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P40 Return to the Dark Tower

Only available via On-line Pre-registration
Friday Noon in Monterey for 4 hours
GM: Kasi Jammeh
Type: Board
System: Return to the Dark Tower
Edition: 2nd
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Return to Dark Tower is a game for 1 to 4 heroes who undertake epic quests, fight fearsome foes, and test their mettle against the looming darkness of the titular tower. Now featuring both cooperative and competitive play
Website: /youtu.be/OtJk0qYCmk8

P41 Massive Darkness 3D

Only available via On-line Pre-registration
Friday 1 PM on Sedona Table 12 for 4 hours
GM: Steven Sauer
Type: Board
System: Massive Darkness
Edition: 1st
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Using 3D plastic dungeon terrain instead of the usual cardboard tiles
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Delve into a dungeon, kill monsters, find loot, complete the quest. Characters gain powers by spending experience as the game progresses. We'll be using the original Massive Darkness from the Kickstarter by CMON, but will use 3D terrain from Dungeons & Lasers instead of the usual flat cardboard map squares.

P42 War of the Ring 2nd Ed

Only available via On-line Pre-registration
Friday 2 PM on Sedona Table 18 for 6 hours
GM: Thomas Crawford
Type: Board
System: War of the Ring
Edition: 2nd Ed
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

While Shadow forces (players 1 & 2 controlling Sauron, etc.) grow, should the Free People (players 3 & 4 controlling elves, humans and dwarves) try to get the Ring to Mount Doom or should they focus on defeating them on the battlefield

140 Car Wars Amateur Night

Friday 6 PM in Elite Zone for 6 hours
GM: Craig Robertson
Type: Board
System: Car Wars
Edition: Classic
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

It's Friday Night, and it's time for six amateurs to climb into their cars and fight it out for fame and glory! An SBGC Game.

141 Massive Darkness 3D

Friday 6 PM on Sedona Table 12 for 4 hours
GM: Steven Sauer
Type: Board
System: Massive Darkness
Edition: 1st
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Using 3D plastic dungeon terrain instead of the usual cardboard tiles
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Delve into a dungeon, kill monsters, find loot, complete the quest. Characters gain powers by spending experience as the game progresses. We'll be using the original Massive Darkness from the Kickstarter by CMON, but will use 3D terrain from Dungeons & Lasers instead of the usual flat cardboard map squares.

142 Lords of Waterdeep

Friday 6 PM on Sedona Table 15 for 3 hours
GM: Dan Glass
Type: Board
System: Lords of Waterdeep
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Base and Scoundrels of Skullport
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Family

In Lords of Waterdeep, a strategy board game for 2-5 players, you take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to go on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city. Expand the city by purchasing new buildings that open up new actions on the board, and hinder - or help - the other lords by playing Intrigue cards to enact your carefully laid plans. The Scoundrels of Skullport expansion adds a new dimension Skullport with it's corruption and Undermountain with 40 pt quests

143 Return to the Dark Tower

Friday 6 PM in Elite Zone for 4 hours
GM: Kasi Jammeh
Type: Board
System: Return to the Dark Tower
Edition: 2nd
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Return to Dark Tower is a game for 1 to 4 heroes who undertake epic quests, fight fearsome foes, and test their mettle against the looming darkness of the titular tower. Now featuring both cooperative and competitive play
Website: /youtu.be/OtJk0qYCmk8

145 Revive

Snacking is not allowed at this game

Friday 7 PM on Ponderosa Table A for 4 hours
GM: Bart Larrenaga
Type: Board
System: Revive
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Revive civilization, 5000 years after everything was destroyed. Lead your tribe and explore the frozen earth. Harness its resources. Recruit surface survivors to your cause. Build factories with powerful machines. And populate ancient sites to relearn your tribe's forgotten technologies. Revive is a game for 1-4 players with asymmetric player powers, highly variable setup, and no fighting or direct conflict.
Website: /boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/332772/revive

146 Wingspan

Snacking is not allowed at this game

Friday 7 PM on Ponderosa Table B for 3 hours
GM:
Type: Board
System: Wingspan
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: basic game only
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Come build your aviary. Seen it played but intimidated by it all? Want your family member to learn? This is the one then. Already know how? Find my other version. Children welcome as long as they can read.

241 Deranged

Saturday 9 AM on Sedona Table 12 for 3 hours
GM: Reuben Lopez
Type: Board
System: Deranged
Players: 5
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

Deranged is a gothic semi-cooperative adventure survival game in which you fight rivals, horrific monsters, and your own inner demons. Hidden traitor is possible. Play nice, but play to win!
Website: /www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-5vTe6gQ5

242 Eldritch Horror: Mountains of Madness

Saturday 9 AM on Sedona Table 14 for 6 hours
GM: Michael Skeen
Type: Board
System: Eldritch Horror
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Mountains of Madness & Forsaken Lore
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

Across the globe, ancient evil is stirring. Now, you and your trusted circle of colleagues must travel around the world, working against all odds to hold back the approaching horror. Foul monsters, brutal encounters, and obscure mysteries will take you to your limit and beyond. All the while, you and your fellow investigators must unravel the otherworldy mysteries scattered around the globe in order to push back the gathering mayhem that threatens to overwhelm humanity. The end draws near! Do you have the courage to prevent global destruction?

243 Twilight Imperium

Saturday 9 AM on Sedona Table 24 for 12 hours
GM: Matt Chasm
Type: Board
System: Twilight Imperium
Edition: 3rd
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: With shattered empire & shards of the throne
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Very Complex

Epic empire-building game of interstellar conflict, trade, and struggle for power.

244 Empyreal: Spells & Steam

Saturday 9 AM on Sedona Table 28 for 2 hours
GM: Patrick Riley
Type: Board
System: Empyreal: Spells & Steam
Players: 7
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Expansions available
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

The industrial age has come at last to the World of Indines! Use your ingenuity and the skill of your team of technomancers to cross the continent of Indines while connecting towns and building a vibrant trade network. Research new spells as you carve a path through the many treacherous terrains of the continent, using your company's unique advantages to outbuild the competition and secure supply lines for rare resources.
Website: /boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/220367/empyreal-spells-steam

245 Dominant Species

Saturday 10 AM on Sedona Table 6 for 6 hours
GM: Vera DeVera
Type: Board
System: Dominant Species
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Very Complex

Dominant Species is a game for 2 to 6 players that abstractly recreates a tiny portion of ancient history: the ponderous encroachment of an Ice Age and what that entails for the living creatures trying to adapt to the slowly-changing Earth. This is a 4x game (exploration, exploitation, extermination, expansion). Each player will assume the role of one of six major Animal groups--Mammal, Reptile, Bird, Amphibian, Arachnid or Insect. Each begins the game in a state of natural balance with regards to one another. But that won't last: It is indeed survival of the fittest. All of this eventually leads to the end game: the final ascent of the Ice Age, where the player with the most Victory Points will have his Animal crowned the Dominant Species.

341 Marrakesh

Snacking is not allowed at this game

Saturday 1 PM on Ponderosa Table B for 4 hours
GM: Bart Larrenaga
Type: Board
System: Marrakesh
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Compete with other influential families in the city to achieve the most honorable titles through the skillful use of assistants and resources at your disposal. The player who succeeds in doing this best becomes the new 'Obermufti' of Marrakesh.
Website: /boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/342810/marrakesh

342 Lost Ruins of Arnak

Saturday 2 PM on Sedona Table 9 for 3 hours
GM: Mike Eckert
Type: Board
System: Lost Ruins of Arnak
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Expedition Leaders
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Family

Lost Ruins of Arnak combines deck-building and worker placement in a game of exploration, resource management, and discovery. In addition to traditional deck-builder effects, cards can also be used to place workers, and new worker actions become available as players explore the island. Give your expedition an edge by choosing one of six unique leaders, each equipped with different abilities, skills, and starting decks that offer different strategies and styles of play for you to explore.
Website: /boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/312484/lost-ruins-arnak

344 The Goonies: Never Say Die and Expansion

Saturday 2 PM on Sedona Table 27 for 4 hours
GM: Dan Shimizu
Type: Board
System: The Goonies: Never Say Die Boardgame
Edition: 1st
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Family

It's our time, down here. Embark on a perilous adventure full of dangerous booby traps and treacherous treasure-filled caverns! In The Goonies: Never Say Die, one player is the Goondocks Master, controlling fearsome foes from the outlaw family, the Fratellis, to the legendary pirate, One-Eyed Willie. The other players take on the role of the Goonies:? Mikey, Mouth, Chunk, Data, and Sloth, and attempt to overcome cryptic puzzles and deadly challenges with teamwork, strategy, and Data's clever contraptions! Will the Goonies discover the legendary riches that will save their homes, or will they follow the fate of Chester Copperpot...and never see the light of day? The game features nine adventures so that players can immerse themselves in the 1980s movie as well as brand new stories, and it includes eight sculpted miniatures of Mikey, Mouth, Chunk, Data, Sloth, the Giant Octopus, the Fratellis, and even One-Eyed Willie himself.

343 Raccoon Tycoon

Saturday 3 PM on Sedona Table 6 for 6 hours
GM: Vera DeVera
Type: Board
System: Raccoon Tycoon
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

In Raccoon Tycoon, players try to produce the most valuable commodities in an ever-changing marketplace. They then use those commodities to build towns, or sell them at the best price to secure great profits that can be used to win auctions for the all-important railroads. The profits may also be used to buy powerful buildings that give the players power-ups or bonuses in production. Owning the best towns and railroads determines victory. There can be only one top dog in Astoria. Is it you?

345 Diplomacy

Saturday 4 PM on Sedona Table 23 for 6 hours
GM: Zachary C. Morgan
Type: Board
System: Diplomacy
Edition: Avalon Hill
Players: 7
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

In the game your success hinges not on dice, but on your cunning and cleverness. Players represent one of the seven 'Great Powers of Europe' in 1901 prior to the start of World War I. There are only two kinds of military units: Armies and Fleets/Navies. On any given turn, each of your military units has limited options: they can move into an adjoining unoccupied territory, support one of your units or an allied unit in an attack or defense of an adjoining occupied territory, or hold their position. There are no dice rolls or other elements of chance, all actions are determined by numerical strength. It’s incredibly simplistic movement mechanics fused to a significant negotiation element make for a great strategy game.

441 Lords of Waterdeep

Saturday 6 PM on Sedona Table 12 for 3 hours
GM: Thomas Crawford
Type: Board
System: Lords of Waterdeep
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: May use Skullport expansion if players agree
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

The players are lords, secret rulers of the city, vying for control of Waterdeep. Use agents to perform quests, expand the city by buying buildings, and sowing intrigue to help or hinder other lords.

442 Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest

Saturday 7 PM on Sedona Table 9 for 3 hours
GM: Mike Eckert
Type: Board
System: Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

In the world of Galecrest, sky pirates set sail on the winds in search of adventure, treasure, and glory. As an admiral, you command a vast and varied crew...but so do your rivals sailing other ships in the pirate fleet. Each day the fleet lands on a different island where you'll send a crew member to collect your share of the loot, hoping they'll return to boost your growing group of characters. Libertalia was originally released in 2012. Ten years later, Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest celebrates the foundations of the original design with a revised and expanded edition that includes all-new art, 40 characters per player, a reputation system to resolve tiebreakers, deluxe loot tokens, a robust solo mode, and much more
Website: /boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/356033/libertalia-winds-galecrest

541 Blood Rage

Sunday 9 AM on Sedona Table 12 for 3 hours
GM: Reuben Lopez
Type: Board
System: Blood Rage
Players: 5
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

Ragnarok 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 place in Valhalla at Odin's side THIS GAME IS ALL ABOUT DIRECT COMBAT. PLAY NICE BUT PLAY TO WIN!

542 Twilight Imperium

Sunday 9 AM on Sedona Table 27 for 12 hours
GM: Clay Tevebaugh
Type: Board
System: Twilight Imperium
Edition: 4th
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: prophecy of kings
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Very Complex

Epic empire-building game of interstellar conflict, trade, and struggle for power.

543 Empyreal: Spells & Steam

Sunday 9 AM on Sedona Table 28 for 2 hours
GM: Patrick Riley
Type: Board
System: Empyreal: Spells & Steam
Players: 7
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Expansions available
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

The industrial age has come at last to the World of Indines! Use your ingenuity and the skill of your team of technomancers to cross the continent of Indines while connecting towns and building a vibrant trade network. Research new spells as you carve a path through the many treacherous terrains of the continent, using your company's unique advantages to outbuild the competition and secure supply lines for rare resources.
Website: /boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/220367/empyreal-spells-steam

544 Star Trek Ascendancy

Sunday 10 AM on Sedona Table 13 for 8 hours
GM: David Jones
Type: Board
System: Star Trek Ascendancy
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: No Borg
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

In Star Trek: Ascendancy, you control the great civilizations of the Galaxy, striking out from your home worlds to expand your influence and grow your civilization. Ascend the final frontier as you take control of legendary races and fleets with unique perks and strategies

545 StarFleet Battles : The Mutara Nebula

Game Cancelled

546 Stardew Valley the Board Game

Snacking is not allowed at this game

Sunday 10 AM on Ponderosa Table A for 4 hours
GM: Emily Wells
Type: Board
System: Stardew Valley the Board Game
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

A fully cooperative game based on the video game by Concerned Ape. Players will work together to complete the community center and complete Grampa's goals while fending off the evil Joja Corp. Gameplay is lighthearted yet challenging and true to the spirit of the game it's based on.

641 Massive Darkness

Sunday Noon on Sedona Table 14 for 6 hours
GM: Chriss Lagge
Type: Board
System: Massive Darkness
Edition: 1st
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Campaign with house rules, Black Plague characters & monsters
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Family

Enter the dungeon and enlighten these dark evil beasts! Years ago the forces of good and evil battled for the fate of the free world. It seemed as if the powers of the Darkness would prevail, until magical weapons imbued with the strength of light were crafted and handed to the last brave warriors, the Lightbringers. They fought back the enemy and won the war? for a time. Now the Darkness is spreading again. The drums of war are beating, and your fate lies underground? in the dark. Come play the original. Monsters from expansions and Zombicide: Black Plague.

642 Lords of Waterdeep

Sunday Noon on Sedona Table 18 for 3 hours
GM: Dan Glass
Type: Board
System: Lords of Waterdeep
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Base and Scoundrels of Skullport
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Family

In Lords of Waterdeep, a strategy board game for 2-5 players, you take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to go on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city. Expand the city by purchasing new buildings that open up new actions on the board, and hinder - or help - the other lords by playing Intrigue cards to enact your carefully laid plans. The Scoundrels of Skullport expansion adds a new dimension Skullport with it's corruption and Undermountain with 40 pt quests

643 GKR: Heavy Hitters: Fight For Wall Street

Sunday Noon on Sedona Table 23 for 4 hours
GM: Dennis Seiffert
Type: Board
System: GKR: Heavy Hitters
Edition: 1st
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Family

GKR: HEAVY HITTERS is an advertising-driven, televised combat sport where mega corporations fight for lucrative salvage rights and advertising dominance in Earth's abandoned cities. But more importantly, they need you! Your skills as a pilot and tactician are needed to win, gaining your Faction more fans, and more importantly, loyal consumers. You will be piloting a Heavy Hitter, the name given to the largest fighting mechs in the battle zone. Flanking your Heavy Hitter in these high stakes sport matches are 3 unmanned robotic support units, consisting of Combat, Repair and Recon. Fighting head-to-head using your Heavy Hitter, you control your entire team of GKRs, strategizing your way to victory.

644 Downtown Scramble

Sunday Noon on Sedona Table 28 for 6 hours
GM: Craig Robertson
Type: Board
System: Car Wars
Edition: Classic
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Midville is large enough to support a single taxi company. Unfortunately, it has three. It's time to settle some scores and pick up some fares.

645 Game of Thrones Board Game

Sunday 1 PM on Sedona Table 12 for 6 hours
GM: Brendan Crotty
Type: Board
System: Game of Thrones Board Game
Edition: 1st
Players: 5
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Expansions available
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

Game of Thrones the board game first edition. War and chaos are engulfing the lands of Westeros. The great Houses are vying for control of the Iron Throne using the old tools of intrigue and war. Yet while the war for Westeros rages, grave dangers gather in the cold North, and an ancient enemy is gaining momentum in the distant East. In A Game of Thrones: The Board Game, players take control of one of the great Houses of Westeros. Via resource management, diplomacy, and cunning, they seek to win dominance over the land. Players must give orders to armies, control important characters, gather resources for the coming winter, and survive the onslaught of their enemies. A unique phase mechanic, battle resolution, and special ordering system make for an engaging game in which all players are actively involved at all times.
Website: /boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6472/game-thrones

646 Wingspan

Snacking is not allowed at this game

Sunday 2 PM on Ponderosa Table C for 4 hours
GM: Dina Jacobs
Type: Board
System: Wingspan
Players: 5
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Everything: Including Asia expansion
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

The all in version. Asia should be in my hands. If Asia arrives the game expands to 7 players. I don't mind new players. Just know I am running a beginners game as well.

647 Plunder: A Pirates Life

Sunday 2 PM on Sedona Table 9 for 3 hours
GM: Mike Eckert
Type: Board
System: Plunder: A Pirates Life
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Family

A Pirate's Life is a competitive, strategy-based gateway game played on a modular ocean map. The goal is to gain ten Plunder Points. Plunder points are obtained by conquering islands, sinking enemy ships, and burying treasure. On your turn, draw one Resource card for each island you own. Trade and manage your resources (wood, iron, rum, gold) to build and upgrade your fleet using miniatures and pegs.
Website: /boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/281094/plunder-pirates-life

648 Mechs vs Minions

Snacking is not allowed at this game

Sunday 4 PM on Ponderosa Table B for 4 hours
GM: Emily Wells
Type: Board
System: Mechs vs Minions
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

A fully cooperative game of mad science and mayhem. Each player pits their newly minted, untested, unreliable mecha against hordes of minions, hazardous terrain and more! The game is played in a series of missions each with different maps and goals. We will play as many as time and player interest allow

842 Cthulhu Wars - Yugoth

Monday 10 AM on Sedona Tables 17 & 18 for 6 hours
GM: Jill Gelster
Type: Board
System: Cthulhu Wars
Edition: 1st
Players: 8
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Yugoth Map
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

The Old Ones have risen. Which Great Old One will rule the ruins of Yuggoth? Command a Great Old One and battle over Yuggoth to see who will conquer the planet. Beware the Watcher in the Green Pyramid
Website: /petersengames.com/cthulhu-wars/

843 Battlestar Galactica: Darkness Before Daybreak

Snacking is not allowed at this game

Monday 10 AM on Ponderosa Table A for 6 hours
GM: Mike Hutchinson
Type: Board
System: Battlestar Galactica
Edition: 1st
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Elements from all expansions
Rules Knowledge: Expected
Game Content: Very Complex

Come and play Battlestar Galactica--the science-fiction board game of paranoia and betrayal, based on the hit SyFy television show. Will you save humanity or destroy it? Are you a Human or a Cylon? This will NOT be a game for beginners. Players 18 and over preferred.
Website: /www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/battlestar-galactica/