| DAY | START | END | LOCATION | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | PANELISTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday | 2:00 PM | 3:00 PM | The Chessboard | Codenames | two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin. | Ska |
| Friday | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM | The Chessboard | Lords of Waterdeep | Waterdeep, the City of Splendors – the most resplendent jewel in the Forgotten Realms, and a den of political intrigue and shady back-alley dealings. In this game, the players are powerful lords vying for control of this great city. Its treasures and resources are ripe for the taking, and that which cannot be gained through trickery and negotiation must be taken by force! | Jason M |
| Friday | 2:00 PM | 6:00 PM | The Chessboard | Introduction to Roleplaying | Come join We Hate Bards and learn how to play some role playing games. We’ve got plenty of games from every genre to run, no experience necessary. | We Hate Bards |
| Friday | 2:00 PM | 6:00 PM | The Chessboard | Introduction to Roleplaying | Come join We Hate Bards and learn how to play some role playing games. We’ve got plenty of games from every genre to run, no experience necessary. | We Hate Bards |
| Friday | 2:00 PM | 6:00 PM | The Chessboard | Bootlegging Gone Bad | Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition) The Caldwell boys set up a good operation in the northern woods of Massachusetts. Your boss, Doctor Bobbin, the head of the local organized bootlegging operation thinks it’s time you pay them a visit and integrate their otherworldly brew into his supply chain. What could go wrong?” | We Hate Bards |
| Friday | 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM | The Chessboard | Qwirkle | Players begin the game with six blocks. The start player places blocks of a single matching attribute (color or shape but not both) on the table. Thereafter, a player adds blocks adjacent to at least one previously played block. The blocks must all be played in a line and match, without duplicates, either the color or shape of the previous block. | Ska |
| Friday | 5:00 PM | 6:00 PM | The Chessboard | Viceroy | Viceroy is a board game of bidding and resource management set in the fantasy universe of the famous Russian CCG Berserk. As the players struggle for control over the world of Laar, they recruit a variety of allies and enact various laws. These cards allow players to develop their state’s military and magical might, increase their authority, and get precious gems they need to continue expanding their nation. | Jim S |
| Friday | 6:00 PM | 10:00 PM | The Chessboard | Terraforming Mars | Engine building game about who can contribute the most to a joint effort to terraform Mars. | Sam O |
| Friday | 6:00 PM | 8:00 PM | The Chessboard | Alien Frontiers | Do you have what it takes to be a deep space colonist? An alien frontier awaits the brave and daring! This new planet will be harsh, but if you have the skills to manage your resources, build a fleet, research alien life, and settle colonies, the world can be yours. | Jason M |
| Friday | 6:00 PM | 10:00 PM | The Chessboard | The Transmuters Last Touch | Dungeons and Dragons 3.5- After a robbery of the caravan you were supposed to be guarding you find kobold tracks in the woods that lead to an old abandoned temple. What evil could lie within… | We Hate Bards |
| Friday | 6:00 PM | 10:00 PM | The Chessboard | This One Will Kill You! | Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition)- A madman has escaped from Arkham Asylum! It is up to you to stop him, by any means necessary! | We Hate Bards |
| Friday | 6:00 PM | 8:00 PM | The Chessboard | Dreamchaser | If you could live out any story, any moment—what would you experience? Lead a Rebellion • Befriend a Dragon • Become a New York Times Best Seller • Race to the Stars • Find Dad’s Pants…Let Dreamchaser adapt to you! What are you destined to achieve? Join in on a collaborative story game experience where every player has a say on who and what our story involves. Chase your dreams—your goals! | We Hate Bards |
| Friday | 7:00 PM | 8:00 PM | The Chessboard | Between two cities | It is the early 1800s, a time of immense construction and urbanization. You are a world-renowned master city planner who has been asked to redesign two different cities. Projects of such significance require the expertise of more than one person, so for each assignment you are paired with a partner with whom to discuss and execute your grandiose plans. Will your planning and collaborative skills be enough to design the most impressive city in the world? | Mike D |
| Friday | 8:00 PM | 9:00 PM | The Chessboard | Sagrada | Draft dice and use the tools-of-the-trade in Sagrada to carefully construct your stained glass window masterpiece. | Jason M |
| Friday | 8:00 PM | 9:00 PM | The Chessboard | Dixit | One player is the storyteller for the turn and looks at the images on the 6 cards in her hand. From one of these, she makes up a sentence and says it out loud (without showing the card to the other players). | Cheryl O |
| Friday | 8:00 PM | 10:00 PM | The Chessboard | Dreamchaser | If you could live out any story, any moment—what would you experience? Lead a Rebellion • Befriend a Dragon • Become a New York Times Best Seller • Race to the Stars • Find Dad’s Pants…Let Dreamchaser adapt to you! What are you destined to achieve? Join in on a collaborative story game experience where every player has a say on who and what our story involves. Chase your dreams—your goals! | We Hate Bards |
| Friday | 9:00 PM | 10:00 PM | The Chessboard | Splendor | Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you’re wealthy enough, you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point, which of course will further increase your prestige. | Cheryl O |
| Saturday | 9:00 AM | 1:00 PM | The Chessboard | Fallout: The Lost Vault | You’ve been kidnapped and left for dead in some weird underground facility. With danger around every corner can you and your friends make it out alive? Or will you be just another victim of The Lost Vault | We Hate Bards |
| Saturday | 9:00 AM | 1:00 PM | The Chessboard | Canis Mysterium | Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition)- You have been chosen by the prestigious Miskatonic University to go and assess someone who has apparently gone mad thinking that he was a dog, and while in his crazed state, may have killed someone. | We Hate Bards |
| Saturday | 9:00 AM | 1:00 PM | The Chessboard | Dreamchaser | If you could live out any story, any moment—what would you experience? Lead a Rebellion • Befriend a Dragon • Become a New York Times Best Seller • Race to the Stars • Find Dad’s Pants…Let Dreamchaser adapt to you! What are you destined to achieve? Join in on a collaborative story game experience where every player has a say on who and what our story involves. Chase your dreams—your goals! | We Hate Bards |
| Saturday | 10:00 AM | 11:00 AM | The Chessboard | Wizard | Players compete over multiple rounds based on the number of players, and whoever ends with the highest score wins. In each round, players are dealt a hand of cards — one card in the first round, two cards in the second, three in the third, etc. — then trump is determined by flipping the top card of the undealt deck; if a suit is revealed, that suit is trump, while if a Wizard or Jester (or no card in the final round) is revealed, then the round has no trump. Players then state how many tricks they expect to win in the round. | Ska |
| Saturday | 11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | The Chessboard | Codenames | Two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin. | Ska |
| Saturday | 11:00 AM | 3:00 PM | The Chessboard | Kingdom Death: Monster | Set in a world devoid of most resources, you control a settlement at the dawn of its existence. Fight monsters, craft equipment, and develop your settlement to ensure the survival of your people. | Jason S |
| Saturday | 12:00 PM | 1:45 PM | The Chessboard | Fate of the Elder Gods, | In Fate of the Elder Gods, players take on the ever-maddening role of cults trying to summon ancient evil and herald the fall of mankind! Each cult is in competition to be first to summon their god, but they all must also repel intrepid investigators working to seal off the gate to beyond with Elder signs. Gather arcane artifacts, cast powerful spells, embrace the Dark Gift of your Elder God, and be first to hasten doom…before it’s too late! | Jim S |
| Saturday | 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | The Chessboard | Sentinels of the Multiverse | A mad scientist holds the world hostage with his terrifying inventions. An alien warlord from a far away galaxy brings his limitless army of bizarre minions to conquer the planet. A giant rampaging robot cuts a swath of destruction across the coast, destroying major population centers. And who will stand in their way? A team of heroes, all with impressive powers and abilities stand between the world and the forces of evil. Will you help them? Answer the call to protect the multiverse! | Cheryl O |
| Saturday | 2:00 PM | 2:45 PM | The Chessboard | Frogriders, | Deep in the forests of the North lives an enchanting elf tribe called the Frogriders. Each spring, they hold a tournament in which their four major squads perform a mock battle. Whoever best manages to capture valuable units and make clever use of their special abilities will take the victory! | Jim S |
| Saturday | 2:00 PM | 3:00 PM | The Chessboard | Timeline | Timeline: is a card game played using cards. Each card depicts an invention or event on both sides, with the year in which that invention was created on only one side. Players take turns placing a card from their hand in a row on the table. After placing the card, the player reveals the date on it. If the card was placed correctly with the date in chronological order with all other cards on the table, the card stays in place; otherwise the card is removed from play and the player takes another card from the deck. | William K |
| Saturday | 2:00 PM | 6:00 PM | The Chessboard | Bootlegging Gone Bad | Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition)- The Caldwell boys set up a good operation in the northern woods of Massachusetts. Your boss, Doctor Bobbin, the head of the local organized bootlegging operation thinks it’s time you pay them a visit and integrate their otherworldly brew into his supply chain. What could go wrong?” | We Hate Bards |
| Saturday | 2:00 PM | 6:00 PM | The Chessboard | This One Will Kill You! | Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition)- A madman has escaped from Arkham Asylum! It is up to you to stop him, by any means necessary! | We Hate Bards |
| Saturday | 2:00 PM | 6:00 PM | The Chessboard | The Bear Essentials | Netherstorm A bear has been causing all sorts of havoc near your local village. Time for some heroes to come forth and deal with this problem! | We Hate Bards |
| Saturday | 3:00 PM | 5:00 PM | The Chessboard | Path of Light and Shadow | The Realms lay divided, their former wonder lost and forgotten. The Tyrant Queen has seized the throne, forcing the rightful heirs deep into exile. You are the sons and daughters of the once-great houses: Foxway, Gorga, Mherzeen, and Spyre. Under the tutelage of advisors, you have gathered your followers, your conscripts. The time has come to take back what is yours. | Jim S |
| Saturday | 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM | The Chessboard | Boss Monster | Juggle two competing priorities: the need to lure Heroes at a faster rate than your opponents, and the need to kill those Heroes before they reach your Boss. | Tim S |
| Saturday | 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | The Chessboard | Mystic Vale | Players take on the role of Druidic clans trying to cleanse the curse upon the land. Each turn, you play cards into your field to gain powerful advancements and useful vale cards. Use your power wisely, or decay will end your turn prematurely. Score the most victory points to win the game! | Tim S |
| Saturday | 4:00 PM | 7:00 PM | The Chessboard | Ora et labora | In Ora et Labora, each player is head of a monastery in the Medieval era who acquires land and constructs buildings – little enterprises that will gain resources and profit. The goal is to build a working infrastructure and manufacture prestigious items – such as books, ceramics, ornaments, and relics – to gain the most victory points at the end of the game. | Mike D |
| Saturday | 5:00 PM | 5:45 PM | The Chessboard | Karuba | This is a tile-laying race game with players starting with boards that are identical, and one player drawing tiles that they all will use. They race to get their explorers to temples first and earn points. Along the way they can collect additional points by collecting items off the paths they create. | Jim S |
| Saturday | 6:00 PM | 7:00 PM | The Chessboard | Istanbul | There’s hustle and bustle at Istanbul’s grand bazaar as merchants and their assistants rush through the narrow alleys in their attempt to be more successful than their competitors. Everything must be well organized: wheelbarrows must be filled with goods at the warehouses, then swiftly transported by the assistants to various destinations. Your goal? Be the first merchant to collect a certain number of rubies. | Jason M |
| Saturday | 7:00 PM | 8:00 PM | The Chessboard | AttrAction | Mix of skill and luck, plus the strong force of the magnets, produces exciting and unexpected twists! | Ska |
| Saturday | 7:00 PM | 9:00 PM | The Chessboard | Betrayal at House on the Hill | Explore the creepy old mansion, that sounds like a fun time (especially for your evil friend)! Will you defeat the monsters that dwell within and your betrayer or will you never be heard from again? | Sam O |
| Saturday | 7:00 PM | 11:00 PM | The Chessboard | Escape from the Forest of Lanterns | Dungeons and Dragons 3.5- A mysterious magic book has transported the heroes to the Forest of Lanterns and turned them into small children! In order to escape from this magical demiplane, they must find the Warty Witch who lives in a cottage made of candy at the heart of the forest. | We Hate Bards |
| Saturday | 7:00 PM | 11:00 PM | The Chessboard | Lair of the Necro Dancers | Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 Valiant heroes, do you have the moves to defeat the wicked lich with sweet dancing style and his undead legion of solid necromatically changed dancers of doom? | We Hate Bards |
| Saturday | 7:00 PM | 9:00 PM | The Chessboard | Dreamchaser | If you could live out any story, any moment—what would you experience? Lead a Rebellion • Befriend a Dragon • Become a New York Times Best Seller • Race to the Stars • Find Dad’s Pants…Let Dreamchaser adapt to you! What are you destined to achieve? Join in on a collaborative story game experience where every player has a say on who and what our story involves. Chase your dreams—your goals! | We Hate Bards |
| Saturday | 8:00 PM | 9:00 PM | The Chessboard | Codenames | Two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin. | Ska |
| Saturday | 9:00 PM | 10:00 PM | The Chessboard | Spyfall | Spyfall is a party game unlike any other, one in which you get to be a spy and try to understand what’s going on around you. It’s really simple! | Jason S |
| Saturday | 9:00 PM | 11:00 PM | The Chessboard | Dreamchaser | If you could live out any story, any moment—what would you experience? Lead a Rebellion • Befriend a Dragon • Become a New York Times Best Seller • Race to the Stars • Find Dad’s Pants…Let Dreamchaser adapt to you! What are you destined to achieve? Join in on a collaborative story game experience where every player has a say on who and what our story involves. Chase your dreams—your goals! | We Hate Bards |
| Saturday | 9:00 PM | 11:00 PM | The Chessboard | Arkum Horror | The year is 1926, and it is the height of the Roaring Twenties. Flappers dance till dawn in smoke-filled speakeasies drinking alcohol supplied by rum runners and the mob. It’s a celebration to end all celebrations in the aftermath of the war to end all wars. | William K |
| Sunday | 9:00 AM | 1:00 PM | The Chessboard | The Bear Essentials | Netherstorm A bear has been causing all sorts of havoc near your local village. Time for some heroes to come forth and deal with this problem! | We Hate Bards |
| Sunday | 9:00 AM | 1:00 PM | The Chessboard | Bootlegging Gone Bad | Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition) The Caldwell boys set up a good operation in the northern woods of Massachusetts. Your boss, Doctor Bobbin, the head of the local organized bootlegging operation thinks it’s time you pay them a visit and integrate their otherworldly brew into his supply chain. What could go wrong?” | We Hate Bards |
| Sunday | 9:00 AM | 11:00 AM | The Chessboard | Dreamchaser | If you could live out any story, any moment—what would you experience? Lead a Rebellion • Befriend a Dragon • Become a New York Times Best Seller • Race to the Stars • Find Dad’s Pants…Let Dreamchaser adapt to you! What are you destined to achieve? Join in on a collaborative story game experience where every player has a say on who and what our story involves. Chase your dreams—your goals! | We Hate Bards |
| Sunday | 11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | The Chessboard | sushi go party | Party platter of mega maki, super sashimi, and endless edamame. You still earn points by picking winning sushi combos, but now you can customize each game by choosing à la carte from a menu of more than twenty delectable dishes. What’s more, up to eight players can join in on the sushi-feast. Let the good times roll! | William K |
| Sunday | 11:00 AM | 11:30 AM | The Chessboard | Santorini | Santorini is an accessible strategy game, simple enough for an elementary school classroom while aiming to provide gameplay depth and content for hardcore gamers to explore, The rules are simple. Each turn consists of 2 steps: Move and Build | Jason M |
| Sunday | 11:00 AM | 1:00 PM | The Chessboard | Dreamchaser | If you could live out any story, any moment—what would you experience? Lead a Rebellion • Befriend a Dragon • Become a New York Times Best Seller • Race to the Stars • Find Dad’s Pants…Let Dreamchaser adapt to you! What are you destined to achieve? Join in on a collaborative story game experience where every player has a say on who and what our story involves. Chase your dreams—your goals! | We Hate Bards |
| Sunday | 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | The Chessboard | Samara | Travel back through history to a settlement called Samara, where you lead a group of builders. At the start of the game, they can build only a sandcastle, cave or huts. For more complex buildings, you first invest time in skills, strength, or new workers. Building special projects gives you benefits or hurts all your rivals. In the end you want to have the most prestigious buildings. | Jim S |
| Sunday | 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | The Chessboard | New York Slice | You’ve just been given a shot at being the head chef at the prestigious New York Slice pizza parlor. Now you and your fellow pizza chef wannabes have to make the most amazing pizzas…one slice at a time! | Jim S |
| Sunday | 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | The Chessboard | King of tokyo | You play mutant monsters, gigantic robots, and strange aliens—all of whom are destroying Tokyo and whacking each other in order to become the one and only King of Tokyo. | Jason M |
| Sunday | 1:00 PM | 4:00 PM | The Chessboard | Race for the galaxy | Players build galactic civilizations by playing game cards in front of them that represent worlds or technical and social developments. Some worlds allow players to produce goods, which can be consumed later to gain either card draws or victory points when the appropriate technologies are available to them. These are mainly provided by the developments and worlds that are not able to produce, but the fancier production worlds also give these bonuses. | Mike D |
| Sunday | 1:00 PM | 4:00 PM | The Chessboard | Goblin Well- | Join We Hate Bards as we bring Confusion 2018 to a close with one of our legendary Goblin Well Games. Poorly thought out characters, random dungeons, and the deaths, oh so many deaths. | We Hate Bards |
| Sunday | 1:00 PM | 4:00 PM | The Chessboard | Goblin Well- | Join We Hate Bards as we bring Confusion 2018 to a close with one of our legendary Goblin Well Games. Poorly thought out characters, random dungeons, and the deaths, oh so many deaths. | We Hate Bards |
| Sunday | 1:00 PM | 4:00 PM | The Chessboard | Goblin Well- | Join We Hate Bards as we bring Confusion 2018 to a close with one of our legendary Goblin Well Games. Poorly thought out characters, random dungeons, and the deaths, oh so many deaths. | We Hate Bards |
| Sunday | 2:00 PM | 2:45 PM | The Chessboard | Chrononaughts | Each player becomes a time traveler, with a unique identity and a secret mission. During the game, players travel backwards and forwards through history, doing all those things people have always dreamed of using a time machine to do | Cheryl O |
| Sunday | 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM | The Chessboard | Hey That’s my fish | Players want to catch as many fish as possible with their waddle of penguins. Each turn, a player moves one penguin in a straight line over hex-shaped ice tiles with 1, 2 or 3 fish on them. The player then collects the hex from where the penguin started its movement from the table, thereby creating a gap which penguins can’t cross on future turns. When a penguin can’t move, it’s removed from play with its owner claiming the tile on which it stands. The player who collects the most fish wins. | Cheryl O |