July Microconvention Table Schedule
Click on any particular game to see a description of that game. Reads like a TV Guide.

August schedule forthcoming.

Sign-ups
To make sure you get in the game that you want, you might want to sign-up for play. We'll have a list of all games and you can reserve your seat. Schedules may change on game day due to sign-ups / interest.[back to top]

Open Gaming
Open tables are reserved for people who just want to play free form or socialize. Any game can be played on an Open Gaming table. [back to top]

Stratego  
Strategy Games  
Desk 2 / 4:00 to 5:00  
Description: A light hearted strategy game that most Americans have  played.  
Number of players: 2 (usually)  
Difficulty: Easy  
Game Manager: Open (We need YOU.)   [back to top]

Pit
Social game with cards
Description: Pit is an fast-paced trading game. The rules are simple: Deal the cards, wait for the opening bell, scream and trade like crazy, be the first to corner a specific market (nine cards of the same suit), and ring the closing bell. Sounds pretty realistic, doesn't it? Once you've got the basic game mastered, try throwing Bull and Bear cards into the mix--that's when things get really interesting!
Number of players: 2 to 8 Difficulty: Easy Game Manager: Open (We need YOU.) [back to top]

Oh Heck
Card Games
Table 4 / 4:00 to 5:00
Description: A trick-taking card game played with a traditional fifty-two card deck. Open to almost any number of players.
Number of players: 3 to 8
Difficulty: Easy
Game Manager: Will N. [back to top]

Five Crowns
Card Games
Table 4 / 5:00 to 6:00
Description: Five Crowns is a card game for the whole family. It has original game play, but uses skills that you have obtained from playing your old favorites like hearts, spades and rummy. Because Five Crowns has five Royal Families - the Stars, the Clubs, the Hearts, the Spades and the Diamonds - yes, five suits in the old usage, it allows a more equal chance of making a book or a run, effectively giving each player more possibilities to readjust their hand so as to go out. Good players are able to take advantage of this and win more than an average number of games.

The play starts with three cards and 3s are wild; next hand has four cards and 4s are wild....working up to the last hand when Kings are wild. Each of the royal families is portrayed in original art and has its own colors. The Renaissance designs result in cards that are beautiful to hold in your hand and give a "collector" feel to the game. Five Crowns is a fast paced, ingenious new game in eleven rounds. You may be winning, but before coveting the winner's crown, beware... "THE GAME ISN'T OVER 'TIL THE KINGS GO WILD!"
Number of players: 3 to 8
Difficulty: Easy
Game Manager: Karen [back to top]

Hearts / Spades / Euchre  
Card Games  
Table 5 / 4:00 to 5:00  
Description: Choose which of these trick-taking card games you want to  play. 
Played with a traditional fifty-two card deck.  
Number of players: 4  
Difficulty: Easy  
Game Manager: Steve   [back to top] 

Manhunter
--- An RPG using d20 modern. The setting is sort of like Terminator, Star Wars and Blade Runner rolled into one.
Number of players: 3 to 6
Difficulty: Medium
Strategy: Light
Sociability: An exciting futuristic role playing game
Game Manager: Manhunter has been cancelled because the Game Manager is unavailable. [back to top]

Seventh Sea / Intro to RPG's
Role-playing Games
Table 8 / 5:00 to 7:00
Description: Ever wanted to try a role-playing game but didn't know where to begin? 7th Sea is a rollicking game, light on rules, heavy on fun, with the potential to provide all the buckles you can swash, sinister plots you can spoil, and booty you can plunder.  If you've ever wanted to be a character from the Three Musketeers, Pirates of the Carribean, or The Princess Bride, or simply talk like a pirate, this is the game for you.  (This game is open to all RPGers, but preference is given to beginners.)
Number of players: 3 to 5
Difficulty: Easy
Gamer Master: Gabriel [back to top]

Age of Empires III: Age of Discovery
Strategy Game

Description: Take on the role of a colonial power seeking fame, glory and riches in the New World. As you proceed through three ages you can launch expeditions of discovery, colonize regions, expand your merchant fleet, build capital buildings that give your nation distinct advantages, develop your economy, and if necessary, declare war.  Age of Empires is easy to learn in about 10 minutes and easily playable in under 2 hours.  No prior experience necessary!
Number of players: 2- 5
Difficulty: Easy
Gamer Master: Aram[back to top]

Axis & Allies
Strategy Games
Table 2 / 5:00 to 7:45
Description: A wargame set at the outset of WW2. Axis powers vs. Allied powers. If noone steps forward to manage this game it will be replaced by Risk.
Number of players: 2 to 5
Difficulty: Medium
Game Manager: Open (We need YOU.) [back to top]

Citadels
Strategy Games
Table 3 / 5:00 to 6:00
Description: Citadels is a strategic card game where players seek to build a collection of buildings in their city. What makes the game interesting is that each turn players secretly choose a character, each with a special ability, from a rapidly dwindling pool of eight. Number of players: 4 to 7
Difficulty: Easy to Medium
Game Manager: Rishi [back to top]

Playing Cards
Card Games
Table 4 / 5:00 to 7:45
Description: This table is reserved for people who are interested in playing standard card games. If you need a special deck (like Canasta or Pinochle) please bring your deck. Euchre will be taught and played.
Number of players: 2 to 7
Difficulty: Easy
Game Manager: Karen W. [back to top]

Loaded Questions
Social Games
Table 5 / 5:00 to 6:00
Table 3 / 10:00 to 11:45
Description: A vaguely personal, hypothetical or social question is asked and everyone secretly answers. Then try to guess who wrote which answer.
Number of players: 3 to 8
Difficulty: Easy
Game Manager: Julie [back to top]

Settlers of Catan
Strategy Games
Table 3 / 8:00 to 9:45
Description: A game of resource management praised the world over for its ease of play and non-confrontational mechanics. Number of players: 3 to 8
Difficulty: Easy
Game Manager: Open (We need YOU.) [back to top]

Stonehenge
Strategy Games
Table 3 / 8:00 to 9:45
Description: A revolutionary concept in board games called the anthology boardgame, where five award-winning game designers, all using the same gaming components and board, create five very different games in one box. We won't have time for all five variations, but this will give you a taste of this brand-new game.
Number of Players: 2-5
Difficulty: Easy to Medium
Game Manager: Rishi [back to top]

Apples to Apples
Social Games
Table 5 / 8:00 to 11:45
Description: Apples to Apples is a fast-paced, social game of crazy comparisons. Select the card from your hand that you think is best described by a card played by the judge. If the judge picks your card, you win that round. And everyone gets a chance to be the judge!
Number of Players: 4-10
Difficulty: Easy
Game Manager: Rishi [back to top]

Wits & Wagers
Social Games
Table 4 / 8:00 to 9:45
Description: Wits & Wagers is trivia made fun! Not a trivia buff? It doesn't matter. Wits & Wagers brings out the excitement of a Vegas-style casino by letting you bet on anyone's answer. So you can win by making educated guesses, by playing the odds, or by knowing the interests of your friends.
Number of Players 3-7 players.
Difficulty: Easy
Game Manager: Open (We need YOU.) [back to top]

Risk
Strategy Games
Table 2 / 5:00 to 8:00
Description: Players control armies, with which they attempt to capture territories from other players. The goal of the game is to control all the territories—or "conquer the world"—through the elimination of the other players. Using area movement, Risk ignores realistic limitations, such as the vast size of the world, and the logistics of long campaigns. Compared to other military board games, Risk is relatively simple and abstract.
Number of Players 3-7 players.
Difficulty: Medium
Game Manager: Open (We need YOU.) [back to top]

Pirates of the Spanish Main. 
Strategy Games 
Table _______________
Description: In Pirates of the Spanish Main, players make fleets of ships to sail to different islands looking for treasure. This booty is obtained in one of two ways: commanding your salty dogs to dig it out of the ground or sending your opponent’s ships to Davy Jones’ locker! Either way, game play is fast and fun..  
Number of players: 2 to 4 
Difficulty: Easy to Moderate 
Game Manager: Andrew Hall. [back to top]

D&D
Role Playing Games
Table
Description: An eternal demonic war draws dangerously close to an end, threatening the balance of all existence. At the crux of this chaotic feud resides a legendary terror fixated upon immortality at any cost. Only the most powerful heroes can hope to defeat a force that lies beyond the influence of the gods.
Number of players: 4
Game Manager: Yi Hsiao [back to top]

D&D Game 2
Roleplaying Games
Table
Description:The Royal Province of Halthios is hosting a tournament of champions.  There will be 7 events, pregenerated 3rd level characters, pic and choose who you want to play.  Will you Champion the tournament or die trying. 
Number of Players: 3 - 8
Difficulty: Medium
Game Manager: Joe [back to top]

Chez Geek
Card Games
Table
Description:n: Players are roommates in an apartment.  Players use their income and free time to slack off while trying to prevent their roommates from being lazier than they are.  First to reach their Slack Goal wins!
Number of Players: 2 - 5
Difficulty: Medium
Game Manager: Daniel [back to top]

3 Dragon Ante
Card Games
Table
Description: Poker meets the world of fantasy.  Players set the stakes and build up their Flights with powerful Dragons in an attempt to win the Gambit.  Sometimes the Dragons' bring their special powers in to effect the game.
Number of Players: 2 - 6
Difficulty: Medium
Game Manager: Daniel [back to top]

Alhambra
Strategy Game
Table
Description:Alhambra is the latest update to the stock market game Stimmt So!, only it has been completely re-themed with a Moorish theme and has an additional tile-laying component. Alhambra won the 2003 Spiel des Jahres.

On a player's turn, they can do one of the following actions:

1. Draw one or several currency cards.
   
2. Buy a tile from the market by playing any number of currency cards whose value equals or exceeds the number on the tile (no change is given) in the appropriate currency. Exactly matching the tile value gives the player an additional action. At the end of the turn the tiles must be added to the Alhambra or placed on the player's reserve board.
3. Alhambra construction. The player may move one tile from the reserve board to the Alhambra, from the Alhambra to the reserve board, or exchange the exact position of one tile in the Alhambra and one in the reserve board.

When the each scoring card appears, the game is immediately paused and the appropriate round is scored. After scoring buildings, each player then scores the longest wall in their Alhambra. The third and final scoring is played when there are not enough building tiles available to refill all markets on the building market board. The winner is the player with the highest number of points.

Number of Players: 2 - 10
Difficulty: Medium
Game Manager: Laura [back to top]

Fading Suns / D & D
Roleplaying Games
Table
Description: Fading Suns is a space opera RPG created by the developers of White Wolf's 'Vampire: the Masquerade' and 'Werewolf: the Apocalypse.' In it, players take on the roles of men and women living in a new feudal era among the stars. Beginners are welcome, and premade characters will be provided.
Number of Players: 3 - 8
Difficulty: Medium
Game Manager: Jim [back to top]

Get Bit
Card Games
Table
Description: The number on each player's card determines position in line (higher numbers in front, lower numbers in back), however ties don't move.  The player at the back of the line looses a limb and is thrown to the front of the line. each player has four limbs to loose, and the game ends when only two players are left. the player in front wins.
Number of Players: 2 - 6
Difficulty: Medium
Game Manager: Anne [back to top]

Taboo
Word Games
Table
Description: Taboo is a party word game. Players take turns describing a word or phrase on a drawn card to their partner without using five common additional words or phrases also on the card. The opposing partners watch a timer and use a buzzer to stop the game, buzz the player describing if one of the five off limits words or phrases is used, or the describing player makes any gestures. The describing team gets a point for each card they guess successfully and the opposing team gets a point for each card they pass on, make gestures on, or lose for saying one of the off limits words or phrases. An excellent party game!
Number of Players: 4 - 6
Difficulty: Medium
Game Manager: Julie [back to top]

25 Words or less
Word Games
Table
Description:Players divide up into two teams. The current clue-givers look at a list of five words that they're going to have to get their teammates to say using only words (aka, no sounds or gestures). The clue-givers bid on the number of words that they can accomplish the feat, with the lowest bid getting the honor of doing so. If the team cannot successfully name the words in the allotted time and with the bid number of words (or less), then the other team gets the point. The first team to collect ten points is the winner.
Number of Players: 4 - 6
Difficulty: Medium
Game Manager: Julie [back to top]

Cranium
Social Games
Table
Description:Cranium bills itself as the "whole-brain" game. It's a party game that borrows from a host of other popular party games of recent times. Players have to successfully complete activities in each of four sections to win:

• Creative Cat : A player must clue a word to his or her teammates by drawing it, sculpting it in clay, or drawing it with his or her eyes closed.
• Data Head : A variety of trivia questions.
• Word Worm : Players unscramble words, spell challenging words, guess definitions, identify words with letters left out, or spell words backwords.
• Star Performer : players must whistle a song, impersonate a celebrity, or act out a clue.

Cranium has elements similar to those of Pictionary, Charades, Trivial Pursuit, Celebrities, Huggermugger, Claymania, etc.

Difficulty: Easy
Game Manager: Julie [back to top]

Imaginiff
Social Games
Table
Description: The game is played in rounds. Each round, one of the players is chosen as the "subject" of a question. The question has 6 multiple choice answers. The question is read aloud and players vote on the answer they think is correct. Points are awarded to the players that chose the most popular answer. An example of a question:

Imaginiff <blank> were a flying object. Which would he/she be?
1) Blimp
2) Biplane
3) Glider
4) Frisbee
5) Lear jet
6) Brick
Number of Players: 4 - 6
Difficulty: Easy
Game Manager: Julie [back to top]

Bang!
Social Games
Table
Description: The Outlaws hunt the Sheriff. The Sheriff hunts the Outlaws. The Renegade plots secretly, ready to take one side or the other. Bullets fly. Who among the gunmen is a Deputy, ready to sacrifice himself for the Sheriff? And who is a merciless Outlaw, willing to kill him? If you want to find out, just draw (your cards)! Up to 8 players!
Difficulty: Easy
Game Manager: Aram [back to top]