Wellington Anniversary Weekend January 23rd - 24th 2027

KapCon 2027

KapCon 2027 is on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th of January. Monday 25th is a statutory holiday for Wellington workers and can be used for recovery.

The pandemic is still with us. Please check our Covid-19 policy before attending.

What is KapCon?

KapCon is a not-for-profit role-playing game convention run annually in Wellington, New Zealand, every January. Over a hundred people get together for a weekend of role-playing, in a diverse range of styles and systems. Over the weekend, more than 30 individual games are run, with volunteer GMs (or storytellers, narrators or facilitators) running games between one and six times over the course of the convention.

The Mākara Terror

Facilitator: 
Michael F

Responding to a mysterious signal, The Doctor and Jamie land the TARDIS on remote Mākara Beach near Wellington to find the cause. But will the presence of two inquisitive local police constables, responding to reports of strange noises and odd behaviour, be a help or a hindrance to their investigation?

System: 
Doctor Who

The Case of the Confounding Cousin

Facilitator: 
Michael F

Rocky Beach, California, 197?, and the Three Investigators are on the case. A friend from school has a problem and has asked for your help. Unfortunately for the junior sleuths, Juniper's older cousin from England is visiting and Aunt Mathilda insists you take him along on whatever it is you're getting up to this time. Surely he won't be too much trouble.

System: 
TBD

Aliens Strike

Facilitator: 
Michael F

Contact has been lost with the colony on VL-422. Nothing to worry about, it's probably just a downed transmitter. After all, there have been colonists there for years with no complaints about "hostile organisms" or anything like that.
But just in case, a bunch of marines, some real tough hombres, and a company man for some reason (the installation does have a substantial dollar value attached to it), are going to check it out.
But yeah, probably just a downed transmitter.

System: 
TBD

Paranoia: Health & Sanitation Week

Facilitator: 
Haz

Raising your head up off the table, you appear to have fallen asleep in the canteen.

A pop-up banner sits across the top of your vision, displayed by your Cerebal Coretech iBall. You seem unable to close or minimise it, but by the timestamp it is almost a day old and will hopefully expire eventually.

"To celebrate the 15&L7th anniversary since the first Hygiene Officer was promoted in this sector (ROM-0), R&D has released a limited addition pill for healthy gut biomes, as part of Health & Sanitation weak. This pill, known as 28DL, is designed to invigorate all Troubled Shooters and n-sure maximum health and well being. All praise Friend Computer for this wounderous gift!"

System: 
Paranoia

Alice is Dead

Facilitator: 
Sean Broadley

An intense game of redemption.

With Alice as your leader your party did great things. You stole lightning from the Temple of Night, you defeated the Moon King's horde, you sailed the Sea of Stars to the World's End.

Then it all went wrong. You screwed up. You failed. Alice died, betrayed. With bitter recriminations and accusations, your group split up.

Ten years later you are brought unwillingly back together. Despite the distrust, the bitterness, and the blame, you need to work together for one last mission.

World creation:
The game has an improv world-building phase, which is done entirely in character. If your character says "...and we came back from the arctic on dragon-back" then the world has dragons. If your character says "we caught a rocket to the L5 station where the android was waiting" then there's a space stations in orbit with androids.

That phase ends and the rest of the game then happens in that world, as you live with the consequences of what you've done.

Trigger warning: The game begins with scenes of bitter interpersonal conflict.

System: 
Homebrew

Across the High Atlas by Pachycephalosaurus

Facilitator: 
Sean Broadley

A rip-roaring steampunk adventure with dinosaurs and mad science.

Train from Casablanca to Marrakesh in the exotic Sultanate of Morrocco, and then cross the High Atlas mountains by Camel and Pachycephalosaurus to Ait Ben Haddou to recover the stolen map to the City of Dinosaurs from the perfidious French.

Bring your ingenuity, because failed rolls can be recovered by inventing mad science devices in this steampunk world!

System: 
Homebrew

Asterix and the Nac Mac Feegle

Facilitator: 
Sean Broadley

The year is 50 B.C. and Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely… One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders....

But can Asterix, Obelix and friends guard the magic potion against a foe that says:

“An' things ha' come to a pretty pass, if'n people are going to leave drink like that ly'in aroound! Where an innocent soul could accidentally smash the door doon and lever the bars aside and take the big chain off'f the cupboard and pick the lock and drink it!”

[This game ran at Kapcon in 2019. Previous players are welcome to return for another bout, but it is the same game.]

System: 
Some dice may be rolled. Or not.

Mind Maze

Facilitator: 
Mike Sands

You're Quaestors, space police, on the trail of the notorious telepathic criminal "Shatter".

He was last seen on Caryatid, heading for an ancient alien remnant.

Whatever he has planned there, it's bound to be bad.

This is a playtest scenario for the in-development space horror supplement for Monster of the Week.

System: 
Monster of the Week

Let's Explode Space Fascists!

Facilitator: 
Mike Sands

Your team of plucky anarchists have picked your next mission: blow up the space facsists' new battle station!

System: 
Heavy Metal Aeons
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