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December 20 - 22, 2024



AnimeCon.org/Anime Midwest's winter convention in Chicago.

THIS IS FROM 2017!!! OLD INFORMATION.

Tabletop Games 2017

Friday

Miniatures Games Track
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - Learn to Play 
In the grim darkness of the far future, humanity fights an endless galactic war against aliens, traitors, and evil gods from beyond our dimension.  Recreate these glorious battles with toy soldiers!  Demos will be running all day, so come by any time to learn to play.

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Mobile Suit Gundam Skirmish Demo
Pick your side in the war between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon.  Using normal HG Gundam model kits, learn how to make your plastic robots fight one another with dice and tape measure.  Pew-pew noises encouraged. Demos will be running all day, so come by any time to learn to play.

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Kingdom Death: Monster Demo
Do you like miniature combat, role play, city building, crafting, deckbuilding, survival-horror, and exploration?  How about all in on massive, easy to learn game?  Come learn to play Kingdom Death: Monster.

Role-Play Track
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Pathfinder RPG – Learn to Role Play
An introductory game of pathfinder RPG.  Use premade characters to challenge a low-level adventure, and get down the basics of role play mechanics and etiquette.

2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Pathfinder RPG – Advanced Play
We want to welcome advanced Pathfinder players as well as those just starting out. New this year will be advanced Pathfinder, starting beyond level one with premade characters. You’ll be challenged to use more advanced abilities against stronger opponents in a mid-level adventure.

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Kobolds Ate My Baby! – Learn to Play
You are a kobold. You are expendable, not very bright, and delicious to everything around you. Including other Kobolds. Adventure in to human cities for King Torg (ALL HAIL KING TORG!) to abscond with some tasty babies to bring back to your Kobold city! Open to players looking for a light-hearted role-playing session where you can expect to die. A lot.

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Honey Heist – Improvisational Role Play
You are going to pull off the greatest caper imaginable at HoneyCon 2017: a honey heist! Two important factors to keep in mind. You have an intricate and detailed plan, along with your cohorts to pull of this heist. You are all bears. This seat-of-your-pants RPG offers a very silly RP experience for players who wants to jump in, be a bear for an hour, and then go back to being nerds.

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Starfinder – Learn to Play
More than just Pathfinder in space, Starfinder is a new take on the D20 system. Dramatically streamlined and set in a fantastic solar system of technology, magic, and spacefaring adventure. Come learn this new game with pre-made characters in a short adventure that hits on all the major features of the new game.

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Honey Heist – Improvisational Role Play
You are going to pull off the greatest caper imaginable at HoneyCon 2017: a honey heist! Two important factors to keep in mind. You have an intricate and detailed plan, along with your cohorts to pull of this heist. You are all bears. This seat-of-your-pants RPG offers a very silly RP experience for players who wants to jump in, be a bear for an hour, and then go back to being nerds.

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Space 1889 – Learn to Play
You are a Victorian era adventurer traveling the solar system! Will you fight dinosaurs on Venus? Take an air-gondola down the canals of Mars? Or will your adventures have you deep inside the Earth itself? Can you keep your mustache tidy and your hat straight while being chased by cultists and enemy governments? Learn to play the newest edition of Space 1889!

7:00 PM- 9:00 PM
Call of Cthulhu – Weird Horror Role Play
Open to both experienced players and those interested in the Mythos of HP Lovecraft. Bring an investigative mind and an expectation of insanity and death!

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Kobolds Ate My Baby! – Learn to Play
You are a kobold. You are expendable, not very bright, and delicious to everything around you. Including other Kobolds. Adventure in to human cities for King Torg (ALL HAIL KING TORG!) to abscond with some tasty babies to bring back to your Kobold city! Open to players looking for a light-hearted role-playing session where you can expect to die. A lot.

9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The Witch is Dead! – Improvisational Role Play
You are a familiar, a small woodland creature who serves and loves the beautiful and kind witch of the woods. BUT NOW SHE’S DEAD! She has been slain by a witch hunter, who has retreated to a human city. You must hunt him down, slay him, and take his eyes back to the body of the witch to bring her back to life. Probably. But there’s a twist! What is the twist? We’ll roll for it when you play. Come join in for some light hearted and likely profanity intense role play with woodland critters and MURDER.

10:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Savage Worlds RPG – Learn to Role Play
An introductory game of Savage Worlds RPG.  Use premade characters to challenge a low-level adventure in this fast to learn and fast to play game system. You’ll also get down the basics of role play mechanics and etiquette.

10:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Paranoia RPG – Learn to Play
Paranoia is a fun game where you serve The Computer. Not serving the computer is treason. Treason is punishable by death. A comedy RPG set in an underground (maybe?) complex after the end of human civilization. You are a Citizen of the Alpha Complex tasked to be a trouble shooter: you find trouble and shoot it. And probably some of your fellow troubleshooters as well. They may be mutants, or members of secret societies opposed to your own.

10:00 PM – 12:00 AM
CATaclysm – Cat Roleplay Preview
You like cats. Everybody likes cats. Come RP as a cat. But not just any cat. You are a talking cat adventurer, out to discovery the truth behind the disappearance of humans. To explore their abandoned cities. To fight off the nasty, evil Rats, and Toads, and Snakes. You are here to sleep a lot, on the most comfortable things you can find. You are a wielder of powerful meowgic, and will use you arcane might to defeat your foes!

Card and Party Game Track
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Magic: The Gathering Guild War
Pick your Ravnica guild from our collection of ten pre-made decks and prove which guild truly runs the city.  Players are challenged to compete in a pre-constructed Swiss format tournament.  This is a free tournament with prizes for first place.

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Werewolf
The party game you play at cons, other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The Resistance
This is a non-elimination party game where you are part of the Resistance trying to take down the Empire. But one or more of you is a spy, working to stop the rebels. Carry out your missions to the bitter end and see if the spy was able to stop the collapse, or if the rebels have brought out their great changes in society.

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Mafia
The OTHER party game you play at cons, again other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Almost Got ‘im
Like werewolf, but you are Batman villains, you are playing poker, and one of you is secretly Batman. I AM THE NIGHT!

8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Werewolf
The party game you play at cons, other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The Resistance
This is a non-elimination party game where you are part of the Resistance trying to take down the Empire. But one or more of you is a spy, working to stop the rebels. Carry out your missions to the bitter end and see if the spy was able to stop the collapse, or if the rebels have brought out their great changes in society.

10:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Werewolf
The party game you play at cons, other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

10:00 PM – 11:00 PM
The Resistance
This is a non-elimination party game where you are part of the Resistance trying to take down the Empire. But one or more of you is a spy, working to stop the rebels. Carry out your missions to the bitter end and see if the spy was able to stop the collapse, or if the rebels have brought out their great changes in society.

11:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Mafia
The OTHER party game you play at cons, again other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

11:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Almost Got ‘im
Like werewolf, but you are Batman villains, you are playing poker, and one of you is secretly Batman. I AM THE NIGHT!

Saturday

Miniaturs GamesTrack
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - Learn to Play 
In the grim darkness of the far future, humanity fights an endless galactic war against aliens, traitors, and evil gods from beyond our dimension.  Recreate these glorious battles with toy soldiers!  Demos will be running all day, so come by any time to learn to play.

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Mobile Suit Gundam Skirmish Demo
Pick your side in the war between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon.  Using normal HG Gundam model kits, learn how to make your plastic robots fight one another with dice and tape measure.  Pew-pew noises encouraged. Demos will be running all day, so come by any time to learn to play.

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Kingdom Death: Monster Demo
Do you like miniature combat, role play, city building, crafting, deckbuilding, survival-horror, and exploration?  How about all in on massive, easy to learn game?  Come learn to play Kingdom Death: Monster.

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Kingdom Death: Monster Demo
Do you like miniature combat, role play, city building, crafting, deckbuilding, survival-horror, and exploration?  How about all in on massive, easy to learn game?  Come learn to play Kingdom Death: Monster.

9:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Warhammer 40,000 Open Play
Challenge the people running the room, or your friends on one of our open war gaming tables!

Role-Play Track
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Pathfinder RPG – Learn to Role Play
An introductory game of Pathfinder RPG.  Use premade characters to challenge a low-level adventure, and get down the basics of role play mechanics and etiquette.

12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Pathfinder RPG – Advanced Play
We want to welcome advanced Pathfinder players as well as those just starting out. New this year will be advanced Pathfinder, starting beyond level one with premade characters. You’ll be challenged to use more advanced abilities against stronger opponents in a mid-level adventure.

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Kobolds Ate My Baby! – Learn to Play
You are a kobold. You are expendable, not very bright, and delicious to everything around you. Including other Kobolds. Adventure in to human cities for King Torg (ALL HAIL KING TORG!) to abscond with some tasty babies to bring back to your Kobold city! Open to players looking for a light-hearted role-playing session where you can expect to die. A lot.

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Honey Heist – Improvisational Role Play
You are going to pull off the greatest caper imaginable at HoneyCon 2017: a honey heist! Two important factors to keep in mind. You have an intricate and detailed plan, along with your cohorts to pull of this heist. You are all bears. This seat-of-your-pants RPG offers a very silly RP experience for players who wants to jump in, be a bear for an hour, and then go back to being nerds.

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Starfinder – Learn to Play
More than just Pathfinder in space, Starfinder is a new take on the D20 system. Dramatically streamlined and set in a fantastic solar system of technology, magic, and spacefaring adventure. Come learn this new game with pre-made characters in a short adventure that hits on all the major features of the new game.

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Drunken Bear Fighter – Improvisational Role Play
You are a member of the Russian Drunken Bear Fighter Organization (RDBFO), an elite team dedicated to stopping the drunken bear menace. This game is not meant to be taken particularly seriously. FIGHT SOME BEARS!

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Space 1889 – Learn to Play
You are a Victorian era adventurer traveling the solar system! Will you fight dinosaurs on Venus? Take an air-gondola down the canals of Mars? Or will your adventures have you deep inside the Earth itself? Can you keep your mustache tidy and your hat straight while being chased by cultists and enemy governments? Learn to play the newest edition of Space 1889!

5:00 PM- 7:00 PM
Call of Cthulhu – Weird Horror Role Play
Open to both experienced players and those interested in the Mythos of HP Lovecraft. Bring an investigative mind and an expectation of insanity and death!

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Kobolds Ate My Baby! – Learn to Play
You are a kobold. You are expendable, not very bright, and delicious to everything around you. Including other Kobolds. Adventure in to human cities for King Torg (ALL HAIL KING TORG!) to abscond with some tasty babies to bring back to your Kobold city! Open to players looking for a light-hearted role-playing session where you can expect to die. A lot.

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Drunken Bear Fighter – Improvisational Role Play
You are a member of the Russian Drunken Bear Fighter Organization (RDBFO), an elite team dedicated to stopping the drunken bear menace. This game is not meant to be taken particularly seriously. FIGHT SOME BEARS!

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
The Witch is Dead! – Improvisational Role Play
You are a familiar, a small woodland creature who serves and loves the beautiful and kind witch of the woods. BUT NOW SHE’S DEAD! She has been slain by a witch hunter, who has retreated to a human city. You must hunt him down, slay him, and take his eyes back to the body of the witch to bring her back to life. Probably. But there’s a twist! What is the twist? We’ll roll for it when you play. Come join in for some light hearted and likely profanity intense role play with woodland critters and MURDER.

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Savage Worlds RPG – Learn to Role Play
An introductory game of Savage Worlds RPG.  Use premade characters to challenge a low-level adventure in this fast to learn and fast to play game system. You’ll also get down the basics of role play mechanics and etiquette.

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Paranoia RPG – Learn to Play
Paranoia is a fun game where you serve The Computer. Not serving the computer is treason. Treason is punishable by death. A comedy RPG set in an underground (maybe?) complex after the end of human civilization. You are a Citizen of the Alpha Complex tasked to be a trouble shooter: you find trouble and shoot it. And probably some of your fellow troubleshooters as well. They may be mutants, or members of secret societies opposed to your own.

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Kids on Bikes – Rules Light Adventure Preview
Kids on Bikes takes you back to a simpler time, before cell phones, Internet service, and safety caps in pill bottles. Come back to the 80s, when your most treasured possession was your bicycle, and your friends were your world. And what a world it is! Monsters, pirate treasure, cults, demons, and dances: what weirdness awaits you in your small town? Ideal for fans of The Goonies and Stranger Things, play as a kid in the 80s who has to save everybody in town with his friends and his bike.

10:00 PM – 12:00 AM
CATaclysm – Cat RPG Preview
You like cats. Everybody likes cats. Come RP as a cat. But not just any cat. You are a talking cat adventurer, out to discovery the truth behind the disappearance of humans. To explore their abandoned cities. To fight off the nasty, evil Rats, and Toads, and Snakes. You are here to sleep a lot, on the most comfortable things you can find. You are a wielder of powerful meowgic, and will use you arcane might to defeat your foes!

Card and Party Game Track
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Magic: The Gathering Guild War
Pick your Ravnica guild from our collection of ten pre-made decks and prove which guild truly runs the city.  Players are challenged to compete in a pre-constructed Swiss format tournament.  This is a free tournament with prizes for first place.

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Werewolf
The party game you play at cons, other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Mafia
The OTHER party game you play at cons, again other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Almost Got ‘im
Like werewolf, but you are Batman villains, you are playing poker, and one of you is secretly Batman. I AM THE NIGHT!

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Almost Got ‘im
Like werewolf, but you are Batman villains, you are playing poker, and one of you is secretly Batman. I AM THE NIGHT!

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Mafia
The OTHER party game you play at cons, again other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Werewolf
The party game you play at cons, other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
The Resistance
This is a non-elimination party game where you are part of the Resistance trying to take down the Empire. But one or more of you is a spy, working to stop the rebels. Carry out your missions to the bitter end and see if the spy was able to stop the collapse, or if the rebels have brought out their great changes in society.

8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Werewolf
The party game you play at cons, other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The Resistance
This is a non-elimination party game where you are part of the Resistance trying to take down the Empire. But one or more of you is a spy, working to stop the rebels. Carry out your missions to the bitter end and see if the spy was able to stop the collapse, or if the rebels have brought out their great changes in society.

9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Mafia
The OTHER party game you play at cons, again other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

9:00 PM – 10:00 AM
Almost Got ‘im
Like werewolf, but you are Batman villains, you are playing poker, and one of you is secretly Batman. I AM THE NIGHT!

10:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Mafia
The OTHER party game you play at cons, again other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

10:00 PM – 11:00 AM
Almost Got ‘im
Like werewolf, but you are Batman villains, you are playing poker, and one of you is secretly Batman. I AM THE NIGHT!

11:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Werewolf
The party game you play at cons, other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

11:00 PM – 12:00 AM
The Resistance
This is a non-elimination party game where you are are part of the Resistance trying to take down the Empire. But one or more of you is a spy, working to stop the rebels. Carry out your missions to the bitter end and see if the spy were able to stop the collapse, or if the rebels have brought out their great changes in society.

Sunday

Miniatures Games Track
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Warhammer 40,000 - Learn to Play 
In the grim darkness of the far future, humanity fights an endless galactic war against aliens, traitors, and evil gods from beyond our dimension.  Recreate these glorious battles with toy soldiers!  Demos will be running all day, so come by any time to learn to play.

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Mobile Suit Gundam Skirmish Demo
Pick your side in the war between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon.  Using normal HG Gundam model kits, learn how to make your plastic robots fight one another with dice and tape measure.  Pew-pew noises encouraged. Demos will be running all day, so come by any time to learn to play.

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Kingdom Death: Monster Demo
Do you like miniature combat, role play, city building, crafting, deckbuilding, survival-horror, and exploration?  How about all in on massive, easy to learn game?  Come learn to play Kingdom Death: Monster.

Role-Play Track
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Pathfinder RPG – Learn to Role Play
An introductory game of Pathfinder RPG. Use premade characters to challenge a low-level adventure, and get down the basics of role play mechanics and etiquette.

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Pathfinder RPG – Advanced Play
We want to welcome advanced Pathfinder players as well as those just starting out. New this year will be advanced Pathfinder, starting beyond level one with premade characters. You’ll be challenged to use more advanced abilities against stronger opponents in a mid-level adventure.

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Kobolds Ate My Baby! – Learn to Play
You are a kobold. You are expendable, not very bright, and delicious to everything around you. Including other Kobolds. Adventure in to human cities for King Torg (ALL HAIL KING TORG!) to abscond with some tasty babies to bring back to your Kobold city! Open to players looking for a light-hearted role-playing session where you can expect to die. A lot.

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Honey Heist – Improvisational Role Play
You are going to pull off the greatest caper imaginable at HoneyCon 2017: a honey heist! Two important factors to keep in mind. You have an intricate and detailed plan, along with your cohorts to pull of this heist. You are all bears. This seat-of-your-pants RPG offers a very silly RP experience for players who wants to jump in, be a bear for an hour, and then go back to being nerds.

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Starfinder – Learn to Play
More than just Pathfinder in space, Starfinder is a new take on the D20 system. Dramatically streamlined and set in a fantastic solar system of technology, magic, and spacefaring adventure. Come learn this new game with pre-made characters in a short adventure that hits on all the major features of the new game.

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Savage Worlds RPG – Learn to Role Play
An introductory game of Savage Worlds RPG. Use premade characters to challenge a low-level adventure in this fast to learn and fast to play game system. You’ll also get down the basics of role play mechanics and etiquette.

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Kobolds Ate My Baby! – Learn to Play
You are a kobold. You are expendable, not very bright, and delicious to everything around you. Including other Kobolds. Adventure in to human cities for King Torg (ALL HAIL KING TORG!) to abscond with some tasty babies to bring back to your Kobold city! Open to players looking for a light-hearted role-playing session where you can expect to die. A lot.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
The Witch is Dead! – Improvisational Role Play
You are a familiar, a small woodland creature who serves and loves the beautiful and kind witch of the woods. BUT NOW SHE’S DEAD! She has been slain by a witch hunter, who has retreated to a human city. You must hunt him down, slay him, and take his eyes back to the body of the witch to bring her back to life. Probably. But there’s a twist! What is the twist? We’ll roll for it when you play. Come join in for some light hearted and likely profanity intense role play with woodland critters and MURDER.

Card and Party Game Track
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Magic: The Gathering Guild War
Pick your Ravnica guild from our collection of ten pre-made decks and prove which guild truly runs the city.  Players are challenged to compete in a pre-constructed Swiss format tournament.  This is a free tournament with prizes for first place.

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Werewolf
The party game you play at cons, other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Mafia
The OTHER party game you play at cons, again other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
The Resistance
This is a non-elimination party game where you are part of the Resistance trying to take down the Empire. But one or more of you is a spy, working to stop the rebels. Carry out your missions to the bitter end and see if the spy was able to stop the collapse, or if the rebels have brought out their great changes in society.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Werewolf
The party game you play at cons, other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Mafia
The OTHER party game you play at cons, again other than Cards Against Humanity, will now be a scheduled event! Several times! And 8-Bit!

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Almost Got ‘im
Like werewolf, but you are Batman villains, you are playing poker, and one of you is secretly Batman. I AM THE NIGHT!

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
The Resistance
This is a non-elimination party game where you are part of the Resistance trying to take down the Empire. But one or more of you is a spy, working to stop the rebels. Carry out your missions to the bitter end and see if the spy was able to stop the collapse, or if the rebels have brought out their great changes in society.

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