RinCon 2019

Raiders of the Lost Mart: You are night shift employees at a bulk discount store whose shelves occasionally manifest dangerous occult artifacts. Can you do a stock check of the weirdness the same night a dangerous customer arrives looking for it? Superstore meets Twin Peaks in a horror RPG about broken people trying to fix the world.

Visions of the Black Cathedral spread through the city like a slow moving virus. It appears in dreams, drawing you into obsession and madness. Will you find your way to its doors before it consumes you?

Ravenous is an in-development game about vampires, family and horror. It is Powered by the Apocalypse and will be run with an X-card. This game will be run by it's developer, Brendan Carrion, host of the Full Metal RPG podcast.

Scritch Scratch: Muscoby has never not had a rat catcher. Old Gurteen has been carrying on the tradition in the village, but has recently been hospitalized. With him away, who will ensure the rat population his kept in check? The crew hired to clean his house and the reality show producers following them to record the job, perhaps? Call of Cthulhu modern scenario set in an isolated English village.

Two GMs. Eight Players. Two Rooms. Join Stuart and Suzette Dollar for a night of terror at the bottom of the world.

In the ocean depths, no one can hear you scream...

You are on the sea floor, 1500 feet below the surface. Around you there is only cold and dark -- the sun's caressing rays bring nothing to this world. The pressure is 600 pounds per square inch. This is a lethal place. There must be caution in every move you make, or the sea will claim your body and your soul. You and your companions are aboard the R S V Wallaby, a prototype research vessel of your own design. This is the maiden voyage; the attention of the world is upon you.

And you are not alone. In the hours that come, you will die. Unless you can master the fine art of Grace Under Pressure...

Sage and Sand is a role-playing game set in an alternate distant future on planet Earth. Nuclear war has occurred, with several countries having struck all over the globe. Millions of people died from the initial blasts; resulting in nuclear winter, urban skirmishes, and of course the abominations. No one knows for certain their origins. Few abominations have been killed for research, none captured alive. They have crawled, flown, and slithered out of bomb blasts and caves after the blasts. Humanoid in appearance and yet very un-human, to notice one long enough to describe it usually means death. Alien contact seems to appear almost daily now as well.

This role-playing game focuses on story-telling and character development. There are certain "factions" controlling the planet, with each character belonging to one of them. Players in a party struggle for basic survival, and try to piece back their lives after chaos erupted barely over a year ago. Come play in some Post-Apocalyptic fun!

On November 23, 1969, Colonel Satchel Waide launched a mixed force of US Marines and US Army Paratroopers to attack a target in Cambodia, three years before the US secretly began operations there. The target was a dangerous Unnatural Entity which had bedeviled US forces in Burma during World War II, and Malaya in 1955. The plan was to be the culmination of the Delta Green Special Access Program's mission in Vietnam. Can you survive the horrors of the Unnatural as a heavily armed paratrooper? Find out in Operation OBSIDIAN Part I.

“ . . . when our love will ride away into eternal skies; A Symptom of the Universe, a love that never dies.” When a hero dies, only the dream remains. Who dare seek answers in the death dream of the most dangerous man in the world? This is a play with the designer experimental DCC scenario for 4th level characters.

You survived the raid in Cambodia. Now, there's the small matter of getting back to South Vietnam. Dodging the Unnatural threats of Cambodia, and the very natural and heavily armed threats of the Vietcong and North Vietnamese running the Ho Chi Minh Trail, your goal is to reach a US firebase located not far from the Cambodian border. But the Unnatural threats guard their secrets closely, and the forces of Delta Green guard theirs even closer. Can you make good your escape?

For those of you who played in Part I earlier in the day and have surviving characters, you are encouraged to bring them for Part II.

Visions of the Black Cathedral spread through the city like a slow moving virus. It appears in dreams, drawing you into obsession and madness. Will you find your way to its doors before it consumes you?

Ravenous is an in-development game about vampires, family and horror. It is Powered by the Apocalypse and will be run with an X-card. This game will be run by it's developer, Brendan Carrion, host of the Full Metal RPG podcast.

They say there have been eight worlds before ours. Eight times the people of this planet, over vast millennia, built their civilizations, reaching heights we cannot even fully imagine now. They spoke to the stars, reshaped the creatures of the world, and mastered form and essence. They built cities and machines that have since crumbled to dust, leaving only their barest remnants.

This is the Ninth World. The people of the prior worlds are gone—scattered, disappeared, or transcended. But their works remain, in the places and devices that still contain some germ of their original function. The ignorant call these magic, but the wise know that these are our legacy. They are our future. They are the Numenera.

Set a billion years in our future, Numenera is a tabletop roleplaying game about exploration and discovery. The people of the Ninth World suffer through a dark age, an era of isolation and struggle in the shadow of the ancient wonders crafted by civilizations millennia gone. But discovery awaits those brave enough to seek out the works of the prior worlds. Those who can uncover and master the numenera can unlock the powers and abilities of the ancients, and perhaps bring new light to a struggling world.

Conan 2D20 Season of the Witch: Rated mature for violence and horror themes. While passing through Northeastern Brythunia, your band of Mercenaries drank, caroused and brawled your way into legal trouble with the King of Gorric. Slapped into Irons by the guard while inebriated the King offered you a way to avoid the noose. Look into and solve a problem of reports from a remote manorial village of one of his petty nobles. Reports of nightmares and possibly witchcraft! The king gave you your freedom, weapons and mounts back, but warned you'd be outlawed and hunted down if you rode away instead of completing the task. That and he confiscated the rest of your gold from the last job, as collateral! Can you survive the Season of the Witch...? Note: This scenario was run at the 1st Fundraiser day and is the same scenario in case you played in that. Rated mature for violence and horror themes. Pregenerated characters will be provided.

You've escaped Cambodia and the harrowing experience at Firebase India 410 and returned to civilization. But you are still marked for extermination, and have one remaining objective, getting with the bastards who abandoned you in Cambodia. But the guardians of the compound aren't all human, and are all dangerus. Can you survive the horrors of the compound and strike a blow for humanity in a world gone mad?

For those of you who played in Parts I and II earlier in the day and have surviving characters, you are encouraged to bring them for Part III to assure their destruction.

Sara Lloyd, star swimmer of the Aqua High School swim team (go Dolphins!), has been accused of cheating. Her blood test results report that she used a banned substance called Graniperol, and, as a result she has lost her spot at the Olympic Trials, which will take place in a couple of weeks. Sara is distraught and approaches the Dolphin Detectives (that’s you!) to help her. The test results seem conclusive and the adults are satisfied that she’s guilty. Any appeal will only be successful if new evidence comes to light. Can the Dolphin Detectives discover the truth? We will use a modified version of the FATE CORE rules set. No experience with FATE is necessary. Pregenerated Characters will be provided.
Possible Content: Adult Themes, Mild Language. Role Playing Encouraged.

Blades in the Dark is a game of first-rate skullduggery. A crew of scoundrels completes missions as they vie for status in a Victorian-style city. Your crew has recently had a run in with a faction called the Wraiths (mysterious masked thieves), in which something was lost. Your crew seeks vengeance, how will they achieve their goals?

It has been called the Cohen brother's RPG. In the vein of A Simple Plan, Burn After Reading, and Fargo.
Ordinary people with high ambition and poor impulse control plan and execute a scheme that will certainly solve all off their problems. (Spoilers: It won't solve anything. It will be a cluster F and no one will get what they want)

Unknown Armies is a world like our own. Political deadlock. Horrible people. The cell phone obsesses. Economic stress.

And oh yeah, magick exists. Scratch the surface of the mundane world and you'll find weird just beneath the surface. A man who can cast magick fueled by drinking rotgut whiskey by the liter. A woman who uses her ability as an X-Rated Webcam Star to cast magickal rituals. And sitting on top of it all is the 333 Members of the Invisible Clergy. As a character in Unknown Armies, you can play an ordinary human embattled by the Supernatural around you, or you can use your own unique schtick to rise through the ranks of the occult underground.

Join us for a session of Unknown Armies involving some escaped prisoners and a number of hostages (that's you all), who are about to get a taste of the weird, dangerous world of Unknown Armies.

Space is vast, dark, and hostile. Gamma rays and neutrino bursts erupt from dying stars to cook you alive; black holes tear you apart; the void itself boils your blood and seizes your brain. Try to scream and no one can hear you... hold your breath and you rupture your lungs. Space isn’t as empty as you’d think, either. Its frontiers are ever expanding. Rival governments wage a cold war of aggression while greedy corporations vie for valuable resources. Colonists reach for the stars and gamble with their lives - each new world tamed is either feast or famine. And there are things lurking in the shadows of every asteroid... things strange and different and deadly.

Things alien.

This is the official ALIEN tabletop roleplaying game - a universe of body horror and corporate brinkmanship, where synthetic people play god while space truckers and marines serve host to newborn ghoulish creatures. It’s a harsh and unforgiving universe and you are nothing if not expendable.

Stay alive if you can.

The year is 2183, little more than three years since the destruction of the Hadley’s Hope colony on LV-426, the disappearance of the USS Sulaco, and the closing of the prison and lead works on Fiorina 161. The loss of the Sulaco’s Colonial Marine unit along with these Weyland-Yutani sponsored outposts, and the implications of corporate foul play stemming from these incidents, have created an air of distrust between the company and the United Americas.

To add fuel to the fire, conflicts between the rival sectors of space have increased exponentially in the past five years. While unconfirmed, many believe that Hadley’s Hope was a test site for one of Weyland-Yutani’s bioweapons and that an enemy state sent a warship to nuke it from orbit. Others believe that the Company is working with a rogue nation to assume control of the colonies on the Frontier.

The 2180s are a dangerous time to be alive.