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game list

Updated 3/8/2001

So far about 60 various games will be running at this year's AggieCon. The deadline for Gaming Requests is Friday, March 9, 2001. All GMs requesting to run games after said deadline are free to run their games at our 24-hour Open Gaming Section. Game times are not yet set, but will be available as soon as they are. Complete schedules will be provided at Gaming HQ the days of the convention, not in the Program Book. Please check Gaming HQ for updates as games are subject to change as the convention nears.

Games in alphabetical order.

Questions about gaming? Send them to: Ray "Zallekin" Harlan at zallekin@yahoo.com or Ernie "Ducky" Ramos at ducky3@tamu.edu.

If you spot a mistake on the webpage, please let us know.

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Quest 2001: PARANOIA LARP

Gary McBride

LARP

Sponsor: AggieCon

Saturday 7pm-Midnight, 601 Rudder Tower

The Computer is your Friend. Trust the Computer. The Computer wants you to be happy. Happiness is Mandatory. Failure to be happy will be punished with disciplinary execution. Unfortunately, Friend Computer is crazy. He will try to force you to be happy. This will drive you crazy. Only someone crazy could be happy while Friend Computer is threatening them with death threats if they're not happy. So really you have to be crazy to be happy.

And that's why The Computer is threatening to kill you -- because he wants you to be happy. Trust the Computer. The Computer is your Friend.

Cost: $5 fee with Aggiecon membership. Max: 60 players. Dart gun and Red T-shirt provided. Failure to play PARANOIA will be punished with disciplinary execution. Show up 15 minutes early to be sure to be ready for character creation.

AD&D 2nd

Mike Grant (legio-ix@home.com)

TSR aka WotC

RPG with heavy miniature use

Sponsor: LEGIO-IX

AD&D 2nd Deathmatch. Teams of six PC's from 9th-13th level will face off to determine the best of the best.

Can you handle the most dangerous opponent in AD&D?

Awful Green Things from Outer Space

Mark Andrew Faulkner (Anduril@ev1.net)

Steve Jackson Games

Board game

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

This is a humorous two-player game depicting the struggles of a spaceship crew as they try to rid the ship of invading, and hungry, green alien monsters. Its easy to learn, fast playing and fun! Regular weapons don't work on the aliens, so a creative solution using improvised weapons must be found.

It was a typical, quiet voyage of the SS Znutar when hungry green aliens attacked! Can you find the one, unlikely, item that will repel the aliens or will the awful green things prevail?

Babylon 5 Wars

Eric Nussberger (nussbeep@apci.com)

Agents of Gaming

Tabletop Miniatures

Sponsor: Agents of Gaming

Tactical ship to ship combat in the Babylon 5 universe (licensed product)

A demonstration of an exciting space combat system using all of the major races from the Babylon 5 television series. Fly an EA Omega Destroyer, Centauri Primus or Narn G'Quan and defend the honor of your species! No knowledge of game required, rules will be taught.

Bastet: The Apocalypse

Jason Covington (JCovington@nalcoexxon.com)

White Wolf

LARP

Sponsor: The Camarilla

This game will focus on The World of Darkness as it pertains to the Bastet (Were-Cats). Mystery, intrigue, and danger in exotic locations will be the theme. This will be a heavily role-play oriented game.

Extra experience points will be added to character with the donation of canned goods (can drive not associated with AggieCon). Five XP per can, maximum of 15 XP. More can donations are welcome.

Battle Tech Tournement - Open

Sam Johnson (ncfree@hotmail.com)

FASA/Wizkids

Miniature

Sponsor: Still working on it

Players control giant robot-like machines, called mechs, determined to show they will be the last one standing. Being the best of the Best.

BattleTech Open - can you survive?

Battleground WW II

Andy Blozinski (chrisnandy92@aol.com)

Easy Eight Enterprises

Miniature

Sponsor: Easy Eight Pathfinders

Fast paced man to man level combat during WW II using 28mm miniatures from Easy Eight Enterprises.

One of the few games with rules for Gory Death.

Battlemist

Mark "Aahzmandius" Montgomery (aahzmandius@hotmail.com)

Fantasy Flight Games

Board

Fantasy Global domination, Hexplay system, 3-6 players, 4-8 hours (overnight?)

Battletech

Jeffrey A. Webb (ArkAngel@Region3.com)

FASA

Tabletop

The Starfleet Marine Corps Third Brigade presents: Good Old 3025 Battletech Goodness! One large-scale scenario and one tournament, the way Battletech was meant to be played!

Battletech 3025: The Way You Remember It!

BubbaTech

John Palmer (knyght_errant@yahoo.com)

BattleTech/FASA

Tabletop Miniatures

Sponsor: CommStar Communications

-3025 Battletech Futuristic Mech Combat-City Battle. BubbaTech uses some variant rules so come prepared for fun and not to argue! Each Player will have one mech in this Solaris VII "capture the flag team" competition!

-Towering Mechs Laser, Missile and even Machine Gun each other as they crash and soar in a cityscape. Urban Renewal at its finest! Are you ready to rumble? Yep, 3025 is the bucket-of-bolts, iron-age mechs requiring finesse and tactics and not just clantech!

Bullet Scenarios

Claudia T. Smith (cthulhu@dr.com)

Wyrd Images

Single Room LARP

One Room LARPs that last 2-3 hours, for 6-20 people. Contact me about them.

Car Wars 3-D: Amateur Night

Ben Kimball (mib@io.com)

Steve Jackson Games

Board

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

Car Wars . . . where the right of way goes to the biggest guns! Come test your driving skill at Amateur Night 2051 right here at the MSC Arena!

Car Wars Card Game

Al Griego (sa_mib@hotmail.com)

Steve Jackson Games

Card

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

This classic game, long out of print, remains a convention favorite. Tired of that idiot tailgater? Turn him into roadkill with a pop-up autocannon.

He who takes the right of way lives to duel another day...

Chez Geek

Keith Nielsen (masque12@yahoo.com)

Steve Jackson Games

Non-collectible card game

- Chez Geek is a non-collectible card game from Steve Jackson Games.

-Chez Geek is a game where all the players are roommates, trying to get slack. You get slack by buying stuff, smoking, playing drinking games, and screwing your roommates over. For older, immature players. - Origins Award Winner for Best Traditional Card Game of 1999! -

Chez Geek: Tournament!

Ben Kimball (mib@io.com)

Steve Jackson Games

Card

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

Beer. Nookie. Roommates. Just another Friday night at Chez Geek, the fun new card game that lets you set up house with your friends -- for as long as you can stand them.

Official Tournament! Big prizes!

Clay-O-Rama

Robbie Taylor (taylorroch@earthlink.net)

TSR, originally

Miniature

Clay-O-Rama is a miniatures game where players create monsters out of play-doh, and use them to battle for ultimate supremacy.

Clay-O-Rama is the epic struggle of small cans of play-doh being forged into mighty monsters and then killing each other.

De Bellis Multitudinis (D.B.M.)

David Heath (leoafricanus@yahoo.com)

Wargames Research Group

15mm miniatures

Open DBM for anyone with a 15mm army (200-500 points).

Attn: All Ancient / Medieval Miniatures Players Historical Mass Homicide is not dead!

Deluxe Illuminati

Ben Kimball (mib@io.com)

Steve Jackson Games

Card

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

They're all around us. Secret conspiracies are everywhere, and where can you find the only truth? Certainly not in the game of Illuminati. Fnord.

Divine Right

Drue Sims (simsdb@texaco.com)

TSR

Fantasy Boardgame

-Game pitting players against one another through battle, magic, and diplomacy. Play one of seven kingdoms and try to ally with NPC kingdoms while plundering your opponents castles.

-Fun game for everyone and lots of action. Lots of fantasy type races involved including Wizards and Necromancers.

Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition Dragon Deathmatch

Neil Pittman (rnp9022@labs.tamu.edu)

TSR

Tabletop RPG

This will be an adapted Council of Wyrms style Dragon PC Deathmatch. Using the basic rules with a few adaptations the players will face off as the most powerful beings in the AD&D world. Most if not all of the Dragon types in the Monstrous Manuel will be represented as pregenerated characters for the players.

How often do you hear the words 'Dragon PC'.

Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition

Ken Webb (rori@tamu.edu)

TSR

Tabletop RPG

Session 1: The humanoids of the Pomarj have assembled an army of unheard of proportions under the charismatic Turrosh Mak. Promising a return of the lands lost during the Hateful Wars, Mak is leading his army north into the lands held by the city-state of Fax. Sitting astride the Galstone River, the town of Good Ford provides an integral link in the chain of forts which protect those lands. As a member of the elite Red Guard, it is your task to cross the river and scout out the strength and disposition of Mak's army. Will you sneak into the camps of the orcs and listen in on the war councils? Or will you brazenly snatch one of the orc generals from his tent and drag him back to Good Ford for interrogation? It is up to you.

Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition

Ken Webb (rori@tamu.edu)

TSR

Tabletop RPG

Session 2: The tidings are bad. Not only does Mak have enough troops to build a bridge of bodies across the Galstone, but he has a cadre of renegade humans who have been teaching the orcs arcane magics and improving their fighting skills. Lord Merrond has ordered that the Red Guard must exterminate these renegades at all costs. Possibly more importantly, find out where they are coming from and why they have chosen to help the orcs. Word has also come down that the elves of Celene have crossed the border and are hunting down orcish war parties. If possible, locate one of these elven bands and learn why they have entered human lands.

Earthdawn

Mike Williams and Aaron Johnson

If the aftermath of Barsaive at War, Throal has been having a difficult time getting their regular patrols and peacekeeping forces back on track. With an excess of battle-weary warriors, the returning army has had to call on volunteers from its forces, or wandering adventurers that can be found and are trustworthy enough to take up the duty. These Peace Patrols are sent out to the far flung villages and townships of Throal, to make sure that everything's in order within the borders of Throal. Unfortunately for this particular Peace Patrol, all is not well with the track they've been assigned -- between uppity creatures who think they own the roadways to possible Horror infestations; they will probably have their hands full.

Epic Space Marine

Drue Sims (simsdb@texaco.com)

Game Workshops

Miniature

Futuristic space sci-fi game where Humans, Space Orks and Elves vie against one another for territory, glory, or just plain pillaging and plundering. Game is 6mm scale with miniatures representing the previous forces battling upon tabletop and terrain.

Formula "Bug"

Dean Piper (cyber-elf@tamu.edu)

Rules by Euro Games

A not-so-miniature formerly-tabletop

Large scale Formula De, using 2.5" by 5" painted New Beetles as race cars.

Fudge: Nanopolis

Robbie Taylor (taylorroch@earthlink.net)

Grey Ghost Games

Roleplaying Game

Nanopolis, home to most of the world's super-powered beings, has recently come under attack from a threat from space. This threat could spell the end of both the world, and the superheroes who defend it!

Gamma World: 4th ed.

John Martin (johnmartin@mad.scientist.com)

TSR

RPG

-This game puts the PCs in an environment rich with ancient Technologies and fraught with danger. Each PC is Armed with several Mutations, which is the mainstay of Gamma World, and with a few physical items as well. The one true goal of Gamma World is SURVIVAL.

-Long After the Time of Chaos, a new world has arisen. No longer populated by humans, but by the new races (Altered Humans, Mutated Animals, and Sentient Plants). This New World is as beautiful as it is deadly. A lush and bountiful landscape marred only by the occasional ruins of an ancient city just waiting to be explored by some brave (or foolhardy) group of adventurers. The land is also populated by many new and dangerous creatures just waiting to get there claws (or whatever) on some unwary traveler. This is the New World, a world known as, Gamma Terra.

GURPS Fantasy: Animal Control

Jeff Ruppel

(the.cougar@mindspring.com)

Steve Jackson Games

RPG

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

A quiet day in a sleepy little village... until the roar of a terrifying beast shatters the stillness. Oh, the baying of those mournful hounds...

Can you save the town from the fury of Nature scorned?

GURPS Fantasy: Back to the 70's Dungeon Crawl!

William Toporek (WToporek@aol.com)

Steve Jackson Games

RPG

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

Remember when you just "made characters", "fought monsters", and "got cool stuff", and that was all it was about? Well, let's set the wayback machine for 1981 and slay some foul creatures, get treasure, and buy some cool stuff.

GURPS Horror: Night of the Unliving Undead

Al Griego (sa_mib@hotmail.com)

Steve Jackson Games

RPG

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

This summer at Steve Jackson Games, HORROR is the name of the game... get into the mood with this classic horror scenario with a twist you won't expect.

Brains!

GURPS Old West

David Insel (dgicaw@io.com)

Steve Jackson Games

RPG

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

-The American frontier was a legend, even as it was happening. Gunfighters, Indians. cowboys, miners and mountain men... the "rust-eaters" who pushed the rails west... the Texas Rangers and the outlaws they fought... the settlers battling fire, floods, stampedes and sickness... their adventures made the nation what it is today!

-Come west if you've got the guts for it. The weak die on the trail, and the cowards never leave home. Let's see what you're made of, pardner...

GURPS Space/Horror: The Unforgiving Void

Paul Chapman (chapman@itouch.com)

Steve Jackson Games

RPG

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

Humanoid animals explore a new planet for the corporation that spawned them. Bad things happen.

Betas are used to being stuck in lousy situations. Humid swamp planet? That's not too bad. Add a First Contact situation where there shouldn't be one? Getting worse. Now add the accidental desecration of the natives' holy area. The only thing that could make this situation worse is if your Commander were murdered...

GURPS Spec Ops: On the Road to Mogadishu

William Toporek (WToporek@aol.com)

Steve Jackson Games

RPG

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

Roleplaying in the world of modern-day military elite forces.

Your squad of U.S. Army Rangers is cut off from their main force as they attempt to protect a Delta Force mission to rescue American personnel stuck in the U.S. Embassy to Kabongo. Can you get to the airport in time? Characters provided.

GURPS Supers: The Diabolical Doctor Demoniac

David Insel (dgicaw@io.com)

Steve Jackson Games

RPG

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

The supers are here! Costumed crusaders fighting against the forces of evil... monstrous villains terrorizing the world...

GURPS Traveller: The Theta 9 Sleepers

William Toporek (WToporek@aol.com)

Steve Jackson Games

RPG

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

Your party of travelers has unexpectedly come upon a ship afloat in the middle of nowhere. The ghost ship seems normal-- until the passengers thaw out and begin to exhibit some rather strange behavior! Classic Traveler stuff!

Beginners welcome!

Jake Bourbon (jbourbon@earthlink.net)

Star Wars Miniatures Battles

West End Games

Miniature

A 25mm urban skirmish in the streets and back alleys of a sprawling city.

Episode 6.1 -- Last Flight from Mos Eisley:

In the chaotic aftermath of the Emperor's death, a stranded Imperial platoon tries to fight its way off Tatooine by seizing a Rebel ship.

Kobolds Ate My Baby!

Shaun Torres (The_Corinthian_@Hotmail.com)

9th Level Games

Tabletop RPG

KAMB is a humorous and light hearted parody of Dungeons & Dragons. Players create wimpy, scared kobolds to terrorize the local town and steal babies for the king's feast. Expendable characters and slapstick comedy are the main focus of the game.

Get Drunk! Eat Babies! Kill Cows! Burn Down The Town!

Who's Fodder Now?!

Magic: The Gathering - One Big Chaotic Deck

Paul Schumacher (guildmaster@innocent.com)

WOTC

Card Game

This is an 1100 card Magic: The Gathering Deck, which the players draw from, combined with Chaos rolls, and general silliness. Great fun for even casual MTG Players.

One Big Deck. 1100 cards. Everyone Draws from It.

Everyone makes Chaos Rolls. Can you master the Chaos?

Magic: The Gathering Tournament

Judges: Paul Schumacher and Beau Ferguson

Sealed Deck tournament: This event will include prize support, and players will need to provide their own sealed packs of cards. The cards to purchase before the event are: 3 Planeshift booster packs, and 1 Invasion Starter pack. There should be a dealer with these type of packs on hand at the con.

Nuke!

Russell Godwin (russellg@io.com)

Steve Jackson Games

Combat boardgame

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

The hottest new game from Steve Jackson Games. Quick to learn, and a blast to play. Drop in any time to join a game.

An itchy trigger finger is a must!

Ogre Miniatures: Ogre vs. Monster Island!

Ben Kimball (mib@io.com)

Steve Jackson Games

Miniature

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

Come celebrate the launch of Steve Jackson Games' new miniatures operation with this wacky scenario. Sure, the Ogre can crush armor, infantry, and G.E.V.s with impunity... but can it crush mighty GODZILLA?

Ogre Miniatures: The Battle of Razorback Hill

Ben Kimball (mib@io.com)

Steve Jackson Games

Miniature

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

Ogre Miniatures is an adaptation of the classic G.E.V. rules for miniatures play. It's easy to learn, and quick to play. Come on, now... let's take that hill!

Come see the new miniatures line from Steve Jackson Games!

RPGA Living Greyhawk Campaign

Jerry Blakemore (tengu@ev1.net)

WOTC D&D 3rd Edition

RPG

Sponsor: Bandit Kingdoms of Living Greyhawk

The Reckoning 2 sessions

What Lies Beneath? 2 sessions

A Bandit Kingdom Regional 2 sessions

Fright at Tristar (Limited to RPGA guild members and will take from 8 to 12 hours to run.)

$2.00 per session

Shadowrun

William W Bryant IV (wwbryantiv@neo.tamu.edu)

FASA

Roleplaying

-Shadowrun is set approx 60 years into the future. Magic has reentered the world along with trolls, orcs, dwarves, and various other things that go bump in the night. Corporations run the world, their soldiers are the Shadowrunners, the denizens, so the question is, do you have what it takes?

-The Corps are ready, are you?

Slaughterloo

Blake Radetzky (can22blue@aol.com)

Alternative Armies

Miniatures

Sponsor: Lone Star Historical Miniatures

Napoleonic Warfare like you have never seen it!

The Czar Advances across the border of the Empire.

Can you hold the border? Or Cross at will?

Where Will YOU Meet Your Slaughterloo?

Solaris VII-Circus Mechsimus

John Palmer (knyght_errant@yahoo.com)

Battletech/FASA

Miniatures

-Anthropod Mechanized Battle Behemoths with lasers, missles, particle projection cannons and more! Miniatures Game fought on tabletop.

-Mech Combat in the 23rd Century takes a new twist on Solaris VII, the game world. Yes, its chariot races brought into modern mech universe. Ben Hur never had it so tough. Only on Solaris VII will you find mech combat racing!

Starcraft: The Terran Marine Corps.

Justin Chow (duckweiser@hotmail.com)

Original

RPG

Alright Marines, prepare to experience the personal life of the guys you loved to send off as cannon fodder! Can you survive the experience?

The D.S.V. Amerigo is suspected to be compromised. You and five others will secure or destroy this vessel. Its fate is yours to decide!

Teenagers from Outer Space

Patrick B. Quarles (lordthag@prodigy.net)

R. Talsorian

Loud obnoxious tabletop

-Light hearted easy to play game, beginners welcome. Sci-fi anime based. 3-6 players. High pitched and fast paced so it isn't for the squeamish.

-The Dubbayasee Dubya Empire has arisen again to threaten the good people of the Worlds Weapons Forces. The carrier Foley and its crew of mecha pilots are dispatched on a mission of utmost importance for the entire galaxy! Poor, Doomed Galaxy...

Thunder's Edge

Mark "Aahzmandius" Montgomery (aahzmandius@hotmail.com)

Fantasy Flight Games

Board

Sci-Fi Global domination, Hexplay system, 3-5 players, 3-4 hours

Tile Chess

Ben Kimball (mib@io.com)

Steve Jackson Games

Board/Strategy

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

In Tile Chess, the traditional chess pieces move across a virtual "board" of ever-changing size and shape. Strategy becomes more complex; as you conquer each of your opponents, you take over their pieces! To win, you'll have to think outside the board. Up to six can play.

TOON: Atomic Monster Theatre

Jeff Ruppel (the.cougar@mindspring.com)

Steve Jackson Games

RPG

Sponsor: Steve Jackson Games

Remember those great Saturday morning cartoons? Now they're back - and you're the star! In TOON, anything can happen, and nobody ever gets killed. Been punched? Blown up? Steamrollered? Don't worry - you'll bounce back in the next scene, ready for more!

Let's get silly!

Twilight Imperium

Mark "Aahzmandius" Montgomery (aahzmandius@hotmail.com)

Fantasy Flight Games

Board

Basically Interstellar Axis and Allies, with a random board (Hexplay) 3-6 players, 4-8 hours (overnight?)

Vampire LARP

David Burgess (aggieman2002@hotmail.com)

White Wolf

LARP

Sponsor: The Camarilla

This will be a LARP using White Wolf's Mind's Eye Theater rules. The venue will be Camarilla/Anarch. Mature subject matter. 18+ required to attend.

Visitors

Robbie Taylor (taylorroch@earthlink.net)

1000 Monkeys

RPG

Visitors is a role-playing game based on UFO phenomena and their consequences for our planet.

You've gone to Galveston beach for a nice vacation with family and friends. Now, you're missing several hours and there are strange people following you - what happened on that beach?

Warmaster Tournament

Blake Radetzky

(can22blue@aol.com)

Games Workshop

Miniatures Tournament

Sponsor: Lone Star Historical Miniatures

Warmaster Tournament. Min/Max for a 2000pts army. Build armies to 2000pts. 1st Round Friday Nite, 2nd-3rd Rounds on Saturday Final round on Sunday Morning.

WWII MicroArmor (Tank Charts)

Howard Hendrick (hdhendrick@bigfoot.com)

GHQ

Miniature, MicroArmor, WWII

Soviets assault outnumbered Germans in a tank-only battle.

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