RinCon 2026

RinCon 2026

THIS SCHEDULE IS NOT FINAL! WE’RE IN THE PROCESS OF UPLOADING THE FINAL SUBMISSIONS AND FITTING THEM IN - THINGS MAY CHANGE! Game signups will open on Sunday September 20th at 2 pm. Tickets purchased on Zeffy will be uploaded daily in the evening, and we’ll announce in the Discord when that has happened. You’ll also get an automated email from Sched when your ticket has been uploaded, with instructions on how to log in.

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9:00am MST

Naasii: A Coyote & Crow Dice Game (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MST

Limited Capacity seats available

Naasii is a push-your-luck style game of chance. Inspired by traditional Indigenous games and classic American family games. You'll roll twelve-sided dice aiming to score sets or runs while not busting along the way. Highest score wins, but it's not all luck. You'll need to decide which numbers to pursue and when you've scored enough to keep ahead of the other players. You'll even be able to pick a lucky number that will get you a few extra points on other players' turns!

Designed by Kenna Alexander (Cherokee Nation, creator of Coyote & Crow) with art from Wolf Tomoyaketu (Comanche and Apache) and development by Daryl Andrews, Naasii brings the mischievous spirt of both Coyote and Crow to life in this fast paced, high-spirited game for the whole family.

GMs

Kenna Alexander

Saturday October 3, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MST
BG18

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/365555/naasii-a-coyote-and-crow-dice-game

10:00am MST

Renfield (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am MST

Limited Capacity seats available

This classic Cheapass card game is something like a cross between trick-taking and gambling. It’s a spicy, mean little card game played by the gravediggers from Parts Unknown. The object of each hand is to eat as few bugs as possible (but at least one), but the real goal is to finish with more coins than you started with. Come play with the inventor, James Ernest.

GMs

James Ernest

President, Cheapass Games

James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →

Saturday October 3, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am MST
BG25

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://crabfragmentlabs.com/renfield?rq=renfield

11:00am MST

The Ticket Booth (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

Race to collect sets of attractions around the fair. Spend tickets to skip forward to the pile you want—or to steal one another player needs. At the end of each round, the player who holds the most of each attraction scores points.

2 games running simultaneously

GMs

Michael Eskue

Saturday October 3, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm MST
BG23

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/465481/the-ticket-booth

12:00pm MST

Beach Bandits (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

Keep your eyes on the fries! Join a flock of greedy seagulls in a beak-to-beak showdown to snag the tastiest beach treats. Play cards to your stash for big points, or GIVE them to opponents to trigger special actions. Swap, steal, and ruffle rivals' stashes—then pull off your secret 'End Gull' strategy to become the ultimate Beach Bandit!

GMs

Michael Eskue

Saturday October 3, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST
BG23

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/466646/beach-bandits

12:00pm MST

Rochi (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

From the pages of Sonia Lyris’ The Stranger series comes a pub game by James Ernest, Rochi. This game was developed for Sonia’s Novel, Unmoored, and it’s a unique press-your-luck card game with unique mechanics and gorgeous tarot-style artwork. Come and play with the designer!

GMs

James Ernest

President, Cheapass Games

James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →

Saturday October 3, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST
BG25

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://crabfragmentlabs.com/rochi?rq=rochi

2:00pm MST

Meat on Swords (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

The zombies from Lord of the Fries are back in their newest enterprise, a Brazilian Steakhouse called Meat on Swords. This silly press-your-luck game pits you against your friends in a contest of eating as much as you can, but not too much! Play with the designer, James Ernest.

GMs

James Ernest

President, Cheapass Games

James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →

Saturday October 3, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST
BG25

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://crabfragmentlabs.com/shop/p/meat-on-swords?rq=meat%20on

2:00pm MST

The Ticket Booth (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

Race to collect sets of attractions around the fair. Spend tickets to skip forward to the pile you want—or to steal one another player needs. At the end of each round, the player who holds the most of each attraction scores points.

2 games running simultaneously

GMs

Michael Eskue

Saturday October 3, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST
BG23

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/465481/the-ticket-booth

2:00pm MST

Naasii: A Coyote & Crow Dice Game (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST

Women's Space A

Limited Capacity seats available

Naasii is a push-your-luck style game of chance. Inspired by traditional Indigenous games and classic American family games. You'll roll twelve-sided dice aiming to score sets or runs while not busting along the way. Highest score wins, but it's not all luck. You'll need to decide which numbers to pursue and when you've scored enough to keep ahead of the other players. You'll even be able to pick a lucky number that will get you a few extra points on other players' turns!

Designed by Kenna Alexander (Cherokee Nation, creator of Coyote & Crow) with art from Wolf Tomoyaketu (Comanche and Apache) and development by Daryl Andrews, Naasii brings the mischievous spirt of both Coyote and Crow to life in this fast paced, high-spirited game for the whole family.

GMs

Kenna Alexander

Saturday October 3, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST
Women's Space A

w/Creator Women BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/365555/naasii-a-coyote-and-crow-dice-game

2:00pm MST

The Starved City: A Temeraire Megagame (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 2:00pm - 6:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

The year is 1800. The Austrian army has laid siege to the French garrison at Genoa, trapping the soldiers and civilians inside the city’s walls as the War of the Second Coalition rages on.

At sea, the Queen’s Navy maintains a blockade that has left the besieged troops with little hope and even less food; in the air, British and Austrian dragons have maintained a similar stranglehold.

Yet… Genoa has not fallen. As Napoleon’s forces mass in the East, there are whispers on all sides that he intends to break the siege. But what if he has other plans?

Join Magpie Games for a unique event—a megagame recreating the siege of Genoa in the Temeraire universe. Take on the roles of Napoleonic Era officers and dragons on all sides of the Siege of Genoa, fighting for honor, country, and glory. Determine the fate of the city… and the fate of the War, alongside your own personal fortune. Vive la République!

GMs

Mark Diaz Truman

Owner/CEO, Magpie Games

Mark Diaz Truman is an Ennie award-winning game developer, co-founder of the Indie Game Developer Network (igdnonline.com), and co-founder of Magpie Games (magpiegames.com). He's authored many indie rpgs (The Play's the Thing, Our Last Best Hope, Urban Shadows, and Cartel), co-created several more (Zombie World, Root: The RPG, and Avatar Legends: The RPG), and served as a developmental editor on a variety of games since 2011 (Firefly, 7th Sea: 2nd E... Read More →

Saturday October 3, 2026 2:00pm - 6:00pm MST
Panel Room

w/Creator Special

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://magpiegames.com/blogs/news/temeraire-the-roleplaying-game-quickstart-now-available

3:00pm MST

Trash Pandas (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

In Trash Pandas, players are raucous raccoons, tipping over trash cans for food (and shiny objects). Players push their luck to acquire more cards, but must stash them in order for them to count as points at the end of the game. When the deck runs out, the game ends and players compare their stashes to see who has the majority for each card type and score points accordingly. The player with the most points wins!

In more detail, on a turn the active player rolls a die in the hope of gaining the benefit of the roll result. With each roll, the player decides to keep rolling or stop and activate the dice results. However, with each additional roll, the odds of busting (getting a duplicate result) increase further and the player risks losing the progress they've made that round. When activating the dice results, the player will draw cards, steal cards from other players, and stash cards. Cards in hand may be used for their listed ability, but they count as points only when stashed.

GMs

Michael Eskue

Saturday October 3, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm MST
BG23

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/216439/trash-pandas

4:00pm MST

Bleeding Sherwood (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

You’re all traveling salesmen, following Robin Hood through Sherwood Forest, selling useless garbage to the poor folks he just gave money to. Bleeding Sherwood was one of the very first and not-so-great Cheapass Games, it only took us 30 years to make it work right. Come play with the designer, James Ernest

GMs

James Ernest

President, Cheapass Games

James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →

Saturday October 3, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm MST
BG25

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://crabfragmentlabs.com/bleeding-sherwood?rq=sherwood

4:00pm MST

GIANT Titan Dice (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

You are the Titans! As sons and daughters of Gaia you are giant deities of incredible strength and the supreme rulers of the legendary Golden Age. Once imprisoned by the Olympians, you have escaped and must now prepare for all out war. Though unified in this goal, your sibling rivalry is stronger than ever and you strive to flex your power. To prove your dominance, you must gather mighty beasts to build your army.

But beware! The creatures are not captured easily and will resist your attempts. If you suffer too many wounds, you must retreat to recover. Meanwhile, your fellow Titans race to gather their own armies and will use various tactics to obstruct your progress.

GMs

Michael Eskue

Saturday October 3, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm MST
GIANT Games

w/Creator GIANT Special

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/208419/titan-dice

4:00pm MST

Skoden: A Coyote&Crow card game playtest (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm MST

Women's Space A

Limited Capacity seats available

This is a game currently in development by special guest Kenna Alexander of Coyote & Crow Games.

GMs

Kenna Alexander

Saturday October 3, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm MST
Women's Space A

w/Creator Women BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone

5:00pm MST

GIANT Titan Dice – Kid's Track (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

You are the Titans! As sons and daughters of Gaia you are giant deities of incredible strength and the supreme rulers of the legendary Golden Age. Once imprisoned by the Olympians, you have escaped and must now prepare for all out war. Though unified in this goal, your sibling rivalry is stronger than ever and you strive to flex your power. To prove your dominance, you must gather mighty beasts to build your army.

But beware! The creatures are not captured easily and will resist your attempts. If you suffer too many wounds, you must retreat to recover. Meanwhile, your fellow Titans race to gather their own armies and will use various tactics to obstruct your progress.

GMs

Michael Eskue

Saturday October 3, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm MST
GIANT Games

w/Creator GIANT Special

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/208419/titan-dice

8:00pm MST

Botanica (prototype, w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

Botanica is a light strategy game where 2–4 players grow vibrant gardens by selecting sets of plant, tool, and decoration tokens from a rotating nursery. On each turn, players decide how far to move the watering can around the nursery—spending water to skip ahead—to claim all tokens in a chosen section and add them to their personal garden boards. Flowers, clover, weeds, and decorations each score differently based on placement, adjacency, and majorities across specific board regions, while tools provide powerful one-time abilities such as removing weeds, duplicating plants, or swapping nursery tokens. The game ends when the shared water supply is depleted or when any plant or decoration type runs out, after which players tally points from their gardens, leftover water, unused tools, and any optional goal cards. Highest score wins, with ties broken by remaining water.

GMs

Michael Eskue

Saturday October 3, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm MST
BG23

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM6QVwqdrtk

8:00pm MST

Littlebeard Playtest (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

Sail the seven tiny seas in this prototype from James Ernest and Crab Fragment Labs. Littlebeard is a super-light, wind-based miniatures combat game set in an imaginary version of the Age of Sail. James is still working on the core rules, and he could use a few dedicated players to help test them!

GMs

James Ernest

President, Cheapass Games

James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →

Saturday October 3, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm MST
BG12

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://crabfragmentlabs.com/littlebeard?rq=littlebeard

8:00pm MST

Wolves (w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

Wolves is a semi-cooperative board game for 3-6 players. You take on the role of a community leader attempting to manage limited resources to help get your people through the winter. To survive, you need to co-operate and share through the gifting of what you've gathered and grown, which will dwindle as you head toward winter. If any player fails to meet their community's needs, all players lose the game — but if everyone makes it through winter, the player who gained the most status will be elected chief of all of the communities and granted an additional victory.

Status is gained through efficient gifting of resources to other players and sharing excesses with your own community. Phases of each turn are played either simultaneously, or in status order, which can change from turn to turn.

GMs

Kenna Alexander

Saturday October 3, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm MST
BG18

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/394070/wolves

10:00pm MST

Let's Get Kraken (prototype, w/Creator)

Saturday October 3, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm MST

Limited Capacity seats available

With the help of a friendly Kraken, players have descended to the ocean floor to search for lost treasure. Each round, players have a chance to gather treasure and return to the surface. While competing with other players for the most treasure, players must also be cautious of curious creatures and sea mines in the area.

GMs

Michael Eskue

Saturday October 3, 2026 10:00pm - 11:00pm MST
BG23

w/Creator BoardGame

ESRB Rating Everyone
Game URL https://youtu.be/9xPFrBw7aQU?si=iDRPRDI6KWt7hIg2

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