Growing larger every year, Wittenberg’s Role-Playing Guild will host the 16th consecutive WittCon event on Saturday, March 23, from 9 a.m. to midnight at the Joseph C. Shouvlin Center for Lifelong Learning.
“WittCon has been the longest continuously running regional gaming convention in the Springfield/Dayton area with individuals coming from across the country to participate in a day of dice-slinging and storytelling,” said Assistant Director of Prospect Research Andrew Klosky, Wittenberg class of 2005 and a founding member of the Guild.
“Since its creation in 2002, the Wittenberg Role-Playing Guild has brought countless individuals to the table for hours of gaming enjoyment. Our games have taken us everywhere from the ‘Keep on the Borderlands’ in Dungeons and Dragons, to the ‘Weird West’ of Deadlands, to the rain-soaked streets of ‘New Corinth’ in Cold Steel Wardens, and to a galaxy far, far away in Edge of the Empire. These games provide us a medium of storytelling found nowhere else and the ability to be our own heroes with fate resting on nothing more than the roll of a die.”
Beginning in the spring of 2003 at Wittenberg with a mere 25 attendees, this year’s event is expected to bring in 150 participants or more ranging from current students, faculty, staff, and alumni, to members of the Springfield/Dayton community.
WittCon will feature a number of events focusing primarily on tabletop games. Some of the events include an open game library, a costume contest, an Orc and Pie live-action dungeon experience, vendors, and an UnPub Protozone, in which area game designers will be testing their new designs. There will also be two panel discussions featuring Q&A sessions with three local authors and with Larry Wickman, the designer of the Shuffling Horror card games. The full schedule is available here.
Admission to WittCon is $7 and includes access to all events, entry to a raffle, and a pizza and soft drink dinner, courtesy of Beavercreek Pizza Dive in Beavercreek, Ohio. Doors open for registration at 9 a.m. with games beginning at 10 a.m. Dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. with games ending at midnight.
