GO Con

Good Omens Con 5 – July 16th

Our 5th Good Omens con is coming up!  Also this is Good Omens 10 year anniversary year.  Woot.

• Admission: FREE. Please bring a can of your favorite canned food, however, to be donated so we can help the Almeda County Food Bank!
• Convention held inside EndGame’s store, a great place to find popular as well as hard to find indy RPG titles.
• 921 Washington, Oakland CA 94607
• Website: www.endgameoakland.com Phone: 510-465-3637
• As usual Good Omens swag including t-shirts, pins and dice given out to players for good role-playing
• Games running all day: 10:00 AM to Midnight
• Guest GMs: Carl Rigney, Brian Isikoff, Scott White, Randy Davenport and Matt Steele
• Sign ups: Sign ups are open! Sign up now.   Sign ups will be first come-first served but since we’re likely to get a rush at first, we’ll be asking for your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice for each slot, just in case submissions come in faster than we can update the site.
• Availability: I’ll be updating open slots as I can, but as this is a manual process they won’t always be current to the minute.  Game availability lasted updated 6/15/2011 7:30 PM

Morning Games (Starting at 10:00 AM)

The Temple of Tymora
Game System: D&D Pathfinder
Game Master: Josiah Knight
Characters Provided: Yes
Power Level: 10th
Variations: Oathbound, Forgotten Realms
Number of Players: 5 (1 seats open, 0 on waiting list)

A curse has been put on the crops of the Dalelands. With winter fast approaching, many in the dalelands may starve if the curse isn’t lifted. The magic of priests and wizards have been unable to stop it, but there is yet hope. Journey into the sealed catacombs of the temple of tymora to find a ancient holy relic, said to be able to break any curse.. and even bring the dead back to life.

Bright Souls, Dark Alleys
Game System: Unknown Armies
Game Master: Ryan F Macklin FTI
Characters Provided: yes, mostly
Power Level: Street-ish
Variations: Streamed down and laser focused, baby
Number of Players: 4 (0 seats open, 0 on waiting list)

“You know Rhianna? That gal that works over at the diner, busting her as for seven-five and crap tips? Yeah, her. So, last night she starts speaking in tongues and the diner bursts into flames. Plenty of bodies…but not hers. Now gents & lasses, we have ourselves a serious situation. A normal got herself immense power & blew up a building. That needs to be dealt with, so I hired you freelancers. You know the Weird, you’ve seen things that crack minds. Go fix this, or you might be next.”

shot in the chest lol #seriouslysomeonecalladocwagon

Things Forbidden and Desirable
Game System: Don’t Rest Your Head
Game Master: Carl Rigney
Characters Provided: Created at session
Power Level: Insomniacs with Mad Power
Variations: N/A
Number of Players: 4 (1 seats open, 0 on waiting list)

Ever read a book so good you just couldn’t go to sleep even though you know you should? Everything that’s bad for you can be found on the streets of the Mad City, where sleep means death or worse at the claws and teeth of Nightmares chasing you, so of course that’s exactly where A Forbidden Book from the Free People’s World Tree Library has escaped to, and it’s up to you to stop things that need stopping. Beginners welcome, system will be taught.

About This Game: Don’t Rest Your Head is Fred Hicks’ masterpiece of nightmare fun. The Free People’s World Tree Library is from Kelly Link’s “Magic for Beginners”, about the best TV show you never saw but wish you had.

Return to Saltmarsh
Game System: Labyrinth Lord / Realms of Crawling Chaos
Game Master: Brian Isikoff
Characters Provided: Yes
Power Level: 6th Level
Variations: Realm of Crawling Chaos
Number of Players: 5 (0 seats open, 1 on waiting list)

The coastal town of Saltmarsh has more than one secret – some more sinister than others. When your party of adventurers responds to a letter from an associate in the town, things perhaps left unknown are set in motion. The stars may be right, but the swords and magic of brave investigators may yet stop horrible plans from culminating.
About This Game: Set in the classic D&D setting of Saltmarsh, this Labyrinth Lord games features the Realms of Crawling Chaos supplement, adding the horror of HP Lovecraft’s vision.

Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Game System: Dresden Files
Game Master: Kevan Forbes
Characters Provided: Yes
Power Level: Up to Your Waist
Variations: 1970′s time setting
Number of Players: 6 (0 seats open, 2 on waiting list)
Before there was a Special Investigations unit, all of the weird, strange unexplainable cases were informally labelled as “Black” files.  The cops who got handed those cases (because they were in deep to the Brass, politically naive or just plain unlucky) were known by other CPD officers as “Black Cats”.

A series of domestic disturbances plagues the precinct.  Nothing seems to connect them except for witnesses claiming that a “creepy guy with an eye-patch” was seen in the area before each incident.  The latest case ended in murder.  Det. Colin Murphy has been assigned the case and he and his misfit team must find out what’s really going on before the violence escalates into a riot that will rival the damage done by the Chicago Fires.

The Greatest Capers
Game System: Leverage
Game Master: Michael Parker
Characters Provided: Yes
Power Level: Ocean’s Eleven, Locke Lemmora
Variations: Rob Donoghue’s Active Stats
Number of Players: 5 (0 seats open, 1 on waiting list)

Who doesn’t love a good caper?

The Leverage RPG allows for the emulation of the greatest capers that never were. Here, we are going to stretch the game to its limits. We are going to create a situation, assemble a team, and run the con in one fell swoop. Running a long-con in Fantasy Venice, Done! The greatest bank heist that ever was, Easy! A Fiddle Game that spans a galactic empire, Fantastic! Any of the options are but a moment away in The Greatest Capers.

Afternoon Games (Starting at 3:00 PM)

Mischief in Miriglyn
Game System: D&D 3.5
Game Master: David Formoso
Characters Provided: Yes
Power Level: 1st
Variations: Focus on Role-playing
Number of Players: 6 (0 seats open, 0 on waiting list)
In the idyllic Sunday of your teenage years your tom-foolery will lead you down a sinister path. Misfits welcome.

Lot Lizards
Game System: World of Darkness – Hunter
Game Master: Ian Grey
Characters provided: Yes
Power Level: 0xp/Novice
Variations: Midnight Roads, Mirrors
Number of Players: 6 (1 seats open, 0 on waiting list)

Just off the interstate, deep in the in-between of the American heartland, there’s a roadhouse called Mabel’s. Most travelers just stop for a bite to eat, but long haul truckers and others in the know stop for the overnight entertainment. Some never leave, their vehicles abandoned by the side of the road or left in distant fields to rust. No one notices. No one cares… But you do. You’ve lost someone – a husband, lover, friend – and your search for them has led you here. To Mabel’s.

Attitudes and Feelings both Desirable and Sometimes Secetive
Game System: Monsterhearts
Game Master: Carl Rigney
Characters Provided: Created at session
Power Level: Teen Monsters
Variations: N/A
Number of Players: 4 (0 seats open, 1 on waiting list)

You’re not most teenagers, there’s wickedness that dwells within your chest; darkness courses through your delicate veins. Most teenagers will never know that things like you exist in this backwater small town: the secret monsterhearts. Mature themes. System will be taught, beginners welcome.

About This Game: Inspired by Apocalypse World, Twilight, True Blood, Ginger Snaps, and that sort of messy, sexy thing, this is an advance peek at the new game by Joe McDaldno, author of Perfect, Gun Thief, and Ribbon Drive.

Iron Road
Game System: Apocalypse World
Game Master: Scott White
Characters Provided: Created during play
Number of Players: 4 (1 seats open, 0 on waiting list)

You grew up with this train, old rusted hulk in the middle of the old trainyard you call home. The old men kept tinkering with it but when the boiler exploded last year one of your best engineers was almost killed and he took a bunch of your gang with him when he walked out. But hell, that train’s finally almost ready to roll now and just in time cause the fires have been inching closer for months and they’re right on your door. Suddenly plenty of people want on your train… too many. Time to fire this thing up and face the Iron Road. Beginners welcome, system will be taught.

Purgation
Game System: Deathwatch
Game Master: Chad Lynch
Power Level: Standard
Variations: None
Characters Provided: Yes
Number of Players: 5 (0 seats open, 0 on waiting list)
The mysterious appearance of a derelict space hulk in the Jericho Reach leads to a Deathwatch kill-team sent in to investigate. What starts as an attempt to recover lost relics of the Imperium leads to a race against the clock. To admit defeat is to blaspheme against the Emperor.

Left 4 Dead: Brain Freeze!
Game System: Savage Worlds
Game Master: Justin Mitchel
Power Level: Experienced
Variations: The All-New Extreme Trait Test!!!
Characters Provided: Yes
Number of Players: 6 (0 seats open, 0 on waiting list)
A table-top interpretation of Valve’s hit shooter.

There were over two hundred residents at your facility before the “Green Flu” hit, some French team flew in with bites all over them, and then people started changing. First there was the sickness, followed by homicidal rage, then mutation.

The six of you locked yourselves in the core-sampling chamber two weeks ago. You’ve got fuel, a generator and a heater but the food ran out four days ago. It’s time to move, that or starve to death.  Maybe McMurdo held out. Maybe the radio’s silent because of the poor transmission.  You’re going to have to fight your way to the garage, hoping there’s a still functioning Terra Bus or Snow Cat left. Or you could just stay in your cold, dark hole and listen to the moans until hunger and shock take all your cares away.

Gamma Terra vs the Flying Saucer
Game System: Gamma World
Game Master: Tony Vargas
Power Level: 3
Variations: None
Characters Provided: Yes
Number of Players: 5 (0 seats open, 1 on waiting list)

A glowing silver disk flew down out of the sky and landed in the hills.  You are among the toughest, bravest, most suggestible young mutants in town.  You have been given a crash course in stopping Alien invasions, thanks to a cache of ancient wisdom known as the “Complete Sci-Fi Collection on DVD,” and equipped appropriately.  Good luck.
About This Game:  The 7th edition of the classic Gamma World game using the D&D 4e system.  Whacky mutant post apocalypse fun.

Evening Games (Starting at 8:00 PM)

TBD
Game System: TBD
Game Master: Mike Bogan
Characters Provided: TBD
Power Level: TBD
Variations: TBD
Number of Players: 6 (3 seats open, 0 on waiting list)

Mike Bogan, the The Ultimate Superfly TNT Dolemite GM Ninja of All Time is running something at Good Omens Con.  The details are To Be Determined (TBD), but Mike is running it; the game will be solid gold awesome.

Dead World
Game System: Apocalypse World
Game Master: Sean Nittner
Characters Provided: Created in Play
Power Level: Inappropriate for public consumption
Variations: Deadwood inspired setting
Number of Players: 4 (0 seats open, 1 on waiting list)

A frontier settlement on the edge of nothing California, Scottsburg was not just a home; it was the last refuge for its inhabitants.  Criminals, dilatants, and hard working miners that could not find a place anywhere else in the world carved out a small niche there, ever mindful of how tenuous their hold on the town is.

The bounty of Scottsburg, long unnoticed by neighbors in the east, caught the attention of a entrepreneur O. C. Wheelock. His appearance in the town was a swift and painful one; turning private gold miners out of their homes, moving his own employees in and letting them have run of the town.  He held the deed to the town and threatened that if his will was contested he would bring in authorities that would not only enforce his claim on the land but make life for Scottsburg’s inhabitants impossible.

Life was further complicated by a pox that has slowly been spreading through the town.  Effort to treat and quarantine the sick was an uphill battle, being lost each day in pints of blood and puss, running deeper than the streams of gold beneath them.  Welcome to Scottsburg, welcome home.

Demeter Free-fall
Game System: Traveller
Game Master: Ian Grey
Characters Provided: Yes
Power Level: Standard
Variations: Cthonian Stars
Number of Players: 6 (1 seats open, 0 on waiting list)

You always knew Asteroid mining in the Belt was dangerous, but now… Something hit the ship, power and life-support are shaky – the ship is drifting and help is months away. The captain’s locked himself in his quarters and the first mate’s been sedated while raving about “space gods.” It falls to you, the crew of the Demeter, to make repairs and get the ship through this crisis. Wait, what was that scream? It sounded… inhuman…

QuintEssence
Game System: D&D Essentials
Game Master: Tony Vargas
Characters Provided: Yes
Power Level: 1
Variations: n/a
Number of Players: 5 (0 seats open, 0 on waiting list)

For generations, Evil has plagued the hamlet of Villoge. It was believed that the last band of adventurers had finally cleared the ruined Fortress of the Four Elemental Evils, but a Fifth remains in the dungeons below.
About This Game: The latest version of the ‘first’ RPG, ‘Dungeons & Dragons Essentials’ is intended as an introduction to D&D and to RPGs in general.

Torchwood America: Be Ready
Game System: Dr. Who RPG
Game Master: Matt Steele
Characters Provided: Yes
Power Level: Regular People
Variations: Torchwood
Number of Players: 4 (0 seats open, 1 on waiting list)

Torchwood: outside the government, beyond the police. Tracking down alien life on Earth, arming the human race against the future. The twenty-first century is when everything changes. And you gotta be ready. The American branch of Torchwood reopens in Los Angeles and they’re far from ready.
About This Game: Loosely based on the BBC series, but no knowledge of the show needed. Gritty, fast-paced, investigative, potentially horrific.

When You Don’t See Me
Game System: New World of Darkness
Game Master: Richard Taylor
Characters Provided: Yes
Power Level: Above starting character
Variations: Many rules from WoD: Mirrors
Number of Players: 5 (0 seats open, 0 on waiting list)

The first “BadThoughts.com” convention is being held, and all of the cylebrities (internet celebrities) of the site are in attendance.  A group of internet pranksters and meme-originators, this is a kind of who’s-who for this one “corner” of the Internet.

Someone uninvited is in attendance, someone who has a bone to pick with you for being snubbed this year.  How could you overlook someone so important?  And how far will he go to force you to remember him?

(I promise this is not a torture-porn RPG.)

For more information about the previous Good Omens Cons:

• Good Omens Con 1: Click Here
• Good Omens Con 2: Click Here
• Good Omens Con 3: Click Here
• Good Omens Con 4: Click Here