMES ON DEMAND 2015