Buy-In-Games
KantCon promises to have all kinds of games to keep you plotting against your fellow players or other forces promising your ultimate demise. If you’re looking for a little something extra though, consider some of our Buy-In-Games. You might have seen some of these events on the badges page or in Warhorn, and wondered what they are. These are games that have something a little special or unique about them: they may require extra effort by the game master or prizes may be awarded to the players. At the very least, each buy-in game you participate in gets you 5 raffle tickets. Buy-In-Games cost an additional $10 per game.
A description of the Buy-In Games follows the large stylish purchasing links below.
Board Games
Life-Sized Space Alert
Space Alert is a cooperative team survival game. Players become crew members of a small spaceship scanning dangerous sectors of the galaxy. The missions last just 10 real-time minutes (hyperspace jump, sector scan, hyperspace jump back) and the only task the players have is to protect their ship.
In this Life-Sized version, the game board is a floor mat 12' wide on which you and your teammates walk on to coordinate your actions (moving around the ship, firing weapons, distributing energy, using battlebots to deal with intruders, launching guided missiles, etc.) in real time to defend the ship. Only a well-working team can survive 10 minutes and make the jump back to safety.
Extra raffle tickets will be awarded to players.
GM: Angela Robertson
Game System: Space Alert
Experience Needed: None. Rules will be taught.
Minimum Age: 9+
Slot: Thursday, June 26, 7-10pm
Unsettled Board Game
Do you yearn to boldly go where no gerbil or sentient being has gone before? Do you enjoy long walks on questionable and likely carnivorous terrain? Do you long for the embrace of fungal hosts and the possibility of mind-bending abilities beyond your wildest dreams in search of meager rations to sustain your crew? If so, well sign up for your inevitable demise/the career of a lifetime!
Unsettled is a 2-4 player cooperative survival adventure set in the wondrous and unnerving fringes of uncharted space. Lost amidst the surreal and bizarre unknowns of the far reaches of the cosmos, your crew of explorers must pull together to discover the resources necessary to survive the long journey home, one unsettled planet at a time. In the event of your (likely) demise, your relatives will be notified of where your remains can be collected.
Prizes and extra raffle tickets will be awarded to players.
GM: Nick Seal
Game System: Unsettled
Experience Needed: None. Rules will be taught.
Minimum Age: 16+
Slot: Friday, June 27, 3-7pm
Return to Dark Tower
For an age, the tower lay in ruins. Unbeknownst to the people of the realm, a great evil stirred in its bowels. It started with strange sightings: a flock of crows flying in circles until they dropped from the sky, the lake frozen solid in the height of summer. In time, they could not deny that which they most feared.
The evil had not been vanquished. The darkness would soon fall again. The tower will rise.
A "sequel" to the 1981 grail game, Return to Dark Tower is a game for 1-4 players who take the role of heroes. Together, they gather resources, cleanse buildings, defeat monsters, and undertake quests to build up their strength and discern what foe ultimately awaits them. When the heroes face the tower, the game shifts into its dramatic second act, where the players have one chance to defeat the enemy once and for all.
Prizes and extra raffle tickets will be awarded to players.
GM: DaNay Minnick
Game System: Return to Dark Tower Board Game
Experience Needed: None. Rules will be taught.
Minimum Age: 16+
Slot: Friday, June 27, 7-11pm
3d Betrayal at House on the Hill
You are out for a lovely drive in the rolling hills of the countryside when your car breaks down. Hmmm, no cell service. Good thing there's a giant House on the Hill. Let's go check it out. What's the worst that could happen?
In Betrayal at House on the Hill, players explore a 3d printed haunted mansion of their own design, encountering spirits and frightening omens that foretell their fate. Eventually, one of the characters betrays the rest of the party, and the innocent members of the party must defeat the traitor in their midst before it’s too late!
This game will largely use 1st edition rules with minor adjustments and a pre-planned haunt. 3d printed prizes will be available and extra raffle tickets will be awarded to players.
GM: Rob & Kimma Edwards
Game System: Betrayal at House on the Hill
Experience Needed: None. Rules will be taught.
Minimum Age: 12+
Slot: Saturday, June 28, 2-5pm
Death Star Trench Run (aka The Battle of Yavin IV)
The stolen plans were analyzed and a weakness was found. The X and Y-wings lifted off, S-foils in attack position.
The Rebel base was located. The Death Star entered orbit around the gas giant Yavin, on approach to the fourth moon.
Will the Rebels destroy the Empire's new technological terror? Can the Empire fight off the attack by determined Rebel snub fighters? Now is your chance to determine the fate of the Galaxy!
Extra raffle tickets will be awarded to players.
GM: Matt Harrop
Game System: Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game
Experience Needed: None. Rules will be taught.
Minimum Age: 16+
Slot: Saturday, June 28, 2-6pm
Role-Playing Games
The Crystal Key
The investigators have been cordially invited to attend a dinner party hosted by Dr. Kenneth Connolly, your dear friend with whom it has been years since you last spoke. The absence of your friend has nothing to do with any disagreement -- far from it, for it was passion that has kept him estranged. Kenneth's passion for his work and research, that is. But now it seems that Kenneth has finally achieved the breakthrough he so desperately sought, and he wants to share that breakthrough with some of his closest friends. As you know, Dr. Kenneth Connolly is a physicist, so you can only image what astounding discovery he has to show you.
Extra raffle tickets will be awarded to players.
GM: Jon Hook
Game System: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition
Experience Needed: None. Rules will be taught.
Minimum Age: 15+
Slots: Thursday, June 26, 2-6pm; Friday, June 27, 9am-1pm; Friday, June 27, 2-6pm; Sunday, June 29, 9am-1pm
Shadows Over Edenton
Ten Years. It’s been ten years since you graduated from Edenton High and you haven't looked back since. Receiving the high school reunion invitation spurs you to go back and flaunt your success at the poor sods you’ve left behind in that small North Carolina town. Strangely, you discover that some of your forgotten classmates are also remarkably successful. That, or they have turned up missing. What's been going on in this small coastal town since you left?
A Dread scenario with heavy Cthulhu themes and a giant tower of 2'x4' planks. For 3-5 Players. Beginners welcome.
Extra raffle tickets will be awarded to players.
GM: Angela Robertson
Game System: Dread
Experience Needed: None. Rules will be taught.
Minimum Age: 13+
Slot: Friday, June 27, 7-11pm
Call of Cthulhu Tournament -- The Mold & Decay of Innsmouth Bay
It is Monday, April 23, 1928, two months after the Bureau of Investigations (BoI) raided Innsmouth, Massachusetts, and the investigators are BoI agents. The BoI has maintained a physical watch on the town in an attempt to deter looters and ensure that any Esoteric Order of Dagon cultists that escaped justice don’t try to reestablish the cult. The investigators also know that theirs is the final shift to be posted in Innsmouth. The bureau considers the matter closed and that it’s time to focus agents on other objectives.
Extra raffle tickets will be awarded to players.
GM: Jon Hook
Game System: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition
Experience Needed: None. Rules will be taught.
Minimum Age: 18+
Slots: Saturday, June 28, 9am-1pm; Saturday, June 28, 2-16m; Saturday, June 28, 7-11pm
