Role-Playing

Table-top role-playing is still one of the most popular game categories at Con of the North. We play a large variety of games, fantasy, horror, suerp-heroes, from D & D to Call of Cthulhu to Champions to brand-new games invented by Woodelf and crew.
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Nat (left) and Eppy (right) are playing Four Colors Al Fresco, a Renaissance superhero game involving lots of colored dice.
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Joe is running a horror game in a Viet Nam war setting.  He's a big believer in atmosphere.
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Robin (left) and Don (right) are playing in Joe's game and looking apprehensive already.  Ten minutes into the game, the first set of characters were dead, but that was part of the plot.
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Joe gives the players some information on what they're up against.  Steve (second from left) has the right idea.
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Eppy (back and right) also runs a horror game, Dread.  He relies on jenga blocks instead of dice to determine if the players succeed in what they set out to do.
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Dread, like a horror game, starts out with every challenge easy to overcome, but then it gets harder...
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Joel (left) and Matthew realize that things have gotten more difficult.  When a player wants his character to do something, he must pull a block from middle of the stack and put it on the top.
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When the tower falls over, a character dies.
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Eppy has the party right where he wants them...
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John (left) goes quietly insane...