Gaming Events!

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(Live at 12 noon CST on 9/22)

Join us for some amazing gaming fun at the legendary gaming space at Horticultural Hall (330 Broad St.)! Now is your chance to join our great crew of master Game Masters, including former TSR employees, Heidi Gygax, games designer, Tom Wham, and game designer and author, Doug Niles!

• If you have never played Dungeons & Dragons® before and would like to learn or if you already play and want to join your friends and family as they learn to play, this is the perfect opportunity! Our D&D® demonstration games are a terrific way to start. Pick your character and set-off on an adventure! Games last approximately 30 minutes and players get to keep their character sheet and a set of D&D dice as a souvenir of their first adventure! These games are walk-up games and you do not need to sign-up, just sit down and join in the fun!

• There is also an amazing selection of games being offered. We are fortunate to have a great group of game masters running a wide variety of games, including role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons® (1st, B/X, BECMI, and 5e), Pathfinder, and Shadowrun, wargames such as Chainmail and Dawn Patrol, board games such as Dungeon! and Dragon Derby as well as a players choice of zany Tom Wham games in his Whamathon!, and card games like Clank Catacombs!

Check out our event catalog below. The sign-up to play in these games goes live Sunday, September 21st, at 12:00 noon CST, by clicking on the link below. The link will take you to a form to select your top three games for each time slot (Sat AM, Sat PM, Sun AM, Sun PM). (Remember: Players do need a Dragon Days™ Festival Pass to gain entry into Horticultural Hall to play in these games, but your 12 year old and younger children need only an adult with a pass.)

REGISTER FOR GAMES BY CLICKING: HERE

(Live at 12 noon CST on 9/22)

Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France in Spring 1918. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.

The enemy approaches! With your band of fellow fighters, wield your weapons to defeat your foes or put them to flight in a skirmish between an assortment of combatants -- humans, dwarves, elves, goblins and orcs. Will your team prevail?

Come and play a game with the designer/creator, Tom Wham. The game will be chosen by consensus at the start of the session from the many favorites (new and old) on hand.

The party has answered the call for help at a dwarven mine. Many dwarves have gone missing and the causes is unknown, but there is something or someone else in there.

The ruins, ages ago, were once a place of learning. Travelers came for many miles to study in the archives, read the manuscripts in the library, and discover the objects held in its collections. But a war between giants and dragons saw the museum caught in-between. Great fires roared across the skies; boulders crashed through the upper levels as each side sought to defeat the other. In a final attempt to save the treasures of knowledge, the curator made a deal with the infernal to gain the power of life after death. Though she succeeded, the museum was still lost, and now she wanders the ruins creating mockeries of what once was there, horrid tableaus to capture the unwary…forever! To rid the town of this evil, the noble knight Belle the Crazed, Knight of Colby, embarked six-days ago but hasn’t returned...

Join "Wisconsin Adventures" author Kurt Griesemer for "A Knight at the Museum!" Save the villagers, rescue the knight, become heroes of the land!

Farmers in a quiet hamlet have been losing livestock to a large but stealthy predator. Finally one brave dairyman spotted what at first looked like a large bear--but it turned around like a shaggy giant and roared, waving a huge rusty sword. When the terrified man made it to a larger town, a wise old hunter declared that the hamlet was plagued by a mystical "bugbear". It will take the effort of a brave group of heroes to rid the village of this evil beast.

A dungeon looting deck building adventure game.

Dawn Patrol: The Doughboys Arrive

Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France in the summer of 1918. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.

The classic Dungeon! board game designed by David Megarry offers up to 7 players the opportunity to explore the corridors and rooms of a subterranean maze, defeating monsters and accumulating treasures. Will you be first to return to the surface with a large enough trove to win?

Dragon Derby! The Game of Wizards Huzzah! Come playtest this fast-playing board game developed by Heidi & Erik. You are one of up to 8 Wizards who will wager on specific Dragons to win, lose or place in the derby, make side-bets with fellow Wizards (players), cheer them on, or cast Wild Magic to affect the race's outcome. Official playtesters will be credited in the print edition due out in Spring 2025.

Family-friendly. Join me for a mostly 5e rule-based game with a nostalgic olde-school flare.

Come and play a game with the designer/creator, Tom Wham. The game will be chosen by consensus at the start of the session from the many favorites (new and old) on hand.

Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France during April 1917. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.

What's it like to take on a monster intent on eating you? Here's your chance to find out! Each player will assume the persona of a character within an adventuring group, armed with a weapon and clad in some kind of armor. The players will face off against an unknown monster and must rely upon their wits and fighting skill to triumph.....or be eaten, of course!

Come and play a game with the designer/creator, Tom Wham. The game will be chosen by consensus at the start of the session from the many favorites (new and old) on hand.

Captain Judah has once again asked you and your adventuring party to return to her ancestral home to investigate strange happenings and disappearing caretakers. Venture into the depths beneath Candlelight Manor, investigate mysteries and face deadly foes in attempt to remove the rumored curse of this prominent landmark of Dundel island.

Join the Fight in the Skies Society for a classic WW I air battle over France in Late 1918. Speed to burn and horsepower aplenty. Dawn Patrol is the only game played at every Gen Con and Gary Gygax was instrumental in promoting and getting the game published.

This game uses an incredibly simple system to demonstrate that anyone of any age can role-play and have a great time doing it. Great for getting kids involved in the hobby or for any person who's new and wants to try role-playing without having to read a bunch of books.

Join King Arthur's knights in training. These kids want a shot at sitting at the big table, and they're ready to prove themselves! Maybe your character is too young to be a full knight yet. Maybe they aren't considered "serious enough" to be a knight. Or maybe they messed up and got kicked off the team. Whatever the reason, this is your chance at the big leagues!

You are the A-Team, mercenaries for hire, except BA is an ork, Murdock is a dwarf, and Face is an elf who can sling spells.

Many an Adventurer has had their start clearing out giant rats from a cellar. While this quest starts the same, a hole in the basement wall leads to abandoned arcane secrets...

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(Live at 12 noon CST on 9/22)