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Celebrating the Southern Maryland community's passion for tabletop gaming while supporting student success.
CSM La Plata Campus,
Center for Business and Industry (BI Building) and Campus Center (CC Building)
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Badges: $10
Children 12 and under: FREE when accompanied by a paying/badge-holding adult
CSM student (with valid ID): FREE
| Event Title | Category | Target Audience | Duration | Seats | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPEN GAMING | -- | -- | -- | -- | Bring your own game or borrow from our game library! |
| 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 | All | 30 min (repeating) | 6 | New players are welcome to checkmate their opponent is this timeless abstract! Play chess "over the board''! Try free computer chess puzzles! Explore fun chess mini-games! |
| 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. |
| Haunted Treasure Hunt, D&D 5E | RPG | Teen, Adult | 3 hours | 5 | Try and gather as many treasures as possible for the king while navigating horrors and puzzles. |
| Marvel Legendary | Card | Pre-teen, Teen, Adult | 60 minutes (repeating) | 5 | Play as a team of your favorite Marvel characters to thwart the scheme of a mastermind and their band of companions in a deck building adventure. |
| Rise of the Midnight Suns | RPG | All | 3 hours | 6 | Welcome to the darker side of the Marvel Universe! When supernatural evil makes itself known, the mystic heroes known as the Midnight Suns rise up to oppose it! |
| 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. |
| 3 Chapters | Card | All | 30 minutes (repeating) | 6 | Once upon a time, there was a magical book of fairy tales that had three chapters. You will now live through that book in 3 Chapters, a trick-taking game. |
| Event Title | Category | Target Audience | Duration | Seats | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPEN GAMING | -- | -- | -- | -- | Bring your own game or borrow from our game library! |
| Call of Cthulhu: Dr. Bilkser’s lecture of lunacy | RPG | Teen | 3 hours | 5 |
The Doctor is in, and he’s prescribing insanity! Encounter eldritch horrors, lose your mind, and enjoy every moment. |
| 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 | Board | All | 30 minutes (repeating) | 20 |
Heroes compete in an age-old tournament in this fast-paced combat game. Learn to play and play to win! |
| Dungeons & Dragons & Swords & Spoons | RPG | All | 2 hours | 8 | Join Swords and Spoons for a 5th level one shot! |
| Everdell | Board | All | 3 hours | 6 | Build a city of forest creatures in the world of Everdell! Optional expansions available upon request/experience of participants. |
| Frontier Scum | RPG | All | 3 hours | 6 | Wanted: Scoundrels, drifters, and fools. Frontier Scum throws you into a brutal Weird West where greed, violence, and bad luck collide. Quick to learn, deadly to play, and packed with unforgettable stories. |
| Goblin Errands | RPG | All | 60 minutes (repeating) | 4 | A funny tabletop roleplaying game featuring cute goblins trying to complete an errand and hilarious and funny hijinks. |
| Haunted Treasure Hunt, D&D 5E | RPG | Teen, Adult | 3 hours | 5 | Try and gather as many treasures as possible for the king while navigating horrors and puzzles. |
| Heat: Pedal to the Metal | Board | Teen, Adult | 60 minutes (repeating) | 6 | Push your car to the limit in the pursuit of victory, but don’t overheat! |
| Hot Streak | Party | All | 30 minutes (repeating) | 8 | Who’s hot and who’s not? Which mascot will cross the finish line first? Who will be DQ'd? Learn to play and laugh while losing. |
| Lords of Waterdeep | Board | Teen, Adult | 2 hours (repeating) | 6 | Deploy agents and hire adventurers to expand your control over the city of Waterdeep. It’s skullduggery at its finest! |
| Red Dragon Inn | Card | 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPEN GAMING | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Bring your own or borrow from our game library! |
| Everdell | Board | All | 3 hours | 6 |
Build a city of forest creatures in the world of Everdell! Optional expansions available upon request/experience of participants. |
| Haunted Treasure Hunt, D&D 5E | RPG | Teen, Adult | 3 hours | 5 |
Try and gather as many treasures as possible for the king while navigating horrors and puzzles. |
| Magical Athlete | Board | All | 45 minutes (repeating) | 6 |
Pit a cast of crazy characters against each other in a madcap race to the finish. |
| Moon Colony Bloodbath | Board | Teen, Adult | 1 hour (repeating) |
Whatever can go wrong will go wrong in this engine building/dismantling game. Players compete to keep their colonists alive. |
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| Riftbound Tournament | Board | All | 3 hours | 36 |
Every card tells a story. Every match shapes a legend. Join fellow champions for an epic Riftbound Tournament where cunning, courage, and mastery of the Rift determine who stands victorious.
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| ThunderBolts Assemble! | RPG | All | 3 hours | 6 |
The new Thunderbolts, led by the former Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes, have their work cut out for them. |
| Event Title | Category | Target Audience | Duration | Seats | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPEN GAMING | -- | -- | -- | -- | Bring your own or borrow from our game library! |
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 Professor Andrew Wodzianski, Festival Director at
akwodzianski@csmd.edu.
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