We hope this email finds you in good health and high spirits. PrairieCon is back once again, and this year’s Con will run from May 26-28, at the Keystone Centre in Brandon.
We are reaching out to you to invite you to submit your games for PrairieCon! Whether you have a tabletop game, a card game, a role-playing game, or any other type of game, we want to hear from you! PrairieCon is all about bringing people together to share their love for gaming, and we believe that your game would be a perfect addition to our event.
We are once again using Tabletop Events as our Registration System. It will follow the same process as last year. If you’re new, or can’t remember, don’t worry, we have a page on our website on how to submit a game, it also includes some recommended schedule times for longer games, and GM/Volunteer incentives, check it out: https://www.prairiecon.com/how-to-submit-a-game/
To jump right into Tabletop events and start submitting your games, you can…
Please note that the auction runs from 6 pm to 9 pm on Saturday evening in the Upper Curling Lounge (RPG Area). Beware aware that RPGs will be run on the Curling Ice surface during these times.
We appreciate your time and effort in considering this opportunity. PrairieCon is a community-driven event, and we couldn’t make it happen without the support of passionate and talented individuals like you.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at games@prairiecon.com
A HUGE thank you to Robyn Lourier for this year’s submission, it is absolutely amazing. In case you need some help figuring out what the theme is for this year, here you go:
42 is the answer to the “ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.”
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Posters will soon go up around the communities and as you can see the website is already updated with the new artwork, which means things will start rolling very quickly as we get ready for PrairieCon 42!
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.
