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Thursday, September 26th, 2024
10 am – 10 pm
Open Gaming – Find a few people and jump into a game! Pick a game from the library or bring your favorites from home.
10 am – 10 pm
Flea Market – Bring your games to sell, look for deals to buy. Details found on the Events and Swag page.
10 – 11 am
Designer Mesa — Demo
1930: The Golden Age of Airlines – Set in the early stages of aviation, the players take on the roles of aviation investors, promoters, and presidents with the general objective of making money. A player’s wealth is accumulated mainly through owning stock tokens in ten airlines. Stock tokens make money as ready cash via dividend payments, and they can increase in value over the course of the game. Most assets in cash and stock wins. 2-6 players. GM: Kevin Whitmore
10:30 – 11:30 am
Expeditions: Around the World – Lead expeditions in a race to visit interesting places around the world. Public and private objectives may require some cooperation and/or misdirection from other players. Simple rules, and crafty play abound in this route building race game. 4-5 players. GM: Jesse Hopson
1 – 3 pm
Designer Mesa – Play with the designer!
Biologique – Enjoy the satisfaction of reviving your chemically destroyed farm and naturally optimizing your food production. Use dice-action-selection and resource management in this friendly competition to be the best farmer in your region! 2-4 players. GM: Michelle Jones
1:30 – 3 pm
Claude Mauldin Memorial
Dominoes – Play this family classic using a variant on the All Fives rules. Don’t pooh-pooh this as too simple! There’s some real strategy to this one. GM Trista King and convention cofounder Tara King’s grandfather loved this game and we’re holding this game in his memory. Hoo-wee! 2-8 players. GM: Trista King
3 – 5 pm
Blood Bowl: Team Manager – Blood Bowl: Team Manager is a card drafting football game where you’re able to customize your own team of fantasy races over the course of a brutal season. Very easy to pick up with a good mixture of skill and luck. Do you have what it takes to come out as the Blood Bowl champion?! 2-4 players. GM: J. Miguel Sanchez
6 – 10 pm
Designer Mesa — Play with the Designer!
Age of Eana – High fantasy RPG with unique magic and combat system. If you have played any fantasy RPG you it’ll be an easy fit, if not, we’ll help you! A cast of 3rd Level characters are called upon to perform a heist. Additional sessions available if this fills up. 3-5 players. GM: Adam D’Amore
6 -10 pm
APParitions (a Monster of the Week campaign by the DARC) – The gig economy comes for the paranormal! Play as a local Burqueño picking up a a weekend gig via app to hunt down anomalies. This is part of a jump-in, jump-out campaign that meets regularly on Sundays from 4pm-7pm. 6-7 players. GM: Anthony Toretti
7 – 9 pm
Quartermaster General – 6 players fight World War II in this fast-playing game. QMG features simple rules with interesting strategies. Games will finish in under 2 hours. 5-6 players. GM: Kevin Whitmore
Friday, September 27th, 2024
10 am – 10 pm
Open Gaming – Bring your favorite games or just bring yourself.
10 am – 10 pm
Flea Market – Clear your shelf and score that rare find. Details on the Special Events and Swag page.
10:30 – 11:30 am
Wandering Towers – Complete your final exam and fill your potions before the other players in this family style race game. Capture and hinder other wizards and use magic spells to bend the rules in your favor as compete to return to Ravenskeep Castle. 4-6 players. GM: Jesse Hopson
11 am – 1 pm
Designer Mesa –Play with the Designer!
Six Winters – A cooperative fantasy boardgame where a group of unlikely friends struggle to protect their society, Brightdune, from the oppressive Empire of the Autarch. Features dice crafting and an expanding world informed by your choices. 1-2 players. GM: Phil Lewis
12 – 5 pm
Pathfinder 2nd Edition – Linnorm’s Legacy – King Estrid of the Ironbound Islands has put out a call for Pathfinders, but first the Society must earn her approval. Gorm Greathammer, the leader of the Grand Archive faction, has traveled to Halgrim to meet with King Estrid. Talks have been going well, but the arrival of Boiltongue’s children in the city has thrown everything into chaos! Babysitting five rambunctious linnorm siblings is about as easy as it sounds (which is to say, not at all), and the Pathfinders are about to have their hands full! This is an adventure for 5th-level characters. Pregens will be provided, or you can build your own character in advance using the free rules. Pathfinder 2nd edition is a fantasy RPG d20 system. 3-6 players. GM: Craig Griffith
1 – 5 pm
Hegemony: Lead your Class to Victory – Play as one of four asymmetric factions in a modern nation: the Working Class, the Middle Class, the Capitalist Class and the Political Class. Complex dynamics of society will have you alternately working with and working against other players. Winner of three different 2023 Golden Geek awards including Best Thematic Game. 4 players. GM: Paul Schulzetenberg
2 – 4 pm
Designer Mesa – Play with the designer!
Biologique – Enjoy the satisfaction of reviving your chemically destroyed farm and naturally optimizing your food production. Use dice-action-selection and resource management in this friendly competition to be the best farmer in your region! 2-4 players. GM: Michelle Jones
4 – 8 pm
Miniatures Event
BattleTech Total Warfare – Tabletop miniatures wargame that simulates combat in the thirty-first century, where endless wars are won and lost by BattleMechs – towering war machines bristling with unmatched firepower, piloted by the elite of the elite: MechWarriors like you. Don your neurohelmet, strap into a ’Mech, and get all your systems nominal to destroy your opponents and win glory for your faction!. 2-8 players. GM: Matt Hopper
4:30 – 5:30 pm
Designer Mesa — Demo
1930: The Golden Age of Airlines – Set in the early stages of aviation, the players take on the roles of aviation investors, promoters, and presidents with the general objective of making money. A player’s wealth is accumulated mainly through owning stock tokens in ten airlines. Stock tokens make money as ready cash via dividend payments, and they can increase in value over the course of the game. Most assets in cash and stock wins. 2-6 players. GM: Kevin Whitmore
5:30 -9:30 pm
Pendragon: The Fall of Roman Britain – Rome has fallen. Will you play the Dux, the remnants of the Roman Army struggling to maintain peace and stability (under your name)? The Civitates, the Britans, looking to keep your lands and property? Or a barbarian horde, Saxons or Scotti, looking to plunder the land and set up new colonies of your own. 4 players. GM: Ivan Begley
6 -10 pm
APParitions (a Monster of the Week campaign by the DARC) – The gig economy comes for the paranormal! Play as a local Burqueño picking up a a weekend gig via app to hunt down anomalies. This is part of a jump-in, jump-out campaign that meets regularly on Sundays from 4pm-7pm. 6-7 players. GM: Jennifer Rice
7 – 9 pm
Tournament – Opening Heat A
Ticket to Ride – Win a game and get your name on the official MañanaCon trophy! Ticket to Ride is a classic game about making your way across the USA in the golden age of train travel. Details on the Events and Swag page. 2-5 players. GM: John Spence
7 – 10 pm
Designer Mesa — Play with the Designer!
Isles of Mist – An original, high fantasy, tabletop RPG set in a magical world of floating islands and continents in an endless sky full of mist. Make a character, jump on an airship, and explore the hidden reaches of the world! Isles of Mist is the official RPG of Story Tables, a professional ttrpg summer camp and after-school program for kids, and the game is appropriate for all ages–including adults! This could be a great game to play as a family. 4-8 players. GM: Ashton MacSaylor
Saturday, September 28th, 2024
10 am – 10 pm
Open Gaming – Meet new people or reconnect with old friends.
10 am – 10 pm
Flea Market – Buy and sell new and used treasures. Details on the Events and Swag page.
10 am – 10 pm
Special Event – All-day jump-in/jump-out campaign
Betrayal Legacy – Play the campaign prequel to Betrayal at House on the Hill. Come for some or all. Game will be given away to a random player at the end of the session. The more you play, the more chances you have! Details on the Events and Swag page. 5+ players. GM: Eddie Dethlefs
10 am – 2 pm
Designer Mesa — Play with the Designer!
1930: The Golden Age of Airlines – Set in the early stages of aviation, the players take on the roles of aviation investors, promoters, and presidents with the general objective of making money. A player’s wealth is accumulated mainly through owning stock tokens in ten airlines. Stock tokens make money as ready cash via dividend payments, and they can increase in value over the course of the game. Most assets in cash and stock wins. 2-6 players. GM: Alex Sorbello
10 am – 12 pm
Tournament – Opening Heat B
Ticket to Ride – Win a game and get your name on the official MañanaCon trophy! Ticket to Ride is a classic game about making your way across the USA in the golden age of train travel. Details on the Events and Swag page. 2-5 players. GM: John Spence
11 am – 2 pm
Miniatures Event – Paint and Take
Gaslands – Gaslands is a fast pace game of post-apocalyptic death racing that uses Hot Wheels scale cars that are moded and painted. Join us for a building and painting event to get you into the game! We will have cars, bits, and paints to get your car up to speed and on the track. You can take your newly painted car and join in the Zombie Bash event later in the convention!. 2-10 players. GM: Brian Sant
12 – 2:30 pm
Votes for Women – Fast-playing strategic examination of everything that it took to pass the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. The opposition players have inertia in their favor, but the suffragist movement is dynamic and has the strength of moral right on their side. Who will triumph? 2-4 players. GM: Tara King
1 – 3 pm
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition: The Black Road – Employment opportunities in the Anauroch Desert are few and far between, so the chance to escort a caravan through the desert to a small village in Parnast is too good an opportunity for you to pass up. You headed to the small town of Vuerthyl, where your patron Azam has requested seasoned adventurers to help transport a religious statue. This adventure is designed for 3rd level characters. 3-5 players. GM: Sarah Beck
2 – 4 pm
Tournament – Opening Heat C
Ticket to Ride – Win a game and get your name on the official MañanaCon trophy! Ticket to Ride is a classic game about making your way across the USA in the golden age of train travel. Details on the Events and Swag page. 2-5 players. GM: John Spence
3 – 5 pm
Miniatures Event
Gaslands – Zombie Bash – Gaslands is a fast paced game of post-apocalyptic death racing that uses Hot Wheels scale cars that are modded and painted. Join us as we shoot, skid, and crash our way through hoards of the undead to see who can take down the most zombies! If you participated in the Gaslands Paint and take this is the perfect opportunity to put your new car to the test! If you want to play and have no car there will be on provided for you, no previous experience needed to play! 2-10 players. GM: Brian Sant
3 – 5 pm
Designer Mesa – Play with the designer!
Biologique – Enjoy the satisfaction of reviving your chemically destroyed farm and naturally optimizing your food production. Use dice-action-selection and resource management in this friendly competition to be the best farmer in your region! 2-4 players. GM: Michelle Jones
3 – 7 pm
Gandhi: The Decolonization of British India – Control one of the 4 factions vying to determine the fate of India, each with their own seperate win conditions. Gandhi – Break British rule and keep the subcontinent united. Muslim League – Use nonviolence to create a free Muslim India (Pakistan). Revolutionaries – Break the british will to rule? Violence is the answer. British Raj – Maintain control of the colony and and the support of its people. 4 players. GM: Ivan Begley
6 – 9 pm
Mothership – Explore the depths of space and encounter terrifying threats to your life and sanity. Mothership is a rules light sci-fi horror games that mashes up Alien with cosmic horror and look and style of David Cronenberg. 2-6 players. GM: John Myers
6:30 – 9:30 pm
Return To Dark Tower – A “sequel” to the 1981 grail game. Players take the role of heroes and gather resources, cleanse buildings, defeat monsters, and undertake quests to build up their strength and discern what foe ultimately awaits them. When the heroes face the tower, the game shifts into its dramatic second act, where the players have one chance to defeat the enemy once and for all. 2-4 players. GM: Sarah Beck
7 – 10 pm
Designer Mesa — Play with the Designer!
Isles of Mist – An original, high fantasy, tabletop RPG set in a magical world of floating islands and continents in an endless sky full of mist. Make a character, jump on an airship, and explore the hidden reaches of the world! Isles of Mist is the official RPG of Story Tables, a professional ttrpg summer camp and after-school program for kids, and the game is appropriate for all ages–including adults! This could be a great game to play as a family. 4-8 players. GM: Ashton MacSaylor
Sunday, September 29th, 2024
10 am – 8 pm
Open Gaming – Play old favorites or the new hotness.
10 am – 8 pm
Flea Market – Looking for something new? Looking to get rid of something old? Try the flea market.
10 am – 12 pm
Hadrian’s Wall – Hadrian’s Wall is a heavier flip-and-write style game with meeples! Hadrian’s Wall is a historical game set in England in 122AD, where you play as the Roman general who is trying to hold back the Pict army. The player who can accumulate the most renown, piety, valor and discipline, whilst avoiding disdain, will prove to the Emperor they are the model Roman citizen and be crowned Legatus Legionis! 2-6 players. GM: Ashley Hart
10:30 am – 2:30 pm
Dungeon Crawl Classics – A Gonzo take on classic D&D with traps, weird Creatures, mercurial magic, secrets and deadly combat encounters that rewards creative problem solving vs always trying to kill every creature you see. 3-8 players. GM: Alexis Graf
11 am – 1 pm
Miniatures Event
Warmaster – Epic (10mm) battles in the Warhammer Fantasy universe where command and manueverability win the fight. Lizardmen, High Elf, and Chaos armies will be available. 2-4 players. GM: Ivan Begley
11 am – 1 pm
Tournament – Final
Ticket to Ride – Winners of previous rounds compete to win a game and get their name on the official MañanaCon trophy! Ticket to Ride is a classic game about making your way across the USA in the golden age of train travel. Details on the Events and Swag page. 2-5 players. GM: John Spence
1 – 3 pm
Designer Mesa – Play with the designer!
Biologique – Enjoy the satisfaction of reviving your chemically destroyed farm and naturally optimizing your food production. Use dice-action-selection and resource management in this friendly competition to be the best farmer in your region! 2-4 players. GM: Michelle Jones
2 -4 pm
Special Event
Live Game Auction – New this year! We’re doing a live auction to help some great games find some new homes. If you’re looking to clear some shelf space or score some great deals, this will be a perfect event for you. Most auctions start at $5. Check out the Events and Swag page for details.
2 – 5 pm
Starfinder 2nd Edition – Shards of the Glass Planet – For millennia, Birnam’s Bubble has been a planet untouched by outsiders. Now, the energy barrier surrounding Birnam’s Bubble cracks like shattering glass. Enter the breach and uncover the secrets of the lost civilizations before they’re lost forever! This is an adventure for 1st-level characters. Pregens will be provided, or you can build your own character in advance using the free rules. This is a playtest for Starfinder 2nd edition. Using the same engine as the popular Pathfinder 2nd Edition, Starfinder adds science fiction elements and classes to the mix. After the game, you can submit your thoughts to Paizo about the game. 3-6 players. GM: Craig Griffith
4 – 8 pm
Designer Mesa – Play with the designer!
Gunslinger-WW – A gritty weird west RPG with a unique randomizer and magic system, and a cascade failure combat mechanic. A small host of strangers embark on a stagecoach journey. What could go wrong? Additional sessions available if this fills up. 3-5 players. GM: Adam D’Amore
6 – 8 pm
MañanaCon Tradition
Lasers & Feelings: You are the crew of the interstellar ship Raptor. Captain Darcy has been overcome by the strange psychic entity known as Something Else, leaving you to fend for yourselves. One stat, one page of rules, lots of humor, this is an excellent intro RPG for those looking to explore the genre or for experienced players looking for something light. 2-5 players. GM: Paul Schulzetenberg
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