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Gen Con event registration starts May 19 at noon and Hex Events often fill up rather quickly, so here's a list of this year's known events so you can start planning your schedule. We've included events from Hex staffers, Hex authors, Knomes, friends of Hex, and random Iowans, so everything should be here, but let us know if we missed anything. See you in Indy a couple months!
Thursday
Intro to QAGS
Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
RPG1340380
Location: ICC : 110 : 5
GM: Ian Engle
2-6 players
Do you want to play a game? Like right now?! Well, let us tell you all about QAGS, a dynamic, easy system guaranteed to have you playing within 15 minutes of coming up with your character concept. Better yet, let us show you! If you've ever thought you'd love to role-play but don't have the patience for lots of math and record-keeping, this is the system for you.
GILGAMESH!
Thursday 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
RPG1341196
Location: ICC : 110 : 9
GM: Erik Sanstad
3-6 players
Are YOU epic enough to travel with GILGAMESH!?! Can you find the secret to immortality? Are you brave enough to spit in the eyes of the GODS THEMSELVES?!? Travel with the FIRST hero to find a way to cheat death once and for all! GILGAMESH!
Homecoming Queen’s Got a Thermonuke
Thursday 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
RPG1340381
Location: ICC : 110 : 8
GM: Ian Engle
2-6 players
The kids at Charles Fort High School take their homecoming very seriously. Everyone’s working to make sure this year’s celebration is a blast nobody will forget. Some more literally than others. Can you and your gang save homecoming—and the school?
Sex, Lies and Ultraspies: Ministry Q
Thursday 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
RPG1340374
Location: ICC : 110 : 7
GM: Robert McCabe
2-6 players
It’s the ‘60s! In a world of super spies, leather catsuits and master villains, your characters are secret agents with “special” talents trying to survive “the most dangerous game.”
Court of Justice
Thursday 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
RPG1340382
Location: ICC : 110 : 7
GM: Ian Engle
2-6 players
There you were, surrounded by the Mob of Paris, when suddenly VOOM! Out of the sun! Marie Antoinette and her Amazon squad came flying to the rescue! Join these superior heroes in the court of Louis XVI as they take on the democratic rabble of the Mob of Paris and the diabolical savants of the Enlightenment.
Pulp Fantasy All-Stars!
Thursday 7:00 p.m. -11:00 p.m.
RPG1340385
Location: ICC : 110 : 8
GM: Josh Burnett
3-6 players
Conan! Elric! The Gray Mouser and Fafhrd! Red Sonja! Cudgel the Clever! Heroes from many worlds must band together to fight a cosmic evil that threatens all realities. It's savage sword & sorcery adventure with QAGS!
Sex, Lies and Ultraspies: Spy Racers
Thursday 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
RPG1340375
Location: ICC : 110 : 6
GM: Robert McCabe
2-6 players
It’s the 60’s! The cars are fast, the women are faster, and there’s no better cover for international spies than as flashy racecar drivers, competing in a once-in-a-lifetime race on a secret island.
Friday
Hobomancer: The Town that Loved Hobos
Friday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
RPG1340386
Location: ICC : 110 : 6
GM: Josh Burnett
3-6 players
It’s the height of the Great Depression, and those all-American shamans known as Hobomancers ride the rails defending the soul of this great nation from all manner of supernatural evil. But what’s this? The town of Jackson Falls is so warm and friendly. Why, they even welcome hobos and drifters with open, loving arms. Could this be hobo paradise? There certainly couldn’t be a secret evil lurking under a friendly facade, could there?
Marching Orders
Friday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
RPG1340383
Location: ICC : 110 : 5
GM: Ian Engle
2-5 players
You were a full saint with all the perks--window office, expense account, the whole banana. Then the Pope declared you were nothing more than a legend, and you were relegated to one of the outer circles of Heaven to shift as best you could. What’s a saint to do when he gets his marching orders?
Funkadelic Frankenstein on the Mean Streets of Monstertown: Prometheus Jones and the Heaven’s Water Club
Friday 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Location: ICC : 110 : 10
GM: Erik Sanstad
3-6 players
Its just one thing after another baby. As if the folks in monstertown don’t have enough problems, now this jive club swings in and starts trying to “save” people from being themselves! Hey baby, if you’re a monster you don’t need no damn savin’! Now Frank is on the case to try and find a child kidnapped by this “club” for her fine lookin’ mama! Is the Prometheus Jones Detective Agency up to freeing people from a cult? And what exactly is behind the Heaven’s Water Club anyway? Come stick it to the MAN, baby!
M-Force: Not Just A Job
Friday 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
RPG1340683
Location: ICC : 110 : 9
GM: Steve Johnson
3-6 players
Everybody knows there are monsters in the world, but most people do their best to ignore them. As a part-time agent for M-Force, you understand the danger that monsters pose to humanity. When monsters threaten, it's up to you and your team to kick monster butt.
Grimmpunk
Friday 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
RPG1340384
Location: ICC : 110 : 8
GM: Ian Engle
2-6 players
In an evil corporate-controlled fairy-tale future, happily-ever-after isn’t quite what it used to be--and getting there is even more challenging. Well, Mr. Andersen would like to help you with that, and all you have to do is a little job for him.
Laser Ponies: Pandemonium in Panagonia
Friday 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
RPG1340398
Location: ICC : 110 : 9
GM: Leighton Connor
3-6 players
The Laser Ponies want to spend the day frolicking and having fun but, sadly, an evil sorceress is spreading chaos across the land. It’s time to put things right with friendship, teamwork, and lasers!
Sex, Lies and Ultraspies: Submariners
Friday 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
RPG1340376
Location: ICC : 110 : 7
GM: Robert McCabe
2-6 players
It’s the ‘60s and SCUBA and bikinis have been invented! Join the crew of the Nautilus II as they face the Warlord and his forces in this role playing game of underwater adventures and superpowers.
Motel Showdown
Friday 5:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
RPG1340884
Location: JW : 208 : 1
GM: University of Iowa (Game Club, we’re going to assume)
3-6 players
The transient denizens of a roadside motel must confront a threat to their existence. You'll laugh, cry, and struggle not to eat the candy that could be the key to your survival!
Panel: Someone Else’s Sandbox
Friday, 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
SEM1340689
Location: Crowne Plaza : Pennsylvania Stn A
Moderators: Hex Staff
Licensing is expensive and most game companies are poor, so if you really want to play a game set in the world of your favorite book, movie, or TV show, you’re probably going to have to make it up yourself. In this panel, Hex Games will give you some tips and tricks for capturing the flavor of your favorite intellectual property in your game.
Golden Age Superheroes: Attack of the Cannibal Planets!
Friday, 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
RPG1340387
Location: ICC : 110 : 7
GM: Josh Burnett
3-6 players
The time of the masked mystery man has past. World War II is over and the Cold War is in full swing. But when an old enemy returns from the depths of space to conquer Earth, a group of heroes must come out retirement to save the day one last time. Join the Black Terror, Lady Fairplay, Blue Bolt, and other heroes of the Golden Age as they take on the Green Sorceress and the Cannibal Planets! It’s old school superheroics with QAGS!
Sex, Lies and Ultraspies: Agents of the D.E.A.D.
Friday, 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
RPG1340377
Location: ICC : 110 : 6
GM: Robert McCabe
2-6 players
It’s the 60’s! Someone is taking over the minds of our nation’s youth. Explore the darker side of the ‘60s, like The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits in this world of sci fi thrillers and superpowers.
The Smurfs: Apocalypse
Friday, 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
RPG1340407
Location: ICC : 110 : 8
GM: Richard Smith
3-6 players
Is this the end of the world? The bombs have dropped, zombies are everywhere, and there are gangs of marauding murderers roaming the highways. The Smurf Village is gone. How will you survive?
Panel: The Pitfalls of Game Design
Friday, 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
SEM1340688
Location: Crowne Plaza : Pennsylvania Stn A
Moderators: Hex Staff
There’s a lot more to game design than coming up with a world and some mechanics, finding a printer, and marketing your product. In this panel, the Hex Games staff will be discussing the tedium, obliviousness to obvious design flaws, and insanity that can happen when it’s just you, your brilliant idea, and a blank computer screen.
Saturday
American Artifact Pickers
Saturday, 8:00 a.m. - Noon
RPG1340378
Location: ICC : 110 : 1
GM: Robert McCabe
2-6 players
Buried in garages, sheds, barns and warehouses all across the country are dangerous magical artifacts. Pickers have special powers to find and obtain them, while somehow living to tell the tale.
The Fantasy Hangover
Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
RPG1340388
Location: ICC : 110 : 8
GM: Josh Burnett
3-6 players
After a party of bold adventurers successfully won the Red Idol of Aaargh from the Temple of Fire, they decided to celebrate their victory in the decadent party city of Meadows. But now it’s morning, they have no memory of the night before, there’s a price on their heads, and one or more of their number might be married. It’s sword & sorcery & slapstick with QAGS!
Lemuria Rising: Why are you dressed like a cow?
Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
RPG1341198
Location: ICC : 110 : 9
GM: Erik Sanstad
3-6 players
The small town of New Hope has a problem. Rebuilding after the Lemurians devastated the South in the civil war is hard enough without someone or some… THING coming in every night to steal cattle from the ranchers! Just what the heck is going on around this town at night? And can someone explain why the one cow that was found looked like it was bitten in half? Looks like a job for the Pinkerton’s Monster Hunting Division! Now get those cow-costumes on!
IMP: A Game of Tiny Alien Invaders and Enormous Property Damage
Saturday Noon - 4:00 p.m.
RPG1340408
Location: ICC : 110 : 1
GM: Richard Smith
3-6 players
Alien invasions are full of chaos and property damage. Good thing you get to be the alien this time. Use whatever weapons you can find to complete your objective and destroy as many things as you can.
Panel: How to “Prepare” for Convention Games
Saturday 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
SEM1340687
Location: Crowne Plaza : Pennsylvania Stn B
Moderators: Hex Staff
Why spend weeks mapping out every detail of your convention game when you know the players are just going to go off track in the first five minutes anyway? From total improv to modular scenes, join the Hex Games gang as they discuss tricks and techniques to help you “prepare” for convention games like a “pro”.
Panel: Smells Like Team Spirit
Saturday 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SEM1340687
Location: Crowne Plaza : Pennsylvania Stn B
Moderators: Hex Staff
In this panel, the crew from Hex Games will tell you how to build a cohesive, coherent party with characters who have real connections and reasons for working together.
Beowulf Vs. Dracula!
Saturday 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
RPG1340399
Location: ICC : 110 : 6
GM; Leighton Connor
3-6 players
In the year 2137, humans are unprepared for the return of the King of Darkness, the Lord of the Undead, Dracula himself. As Dracula and his monstrous hordes seem poised to wipe out human civilization, a group of scientists reaches back through time to recruit the greatest monster-hunter of all time, Beowulf. Now Beowulf finds himself in a world he does not understand, with new friends and a clear mission: Kill Dracula like he’s never been killed before.
Rise of the Cybergods
Saturday 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
RPG1340684
Location: ICC : 110 : 7
GM: Steve Johnson
3-6 players
The city is a sprawling jungle of filth and despair where the haves rule the world from opulent sanctuaries while the have-nots scrape and struggle just to survive. Life is cheap and freedom is a luxury most people can't afford. Can a bunch of cybernetic, bio-engineered, mutant freaks fighting for truth, justice, and the American way bring hope to such a grim place?
Lemuria Rising: The House of Hides
Saturday 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
RPG1341195
Location: ICC : 110 : 8
GM: Erik Sanstad
3-6 players (min/max)
In a Steampunk/Arcane old west, the Pinkerton’s Monster Hunting Division is being sent out to investigate a mansion that survived the Civil War but now seems to be haunted or possessed. Can the agents last the night in the house of a crazed Southern General known for taking the hides of his kills? Can the Pinkertons deal with the evil in, The House of Hides?!?
Sunday
Hobomancer: Sowing the Seeds of Hell
Sunday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
RPG1340401
Location: ICC : 110 : 5
GM: Leighton Connor
3-6 players
They call you a dirty bum, a shiftless layabout, a drifter. What they don’t know is that you are a 20th century shaman, a hobomancer, riding the rails to protect America against threats from beyond time and space. Now you’re on the trail of one of the greatest threats this great nation has ever seen—a demonic Johnny Appleseed, spreading Hell wherever he goes. Pack your bindle, hop a train, and get ready for total chaos.
Junior M-Force
Sunday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
RPG1340409
Location: ICC : 110 : 6
GM: Richard Smith
3-6 players
Junior M-Force is a fan club for young people interested in the famous monster hunters. When a monster is spotted near the clubhouse, the members of Junior M-Force decided to investigate on their own.
The Sword & The King
Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
RPG1340685
Location: ICC : 110 : 8
GM: Steve Johnson
3-6 players
As a member of New York’s famed Herrick Agency, you’ve seen a lot of strange things--ancient mystical artifacts, Nazi super science, alien technology, and much, much more. You’re used to hearing some strange stories, but you’re beginning to think that your new client might be one of the crazies that an organization with Herrick’s reputation frequently attracts. She claims that she’s the guardian of King Arthur’s sword Excalibur, which has recently been stolen. And she’s pretty sure Elvis is involved.
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Hex Games today announced the upcoming release of Q-Next, the updated version of QAGS (the Quick Ass Game System).
