ARCON VII Game Schedule

Check out which games ran at ARCON VII. This was the final schedule, minus any naughty people who submited their games late. If you have a questions or comments, please e-mail us at stg@oswego.edu or post it to the ARCON section of our forum. You can begin submitting games to ARCON IX next fall.

This is just the list of games plus the anime and sci-fi that was shown. It is organized by GAME TYPE and then SLOT. If you wish, below is a link to download the full packet as a Word file, including Introduction, Staff, and important additional information.

->Download ARCON VII Packet - DOC format. (right click to save-as)

To make life easier, here's a table of contents. Just click on the Slot to go there instantly!

RPG's: Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 | Slot 4 | Slot 5 | Slot 6 | Slot 7 | Slot 8
SRG's: Slot 1 | Slot 3 | Slot 4 | Slot 5 | Slot 6 | Slot 7
EVG's: Slot 1 | Slot 3 | Slot 4 | Slot 5 | Slot 8
SPC's: Slot 4 | Slot 5 | Slot 6 | Slot 7 | Slot 8
Anime / Sci-fi: Schedule Here

Role Playing Games

Slot 1; 6:30pm – 10:00pm Friday

RPG 101:
GM Name: Phil Marcus
Game Name: Starship Troopers: The Selvache Incident
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: d20
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 4 to 6
Player Skill Level: Beginner
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Game Description:
A Mobile Infantry squad has been sent to reinforce the garrison for the listening post on Selvache. However, a simple task of relieving the troopers at the post turns into a deadly fight for survival when the Bugs are found to have a significant presence on the moon. And they will do anything to get the humans off their moon...?

RPG 102:
GM Name: Bret Gillan
Game Name: The Final Girl
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: The Final Girl
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 3-5
Pregenerated Characters: No
Game Description:
Note: This is a playtest of a beta version of a game.

The Final Girl is a horror game based on the "pick-them-off-one-by-one" horror movies whether it's slashers, supernatural monster movies, or sci-fi horror. We'll create a monster, a setting, and a cast who will then get whittled down until the game's conclusion. If you love horror movies or want to try something different, please join me!

RPG 103:
GM Name: Nate Earl
Game Name: Fearmaker's Promise
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: Changeling, White wolf
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 2-5
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: No
Game Description:
At twilight, a young boy chases a rabbit into a thicket and is never seen again. At midnight, a mother hears the sudden cry of her newborn girl on the baby monitor... when she enters the room to check, the child is gone, the crib overturned and the room is filled with red moths. Toward morning, twelve-year-old twins finally decide to confront the monster that lurks in their closet and in doing so are snatched away by a pair of hands sticky with silk spun by greasy worms. Perhaps it's time to put an end to these abductions. But is the cost of stopping them too high? Is there a cold comfort to be found in sacrifice?

In Changeling: The Lost you play a strange, former-captive of mystical beings, named "Fairies" or "The Fae" for a want of terms. Will you stop these terrible creatures from abducting the innocent or will you be stuck forever in a land where dreams are very real and nightmares await you around each corner?

Slot 2; 10:30pm-2:00am Friday/Saturday

RPG 201:
GM Name: Shawn Ingram
Game Name: Lawyer Dance Off
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: Sea Dracula
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 4-9
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: No
Game Description:
Animal City is a strange city, complete with a strange legal system. Lawyers investigate crime scenes, testify in court (for any side, opinion, theory, shape or color they wish) and protect the city from evil monsters. They solve their own problems by arguing in court, calling witnesses, and mostly dancing.

There are no dice in Animal City, there is only dancing. Every player gets a free copy of the Sea Dracula rule-book should they want it.

RPG 202:
GM Name: Kevin Kreiner
Game Name: X Marks the Spot
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: MARVEL SAGA
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 3-7
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Game Description:
The students at the Xavier Institute always look forward to a day out, and what could be better than a full day away from work, practice, and supervision? Add an exotic setting and a mystery or two, and its a good time for all.

RPG 203:
GM Name: Pete Sterpe, Jr
Game Name: Defend the Bar
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: D&D 3.5
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 4-8
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: No
Game Description:
The town of Rogaine is once again under attack... This year you are neither the town's defenders or the attackers. You are instead ordinary townsfolk who only wanted a night of drunken revelry, but instead must defend the bar from Orcish assault!

Slot 3; 10:00am – 1:30pm Saturday

RPG 301:
GM Name: Rob Kirker
Game Name: Raiders of the Lost Monarch
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: Highlander: the Gathering (Driskill / Gavigan)
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 4-6
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Game Description:
The group of Immortals brought together by the French Revolution continues its fight against the mysterious Blade and Key Society. In their last encounter in Africa, the group uncovered the secret Society base at the Lost City of Gold and discovered their plans. Now, with the Gathering approaching, the battle moves to the Middle East. There, the group must stop the Society from securing a key piece of their plan Ð an ancient artifact of the King of kings, possibly the Holy Grail itself! But the Blade and Key Society has allied itself with the Nazis, and they are already one step ahead of the group. Can the Society be stopped before their plan of manipulating the Gathering and stealing the Prize comes to fruition?

RPG 302:
GM Name: Nathaniel Borys
Game Name: Local Tourney Round 1
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: HackMaster
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 5+
Player Skill level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Game Description:
First round of a 2 round HackMaster Tourney. All are welcome to play as we celebrate the last year of HackMaster 4th ed before the release of HackMaster without the interference the incompetence of WotC.

Survivalist horror set in the modern day World of Darkness where players play one of several roles of somewhat normal people drawn into a world of nightmare beyond their control.

Slot 4; 2:00pm – 5:30pm Saturday

RPG 401:
GM Name: Christopher Raslan
Game Name: Dungeons and Dragons 4th Ed
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: D&D
Minimum and Maximum Number of Players: 4-6
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Game Description: 
You are an epic hero, a living legend who has survived waves of orcs, demons and the undead. Dragons have fallen by your hand. But now something worse is about to wake, and it could destroy the universe.

Xuyl-ka' Zui the Lord of Destruction is a primordial who was imprisoned by the gods ages ago. But now his followers have found the four keys to free him. They are conducting a ritual which will remove his bindings and free him. Should they succeed the gods and the world might perish. Only you and your allies can stop this.

Continued in RPG 501.

RPG 402:
GM Name: Christopher Green
Game Name: CORE1-1 Inheritance
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: D&D 4th Edition
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 4 & 6
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Game Description:
When the Netherese conquered Sembia those who objected were either killed or forced to flee. Decades later, a young man inherits a key to the family vault abandoned seventy years earlier. Desperate for money, he hires you to retrieve its contents in a gamble that something worthwhile is still there. A Living Forgotten Realms adventure set in Sembia for characters levels 1-4.

This is an official RPGA Living Forgotten Realms adventure, players must have or be willing to join RPGA to take part in this adventure. RPGA membership is free and applications will be available at the table.

Players may bring their own 1st level characters constructed by RPGA and Living Forgotten Realms rules. Pregenerated characters will be available for those who don't bring their own character.

RPG 403:
GM Name: Bret Gillan
Game Name: The Final Girl
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: The Final Girl
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 3-5
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: No
Game Description:
Note: This is a playtest of a beta version of a game.

The Final Girl is a horror game based on the "pick-them-off-one-by-one" horror movies whether it's slashers, supernatural monster movies, or sci-fi horror. We'll create a monster, a setting, and a cast who will then get whittled down until the game's conclusion. If you love horror movies or want to try something different, please join me!

Slot 5; 6:30pm – 10:00pm Saturday

RPG 501:
GM Name: Christopher Raslan
Game Name: Dungeons and Dragons 4th Ed
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: D&D
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 4-6
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Game Description:
You are an epic hero, a living legend who has survived waves of orcs, demons and the undead. Dragons have fallen by your hand. But now something worse is about to wake, and it could destroy the universe.

Xuyl-ka' Zui the Lord of Destruction is a primordial who was imprisoned by the gods ages ago. But now his followers have found the four keys to free him. They are conducting a ritual which will remove his bindings and free him. Should they succeed the gods and the world might perish. Only you and your allies can stop this.

Continued from RPG 401.

RPG 502:
GM Name: Liz Hunt
Game Name: The Day Miss Button Went Insane
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: Monsters and Other Childish Things
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 3-6
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: No
Game Description:
A day just like any other day at 1.5 Street Elementary School for Exceptional Children, really, not much can shock kids that have imaginary monsters following them everywhere.

And, honestly all that "exceptional" crap is really just a front for your principal that's working with a government agency wanting to use your monsters to "protect" the country.

But anyway, you really like your third grade teacher. Miss Button has been the only person in the school this year to actually care about her students. Besides you really don't want to break in another teacher. (She's your third this year.)

Can you and your classmates (with monsters in tow) save Miss Button from spending the rest of her life in a padded room?

Monsters and Other Childish Things gives you the chance to play an elementary student with imaginary monster as your best friend.

RPG 503:
GM Name: Pete Sterpe, Jr
Game Name: Star Trek: Rejects
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: Star Trek: The RPG (sorta)
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 4-7
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Game Description:
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of what is not really even a starship. Its 5-year mission, to try not to screw up too badly. You are the crew of a Daedalus-class starship, which is barely more useful than a garbage scow. You make up the biggest failures and screwups in Starfleet. Your Captain is a fat, washed up, barely competent commander. However, the Federation is in desperate straits and must call on you and your ship to defend it. They're probably screwed.

Slot 6; 10:30pm – 2:00 am Saturday/Sunday

RPG 601:
GM Name: Kevin Kreiner
Game Name: Living After Midnight
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: MARVEL SAGA
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 3-7
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
One of the nicest parts about having friends in high places is you get to go to the coolest clubs, and see the hottest acts. Tonight is no different.

At first.

Looks like you may need those mutant powers after all.

RPG 602:
GM Name: Alexander Deerkop
Game Name: Zelda WTF v4.0
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: Mutants and Masterminds
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 4-6
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Game Description:
"Long ago in a distant land, I, Ganondorf, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish Hylian warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Ganondorf!"

Take the role of Link as he enters a strange land familiar to his own but owned by evil. Can Link and his friends take back Hyrule?

Slot 7; 10:00am – 1:30 pm Sunday

RPG 701:
GM Name: Christopher Raslan
Game Name: Starship Aeon
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: BESM
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 3-7
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Game Description:
So we have Link, The Doctor, Storm, Naruto, Hermione and Guts all in the same group?! What's going on? And why are the Daleks working with Apocalypse and Voldemort?!

Worlds are colliding, danger threatens from all sides, and only a teamup of heroes from across space and time can stop it!

RPG 702:
GM Name: Nathaniel Borys
Game Name: Local Tourney Round 2
Game Type: Role Playing Game
Game System: HackMaster
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 5+
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Game Description:
Second round of a 2 round HackMaster Tourney. All are welcome to play as we celebrate the last year of HackMaster 4th ed before the release of HackMaster without the interference the incompetence of WotC.

Slot 8; 2:00pm – 5:30 pm Sunday

This is a one-shot game set in the world of Shadowrun.

Strategy Games

Slot 1; 6:30pm – 10:00pm Friday

SRG 101:
GM Name: Mike Virgo
Game Name: 5th Annual Beat the Virg
Game Type: Collectible Card Game
Game System: Magic: The Gathering
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: no limit
Player Skill Level: Beginner
Pregenerated Characters: No
Game Description:
Do you think you have what it takes to "beat the Virg"? Rules are simple. Each person may only enter once. The match will consist of a best of 3 games of Magic: The Gathering. Both myself and the participant may use only DCI Standard Legal decks. 60-card minimum. No proxys. Allowed sets: Lorwyn, Morningtide, Shadowmoor, Eventide, Shards Of Alara, Conflux, and 10th Edition. Each victory will earn you a rare card picked at random from the prize pool. If you go 2-0 you will win a third rare of your choice from the pool.

SRG 102:
GM Name: Shawn Ingram
Game Name: Rotating Risk
Game Type: Board Game
Game System: Risk
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 3-6
Player Skill Level: Beginner
Pregenerated Characters: No
Game Description:
An ever changing, ever playing game of Risk. Start first slot, end at the end of slot 8. When one game ends, start a new game. No need to preregister, just show up and play. The game will run throughout the entirety of the con as long as people are willing to play.

Slot 3; 10:00am – 1:30pm Saturday

Slot 4; 2:00pm – 5:30pm Saturday

This is a Conflux Booster Draft.

Admission is $10. Entrants will get 3 packs total consisting of booster packs from the Shards of Alara block, which will be used to draft their tournament decks. There will be 4 rounds of Swiss style. Prizes will be awarded based on the amount of players entered.

This event is DCi sanctioned.

This is my second annual Warhammer 40K Tournament to determine who can conquer the war torn universe of the future. The rules are simple: six turns per match, 500 point limit, winner is determined by victory points. Players MUST provide their own armies. Painted models are not necessary, but you must use the weapons glued on to the models. Current 5th edition Warhammer 40K rules are in effect. Tournament format and other regulations will be announced at the start of the tournament. Survive, if you can...

Continued in SRG 502.

Slot 5; 6:30pm – 10:00pm Saturday

Each player will have a team of two mechs, representing some of the most advanced technologies their house has to offer. Teams will be balanced by gunnery and piloting abilities and battle values of mechs. May the best pilots survive!

SRG 502:
GM Name: Scott Charette
Game Name: Warhammer 40K Tournament
Game Type: Miniatures
Game System: Warhammer 40K Mini's
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 6-12
Player Skill Level: Beginner
Pregenerated Characters: No
Game Description:
This is my second annual Warhammer 40K Tournament to determine who can conquer the war torn universe of the future. The rules are simple: six turns per match, 500 point limit, winner is determined by victory points. Players MUST provide their own armies. Painted models are not necessary, but you must use the weapons glued on to the models. Current 5th edition Warhammer 40K rules are in effect. Tournament format and other regulations will be announced at the start of the tournament. Survive, if you can...

CONTINUED FROM SRG 402.

SRG 503:
GM Name: Eric Bryan
Game Name: Heroscape - Battle for Valhalla
Game Type: Miniatures
Game System: Heroscape
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 6-9 max
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Game Description:
The greatest warriors from time and space are drawn together to battle for the fate of Valhalla.

Draft from Knights, Soldiers, Samurai, Aliens, Zombies, Cyborgs, Elves, Dragons, and a vast array of other champions and squadrons.

Figures will be provided, but personal Heroscape collections are allowed.

Depending on turnout, teams of 2-3 will be used.

Slot 6; 10:30pm – 2:00 am Saturday/Sunday

In this elaborate board game, the players are investigators who cooperate to stem the tide of otherworldly abominations that are descending on the Lovecraftian city of Arkham. The six players (Dave, Dave, John and three others) combine their resources to seal the extraplanar gates before they are killed, driven insane or before Arkham is so overrun that the Ancient One is himself awakened. Then things turn bad.

Slot 7; 10:00am – 1:30pm Sunday

E-Gaming

Slot 1; 6:30pm – 10:00pm Friday

Slot 3; 10:00am – 1:30pm Saturday

Slot 4; 2:00pm – 5:30pm Saturday

Visit the thread in the Oswego Storyteller's Guild forums, in the open games section for more information and questions.

CONTINUED IN EVG 501.

Slot 5; 5:30pm – 10:00pm Saturday

Visit the thread in the Oswego Storyteller's Guild forums, in the open games section for more information and questions.

CONTINUED FROM EVG 401.

Slot 8; 2pm - 5:30pm Sunday

It's the Super Smash Brothers Brawl Everything or Nothing tournament. Here's the dilemma. If a tournament allows items, people complain. If a tournament allows all stages, people complain.

Here's the solution. I'm holding two tournament brackets with two first prize winners. The first bracket will be the Nothing bracket. No items, no stages except Final Destination. The Everything bracket will have all stages and all items on medium occurrence. Feel free to participate in both brackets and have fun!

Special Events

Slot 4; 2:00pm – 5:30pm Saturday

Have questions about writing? Want to know how to get published? What CJ's favorite cookie is? Come ask him questions.

CJ Henderson has published over sixty books and written numerous short stories. No topic is off limits, but I can't promise you that he'll give you a straight answer.

Slot 5; 5:30pm – 10:00pm Saturday

Kingdoms of Novitas proudly presents a sanctioned fighter practice for the 2009 Arcon event. Come check out a live-combat boffer LARP, learn how to fight, or polish your skills. This is an out-of-character event to get some exercise and spar with your friends, but KON staff will be on hand to answer questions about our regular games. Some loaner weapons will be available, but feel free to bring your own. All weapons will be subject to safety check by KON Combat & Safety staff. Ages 18+ only. As a safety note: Boffers are foam swords. No other type of weapon will be useable.

Slot 6; 10:30pm – 2:00 am Saturday/Sunday

SPC 601:
GM Name: Wex
Game Name: Capture the Flag...with Stuff!!
Game Type: Other (specify in description)
Game System: Capture the Flag
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: Minimum 10
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: No
Game Description:
It's capture the flag like you've never seen it before! Take advantage of many different magical items to capture the opponent's flag. The team to capture the opposition's flag the most times wins! Things are never simple though, as there may be certain surprises that will pop up when you least expect it. Want to know what they are? Well, you'll have to play to find out. Make sure you get a goodnightÔs sleep; this game keeps you moving.

Slot 7; 10:00am – 1:30 pm Sunday

SPC 701:
GM Name: X-Strike Studios
Game Name: Sidequest Docuementary/ Question and Answer session
Game Type: Other (specify in description)
Game System: Panel/Workshop
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 100
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: No
Game Description:
The creative team behind X-Strike studios is showing their new Sidequest Documentary. They will also be answering any questions you might have about their movies, making movies, or anything else you can think of.

Slot 8; 2:00pm – 5:30 pm Sunday

SPC 801:
GM Name: David Horacek
Game Name: Worldbuilding and Storybuilding: Panel/Workshop
Game Type: Other (specify in description)
Game System: Panel/Workshop
Minimum & Maximum Number of Players: 100
Player Skill Level: No Experience
Pregenerated Characters: No
Game Description:
Worldbuilding and Storybuilding: Panel/Workshop

Presenters/Panelists:

David Horacek, Primary affiliation: Department of Philosophy, SUNY Oswego

John Hartung, Primary affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Lemoyne College

David Lu, Primary affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University

The presenters will discuss high-level strategies for the creation of immersive fictions. While effective storytelling cannot be reduced to a formula, this panel will introduce thee distinct approaches for producing the content of fictional stories. These approaches can loosely be described as: World-first, Moral/Concept-first and Storyarch-first. While it is typically a hybrid of these three approaches that produces successful fictions, most lean more heavily on one at the expense of the rest. The panel will consider and categorize famous exemplars, and focus on practical suggestions for applying these strategies to the creation of game campaigns and other narratives.

The workshop will be set up to include audience participation in story brainstorming, a reading of passages from "Their Own Tails" (tentative title), a short story by Horacek and Lu that explores some odd problems that are encountered by time travelers.

Anime and Sci-Fi Showings

We're going to try something a little different this year. We're going to have movies available for people to watch. If you want to watch something go for it, but in past years our movie rooms haven't seen much traffic.

The only slots that are "booked" so to speak are slots 4 and 5 for a video game tournaments and Slot 7 for X-Strike Studios' panel.

Thank you.