Winnipeg Comiccon 2024

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We are excited again to be continuing our long-term partnership with Winnipeg Comiccon to provide their game lounge, 25-27 October, at the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg.

Entry to the game lounge is free as part of your Comiccon ticket. Find us at room 2F in the North building.

We are a friendly space to all, perhaps you are already well-versed in modern table top games or last board-game was Sorry, Monopoly or Chutes & Ladders in the cottage on a rainy day in your early teens? Either way come along and say hi, let us show you our new favourites!

We like to think of ourselves as a bit of a calm oasis for people looking to rest their legs from the signing lines and vendors hall. We offer plenty of seating and table space to play your newest purchase or to try something from our lending library of around 100 of our favourite games, with the bonus of our friendly and helpful volunteers to recommend a game you may not have tried before, or that fits your schedule (starting that 12 hour game of Twilight Imperium means you might miss your chance to meet Spike, K-2SO or Frodo).

The Manitoba Board Game Designers group will be joining us this year and you will be able to try out games made by local designers. They are also running a couple of panels “Roll for Initiative: Bringing your RPGs ideas to the Table” on Friday October 25th @ 5:15 pm (Presentation room) & “Mind to Minis: Taking Your RPGS From Playtesting to Published” on Sunday, October 27th @ 11:45 (Pan Am Room). If you have always wanted to give tabletop roleplaying a try they are even offering sessions.

Chip Theory Games will be joining us to show off their latest game based on the Elder Scrolls, The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era!

The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era, published by Chip Theory Games, is a 1-4 player cooperative tabletop adventure set in the world of The Elder Scrolls video game franchise during Tamriel’s Second Era. Adventurers work to uncover the machinations of the rogue Wood Elf Deslandra, and ultimately put an end to her plot that threatens to tie Tamriel in with Oblivion forever. Players will travel on an epic journey, balancing exploration, character building, dungeon diving and close quarters combat.

Join Shannon, one of the game’s developers, for a 1-2 hour demo of the game. Shannon will walk you through character creation and the first several days of the game to give you a sense of how the game plays. For more information or to pre-order the game, visit chiptheorygames.com.

Friday – 3pm to 10pm
Saturday – 10am to 9pm
Sunday – 10.30am to 6pm

We will be running some scheduled games this year, and so whilst (as always) subject to change, if any of these catch your eye come see us.

Friday, 25 October

  • 4 pm – Warhammer WarCry
  • 6 pm – Warhammer WarCry
  • 6 pm – Giant Boop! (and other 2 player games)
  • 6.30pm – D&D 5th Edition (RPG, sessions take 2-2.5 hours)
  • 6.30pm – Arcane Dominion: Built Above Bones (RPG, sessions take around an hour)
    • While visiting with friends in the old part of town, you’ve fallen through the floorboards and into the ancient ruins of era’s past. Get to your feet and find something to defend yourself from what lies in the darkness…
  • 7 pm – Rush and Bash
  • 7 pm – Frozen Pothole: A Winnipeg Fiasco (RPG, sessions take around 3 hours)
    • Frozen Pothole is a Winnipeg-themed play-set designed for the Fiasco RPG, an award-winning, GM-less game, with a heavy focus on improvised storytelling over questing and battle mechanics. Like a Coen brothers movie, you will engineer characters with grand ambition and poor impulse control, and play out stupid, disastrous situations, usually at the intersection of greed, fear, and lust.
  • 8 pm – Warhammer WarCry
  • 8 pm – Giant Boop! (and other 2 player games)

Saturday, 26 October

  • 10.30am – Arcane Dominion: Built Above Bones (RPG, sessions take around an hour)
    • While visiting with friends in the old part of town, you’ve fallen through the floorboards and into the ancient ruins of era’s past. Get to your feet and find something to defend yourself from what lies in the darkness…
  • 12 pm – Warhammer WarCry
  • 1 pm – Happy Salmon tournaments
  • 1 pm – Reanimated (RPG, sessions take 2-3 hours)
    • Romero was right. The end of the world was zombies. Join in on an RPG about those who still live in a world where hell has run out of room.
  • 2 pm – Warhammer WarCry
  • 2 pm – Arena of Blood a miniature gladiatorial combat game (ends around 4pm)
  • 3 pm – MLEM Space Agency
  • 4 pm – Arena of Blood a miniature gladiatorial combat game (ends around 6pm)
  • 4 pm – Giant Jenga tournament
  • 5 pm – Warhammer WarCry
  • 5 pm – Giant Boop! (and other 2 player games)
  • 6 pm – Captain Flip
  • 7 pm – Warhammer WarCry

Sunday, 27 October

  • 12 pm – Warhammer WarCry
  • 1 pm, The Nullam Project (RPG, sessions take 2-3 hours)
    • We have reached the stars and found that we were not alone. Join The Elysium Colony in this sci-fi RPG set on a strange world, filled with danger and political intrigue.
  • 1 pm – Arcane Dominion: Built Above Bones (RPG, sessions take around an hour)
    • While visiting with friends in the old part of town, you’ve fallen through the floorboards and into the ancient ruins of era’s past. Get to your feet and find something to defend yourself from what lies in the darkness…
  • 1 pm – Captain Flip
  • 2 pm – Warhammer WarCry
  • 3 pm – Giant Boop! (and other 2 player games)
  • 3 pm – Magic, Myth, and Mystery (RPG, sessions take around 3 hours)
    • Magic, Myth, and Mystery is a locally designed RPG that uses cards rather than dice in order to give players more influence over the trajectory of the story through a simple rules system. Set in a globe-trotting modern fantasy world not unlike our own, players will be able to choose one of six pre-generated characters, some human and some less so, based on various global legends. Together they must find a way to save the world, not kill each other, and hopefully avoid getting fired.
  • 5 pm – Warhammer WarCry