Play, demo, and explore. Sit down for a scheduled session or check out a board game from our extensive library. Join us on the second floor of the Mansion.
Game library will include a lot of titles, like Mysterium, Euphoria, Scythe, Arkham Horror, What Do You Meme?, Exploding Kittens, Dungeons and Dragons, and many more.
Scheduled sessions will include a mix of Role-playing games, like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder, as well as how to play sessions of these and more complex games, like Scythe and Battlestar Galactica.
List of developers who will be demoing their latest games
Thanks to Raymond for sponsoring the Game Room this year!
Scheduled Games
Throughout the convention there will also be a library of books and tabletop games you may check out to start your own adventure.
SATURDAY
Affliction
Saturday 10AM-12PM
The hysteria over witches among the people of Salem swept the region like a disease in 1692. As is the case in any tragic event, there are those whom will use the circumstances to their advantage. Under the veil of the witch-hunt lie other motivations; power, greed, revenge and righteousness.
AFFLICTION: Salem 1692 is a game set in the hysteria of a witch-hunt. Use your influence to whisper in the ear of the magistrate, judge, governor or minister to protect some and have others arrested. Salem was a chance to gain property, exact revenge and prove one’s righteousness.
The characters in the game were actual residents of the Salem region. This is the closest possible simulation of actual events in a game to date.
Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game
Saturday 10AM-2PM
Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is an exciting game of mistrust, intrigue, and the struggle for survival. Based on the epic and widely-acclaimed SyFy Channel series, Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game puts players in the role of one of ten of their favorite characters from the show. Each playable character has their own abilities and weaknesses, and must all work together in order for humanity to have any hope of survival. However, one or more players in every game secretly side with the Cylons. Players must attempt to expose the traitor while fuel shortages, food contaminations, and political unrest threatens to tear the fleet apart.
Cthulhu Wars
Saturday 10AM-2PM
Cthulhu Wars is a strategy boardgame in which the players take the part of alien races and gods taken from the Cthulhu mythos created by H. P. Lovecraft. The game is physically large, and includes sixty-four figurines of the cultists, monsters, aliens, and Great Old Ones that range in height from approximately 20 mm to nearly 180 mm.
The game takes place on a map of Earth. Each player takes the part of one of four factions included in the base game. At the start of a turn, players Gather Power, then, during a series of Action Rounds, they spend this Power to accomplish various tasks, such as recruiting Cultists, moving units, engaging in battle, summoning monsters, building Gates, casting spells, and Awakening their Great Old One. When all players run out of Power, the Action phase ends and the next turn begins. Victory is determined by accumulating points on the Doom Track. The first player to 30 is the lone victor *if* he has unlocked all six of spell books.
Fate
Saturday 10AM-2PM
Adventure TBD
Golden Hour Jupiter Knights
Saturday 10AM-2PM
In 2525 AD, the solar system is in the iron grip of Earth’s new government, the Galactic Defense Corps. Can the Jupiter Knights stop their advance? JUPITER KNIGHTS, from the producers of ADGNEPSEF555!
Index Card RPG (ICRPG)
Saturday 10AM-1PM
Index Card RPG takes classic tabletop mechanics for telling stories, making monsters and rolling dice, but throws out all the clunky parts that keep most folks from trying an adventure or two.
Each challenge you face will have a number called a TARGET. Just roll higher than that with your cool 20 sided die, and you succeed! Next, ICRPG combines all kinds of complex game designs into a simple system called EFFORT. Roll a die to see how much EFFORT you do on your challenge! Is it more than 10? The monster is killed, or task complete!
Pathfinder 2nd Edition
Saturday 12PM- 4PM
Welcome to Pathfinder: 2nd Edition! What happens when the village’s prize cattle goes missing not four days before regional fair? Sure, we let it graze free, but it’s always stayed within city limits. What could have happened to it? Can we get it back in time? The village could sure use the coin it may win! — Join us for this strange adventure of beef gone awry, as we enter Pathfinder’s Second Edition! (Pathfinder Second Edition, Level 1, generic characters provided – or bring your own!)
Cats
Saturday 12PM-2PM
This may look like a kid’s game, but the experience is much more geared for teens and adults looking for a light, fun programming game.
Cats all start with the same cards: (Catch, Stalk, Play, Steal, Taunt, and Eat). No luck of the draw here, it’s entirely up to you! Get as many enjoyment points as possible and win the game! Plan and anticipate what the others will do so that you can claim birds from the backyard or from other cats.
Shadowrun: Heist
Saturday 12PM-4PM
An opportunity for some quick cash has come your way in the form of a high end jewelry store receiving a large shipment. You have the date and a manifest. Now you have two weeks to case the place, make a plan and gather your resources before the shipment arrives. Is your crew good enough to pull off the heist and get out clean?
A Shadowrun Sixth World Edition game for 4-6 players. Rules will be taught and pre-gens provided for this game. Shadowrun is an RPG set in our world in the year 2080 where magic has come back to the world. Play Dwarves, Elves, Orks, Trolls and Humans in a world ruled by Megacorps, modifying your body with cybernetics or calling on the power of magic to even the odds.
Dungeons and Dragons
Saturday 1PM-5PM
Adventure TBD
Scythe Board Game
Saturday 1PM-5PM
It is a time of unrest in 1920s Europa. The ashes from the first great war still darken the snow. The capitalistic city-state known simply as “The Factory”, which fueled the war with heavily armored mechs, has closed its doors, drawing the attention of several nearby countries.
Scythe is an engine-building game set in an alternate-history 1920s period. It is a time of farming and war, broken hearts and rusted gears, innovation and valor. In Scythe, each player represents a character from one of five factions of Eastern Europe who are attempting to earn their fortune and claim their faction’s stake in the land around the mysterious Factory. Players conquer territory, enlist new recruits, reap resources, gain villagers, build structures, and activate monstrous mechs.
Usurp the King
Saturday 2PM-4PM
The King may be in trouble. The court that surrounds him contains subjects who seek power. Each player represents a family that will vie for control over subjects. Featuring seven victory conditions the path to victory may shift as you gain more information about each subject’s motives and those of the other families. Your allegiances will twist and change based on your interests. The subjects are but pawns.
Dialect
Saturday 2PM-5PM
Dialect is a tabletop roleplaying game about an isolated community, their language, and what it means for that language to be lost. It’s a GM-less game for 3-5 people that runs in 3-4 hours. … Players use the language and explore both their characters and the world by asking what this new language really means to them.
SATURDAY at ROBERCON AFTER DARK (Holiday Inn Binghamton)
Hex Hex
Saturday 6PM-8PM
This is a card game that forces a Hex token around the table between players. In this respect, it’s sort of a game of Hot Potato. Whoever can’t get rid of the Hex token by using his cards “blows up,” thus losing points. Naturally, there are nuances to this. There are 17 different cards in the deck, some which merely pass the Hex token left, right, and across, while others split the token in two, or increase it’s damage. One dismisses it entirely. One blows it up while in another player’s possession. One forces the token to pass in only one direction, some cause extra effects if the token DOES blow up on you. A round ends when there are no more Hex tokens available, and there are as many rounds as there are players, plus one.
There are some interesting strategies that are not immediately apparent, but which become obvious after the first couple of rounds. Controlling when the last token blows up is very important since you lose and gain points based on this, so learning to play the cards to force the location of the tokens when they blow up is of paramount importance. Sending them to a player who has no cards to play works very well for this.
Pathfinder 2nd Edition
Saturday 6PM- 10PM
The regional fair has been delayed on account of strange creatures stalking the grounds at night, sometimes into the day. Things – and people – have gone missing. Are you here for festivities, and just want to get the show going? Perhaps you have a prize cow to enter into the contest before our judges get cold feet and leave. Either way, join us for this night of Pathfinder Second Edition hijinks, and we can tell the story together! (Pathfinder Second Edition, Level 1, generic characters provided – or bring your own!)
Arkham Horror
Saturday 6PM – 10PM
The year is 1926, and it is the height of the Roaring Twenties. Flappers dance till dawn in smoke-filled speakeasies drinking alcohol supplied by rum runners and the mob. It’s a celebration to end all celebrations in the aftermath of the war to end all wars.
Yet a dark shadow grows in the city of Arkham. Alien entities known as Ancient Ones lurk in the emptiness beyond space and time, writhing at the gates between worlds. These gates have begun to open and must be closed before the Ancient Ones make our world their ruined domination.
Only a handful of investigators stand against the Arkham Horror. Will they Prevail?
Arkham Horror is a cooperative adventure game themed around H.P Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Players choose from 16 Investigators and take to the streets of Arkham. Before the game, one of the eight Ancient Ones is chosen and it’s up to the Investigators to prevent it from breaking into our world. During the course of the game, players will upgrade their characters by acquiring skills, allies, items, weapons, and spells. It’s up to the players to clean out the streets of Arkham by fighting many different types of monsters, but their main goal is to close portals to other dimensions that are opening up around town. With too many portals open the Ancient One awakens and the players only have one last chance to save the world. Defeat the Ancient One in combat!
Fate
Saturday 6PM-10PM
Adventure TBD
Cthulhu Wars
Saturday 6PM-10PM
Cthulhu Wars is a strategy boardgame in which the players take the part of alien races and gods taken from the Cthulhu mythos created by H. P. Lovecraft. The game is physically large, and includes sixty-four figurines of the cultists, monsters, aliens, and Great Old Ones that range in height from approximately 20 mm to nearly 180 mm.
The game takes place on a map of Earth. Each player takes the part of one of four factions included in the base game. At the start of a turn, players Gather Power, then, during a series of Action Rounds, they spend this Power to accomplish various tasks, such as recruiting Cultists, moving units, engaging in battle, summoning monsters, building Gates, casting spells, and Awakening their Great Old One. When all players run out of Power, the Action phase ends and the next turn begins. Victory is determined by accumulating points on the Doom Track. The first player to 30 is the lone victor *if* he has unlocked all six of spell books.
Golden Hour: Jupiter Knights
Saturday 6PM-10PM
In 2525 AD, the solar system is in the iron grip of Earth’s new government, the Galactic Defense Corps. Can the Jupiter Knights stop their advance? JUPITER KNIGHTS, from the producers of ADGNEPSEF555!
Shadowrun: Extraction
Saturday 6PM-10PM
A long time company man wants out of his lifetime contract, and has found a new home. The only problem being that he is employed by a Megacorporation where ‘breach of contract’ involves a bullet in the back of your head. Your team has been hired to find a way to extract him and get him safely into the arms of his new employers, preferably with a minimum of bloodshed. What could possibly go wrong?
A Shadowrun Sixth World Edition game for 4-6 players. Rules will be taught and pre-gens provided for this game. Shadowrun is an RPG set in our world in the year 2080 where magic has come back to the world. Play Dwarves, Elves, Orks, Trolls and Humans in a world ruled by Megacorps, modifying your body with cybernetics or calling on the power of magic to even the odds.
Gates of R’leyh
Saturday 6PM-8PM
The clock is ticking. Your team of Investigators have been sent to R’lyeh for the purpose of reinforcing the failing gate, trapping Cthulhu in his prison forever. The Investigators have two enemies. The clock and the cultists hidden among their numbers.
Triggering the four needed incantations will take all of the skill your team can muster and you don’t have the luxury of time to search for the traitors in your midst.
The odds are slim, but the fate of the world rests in your hands.
The game is played in rounds starting with the player holding the pocket watch and proceeding clockwise so that each player takes a turn. The clock advances one hour after each round.
Exploding Kittens
Saturday 8PM-10PM
Exploding Kittens is a kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players take turns drawing cards until someone draws an exploding kitten and loses the game. The deck is made up of cards that let you avoid exploding by peeking at cards before you draw, forcing your opponent to draw multiple cards, or shuffling the deck.
The game gets more and more intense with each card you draw because fewer cards left in the deck means a greater chance of drawing the kitten and exploding in a fiery ball of feline hyperbole.
SUNDAY
Catan
Sunday 10AM-2PM
Catan: Risk – Greeting leaders and explorers! Embark on this uber Catan map in your quest to conquer the world. The board will look like the Earth, be comprised of 2 Catan sets, and include special rules from seafarers of Catan, and Das Book. New rules are easy to understand but some knowledge of Catan base game will be needed.
Affliction
Sunday 10AM-12PM
The hysteria over witches among the people of Salem swept the region like a disease in 1692. As is the case in any tragic event, there are those whom will use the circumstances to their advantage. Under the veil of the witch-hunt lie other motivations; power, greed, revenge and righteousness.
AFFLICTION: Salem 1692 is a game set in the hysteria of a witch-hunt. Use your influence to whisper in the ear of the magistrate, judge, governor or minister to protect some and have others arrested. Salem was a chance to gain property, exact revenge and prove one’s righteousness.
The characters in the game were actual residents of the Salem region. This is the closest possible simulation of actual events in a game to date.
Cats
Sunday 12PM-2PM
This may look like a kid’s game, but the experience is much more geared for teens and adults looking for a light, fun programming game.
Cats all start with the same cards: (Catch, Stalk, Play, Steal, Taunt, and Eat). No luck of the draw here, it’s entirely up to you! Get as many enjoyment points as possible and win the game! Plan and anticipate what the others will do so that you can claim birds from the backyard or from other cats.
Each player targets another cat and a bird. They will then select their actions for the two rounds of play. All of the cards are revealed simultaneously, the actions are resolved and when the smoke clears, some cats may have birds and some may not.
The birds will hang out at the bird bath, in the grass, on the fence or in the trees. The bigger birds will need to be stalked before catching them and you will have to time everything just right. Once you do catch your bird you will have a choice to either press your luck and play with the bird to double its enjoyment point value or to just eat it. The longer you play with it, the greater the chance of it being stolen by another cat.
Taunt cards allow other cats to distract you and cancel your actions. Nothing is safe in this backyard!
A basic rules set is included for younger players and beginners.
Shadowrun: Datasteal
Sunday 12PM-4PM
In 2080, information is king. When a small corporate subsidiary makes a seemingly minor breakthrough it sets off alarms in a rival corporation. They want you to get into a secure facility and download and erase a file recently moved to offline storage. They’re paying well, and you’ve got the skills, but no one ever gives you the full story in the shadows.
A Shadowrun Sixth World Edition game for 4-6 players. Rules will be taught and pre-gens provided for this game. Shadowrun is an RPG set in our world in the year 2080 where magic has come back to the world. Play Dwarves, Elves, Orks, Trolls and Humans in a world ruled by Megacorps, modifying your body with cybernetics or calling on the power of magic to even the odds.
Pathfinder 2nd Edition
Sunday 12PM- 2PM
Welcome to Pathfinder: 2nd Edition! What happens when the village’s prize cattle goes missing not four days before regional fair? Sure, we let it graze free, but it’s always stayed within city limits. What could have happened to it? Can we get it back in time? The village could sure use the coin it may win! — Join us for this strange adventure of beef gone awry, as we enter Pathfinder’s Second Edition! (Pathfinder Second Edition, Level 1, generic characters provided – or bring your own!)
Gamma World
Sunday 12 – 4PM
Adventure TBD
Usurp the King
Sunday 2PM-4PM
The King may be in trouble. The court that surrounds him contains subjects who seek power. Each player represents a family that will vie for control over subjects. Featuring seven victory conditions the path to victory may shift as you gain more information about each subject’s motives and those of the other families. Your allegiances will twist and change based on your interests. The subjects are but pawns.
7Wonders
Sunday 2PM-4PM
You are the leader of one of the 7 great cities of the Ancient World. Gather resources, develop commercial routes, and affirm your military supremacy. Build your city and erect an architectural wonder which will transcend future times.
7 Wonders lasts three ages. In each age, players receive seven cards from a particular deck, choose one of those cards, then pass the remainder to an adjacent player. Players reveal their cards simultaneously, paying resources if needed or collecting resources or interacting with other players in various ways. (Players have individual boards with special powers on which to organize their cards, and the boards are double-sided). Each player then chooses another card from the deck they were passed, and the process repeats until players have six cards in play from that age. After three ages, the game ends.
Play and Win
RoberCon will also have Play-and-Win games available.
Any RoberCon attendee can check out a Play-and-Win game. How it works is you check the game out, play the game, and then return the game and enter your name, the game played, and contact info on a ticket into the raffle bucket. Each checkout allows one group to get one entry each to win the game at the end of the convention.
Winners will be pulled at the end of Saturday and Sunday. Games will be available for pick up at 4PM – 5PM on Saturday and Sunday.
Current titles include…
Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig