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Sunday Free TTRPG Games!
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Deadline: Aug 16, 2026 6:00 pm (CDT)
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Event Date: Aug 15, 2026 11:00 am - Aug 16, 2026 6:00 pm (CDT)
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Application Date: Aug 16, 2026 11:00 am - Aug 16, 2026 6:00 pm (CDT)
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Join Game Masters in the Level Up Gaming Pavilion as you go on amazing Tabletop Role Playing Game adventures. From classic favorites like Dungeons & Dragons to modern thrillers like Mothership, you will find a game with your calling!
Each adventure has a table limit, so sign up early. If you are unable to attend your scheduled adventure, please submit a request to cancel your spot as soon as possible so we can fill your spot.
Individual game rules and guidelines will be provided at the table by your Game Master. Do not submit special requests or questions regarding individual games to Eventeny. If you have questions about specific games please email:
mvalero@mnswca.org or mglesner@mnswca.org all other requests will not receive a response.
Note: Application for a TTRPG game does not grant entry to Excalibur Con. A valid entry (including single day. weekend, VIP, special guest, volunteer and/or exhibitor) is required for all TTRPG games.
Terms & Conditions
Please be courteous of your fellow gamers. If you are unable to attend your scheduled session, we ask that you request a cancellation or cancel via eventeny at least 12 hours in advance if possible.
Reminders for gaming events will be sent prior to the events.
If you have any questions or concerns about any of the TTRPG offerings, contact mvalero@mnswca.org or mglesner@mnswca.org
Note: Application for a TTRPG game does not grant entry to Excalibur Con. A valid entry (including single day. weekend, VIP, special guest, volunteer and/or exhibitor) is required for all TTRPG games.
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| (11:30-2pm) Alone in the Dark: An Introduction to Mothership | $0.00 | TITLE - Alone in the Dark: An Introduction to Mothership SYSTEM - Mothership, the award-winning sci-fi horror TTRPG DURATION - 2 hours PLAYERS- 2-4 players (18+) GM: Justin Peck TABLE 2 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: Something has gone terribly wrong aboard the Rimor 89. Crew are failing to report for duty, something is scuttling in the dark between the bulkheads, and a hundred fathoms beneath the surface of an alien world, the hull groans under a weight it was never built to withstand. The remaining crew — underpaid, indebted, and a very long way from anyone who cares — have to find out what's happening before the ship, and everyone in it, is lost to the deep. Will the Rimor 89 make it back to the surface? Or will it end up as yet another redacted paragraph in an incident report no one will ever read? |
| (2:30pm-5pm) Alone in the Dark: An Introduction to Mothership | $0.00 | TITLE - Alone in the Dark: An Introduction to Mothership SYSTEM - Mothership, the award-winning sci-fi horror TTRPG DURATION - 2 hours PLAYERS- 2-4 players (18+) GM: Justin Peck TABLE 2 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: Something has gone terribly wrong aboard the Rimor 89. Crew are failing to report for duty, something is scuttling in the dark between the bulkheads, and a hundred fathoms beneath the surface of an alien world, the hull groans under a weight it was never built to withstand. The remaining crew — underpaid, indebted, and a very long way from anyone who cares — have to find out what's happening before the ship, and everyone in it, is lost to the deep. Will the Rimor 89 make it back to the surface? Or will it end up as yet another redacted paragraph in an incident report no one will ever read? |
| (11:30am-3:30pm) Honey in the Rafters | $0.00 | TITLE - Honey in the Rafters SYSTEM - Mausritter DURATION - 2-4 hours. PLAYERS- 3-5 players. GM: Chance Lasher TABLE 3 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: A band of adventuring mice (you) is investigating the disappearance of a local seed farmer. She was last seen researching a mysterious, towering sunflower that grows by the abandoned shack. Is that old shack really abandoned? Are the rumors of a mouse-eating beast lurking around the sunflower really true? Your group of mice must investigate and find out! Mausritter is a rules light sword and whiskers role playing game. It uses physical tokens to track inventory. Rolling up a mouse character only takes a few minutes! You may be small, but if you ask a lot of questions, work together, and scheme, your mice can survive and even thrive in this big and dangerous world. |
| (12:30pm-4:30pm) A Familiar Tower | $0.00 | TITLE - A Familiar Tower SYSTEM - Old School Essentials (Basic/Expert D&D) DURATION - 3-5 hours. PLAYERS- 3-6 players. GM: David Lee TABLE 4 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: A Familiar Tower is an escape room adventure in the style of the puzzle box dungeons of The Legend of Zelda series. A decade after the wizard Esmis Mer disappeared, his manse still hums with secrets, treasure, and exotic magic. Step inside his impossible tower and twist its logic to your advantage. Those who master its secrets may escape with wonders. Those who don’t… tend to hang around. Module link: https://directsun.itch.io/a-familiar-tower |
| (11am-3pm) Three Days to The Big Easy | $0.00 | TITLE - Three Days to The Big Easy SYSTEM - Arkham Horror RPG DURATION - 4 hours PLAYERS- 3-6 players GM: Kyle Skarp TABLE 1 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: Jazz fills the Gulf Queen, illegal liquor flows freely, and the Mob keeps a watchful eye on its floating speakeasy. But when a passenger turns up dead in the river, something sinister begins to unravel aboard the riverboat. The body count is rising, the Mob wants answers, and the investigators have until the steamboat reaches port to uncover what is really going on — before it drowns them all in a tide of blood. |
| (11:30-2pm) Planet Killer | $0.00 | TITLE - Planet Killer SYSTEM - Index Card RPG DURATION - 2.5 hours. PLAYERS- 2-5 players. GM: Chad Gallagher TABLE 5 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: "Listen up Jockeys! This is a priority one mission. The Imperium Fleet has shattered our planetary defenses. They are bringing their ULTIMATE weapon online; we have 2 hours before planetary destruction. During the initial engagement we were able to get vital data on the Imperium Fleet. You MUST get this data to our fleet in Cinnabar, or they will wipe us from the galaxy. You're our only hope jockeys, God's spe...." Play as mech jockeys and fight to survive against the overwhelming Imperium Fleet. Will you get the vital data off world? Will you survive to finish the fight? Play to find out in this learn to play adventure for Index Card RPG |
| (11:30am-4pm) Sailors on the Starless Sea INCOMPLETE | $0.00 | TITLE - Sailors on the Starless Sea SYSTEM - Dungeon Crawl Classics DURATION - 4 hours. PLAYERS- GM: Nick Jensen TABLE 6 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: |
| (12pm-3pm) Rescue the Alien Doggo | $0.00 | TITLE - Rescue the Alien Doggo SYSTEM - Cypher DURATION - 3 hours. PLAYERS- 2-6 players. GM: J.W. Sutton TABLE 7 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: You and your exploration team wake up to find your ship attacked and crippled, and one of the aliens on your team is missing but trackable. Can you rescue them before the marauders are out of range? There will be at least six pre-made characters available for this adventure. |
| (12pm-2pm, open-ended) Shores of Titanis | $0.00 | TITLE - Shores of Titanis: Frontier Sandbox SYSTEM - OD&D (2024) DURATION - 2 hours (12pm-2pm), then free-form. PLAYERS- 3-5 players. GM: Martin Sanders and Tanya Miller TABLE 8 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: Shores of Titanis: The Beacon and the Deep - The old lighthouse has returned to life, but its mysterious beam now points toward Raven’s Scar a location sailors know better than to approach. Strange creatures have been seen moving beneath the waves, and ancient secrets wait inside forgotten caverns below. The adventurers must cross the dangerous waters, investigate the source of the disturbances, and discover what has awakened in the deep. Shores of Titanis: Frontier Sandbox An evolving sandbox set around Ironmoor in a custom Shores of Titanis campaign setting. Players explore dangerous locations, discover small dungeons, and choose which threats or opportunities to pursue. Sessions are designed so someone can participate for roughly 30–60 minutes or remain longer, with the world changing in response to player actions. Pre generated characters will be provided (D&D 5.5e 3rd level characters). The adventures will use miniatures, terrain, and a battle map. New and experienced players are welcome. All materials provided. |
| (12pm-4pm) A Shadow in the Dark | $0.00 | TITLE - A Shadow in the Dark SYSTEM - Daggerheart DURATION - 4 hours. PLAYERS- 3-5 players. GM: John Polack TABLE 10 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: There's a darkness in the woods just outside of your village and its getting bigger! The elders have asked that you lot go and see what can be done....Brave the darkness, banish the shadow, bring light to the darkness. |
| (11:30-2pm) The Ward and the Long Dark | $0.00 | TITLE - The Ward and the Long Dark SYSTEM - D&D 5E DURATION - 2-2.5 hours. PLAYERS- 4-6 players. GM: Aaron Sexton TABLE 11 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: The Ward and the Long Dark is a four-session anthology set across centuries in and around a single border town and the ancient forge that made its salvation possible. Each session is a stand-alone adventure playable in any order, following different heroes across a different age. A Dragons, Dungeons & Drinks adventure! |
| (2:30-5pm) The Ward and the Long Dark | $0.00 | TITLE - The Ward and the Long Dark SYSTEM - D&D 5E DURATION - 2-2.5 hours. PLAYERS- 4-6 players. GM: Aaron Sexton TABLE 11 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: The Ward and the Long Dark is a four-session anthology set across centuries in and around a single border town and the ancient forge that made its salvation possible. Each session is a stand-alone adventure playable in any order, following different heroes across a different age. A Dragons, Dungeons & Drinks adventure! |
| (11:30am-5pm) Ashes of the Arcane: The Magelash War | $0.00 | TITLE - Ashes of the Arcane: The Magelash War SYSTEM - D&D 5E/5.5E DURATION - 5 hours. PLAYERS- 4-6 players. GM: Aaron Kruse TABLE 13 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: Two hundred years ago a cataclysm destroyed the world of Veyrath and its access to magic. The nation of The Sundered Exarchate and its monarch, Emperor Vaelis IX, The Last Radiant Sovereign, envisioned the Exarchate becoming something beyond a nation: a perfect civilization outside the reach of gods, kings, or death itself. And to accomplish this, he commissioned his mages to create "The Null Engine" - a weapon so powerful that it would sever the entire world from access to magic... and transforming himself into a god. The only hope that the world had left was a small strike team, made up of members from each of the other nations, striking deep into the heart of the Exarchate, and ending the Magelash War once and for all. This is their story. Pre-made characters will be available! |
| (11:30am-3pm) High Noon on the Silk Road | $0.00 | TITLE - High Noon on the Silk Road SYSTEM - House of Eidolons DURATION - 3.5 hours. PLAYERS- 3-5 players. GM: Paul Andrighetti TABLE 14 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: Join a team of cyberpunk mercenaries as they plan and execute a high stakes assassination on the bullet train known as the Silk Road. |
| (11:30am-2:30pm) Stay In The Light! | $0.00 | TITLE - Stay In The Light! SYSTEM - 10 Candles DURATION - 2-3 hours. PLAYERS- 3-6 players (18+). GM: Justin Sinks TABLE 15 in the TTRPG area, 2nd floor Gaming Pavilion. DESCRIPTION: It’s dark. Very dark. The kind of dark you only get when the sun no longer comes up. In fact it has been 10 days since we’ve seen the sun. It isn’t because clouds or smoke, the sun just doesn’t rise anymore. It has been 5 days since They came. We are running low on supplies, we need to move. But…They are out there in the darkness. What do They want? How do we survive? 10 Candles is a tragic horror TTRPG cooperative storytelling game about a group of survivors trying to find their way in a post-apocalyptic world set in the very near future. In the end this is a story of how your characters die. However, who they are and what they do before the end is up to you. Will you brave the darkness, find hope, and be a hero? Or will you take the darker pathway? |
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