Hawkland Gaming Festival

Celebrating the Southern Maryland community's passion for tabletop gaming while supporting student success.


Saturday, September 19, 2026
9 a.m – 9 p.m.

CSM La Plata Campus,
Center for Business and Industry (BI Building) and Campus Center (CC Building)
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Featuring

Game Library | Paint-and-Take Miniatures | Events | Demos | Open Gaming | Vendors

Host a Session

Share your love for a favorite game by signing up to host a session!

We also welcome workshops for cosplay, performances, or LARPing! 

Registration is Open!

All proceeds from badge sales support student scholarships in partnership with the CSM Foundation.

Purchase Tickets

Badges: $10
Children 12 and under: FREE when accompanied by a paying/badge-holding adult

Schedule (Subject to Change)

Event Title Category Target Audience Duration Seats Description
Azul Board Pre-teen, Teen, Adult 60 min (repeating) 4 Learn to artfully embellish the walls of your palace by drafting the most beautiful tiles. Beautiful and cutthroat!
Board: The face-to-face game console Board All 30 min (repeating) 2–4 Plug it in, pick a game, and play a piece. Includes Omakase, Chop Chop, Spycraft, Chess, and more!
Chess Board
Dungeons & Dragons, KID FRIENDLY RPG All 3 hours 6 Kid & Adult friendly Dungeons & Dragons with simplified pre-gen characters for first-timers and seasoned veterans alike. Includes Rise of the Midnight Suns.
Rise of the Midnight Suns
Stardew Valley: The Board Game Board Game Teen, Adult 3 hours 4 A cooperative board game of farming and friendship based on the video game. Work together to fulfill Grandpa’s Goals and restore the Community Center. Includes 3 Chapters.
Event Title Category Target Audience Duration Seats Description
Call of Cthulhu: Dr. Bilkser’s lecture of lunacy RPG Teen 3 hours 5
Coriolis – The Black Ziggurat RPG Teen, Adult 3 hours 4 Join a team of ruin delvers in a pulp sci-fi adventure as you attempt to find out what happened to a missing Guild official on the moon of Asherot.
Dice Throne
Dungeons & Dragons & Swords & Spoons RPG All 2 hours 8 Join Swords and Spoons for a 5th level one shot!
Frontier Scum
Heat: Pedal to the Metal
Hot Streak
Lords of Waterdeep
Red Dragon Inn Card Game Teen, Adult 45 min (repeating) 6 Spend an evening drinking, gambling, and roughhousing with your adventuring companions after raiding the dungeon. Last person conscious and solvent wins!
Stardew Valley: The Board Game Board Game Teen, Adult 3 hours 4 A cooperative board game of farming and friendship based on the video game. Work together to fulfill Grandpa’s Goals and restore the Community Center.
Event Title Category Target Audience Duration Seats Description
Magical Athlete
Moon Colony Bloodbath
Riftbound Tournament Board All 3 hours 36 Join fellow champions for an epic Riftbound Tournament where cunning, courage, and mastery of the Rift determine who stands victorious.
ThunderBolts Assemble!
Event Title Category Target Audience Duration Seats Description
The Supershow Card Game Teen, Adult 15 min (repeating) 8 Saturday Night Main Event! Enter the squared circle, defeat your opponent, and learn to play to win the Hawkland Belt!

 

Vendors

Purple logo with a circular gem-and-pen icon and the text “amethyst alchemist” with the handle @amethyst_alchemist.Logo for Bookcraft Studio featuring a dragon emblem and the text "The Sculptor and the Scribe."Black-and-white logo with the text “THE CRAFTY CARNY” beside a stylized rabbit skull icon.Illustration of a stylized map split into a yellow upper region and a dark blue lower region, with a red die showing four pips near the center.
Black and white logo of "Dice Dungeons," featuring a stylized die with a triangular flag on top.Purple “Fantasti-Crafts” title with hearts, stars, and a butterfly on a light wooden background.Fyre and Ashe logo with a phoenix and a 12-sided dieLogo for Game Kastle featuring the letters "GK" and a castle icon in blue hues.
Logo featuring a griffon beside a 20-sided die, with the text “THE GRIFFON’S COURT.”Logo featuring a stylized teal-and-purple llama head above the text “Rabid Llama Creations” on a black background.Rally Point Games logo featuring a 20-sided die
Colorful gradient line logo of an abstract star with two antenna-like tips above the handwritten words “studio memo.”Swords and Spoons Makerspace logo
 

 

 

Event Prize Support From...

chaosium logo
FanRoll logo by Metallic Dice Games featuring a stylized dice and sword design.
Black ink splatter with the word “mantic” in white serif lettering at the center.
Logo for SRG Universe featuring bold, glowing yellow text against a black background.

 

Raffle Prizes by

mantic games

 

 

 

With Generous Game Library Support From...

1985 games logo alewood gamesThe Army Painter catalyst game labsCatan studio logochaosium logo FanRoll logo by Metallic Dice Games featuring a stylized dice and sword design.
fireside gamesgale force nine logogamelyn games inside up games keymaster games Klask Leder gamesLooney Labs
mantic gamesnorth star games palladium books privateer press red raven games Renegade Game Studios
righteous falcon logoThemeborne treasure falls games Van Ryder Games Weird Giraffe Games Wyrd games

 

 

Play-to-Win Games by

Pick a game, sign it out, and play it. Return the title to the table and drop a ticket into that game's lottery.

 


 

Contact Information

Contact Professor Andrew Wodzianski, Festival Director at
akwodzianski@csmd.edu.

 

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