Board and Card Games

On this page you will find a list of gaming events sorted alphabetically by rules system. For a listing of all events and their time slots and locations, see the Gaming Overview. You can find information on how to submit gaming events of your own on our Gamemasters Page.

Game Details

Advanced Squad Leader

Advanced Squad Leader Tournament 24 players
Fri 2000, Sat 1000 - 2000, Sun 1000 - 1500 Intermediate

Note: This event will be held in the Naval Sciences (NROTC) building.

ASL is a squad level WWII board game usually played between 2 people. For more information, see http://www.multimanpublishing.com/ASL/asl.php

GM - Walter Eardley

Age of Mythology

Age of Mythology 3 - 8 players
Fri 2000 Beginner

FREE BEER!!! No, not really, but bring the pretzels anyway, along with your back-stabbing skills, and join us for a fun strategy game! Explore the ancient world, gather resources, build your cities, and amass armies of legendary heroes and mythical creatures to face off in an epic struggle against your opponents in the new hit AGE OF MYTHOLOGY! No prior experience necessary, just an overwhelming desire to conquer the world!

GM - Tony Silva

Board and Card Game Demos

Board and Card Game Demos
2 - 8 Players
Sat 2000, Sun 1000, Sun 1500 Beginner

Do you like board games? What about card games? Would you like to learn a few new ones? What's up with all those German Games? And what about upstart American companies like Out of the Box, Cheapass Games, or Diet Evil Games? Here's your chance to find out! Just come on over and with no prior experience, we'll have you playing entirely new games in moments!

GM - Kevin Nunn


Wild & Wacky Card Game Extravaganza
2 - 6 Players
Sat 1000, Sat 1500 Beginner

Like card games? Love to laugh? Then this is the event for
you. We'll have a stack of hilarious and easy to learn card games and we'll
play through as many as we can in 4 hours. Included in the stack o' games
shall be (but not limited to!) Munchkin, Nobody But Us Chickens, Landlord,
Bohnanza, Unexploded Cow, FraudSquad, King's Breakfast, Burn Rate,
Management Material, and whatever else good comes out between now and then!
Feel free to bring some along if you have favorites.

GM - Anye Sellers

Car Wars Card Game

Car Wars Card Game 3 - 6 Players
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 - Keith Nielsen

Carcossone / Canaan

Carcossone and Settlers of Canaan
2 - 6 Players
Sat 2000 Beginner

Come play Carcossone, a clever tile laying game, and Settlers of Canaan, a biblical version of Settlers of Catan.

GM - Michael Scott

Cheapass Games

Cheapass Games- Favorites 2 - 7 Players
Fri 2000, Sat 1000, Sun 1000 Beginner

Inexpensive and goofy fun with games like Unexploded Cow, Light Speed, Give Me the Brain (Deluxe Edition), and Lord of the Fries. Cheapass Games is a real company; visit their double-secret website at www.cheapass.com.

GM - Todd Derscheid


Cheapass Games- Favorites 2 - 6 Players
Sun 1500 Beginner

Random card games from Cheap Ass Games. To list a few of the games? The big cheese. You're a rat bidding your way to the top, trying to impress the soon-to-be retired big cheese and hopefully take his place. In another game titled Unexploded Cow you get to, you guessed it, blow up cows. In Give me the Brain you're a zombie working in a fast food place trying to get a brain. So pull up a chair and give a game a swing.

GM - Alex Camacho

Chez Geek

Chez Geek 3 - 6 Players
Fri 2000 Beginner

It's the roomie experience, packet into a card game! Players must get slack by buying stuff and doing cool things, with what free time and money their jobs give them. The first person to reach their slack goal wins!

GM - Jeffrey Ruppel

Diplomacy

Diplomacy 5 - 7 Players
Sat 2000 Beginner

FREE BEER!!! No, not really, but bring the pretzels anyway, along with your back-stabbing skills, and join us for a fun strategy game! Make (and break) agreements in order to dominate Europe in the cut-throat favorite DIPLOMACY! No prior experience necessary, just an overwhelming desire to conquer the world!

GM - Tony Silva

Dwarven Dig

Dwarven Dig Frenzy!
2 - 4 Players
Sun 1000 Beginner

Dwarven Dig is Kenzer & Co's board game of dwarves and digging and gold and digging and smacking down your opponents, and all the other things dwarves do, which would be more digging. It uses a hex-tile variable board mechanic and a team of dwarves for each player. Each dwarf has its own special abilities, which lend depth of strategy to the game. Come play!

GM - John Simons

Frag

Frag
2 - 6 Players
Sat 1000 Beginner

Frag is a computer game without a computer. It's a "first-person shooter" on a tabletop. Move your fighter and frag your foes; draw cards for weapons, armor, and gadgets; move through the blood spatters to restore your own health! So take a few minutes, make a character, grab a mini, and jump in shooting! If you die, respawn and dish out some payback...

GM - Alex Camacho


Frag
2 - 6 Players
Sat 1500 Beginner

Frag is a computer game without a computer. It's a "first-person shooter" on a tabletop. Move your fighter and frag your foes; draw cards for weapons, armor, and gadgets; move through the blood spatters to restore your own health! So take a few minutes, make a character, grab a mini, and jump in shooting! If you die, respawn and dish out some payback...

GM - Andrew Faulkner

Hack

Hack: the Tomb of Vectra Card Game 2 - 5 Players
Fri 2000, Sun 1500 Beginner

The pizza is finally here. All the players are finally in their places. The DM is finally done rambling about the flavor text. All you want is the Hand of Vectra and Ultimate Power!!! Mwa..Ha..Haaaa...<cough> *hack*
Well, that... and to escape. But when has the DM ever let you escape?
The Thief has successfully disarmed every trap in the game with his face, the Barbarian has gone up a level by killing every NPC with a clue as to finding the Treasure, the Cleric has used up all her healing spells on the stupid NPCs, and the Wizard has valiantly taken everybody to minimum hitpoints with a very impressive fireblast that should have blown the Evil Gazebo to smithereens. But luckily, if you argue the rules right, your mexican burro can be used as a Dwarven Warhorse of Doom.
Come join The Knights of the Dinner Table as they once again ravage a dungeon of all that is good and pure and drive the DM to tears.

GM - Morgan Oviatt

History of the World

History of the World 3 - 6 Players
Sat 1000 Beginner

FREE BEER!!! No, not really, but bring the pretzels anyway, along with your back-stabbing skills, and join us for some fun strategy games! Build an empire to withstand the passing of the ages in HISTORY OF THE WORLD! No prior experience necessary, just an overwhelming desire to conquer the world!

GM - Tony Silva

Junta

Junta 3 - 7 Players
Sat 2000, Sun 1000 Beginner

Play as a Machiavellian conspirator out to pad your Swiss bank account by gaining political power in your vaguely South American country, La Republica de Las Bananas. Launch military coups against El Presidente, assassinate rivals hiding out at their mistress's house, buy your allies with graft, and make furtive dashes to desposit your ill-gotten gains at the bank.

GM - James Brantley

Knightmare Chess

Knightmare Chess 2 - 4 Players
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

Lunch Money

Lunch Money 1 - 4 Players
Fri 2000, Sat 1500 Beginner

Lunch Money is an exciting, fast-paced, multi-player card game that combines dark, psychological images with the raw dynamics of a merciless street fight. On a playground. Between schoolgirls. It's a lot like a real fight - only without all that slippery blood.

GM - Evan Hunt

Magic: the Gathering

Magic Booster Draft 8-18 players
Sat 1500 Intermediate

$12 entry fee (pay at the table) includes 3 booster packs. DCI Sanctioned event.

GM - John Simons


Mirrodin/Darksteel Rochester Draft 8-16 players
Sun 1500 Intermediate

$12 entry fee (pay at the table) includes 3 booster packs. A pack of cards is laid face up on the table. Players choose cards on a rotation until all cards are picked. Each player will end up with 45 cards (like a standard draft). The challenge is to build the best possible deck even though your opponents know what cards you drafted. This is the most challenging and the most fun MTG format! If you've never tried it -- don't miss it!

GM - John Simons

Munchkin

Munchkin 3 - 6 Players
Sat 1500 Beginner

This award-winning card game, designed by Steve Jackson, captures the essence of the dungeon experience . . . with none of that stupid roleplaying stuff. You and your friends compete to kill monsters and grab magic items. And what magic items! Don the Horny Helmet and the Boots of Butt-Kicking. Wield the Staff of Napalm . . . or maybe the Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment. Start by slaughtering the Potted Plant and the Drooling Slime, and work your way up to the Plutonium Dragon . . .

GM - Oscar Cavazos


Munchkin 3 - 6 Players
Sat 2000 Beginner

Kill the monsters, grab the loot, stab your buddies. Have all the fun of a dungeon crawl, without all that pesky roleplaying! Munchkin is a card game for 3-6 players based on the classic dungeon crawl, and the munchkinly behavior that sometimes goes with it. It's easy to learn and fun to play!

GM - Jeffrey Ruppel

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Challenge 3 - 5 Players
Sat 1000, Sat 2000 Beginner

In 1493 Christopher Columbus discovered the eastern-most island of the Great Antilles. About 50 years later, Puerto Rico began to really blossom - through YOU! Which roles will you play in this new world: Prospector? Governor? Settler? Trader? Whatever you do, you have one goal: to achieve the greatest prosperity and highest reputation! Who will have the most fruitful plantation? Who will build the most impressive buildings? And, who will earn the most victory points?

GM - Scott Randall

Rail Games (Various)

Rail Games 2 - 6 Players
Fri 2000, Sat 1000, Sat 1500, Sat 2000, Sun 1000, Sun 1500 Beginner

A series of board games each having a railroad theme that will be run throughout the weekend:

Fri 2000 - Eurorails
Sat 1000 - Rail Baron
Sat 1500 - Silverton
Sat 2000 - Iron Dragon
Sun 1000 - Union Pacific
Sun 1500 - Metro

GM - Rick Jones

Risk 2210

Lightning Strike: A Risk 2210 Variant 3 - 5 Players
Fri 2000, Sat 1500, Sun 1500 Beginner

Risk 2210 is a future variation of Risk with a time limit and cards added. Attempt to take over the Earth and the Moon. Lightning Strike makes minor rule changes to speed the game. Several more cards added for more nuclear and cruise missile attacks.

GM - Gary Denton

Settlers of Catan

Settlers of Catan 1 - 12 Players
Sat 1000, Sun 1000 Beginner

Come and conquer the island of Catan before your opponents do.

GM - Richard and Hilary Trapp


GIANT Settlers of Catan 1 - 4 Players
Sat 1000, Sat 1500, Sat 2000 (closed) Beginner

This is the standard game of Settlers of Catan, just larger. It plays just like the regular game but the oversized board and playing pieces makes for a very enjoyable game.

GM - Glen Bucher

Strange Synergy

Strange Synergy
2 - 4 Players
Fri 2000 Beginner

Strange Synergy is the game of battles between teams of warriors. What makes it unique is the combination of abilities and how they interact to create the ultimate warrior. Can you build the ultimate team of three warriors using three powers for each?

GM - Andrew Faulkner

Talisman

Talisman - 2nd Ed. (with Mountain & Dungeon regions)
3 - 6 Players
Sun 1000, Sun 1500 Beginner

D&D and Monopoly had a mutant child!!!!! GW's TALISMAN. Come join the adventure for the Crown of Command. Battle Monsters, cast spells, fight other players, HAVE BIG FUN!

GM - Craig Bertuglia

Titan

Titan
2 - 4 Players
Sat 1500, Sat 2000 Beginner

Clashes between ogres, gorgons, and dragons:
On the masterboard, your stacks wander around looking to recruit bigger, meaner creatures. When you greet an enemy stack, battle zooms in to a small tactical-level map.
The last titan left standing wins.
Avalon Hill's "Monster Slug-a-thon Fantasy Wargame".
2-6 players per board (3-4 best); approx. 5 hours.

The Sat 1500 session will be a demo for beginners. The Sat 2000 session will be the regular game.

GM - Ian Barland

Twilight Imperium

Twilight Imperium
2 - 5 Players
Sun 1000 - 1500 Beginner

Twilight Imperium is a boardgame that has it all: combat, politics, economic, and of course its a blast to play. The Hope's end expansion is included and there are a couple of optional rules which players will vote on to see if they desire to use

GM - Chris Hadjison

Wooden Ships and Iron Men

Wooden Ships and Iron Men
2 - 6 Players
Sat 1500 Beginner

Avalon Hill's classic board game

GM - Stephen Duncan