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| Event Title | Category | Target Audience | Duration | Seats | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPEN GAMING | -- | -- | -- | -- | Bring your own game or borrow from our game library! |
| Azul | Board | Pre-teen, Teen, Adult | 60 min (repeating) | 4 | Learn to artfully embellish the walls of your palace by drafting the most beautiful tiles. Beautiful and cutthroat! |
| Blood Bowl | Board | Preteen, Teen, Adult | 60 min (repeating) | 4 | The infamous miniatures board game that mixes American football and Rugby, Blood Bowl is violence on a pitch within the high-fantasy world of Games Workshop. Move your Orc or Human around the field, smashing their way to a touchdown and bragging right. This will be short introductory games or longer if more experienced Coaches arrive at the dugout. |
| Board: The face-to-face game console | Board | All | 30 min (repeating) | 2–4 | Plug it in, pick a game, and play a piece. Includes Omakase, Chop Chop, Spycraft, Chess, and more! |
| Chess | Board | All | 30 min (repeating) | 6 | New players are welcome to checkmate their opponent in this timeless abstract! Play chess "over the board''! Try free computer chess puzzles! Explore fun chess mini-games! |
| Haunted Treasure Hunt, D&D 5E | RPG | Teen, Adult | 3 hours | 5 | Try and gather as many treasures as possible for the king while navigating horrors and puzzles. |
| Marvel Legendary | Card | Pre-teen, Teen, Adult | 60 minutes (repeating) | 5 | Play as a team of your favorite Marvel characters to thwart the scheme of a mastermind and their band of companions in a deck building adventure. |
| The Omega Virus | Board | All | 30 minutes, repeating | 4 | "You human scum!" Play the 1992 classic talking electronic board game The Omega Virus. Four heroes of planet Earth must search BattleSat1 space station to defeat the evil Omega Virus. New games start every 30 minutes "It Talks... It Taunts... It Must Be Terminated!" |
| Rise of the Midnight Suns | RPG | All | 3 hours | 6 | Welcome to the darker side of the Marvel Universe! When supernatural evil makes itself known, the mystic heroes known as the Midnight Suns rise up to oppose it! |
| Stardew Valley: The Board Game | Board Game | Teen, Adult | 3 hours | 4 | A cooperative board game of farming and friendship based on the video game. Work together to fulfill Grandpa’s Goals and restore the Community Center. |
| 3 Chapters | Card | All | 30 minutes (repeating) | 6 | Once upon a time, there was a magical book of fairy tales that had three chapters. You will now live through that book in 3 Chapters, a trick-taking game. |
| Event Title | Category | Target Audience | Duration | Seats | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPEN GAMING | -- | -- | -- | -- | Bring your own game or borrow from our game library! |
| Call of Cthulhu: Dr. Bilkser’s lecture of lunacy | RPG | Teen | 3 hours | 5 |
The Doctor is in, and he’s prescribing insanity! Encounter eldritch horrors, lose your mind, and enjoy every moment. |
| Coriolis – The Black Ziggurat | RPG | Teen, Adult | 3 hours | 4 | Join a team of ruin delvers in a pulp sci-fi adventure as you attempt to find out what happened to a missing Guild official on the moon of Asherot. |
| Dice Throne | Board | All | 30 minutes (repeating) | 20 |
Heroes compete in an age-old tournament in this fast-paced combat game. Learn to play and play to win! |
| Dungeons & Dragons 5e: The Adventure Begins, A Lost Relic | RPG | Teen, Adult | 3 hours | 5 | The Adventurers have traveled far to reach the Capital, only to find a strange request waiting for them at the Guild Hall. |
| Everdell | Board | All | 3 hours | 6 | Build a city of forest creatures in the world of Everdell! Optional expansions available upon request/experience of participants. |
| Frontier Scum | RPG | All | 3 hours | 6 | Wanted: Scoundrels, drifters, and fools. Frontier Scum throws you into a brutal Weird West where greed, violence, and bad luck collide. Quick to learn, deadly to play, and packed with unforgettable stories. |
| Goblin Errands | RPG | All | 60 minutes (repeating) | 4 | A funny tabletop roleplaying game featuring cute goblins trying to complete an errand and hilarious and funny hijinks. |
| Haunted Treasure Hunt, D&D 5E | RPG | Teen, Adult | 3 hours | 5 | Try and gather as many treasures as possible for the king while navigating horrors and puzzles. |
| Heat: Pedal to the Metal | Board | Teen, Adult | 60 minutes (repeating) | 6 | Push your car to the limit in the pursuit of victory, but don’t overheat! |
| Hot Streak | Party | All | 30 minutes (repeating) | 8 | Who’s hot and who’s not? Which mascot will cross the finish line first? Who will be DQ'd? Learn to play and laugh while losing. |
| Lords of Waterdeep | Board | Teen, Adult | 2 hours (repeating) | 6 | Deploy agents and hire adventurers to expand your control over the city of Waterdeep. It’s skullduggery at its finest! |
| Mario Kart 8 Tournament | Video Game Tournament | All | 90 minutes, repeating | 4 | Bring your controllers, red shells, and banana peels. Then start your engines and race to the finish. CSM’s Anime and Video Game club are hosting the ultimate racing tournament! |
| Red Dragon Inn | Card | Teen, Adult | 45 min (repeating) | 6 | Spend an evening drinking, gambling, and roughhousing with your adventuring companions after raiding the dungeon. Last person conscious and solvent wins! |
| Stardew Valley: The Board Game | Board | Teen, Adult | 3 hours | 4 | A cooperative board game of farming and friendship based on the video game. Work together to fulfill Grandpa’s Goals and restore the Community Center. |
| Tiny Mall Wizards! | RPG | All | 120 minutes | 5 | Tiny Mall Wizards is an all-ages, co-op, shenanigans adventure RPG. Draw a wizard! Cause some problems! Save the Mall?! All materials provided. |
| Event Title | Category | Target Audience | Duration | Seats | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPEN GAMING | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Bring your own or borrow from our game library! |
| Battlelords of the 23rd Century: Emergency at the Resort | RPG | Teen, Adult | 3 hours | 5 |
Corporate greed meets high-octane sci-fi. Players are highly expendable mercenaries using an absurdly deep arsenal of armor and weapons to survive galactic warfare. Think lethal d100 tactical combat, dark humor, and diverse alien species fighting an invading alien horde. |
| Everdell | Board | All | 3 hours | 6 |
Build a city of forest creatures in the world of Everdell! Optional expansions available upon request/experience of participants. |
| Haunted Treasure Hunt, D&D 5E | RPG | Teen, Adult | 3 hours | 5 |
Try and gather as many treasures as possible for the king while navigating horrors and puzzles. |
| Magical Athlete | Board | All | 45 minutes (repeating) | 6 |
Pit a cast of crazy characters against each other in a madcap race to the finish. |
| Moon Colony Bloodbath | Board | Teen, Adult | 1 hour (repeating) |
Whatever can go wrong will go wrong in this engine building/dismantling game. Players compete to keep their colonists alive. |
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| N.A.S.G. - Nefarious Absurd Scintillating Games | Miniatures War Game | Teen, Adult | 3 hours | 4 |
Learn how to play a miniatures agnostic indie wargame. Exciting and quick to play with a sense of humor. |
| Riftbound Tournament | Board | All | 3 hours | 36 |
Every card tells a story. Every match shapes a legend. Join fellow champions for an epic Riftbound Tournament where cunning, courage, and mastery of the Rift determine who stands victorious.
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| ThunderBolts Assemble! | RPG | All | 3 hours | 6 |
The new Thunderbolts, led by the former Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes, have their work cut out for them. |
| Event Title | Category | Target Audience | Duration | Seats | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPEN GAMING | -- | -- | -- | -- | Bring your own or borrow from our game library! |
| Camp Grizzly, second edition | Board | Teen, Adult | 90 minutes | 6 | It’s a Saturday night fright! Survive Camp Grizzly; a cooperative horror game where counselors try to survive and reach the finale. |
Our Friendly Local Game Store, Swords and Spoons hosts Youth D&D every Saturday at their California Maryland location. They’re bringing their Dungeons Masters to Hawkland!
Every session is designed to be welcoming, exciting, and beginner-friendly.
Seats are limited and registration for Youth D&D is required.
Dress your best at Hawkland! Grab a selfie with our own spell-casting mascot Talon, post on social, and be spoiled with riches!
The “Golden Rule of Cosplay” is strictly enforced at Hawkland: “Cosplay is not consent.” And sorry warriors, no weapons allowed. Keep those battle axes in your home armory.
Dress your best at Hawkland! Grab a selfie with our own spell-casting mascot Talon, post on social, and be spoiled with riches!
The “Golden Rule of Cosplay” is strictly enforced at Hawkland: “Cosplay is not consent.” And sorry warriors, no weapons allowed. Keep those battle axes in your home armory.
Dress your best at Hawkland! Grab a selfie with our own spell-casting mascot Talon, post on social, and be spoiled with riches!
The “Golden Rule of Cosplay” is strictly enforced at Hawkland: “Cosplay is not consent.” And sorry warriors, no weapons allowed. Keep those battle axes in your home armory.
Dress your best at Hawkland! Grab a selfie with our own spell-casting mascot Talon, post on social, and be spoiled with riches!
The “Golden Rule of Cosplay” is strictly enforced at Hawkland: “Cosplay is not consent.” And sorry warriors, no weapons allowed. Keep those battle axes in your home armory.
Dress your best at Hawkland! Grab a selfie with our own spell-casting mascot Talon, post on social, and be spoiled with riches!
The “Golden Rule of Cosplay” is strictly enforced at Hawkland: “Cosplay is not consent.” And sorry warriors, no weapons allowed. Keep those battle axes in your home armory.
Pick a game, sign it out, and play it. Return the title to the table and drop a ticket into that game's lottery.
Contact Professor Andrew Wodzianski, Festival Director at
akwodzianski@csmd.edu.
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