By Wizard on Jun 24, 2016 with Comments 0

Metrocon is July 21st – 24th this year at the Tampa Convention Center. Armada Games has been invited back again to run their Table Top Gaming Room. We have a lot of events, open play, and demonstrations going on throughout the weekend, and here is the run down.

*Please note, this is subject to change. To stay up to date on Metrocon Gaming room, Join this Facebook Group and follow us on Twitter as we will be posting event updates and notifications all weekend of Metrocon.

Dungeons and Dragons

We will be running introduction level Dungeons and Dragons modules throughout the weekend.

Thursday 6 pm & 9 pm

Friday 11 am, 2 pm, 5 pm, & 8 pm

Saturday 11 am, 2 pm, 5 pm, & 8 pm

Sunday 11 am, 2 pm. & 5 pm

Magic: the Gathering

Learn The Game Events – You come in, we give you a couple demo decks and show you the basics of playing Magic.

Thursday 8 pm

Friday 2 pm

Saturday Noon & 8 pm

Sunday 10 am & 3 pm

Not Exactly an “FNM” Draft – $15

Each player will receive 2 Booster packs of Shadows over Innistrad and 1 booster of Eldrich Moon with which to draft. DCI # is required for this event, but if you don’t have one, we have you covered.

Eldrich Moon – Not quite a “Pre”Release Sealed – $25

Each player will receive 3 boosters of Shadows over Innistrad and 3 boosters of Eldrich Moon to build a deck with. We will play 4 rounds of Swiss (meaning you are still in if you lose) and give out prizes at the end of round 4.

4 match wins – 8 boosters of Eldrich Moon

3 match wins – 6 boosters of Eldrich Moon

2 match wins – 2 boosters of Eldrich Moon

Guild Ball

Guild Ball is a hobby miniatures game (meaning the models are sold unassembled and unpainted) of Fantasy Soccer. Players take turns acting with figures in an effort to kick goals or eliminate the opponent’s models. Each game is played with 6 models per players.

Demonstration games will be played on Saturday at Noon, 3 pm, and 7 pm.

Warmachine / Hordes

If you like Giant Monsters or Steam Powered Robots, Warmachine & Hordes are the miniatures games for you. With 10 factions to choose from, each with their own play styles and types of monsters or robots, there is a lot of variety in the ways to play this game of battlefield dominance.

Demonstration games will be played all weekend.

Thursday at 7 pm

Friday at Noon, 4 pm, and 8 pm

Saturday at 11 am, 4 pm, and 8 pm

Sunday at 11 am and 3 pm

Star Wars: X-Wing

X-Wing is a miniatures game (models are sold assembled and painted) of space based, ship-to-ship combat. Fly iconic ships from Star Wars’s expansive universe, like the X-Wing itself, a wide variety of TIEs, Slave1, the Millennium Falcon, and the Ghost.

Demonstration games will be running continually all weekend.

Board Games

Giant Tsuro

The fantastic people over at Calliope Games are sending us a life sized Tsuro board. Come follow the Path of the Dragon where you ARE your game piece! Games run at the beginning of each hour the room is open!

Demonstration Games Library

We are going to have a large number of board games that are available for play all weekend long. That list is going to be posted closer to the convention, but will include between 30 and 40 games. Checking out these games will have a fee of $2. This money is being collected and 100% of it is being donated to Michelle’s Kids, a 503c not for profit company that provides Christmas Gifts to families of Military and non-Military members working at MacDill AFB. We will also be accepting donations on their behalf. We are keeping 0% of this money.