Hawkland Gaming Festival

Celebrate Southern Maryland's passion for tabletop gaming and support student success!


Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024
9 a.m. – 9 p.m.

CSM La Plata Campus,
Francis P. Chiaramonte, M.D. Center for Science and Technology (ST Building)
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Featuring

Game Library | Paint-and-Take Miniatures | Events | Designers | Demos | Open Gaming | Vendors | Food Trucks

Registration is Open!

All proceeds from badge sales support student scholarships in partnership with the CSM Foundation.

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Pre-Registration: $20
Day-Of Registration: $25
Children 12 and under: FREE when accompanied by a paying/badge-holding adult

Schedule of Events


Morning Maneuvers!  9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

 

BattleTech: Learn-to-play

In this introduction to the BattleTech game and universe, players each take control of one or more giant walking war machines (BattleMechs, aka 'Mechs) and battle until their opponent is destroyed or until the scenario objectives being played are completed.  In summary: GIANT STOMPY ROBOTS!

Wargame Teen, Adult 90 minutes, repeating 6 seats

Blood & Plunder: Learn-to-play

Brandish your cutlass and musket and prepare for swashbuckling and adventure on the Spanish Main!  A miniatures game set in the Caribbean during the 17th century, it is guaranteed to evoke thrills and capture the imagination of gamer pirates.

Wargame Teen, Adult 90 minutes, repeating 6 seats

Call of Cthulhu: Blackwater Creek

Call of Cthulhu is the world’s best roleplaying game of mystery and horror. In Call of Cthulhu, you take on the role of everyday people who become investigators of the unknown—whether they are prepared or not. The mysterious places, people, and situations you encounter are often not what they seem—you and your friends are the only thing standing in the way of diabolical cults and cosmic monsters from beyond space! 

RPG Adult 4 hours 5 seats

Cthulhu: Death May Die

Disrupt the ritual and slay the Elder Gods in this co-op dice chucker.   

Board Game Teen, Adult 120 minutes, repeating 5 seats

Ivion: The Herocrafting Card/Board Game 

Enter a pain-stakingly crafted arena card game where you'll need every tool at your disposal to pull ahead. Tread lightly, for you'll find no mercy here.

Board Game Teen, Adult 1 hour, repeating 6 seats

Life of the Amazonia 

Build your very own thriving jungle by discovering various wild animals. 

Board Game Teen, Adult 3 hours 3 seats

Modern Art: Makes Me Want to Rock Out 

Buying and selling paintings can be a very lucrative business. Five different artists have produced a bunch of paintings, and it's your job to make a profit in flipping artwork. 

Party Teen, Adult 45 minutes, repeating 5 seats

Malifaux Demos

In a twisted mirror of an alternate Earth, engage in skirmish level gang warfare throughout the ruins of the eponymous city of Malifaux and its surrounding wilderness. Learn to play using smaller crews and a simplified set up. 

Wargame Teen, Adult 2 hours, repeating 4 seats

Nefarious Absurd Scintillating Games (N.A.S.G.) Demos

Learn how to play a miniatures agnostic skirmish game by an indie game developer.  Use miniatures they already have and incorporate them in a skirmish game setting. 

Wargame Teen, Adult 30 minutes, repeating 4 seats

Shadowdark

Classic gaming with elegant execution! Shadowdark RPG is what old-school fantasy gaming would look like after being redesigned with 50 years of innovation. 

It’s fast, familiar, intuitive, deadly, and built for sword-and-sorcery adventures. A torch only holds back the looming darkness, and there isn't a moment to spare when your only light source is guttering low...

RPG All Ages 4 hours 5 seats

Shadowrun: Battle Royale

What started as a case of the munchies spirals into corporate intrigue and gang warfare! 

RPG Teen, Adult 4 hours 5 seats

Thunder Road: Vendetta: Learn-to-play

Thunder Road: Vendetta is a revved-up restoration of the classic 1986 game of mayhem on the asphalt. Grab your crew, roll your dice, race your cars, shoot your guns, and try not to get wrecked. 

Board Game Preteen, Teen, Adult 90 minutes, repeating 4 seats

Schedule is subject to change.


Afternoon Adventures! 1 – 5 p.m.

 

BattleTech: Learn-to-play

In this introduction to the BattleTech game and universe, players each take control of one or more giant walking war machines (BattleMechs, aka 'Mechs) and battle until their opponent is destroyed or until the scenario objectives being played are completed.  In summary: GIANT STOMPY ROBOTS!

Wargame Teen, Adult 90 minutes, repeating 6 seats

Blood & Plunder: Learn-to-play

Brandish your cutlass and musket and prepare for swashbuckling and adventure on the Spanish Main!  A miniatures game set in the Caribbean during the 17th century, it is guaranteed to evoke thrills and capture the imagination of gamer pirates.

Wargame Teen, Adult 90 minutes, repeating 6 seats

Broken Paths

Build paths and make your way to the goal.

Board Game All ages 30 minutes, repeating 4 seats

Bushido: Learn-to-play

A game of Bushido is fast-moving, flexible and filled with strategizing, counter-strategizing and counter-counter-strategizing. In this Japanese fantasy skirmish wargame, your tactical acumen is important, but so too is your ability to think on your feet. 

War game Teen, adult 90 minutes, repeating 4 seats

Call of Cthulhu 

Even death shall die!  This Call of Cthulhu scenario is a perfect introduction to cosmic horror!  It’s a convention-friendly trek through unnamable frights with pre-generated characters and plenty of dice! 

RPG Teen, Adult 4 hours 5 seats

Call of Cthulhu: Blackwater Creek

Call of Cthulhu is the world’s best roleplaying game of mystery and horror. In Call of Cthulhu, you take on the role of everyday people who become investigators of the unknown—whether they are prepared or not. The mysterious places, people, and situations you encounter are often not what they seem—you and your friends are the only thing standing in the way of diabolical cults and cosmic monsters from beyond space! 

RPG Adult 4 hours 5 seats

Flamme Rouge

Riders negotiate the peloton and avoid exhaustion in this card-pedaled Tour de Force. 

Board Game Teen, Adult 90 minutes 4 seats

Flesh and Blood: Learn-to-play 

Learn to play a hero-centric fantasy trading card game, designed for incredible constructed, booster draft, and sealed deck play. 

Card and game Teen, Adult 60 minutes, repeating 8 seats

Games Club of Maryland Presents: Let's Go! To Japan | Path to Civilization | Wyrmspan | Rock Hard 1977

GCOM Officers have a bounty of games to share.  Take a seat and learn one of three new classics! 

Board Game All ages 90 minutes, repeating 5 seats

HEART: The City Beneath

Heart: The City Beneath is an RPG about delving into a nightmare undercity that will give you everything you’ve ever dreamed of - or kill you in the process. It’s a story-forward dungeon-crawler that focuses on what characters have to lose in pursuit of their dreams in the chaotic darkness beneath the world. 

RPG Adult 4 hours 5 seats

Heroscape: Learn to Play Age of Annihilation

Welcoming all to Valhalla! Whether you are returning to Heroscape or just discovering it, join us for the battle of all time and celebrate its 20th anniversary with a brand-new edition! 

War Game All ages 60 minutes, repeating 6 seats

Isle of Skye

Build your kingdom as Chieftain one tile at a time and rule all of Scotland! 

Board Game Teen, Adult 90 minutes 4 seats

Red Dragon Inn 

In Red Dragon Inn, you and your friends are a party of heroic, fantasy adventurers. You've raided the dungeon, killed the monsters, and taken their treasure. Now you're back, and what better way to celebrate your most recent victory than to spend an evening at the Red Dragon Inn. You and your adventuring companions will spend the night drinking, gambling, and roughhousing. The last person who is both sober enough to remain conscious and shrewd enough to hold onto his Gold Coins wins the game.

Card Game Teen, Adult 45 minutes, repeating 8 seats

The Siege of Tyral Morhal 

A Legendary siege of a sea borne fortress with many bosses and tough minions who guard it. Recommended Level is 10. 

RPG Teen, Adult 200 minutes 6 seats

Viticulture

Seasons pass as you develop your vineyard, harvest grapes, make wine and fill orders. Create the best winery in all of Tuscany. Cheers! 

Board game Teen, Adult 120 minutes, repeating 6 seats

Wingspan: Learn-to-Play 

Avian aficionados unite! Play as a bird enthusiast with the goal of attracting the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each habitat in the game is associated with an action (gaining food, laying eggs, drawing cards). Each bird that you play makes you better at those actions and triggers its own power each time you use its habitat.

Board Game Teen, Adult 2.5 hours 5 seats

Zombicide 1st edition 

Zombicide is a collaborative game in which players take the role of a survivor – each with unique abilities – and harness both their skills and the power of teamwork against the hordes of unthinking undead! 

Board Game Teen, Adult 2 hours, repeating 6 seats

Schedule is subject to change.


Evening Encounters! 5 – 9 p.m.

 

BattleTech: Learn-to-play

In this introduction to the BattleTech game and universe, players each take control of one or more giant walking war machines (BattleMechs, aka 'Mechs) and battle until their opponent is destroyed or until the scenario objectives being played are completed.  In summary: GIANT STOMPY ROBOTS!

Wargame Teen, Adult 90 minutes, repeating 6 seats

Blood & Plunder: Learn-to-play

Brandish your cutlass and musket and prepare for swashbuckling and adventure on the Spanish Main!  A miniatures game set in the Caribbean during the 17th century, it is guaranteed to evoke thrills and capture the imagination of gamer pirates.

Wargame Teen, Adult 90 minutes, repeating 6 seats

Castles of Burgundy

Plan, trade, and build your Burgundian estate to prosperity and prominence. 

Board Game Teen, Adult 3 hours 3 seats

Cyberpunk RED: Getting Paid 

The players have just finished a lucrative job, but they need to find (and possibly rescue) their Fixer before they can be paid… 

RPG Teen, Adult 4 hours 5 seats

Distilled

Purchase goods, upgrade your distillery, and craft the world's finest spirits.  Cheers! 

Board Game Teen, Adult 2 hours, repeating 4 seats

Ironsworn: Starforged 

Take on the role of spacefaring explorers in a distant galaxy as they scour the stars for remnants of a fallen civilization. 

RPG Teen, Adult 4 hours 5 seats

ST. MARY’S BOARD GAMERS PRESENTS:
Trio / Just One / Railroad Ink / 6 Nimmt / Quiddler

St. Mary’s Board Gamers have a bounty of small games to share.  Take a seat and play! 

Board and Card Games Teen, Adult 30 minutes, repeating 4-6 seats

Zombicide 1st edition 

Zombicide is a collaborative game in which players take the role of a survivor – each with unique abilities – and harness both their skills and the power of teamwork against the hordes of unthinking undead! 

Board Game Teen, Adult 2 hours, repeating 6 seats

Schedule is subject to change.

Venue Map




Vendors

 

With Generous Game Library Support From...

1985 games logo alewood gamesThe Army Painter catalyst game labs Catan studio logochaosium logo
fireside gamesgale force nine logogamelyn games inside up games keymaster games Klask Leder gamesLooney Labs
mantic gamesnorth star games palladium books privateer press red raven games Renegade Game Studios
righteous falcon logoThemeborne treasure falls games Van Ryder Games Weird Giraffe Games Wyrd games

 

Play-to-Win Games by
Double exposure

Pick a game, sign it out, and play it. Return the title to the table and drop a ticket into that game's lottery.

 

In Partnership With


Sponsored By


Food Vendors

Freshly made for you logo   Yaya's Trini Truck logo   

Contact Information

Professor Andrew Wodzianski, Club Advisor, Festival Director
akwodzianski@csmd.edu

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