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King Robert Baratheon is dead, and the lands of Westeros brace for battle. In the second edition of A Game of Thrones: The Board Game, three to eight players take on the roles of the great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, as they vie for control of the Iron Throne. Based on the best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin (not the TV show), A Game of Thrones is an epic board game in which it will take more than military might to win.

Game Weight: Medium-Heavy

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Battle of Telemon, 275 BCE - Romans trapping Gauls? Can you change the outcome of this key battle in Rome’s history? Two Roman armies trapped the Gaulish army between them as the Gauls tried to escape north of Rome with their loot and prisoners. Romans to the north, Romans to the south, what were the Gauls to do? Using DBA 3.0 rules and armies, you can try to change history with your leadership! At each battle board, there will be two Roman armies and two Gaulish armies, with the Gauls in between the Romans. One battle board will use 15mm figures, the other two battle boards/ games will be using 2mm figures! What if the Gauls had waited for Hannibal’s Carthaginians? Well, in the second round you can try this version by substituting one Carthaginian army for one Gaulish army! Yes, the Carthaginians get at least one elephant! All armies and terrain will be provided for use in this event. Bring an open mind and a desire for fun! If you don’t know the DBA rules, we’ll help you try them out: newbie against newbie, experienced players against each other. The Battle of Telemon is this year’s approved miniatures battle for the Society of Ancients(SOA), based in Britain. The layout of the armies and terrain will closely follow that suggested in the SOA’s journal, “Slingshot”. Hosted by Don Ray and the Calgary Camp Followers.

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Come and learn how to play these two great games.

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Rocket Age is a radium punk sci-fi game of exploring the Solar System, fighting Nazis, Stalinists, aliens, and the bizarre environments of nine planets (yes nine, it is 1938 and Pluto is still a full fledged planet). It is a game of ancient ruins on Mars, the steaming jungles of Venus, strange life in the clouds of Jupiter, RAY guns, chromed rocket ships, radium fuel, hot exhaust, and fins. So many fins on things you didn't know you could put fins on.

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In Underwater Cities, which takes about 30-45 minutes per player, players represent the most powerful brains in the world, brains nominated due to the overpopulation of Earth to establish the best and most livable underwater areas possible.

Game Weight: Medium-Heavy

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Learn to How to Make a Character and Gameplay basics by doing both. We will make basic characters and run them through a short scenario to teach the basics of character creation and gameplay. All materials will be provided. Target audience: People who are curious about D&D. Families are welcome.

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Rising Sun is a game about honour, negotiation, and warfare in a feudal Japan where the ancient gods (kami) have returned to rebuild the empire. Tackle negotiations, alliances, and war. Capture hostages and commit seppuku. The game features an honour track, which rises and falls based on your actions.

Game Weight: Medium-Heavy

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Welcome To... plays like a roll-and-write dice game in which you mark results on a score-sheet...but without dice. Instead you flip cards from three piles to make three different action sets with both a house number and a corresponding action from which everyone chooses one. You use the number to fill in a house on your street in numerical order. Then you take the action to increase the point value of estates you build or score points at the end for building parks and pools.

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Players are students of the Japanese art of ikebana, decorative flower arranging, trying to have the best array of blossoms in the community garden and the most beautiful bouquets of cut flowers. They will score points by planting and uprooting blossoms to make patterns on scoring cards, and by employing cards for special abilities to accomplish their goals. Includes area control, pattern making, hand management, and engine building.

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Players are students of the Japanese art of ikebana, decorative flower arranging, trying to have the best array of blossoms in the community garden and the most beautiful bouquets of cut flowers. They will score points by planting and uprooting blossoms to make patterns on scoring cards, and by employing cards for special abilities to accomplish their goals. Includes area control, pattern making, hand management, and engine building.

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Yer a Werewolf! No - Yer a Werewolf! Come play this classic game of social deduction. I will be running at least two games, roughly an hour and a bit for each one. The pace is quick and snappy.

Game Weight: Light

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You and your friends have decided to journey to the Antarctic harbour of Neko in hopes of seeing the cute penguins living in the backdrop of the stunning glacier landscape. To get to Neko smoothly, you each try map out the stops along your journey in order to see the most penguins. Your chances improve the farther your ships travel, the more harbours you visit, and the more goods you deliver. But avoid doing things that interfere with the Antarctica ecology and cause the penguins to move away! Will you be the one that sees the most penguins? A Pleasant Journey to Neko is a dice strategy game for 2-4 players. The game plays in 4 rounds across 2 periods, each with a mid-game scoring phase. In each round, players roll and draft their dice, which are used to exchange resources, activate existing card abilities, or bid on more cards. Players can also take a number of free actions, including exchanging resources, adjusting their dice, buying and moving ships, and opening harbours to build more ship lanes. Try to plan ahead by building ship lanes that create custom hubs! These spaces give you additional locations to trigger powerful new actions. But don’t forget about advancing your ships too! Not only do they score you points, but they can combo with the dice in the hubs you have created. A Pleasant Journey to Neko has a unique dice drafting mechanic and card laying system. Over a hundred card combinations exist, making each game different and surprising. Also, don’t forget about the advance mode, where you will face more challenges on your way to Neko. Are you ready to go see the penguins? We wish you a pleasant journey to Neko!

Game Weight: Medium

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Arkwright is a game set in the early industrial revolution where players are capitalists competing to produce commodities in their pursuit for wealth. Full details can be found at the link.

Game Weight: Medium-Heavy

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**Note: _This event may overlap the auction._ If you plan on attending the first hour of the auction, please consider choosing another event, as a courtesy to the host and other players.** Here I Stand is a card-based wargame in which players struggle for religious and political influence over early 16th century Europe during the Reformation. It can be played by up to 6 players, who represent the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, England, France, The Papacy, and The Protestants. The game begins in 1517 and ends in 1555, taking up to 9 turns to play each representing about 4 years of history. The game is played in "impulses", with each player, one after the other, playing a single card during their impulse. Each card has a number on it indicating the number of "command points" it grants the player, as well as the text of a specific event, and generally, players choose to either use the command points or to enact the event but not both. Command points are used to execution various military, political, religious, or exploratory actions such as moving armies or fleets, besieging a fortress, establishing overseas colonies, calling religious debates, or burning heretical books. The events on the cards represent either a specific historical detail (e.g. the Council of Trent) or a general occurrence such as the bribing of enemy mercenaries. Victory is determined by the first player to exceed 25 Victory Points (VP), or the player with the most at the end of the game. VP are gained in a variety of ways which are slightly different for each of the 6 sides but include things like controlling key cities or electorates, exploring the New World, the death or disgrace of opposing religious leaders, building castles or cathedrals, or successful piracy expeditions. Here I Stand is a wargame made for euro gamers to enjoy as well as for wargamers.

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Salus is a racing game in the prototyping stage that is all about speed and planning! Balance your ship's power levels as you race through a treacherous track, facing danger at every turn! You'll have to outplay, outmaneuver, and out smart your opponents to be claimed the winner!

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The war is almost over. Right where all advancing allied armies happen to touch, a Tiger tank full of gold bars has broken down at the train station. You command one or more British, or American, or Russian, or even German tanks trying to get the gold and get off the board to retire in luxury. Each gold bar or tank kill will get you a draw ticket for a prize: a piece of 15mm terrain for your next game of Tanks at home.

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You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds. If you enjoy Terraforming Mars and Gizmos, we think this game will take flight at your table.

Game Weight: Light-Medium

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Game Weight: Medium

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Ever wanted to try designing a game but not sure how to start? Come try the Game Design Jam. Work individually or in small groups to design a game. No experience needed. All components and supplies will be provided

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Try a CMON game, like Blood Rage, Dogs of War, Rising Sun or Zombicide Black Plague. DROP IN ONLY

Game Weight: Medium

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A tall, sad house stands over its small hamlet. While old, it still appears pristine. Your party is drawn in by its gaze, and will enter to unravel its secrets... Welcome to Death House.

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Join us for the Alberta DBA Open Championship and earn bragging rights for the next year, if you can vanquish all your foes. Here is a chance to bring your favorite army and see how it fares against all others. Loaner armies will be available. New players are welcome. Each player will play three games (max 60 minutes) and the winner is the one with the highest points earned after three games.

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Massive Darkness brings the classic fantasy RPG experience to modern board gaming, with an action-packed campaign chock full of gorgeous miniatures and a streamlined system that keeps the focus on the heroes' actions, with no need for a game master to control the enemies. Pick your hero, choose a class, decide on which skills to spend your XP, and get loot by searching the dungeon or killing special enemies that can use the equipment against you!

Game Weight: Medium

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A Noble in the King’s Court, you try to gain His Royal favour, but he’s constantly changing his mind about what he wants. Still, you gather as much of the items he desires (for the moment) to advance your status over the other nobles. Expand the land, capture treasure, trade at the marketplace and get ready to make your offer to the King. Your position in court depends on how savvy you are at moving, capturing, trading and being ready, at the exact right time.

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_From the journal of Daniel C. Brandt, Durango, Republic of Mexico, 1890_ _There’s a story the locals tell: two years ago, the best prospector in the territory, guy named Frank, went into the hills and never came back. Since then, pretty much everyone’s been warned off. There’s all sorts of rumours: the place is supposed to be crawling with wild bandits, poisonous snakes, booby-trapped to the nines. There’s even talk of old Frank himself wandering around, stark-raving mad, guarding some cursed treasure. I ain’t superstitious. If there’s really as much treasure in them hills as they say, I’m going in there and I’m gettin’ it._ Them There Hills is a light, dice-action selection game featuring route building, set collection, and a new puzzle to solve every game. Players control prospectors competing with one another to carefully plot a course through “them there hills” to plunder treasures from the mines within. But beware: The hills are covered with bandits, booby-traps, poisonous rattlesnakes, hungry mountain lions, and the deranged prospector Frank, who doesn't appreciate greedy visitors pinching his hard-won lucre. Get in, get the loot, and (hopefully) get out alive!

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CGDA finalist The Transcontinental is a medium-weight Euro in which players compete to develop the Transcontinental Canadian Railway. The railway is abstracted down to a single worker placement track that expands westward as players develop it. Players ship resources back-and-forth down the line while sharing the same train, and try to out maneuver opponents to get their cargo where they need it. Ally cards representing historical figures give you additional actions and scoring abilities.

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In Jane Austen Dance Party!, players secretly take on the role of one of the four central women characters from Austen's _Pride and Prejudice_: one of the three Bennet sisters -- Elizabeth, Jane, Lydia -- or Caroline Bingley. Players will use the cards in their hand to manipulate dancers on the ballroom floor in a bid to exercise _just_ the right amount of influence over the novel's various eligible bachelors, Mr. Darcy, Charles Bingley, George Wickham, and Mr. Collins. Exert the most influence over the bachelors listed highest on your secret dance card, while politely (always politely!) avoiding those at the bottom, in order to land your preferred "single man in possession of a good fortune"!

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A Noble in the King’s Court, you try to gain His Royal favour, but he’s constantly changing his mind about what he wants. Still, you gather as much of the items he desires (for the moment) to advance your status over the other nobles. Expand the land, capture treasure, trade at the marketplace and get ready to make your offer to the King. Your position in court depends on how savvy you are at moving, capturing, trading and being ready, at the exact right time.

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Come one, come all to our Live Auction event on Saturday, September 25th! We will be facilitating the sale of 300 board games in 3 hours: a great chance for you to pick up the game that you've been looking for! The auction will take place in 3 waves (A, B and C) of 100 games each: bring plenty of CASH as there will be no plastic accepted at this event! A reminder to all attendees that games purchased at the Live Auction are sold AS IS: no refunds.

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Heathdom is a 1-4 player board building game. Factions of animals work to rebuild the Heathdom after attacks, voting on council events to see who will rise to the top at the end of the year. Gather, build, and defend against howlers. Each faction also has their own Tale deck that gives unique events when the player does specific actions.

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BOOM! The bomb goes off. Was the bomber successful or did the Secret Service make sure their President survived? Welcome to a social deduction/hidden role game. It's a hostage negotiation game where there are two teams: the Red Team and the Blue Team. The Blue Team has a player with the role of President. The Red Team has a player with the role of the Bomber. Players are equally distributed between two rooms. The game consists of five timed rounds. At the end of each round, some players as "hostages" will be traded into opposing rooms. If the Red Team's Bomber is in the same room as the President at the end of the game, then the Red Team wins; otherwise, the Blue Team wins. Lying and negotiating is encouraged. We will play 3 games in the time allotted and each game will get progressively better, with new roles and new abilities. The third game will have the most advanced roles in the game. You do not need to stay for all 3 games but playing the first two games is encouraged.

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Try a CMON game, like Blood Rage, Dogs of War, Rising Sun or Zombicide Black Plague. DROP IN ONLY

Game Weight: Medium

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Here I Stand Tournament Scenario starts in 1532 round four and lasts only three rounds. Victory conditions have been shortened to ensure a quicker game.

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"Tiny Ninjas: Heroes" is the second game in the Tiny Ninjas series and introduces more strategy. Players: 2 Time: 20-30 minutes Ages: 8+ Players command a clan of 5 ninjas including a selected hero. Dice are used to track the positioning and health of each ninja. Players acquire item cards and energy to perform special abilities. Eliminate your opponents hero before they eliminate yours.

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Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra challenges players to carefully select glass panes to complete their windows while being careful not to damage or waste supplies in the process. The window panels are double-sided, providing players with a dynamic player board that affords nearly infinite variability!

Game Weight: Light-Medium

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We’ve received a message from Narendra Station that a runabout called the Susquehanna has gone missing in the Carina Nebula, deep within the Shackleton Expanse. The Susquehanna was investigating an unusual alien signal that originated from the nebula when all contact was lost. We have been ordered to enter the nebula, find the runabout, and determine the origin and cause of the alien signal. Starfleet has also advised that Romulan and Ferengi ships have been sighted in the region, so we should exercise caution since they may well have detected the alien signal as well.

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You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds. If you enjoy Terraforming Mars and Gizmos, we think this game will take flight at your table.

Game Weight: Light-Medium

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"Tiny Ninjas: Heroes" is the second game in the Tiny Ninjas series and introduces more strategy. Players: 2 Time: 20-30 minutes Ages: 8+ Players command a clan of 5 ninjas including a selected hero. Dice are used to track the positioning and health of each ninja. Players acquire item cards and energy to perform special abilities. Eliminate your opponents hero before they eliminate yours.

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"Tiny Ninjas: Heroes" is the second game in the Tiny Ninjas series and introduces more strategy. Players: 2 Time: 20-30 minutes Ages: 8+ Players command a clan of 5 ninjas including a selected hero. Dice are used to track the positioning and health of each ninja. Players acquire item cards and energy to perform special abilities. Eliminate your opponents hero before they eliminate yours.

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