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Check out WizKids’ unpainted miniatures line at: https://wizkids.com/upm © 2019 WizKids/NECA, LLC. HeroClix and WizKids are trademarks of WizKids/NECA, LLC. All rights reserved. 2 Welcome All to GrandCon 2019! Celebrating 7 Years! GrandCon happens for your enjoyment! GrandCon is Michigan’s premiere tabletop gaming convention. Our vision is fueled by a belief that the community appreciates an event to celebrate our fandom. Your personal attendance is a testimony to that belief. With your enthusiasm, generosity, love, and support we present to you this year’s show. Thank you to Mackenzie’s Animal Sanctuary, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Foundation, Jaspers Game Day, and Make-A Wish Foundation. It’s with their ongoing organizational support of seeing the vision that is GrandCon that spurs on the heart of GrandCon being able to give back to our community. Please give a special thank you to the GrandCon volunteers. Their efforts and show support do not go unnoticed. Extra special thanks to the person reading this right now. We would hope that GrandCon provides an experience of entertainment that not only can grow and change from year to year, but that you will want to be a part of over and over again. All the Best, Brian Lenz Founder | GrandCon Gaming Convention Come Play with Us! Contents Venue Map ...................................................................................................................4–5 Exhibitors & Vendors .................................................................................................4–5 Friday Events ....................................................................................................................6 Saturday Events ............................................................................................................ 38 Sunday Events ................................................................................................................75 3 Exhibitor Booths 1. Capstone Games 11. Mythica Gaming 2. Academy Games 12. Model Builders Supply 3. Mercury Games 13. Lance Red Illustration 4. Smirk and Dagger 14. Out of the Box 5. WizKids 15. Surfing Meeple 6. Portal Dragon 16. Blue Orange Games 7. Green Couch Games 17. DPH Games 8. Omega Forge 18. Section 28 Publishing 9. Table Top Makers LLC 19. Drake Publishing 10. Amusing Designs 20. On The Line Books 21. Rookies 22. Blue Bridge Games 23. Amped Reality 24. Foam Brain Games Board & Card Games Role Playing Games Miniatures Games 4 Exhibitor Tables • Amber Palace Games • Kentwood District Library • Art of Kellianne Stakenas • Lady Random Box • Be My Full Moon • Lil’ B Designs • Byakkotea and Art by Cal • Mackenzie’s Animal Sanctuary • Chain Maille by maldar • Michigan AR Scavenger Hunt • Crafted Geekery • Mossy Bones • Deosil Designs • Nerd Chapel • DrakenStone • North Star Games • Gabriel Guyer Art • Randall Hampton Art & Design • Gaming for a Cure • Strange Teeth Illustrations • Hylian Words • Suicide Resource • Kemmer Woodworks & Response Network • Tank and DPS Prototype Charity Event Paint & Take Seminar 5 FRIDAY 9 AM PFS 2nd Ed – 1-00: Origin of the Open Road (Level 5 Pregens) Friday at 9:00 AM, 4.5 hrs Event #276 Pathfinder Society 2nd Ed – 1-00: Origin of the Open Road Pathfinder agents explore an arcane metropolis to uncover on of the Society’s oldest, untold secrets. Level 5 Pregenerated Characters Will be Provided. Hosted by Andrew Pratt. Ages 8+ • Grand Gallery ABC, Table 26 Free PFS 2nd Ed – 1-01: The Absalom Initiation (Tier 1-4) • Event #280 Friday at 9:00 AM, 4.5 hrs Pathfinder Society 2nd Ed – 1-01: The Absalom Initiation The PCs are new Pathfinders, and by building the right connections with the Society’s rising factions, they’ll begin a bright new career. Character Levels 1-4, Pregenerated Characters are available. Hosted by Matt Haddix. Ages 8+ • Grand Gallery ABC, Table 23 Free SFS – 2-01: Pact World Warriors (Levels 1-4) • Event #300 Friday at 9:00 AM, 4.5 hrs Starfinder Society – 2-01: Pact World Warriors With the Starfinder Society’s reputation in jeopardy, there’s only one option: showcase the Society’s talents in a series of live televised events! Character Levels 1-4, Pregenerated Characters are available. Hosted by Michael Morairty. Ages 8+ • Grand Gallery ABC, Table 27 Free SFS – 1-01: The Commencement (Levels 1-2) • Event #313 Friday at 9:00 AM, 4.5 hrs Starfinder Society – 1-01: The Commencement A Starfinder needs allies & some of the best command influential factions. Explore Absalom Station & prove your worth to the Starfinder Society – all while choosing a path to define your future. Character Levels 1-2, Pregenerated Characters are available. Hosted by Troy Stevens. Ages 8+ • Grand Gallery ABC, Table 24 Free Hackmaster: The Gauntlet • Event #332 Friday at 9:00 AM, 4 hrs The Earl of Reyifor has reason to suspect the humanoid tribes have found a secret pass through the mountains and has hired you to scour the vales looking for this pass. L4 pregens provided. I will be available after to help anyone who is interested in creating a character for organized play. Hosted by Eli Ninnemann. Ages 12+ • Grand Gallery ABC, Table 18 Free PFS – 10-16: What the Helms Hide (Levels 1-5) • Event #392 Friday at 9:00 AM, 4.5 hrs Pathfinder Society – 10-16: What the Helms Hide (Levels 1-5) Uncover some of the buried secrets of the Pathfinder Society’s original masked leaders in this series of four 1-hour adventures. Pregenerated Characters Will be Available. Hosted by David Alford. Ages 8+ • Grand Gallery ABC, Table 28 Free PFS – 3-01: The Frostfur Captives (Levels 1-5) • Event #416 Friday at 9:00 AM, 4.5 hrs Pathfinder Society – 3-01: The Frostfur Captives (Levels 1-5) Tasked with escorting a group of goblin prisoners from their camp to civilization for interrogation by the Pathfinder Society, you must protect them not only from the beasts and hazards of the wilderness, but themselves. Pregenerated Characters Will be Available. Hosted by Tom Maier. Ages 8+ • Grand Gallery ABC, Table 25 Free 6 FRIDAY 10 AM Cthulhu Wars • Event #29 Friday at 10:00 AM, 2 hrs The Old Ones have risen. Monsters walk the Earth. Humanity is finished but the struggle continues. Which Great Old One will rule the ruins of Earth? Now, you take charge! Cthulhu Wars is a fast-moving strategy game about the end of the world. You take the part of various cosmic horrors seeking to dominate the world. Learn to Play, full game demonstration. Featured factions: Great Cthulhu, Crawling Chaos, Black Goat, Yellow Sign, Windwalker, Sleeper, Opener of the Way. Hosted by Allen Anderson. All Ages • Exhibitor Hall C, SG22 Free Gizmos (Learn to Play) • Event #94 Friday at 10:00 AM, 1.5 hrs I will teach you to play the marble drafting, engine building game, Gizmos from CMON. Gizmos is a fun, light engine building game where you draft four colors of marbles from a hopper in order to build gizmos. The more gizmos you build, the longer and more involved your turn becomes as your engine revs up! Did you like Potion Explosion? Give Gizmos a shot! Hosted by Michael. Ages 12+ • Exhibitor Hall C, SG14 Free Legends of Draxia • Event #122 Friday at 10:00 AM, 1 hr A city building, monster hunting, spell slinging game. Build your city, cast powerful spells, and slay invading monsters. Player earning the most fame wins! Legends of Draxia is a victory point, resource management, indirect competition fantasy game. Hosted by Jimmy Sanders. Ages 8+ • Exhibitor Hall C, SG24 Free D&D AL 7-12 In Search of Secrets: Levels 11-16 • Event #225 Friday at 10:00 AM, 4 hrs Available for new D&D Adventure League Players: Levels 11-16 *Please Read Long Description* The yuan-ti have a long, storied past in the history of Chult. So, if they are to be defeated, we must look back into history. Within the jungles, a number of cities fell into ruin during the Year of Blue Fire. Both the merchant princes and factions believe that if discovered, they likely contain knowledge that’ll prove invaluable in the battles to come. Get looking! GM: Paul Kilmer Hosted by Paul Kilmer. Ages 12+ • Grand Gallery ABC, Table 06 Free Flash Point: Fire Rescue • Event #238 Friday at 10:00 AM, 1.5 hrs Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a cooperative game of fire rescue. You must rescue 7 people while trying to keep the fire under control and stop the building from collapsing. Hosted by Brian Lemieux. Ages 12+ • Exhibitor Hall C, SG28 Free Shattered Crown – G.A.U.R.D.S. Miniatures Gaming System Event #245 Friday at 10:00 AM, 1.5 hrs Are you new to miniatures gaming and want to learn the basics of war gaming with miniatures? Come to our demo table as Gaddis Gaming will be running the General Assembly Universal Rules Status System (G.A.U.R.D.S.). This system is designed to work with anyone’s miniatures for World War I and beyond. We will be playing demos of Shattered Crown featuring the Harlem Hellfighters set in an alternate history of World War I where Martian walkers and death ray Tesla tanks have taken the battlefield! Hosted by Brett Smith. Ages 12+ • Exhibitor Hall C, MG39 Free 7 FRIDAY 10 AM, cont. Learn to Play: Railroad Rivals • Event #344 Friday at 10:00 AM, 1 hr A tile-drafting and – laying game in which you build a railroad empire that stretches across America. Each turn you draft one new city tile and one new railroad stock tile. You then use those cities & railroads to make deliveries that drive up the price of your stocks. At the end of the game, the player who has run the most profitable railroad while also owning the most valuable stocks, wins. Hosted by Jen Suttorp. Ages 12+ • Exhibitor Hall C, SG18 Free Thunderstone Quest: Barricades • Event #377 Friday at 10:00 AM, 3 hrs Players control a party of adventurers delving into a dungeon to defeat monsters through deck-building.