Do you have what it takes to hit the big time? Can you take your band from performing in your parents’ basement to the largest stages around the world? Draft your lead singer, musicians, production and backstage staff. Arrange them in the most harmonious ways to unlock more fans, money and opportunities. Plan your schedule, prioritize your assets and select your travel routes as you grow. Chain your rewards into such an amazing show that you will leave your competitors behind. But as every superstar knows...watch out for those scandals.
Friday March 14, 2025 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Churchill
Hope Inhumanity is a card-based story game set in a bleak post-apocalyptic world. Embark on a harrowing journey where the characters are ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, in a game that offers an unforgettable adventure. As you journey through this unforgiving landscape, you'll confront moral quandaries, tough decisions, and unforeseen challenges. Will you cooperate or betray your companions? The game's heart lies in the raw, human struggle for survival, making it a thrilling test of your resilience, empathy, and adaptability.
She appears to you in dreams: a young woman in a waterlogged dress, waiting for you in a blue-curtained room. Each time, she opens her mouth to deliver some urgent message. Each time, her voice dies in her throat, emerging as a fog of white moths filling your vision.
Dirtbags! is a rules-lite, cinematic sci-fi shooter RPG. Players, known as dirtbags, take on the role of convicts in a corporate-run dystopian world, coerced into the Military Foundation’s Rehabilitation Incentive Program (R.I.P.) with the promise of freedom and reintegration. Forced to endure relentless tours of duty, Dirtbags are expendable, thrown at every problem imaginable—from distant alien bug infestations and scab pirates to suicidal salvage missions, courier work, and anything else the Corporate Echelon demands.
A storytelling game with heavy improv, and sabotage. In this game, we will be coming up with one or more stories with more turns and twists than a caravan can hold. Buckle- up to your cannonball and get ready for a greater-than-life story. This game can hold as many players as can join. We will be making pointers and using this as a ttrpg improv class as well.
Fried food. Farm animals. Carnival rides. Armpit-to-armpit humanity. A weekend here will help you forget your weekdays, but leave your dignity at the gate. Nestled within, 40 kilograms of grade-A butter has been hand-sculpted into the likeness of the Butter Princess, and you have a stake in the fate of this Butter Princess.
Four hours of bespoke D&D hijinks using the 2024 5E ruleset. Pregenerated characters will be provided. All you need to bring are dice, maybe a pencil, and your thirst for adventure!
CBR+PNK is a rules-light Forged-in-the-Dark cyberpunk RPG, built for improvisational one-shots. You play veteran runners on one final job, but unsurprisingly, things don't go according to plan. We’ll make characters at the table, define our run together, and play to find out.
Dungeon World re-creates the themes and tropes of Dungeon and Dragons in the rules light and storytelling heavy Powered by the Apocalypse system. Throw pocket sand, swing from chandeliers; be the dynamic fantasy heroes you’ve always dreamed about! Running Night of Blood, the classic Warhammer Fantasy Module rebuilt for Dungeon World!
Join game designer Joshua Kitz for a playtest of Fabrication, and play a game that makes RPGs and story-games. Fabrication begins as a collaborative GMless game where we will collaboratively craft setting, genre, and similar but quickly delves into creation of custom resolution systems and procedures. About 2 hours will be spend creating our game and the second 2 hours will be playing our creation. What experience will we Fabricate?
Adventure Awaits in the Keep on the Borderlands (Old-School Essentials Edition!) Step into a wild frontier filled with mystery, danger, and treasure in this open-world sandbox adventure where you call the shots! Will your party ally with factions, uncover secrets in the wilderness, or face the deadly dangers of the infamous Caves of Chaos? Every choice shapes the story, making every session unique and unpredictable. With the fast-paced exploration, tense battles, and dynamic challenges of the Old-School Essentials system, this classic module offers total freedom to explore the Keep, investigate rumors, and test your wits and courage against the unknown. Whether you’re uncovering the mysterious vault beneath the Keep, dealing with clever kobold traps, or facing off against brutal foes, the possibilities are endless, and no two adventures are ever the same. Perfect for beginners and veterans alike, this replayable classic is packed with thrilling surprises and epic challenges. Sign up now to carve your own legend on the Borderlands!
A night of feasting is interrupted by the arrival of the esteemed Sir Ector whose holdings have come under the sway of a Dragon. What will the Player Knights do? Adventure in the Arthurian Myths as interpreted by Greg Stafford. Pregens provided.
A fast, Lego tower building race where each team builds a structure to fit the plan. But you can’t touch the bricks while looking at the plan! Will you remember where the window goes? What about that pillar? (Score points by covering ‘block icons’ while avoiding the ‘Xs’.)
Play the family-friendly (with some assistance) My Little Pony Deckbuilding Game with a designer on the team, but time permitting, maybe a surprise? NO GUARANTEES!
Arcs is a sharp, tactical space opera game, for 2–4 players, set in a dark yet silly universe. Players represent officials from a distant, decaying and neglectful Empire who are now free to vie for dominance whether through battle, gathering scarce resources or diplomatic intrigue. Ready yourself for dramatic twists and turns as you launch into this galactic struggle. In this tournament, two rounds of two games each will be played, for a total of four games. The winners of each of the four games will meet in the final at 7pm.
Weeeell, them Buzzard Boys are at it again and no one in Johnsford is safe. Join us for a diceless cowboy game of the old west. You bet your life on the bullets themselves—who needs dice when you've got bullets? From Radio James Games.
Memoria is a game about travelers on an epic journey through a land of forgetting, where memories are the rarest magick. You’ll use tarot cards and dice to navigate dangerous lands and uncover who you really are. It’s a one-shot game about identity and self-discovery where your character can grow into your own personal campaign. In a world where the past fades, what will you remember—and how will you make sure you don't forget it?
A wacky one shot of Chickens, Eldritch Horror, and Revenge. Play as chickens with the powers of eldritch horrors as you take revenge on the evil Bryson Foods, inc. A rules-lite, d6-powered romp inspired by Chicken Run and Call of Cthulhu
Become a Ranger of the Viridian Forest and join in on this fun Pokémon D&D game that is sure to hit you with all of the best feelings of nostalgia! This game uses a modified version of D&D 5e.
Everyone is interfaced/injected/infected/infested with something. Everyone wants something from everyone else. Everyone is a liar and a cheat. Everyone wants more creds. CY_BORG is a complete rules-light, rage-heavy TTRPG by Free League
The princess has been taken! The wizard Remir, determined to learn the location of the pixie stronghold, has taken her to his cabin for interrogation. You, the members of PEARL (Pixie Extraction and Recovery League) will infiltrate the cabin and bring our people home.
Get ready to sharpen your claws and hone your instincts! Join the world animal world as an Everdellian and enjoy a homebrew adventure set in the rustic English country side that Brian Jacques built as the foundation for his book series, Redwall.
An occult horror RPG about broken people trying to fix an equally broken world. -- When a group of convicts escape with hostages, their flight leads them to a seemingly normal farmhouse, but things are far stranger than they seem. -- Game is for 5 to 9 player
A group of thugs and ruffians from Duskvol is given a simple task -- pack up a museum exhibit while a legendary thief disrupts the alarms. Unfortunately, his plan wasn't the same as yours, and now you have to escape the Bluecoats and plot your revenge.
You are the Forlorn. Humanity has left you behind, and the end is near. In this blend of survival and existential horror scenario, you will explore what caused humans to perish or leave; what cataclysmic threat is looming; and choose what your characters will do with the precious time they have left. Will your ragtag party of survivors fight until your last breath? Leave a legacy? Send a warning to other worlds? Plot your revenge against those who abandoned you? Or gamble everything for the small chance that one of you might survive? No experience needed. Rules taught.
In the near future, the world lies in ruins after a slow-burning World War III erupted into nuclear devastation. Fewer bombs fell than feared, but the damage left a harsh, isolated world. Amidst the struggle, a beacon of hope emerges—a group with a plan to rebuild and restore humanity. Will you join their efforts to rebuild, or will you forge your own path, pushing aside their vision for a better future? The choice is yours.
Welcome to Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, a slice-of-life tabletop RPG about a heartless witch, a peaceful house, and all the folks who have made their home inside. Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast uses pre-set characters, quick-play chapters, and an adaptable ruleset unlike anything else out there. Over time we unlock new chapters and new guests. We’ll pick a chapter to play, then pick characters to play for that chapter; we should have time to play two different chapters.
On Tour is a 20 minute route-building, roll-and-write board game with large, premium components that's good for 1 to 8 players (but can be played with as many people who have maps!). Each turn, dice determine which numbers you write while cards restrict the places you can visit.
A “thinky” party game, like Codenames or Wavelength. Use logic and deduction to understand the rules of the mysterious Venn Diagram. Players play as "Finders" and attempt to correctly place "Thing" Cards into a Venn Diagram. Each Ring of the Venn Diagram has special rules. The twist? Only one player, playing as "The Knower," knows the secret rules.
Do you have what it takes to hit the big time? Can you take your band from performing in your parents’ basement to the largest stages around the world? Draft your lead singer, musicians, production and backstage staff. Arrange them in the most harmonious ways to unlock more fans, money and opportunities. Plan your schedule, prioritize your assets and select your travel routes as you grow. Chain your rewards into such an amazing show that you will leave your competitors behind. But as every superstar knows...watch out for those scandals.
Friday March 14, 2025 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Churchill
Finspan is the third and most lightweight of the “-span” games released by Stonemaier but it is still filled with strategy. Draft cards and place fish in your ocean to build your engine, complete round goals and earn points. Dive into the depths to gain cards, find eggs, hatch young and create schools.
Bug Dish is a tabletop roleplaying game about bug chefs who travel the world and compete in culinary competitions. Your old friend Big J the flea is in a pickle. He finally got the courage to ask Yoyo the fairyfly, out on a date. He promised them a delicious, home cooked meal. The hitch: Big J can’t cook. Help your friend out through the romance of food and your well-honed gustatory genius.
Deathmatch island is a fast-paced roleplaying game about a deadly game show set on a chain of mysterious islands. Armed only with their hazy memories and matching uniforms, the players compete in challenges to satisfy the demands of Production.
A card-driven storytelling game in which players take on the roles of nonbinary members of a family that firmly believes only the women of the family can transform into wolves. Players create their own werewolf lore while their characters navigate and question their family’s gendered traditions and expectations all while figuring out what they want their relationship with their family to look like moving forward.
So, this is weird. There's been two victims of something in the middle of Sudbury, ON., where the victims have frostbite on their neck and shoulders. It’s also a heatwave in the middle of July. The hunters have to investigate what is going on, identify a vulnerability to this monster, and stop it.
High Plains Samurai is an action-packed storytelling game of gunslingers, gangsters, samurai, barbarians, and steampunk in a post-apocalyptic world of superpowers. There’s only one train in all the One Land worth robbing and that’s the Salvation. Will you be the ones to rob it or those sworn to protect it? This playtest for the next edition of the award-winning game begins exclusively at Breakout!
Wanderhome is a pastoral fantasy role-playing game about traveling animal-folk, the world they inhabit, and the way the seasons change. It is a game filled with grassy fields, mossy shrines, herds of chubby bumblebees, opossums in sundresses, salamanders with suspenders, starry night skies, and the most beautiful sunsets you can imagine.
Beam Saber is a Forged In The Dark game about the pilots of powerful machines in a war that dominates every facet of life. They are trying to do their part, then get out physically and mentally intact. The organizations that perpetuate The War throughout all of known space are too incomprehensibly huge to take down. There is no “winning” The War, there is only surviving it. Hopefully you can help others get out too.
Places, like people, go wrong. The house at 1206 Spooner Avenue is a place gone wrong. In the last 50 years, 18 people have died there, and you can feel it. Doors in 1206 Spooner Avenue stay shut, and no one ever hears a child’s laughter at night. In the hours that stretch like taffy after two, no one ever hears music from a darkened room…
Hanabi is a cooperative game in which players try to create the perfect fireworks show by placing the cards on the table in the right order. The card deck consists of five different colors of cards, numbered 1–5 in each color. For each color, the players try to place a row in the correct order from 1–5, but you can't see the cards you're playing. Players give other players hints regarding the numbers or the colors of their cards. The goal is to finish the fireworks before the deck runs out.
On Tour is a 20 minute route-building, roll-and-write board game with large, premium components that's good for 1 to 8 players (but can be played with as many people who have maps!). Each turn, dice determine which numbers you write while cards restrict the places you can visit.
In Push Push Penguin, you will compete in a race filled with slides, snacks, and seals. But there is a catch! An Orca approaches, and it will chase away the first penguin to cross paths with it – so the Penguin who finishes second in this race is the winner!
A “thinky” party game, like Codenames or Wavelength. Use logic and deduction to understand the rules of the mysterious Venn Diagram. Players play as "Finders" and attempt to correctly place "Thing" Cards into a Venn Diagram. Each Ring of the Venn Diagram has special rules. The twist? Only one player, playing as "The Knower," knows the secret rules.
Gems of Iridescia is an easy to learn, fun to master exploration board game where players will push their luck as they compete to mine gems, manipulate the market, restore ancient relics and ascend to the throne of a rich gem-filled world.
Choose your role in modern day society! Will you manage Corporations to increase your revenue while keeping workers' wages low? Or will you take the role of Workers and fight for decent wages to provide healthcare and education for them? Or will you be the Middle Class and manage both small companies and workers? Or will you take the role of the State and balance the wishes of the other players' socio-economic classes with subsidies and benefits to gain legitimacy in their eyes?
Welcome to the dark and dangerous world of Eldritch Automata. E//A takes place in a recent-apocalyptic world filled with horror, drama, and psychological torment. In E//A, you play one of humanity’s last defenders, facing down abominations while piloting a monstrosity of a mech. Renegade Base Alpha 1 you investigate a base thought lost to humanity in hopes of finding answers and materials to survive against the Horrors.
A No Dice, No Masters inspired storygame of dramatic irony and tragic relationships. Play as young mech pilot students getting to know the world and each other, then fast forward several years and fight each other as ace pilots in custom mechs on opposing sides of a war.
You and your housemates are spending the summer of 1979 in the little queer beach town of Roseville Beach, working, falling in love, and maybe solving a few strange mysteries along the way.
Tomb of the Mummy Lord is an original D&D 5e dungeon crawl written adventure. Pregenerated characters will be provided. This unique adventure will feature miniatures and a custom, hand-crafted, multi-level pyramid. Join Dungeon Master Jake of Mini Terrain Domain, draw your Secret Motivation cards, and prepare to unlock the mysteries of Hycenorath the Cleric King of the South...if you dare!
Welcome to the Cretacious Era and Grevakc—a land of dinosaurs and danger, of myth and science, of hope and despair. Once upon a time in the far, far future, Space and Time Interglobal (usually just called SATI) sent thousands of people back to this era. But then the time travel stopped working, and those people were trapped (or perhaps abandoned) here. That was all generations ago. Now you’re exploring an old SATI site. It’s been like others you’ve uncovered, filled with interesting things from the future and from the past. Nothing truly astonishing—until that blue cylinder turned up. This is something new—a technologically advanced message, and it’s calling for help. It’s time to take your dinosaur companion and go on a mission of rescue! This adventure is set in the Predation campaign setting—a little bit science fiction, a little bit post-apocalypse, and a whole lot of dinosaurs!
Cthulhu Dark is a player facing, cooperative storytelling game – with a highly collaborative, writer’s room narrative style of play used to unfold the story – where both keeper and players, play to find out what happens next. The rules are incredibly short, simple and tightly focused on mystery solving and building tension and horror to drive the game. The game runs best when everyone feels comfortable offering up their ideas. It uses six-sided dice of two colours (usually black and green) to determine the outcome of risky actions. This session will provide player with pre-generated characters to choose from and add details to. A Cthulhu Dark scenario set in Lovecraft’s iconic town of Arkham in 1692, a place of witch-trials, of fear and superstition. Cthulhu Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of cosmic horror, in the style of H.P. Lovecraft.
Dune: Imperium - Uprising is a blend of deck-building and worker placement game. This event is to play the new six-player mode that pits two teams against one other in the biggest struggle yet. New players welcome!
Arcs is a sharp, tactical space opera game, for 2–4 players, set in a dark yet silly universe. Players represent officials from a distant, decaying and neglectful Empire who are now free to vie for dominance whether through battle, gathering scarce resources or diplomatic intrigue. Ready yourself for dramatic twists and turns as you launch into this galactic struggle. In this tournament, two rounds of two games each will be played, for a total of four games. The winners of each of the four games will meet in the final at 7pm.
Local news is filled with reports of conspiracy talk radio host “Bizarrro” Guy Osborne’s death, cause as yet undetermined. But Guy Osborne is alive and well—his show, Truth Talk, is on air tonight—and the body that was discovered at a nearby shortwave antenna farm appears to belong to an exact doppelganger.
It's a campus wide celebration of friends to replace Valentines day. What could go wrong? Create your own team of magical heroes and save the day against the forces of evil who want to ruin Palentines day and end friendships forever. Do you have what it takes to become a hero?
500 years before Blades in the Dark – Violent spirits are rising. Caught between failing old sorceries and unreliable new technology, the Immortal Emperor issues a secret new mandate to control spirits and save the city. Take up a Bronzed Mask and become the first of the Spirit Wardens.
Congratulations! You've just inherited a Starship! Endless adventure and fortune await you and your new crew on the galactic frontier, so long as you fly straight and play your cards right that is. In the action-packed space adventure, you'll pick up where the last crew left off, then be handing your ship down to the next generation of pilots, engineers, and gunners. Better yet, you'll experience all that the greatest new sci-fi RPG (Drier Deserts, Hotter Suns) has to offer.
Earth is a tableau builder for 1 to 5 players with simple rules and countless strategic possibilities. With its encyclopedic nature and a near-infinite number of tableau combinations, every single game will allow you to discover new synergies and connections, just as our vast and fascinating world allows us to do! Over thousands of years of evolution and adaptation the flora and fauna of this unique planet have grown and developed into amazing life forms, creating symbiotic ecosystems and habitats. It’s time to jump into these rich environments and create some amazing natural synergies that replicate and extrapolate on Earth’s amazing versatility and plethora of natural resources. Create a self-supporting engine of growth, expansion and supply where even your unused plants become compost for future growth
Friday March 14, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
Churchill
Munchkin Steampunk adds gears, goggles, and steam-powered robots to the goofy humor of the long-lived card game Munchkin, a game in which you kick down doors, battle monsters, gain treasure, and try to reach level ten before anyone else.
Enter a Growing Market! Welcome to the Community Hedge Fund where players take on the roles of gardeners dedicated to growing flowers and profits. When the market crashes, the Gardener with the most valuable Stalk portfolio wins. Garden shrewdly to grow your fortune.
In this newly released worker placement and resource management game by Cardboard Alchemy, you help your critters run a restaurant in Bistro Bay by trying to outsmart other players to get the best ingredients, recruiting Zous Chefs, completing food challenges and trying to earn the favour of a very picky critic.
Bloodbeam Badlands is a game about vampires stuck surviving a post-apocalyptic world where the sun never sets, what it means to keep moving when the deck is stacked against you, the immortal facing mortality with every step. It’s also a game about being really cool vampires with cool vampire powers and cool magic guns going on rad adventures in a rad world filled with rad things.
Swords clash on the field of battle, or are cutting words exchanged behind closed doors? Saga's flexible modular system and easy to follow rules allow a quick start into a fantasy adventure tailored to your desires. A vast world full of stories awaits, let's find out where your story begins.
Want to win $25,000 playing board games? The World Series of Board Gaming (WSBG) has partnered once again with Breakout to bring you their Toronto Mini Tournament! If you're unfamiliar, The World Series of Board Gaming (wsbgvegas.com) is an annual competition in Vegas to crown the "World's Best All-Around Board Gamer". Competitors will compete in 16 different games, with one winner taking home the title of WSBG Champion and the $25,000 grand prize. They're back in Vegas this year and want the Best of the North to join in on the action. Sign up for one of the four "World Series of Board Games Qualifier First Round" events in the system, for the WSBG mini tournament where you can win a Single Ring Pass to The World Series, or other great prizes! And don't worry, this won't monopolize your open gaming time! To be the Breakout WSBG Champion, all it takes is winning 3 games! Each of the WSBG Ring Events will have their own 1 designated table (4 players max per game). Win that game, and you're in the Semi Finals, where you'll play a RANDOM game out of the 16 to win your way to the Final Table! This format allows you to specialize in the game you know best, while also testing your all-around board gaming adaptability! This is a free event! Anyone can enter, but be advised that WSBG is an 18+ only tournament. Sign ups are limited, so lock in your game now! (See below for tournament details) Schedule March 15 (4pm) Wingspan, Great Western Trail, Acquire, Lost Ruins of Arnak March 15 (6pm) Ark Nova, Castles of Burgundy, Cascadia,, Ticket To Ride March 16 (11am)Earth, Azul, Brass Birmingham, Terraforming Mars March 16 (2pm) Splendor, Ra, Dune Imperium, Heat March 17 9am SEMI-FINALS (drawn once all 16 games are completed) 1pm FINALS
A lone tree with charcoal-black branches stands resolute inside an active volcano. An herbalist beseeches the heroes to seek out the tree’s fiery fruit so that she might save her village from an icy curse; but braving Flamewind Peak’s perils is no small feat! Challenge the monsters of Flamewind Peak, retrieve the fruit, and return victorious to break the curse of Pirrel! pre-generated characters will be provided.
Four hours of bespoke D&D hijinks using the 2024 5E ruleset. Pregenerated characters will be provided. All you need to bring are dice, maybe a pencil, and your thirst for adventure!
Take to the skies! In Raccoon Sky Pirates, you play raccoons: chittering, baggy-pants, ring-tailed burglars. Chaos gremlins. After building an improbable flying ship out of trash in your junkyard home, you’ll sail to a suburban house, get in, steal everything you can before the lights come on, and try to make it back home without exploding. But things keep going wrong, because you’re raccoons. Embrace joyful random action and the infinite uses for trash. …Flying a ship takes coordination and discipline. Unfortunately, you’re a bunch of raccoons.
Dungeon World re-creates the themes and tropes of Dungeon and Dragons in the rules light and storytelling heavy Powered by the Apocalypse system. Throw pocket sand, swing from chandeliers; be the dynamic fantasy heroes you’ve always dreamed about! Running Night of Blood, the classic Warhammer Fantasy Module rebuilt for Dungeon World!
Tharuma Systems‘ revolutionary new augmented reality companion, “Aegis”, has been widely hailed as one of the most successful software products in history, making millions happier and more productive. You are one of the team of developers that has endured months of sleeping in the office and getting meals delivered to your desk to make this happen. It seems like just another Tuesday morning when you are suddenly summoned to the CEO’s office. Reports of companions behaving erratically and angry, disturbed users.
The greatest heroes of the 25th dynasty of Ancient Egypt are the target of an insidious assassination plot. But the assassins must contend with the heroes’ cunning, their dedication, their bravery, and their lightning-fast fists. Someone is getting punched in the face, and they will definitely deserve it.
"I suggested the British Museum, not least because it’s possible to lose just about anything in their storage area. They’re still looking for a mummy that went missing in 1933—staff believe it was stolen but Nightingale said he’d always had a sneaking suspicion that it got bored one day and walked away." Learn to play Chaosium's Rivers of London, based on the Ben Aaronovich novels. PreGens provided.
Skull King is a trick-taking game similar to Wizard and Euchre, with players needing to state how many tricks they think they'll win each round. A unique element of this game is that bidding takes place simultaneously, leading to rounds that are sometimes over- or under-bid. As players must win the exact number of tricks that they bid to earn points, winning too many tricks is just as bad as winning too few.
Gems of Iridescia is an easy to learn, fun to master exploration board game where players will push their luck as they compete to mine gems, manipulate the market, restore ancient relics and ascend to the throne of a rich gem-filled world.
A fast, Lego tower building race where each team builds a structure to fit the plan. But you can’t touch the bricks while looking at the plan! Will you remember where the window goes? What about that pillar? (Score points by covering ‘block icons’ while avoiding the ‘Xs’.)
A Fool’s Errand is a tarot-fueled science fantasy game set in a vibrant post-calamity world of Androids, Humans, and those in between. Fools, go forth and explore realms both waking and subconscious. Beware: the Gods are watching, ready to manifest their love and rage as boons and calamities.
Ringmaster is a Descended from the Queen story game about the troupe members of a supernatural circus for 2-6 players. Explore through prompt cards why you joined a mysterious circus, your relation to the Ringmaster, and the secrets of your troupe. You are bound to the circus. When the angry mob comes to tear the Big Top, will you save your home, or watch your prison burn with glee?
Blood on the Clocktower is a game of murder and mystery, lies and logic, deduction and deception for five-to-twenty courageous players and one devious storyteller.
Memoria is a game about travelers on an epic journey through a land of forgetting, where memories are the rarest magick. You’ll use tarot cards and dice to navigate dangerous lands and uncover who you really are. It’s a one-shot game about identity and self-discovery where your character can grow into your own personal campaign. In a world where the past fades, what will you remember—and how will you make sure you don't forget it?
You are toys, lovingly crafted at the North Pole, who will be packed in Santa’s sleigh and delivered for Christmas morning. You are destined to join a family you have never met. Unfortunately, The Child will not love you all equally. There is room in their heart for only one favorite toy. Each toy cries out, "Pick me!"
The Computer is your friend. Service to the Computer will make you happy. Happiness is mandatory. Join the satirical world of Paranoia. When The Computer decides to form a troubleshooter team entirely from CPU (who "improve" Alpha Complex by introducing new productivity buzzwords), what could possibly go wrong. Stay alert. Trust no one. Keep your laser handy.
Make a supervillain, get some minions, and find out just spectacularly will your evil scheme fail? Why? Because the superheroes will catch you. They always do. Supervillains Unleashed uses the same engine as Simple Superheroes but employs brand new mechanics for supervillain schemes.
Play a group of miscreants trapped in a remote locale and getting murdered, one by one, until no one is left alive. Each person has something to hide and the killer is revealed at the end to be one of us. This is a game where bad people meet bad ends, past sins are revisited, and every Major Character dies at the end of the game. THIS IS A PLAYTEST for Deadly Society, a murder drama hack of Good Society. The game is GM-less and diceless.
PLANET FIST is a Powered by the Apocalypse narrative wargame of satirical scifi skirmish storytelling, where three principles rule. DEATH IS LIFE: When your nanoassembled body is blown to bits, you simply "derezz" and reprint next turn—0HP is just an inconvenience. SHOOTOUTS ARE STORIES: It's combat heavy, but it’s not just a turn-based wargame with set dressing. Sixauran soldiers live on the battlefield, and must learn to make a life out of it. Live fully—just do it with a gun in your hand. FICTION FIRST: Don’t let the rules fool you: the story precedes then. Rules-light-ish, with crunch as camp.
Explore the ruins of civilization in Sine as a Catalyst: a supersoldier designed to save humanity from the invading aliens simply known as the Stock. In this world, the right choice may be grey but the world is anything but.
Sorry to bring you in so late Blade Runners, but it’s gonna be a long night. We’ve just received confirmation from on-site LAPD that Replicant Rights Activist Jan Warrick has been assassinated. Someone identified only as the Mantis has claimed responsibility, saying more will come before they’re done their job. Dispatch is getting swamped with reports of riots and destruction. We can’t let the city fall into chaos. Find the Mantis. Bring them in or put them away. Get Justice for Warrick.
It is 1943. The German occupation of Paris has been a resounding success. Their leader is arriving by zeppelin at the Eiffel Tower tonight. You are a vampire. Tonight, you will drink all of Hitler's blood.
You and others have been invited for a weekend of rest and relaxation at an old estate during the cold winter months. This would usually be a happy time, but you old friend, your colleague, maybe even your lover, is in the last few weeks of his life. Think of this as a talking about the good times, enjoying the good old days......but wait, something is not right
Kult is an investigative horror RPG focused on uncovering profane truths. Take on the roles of university students in modern day Halifax investigating a strange ritual that took place in the university basement. Whether the investigation leads your characters to godhood, madness, or an early grave, one thing is certain: no one will emerge unscathed. Please be advised that this game is intended for mature audiences and deals with themes of violence, substance abuse, harassment, homophobia, and gore.
This is a fantastic game in which you and your fellow players team up to tell amazing new stories in your own corner of the Marvel Multiverse. These tales can star heroes from famous teams like the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and the Avengers, or they can feature brand-new heroes of your own creation. You can even mix them up and have your own heroes fight alongside legends like Spider-Man, Captain America, and Wolverine.
New to roleplaying? This game is perfect for first-timers! Dive into a malleable sci-fi setting with ion drives, terraforming, and gunpowder, where the rules are light, and the adventure is limitless. You’re hired by AstroDyne Exploration Solutions to investigate a remote planet near the Void Point anomaly. Probes detected strange energy signatures and potential resources, but there’s a chance others are already there. Explore, uncover secrets, and see what’s waiting in the unknown!
The Heroes of Heroton haven't returned from their quest for the holy Stone of Roc Rock. Now fate calls the Other, Other Heroes of Heroton: Illusionist! Assassin! Bard! Monk! Druid! A simple, fast, highly flexible and cinematic RPG system, ELEMENTAL (a DriveThruRPG platinum best seller) is perfect for any character, any setting, and any story. Characters provided, no experience necessary, newcomers welcome, and a prize for all attendees!
Skull King is a trick-taking game similar to Wizard and Euchre, with players needing to state how many tricks they think they'll win each round. A unique element of this game is that bidding takes place simultaneously, leading to rounds that are sometimes over- or under-bid. As players must win the exact number of tricks that they bid to earn points, winning too many tricks is just as bad as winning too few.
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In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. If you enjoy light strategy and adorable artwork, this game is for you!
A silent role playing game where you will play a local high school teen trying to find out what happened to your missing friend Alice. You will need access to a phone or laptop with discord on it to play this game.
Dirtbags! is a rules-lite, cinematic sci-fi shooter RPG. Players, known as dirtbags, take on the role of convicts in a corporate-run dystopian world, coerced into the Military Foundation’s Rehabilitation Incentive Program (R.I.P.) with the promise of freedom and reintegration. Forced to endure relentless tours of duty, Dirtbags are expendable, thrown at every problem imaginable—from distant alien bug infestations and scab pirates to suicidal salvage missions, courier work, and anything else the Corporate Echelon demands.
Bloodsport, Streets of Fire, Hard Times, Final Fight, The Karate Kid, Ninja III: The Domination—the thrill of martial arts actions meets the hard streets of New Hope City. Be a part of the action, and join the fun. Diceless martial arts action. No experience necessary. From Radio James Games
Get ready to sharpen your claws and hone your instincts! Join the world animal world as an Everdellian and enjoy a homebrew adventure set in the rustic English country side that Brian Jacques built as the foundation for his book series, Redwall.
Something is wrong with the Kalgari Cleanworks High Velocity Waste Distributor that sits over your neighbourhood. The titanic cannon designed to launch trash outside the bounds of the Megacity is now pointed at the surrounding buildings! Kalgari Cleanworks wants you and your Retinue of guns-for-hire to discreetly infiltrate their cannon and clear out the interlopers. Venture into the hull of a massive corporate cannon, fight trash obsessed goblins, and save the borough of this Megacity with teamwork, guns, and 90’s themed science-fantasy technology in this original system.
Make a supervillain, get some minions, and find out just spectacularly will your evil scheme fail? Why? Because the superheroes will catch you. They always do. Supervillains Unleashed uses the same engine as Simple Superheroes but employs brand new mechanics for supervillain schemes.
Want to win $25,000 playing board games? The World Series of Board Gaming (WSBG) has partnered once again with Breakout to bring you their Toronto Mini Tournament! If you're unfamiliar, The World Series of Board Gaming (wsbgvegas.com) is an annual competition in Vegas to crown the "World's Best All-Around Board Gamer". Competitors will compete in 16 different games, with one winner taking home the title of WSBG Champion and the $25,000 grand prize. They're back in Vegas this year and want the Best of the North to join in on the action. Sign up for one of the four "World Series of Board Games Qualifier First Round" events in the system, for the WSBG mini tournament where you can win a Single Ring Pass to The World Series, or other great prizes! And don't worry, this won't monopolize your open gaming time! To be the Breakout WSBG Champion, all it takes is winning 3 games! Each of the WSBG Ring Events will have their own 1 designated table (4 players max per game). Win that game, and you're in the Semi Finals, where you'll play a RANDOM game out of the 16 to win your way to the Final Table! This format allows you to specialize in the game you know best, while also testing your all-around board gaming adaptability! This is a free event! Anyone can enter, but be advised that WSBG is an 18+ only tournament. Sign ups are limited, so lock in your game now! (See below for tournament details) Schedule March 15 (4pm) Wingspan, Great Western Trail, Acquire, Lost Ruins of Arnak March 15 (6pm) Ark Nova, Castles of Burgundy, Cascadia,, Ticket To Ride March 16 (11am)Earth, Azul, Brass Birmingham, Terraforming Mars March 16 (2pm) Splendor, Ra, Dune Imperium, Heat March 17 9am SEMI-FINALS (drawn once all 16 games are completed) 1pm FINALS
A group of thugs and ruffians from Duskvol is given a simple task -- pack up a museum exhibit while a legendary thief disrupts the alarms. Unfortunately, his plan wasn't the same as yours, and now you have to escape the Bluecoats and plot your revenge.
Rise of the Blood Olms is for new and experienced players. It is a potentially deadly scenario, but characters can survive through critical thinking and careful exploration. Three weeks ago, the Order of Nine dispatched a team of scholars led by High Lector Geteli to investigate a newly-discovered cave system along the Silversilk River. They have not been heard from since. • The Order has offered to pay a sum of 1000gp (total) for the safe return of the Mud Sieve, an item of great value taken by the survey team. The Order will pay an additional 100gp for the safe recovery of any of the expedition’s four party members.
It’s October 30, 1970, and you’re off to Carnival Pandemonium in western Massachusetts. It’s the season for pumpkins, costumes, and bone-chilling terror! While most people come for fun, games, and a touch of fright, others have darker purposes. One thing is certain: everyone will face horrors beyond their worst nightmares. Little do you know, the role you play may shape the fate of humanity itself.
Blokus (officially pronounced "Block us") is an abstract strategy game with transparent, Tetris-shaped, colored pieces that players are trying to play onto the board. The only caveat to placing a piece is that it may not lie adjacent to your other pieces, but instead must be placed touching at least one corner of your pieces already on the board.
We'll be running our new card game, Fighting Words! A real time card battling game where spelling words hurts your opponents. Use the images on the letters to make combos which will do even more damage!
In Perch, players fight for control of locations by commanding birds of their own and other players' flocks. Earn points and command woodland creatures by having the most birds on a location, pushing your foes off the perch, and breaking ties to take the lead. Each round, players add their birds into a shared bag. Players then draw birds of their own, and other players take turns stacking birds on location tiles. Each location tile will award variable points for majorities and sometimes grant players a unique ability. The game ends after five rounds, and the player who has earned the most points wins. With a modular tile configuration and a variety of woodland creatures to control, each game will present a new tactical challenge
Friday March 14, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Churchill
Behind You! is a slasher, horror game inspired a lot by 80s, 90s and early 2000s slasher movies. You'll play people fighting against the limits and constraints of where they find themselves. It could be a small town, it could be a campground, or it could be a college campus. It's just a place where people in authority are trying to keep things the same even though there is someone or something killing people in the town.
Hope Inhumanity is a card-based story game set in a bleak post-apocalyptic world. This session will add the Martial Law expansion pack deck to the main game, with extra Scenes, Traits, Assets, Relationships, Personalities and the new Hunted condition!. Civilization and all its safeguards have collapsed. Remaining loyal military units have been deployed to enforce stability while militias, terrorists, criminal gangs, and foreign armies have filled the power vacuum left by the collapsed state. Your group of players needs to escape and do whatever it takes to survive.
Square up at a fight club for queer women in this fast-paced storytelling game of intense gazes and black eyes. Get messed up, find your freedom, fall in love.
As a teen with special abilities and training, you have been recruited by Tony Stark's AI, Friday, to form a new superhero team. With the Avengers, X-men, and Fantastic Four protecting New York, teams are needed to offer protection in other major cities. Do you have what it takes to deal with familiar villains, and prove yourself as a real hero?
A permanent base is being built in the Shackleton crater at the Moon's South Pole. You're leading one of the space agencies that are working together to expand their presence on the base, while at the same time the three major corporations sponsoring the mission are each pursuing their own agenda. In Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon, you will build structures on the base, while also funding projects from the corporations that provide special abilities and scoring opportunities.
date me irls pls is part roleplaying party game,and part actual awkward date. Through facilitated play, two players get compatibility matched a la OkCupid, spend some time text messaging, and get to know each other through revealing their answers to the most intense online dating questions in a timed game show environment.
Ironbound: Guardians of Novala is a tabletop roleplaying game of witches battling giant machines. It presents a rich and complex setting where the peaceful witches of Novala are pitted against an invasive group known as the Apothecary who seek to exploit the land’s magic-rich environment for their personal gain. Your coven discovers the massive tracks of a powerful Apothecary machine that must be hunted down and destroyed.
The End of the World Is at Hand! A hideous death cult has seized control of an ancient artifact-monument known as Tovag Baragu. The power behind the cult is the Old One himself, Iuz the Evil, demonic master of an empire. He's on an all-or-nothing quest for supremacy over the world—and the heavens beyond. To stop him, heroes must face horrors never dreamed of, journeying to a shadowed city where Death rules and the living cower. Here, Iuz will achieve his mad dream by destroying the imprisoned master of that alien citadel: Vecna, the mightiest lich, an immortal demigod.
Welcome to the Cretacious Era and Grevakc—a land of dinosaurs and danger, of myth and science, of hope and despair. Once upon a time in the far, far future, Space and Time Interglobal (usually just called SATI) sent thousands of people back to this era. But then the time travel stopped working, and those people were trapped (or perhaps abandoned) here. That was all generations ago. Now you’re exploring an old SATI site. It’s been like others you’ve uncovered, filled with interesting things from the future and from the past. Nothing truly astonishing—until that blue cylinder turned up. This is something new—a technologically advanced message, and it’s calling for help. It’s time to take your dinosaur companion and go on a mission of rescue! This adventure is set in the Predation campaign setting—a little bit science fiction, a little bit post-apocalypse, and a whole lot of dinosaurs!
Deathmatch Island is a fast-paced roleplaying game about a deadly game show set on a mysterious island. Armed only with their hazy memories and matching uniforms, the players compete in challenges to satisfy the demands of Production. Will you Play to Win or Break the Game?
Events in Oxford have gone strange. The local priest is spitting frogs. A troll's rebuilt, and taken refuge under, the bridge leading to the Thornwood. Filth from Goblin town clogs the mill's wheel. If you don't discover the cause soon far worse is coming to Oxford!
This beginner-friendly one-shot introduces Realmshapers, a narrative 'pick up and play' indie TTRPG, and immerses you into one of our original settings: The Hollow Realm - A world turned literally inside out, a twisted paradise of alien arcana that draws in lost souls from across time and space! Pre-gen characters are available, but building new characters is possible in 30 minutes if you have a PC from any TTRPG campaign whose story was cut short. In the cliffside town of Saltforge, they will be welcomed with an "orientation" festival, celebrating their storied past while also seeking their aid with...rats?
The serene library in Wind Harbour, typically a sanctuary of knowledge, is experiencing something unusual. An apprentice from the Collegium Arcanum accessed a tome from the restricted collection resulting in the emergence of strange creatures and other manifestations throughout the premises. The abbot has entrusted you to discreetly fix the problem. Time is of the essence, so you must act swiftly and quietly. It is imperative that no tome be damaged in the process. Your journey to bring order back to this esteemed place begins now.
The loveless match of Lady Penelope to Baron Von Rupenstein will be the event of the season – and the heist of the century. Tonight, your cunning band of criminals (Ravens) must infiltrate the lavish wedding ball at the Stoneagles Estate, outwit Captain Waldorf and the Duke’s guard, and liberate the host’s gold, the guests’ jewellery, and the unwilling bride herself! A simple, fast, highly flexible and cinematic RPG system, ELEMENTAL (a DriveThruRPG platinum best seller) is perfect for any character, any setting, and any story. Characters provided, no experience necessary, newcomers welcome, and a prize for all attendees!
Blokus (officially pronounced "Block us") is an abstract strategy game with transparent, Tetris-shaped, colored pieces that players are trying to play onto the board. The only caveat to placing a piece is that it may not lie adjacent to your other pieces, but instead must be placed touching at least one corner of your pieces already on the board.
Gems of Iridescia is an easy to learn, fun to master exploration board game where players will push their luck as they compete to mine gems, manipulate the market, restore ancient relics and ascend to the throne of a rich gem-filled world.
Blood on the Clocktower is a game of murder and mystery, lies and logic, deduction and deception for five-to-twenty courageous players and one devious storyteller.
Friday March 14, 2025 8:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
City Hall
As an amateur dracologist your goal is to excavate caves and entice dragons of all shapes and sizes to take nest in your sanctuary. Over the course of the game you will manage your resources, Explore your sanctuary and chain your cave card abilities with these beautiful dragons to earn the most points and gain the dragon guild's favour.
Explore the accursed land of Amarna, in the new Print Weaver adventure. This unique TTRPG uses your real fingerprints to create your character. Open to players of any skill level, as we escape the Bastille and it's giant two-headed boar warden. Contains monster violence.
A group of your friends have decided to have a monster themed party at a spooky old mansion they rented. But you’re pretty sure the Skeleton Knight wasn’t on the guest list! Can you and your friends solve another mystery and unmask the truth behind the Skeleton Knight?
You were a group of Game Devs who put out the most popular VHS board game of all time, Flashback. It was so popular that it generated a conservative response from groups that tried to ban the game in several states. Now—thirty years after the original VHS release and selling all the rights to the mega toy conglomerate Waschick—you are asked to reunite and promote the online MMRPG version of Flashback launching in two weeks. You have been invited to an exclusive launch party where the game will be privately unveiled before the big press push in the following weeks.
Swords clash on the field of battle, or are cutting words exchanged behind closed doors? Saga's flexible modular system and easy to follow rules allow a quick start into a fantasy adventure tailored to your desires. A vast world full of stories awaits, let's find out where your story begins.
Some say the greatest threat to a scoundrel is an unpaid debt. For Grezpoh Sleeb it is. Borrowing money from the Pyke Syndicate with no intent to repay usually results in a bounty on your head. This time the bounty is on his ship, the Swift Razor. Whatever upgrades done on Socorro will have increased its value to be sufficient repayment. Your crew has been hired to claim it for the Pykes, but in the Outer Rim, possession is 10/10 of the law…
Caldera Park is an interactive puzzle-game that achieves a perfect balance between strategic planning and luck. This, and its accessible ruleset, make it a great next step for anyone who enjoyed Savannah Park or Cascadia.
Journey into the hard metal earth of the dead star Dungeoneca with a small band of deeptech salvagers. Untold riches await you in artifacts and fine metals; if you can survive the half-functioning ancient servo-dungeon you've been sent to explore. This is a playtest.
Two-Hand path is a single-player dungeon crawler, and we’re going to all play it together! We’ll explore post-apocalyptic ruins, slay foes with yahtzee dice rolls, draw rings and tattoos on our mages’ hands, and see who can survive enough to get the high score. Play with the designer!
