Come visit the Book Swap shelves in the Sandbox, as we introduce the Book Swap Coloring Contest. Learn about the contest and the wonderful ways and places you can enjoy Book Swap throughout the convention. Participants: Nybieee
Memonek mediators arrive in an Orden village after hired guards vanish mid-season despite full payment. Track them down and uphold the contract before tensions boil over! NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Jordan of Wyldwolf Games
Make a cozy pet blanket for your furry friend, no sewing required! If you don't have your own furry friend, or they have enough blankets already, GPS will be donating finished blankets to share with pets in need! Participants: Natasha Jo Krentz, Jaylynn Speidel
Come listen to disabled authors, actors, and artists talk about managing their creative lives and their daily lives. Participants: Stephanie Cranford (mod), Camryn Carey, J.R. Dawson, Christine Galey, Tania Richter
When are board games art? Always? Never? How do the commercial realities of publishing board games conflict with artistic goals? What alternatives to commercial publication are art-driven game designers using? Participants: Tata (mod), Nicole Fende, Martin Grider, Alisha Volkman
For first timers or veterans who are pretty sure they don't know everything, this panel will try to teach you everything you need to know. Participants: Rhea Wessendorf (mod), Nikki Armstrong, Brian Etchieson
Corvids have a reputation for wisdom, trickery, and mimicry and are important symbolic figures in many mythologies and cultures. They have appeared in fantasy stories as spies, wise creatures, or bad omens. Discuss our fascination with these creatures. Participants: Lisa Hario (mod), Renate Fiora Hyer, Satish Jayaraj, David Lenander, Kerry T Peterson
There are quite a few anime with a strong food focus. Come discuss your favorites! Participants: Kenneth Justiniano (mod), Amanda Bliss, Molly Glover, Sheko, Jessi Silver
It is weird how we only award movies the moment they come out. But do those films stand the test of time? We will reexamine the films of 2016 to see if they still hold up. Is Spotlight still the "best picture"? Participants: Duck Washington (mod), Windy Bowlsby, Garrick A Dietze, Andrea Ropella, Megan M Slawson
Compete to create the greatest fantasy adventurer. Roll and draft dice to build your attributes. Purchase weapons and armor. Train skills and discover traits. Earn points by constructing the best character. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Eric R. Peterson
You're a space marine sent to the edges of the galaxy to deliver mankind's revenge on all aliens. Features dark humor, 30-second character creation, and fast-paced tactical combat. Drop-in/Drop-out; priority to sign-ups. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: FLipsiDE
A TTRPG of paranormal mercs with lightning-fast character creation and simple rules. If you die, make a new character as fast as possible to leap back into the action. The world might not know you exist, but it needs you! NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Tim Patton
At the Grand Game Hall, fun turns foul as tokens vanish and prizes go missing. A trickster is cheating! Explore, solve puzzles, and outsmart them to restore fair play and fun for all. Participants: Kelsey Ebbert
In a seaside town, rumors swirl of mer-people, but not the kind of which legends tell. A villain is turning people into half-fish monsters! As young superheroes, you must find them and put a stop to it. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Ben Stoddart
Subtitled PG-13 2023 A new shrine maiden must balance her responsibilities with her school life. This is complicated by the goddess of the shrine, an elf who loves video games and doesn't want to interact with the rest of humanity.
Learn the basics of Daggerheart, Critical Role's narrative-focused alternative to D&D. Create a character to keep and walk through examples of basic gameplay. Intro only; no adventure. Drop-in/Drop-out; priority to sign-ups. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Timetwist
GoH John Kovalic discusses his work on the Munchkin game franchise and the long running Dork Tower comic. Participants: Edward Eastman (mod), John Kovalic
Kitchens are often cluttered with various devices. Which do you use constantly? Which gather dust? How can you find more uses for what you have or find more multi-faceted tools to replace many items at once? Participants: Alisha Srock (mod), Scott Grandt, K.N. Hamann, Tom Hyer, Erin Wilaby
Finding a good bookstore that isn't one of the last big chains seems to get harder every year. What are your favorite local shops? Participants: Eiryn Katherine (mod), Mallory Glass, Jeff Grapevine, Gus, Stephanie Olson
With the David Lynch memorial panel last year, there were so many questions about thoughts on Twin Peaks and what did things mean. We decided it might not be the worst idea to dedicate a panel to giving our thoughts on what we think things mean. Participants: Garrick A Dietze (mod), Drew Johnson, Sherry Pofahl Johnson, Caly McMorrow, Noel Thingvall
A new space opera with old tropes! Do you miss simple space stories? Flawed superheroes? Saber battles in space? Long, expository dialogue? Evil villains intent on taking over the galaxy? Well, you're in luck if you come to this lively author reading! Participants: Dave Walbridge
We all love costumes, but what can they tell us about the characters wearing them? Join knightandneedle.cosplay, as they discuss how to utilize costuming to help tell your story, as well as how to take this knowledge and use it to level up your cosplays. Participants: Haruka
We will be playing the classic deck-building game Dominion with various expansions. Build a deck on the fly to acquire the most valuable lands using treasure & power cards. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Carl Patten, Tammy Patten
In Wroth, each player represents a unique culture with a distinctive approach to battle and a variety of fighters with remarkable capabilities. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Chip Theory Games
This fountain pen fan panel is returning in a new space, for a more hands-on opportunity! Learn how to fill them, write with them, chat about different types and try them out! Bring your own supplies, or they will also be provided for you! Participants: Tania Richter
Have D&D questions? We've got answers! Join a roundtable discussion (at a square table) on long-term character play, how mechanics shape stories, and discovery of joy for the game in a welcome, open space for all players. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Kort of Wyldwolf Games
LEDER Games' ROOT with all factions. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Carson Young
Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is a strategy game of combat and character-building. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Amanda of Chip Theory Games
Frictive Architecture is a homebrew TTRPG where places have grown weird, strange, liminal, and filled with the Horrors. Explore this doomed movie theater! Discover its secrets! Survive! *Bring dice if you have them.* NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Katherine Maher
Get your Dungeons & Dragons fix at CONvergence! Using the 2024 revisions to 5th edition, we go on an adventure balancing roleplay, exploration, and combat! Premade options available or bring your own 1st level character! NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Charles Roberts
A serial killer is at work in quiet Glenridge, Long Island. Bizarre mutilations mark the victims of the "Glenridge Chiropractor." Mystified by mysterious circumstances, Delta Green is assigned to solve the case. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Chris William Malone
The party needs to get info for the Wizard Sorten at the library. The Shagaspondium has gone into the Shadow Fell and info on what they may find there is desperately wanted. Join in and see what you discover in Elysium. Participants: Burl Zorn
Choose your dice cleverly. Enter them into the matching, colored areas on your score sheet, putting together chain-scoring opportunities. The dice you don't use are important because they can be used by others. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Eric R. Peterson
Dubbed PG-13 2008 Android housekeepers are common and are treated like other household appliances. When a man finds a mysterious message in his android, he ends up spending time at a niche cafe where androids are treated like people.
Teen room will be hosting Sandbox for a special activity. Fabricate your own robot creation out of a variety of junk. Participants: Alessa Boom, Jesse Boom
This Game Is KILLER is a hilariously deadly game about being hunted by an alien form aboard a cramped cargo vessel in deep space. The object is simple: Survive at any cost and remove the alien threat before it kills you all. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Eric R. Peterson
On the BROdcast Podcast, the elite Alpha Omega Geeks unlock forbidden high-value strategies like respecting women, acceptance > tolerance, and the grindset of empathy, compassion, and decency. The only podcast so dangerously dope, it's not even recorded! Participants: T. Aaron Cisco, Scott Wenker
Many of us view conventions as an escape but keeping con environments safe and inclusive means that we can't fully ignore sociopolitical issues. We'll discuss how to be more cognizant of this reality whether you're an attendee or an organizer. Participants: Miss Shannan (mod), Lauren Crabtree, Kendrick Edmund Hogue, Kerry T Peterson, Johanna Stark
Have you ever wanted to learn how ConSuite keeps filling up the bags of chips or how badging can be a great way to make new friends? Come find out from the CONvergence Volunteers Department how you can become volunteer powered.
Want to make a Star Wars costume, whether for fun or to join an official club, but don't know where to start? Is the complexity or cost holding you back? Join 501st and Rebel Legion members as we discuss affordable costumes that are easy to put together. Participants: Kayla Beckemeyer, Kat Hosley, Jill McTavish
The golem is a well-known figure from Jewish folklore. How has this concept and metaphor influenced science fiction and artificial intelligence (androids, cyborgs, etc.) stories throughout history and today? Participants: Jen Rogachevsky (mod), J.R. Dawson, Andrea Herman, Joe, Naomi Kritzer
In Wroth, each player represents a unique culture with a distinctive approach to battle and a variety of fighters with remarkable capabilities. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Chip Theory Games
Beginners Only. If you've never played Azul, come learn from the best! Subhead Pete is teaching this tile-placement game where you compete to create the most beautiful palace. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Pete Lane
Join the creator for a beta test of a new GM-less card-based game. Tell a sweeping space opera aboard a generation ship, where 20+ generations must survive, adapt, and chase a home they'll never see. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Ben Stoddart
Hosted by The Royal Manticoran Navy and HMS Hellhound. We've got the bridge, so come test your crew! Sign up daily at the Artemis Bridge in the Boundary Waters Promenade. Participants: The Royal Manticoran Navy
Do whatever it takes to keep your orphans safe from the dreaded Count Rath: lock doors, rotate rooms, travel via secret passages, and even reveal other hidden orphans! The last player with a surviving orphan wins! NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Eric R. Peterson
Do you enjoy visiting the local renaissance festivals? Have you never been? Join us for some dancing and get a taste of the Renaissance era. We teach a variety of English Country dances designed for anyone from age 2 to 102, and some other dances, too! Participants: Terpsichory Courtly Dance Troupe
Subtitled PG-13 2014 A couple of high school girls are recruited to perform at a local zoo. They end up forming a local idol duo to promote their small town.
When the kids of the port city of Cerulean Bay accidentally kickstart the apocalypse, they must figure out how to stop it--before their parents find out! An all-ages intro to the basics of D&D! NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Jyn
Drop off your abandoned, clean, and organized hobby tools/materials and go fishing for new ones amongst the donated goods. Any leftovers can be recollected, donated to Costume Wars/Sandbox, or leave an "In Search Of" sticky note with your room number. Participants: Ashley Haapapuro
Return of the Munchkin Tournament! After a time away it returns--three rounds over the weekend with a finale consisting of the top six players from the three preliminary rounds. Bring all promo materials! NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Amber Mullin
Sci-fi adventure is a blast, but it can also be fun to deep dive into the deep thinking behind stories like The Three-Body Problem, Foundation, Dune, and more. What books, movies, and shows can you think of that make you think? Participants: Johanna Stark (mod), Kurt Fleschner, Dave Margosian, Rosewind, Boris Leonidovich Smelov
A discussion on what history can teach us about the combat systems of role playing games. How accurate are they? Are the weapons appropriate for the setting? What do RPGs get right and wrong? Participants: Paul David Bates (mod), Eddie, Daniel Jay-Dixon, Kenneth Justiniano, Jamie Riedesel
It's not just for dating anymore! Let's talk about how our understanding of consent has changed over the years. We'll talk about why it matters at CONvergence and outside of it as well as some strategies to apply the principles of consent in more areas of life. Participants: Kerry T Peterson (mod), Sean Eberle, KitKat, Natalya Rose, Nick the Board Game Librarian
Musicals are more than singing and dancing--they're fantasy, action, science fiction, even horror. Join alumni Guest of Honor Lee Harris and obsessive musicals fan Windy Bowlsby as they dive into what makes the musical format so familiar to the SF/F fan. Participants: Windy Bowlsby, Lee Harris
It's been said that in sci-fi, the magic is in the technology and in fantasy, magic is the technology. Where falls science fantasy? What stories do a good job of incorporating both elements? Participants: Kendrick Edmund Hogue (mod), Kate Dane, Skylar Merritt Schwartz, Samuel T. Weston, Dirk Ykema
Come learn all that CONvergence offers to our teen fans from other teen fans. Learn about the Teen Room, favorite volunteer options, and more. Participants: Azron Borchert (mod)
Before James Gunn took a hold of the DC cinematic universe, Nur-D created a personal retooling of the previous 15 DCEU films. Join him as he guides you through his vision! Participants: Nur-D
Astrisoni is a filk duo whose songs explore complex topics via sci-fi and fantasy. Expect vengeful unicorns, D&D metaphors, tragic robots, ghost pirates, and songs to hunt Bigfoot to. Their music can be found at https://astrisoni.bandcamp.com/ Participants: Heather Estelme, Nate Wulver
We have the junk---we can build it! Take some assorted castoffs of our disposable world, add some hot glue and your imagination, and concoct your very own robot or cyborg creation! Participants: Jesse Boom, Lisa Wallin
Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction game where a group of players must work together to find out who among them is the demon before it's too late. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Aurora Corgan
It is 1943. Europe is in flames. You are a unit of crack VAMPIRE commandos out to DRINK HITLER'S BLOOD and fatally destabilize the Nazi war machine. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Fred Wagener
Your scrappy deep space crew has seen a lot. Now the tyrannical Hegemony is in ruins, but instead of finding freedom, the Urbots have risen. Will you fight, make peace, or choose a different destiny? A shared fiction RPG. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: David Corgan
Learn and play your first game of Spirit Island, a cooperative, asymmetric board game about removing colonizers from your island home. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: AJ Zozulin
Set in the world of Batman '66, you play criminals eager to shake down Gotham City while the Caped Crusaders are missing. Bad news: Batman is back! But has his heart turned to crime? NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Chris J Mortika
It's up to you to determine WHO has been replaced by a devil in disguise, WHAT weapon was used in the execution, and WHERE in the Forgotten Realms the Infernal Box could be hidden. This is your classic Clue with a D&D theme. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Eric R. Peterson
An old-timey comedy radio show, just like your grandparents told you about! Come laugh at jokes with only your ears! Participants: Windy Bowlsby, Christopher Jones, Dawn Krosnowski, Jerry Stearns, Tim Wick
Want to casually talk shop and/or network with fellow creatives, including attendees with art on display in the Art Show and Artists Alley? Then this is the event for you!
Subtitled PG-13 2017 A boy with a photographic memory and a girl who can rewind things by three days join the Service Club to help people in their town. They soon catch the attention of the manipulative Administration Bureau.
Ah HoneyCon, that annual national gathering of honey lovers and producers. Little do they know that there are criminal bears amongst them, looking to STEAL ALL THAT HONEY. You are the bears. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Chris William Malone
Using your device to buzz in, compete against everyone else in the room to answer some Jeopardy-style questions about the biggest nerd fandoms. Are you the most knowledgeable? Come find out! Participants: Arthur Ray Armstrong, Nikki Armstrong
A panel to discuss the prevalence of book bans and book challenges and how they affect librarianship today. Bring us your questions and concerns so we can offer suggestions and commiserate together. This will primarily be a Q&A panel. Participants: Crystal Kelleher (mod), Princess Sam Irish Lass, Josiah John Mannion, Morgan Strickland, Kellee Lee Wolf
When you have genetic engineering for humans, humankind will change--possibly splitting or...who knows? What do the panelists think will happen? Can we sanction manipulating our offspring while avoiding the pitfalls of eugenics? Participants: Arthur J Kneeland (mod), Lee Brontide, Kurt Fleschner, Laura Okagaki
Gardening in the city can be difficult, from a lack of yard to plant to lacking sunlight due to building shade. What means exist to aid growing food in urban environments? Participants: Katie Heilman (mod), Jason Nesler, Springyboii, Johanna Stark, Erin Wilaby
Beth Kinderman's Pegasus Award-winning prog-filk songs explore transformation, philosophy, and myth through a sci-fi/fantasy lens. Together with her bandmates, she will present music from her most recent album, "Sisyphus: Ten Songs About Hope." Participants: Justin Hartley, Beth Kinderman, Dave Stagner
Watch several victims, um VOLUNTEERS, try sodas of mysterious origins. Will they suffer? Can they choke it down? Might they even like it?! Find out! Our misery loves your company. Now with youthful suffering! *pointing-while-laughing optional Participants: Kelly Murphy (mod), Espn Amos, Geoffrey Benson, Mike Benson, FLipsiDE, Steve Sylvestre, Lee Taylor, Viga
Welcome all jigsaw puzzlers or jigsaw puzzle curious! Bring your friends (or find friends here) and compete in a jigsaw puzzle speed challenge for fun and prizes! NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Alicia Beck, Christina Gregerson
Drawn by gunfire, you enter a pre-War vault in the deadly Commonwealth. Inside Vault 95, traps and defenses hide a grim secret. A wounded dweller offers hope: a device that could create a promised land in the wasteland. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Hunter Goetzman
The Quiet Year is a map-drawing TTRPG in which you do not play as individual characters, but rather as greater societal forces. The map will evolve based on your decisions. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Diane Perry
Project Titan: A Warforged Adventure is a D&D ones-shot involving a team of Warforged Special Ops on a retrieval mission gone wrong. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Lee Stark
Dubbed R 1987 MegaTokyo was built by the labor of mechanical beasts known as Boomers. Now that Boomer-related crime is on the rise, the city police must turn to the vigilante Knight Sabers for help.
The pick is in and YOU are at the podium. In this game, we will invite teams to draft their best D&D party amongst all fictional characters with the audience vote picking the best party! Participants: Cory Enriquez
Ok, maybe not "everything", but join our panelists as they tell you some surprising things about the world of publishing. Participants: Lee Harris (mod), Jay Gallentine, Jenny Goloboy, Laura Szatz, Madeleine Vasaly
The Victorians had Dracula and Dr. Frankenstein. The 50s had giant creatures. The 80s had Jason and Freddie. What do the things we consider monstrous or frightening say about us and our society? Participants: John Thomas Bliss (mod), Sonni de Soto, Brian Forrest, T'Yanna L Singleton
Oh heavens, our lovelies, this blows! Let's have a discussion about hormones (oral and otherwise), diet, and best practices to get us through these very difficult times. Participants: Miss Shannan (mod), Annie Fleschner, Sherry Pofahl Johnson, Dawn Krosnowski, Laura Okagaki
Learn the basics of sewing, from the various kinds and purposes of different stitches to how to determine which settings to use on your machine. Participants: Eiryn Katherine (mod), Cassara Carriere, Ashley M Mages, Elizabeth Merritt, Erin Wilaby
How do you create interesting antagonists for your protagonists? What tropes are helpful and which should you avoid? Participants: Kate Dane (mod), Dzhemi, Kendrick Edmund Hogue, Scott Jamison, Sarah Tasz
Rian Vellichor is a recovering emo kid singing about queer relationships, mental health, and Renaissance festivals in an attempt to make you laugh. Tune in as they release long performed but never before recorded original music to the world! Participants: Rian Vellichor, Saffron McGinn, Drew Kelly
The MegaCorps are calling for you to help build the next shiny MegaCity! An all ages activity, come turn the Sandbox into a sprawling cardboard metropolis! Construction will be completed and ready for Monster Smash: Robots Run Amok the next morning. Participants: Lisa Wallin
Victuals get vicious as our culinary connoisseurs contemplate which faux foods flourish or fail in the arena of annihilation! Participants: Tim Wick (mod), Barb Abney, Birdchick, Kelvin Hatle, Christopher Jones, Melissa Sue Kaercher, Nur-D, Tim Uren, Duck Washington
A social deduction game where players are secretly Good or Evil, guided by a Storyteller. Good must identify and execute the demon; Evil deceives and eliminates others to gain majority. NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Kyle Smaagard
It's time to sing! Come to the Holodeck for our annual Sing-A-Long Karaoke night! Sing with the microphone up front, or enjoy 'Sing-A-Long' style from your chair.
POP! is a live-action game about online communities by Alex Roberts (Star Crossed, For the Queen). It's about a forum for people who fetishize latex balloons. Explore nostalgia for the early web and desires outside the norm. **mature content** NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Jon Cole, Michelle Hofeldt
A rustic fantasy tabletop RPG based on the acclaimed City of Mist. Spin a tale of journey and peril where choices transform gameplay. **mature content** NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Laurie Seifert Williams
In the summer of 1989, members of pack Makar heard rumors of a Ball hidden deep in the wilderness near Pripyat. The youngsters have never seen Ball, but for a few elders, it brings back memories of happier times. **mature content** NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Courtana
Welcome to the annual Vampire Hunters Guild dinner. Enjoy the fine food and companionship, and discuss how we will fight the creatures of the night for the following year. Beware! We may have been infiltrated! NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: Laura Thurston
Tune your antennae to an intergalactic mystery in a most transmutational and revolutionary bar. Download new sensations, chill to sonic harmonizations, and bathe in our ultra-luminescent atmosphere. Open nightly.
Mature, story-focused game for narrative roleplayers. Group consensus will set the rule system and content limits. Players beyond four will be split across two GMs. Negocios Infernales/Fiasco/Blue Beard's Bride/Last Caravan/Trophy Dark. **mature content** NOTE: Event has limited seating that requires signing up at the Gaming Front Desk in the Hyatt 4 Great Lakes Promenade--stating attendance here DOES NOT sign you up! Participants: FLipsiDE, Timetwist
AMC+'s adaptations of Anne Rice's novels into the Immortal Universe have gotten a lot of buzz. We'll explore the following series: Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat, The Mayfair Witches, and Talamasca: The Secret Order. Participants: Mordecai Mika (mod), skazka 9000, Brian Forrest, T'Yanna L Singleton, Jody Wurl
The current online dating scene is a horror show. AI bots, fake accounts, honey traps--there are plenty of things to be wary of. How do you find love or fun in such a terrible landscape? What techniques have you found successful? Participants: Jin (mod), Kiki Joy Latham, Johanna Stark, Dirk Ykema
In recent years, indie devs have taken over PC video games with titles that cover every combination of topics and styles imaginable. Join our panelists while they attempt to discern if a game is safe to play at work based just on the name! **mature content** Participants: Geoffrey Benson, Lucien Benson
Come see a panel of (hopefully) funny people compete in Jackbox Quiplash games, where the prompts are all CONvergence/nerd themed. Join the audience and answer silly questions while the panelists are working. Participants: Nikki Armstrong (mod), Arthur Ray Armstrong, Molly Glover, Stephanie Hammon, Eric Knight, Ad Surmak, Eric Thompson
Love. Loss. Limerence. An exploration and deeply past-due arrival in rhythm and self-acceptance. Come explore with Me, MELoDEE, as I introduce myself on stage with some home-grown Minneapolis hip-hop. I look forward to showing you who I am! Participants: Dee Quinn
Subtitled R 2019 A public prosecutor investigates a case of false advertisement, which leads to a pharmaceutical company that has fabricated clinical research, which leads to a plot behind the ongoing mayoral election.
Guests of Honor past and present return to the stage for a robotic quest in the distant future, the year 2000 AD, to fight evils and solve mysteries! DM Kyle Dekker returns with more mayhem and madness! Participants: T. Aaron Cisco, Catero Colbert, J.R. Dawson, Kyle B Dekker, Colette Feehan, Arif Kinchen, John Kovalic, Nur-D
Join us for a Helluva good time in the Hellaverse as we vote for what songs you want to sing. **mature content** Participants: Alli Cassel, Lori Fischer
A mostly non-serious panel in which panelists will argue if and how gay sex would have fixed something. Would it fix a love triangle, a terrible movie ending, or maybe even the economy? **mature content** Participants: Henry Kaldhusdal (mod), Sean Eberle, Kendrick Edmund Hogue, Kiki Joy Latham, AJ Pete
Thursday July 2, 2026 11:30pm - Friday July 3, 2026 12:30am CDT Hyatt 1, Lakeshore A
Squid Game is over, but the fandom lives on. Come discuss what you liked about the show and discuss what made the show so intriguing. There will be spoilers! Participants: Noel Thingvall (mod), Charlene Holm, Janelle Kloth, Kyo Phetnongphay
Thursday July 2, 2026 11:30pm - Friday July 3, 2026 12:30am CDT Hyatt 2, Greenway HI
As clips of strange movies play on screen, a team of voice actors and musicians create a whole new soundtrack...without ever seeing the movies before! It's film, improv comedy, and live music all in one, plus a 75% chance of rubber-suit monsters! Participants: Jerry Belich, Molly Glover, Nick Glover, Kelvin Hatle, Melissa Sue Kaercher, Caly McMorrow, Duck Washington
Subtitled R 1991 A young man lives an average life until he is dragged into a group of otaku. Includes live-action footage of interviews with actual otaku from the period.
Thursday July 2, 2026 11:30pm - Friday July 3, 2026 1:00am CDT Hyatt 4, Lake Harriet
