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.
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.
Horror at El Dorado Royale is a modern-era Call of Cthulhu adventure.
You have arrived at a tropical five-star resort for your friend's wedding, but something has gone wrong.
Could you and your friends be in danger?
Can you stop it before someone dies?
Are you already too late?
Your first shared flat! It's gonna be one long party.
But who or what keeps tapping on the windows at night? Big yikes
Four present day students move into No. 7 Cemetery Lane only to find something is prowling around outside at night.
A modern day scenario set in Wellington, for those that know the pleasure - and the horror - of flatting!
Sheesh! Don't get salty.
Step into the role of all-American moms in the 1990s who find themselves in the grip of a Satanic Panic as they investigate the odd nighttime activities of local teens.
The American suburbs of the 1990s were a celebration of consumer culture: shopping centres, arcades, video rental chains, and a dizzying array of fast-food franchises offered more entertainment and opportunities to shop than ever before.
But despite all this prosperity, something was wrong with the new generation; the kids were not all right. They were dressing in black, wearing heavy make-up, and obsessed with vampires.
Sensationalised crimes like the Kentucky Vampire Killings and bizarre rumours like the Springfield Vampire Tunnels put parents on edge.
The Satanic Panic reemerged, fixated on teens playing a new kind TTRPG: the dreaded vampire storytelling games.
It was a particularly hard time for mothers. Society was still traditional, and moms were expected to be full-time guardians against sex, drugs, violence, and the occult in additional to so many other responsibilities.
This game is intended for adult players.
Content warning - This is a horror game and mature themes may come up in discussion.
You are a raccoon: a chittering, baggy-pants, ring-tailed burglar.
You and your friends have built an implausible floating ship in the junkyard, and tonight you'll fly it across town to the suburbs in search of better trash.
Flying a ship takes coordination and discipline.
Unfortunately, you're a bunch of raccoons.
Together, you'll navigate the treacherous neighbourhoods, find a ripe, free-standing house with internet, steal as much as you can carry, and fend off the Neighbourhood Watch, all while trying not to explode.
You really don't know what you are doing.
Start the weekend with a laugh :)
Whoa dudes!
It's September 1985! Time for the Wellington high school ball!
Bring your dates, your big hair, and your corsages and be prepared to have the time of your life!
Nothing bad ever happens at the ball? Right?
I kid you not, this bodacious ball is bad to the bone!
Bogus chickens need not attend.
Hang ten
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?
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.
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.
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!"