GAME-ITOBA Please note, Game-itoba is a volunteer event and of course things do come up, events may be rescheduled or cancelled at short notice, we will try to notify you by email should that be the case but it may not be possible.
Everything (Featured Games, Open Games)
Friday: 6:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm, 9:30pm, 10:30pm, 11:30pm
Saturday: 9:30am, 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm, 4:30pm, 5:30pm, 6:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm, 9:30pm, 10:30pm, 11:30pm
Sunday: 9:30am, 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm
Key:- Play to Win | Tournament | Local Designer | Sponsor | For Kids | Family Friendly | Mature Themes
| When | Game Name | Type | Spaces | Location | GM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11:30-5:25pm | WarHammer Underworlds | Boardgame | Drop-In | H10 | Steven Hunnie |
| Family Friendly A fast paced arena combat board game set in the mortal realms of WarHammers Age of Sigmar. Players will take their warband in a quest for total glory by vanquishing their opponent. Through the use of a 32 card deck players will move their fighters around the board in an attempt to strike down the opposing warband, score objectives, execute ploys and upgrade their fighters to dizzying new heights. Only one warband will win…will it be yours??? | |||||
| Sat 12:30-3:25pm | ARCS | Boardgame | Full | G36 | Sebastian |
| Family Friendly A highly confrontation space game! Do the best you can with the hand of cards you are given, with a trick taking adjacent mechanic. Move around your space fleets, build and tax your cities (or your rivals!), influence the courts to your cause, and perform epic raids on your rivals. Nothing you have is nailed down. There will be conflict, and you will collapse!If you are unfamiliar with the game, teaching will take a half hour. There is a lot to this game, it's pretty meaty.Leaders & Lore (plus it's expansion) will be available if everyone is experienced with the game. | |||||
| Sat 12:30-4:25pm | Bunnies & Burrows | RPG | Full | M10 | Craig |
| Mature Themes The roleplaying game of intelligent rabbits has been around since 1976! In this newer, 3rd edition of the game, you will take the role of an intelligent rabbit in the style of the film Watership Down. Note that, even though you are playing rabbits, this is an adult game with violence and even some horror themes, so it is not intended for children. No experience necessary; rules will be taught. Looking to get into the vibe? Check out this prologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZsY2i0Cz_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZsY2i0Cz_k | |||||
| Sat 12:30-3:25pm | Magnus Archives | RPG | Full | M07 | Luci Wright |
| Mature Themes For 200 years, the Magnus Institute has quietly collected statements like these from people of all walks of life, detailing their personal experiences with the supernatural. Your organization is dedicated to cataloging and researching these incidents—but it’s becoming clear they aren’t as isolated as they first appear. There are connections between them—connections that suggest existential dangers to the world as we know it. The Magnus Archives is a horror TTRPG created by monte cooke games and based on the hit podcast The Magnus Archives. Players comfortable with the system may prepare a character in advance, however premade characters will be provided. | |||||
| Sat 12:30-3:25pm | SFS2 #1-07: Seize and Destroy | RPG | 3 available | L02 | Pathfinder & Starfinder Society (PFS) |
| Family Friendly A Starfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 2nd-level characters. Starfinder Society Scenarios are adventures which immerse you as a hero in ongoing Starfinder Society storylines. Scenarios contributing to the year-long metaplot have a note on their product pages. Running time 2-3 hours. | |||||
| Sat 12:30-3:25pm | Vantage | RPG | 1 available | M12 | Michael Penner |
| Mature Themes You and your team crash land on a strange alien world with a single mission. You each land in a different place on the planet and must work together to navigate this new world. Will you complete your mission? Will you achieve your destiny? | |||||
| Sat 1:30-4:25pm | Simple Superheroes: One Decade Later | RPG | 5 available | M11 | Compose Dreams Games |
| Local Designer & Family Friendly In celebration of the 10th year of Simple Superheroes, play as a super who has been fighting the good fight for 10 years. Is it time to hang up the cape? Mentor a new hero? Or upgrade your abilities? Make your veteran superhero with the designer of the game. How will you face the threat of time? | |||||
| Sat 1:30-3:25pm | Between Two Cities - Capitals | Boardgame | Full | G65 | Kirby |
| Build a shared city with each of your neighbours. Can you make both thrive?If we manage to get a second game in we will add the CAPITALS expansion which adds parks and bridges. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-3:25pm | Blueprints of Mad King ludwig | Boardgame | Full | M03 | Cheryl Petursson |
| Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig is a game featuring an ever-so-satisfying flip and sketch mechanic! This full-color drawing experience scratches the itch for strategy, creativity, and competition! There is a lot to keep track of as the king keeps changing his desires for his new castle. Come prepared to pay attention and check your work as we go. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-3:25pm | Cubitos | Boardgame | Full | M06 | Kevin Petursson |
| Family Friendly A simple race where rolling dice lets you move and buy more dice. Push your luck, come on... you know that next roll is going to be a good one. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-5:25pm | Daggerheart | RPG | Full | M05 | Michael Beck |
| Mature Themes This will be a introduction to the high-fantasy lands of Daggerheart. A new (2025) D&D-adjacent system with focus on narrative-driven play and fast-paced combat. Starting from pre-generated player characters that you will flesh out, we will spend a short bit of time to collaboratively create the scenario/setting. That means: You -- the players -- are storytellers with me. What will happen? Nobody knows at this point, but we will play to find out together! New players to Daggerheart or TTRPG in general are welcome. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-3:25pm | DC United: Batman Hush | Boardgame | 1 available | M08 | Diogo Tozetto |
| Family Friendly Beginner friendly game! DC Super Heroes United: Batman Hush core boxShowcase villain: Joker and Harley. Bonus (if time allows): Superman (Controlled) | |||||
| Sat 1:30-4:25pm | Dinogenics | Boardgame | Full | SH3 | Raymond N |
| Family Friendly Build and manage your own dinosaur island resort. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-5:25pm | Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy | Boardgame | Full | H08 | Ross Cooper |
| Family Friendly This is designed as a teaching game so all players will be Terra, people who have played before are still welcome. A game of Eclipse places you in control of a vast interstellar civilization, competing for success with its rivals. You explore new star systems, research technologies, and build spaceships with which to wage war. There are many potential paths to victory, so you need to plan your strategy according to the strengths and weaknesses of your species, while paying attention to the other civilizations' endeavours. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-4:25pm | Goblin Quest | RPG | Full | C05 | Kyle Tichon |
| Family Friendly Goblin Quest is a tabletop roleplaying game about slapstick violence, fatal ineptitude, and the greatest adventure of your life!Play five goblins each (in sequence, not parallel) and watch them meet hilarious ends while failing to achieve the most basic tasks. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-3:25pm | Intro to 2-player games | Boardgame | 1 available | G13 | Tess Gehman |
| Are there two of you? Are you tired of needing more people to play games? In this session, players can choose from a variety of 2-player games to learn. Selected games are: Boop, Codenames: Duet, Kelp, Lacuna, Land vs Sea, Lost Cities, Morels, Patchwork, and Skyteam. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-4:25pm | One Honk Before Midnight | RPG | 1 available | C01 | Sean Vincent |
| Family Friendly One Honk Before Midnight is an upcoming TRPG that takes place in a world that has been invaded by a gaggle of angry geese. Similarly to Untitled Goose Game – an indie smash hit that released in 2019 and has players controlling a goose who’s attempting to ruin as many people’s days as possible – One Honk Before Midnight tasks players with spreading goose-based chaos across a local town. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-5:25pm | PFS2 #3-07: The Locked Lodge | RPG | Full | L04 | Pathfinder & Starfinder Society (PFS) |
| Mature Themes A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters. Pathfinder Society Scenarios are adventures which immerse you as a hero in ongoing Pathfinder Society storylines. Scenarios contributing to the year-long metaplot have the metaplot tag on their product pages. Running time 4-5 hours. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-5:25pm | PFS2 #7-08: The Haunted Corridor | RPG | 1 available | L01 | Pathfinder & Starfinder Society (PFS) |
| Family Friendly A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st- through 4th-level characters. Pathfinder Society Scenarios are adventures which immerse you as a hero in ongoing Pathfinder Society storylines. Scenarios contributing to the year-long metaplot have the metaplot tag on their product pages. Running time 4-5 hours. | |||||
| Sat 1:30-3:25pm | Who Would Win? | Boardgame | Drop-In | SH6 | Darryl |
| Family Friendly In Who Would Win? two players each draw one character card, then turn up an event card. Each player then has 20 seconds to argue why his character would win whatever event is presented. Why would Albert Einstein beat Darth Vader at gardening? Could Lassie beat Mark Twain in a singing contest? You tell me!The other players serve as the jury and vote on which player had the better argument; that player receives the event card. The first player to win five event cards wins the game. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-3:25pm | The ÎLO Play to Win Zone | Boardgame | Drop-In | ÎLO | ÎLO |
| Play to Win Join ÎLO to play Faraway, Fighting Fantasy Adventures, Flight, King of Tokyo, Knarr, Luz, Mozaik, Oliva or Sauros and potentially take the game home with you at the end of the weekend. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-3:25pm | Dice Baseball - The Lucky 7 | Boardgame | 1 available | G51 | Marc Penner |
| Local Designer & Family Friendly Local Designer & Family Friendly Dice Baseball - The Lucky 7 is a 2-Player Game. You Choose the Pitch and its Outcome (Pitch Card) and I will take a swing by Rolling the Dice. Let's see what happens next...! You make it all happen...in this Fast Paced, Family Friendly Baseball Game For All Ages. 2 GAME SLOTS AVAILABLE 1v1 per game slot. You're Up...Play Ball. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-4:25pm | Hell's High Rollers | RPG | 5 available | M04 | Colton Balske |
| Local Designer & Mature Themes Welcome to Hell’s High Rollers, a game of gambling, cheating, and drama set in the bowels of the underworld at its most prolific casino: The Lucky Devil. Players become devils who gamble, lie, and throw shade at one another while trying to come out on top of a “friendly” high-stakes poker game. Players are prompted to answer questions about their characters and opponents while they use powers to manipulate a real poker game. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-3:25pm | THE COFFIN SOCIETY 1888: BLOOD OF THE CATACOMBS | RPG | 3 available | C06 | GMB (Gregory) |
| Local Designer THE COFFIN SOCIETY 1888: BLOOD OF THE CATACOMBSThe Curse is spreading throughout the city. Can the Coffin Society find the hidden grave boxes of Dracula before their own perished loved ones return? Coffin Society 1888 : A Danger in the Details is a TTRPG created illustrated (and run!) by GMB Chomichuk This Storyline develops over the course of the weekend. Your actions will have consequences on this Story. Feel free to come back or check in on how your Plot Twists affect future chapters. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-3:25pm | Three Merchants | Boardgame | Drop-In | G61 | Jed Doerksen |
| Local Designer & Family Friendly This is a simple game for 3 players, featuring chess-like mechanics with a hint of gambling.Try to secure as many coins as possible, then end the game by eliminating an opposing merchant, but be careful, for you never know when someone may pull a fast one on you. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-4:25pm | Valor & Villainy: Antagonist's Arsenal | Boardgame | Full | G41 | James Van Nieke |
| Local Designer & Family Friendly *Local Designer & Artist!* 1-6 Heroes team up to take down the Evil Wizard Mordak before he sets the world on fire in this zany RPG game! This playthrough will also feature new content from the Antagonist's Arsenal Expansion. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-5:25pm | +1 Dungeon mastering | Other | 8 available | SH2 | Lee McFarland |
| Family Friendly From one DM to another, some helpful ways to upgrade your prep AND ability to run a game on the fly, without using any AI. This session will include creation and use of tables for magic items etc, useful online resources, collaborative world building concepts, and map making, all of which can be used for virtually any roleplaying game!Feel free to bring your own dice and map making materials, though there will be supplies provided. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-3:25pm | Arena of Blood | Miniatures | Drop-In | M01 | David Violago |
| Family Friendly Arena of Blood is a different kind of miniatures game from Wiley Games. Playing card activation, with modifiers to who swings a blow first. Your gladiator's 4 skills add abilities, armour, extra dice, and re-rolls. These are also your hit points; you lose skills as you are wounded. Different gladiator types are represented, plus some other creatures. Can you face a bear?NO measurement of movement, or of firing range if you have a bow or javelins. You move where you will as part of the activation; the fighting area is so limited you get right to bashing about. (It’s been 28 years since the first time I was introduced to a game that had no measurement - the excellent Crossfire, by Arty Conliffe). Fast play with very cinematic outcomes.All painted miniatures provided. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-4:25pm | Blood Rage | Boardgame | Full | G05 | Kyle Skayma |
| Mature Themes In Blood Rage, players control the warriors, leader, and ship of their own Viking clan. Ragnarök has come and it’s the end of the world! It’s the Vikings’ last chance to go down in a blaze of glory and secure their places in Valhalla at Odin’s side! As a Viking you can pursue one of many pathways to glory. You can: invade and pillage the land for its rewards; crush your opponents in battle: fulfill quests: increase your clan's stats: or even die gloriously in battle or from Ragnarök, the ultimate inescapable doom. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-3:25pm | Cartographers | Boardgame | 2 available | G23 | John Reichel |
| Family Friendly players compete to earn the most reputation stars by the time four seasons have passed. Each season, players draw on their map sheets and earn reputation by carrying out the the 2 scoring conditions before the season is over. The player with the most reputation stars at the end of winter wins! | |||||
| Sat 2:30-4:25pm | Dead by Daylight | Boardgame | Full | M02 | Mike H |
| Mature Themes In Dead by Daylight: The Board Game, a team of four resourceful Survivors face off against a single supernatural Killer in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-6:25pm | Dialect | RPG | 2 available | C03 | Ashley Smith |
| Family Friendly Dialect is a story game about an isolated community, their language, and what it means for that language to be lost. We will define and explore an isolated community and how their language evolves by creating new words based off the fundamental traits of the community and the pivotal events. You will use the language you create to explore your character and advance the story of the Isolation. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-4:25pm | Flame Craft | Boardgame | Full | G33 | Dora |
| Family Friendly In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. Dragons are specialized (bread, meat, iron, crystal, plant and potion) and the Flamekeepers know which shops are the best home for each. Visit a shop to gain items and a favor from one of the dragons there. Gathered items can be used to enchant a shop, gaining reputation and the favors of all the dragons in the shop. If you are fortunate enough to attract fancy dragons then you will have opportunities to secure even more reputation. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-5:25pm | Galactic Cruise | Boardgame | Full | G26 | Cyarra |
| On your turn, you will either place a worker to take two actions in the ever-expanding network, launch a ship and send one of your workers to space as a pilot, or recall all your earthbound workers to collect funding bonuses. Actions include acquiring blueprints, constructing ships, attracting guests, and building developments–connections between locations that increase action selection throughout the game. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-5:25pm | Nemesis Retaliation | Boardgame | Full | SH4 | Mark Patek |
| Family Friendly Nemesis Retaliation is a game where each player is a marine and we are investigating a station overun with aliens. It is semi cooperative, there is a public mission to accomplish but everyone has a private mission they can accomplish instead which may mean betrayal. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-6:25pm | Nemesis: Retaliation- Sangrevores | Boardgame | 1 available | H02 | Jer Johnson |
| Mature Themes You and your squad are sent to investigate a secret military base that has gone dark. The last transmission was “It’s okay, the Master is here…” then static. Check it out soldier and report back. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-3:25pm | Orongo | Boardgame | Full | G03 | Dylan Watson |
| Family Friendly A Reiner Knizia hidden gem. Blind Bidding, Tile Placement, Closed Economy | |||||
| Sat 2:30-4:25pm | Perch | Boardgame | Full | G43 | Cherry |
| Family Friendly Fight for control of locations by commanding birds of their own and other players' flocks. Earn points and command woodland creatures by pushing your foes off the perch and having the most birds on a location. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-3:25pm | Splendor | Boardgame | 1 available | G54 | Armando Galindo |
| Family Friendly Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire 15 prestige points before your opponents.There will be two copies of the Game being played separately & simultaneously. | |||||
| Sat 2:30-4:25pm | The Witcher: Path of Destiny | Boardgame | Full | G46 | Dana nawolski |
| Mature Themes Become one of the iconic characters of The Witcher, and choose your own path in their own iconic stories. Path of Destiny is a strategic tableau-building card game, where the players will choose the Path taken in one of three iconic stories from the Witcher together; draft your cards strategically to push the story the direction you want to go to win! | |||||
40 games in this slot, thanks to all of our GMs for making Game-itoba such a great place to try new games
Please note, Game-itoba is a volunteer event and of course things do come up, games may be rescheduled or cancelled at short notice, we will try to notify you by email should that be the case but it may not be possible.
40 total, 20 full (5 drop-in)
Need help, email us at info@game-itoba.ca