Conquest Games Market

Presented by: Ricky

Autostede: Neon Badlands is a synthwave meets punk rock journey across an unforgiving wasteland inspired by Zoids, Mad Max and Horizon: Zero Dawn.

Max players: Best with 4-5, can stretch to 6
Seriousness: Moderate, but on the less serious side (2/6)
Rating: PG.
Content warning: Depending on player interactions etc, can lead to narratives including “animal” / pet death and body horror

Presented by: Travis Hall

Charcoal burns last for up to five days and nights. Piling up the wood is backbreaking labour. Tending the fire calls for constant attention: sleeping in shifts, pushing through fatigue, and each standing one exhausting night’s watch.

And the woods are old, and wild, and hate fire like winter hates the living…

A roleplaying game with elements of collaborative storytelling for five charcoal burners tending their fragile fire, and the visitors they face in the unfriendly shadow of the forest.

Max players: Best with 4-5, can run with 2+
Seriousness: Moderate, leaning toward serious (4/6)
Rating: PG.
Content warning: Supernatural themes, and the stories you bring with you.

Presented by: Henry Walshaw

Legs is a modern day scenario for 4-6 players, set in the confines of the Winding Hotel, in Chicago, Illinois. The Investigators have come to attend a three-day convention in celebration of their favorite weird-fiction author, Harrison Paul Likenstuff. The weekend consists of sessions discussing Likenstuff’s work, games based on the characters and monsters created by Likenstuff in his stories. The highlight of the convention is a film festival of fan-created shorts inspired by Likenstuff’s work.

After two full days of a fun and exciting convention, the Investigators will attend the screening of a highly-anticipated fan film called Legs. But what has been a harmless and enjoyable weekend getaway quickly turns into a terrifying race to survive.

Max players: 6 (Best with 4+)
Seriousness: Not Very (1/6)
Rating: M. Not recommended for children.
Content warning: Moderate horror, infection, and arachnophobia

Presented by: Jack

Welcome to Daggerheart, a new epic TTRPG from Darrington Press. Powered by an innovative card and Duality Dice design, Daggerheart blends tactical depth with narrative freedom, empowering each group to make the game their own. Daggerheart is a system where GMs and players share in narrative worldbuilding, and every choice matters as the adventure hangs in the balance between hope and fear!

This beginner level adventure will see your group tasked by Marlowe Fairwind, the right-hand sorcerer of King Emeris, to carry an important package to Hush, a small village within the ancient forest of the Sablewood. The crate is large, heavy and sealed with magic, addressed to the Whitefire Arcanist. You’ve been given a map and a carriage, and the promise of reward upon your arrival. And it is here that we begin our adventure, as your group travel aboard your new carriage along a well-worn road through the Sablewood, with the precious cargo aboard…

Max players: 6 (Best with 2+)
Seriousness: Moderate, but on the less serious side (2/6)
Rating: PG.
Content warning: Fantasy style violence, violent wildlife, undead creatures

The D&D Adventurers League is an ongoing official campaign for Dungeons & Dragons, and always a staple of the Conquest Games Convention. DDAL uses the fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons rules, and features the Forgotten Realms setting. Players can use the fifth edition rules to create a first level character and bring that character to games anywhere D&D Adventurers League play is happening.

Come try out a snack-sized version at the market.

Presented by: Daz

Are you interested in telling queer stories? Does the idea of playing an angsty disaster lesbian with a sword make you feel warm and fuzzy inside? Do you want to take part in destroying every injustice you come across with a sword, erotic tension, and just a little bit of awkward pining?

Then have I got the RPG for you!

Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a Powered by the Apocalypse RPG where your party uses your skills of swords/magic/seduction to protect your community!

The main mechanics of this game are ROLEPLAY based, where romantic seduction is your best tool for getting what you want. There are some fighting components, but really, the main mechanics are about flirting and seducing the people around you to bring them over to your side. Whatever your real life charisma is, don’t worry! A dice roll or two will always be there to support you. While it will be a fade to black situation, if you’re not comfortable with (queer) romance or flirting, this probably isn’t the game for you.

DISCLAIMER:
This is a game for people who support racial liberation, intersectional feminism, and queer liberation. It’s for people who respect transgender people, POC, sex workers, disabled people, immigrants, people with diverse queer identities, people experiencing homelessness and poverty, neurodiverse people, fat people, and people of every body type.

This is NOT a space to educate you on any of those things. This is not the space to ask questions, nor to ask people to do the emotional labour of educating you.

This is a space to celebrate the existence and joy of people with these identities, and that support these identities. If you don’t agree or respect ALL of those things, then this is not the game for you.

Max players: 6
Rating: PG
Content warning: Homophobia, Classism.