Arisia '08A'08 Schedule Game Descriptions
| Session ID | Game Title | Long Description |
| 1895 | "...For Art's Sake" - LARP | "... For Art's Sake" is a drama in one act on the topics of love, rebellion, honesty and self-expression. It is a "real world, serious issues" game, and actors must be willing to deal with high volumes of angst, rage, and guilt; they should be ready for anything. 18+ only. |
| 1894 | "Clue, Impaired" - LARP | "Clue, Impaired" is a sick, twisted, evil parody of the 1985 film Clue ... and a wide variety of other fantasy, science fiction, and superhero titles. Players should be ready to have their childhood dragged down into the muck. Warning: this game is deliberately offensive. |
| 1907 | 10 Bad LARPs: Remix! - LARP | Alleged
Entertainment presents "10 Bad LARPs: Remix!", a compilation of the
best (or worst) moments from "10 Bad LARPs in 100 Bad Minutes,"
"10 Bad LARPs: The B-Sides," and "4 Bad LARPs in 40 Bad
Minutes." WARNING: This is an adult game. It contains offensive themes, blatant sexuality, violence, racism, sexism, ageism, and pretty much any other "ism" that offends people. It's all in the spirit of lighthearted fun, though. |
| 1159 | Arisia 2008 Blood Bowl Tournament | ArisiaBowl
III 2008 is the third annual Blood Bowl tournament to be held at Arisia.
Blood Bowl is a fun, exciting and fast-paced boardgame with painted miniature
figures. Orcs, and elves, and spiky balls, oh my! Hear the roar of the crowd!
Stomp the opposing team into the ground! Smell the sweet scent of victory.
Come take part in the original fantasy football. ArisiaBowl will be an all-day tournament starting Sunday morning. For more infomation about it, including signup information, see the Blood Bowl page |
| 1899, 1900 | Battle for Cynon Refinery: CAV Demo | Try
out Reaper Miniature's fast-paced sci-fi wargame! Take control of a CAV
(Combat Assault Vehicle) and slug it out with opposing factions. CAV is a fast-moving combined arms battle game which utilizes Reaper's RAGE system, which accounts for damage taken by your units without bogging down the game with record-keeping. |
| 950, 1280 | Blood Bowl Open Gaming | Fantasy football mayhem -- orcs and elves and whatnot take to the pitch for a bloody, bruising and fun-filled miniatures boardgame. Learn the game or just brush up on the new rules. Players who learn the game at the open gaming are welcome to join in the ArisiaBowl tournament running all day Sunday. |
| 1881 | Chez Geek card game | Take a look at the wackier side of life in a college dorm. |
| 1880, 1885, 1888 | Collateral Damage | An
anime based board game, you play a gang boss trying to take over Neo Japan,
using typical characters from romantic comedy anime to form your gang. You win fights to gain notoriety to take over the cities. However, in this game, your gang members can fall in love, at which point they they ignore you and try to follow their own path. |
| 1878 | Cow Poker card game | Two to four players become ranchers, rustling each others' cattle and hiring away each others' cowpokes. Recruit the wacky characters into your ranch for points and bonuses, and collect them in tricks from the roundups and shootouts. Once all the cards are taken, make poker hands to score additional points. Every card can be used at least two different ways, so there's strategy as well as luck. |
| 1696, 1901 | Evolution Magic | A variation of Magic the Gathering that utilizes a common pool of cards from which decks are built from during the course of many games. Stresses flexibility and on-the-fly creativity over simply buying better cards or over-reliance on specific card combos. |
| 1904, 1905 | Fuzion: TCS | This
game is a play-test of a new plug in for the Fuzion games system. The players
will be playing Space Rangers taking down the criminals plying the starlanes
of deep space through boarding actions, and house to house searches.
Players will need to sign a non-disclosure agreement to play. |
| 1162 | Giant Ice House Games Demo | If regular Icehouse is fun, then Giant Icehouse must be 6 times the fun! Come play with our giant pyramids, which turn some Icehouse games into sports, and others into beautiful structures. Play Ice Towers, Volcano, Zendo, and more. |
| 1371 | Giant Zendo Demo | Zendo is a game of inductive logic played with Icehouse pieces. One player - the "Master" - creates a rule and the others - the "Students" - try to figure it out by building structures out of Icehouse pieces and asking the Master whether it satisfies the rule. Come learn how it's played. |
| 1876, 1887 | Greedquest | Greed is good and there's treasure to be won, so what are you waiting for? Race into the dungeon to grab The Hoard. Then, all you have to do is reverse direction to get out, but everyone else is standing between you and the exit! |
| 1928 | HeroClix - 1000 pt unrestricted | Bring a 1000 pt unrestricted army to play a game of Heroclix. There will be three to four 50 minute rounds depending on number of players to determine championship. Prize is a Wizkids limited figure or card. |
| 1542 | Hollow Earth Expedition Demo | The
year is 1936, the world is in turmoil and great discoveries are being made
every day. You may be sitting on the greatest discovery of them all. Come try this exciting game of pulp adventure, in the style of Indiana Jones and the Mummy. See why Hollow Earth Expedition was nominated for 4 Ennie awards, including best game. "Feeding Nazis to Dinosaurs, since 1936." |
| 1927 | HorrorClix - 400 pt constructed army | Bring a 400 pt constructed army to play a game of HorrorClix. There will be three to four 50 minute rounds depending on number of players to determine championship. Prize is a Wizkids limited figure or card. |
| 1929 | HorrorClix - 300 pt constructed army | Bring a 300 pt constructed army to play a game of HorrorClix. There will be three to four 50 minute rounds depending on number of players to determine championship. Prize is a Wizkids limited figure or card. |
| 1157 | Ice House Game Demo | A million year old game from Mars. A logic puzzle. A game of space conquest. A chess variant. A bidding game. Robot programing. Torpedos. Pirates. Trees. What do these all have in common? Icehouse! Icehouse is a futuristic game system for playing hundreds of different board games. Come learn and play Treehouse, Zendo, Homeworlds, RAMbots, Icehouse, and many more games. Experience: Novice ExpKidFriendly: KidFriendly Materials: Everything provided; bring your own stashes if you'd like |
| 1883 | Illuminati card game | The
phone company is controlled by creatures from outer space. The Congressional
Wives have taken over the Pentagon. And the Boy Sprouts are cashing in their
secret Swiss bank account to smash the IRS. Players compete to grab powerful groups and increase their wealth and power. No ploy is too devious, no strategem too low, as you scheme your way to victory. |
| 1697 | Kobolds Ate My Baby | This silly little game can be a pile of fun. Bring your pencil and sense of humor. See adventuring life from the other side of the tracks. Sorry your character is not destined for greatness. There will be horrible deaths. Character creation is quick and you'll get good at it. |
| 1161 | Looney Labs Card Games open gaming | Come relax and learn some groovy games. Try to keep pace with the changing rules and goals in Fluxx. Play with the 5 elements in Aquarius. Travel through time with Chrononauts. Tell some short, sweet stories in Nanofictionary. |
| 1930 | MechWarrior - 750 pt constructed army | Bring a 750 pt constructed army to play a game of MechWarrior. There will be three to four 50 minute rounds depending on number of players to determine championship. Prize is a Wizkids limited figure or card. |
| 1931 | MechWarrior - 450 pt unrestricted army | Bring a 450 pt unrestricted army to play a game of MechWarrior. There will be three to four 50 minute rounds depending on number of players to determine championship. Prize is a Wizkids limited figure or card. |
| 1882 | Munchkin Brawl | All
the madness. All the mayhem. All the wanton destruction you could imagine. This features every card from every deck ever released for the game to date and uses Epic Rules. |
| 1902, 1903 | Necessary Evil: A hero is suborned | When all the super heroes of the world are blown to kingdom come by an army of invading aliens who will save the day? Evil... The only forces left to take on the alien menace are the crafty and self serving super villains! |
| 1884 | NinjaBurger | You are a ninja working for NinjaBurger. Your mission is to deliver hot & tasy NinjaBurgers to your customers. Do well and you will gain honor and become the restaurant manager. Do poorly and you must answer to your ancestors! |
| 1763, 1898 | Salah ad-Din | Salah ad-Din is a board game set during the time of the crusades. Each player plays the role of the emir of a middle-eastern city attempting to unify all the cities behind them in an attempt to drive out the crusaders. |
| 1879 | SJ Games Tournament | Play
three games, Earn points based on your placing in those games. Person with
the highest points at the end of the tournament wins. The games are: The Good, The Bad, and The Munchkin NinjaBurger Greedquest |
| 1877, 1886 | Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirl | Life is good when you're a Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirl. Enjoy a life of larceny and mayhem as you embark on one caper after another. Defeat every challenge the galaxy throws at you. Pick up toys (and the occasional Poolboy), grab more loot than anyone else, and watch your tail because the other catgirls want what you got. |
| 1914 | Tesserae Demo | Inspired by ancient geometric art, Tesserae combines elements of dominoes and jigsaw puzzles to form a game of shapes and patterns. Tesserae pits players against one another, meshing colored tiles into the ever-evolving play field, each trying to exhaust their supply of tiles by completing colored regions while preventing their opponents from doing the same. Skillful strategy can pay off, but be careful -- things can change on the luck of a draw!. Abstract Strategy - Luck 30% Skill 70%. |
| 1913 | Tesserae Tournament | Inspired by ancient geometric art, Tesserae combines elements of dominoes and jigsaw puzzles to form a game of shapes and patterns. Tesserae pits players against one another, meshing colored tiles into the ever-evolving play field, each trying to exhaust their supply of tiles by completing colored regions while preventing their opponents from doing the same. Skillful strategy can pay off, but be careful -- things can change on the luck of a draw!. Abstract Strategy - Luck 30% Skill 70%. |
| 1698 | The Puritan | Solomon Kane vs Cthulhu. Journey to Africa and help the wandering Puritan vanquish evil cultists, vile black magic and a blasphemous abomination. Uses the Savage World of Solomon Kane system. |
| 1543 | Traveller table-top RPG | An interstellar adventure where you take part in an expedition to a primitive world to recover lost artifacts. |
| 1896, 1448 | VTM: The Price of Redemption | A
dig was recently conducted in Egypt and a treasure trove of kindred artifacts
and lore was uncovered. It has been brought out of egypt and is now being
auctioned in boston. Vampires have arrived from all across the country to bid
on these items. This is a game of gothic horror. Each player will be provided with a character, a background and a list of goals. No experience is necessary to play. |
| 1906 | Welcome to Sunnyvale - LARP | Alleged
Entertainment presents "Welcome to Sunnyvale," a short, light LARP
that takes place in Sunnyvale Retirement Home. There are creepy old men, hot
young nurses, and even creepy old men hitting on hot young nurses! Bad memories, bad vision, and lots of crazy. "Lots of crazy what?" I'm old! I can use the word crazy any way I want! |