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Thursday, September 25th, 2025
10 am – 10 pm
Open Gaming – Find a few people and jump into a game! Pick a game from the library or bring your favorites from home.
10 am – 10 pm
Flea Market – Bring your games to sell, look for deals to buy. Details found on the Events and Swag page.
10:30 AM – 2:30 PM
John Company: 2nd Edition – In John Company, players assume the roles of ambitious families attempting to use the British East India Company for personal gain. The game begins in the early 18th century when the Company has a weak foothold on the subcontinent. Over the course of the game, the Company might grow into the most powerful and insidious corporation in the world or collapse under the weight of its own ambitions. (from BGG) 1-6 players; Minimum 4 to be worth a play and teach. GM: Evan Dunne
11 AM – 3 PM
Lords of Baseball – Lead an early 20th Century Major League Baseball team. In addition to recruiting talented players, you will need to build bleachers, concession stands and entice the Press to cover your team. 3 – 8 players. GM: Kevin Whitmore
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Airlines Europe – Invest in Airlines across Europe, while making sure your investments payoff more than your opponents. 2-6 players. GM: Jesse Hopson
12 – 4 PM
Trophy Gold – Trophy Gold is a rich, elegantly designed RPG that brings together compelling elements from story-driven games and old school (“OSR”) games. Players take on the role of treasure-hunters exploring a dangerous setting that does not want them there. Character creation is quick and can be done on the spot. We’ll be playing a classic module, so let’s see how far we can get with this streamlined system in a single session! 3-5 players. GM: Chris Flood
1 – 3 PM
Blood Bowl – Team Manager – Blood Bowl: Team Manager is a card drafting football game where you’re able to customize your own team of fantasy races over the course of a brutal season. Very easy to pick up with a good mixture of skill and luck. Do you have what it takes to come out as the Blood Bowl champion?! 2-4 players. GM: Miguel Sanchez
1 – 4 PM
Emerge – Islands are emerging from the ocean. Research the new ecosystem as it evolves from the mainland to the research station. Discovery tectonic action, mangroves, crabs, turtles, sea lions, and blue-footed boobies across the islands. The player with the most victory points at the end of the game, wins! 2-4 players. GM: Grace Trenkamp
1:30 – 3 pm
Claude Mauldin Memorial Dominoes – Play this family classic using a variant on the All Fives rules. Don’t pooh-pooh this as too simple! There’s some real strategy to this one. The Convention’s cofounder Tara King’s grandfather loved this game and we’re holding this game in his memory. Hoo-wee! 2-8 players. GM: Tara King/Paul Schulzetenberg
1:30 – 5:30 PM
Atlantic Chase: The Kriegsmarine Against the Home Fleet 1939-1942 – A historical wargame of naval combat set in the opening salvoes of World War Two. The game emulates the realities of trying to command a navy fleet at the time: You only know the trajectory of your ships, not the exact locations. Each side has specific objectives to win depending on the scenario, not just “sink the enemy”. 2 players only. GM: Danny Tallon
3 – 4:30 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Whiptail – Adventure through Albuquerque as a family of whiptails! In this resource driven racing game, skitter over sand, float down the Rio Grande and dart away from pesky roadrunners! 2-4 players, 45-60 min play time. GM: Michelle Jones
3 – 6 PM
Sun Rot: Illuminate Your Oblivion – Sun Rot is a GM-led, card-flipping, rules light RPG for 1+ players and a GM where you’ll:
• Race through multiple terrain filled boards representing districts of a dying city
• Flip unique cards for unexpected outcomes when you succeed at tasks
• Experience real-time events every 10 minutes that change the game state
• Choose between escaping the doomed city or attempting to seal the void
• Great for people who love minis but hate mountains of rules. Bring your own minis or use ones provided by the GM. Character types are: Fighter, Wizard, Cleric, and Astrologer
2-6 players. GM: Alexis Graf
4 – 8 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Age of Eana – The Maid of Torvenu – Escort a shipment of beer to the legendary Olaggi-Gorgen beer festival. Piece o’ cake—probably. This is an introductory adventure for 1st Level characters designed to showcase the Age of Eana role-playing game: a dynamic, expansive, and versatile high-fantasy RPG with a unique magic system and flexible combat. If you’ve played any fantasy RPG, you’ll feel right at home. If not, we’ll teach you as you go. Pre-generated characters provided. Rules explained. Bring your dice and pencils if you want, but we’ll have everything you need. This is a playtest session, and we would love your feedback. Minimum Age: 13+, 2-5 players. GM: Adam D’Amore
5 – 8:30 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Boogaloo 2021 – Following the 2020 presidential election, the U.S. is torn apart by secession and a second civil war. A player controls a portion of these former states, with each of the 52 states (the admission of DC and Puerto Rico as states is what triggers Texas to start the war of secession) represented by a card in the 52 card playing deck. In this strategic poker game, a player targets a specific card by conquering the state represented by that card. The player with the best 5-card poker hand at the end of the 12th turn wins the game. 2-6 players. GM: Wesley Cobb
5 – 10 PM
Slay the Spire – Introduction only – Act 1 starting every 90 minutes. Slay the Spire: The Board Game is a co-operative deck-building, dungeon-crawling adventure. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, & discover relics of immense power. Each player starts with a unique character and set of abilities – along with a simple deck of cards that can be improved by adding and removing cards. This rogue-like board game has up to three acts (each act lasting 1-2 hours). 2-4 players. GM: AJ Warren
6 – 8 PM
Finspan – Competitive aquatic enthusiast card-driven board game. Over the course of four weeks, you will dive deeper into the ocean to grow your collection of fish, lay eggs, hatch young, and create schools of fish. Whoever has the most victory points at the end of the game, wins! 2-5 players. GM: Grace Trenkamp
6:30 – 7:30 PM
Captain Sonar – Fire torpedoes! Two teams race against time to rake the seafloor, find their opponents’ submarine, and blow them out of the water! Each team has a unique role to be filled: The Captain, First Mate, Engineer, and Radio Operator all must work together and communicate to survive. Confrontation is merciless—the sea doesn’t take sides. 6-8 players. GM: Danny Tallon
7 – 10 PM
Dominion – Dominion is the classic, genre-defining deckbuilding game. We will be playing kingdoms drawn from a curated set of cards specifically selected from the entire expanse of Dominion expansions to enhance the experience with 3-4 players. If everyone is a novice, we will start with an introductory game or two. If everyone is a veteran, we’ll dive into the deep end and might even try some (heavily play tested) custom cards you’ve never seen before! 3-4 players. GM: Chris Flood
8 – 10 PM
Moon Colony Bloodbath – A tableau/engine building game where players use very helpful, always nice robots to develop and expand their colony on the moon! There is absolutely no reason to be suspicious of the robots whatsoever! 1-5 Players. GM: Jacob Anderson
8 – 10 PM
Two Rooms and a Boom – In this social game of hidden roles and deduction, players are divided into 2 different rooms. Find your teammates, establish trust, and exchange hostages before time runs out and the bomb explodes! It’s the party game that’s always a blast. 6-32 players. GM: Llew Curran
Friday, September 26th, 2025
10 am – 10 pm
Open Gaming – Bring your favorite games or just bring yourself.
10 am – 10 pm
Flea Market – Clear your shelf and score that rare find. Details on the Special Events and Swag page.
10 AM – 6 PM
Arcs: The Blighted Reach – Chaos and collapse in The Reach! The old empire crumbles, and the remaining factions try to find their way. This is a short campaign game. It is normally played in three regular-length sessions of Arcs, but this one will be run in one day. With extra narrative elements, and different fate goals, it’s much more like a sweeping game of Twilight Imperium. 3-4 players. GM: Evan Kennedy
11 AM – 12:30 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Whiptail – Adventure through Albuquerque as a family of whiptails! In this resource driven racing game, skitter over sand, float down the Rio Grande and dart away from pesky roadrunners! 2-4 players, 45-60 min play time. GM: Michelle Jones
11 AM – 1 PM
Miniature Painting Class – Need a character for your D&D game? We have you covered. Together we’ll cover the basics of painting. On Friday morning, we’ll paint a wizard and in the afternoon it will be a barbarian. 2-10 players. GM: Jared Greenwald
12 – 3 PM
Sun Rot: Illuminate Your Oblivion – Sun Rot is a GM-led, card-flipping, rules light RPG for 1+ players and a GM where you’ll:
• Race through multiple terrain filled boards representing districts of a dying city
• Flip unique cards for unexpected outcomes when you succeed at tasks
• Experience real-time events every 10 minutes that change the game state
• Choose between escaping the doomed city or attempting to seal the void
• Great for people who love minis but hate mountains of rules. Bring your own minis or use ones provided by the GM. Character types are: Fighter, Wizard, Cleric, and Astrologer
2-6 players. GM: Alexis Graf
12:30 – 4:30 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Isles of Mist – Deep under the Skyreach Mountains lies a series of lakes whose dark, still waters are placid in appearance only… each pool is supposedly a portal to an otherworldly trial with life or death consequences. Do you dare to brave the Dark Pools, where many before you have perished?
This is a competitive scenario using my original fantasy RPG system, Isles of Mist. Three sessions of the same exact scenario are available, and a rigorous point system measures success. Whichever group earns the most victory points wins! Each member of the winning team will earn a prize: a $30 gift certificate to Ettin Games and a free copy of the Isles of Mist pdf. May fortune favor the bold! 2-5 players. GM: Ashton MacSaylor
2 – 3 PM
Duos – In this partnership card game, you must coordinate silently with your teammate to complete goals while undermining the other team, in a race for victory. 4 or 6 players. GM: Jesse Hopson
2 – 4 PM
Miniature Painting Class – Need a character for your D&D game? We have you covered. Together we’ll cover the basics of painting. On Friday morning, we’ll paint a wizard and in the afternoon it will be a barbarian. 2-10 players. GM: Jared Greenwald
2 – 6 PM
Age of Industry – Try out this forgotten sibling of the mighty Brass! Age of Industry offers a streamlined take on this great game, including several innovations that were later borrowed by Brass: Birmingham, the #1 game on BGG. I have several maps and will choose the map based on the player count to ensure a tight and compelling game. 3-5 players. GM: Chris Flood
2 – 6 PM
A Family of Blades – Family of Blades is a narrative RPG based on the Forged in the Dark system, designed to tell the story of a broken family of criminals who have to reunite for the fabled One Last Job, the games takes its inspiration from lighthearted crime series such as Leverage and films like the Ocean’s 11 trilogy. Excited to teach the rules and introduce new players to narrative focused role-playing games. 2-5 players. GM: John Myers
3 – 5 PM
Vesta – Cooperate with your fellow players to mine Vesta, a large asteroid. Space pirates will be a constant threat your team must deal with. Vesta uses the online Mah Johng tile-matching mechanism to keep the game fun and accessible. 2-4 players. GM: Kevin Whitmore
3 – 5:30 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Biologique – Enjoy the satisfaction of working with nature to rebuild your chemically destroyed farmland! In this dice and resource management game, you eliminate superweeds and resistant pests and compete to optimize the health of your field! 2-4 players, time includes feedback time after playing. GM: Michelle Jones
3:30 – 7:30 PM
Gaslands: Mario Kart – Mayhem and carnage are fun, but zany and cartoon racing with familiar video game characters is a game for everyone! Bring the fun of Mario Kart to the table top! 3-12 players. GM: Brian Sant
4 – 5 PM
Panel/Roundtable hosted by Downtown Albuquerque Roleplaying Club (DARC): So You Want to be a GM? Running Your First RPG Game/Campaign – This is a panel/discussion for the folks to ask questions about getting into GMing RPGs, building a world, and managing table expectations. 2-10 participants. GM: Anthony T, Tyler B, Melody P
4 – 6 PM
Stamp Swap – A Wingspan inspired game from Stonemaier Games. A competitive stamp enthusiast card-driven board game, but don’t let that fool you, it is BRUTAL. Over the course of a three-day stamp convention, you will draft, collect, and swap stamps with the other players to try and compete to achieve goals at the end of each day. Take home the trophy by having the most victory points by the end of the game. 2-5 players. GM: Grace Trenkamp
5 – 9 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Gunslinger! – Rustlers of the Paranormal – A saloon-owner’s prized horses have been stolen and it’s up to a small group of gunslinging occultists to get them back and uncover the who and why behind the theft. Gunslinger! is a gritty Weird West RPG with a unique card-based randomizer, a lean magic system, and a cascade failure combat mechanic that keeps things fast and tense. If you’ve played any RPG before, you’ll pick it up quickly. If not, we’ve got you covered. Pre-generated characters provided. Rules explained. Bring your imagination. We’ll provide the rest. This is a playtest session, and we would love your feedback. Minimum Age: 16+ 2-5 players. GM: Adam D’Amore
6 – 9:30 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Boogaloo 2022 – The formerly United States have split apart and fought against each other for a year now, but will you be able to reunite the U.S.A.? Now the states themselves are splitting apart into a new map of 100 territories. A player controls a portion of the territories, with bonuses possible for reuniting the territories of a former state. The player with the most contiguous territories at the end of the 12th turn wins the game. 2-10 players. GM: Wesley Cobb
6 – 10 PM
Nemesis Retaliation – Latest installment of the Nemesis line, Retaliation gives more combat power to players. 2-4 hour survival /action/horror. 2-5 players. GM: Ryan Perry
7 – 9 pm
Tournament – Opening Heat A
Dominion – Win a game and get your name on the official MañanaCon trophy! Dominion is an eminently accessible and classic deck-building game. Details on the Events and Swag page. 2-4 players. GM: John Spence
8 – 10 PM
Fische, Fluppen, Frikadellen – From the mad scientist of board gaming, Friedemann Friese, comes this miniature mega-game experience! A goofy pick-up-and-deliver game for five to FIFTEEN players, played across three different tables! Gameplay is straightforward: You paddle your raft, buy and sell goods, and race to collect magic totems. If the economy changes against you, paddle to another table and join the game there! Goofy prizes will be awarded to the top three players! 5-15 players. GM: Danny Tallon
Saturday, September 27th, 2025
10 am – 10 pm
Open Gaming – Meet new people or reconnect with old friends.
10 am – 10 pm
Flea Market – Buy and sell new and used treasures. Details on the Events and Swag page.
10 AM – 12 PM
Tournament – Opening Heat B
Dominion – Win a game and get your name on the official MañanaCon trophy! Dominion is an eminently accessible and classic deck-building game. Details on the Events and Swag page. 2-4 players. GM: John Spence
10 AM – 12 PM
For the Queen – In this collaborative storytelling RPG, players respond to question cards about their relationship to the Queen. Minimal rules, boundless creativity, improv vibe. 3-8 players. GM: Mino Savoca
10 AM – 1:30 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Boogaloo 2021 – Following the 2020 presidential election, the U.S. is torn apart by secession and a second civil war. A player controls a portion of these former states, with each of the 52 states (the admission of DC and Puerto Rico as states is what triggers Texas to start the war of secession) represented by a card in the 52 card playing deck. In this strategic poker game, a player targets a specific card by conquering the state represented by that card. The player with the best 5-card poker hand at the end of the 12th turn wins the game. 2-6 players. GM: Wesley Cobb
11 AM – 1 PM
Maladum: Dungeons of Enveron – Maladum is a fantasy miniatures board game in which you control a band of adventurers seeking their fortune in the ancient dungeons of Enveron. They must fight off the Revenant hordes as they search for valuable artefacts and negotiate with a varied cast of NPCs. 1-4 players. GM: Miguel Sanchez
12:30 – 4:30 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Isles of Mist – Deep under the Skyreach Mountains lies a series of lakes whose dark, still waters are placid in appearance only… each pool is supposedly a portal to an otherworldly trial with life or death consequences. Do you dare to brave the Dark Pools, where many before you have perished?
This is a competitive scenario using my original fantasy RPG system, Isles of Mist. Three sessions of the same exact scenario are available, and a rigorous point system measures success. Whichever group earns the most victory points wins! Each member of the winning team will earn a prize: a $30 gift certificate to Ettin Games and a free copy of the Isles of Mist pdf. May fortune favor the bold! 2-5 players (2 sessions being run simultaneously). GM: Ashton MacSaylor
1:40 – 4 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Biologique – Enjoy the satisfaction of working with nature to rebuild your chemically destroyed farmland! In this dice and resource management game, you eliminate superweeds and resistant pests and compete to optimize the health of your field! 2-4 players, time includes feedback time after playing. GM: Michelle Jones
2 – 4 PM
Tournament – Opening Heat C
Dominion – Win a game and get your name on the official MañanaCon trophy! Dominion is an eminently accessible and classic deck-building game. Details on the Events and Swag page. 2-4 players. GM: John Spence
2 – 5 PM
Sidereal Confluence – Six alien races wheel, deal, and negotiate to become the leader of the galaxy. A game of engine-building and resource conversion where your engines require the help of the other players to run. Deals are binding and enforced by the game rules, but also flexible: You can trade promises, resources, or you can even trade away entire parts of your engine! 4-6 players. GM: Danny Tallon
3 – 7 PM
Heart: The City Underneath – Heart: The City Beneath is a tabletop roleplaying game about delving into a nightmare undercity that will give you everything you’ve ever dreamed of – or kill you in the process. It is a dungeon-crawling, story-forward tabletop RPG from the designers of Spire that focuses on what characters have to lose in pursuit of their dreams in the chaotic darkness beneath the world. Excited to teach the rules and introduce new players to narrative focused role-playing games. 2-5 players. GM: John Myers
3 – 10 PM
Slay the Spire – The smash deck-building video game makes a seamless transition to tabletop! Slay the Spire: The Board Game is a cooperative deckbuilding adventure. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and finally become strong enough to Slay the Spire! Players can decide how many acts to play ~2 hours per act. 2-4 players. GM: Montgomery Montague
3:30 – 5:30 PM
Hairfoot Jousting – Gather up your halflings and farm animals, it’s time for a Jousting tournament! 3-6 players. GM: Brian Sant
4:10 – 5:30 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Whiptail – Adventure through Albuquerque as a family of whiptails! In this resource driven racing game, skitter over sand, float down the Rio Grande and dart away from pesky roadrunners! 2-4 players, 45-60 min play time. GM: Michelle Jones
5 – 9 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Age of Eana – Stone of Ankhar – Abscond with the Stone of Ankhar and get to the boat! What could go wrong? This is a fast-paced adventure for 4th Level characters designed to showcase the Age of Eana role-playing game: a dynamic, expansive, and versatile high-fantasy RPG with a unique magic system and flexible combat. If you’ve played any fantasy RPG, you’ll feel right at home. If not, we’ll teach you as you go. Pre-generated characters provided. Rules explained. Bring your dice and pencils if you want, but we’ll have everything you need. This is a playtest session, and we would love your feedback. Minimum Age: 13+ 2-5 players. GM: Adam D’Amore
6 – 8 PM
Wingspan – Competitive bird enthusiast card-driven board game from Stonemaier Games. Attract birds to your habitats to build engines to gain food, lay eggs, and draw from hundreds of realistic bird cards to play. Whoever has the most victory points after 4 rounds, wins! 2-5 players. GM: Grace Trenkamp
6 – 9:30 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Boogaloo 2022 – The formerly United States have split apart and fought against each other for a year now, but will you be able to reunite the U.S.A.? Now the states themselves are splitting apart into a new map of 100 territories. A player controls a portion of the territories, with bonuses possible for reuniting the territories of a former state. The player with the most contiguous territories at the end of the 12th turn wins the game. 2-10 players. GM: Wesley Cobb
6 – 10 PM
Call of Cthulhu: The Dare – 1983: The Old Barnaker House. Every Kid has heard about it. Everyone has a different awful story about it. But here you are on Halloween night, all because of that jerk Roger. He dared you and your friends to spend the night there. You’ll show him who’s chicken! Get your slingshot, and your pocketknife. Grab some candy and ready your Rubik’s Cube. You and your friends are about to face the horrors of the Barnaker House, and hopefully you’ll live to see the dawn. 3-6 players. GM: Eddie Dethlefs
7 – 10 PM
Dungeon Crawl Classics – You’re no hero. You’re an adventurer: a reaver, a cutpurse, a heathen-slayer, a tight-lipped warlock guarding long-dead secrets. You seek gold and glory, winning it with sword and spell, caked in the blood and filth of the weak, the dark, the demons, and the vanquished. There are treasures to be won deep underneath, and you shall have them. 3-6 players. GM: Jack Rammage
8 – 10 PM
Two Rooms and a Boom – In this social game of hidden roles and deduction, players are divided into 2 different rooms. Find your teammates, establish trust, and exchange hostages before time runs out and the bomb explodes! It’s the party game that’s always a blast. 6-32 players. GM: Llew Curran
Sunday, September 28th, 2025
10 am – 8 pm
Open Gaming – Find a few people and jump into a game! Pick a game from the library or bring your favorites from home.
10 am – 8 pm
Flea Market – Clear your shelf and score that rare find. Details on the Special Events and Swag page.
10 – 11:30 AM
Space Base – As the commodore of a Space Base, your job is to draft new ships into your fleet to work and patrol the 12 sectors under your watch. Use cargo vessels, mining ships, and deploy carriers to earn profits and expand your influence. Only one Space Base commodore will be promoted to U.E.S. Admiral of the Fleet! 2-5 players. GM: Llew Curran
10 AM – 12 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer
Watermelon Mountain – The Americans meets Breaking Bad in this semi-cooperative trick taking game. 3-4 players. GM: Phil Lewis
11 AM – 1 PM
Tournament – Final
Dominion – Win a game and get your name on the official MañanaCon trophy! Dominion is an eminently accessible and classic deck-building game. Details on the Events and Swag page. 2-4 players. GM: John Spence
11 AM – 2 PM
My Little Scythe – In this kid friendly adaptation of Scythe, collect resources, build friendships, and have pie fights to be the first to earn four trophies. Age 7+ but fun for all. 2-6 players. GM: Mino Savoca
12 – 3 PM
Pathfinder 2E – Fantasy TTRPG with organized play component. Would run an organized play scenario (or more than one if interest). Would have some pre-gen characters or a session to make their own. 3-6 players plus GM. GM: Michael Kueker
12 – 4 PM
Dungeons & Dragons – Heroes of Revellion – Orcs? Undead monsters lurking in the misty woods? Goblins on Strike? What in the nine-hells is going on?! For you and a small group of your fellow villagers, your peaceful lives were turned upside-down when a cloaked stranger appeared before you shoved you into a glowing portal to only the gods know where! Now your rag-tag team of peasants is on a collision course with adventure and it’s up to you to save the world. If you could only remember where you left your trusty pitchfork… 3-6 players. GM: Jack Rammage
12 – 4 PM
Don’t Look Back – Don’t Look Back is a tension filled, narrative focused, fully cooperative miniature game where players take on the role of survivors trying to make it through one terrifying night in the woods. Miniatures and terrain will be provided and we are excited to teach the rules to new players and introduce them to the world of independent miniature games. 2-8 players. GM: John Myers/Todd Carlson
12:30 – 3 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Biologique – Enjoy the satisfaction of working with nature to rebuild your chemically destroyed farmland! In this dice and resource management game, you eliminate superweeds and resistant pests and compete to optimize the health of your field! 2-4 players, time includes feedback time after playing. GM: Michelle Jones
1 – 4 pm
Special Event
Live Game Auction – We’re doing a live auction to help some great games find some new homes. If you’re looking to clear some shelf space or score some great deals, this will be a perfect event for you. Most auctions start at $5. Check out the Events and Swag page for details.
1:30 – 3:30 PM
Burn the Witch – Players have a house of Women, one or more of which may be a Witch, and through deduction in a voting process the idea is to ferret out the witch(s) before too many innocents die. Based on 1590’s Salem Witch Trials by fire. At least 5 players are needed. Game plays in 1-2 hours. 5-15 players. GM: John Spence
3 – 5 PM
Android Netrunner Teach and Play – Android Netrunner is an asymmetric card game set in the far future. Players take on the role of either the Corp or the Runner. The Corp player aims to advance their plans to win the game. Meanwhile, the Runner will be trying to break past the Corp’s defenses to steal those agendas. 2-8 players. GM: Padraic Cashin
3 – 8 PM
Magic: the Gathering Cube – Ravnica Microsealed – Come check out this unique take on Magic: the Gathering! Over the course of the session, each player will build multiple 15-card microdecks from a sealed pool of 56 cards. All cards are from sets based in Ravnica. Players should already know how to play Magic, but rules specific to this format will be described at the session. 4 or 6 players. GM: Chris Flood
3:15 – 4:45 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Whiptail – Adventure through Albuquerque as a family of whiptails! In this resource driven racing game, skitter over sand, float down the Rio Grande and dart away from pesky roadrunners! 2-4 players, 45-60 min play time. GM: Michelle Jones
4 – 8 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer!
Gunslinger! – Death in Deadwood – Strange symbols, missing folk, and restless dead—something foul stirs in Deadwood, and it’ll take more than grit to stop it. Gunslinger! is a gritty Weird West RPG with a unique card-based randomizer, a lean magic system, and a cascade failure combat mechanic that keeps things fast and tense. If you’ve played any RPG before, you’ll pick it up quickly. If not, we’ve got you covered. Pre-generated characters provided. Rules explained. Bring your imagination. We’ll provide the rest. This is a playtest session, and we would love your feedback. Minimum Age: 16+ 2-5 players. GM: Adam D’Amore
4 – 8 PM
Root – A woodland game of might and right! A vicious, tight and volatile asymmetric battle between factions of anthropomorphic animals. 3-5 players. GM: Evan Kennedy
5 – 8 PM
Red Dragon Inn – Welcome to The Red Dragon Inn! Keep your Gold and stay conscious as you celebrate a long day of Dungeons and Dragons at the Inn with friends. Drink, fight, and gamble your night away until you are the last character standing! 2-9 players. GM: Grace Trenkamp
5 – 8 PM
Honey Heist – Ready to heist some honey? In this hilarious, easy-to-learn RPG you and your fellow players will escapade as hungry bears out to score the honey-prize of a lifetime. 2 problems stand in your way; 1. This honey is well-guarded. 2. You’re a gosh-darned bear! 3-6 players. GM: Jack Rammage
5 – 8 PM
Designer Mesa – Playtest with the designer
Lavender Hack – You got your wish: insurmountable debt to Silly Sally, the tyrant lord of Port Scupper, all for a rickety sailing vessel. Time to voyage to the Far Isles and see what’s out there. Eat some bugs, get scurvy, deal with possible mutiny, and either escape the clutches of Silly Sally or die trying. 3-5 players. GM: Phil Lewis
6 – 8 pm
MañanaCon Tradition
Lasers & Feelings: You are the crew of the interstellar ship Raptor. Captain Darcy has been overcome by the strange psychic entity known as Something Else, leaving you to fend for yourselves. One stat, one page of rules, lots of humor, this is an excellent intro RPG for those looking to explore the genre or for experienced players looking for something light. 2-5 players. GM: Paul Schulzetenberg