KapCon is currently preparing for its 2025 event. We're currently updating the website with the details, and I anticipate sending the initial plea for GMs in the next few days. But game submission is already open, so if you'd like to run a game, especially in round one or two, please log in and fill out the form.

I expect to spend the next two months trying to get games. Player registration will open once we have enough round one and two games to cope with our expected initial registrations. Normally that happens around the first week of November. More games will come in over November and December, and the timetable will be finalised in January. And then it's Wellington Anniversary Weekend and con time.

If you can't wait till then for your gaming fix, Roll For Hope is a lovely little con, which raises money for the Make A Wish Foundation. Or if you can go further afield, check out Convergence in Hamilton.

The printing has been done, so the con details are basicly locked. I can still take registrations and swap people into different games, and the admin desk will have all the details, but it won't be on the wall on Saturday morning. I'll close the registration form tomorrow.

Setup is tomorrow (Friday) at WHS from midday!

Setup involves carting the con gear down the elevator and along the halls, setting up the signage, arranging the rooms for gaming use, setting up the wall of games, and various other tasks. The more people who help out, the quicker it will go, so if you can, please turn up to help. Hopefully we can get through it in a couple of hours.

A group of friends do what they can to find their missing friend, Alice

This game is played entirely via cellphone, so please have a charged phone and a willingness to share your number with the other players - Whatsapp is the preferred text vehicle to play the game.

Content warnings can include: implied sexual abuse, bullying, violence, drug and alcohol use (underage) and stalking

This game is beautiful in its darkness

For over a thousand years the things that lurk beneath the waters, skulk in the darkness and lie hungrily in dank crypts have been patient, while all around them men and monsters bicker amongst themselves, bold enough to traverse the dark caverns' depths, but afraid or perhaps wise enough to leave the forgotten vaults and hidden passages alone.

And still, they wait, undisturbed. They are waiting for you!

We will use 1400, James Lennox-Gordon's Lo-Fi Hi-Fantasy hack of Jason Tocci's Lo-fi Sci-fi RPG 2400, to play through Jennell Jaquay's iconic 1979 Judge's Guild mega(ish) dungeon The Caverns of Thracia.

This is a detailed and interrelated old-school sandbox dungeon with some ancient Greek vibes that potentially includes politics between different groups, quite disparate power levels between sections, and fantasy monsters of a low-grade horror sort. We'll do lines and veils at the start and use an X-card and the open door policy.

Formed in the late 1980s they are a secret organisation allowing stars to game amongst their own people. The Gm has been running a game for the last 2 years on the biweekly Tuesday game in Hollywood.

The sun has gone down on this fateful Thursday night, the GM is late, and the party assembles in an underground gaming grotto for the last session of the campaign after a few missed games. Tasked by the grand Lich - Horace the undying to find a new host for his Phylactery

Unfortunately, the players have become a little.... dysfunctional.
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The players will be roleplaying role-players and celebrity impersonations will be encouraged.

One year ago Kyle disappeared and you thought he was dead. Now he's dropped a message into the group chat: meet me tonight at Wakefield House. Sneak into the abandoned house that Kyle used to say was haunted to find out if Kyle is alive? What could go wrong?

Wakefield House is a scenario for FiveEvil, a game of unnerving horror that takes the basics of D&D 5E and turns them inside out. It will hit crowdfunding later this year from Handiwork Games.

Transhumanity stands on the edge of evolution and extinction. With the ability to upload our minds and nanofabricate almost anything, death and scarcity were nearly defeated. Then a war against super-intelligent AIs infected with an alien virus wiped out 95% of the population. Earth is a ruined wasteland, overrun by machines. The remnants of transhumanity—bio-engineered humans, uplifted animals, and infolife—expanded throughout the Solar System.

It's one of those months where there's so much to do and learn that you feel like you need to be in than one place at the same time. That's no problem! Upload your mindstate, fork it into copies each for its own chore, use standard tools to clip away their unnecessary memories and cut down that file size, and transmit them far afield - and when they come home, merge yourself together again. Nothing to worry about, perfectly routine.

But today you're back at home on Mars, along with your other forks - and your original self's gone missing. That's bad.

(This is a published scenario for Eclipse Phase, a game of transhumanism and horror)

A few days out from the convention, and as usual we're needing just a few more games to make the timetable work. Currently we have:

• Round 1: 9 games, 49 spaces + 13 GOD, + megagame (24 free + megagame)
• Round 2: 9 games, 53 spaces + 15 GOD (25 free; 8 people from megagame to reallocate)
• Round 3: 9 games, 47 spaces + 15 GOD
• Round 4: 2 games, 10 spaces + 10 GOD
• Round 5: 8 games, 43 spaces + 9 GOD + adventure squad
• Round 6: 7 games, 38 spaces + 15 GOD + adventure squad
• Round 7: 3 games, 17 spaces + 4 GOD

Based on current anticipated numbers, it looks like we need:

• Round 1: 1 surge protection game (just in case)
• Round 2: 1 more game
• Round 3: 1 more game
• Round 4: 2 more games
• Round 5: 1 more game + 1 surge protection
• Round 6: 1 more games + 1 surge protection
• Round 7: 3 more games

If you can help with this, please fill out the "Run a Game!" form, or email kapcon@gmail.com.

It is 2007, the Sinaloa Cartel is the largest drug trafficking organization in the world, a vast network of narcos, halcones, y sicarias moving billions of dollars of drugs into Los Estados Unidos.
Take on the role of someone tied to the Sinaloa Cartel in Durango, Mexico, trying to stay alive in a dangerous game of drugs, money, and power. Navigate shifting alliances and deadly schemes, while desperately struggling to hold on to what's yours.

This is a largely character-driven game of compromised people in a corrupt world. High player agency is expected, as the world reacts to the drives and actions of the central characters.

Note: this game deals with some dark materials, including potential player character fatality, so will begin with a safety briefing and use safety tools throughout.

It was never going to be just another Halloween Night. Kitted Out with an impressive homemade costume, you and your friends set out for the school's Halloween Celebration, keen to end the night with the biggest pile of candy imaginable! Suddenly, the night changes - the school's decorations awaken with a strange power, and seem determined to throw the celebrations into chaos! However, that same power seems to have affected you, granting you the powers of your costume inspiration. Now, it's up to you to save your school and find out exactly what's been causing this!

Fight or Fright! is a Halloween RPG about the childhood desire to be someone special, wishing so desperately when you put on a costume to just become that character! You'll have to learn how to use these new abilities, or you might just lose yourself to whatever has caused these powers to emerge! The game is played with a simple shifting dice pool system, and no system knowledge is required. We'll start by creating some simple characters, and get into a short scenario based on the description above.

Intended to be spooky and fun, rather than horrifying, Fight or Fright is a Halloween Game for those of us who love spooky season, and love playing pretend. This game is actively being playtested, so there may be a few bumps along the road. But if you want to suit up as your favourite character and smash some awakened decorations, this might be the game for you!