Terminal City Tabletop Convention 2025

Blood on the Clocktower is a captivating and addictive social bluffing game for those who delight in deduction and deception. No two games are ever the same and no player is ever eliminated. In Blood on the Clocktower, death is not the end…

Join Derek, your Storyteller from Metro Vancouver Clocktower, for beginner and learn to play sessions of Trouble Brewing.

newest iteration of Capstone's Iron Rails series. A game of track placement and shared incentives

Join me, a TCTC Volunteer Game Steward as I teach and guide a playthrough of Arcs. Arcs is a sharp Sci Fi wargame built around a fabulous trick-taking action system. It's a lot of fun but can be intimidating for new players so if you're looking to learn and get some light advice on strategy and flow of the game, then this is the session for you!

The 18xx family of games are railroad / stock market games, usually with no or very very little luck and heavy strategy. The object isn't necessarily to run the best railroad so much as it is to make the most money. This is a teaching event; games include Tom Lehmann's 1846 and Francis Tresham et al's 1830.

Twilight Imperium: The Ultimate Space Opera Board Game
Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition is the pinnacle of grand strategy and epic storytelling, where players take command of powerful factions vying for control of the galaxy. With deep diplomacy, intense warfare, political intrigue, and endless strategic possibilities, every game is a cinematic, player-driven saga unlike any other. Will you rule through strength, cunning, or diplomacy? The fate of the stars is in your hands.

And if you want even more depth and variety, Prophecy of Kings expands the galaxy with new factions, leaders, exploration mechanics, and ground combat Mechs. With up to eight players, even greater asymmetry, and game-changing faction heroes, Prophecy of Kings takes Twilight Imperium to new heights.
If you're ready for the ultimate 4X experience, where power, politics, and war collide in an unforgettable space epic, Twilight Imperium—with Prophecy of Kings—is the game for you. Will you rise to become the next galactic emperor?

Join us for a Battletech Grinder event, an event which historically is the most popular Battletech event the Catalyst Demo Team runs at GenCon, Origins and many other conventions around the world.

The Battletech Grinder is a casual all-day event and is great for all ability levels where players only pilot one mech at a time. Due to the nature of the event, players can join in, or drop out at any time without disrupting the event, so if you only want to play for a couple of hours and then move on to something else, it's not an issue.

The general idea of the Grinder is that players start with a simple, randomly-assigned small mech that uses basic weapons and rules in a free-for-all style gladiatorial match of Battlemech mayhem. When their mech is destroyed they get randomly-assigned a bigger, better mech that has slightly more complicated weapons and rules, which help ramp the player's learning of the rules and tactics of Battletech in a manageable way, and then thrown back into the carnage! This way new players are introduced to the vast rules of tabletop Battletech over time. Once a player has advanced to the highest class of mech, should they get destroyed again, they start the cycle all over again with a new randomly-assigned basic mech, continuing on in the never-ending slaughterfest.

All supplies will be provided by the Catalyst Demo Team, including miniatures, maps/terrain, dice, record sheets and pencils.

Blood on the Clocktower is a captivating and addictive social bluffing game for those who delight in deduction and deception. No two games are ever the same and no player is ever eliminated. In Blood on the Clocktower, death is not the end…

Join Nash, your Storyteller from Metro Vancouver Clocktower, for beginner and learn to play sessions of Trouble Brewing.

Come by and learn to play Altered, a new and unique trading card game set in the ever changing world of Asgartha. Players take control of 1 of 6 Factions and their Heros, and race to be the first to explore the ever changing landscape. 

Blood on the Clocktower is a captivating and addictive social bluffing game for those who delight in deduction and deception. No two games are ever the same and no player is ever eliminated. In Blood on the Clocktower, death is not the end…

Join AJ, your Storyteller from Metro Vancouver Clocktower, for beginner and learn to play sessions of Bad Moon Rising

Join us for a Battletech Grinder event, an event which historically is the most popular Battletech event the Catalyst Demo Team runs at GenCon, Origins and many other conventions around the world.

The Battletech Grinder is a casual all-day event and is great for all ability levels where players only pilot one mech at a time. Due to the nature of the event, players can join in, or drop out at any time without disrupting the event, so if you only want to play for a couple of hours and then move on to something else, it's not an issue.

The general idea of the Grinder is that players start with a simple, randomly-assigned small mech that uses basic weapons and rules in a free-for-all style gladiatorial match of Battlemech mayhem. When their mech is destroyed they get randomly-assigned a bigger, better mech that has slightly more complicated weapons and rules, which help ramp the player's learning of the rules and tactics of Battletech in a manageable way, and then thrown back into the carnage! This way new players are introduced to the vast rules of tabletop Battletech over time. Once a player has advanced to the highest class of mech, should they get destroyed again, they start the cycle all over again with a new randomly-assigned basic mech, continuing on in the never-ending slaughterfest.

All supplies will be provided by the Catalyst Demo Team, including miniatures, maps/terrain, dice, record sheets and pencils.

Join us for a Battletech Grinder event, an event which historically is the most popular Battletech event the Catalyst Demo Team runs at GenCon, Origins and many other conventions around the world.

The Battletech Grinder is a casual all-day event and is great for all ability levels where players only pilot one mech at a time. Due to the nature of the event, players can join in, or drop out at any time without disrupting the event, so if you only want to play for a couple of hours and then move on to something else, it's not an issue.

The general idea of the Grinder is that players start with a simple, randomly-assigned small mech that uses basic weapons and rules in a free-for-all style gladiatorial match of Battlemech mayhem. When their mech is destroyed they get randomly-assigned a bigger, better mech that has slightly more complicated weapons and rules, which help ramp the player's learning of the rules and tactics of Battletech in a manageable way, and then thrown back into the carnage! This way new players are introduced to the vast rules of tabletop Battletech over time. Once a player has advanced to the highest class of mech, should they get destroyed again, they start the cycle all over again with a new randomly-assigned basic mech, continuing on in the never-ending slaughterfest.

All supplies will be provided by the Catalyst Demo Team, including miniatures, maps/terrain, dice, record sheets and pencils.

KeyForge is a two-player battling card game from Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: The Gathering. So how do you build your deck? That's the neat part, you don't! Each deck comes prebuilt and ready to play, making it easy to learn the game, and the cards that each deck contain are procedurally generated in a way so that no two decks are the same!

In this learn-to-play session, I will be teaching everyone how to play with some time afterwards for some practice games. Each participant gets the following:
- 2 FREE KeyForge decks from a variety of sets (both opened/not sealed but still in shrink wrap)
- 2 set of tokens (enough for 2 players)
- 1 instructions manual

Come back for the Sealed KeyForge Tournament at 1:30 pm, which includes a FREE sealed (unopened) KeyForge deck for you to use in the event and keep! And there will be prizes!!

Decks provided by this event are on a limited supply so priority will be given to those who signed up online and then on a first-come-first-serve basis.

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More information on KeyForge:
BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257501/keyforge-call-archons
Official site: https://keyforging.com 
Play online! https://thecrucible.online/

Rules:
Learn-to-play: https://keyforging.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/KF-Learn-to-Play_Web.pdf
Complete rules: https://keyforging.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/KeyForge-Rulebook-v18-0.pdf
Tournament rules: https://keyforging.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/KeyForge-TRG-v2.pdf

Vancouver KeyForge discord - Help From Future Self: https://discord.gg/tHwsfd6W

Join us for a Battletech Grinder event, an event which historically is the most popular Battletech event the Catalyst Demo Team runs at GenCon, Origins and many other conventions around the world.

The Battletech Grinder is a casual all-day event and is great for all ability levels where players only pilot one mech at a time. Due to the nature of the event, players can join in, or drop out at any time without disrupting the event, so if you only want to play for a couple of hours and then move on to something else, it's not an issue.

The general idea of the Grinder is that players start with a simple, randomly-assigned small mech that uses basic weapons and rules in a free-for-all style gladiatorial match of Battlemech mayhem. When their mech is destroyed they get randomly-assigned a bigger, better mech that has slightly more complicated weapons and rules, which help ramp the player's learning of the rules and tactics of Battletech in a manageable way, and then thrown back into the carnage! This way new players are introduced to the vast rules of tabletop Battletech over time. Once a player has advanced to the highest class of mech, should they get destroyed again, they start the cycle all over again with a new randomly-assigned basic mech, continuing on in the never-ending slaughterfest.

All supplies will be provided by the Catalyst Demo Team, including miniatures, maps/terrain, dice, record sheets and pencils.

Blood on the Clocktower is a captivating and addictive social bluffing game for those who delight in deduction and deception. No two games are ever the same and no player is ever eliminated. In Blood on the Clocktower, death is not the end…

Join AJ, your Storyteller from Metro Vancouver Clocktower, for beginner and learn to play sessions of Trouble Brewing.