Board and Card Games

On this page you will find a list of the gaming events sorted alphabetically by rules system. You can find information on how to submit gaming events of your own on our Volunteers & Gamemasters Page. Note: We are relocating Board and Card games to the main convention area this year.

Gaming Events

Car Wars (Boardgame)

B01 Car Wars - Tag Team Brawl 4 - 8 players
Car Wars (Matchbox scale) Fri. 2000 Beginner

Usually the highways of the future have friends few and far between, but this time you have a buddy watching your back. You and up to three more teams of two each are involved in a tag team arena event. The competition is sure to be intense - after all, its twice the cars, twice the guns and twice the explosions! Come check out the new style of Car Wars, fresh for the year!
Player Gear: Some six sided dice and a pencil are strongly recommended.
GM - Andy Faulkner, local MIB cell leader and SJG volunteer game demo rep


B02 Car Wars - Saturday Shoot-Out 3 - 8 players
Car Wars (Matchbox scale) Sat. 1500 Beginner
At the Saturday Shoot-out will you win it all or will you go home in flames? Car Wars is back and better than ever with streamlined rules, a new look and a new scale that lets you use "Matchbox" cars instead of cardboard counters! This is an all against all arena battle using Division 10 pregenerated vehicles. Come see what's new with this classic game of highway combat.
Player Gear: Some six sided dice and a pencil are strongly recommended.
GM - Andy Faulkner, local MIB cell leader and SJG volunteer game demo rep

Car Wars Card Game

B03 Amateur Night 3 - 6 players
Car Wars Card Game Sat. 1000 Beginner

It's amateur night at the Arena. All are welcome, but only a few will walk away at the end of the night. Who will have the skills to claim the the title of Champion? Will it be you?
GM - Al Griego, Man In Black (Steve Jackson Games volunteer game demo rep)

Cheap-Ass Games

B04 Miscellaneous Cheap-Ass Games 4 - 9 players
Variable Sat. 1000 Beginner

Light-hearted games: an assortment of The Great Brain Robbery, Ben Hvrt, Spree, Falling -- a focused time for otherwise open gaming.
GM - Ian Barland

Chez Geek

B05 Chez Geek 4 - 6 players
Chez Geek Sat. 1000 Beginner
Chez Geek is the game where you try to get as much slack as possible through drinking, carousing, partying, and making a general nuisance of yourself to those around you. Just like apartment life, but with less actual mess to pick up. For mature(yeah, right) OLDER players only, please!
GM - Keith Nielsen, Man In Black (Steve Jackson Games volunteer game demo rep)

B06 Chez Geek 3 - 6 players
Chez Geek Fri. 2000 Beginner
It's just like dorm life, but without the green shag carpeting. Partying, sleeping and nookie. Who could ask for more? Mature players, please.
GM - Al Griego, Man In Black (Steve Jackson Games volunteer game demo rep)

Frag

B07 Frag-O-Rama 3 - 6 players
Frag Sat. 2000 Beginner

GET READY TO RRRRRRRRRRUMBLE!!! It's Open night at the Deathmatch Arena. Come one, come all and test your skills against all comers!! Big guns and bigger prizes! Who could ask for more?
Player gear: Please bring pencils.
GM - Al Griego, Man In Black (Steve Jackson Games volunteer game demo rep)

Grave Robbers From Outer Space

B08 Grave Robbers From Outer Space 2 - 12 players
Grave Robbers From Outer Space Sat. 2000 Beginner

Pay homeage to the classic B-movies we all love to hate. Strive to make a movie that will last, while killing the casts of other movies. How can you not love the Nymphomaniac Cheerleaders, the Guy that everyone knows will die and Sparky the wonder dog! Lots of fun, and easy to play.
...Say is that a tentacle?
GM - Zev Shlasinger

Knightmare Chess

B09 Knightmare Chess 1 - 4 players
Knightmare Chess Fri. 2000 Beginner
This game is Bobby Fischer's Knightmare! Standard chess, but with cards that change the rules in brutal ways. Ever want to turn a pawn into a claymore mine, or a fireball? Knightmare Chess is the game for you!
GM - Keith Nielsen, Man In Black (Steve Jackson Games volunteer game demo rep)

Looney/Icehouse Games

B10 Playing With Pyramids 3 - 8 players
Looney/Icehouse Games Fri. 2000, Sun. 1000 Beginner
There are currently over 60 games in existence using the versatile little Icehouse pyrmaids and any of them will be available for play here. Open to both novices and veteran players. Other Looney games like Fluxx and Chrononauts will also be available.
GM - Michelle Lepovic, an official Looney Labs Mad Lab Rabbit

Lunch Money

B11 Lunch Money 2 - 15 players
Lunch Money Sun. 1000 Beginner
A fast paced card game where you are all little girls talking smack and beating each other up for lunch money.
GM - Kevin Keel

Magi Nation

B12 Magi Nation Demo 2 - 8 players
Magi Nation Fri. 2000 Beginner
Come and learn to play one of Inquest's nominees for Best CCG of 2001. Decks will be provided, or you can bring your own.
GM - Jeffrey A. Sass

B13 Magi Nation Tourney 2 - 8 players
Magi Nation Sat. 2000 Intermediate
Come and play one of Inquest's nominees for Best CCG of 2001. Bring your best deck and pit your skills against the finest Magi Nation players Owlcon has to offer. Prizes will be awarded to top finishers.
GM - Jeffrey A. Sass

Munchkin

B14 Munchkin 2 - 6 players
Munchkin Fri. 2000, Sat. 2000 Beginner
Kill the monsters! Steal the treasure! Stab your buddy! Munchkin is a card game for 2-6 players, a parody of the classic munchkin gaming experience. Enjoy all the perks of being a munchkin, without all of that messy roleplaying!
GM - Jeffrey Ruppel, Man In Black (Steve Jackson Games volunteer game demo rep)

Roborally

B15 Roborally 4 - 8 players
Roborally Fri. 2000 Beginner

Each player's robot races across the factory floor. Avoid pits, stand on gears to help you turn, maybe hitch a ride on a conveyor belt (and hope fervently you can step off before being conveyed to a crusher!). Each turn you're dealt a hand of nine basic instructions, from which you create a five-step program. If you're clever maybe you can push another robot off-course, cheering as their program guides them into the path of violent danger.
GM - Ian Barland

Shadowfist (CCG/TCG)

B16 Final Brawl (Sanctioned Tournament) 18 players
Shadowfist Sun. 1000 Intermediate

Note: This is a sanctioned tournament, Swiss, 3 rounds.
Shadowfist is the mile-a-minute, sword-clashing, butt-kicking, Uzi-spraying, boat-exploding, car-chasing, monster-crunching, Hong Kong cinematic action card game that is so epic it would take fourteen John Woos to film and a cast the likes of Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh. And that's just in the first five minutes! Equal opportunity butt kicking, baby!
GM - Dan Mauldin, a member of the Silver Band, Z-Man Games' official demo team.


B17 Shadowfist Demo 10 players
Shadowfist Sat. 2000 Beginner

Learn to play Shadowfist, the mile-a-minute, sword-clashing, butt-kicking, Uzi-spraying, boat-exploding, car-chasing, monster-crunching, Hong Kong cinematic action card game that is so epic it would take fourteen John Woos to film and a cast the likes of Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh. And that's just in the first five minutes! Equal opportunity butt kicking, baby!
GM - Dan Mauldin, a member of the Silver Band, Z-Man Games' official demo team.

Star Fleet Battleforce

B18 Star Fleet Battleforce 2 - 8 players
Star Fleet Battleforce Fri. 2000 Beginner
Fast paced card game where you battle your opponents using the classic Star Trek ships. Featured races include The Federation, Klingons, Romulans, Kzinti, Gorn, Tholians and the Orion Pirates.
GM - Kevin Keel

Titan: Avalon Hill's Monster Slug-a-thon

B19 Titan Demo (Avalon Hill's Monster Slug-a-thon) 3 - 6 players
Titan Sat. 1500 Beginner

Clashes between ogres, gorgons, and dragons: On the masterboard your stacks wander around looking to recruit bigger and meaner creatures. When you run into an enemy stack, battle occurs on a small tactical-level map. The last titan left standing wins the game.
Avalon-Hill dubs it their "Monster Slug-a-thon Fantasy Wargame"
GM - Ian Barland


B20 Titan (Avalon Hill's Monster Slug-a-thon) 3 - 6 players
Titan Sat. 2000 Intermediate

Clashes between ogres, gorgons, and dragons: On the masterboard your stacks wander around looking to recruit bigger and meaner creatures. When you run into an enemy stack, battle occurs on a small tactical-level map. The last titan left standing wins the game.
Avalon-Hill dubs it their "Monster Slug-a-thon Fantasy Wargame"
GM - Ian Barland