PrairieCon relies on volunteers to help run our convention and we need people like you to help us all have a great weekend! We will be looking for a few volunteers to help with the registration desk.
Oh and don't forget we have incentives for those who volunteer, which can be combined with your GM time:
See you at the con!
The GM/Volunteer incentive system
Once again, we are offering an incentive system based on how many hours you volunteer to run a game or help at the convention. The rewards are tiered depending on how many hours you volunteer:
Hitchhiker Level – One hour
You will get a ticket in the GM-only draw.
Frood Level – Eight hours
You will get a ticket in the GM-only draw A strip of raffle tickets
Hoopy Frood Level – Sixteen hours
You will get a ticket in the GM-only draw A strip of raffle tickets Either Free registration OR a Free T-shirt.
Our system uses registration badges to enter the convention and uses tickets to participate in each game/event.
As of tomorrow, you can purchase your badge by visiting prairiecon.com and clicking on the Registration Site button, or by clicking the shiny red magical button below!
Once you’re on the registration site you’ll find a Badge Registration button. You can view our screenshots to see where you will locate the button when it goes live.
If run into any issues using the tabletop.events site, email it@prairiecon.com.
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Remember: Saturday, April 29 at 6 pm – Game Signup Starts
Stay tuned for reminders and be ready on that day!
Games will continue to fill up our games list right up until May 12, so check back often! All of this information and more can be found on our website on our Event Details Page.
Are you here for the Dungeons & Dragons adventure at PrairieCon 42? Do you have the charisma to make friends, the dexterity to roll criticals, and the constitution to face your fears?
This fifth edition D&D adventure will have you baffled, frustrated, and confused with its twists and turns and the fear of waking up in an unfamiliar dream. You and 29 other players will navigate this inception-inspired, light improvisational live-action role-playing, movie reference-heavy, one-shot tabletop role-playing game to see if you have what it takes to beat your nightmares.
Note: The live-action roleplaying parts will be guided by the GMs, and the participation by players is as much or as little as they're comfortable performing in front of the whole group.
Players can sign up for Saturday, May 27 or Sunday, May 28, from 9 am to 6 pm with a break in the middle for lunch. Premadelevel five characters and minis will be provided for the day. Please remember to bring your luckiest set of gaming dice and have some fun!
Prizes to be won!
Any questions can be directed to kenwric@gmail.com
You should see a button on the right-hand side of the page.
Why should you buy your badge so early?
Because, if there are games that you really want to get into, you'll want to have your badge pre-purchased so that you're getting into the system as fast as possible. Some games fill up very fast!
Remember: Saturday, April 29 at 6 pm – Game Signup Starts
Stay tuned for reminders and be ready on that day!
Sadly, Klaus Teuber, the creator of Settlers of Catan has passed away recently, and to acknowledge his passing, we wanted to share his legacy by sharing his work. This is why we are holding a contest to give away a demo copy of Settlers of Catan.
You can enter to win the copy by following the steps below, each action you take will enter your name into the draw:
Or at least since the beginning of PrairieCon, our convention has always featured the D&D Tournament. The tournament evolved over time, but it has been a staple since the beginning. But this year, we don’t have anyone to run it. Thus we really need someone (or a pair of someones) to step forward and make it happen once again.
We need a D&D Hero to organize our Tournament!
Who and what are we looking for?
Specifically, we need a person or team to write, organize and run the PrairieCon D&D Tournament for this year’s convention on May 26-28, 2023. If you are at all interested, contact any member of the Board and we’ll have a chat.
Is this you? Are you:
Eager and excited about it! The Tournament is always fun and we want you to enjoy it too!
Full of ideas and ready to do the work to turn it into fantasy reality.
Someone who has played D&D before. Experience is good. You don’t need to be a rules lawyer, but you should know your Hit Dice from your Passive Perception.
A D&D DM. Experience is good. Even better is if you have DMed at a D&D Tournament.
Committed to running the event. Yes, bad things can happen, but unless something truly awful and unavoidable happens, you will live up to your commitment. The D&D Tournament is a PrairieCon institution, and we need it to run.
Aware that the event starts on May 27 and know that there is a lot of work to do.
Do you have game ideas? Is your game idea:
Fun? Whether it’s gritty and dark or light and fluffy, it needs to be entertaining. We are looking for 8 hours of adventure for our attendees. We want people to say, “That was fun! What a great ride!”
Run with the D&D ruleset? Or something very close to it. D&D 5e is the default, but we could consider Pathfinder. Enjoyable as other games are, this one needs to be D&D.
Ready for at least 24 people? Obviously, no human can DM for 24 people at once. That is why you will lead a team of DMs. You will prepare the material for your team of 4 and 6 DMs, playtest with them and then organize the event at the convention. It’s a lot of work, but it is incredibly satisfying to experience
There are a number of ways this can be done and we can chat about it.
Ready to have your game run twice over the course of the convention, each time for 8 hours? The game starts at 9 am on Saturday and runs until 6 pm with a one-hour lunch break at 1 pm. Then it runs again Sunday at the same time.
Varied? It will have a fight or three, some problem-solving and investigation and lots of opportunities to do some roleplay. A little bit of everything sounds about right.
Full of player agency? Players need to make meaningful decisions that affect the outcomes. Yes, you need to provide boundaries, but in the end, the players have to be their own masters.
Rules light? We’re looking for something that can be easily explained and enjoyed by someone with little RPG experience. If your idea requires one specific masterful tactic and an encyclopedic knowledge of the rules, try another idea.
If this sounds like you and your ideas, we want to hear from you, contact us at info@prairiecon.com.
