APF Gaming
“You have to learn the rules of the game…and then you have to play better than anyone else.” -Einstein
Shall we play a game? If you answered yes, then Alabama Phoenix Festival is where you need to be. From top notch gaming guests to battles of strategy, wit, and pure luck, we have what you want!
Magic the Gathering
As you probably already know, across the state of Alabama for the past six months, venues have been hosting qualifiers for the Alabama Phoenix Festival Magic Tournament which will culminate in a play off during the festival with the winner walking away with a case of the most recent Magic release AVACYN RESTORED and a trophy, while the top ten get something special as well. The fun does not end there- join us for continuing sanctioned drafts, sealed tournaments, win-a-box tourneys, EDH tournament pods and Friday Night Magic running through the entire Festival with more surprises and awards for you to compete for! Events start on Friday and run straight through to Sunday with the main event taking place on Saturday and Avacyn Restored Game day events and a Modern Tournament on Sunday!
Steve Jackson Games
Don’t let things get too serious for you though…our friends from STEVE JACKSON GAMES will also be on hand to provide us with a wide variety of their top notch wares! Zombie Dice, C’thulhu Dice, Frag, Chez Geek, Revolution, Illuminati, Foam Dice, and every type of Munchkin there is (Click
here to see the full schedule of all Steve Jackson Games)! Mega-fun from Friday through Sunday with the MUNCHKIN 8 LAUNCH EVENT and TOURNAMENT on Saturday starting at 6pm!
Role Playing Games
Who Will You Choose to Be?
It is one thing to read about heroes, or to watch them on any size screen. It is yet another to embody the heroes of a story, taking up sword or pistol or enchanted staff in defense of what you believe. Or perhaps you might choose to tread cautiously into haunted vaults, or stride purposefully into a twilight lord's domain, demanding your due.
That's a huge part of what roleplaying is about - casting yourself as a protagonist in a story you are sharing with everyone at the table. The only limits are your collective imaginations, yet the challenges you face may be truly overwhelming. And the dice? Remember, that's where the real drama is. The chance to succeed or fail lies within these oddly-shaped talismans, and the fortunes of the moment exist in every roll.
Alabama Phoenix Festival celebrates storytelling in all its forms, so come to the table, choose a character, and get ready to experience a story only you can help to tell.
Role playing games are brought to you by Silvermeet Studios and DriveThru RPG. Click here to see the list!
HEROCLIX
You need a hero? We have HEROCLIX! The phenom strategy game that uses your favorite comic book characters in a game that is akin to chess on steroids! There will be constructed tourneys where you can compete for prizes in these battle royales, plus you can click on over to the STAR TREK and LOTR clix formats as well!
LARPing
You say moving game pieces around boards and flipping cards down is all well and good, but you need to live the adventure? Then join TANNER MC for some reality bending LARPing in a game entitled Prophecies of Varo that will run the entirety of the Festival both in time and space! Switch your mind to surreal and join a reality different than what you know plus you get to mess with other people’s minds!
Tanner has put together a site for you to find out more about the rules and how to play the game. The site will also give you details on how to register your character. You can visit it here: Prophecies of Varo
The 501st and Rebel Legion also have a LARP game. You can find out more by visiting the page here: 501st/RL Diplomatic Mission
Board and Strategy
Variety? You dare say that what we offer needs more variety? Then you will have to deal with Shaunnon and Shannon Drake because they are bringing a library of over 375 different board games, from the classics to the modern, from the simple to the absurd. They will be on hand to teach you a few new tricks and help you remember what you love about some old ones as well!
Video Gaming
PLAY ON CON. Heard of it? Of course you have! Over the last five years, POC has carried the torch for Birmingham fandom by hosting a wide and wild variety of shows, parties...and gaming! Now they're bringing some of that gaming--the video gaming, to be exact--to the Alabama Phoenix Festival!
We are honored and you will be thrilled as the folks from POC and VULCAN GAMEBOX gear you up to lock and load! PLUS compete in POC’s ROCK BAND COMPETITION for prizes and groupies! We supply the prizes--the groupies are up to you! Get creative on this, though, because you'll be judged not merely on game score but also on performance, stage presence, and costume design by special guest judges! The Rock Band Competition goes down on the main stage in the Cahaba Grand Conference Center.
All Gaming events (except Rock Band) will be hosted in the Hilton Perimeter Park Hotel on Highway 280, so after you register and get your passes head on over and start kicking butt and taking names. Please put names back where you get them from at the end of the Festival as people will probably be needing them in normal life.
Quest
Saturday 11:00am, 2:00 pm, & 3:00pm
Hear Ye! The Faerie Queen has had the jewels stolen from her crown! Gather, loyal subjects of the Queen to quest for the crown jewels. Face enemies and gather allies as you seek the treasure in the Royal forests.
Released in time for the Alabama Phoenix Festival, Quest! Is an introductory role playing game for 2 to 4 children, ages 4 to10. These demo sessions last about an hour, and require no dice or experience. All children will be given complimentary coloring pages for participation. Created by Dave and Christi Newton.
The Island
Friday 6:00 pm
Saturday 6:00 pm
GM: Dave Newton In the wake of a terrible storm, the pirate coalition known as Azureain has lost contact with the inhabitants of Amber Island, one of their hidden bases in the Winedark Sea. All attempts at communication with the port have failed, and the pirate leader has hired a crew to investigate. Your job is to investigate, secure the cove, and return to the coalition with news. This fantasy/horror adventure is based on and run by the co-author of the Dangerous Journeys/Mythus FRPG, Dave Newton. Participation requires no experience in this skill-based system. A selection of pre-generated characters is supplied. Bring your dice and role playing skills for four hours of mystery, magic and mayhem!
SilverMeet Studios Games Descriptions
The following lists the tentative games brought to you by SilverMeet Studios. Stay tuned for updates and scheduled times.
LEGENDS ARISE Shaintar (Savage Worlds)
Friday 6:00 pm
Saturday 6:00 pm
Number of Players: 3-6
Experience Needed: None
Pre-gen characters provided
Sean Patrick Fannon, creator of the Epic High Fantasy setting of Shaintar for Savage Worlds, invites you to begin your own legend. Each character becomes a part of the setting, each tale a part of the greater epic.
The War of Flame is waning, though there are still demons, monsters, and terrible men wandering the Wildlands and bringing strife and destruction wherever they go. The Red Store continues to build its criminal empire, and the mysterious Merchant extends his grasp everywhere. Whispers of the the coming Crimson Crusade echo through taverns and lonely roads.
Only Grayson's Grey Rangers stand between the Southern Kingdoms and these terrible threats. You are one of those Rangers. Good luck.
Shaintar: Legends Arise and a whole line of support material is being published by Reality Blurs, creators of Runepunk, Iron Dynasty, and Agents of Oblivion. Sean is also a part of the SilverMeet crew.
BURROUGH'S BARSOOM
Saturday 6:00 pm
Sunday 1:30 pm
Barsoom/Mars (Savage Worlds)
Number of Players: 3-6
Experience Needed: None
Pre-gen red and green Martian characters provided
Betty Law Morgan invites you to ride a thoat across the yellow plains of Barsoom to deliver urgently needed materials to one of the planet's artificial atmosphere plants.
Sixty earth years after John Carter departs Mars, the green Tharks and red Heliumites are still allies and responsible for the operation of the planet's lifesaving artificial water and atmosphere facilities. The plant nearest Helium requires not only materials for urgently needed repairs but also a new engineer to replace one who has died suddenly and mysteriously. Knowing that there are those who would like to take control of these operations and thus control of Barsoom, the Jeddaks decide to send an airship with the parts. But they are only a distraction; your party will deliver both parts and engineer to the atmosphere plant via ground transport -- riding thoats. Can you get the engineer and materials to the plant before it stops working shorting Barsoom of its precious oxygen?
Burrough's Barsoom draws on existing material from the Savage Worlds universe and material created by SilverMeet's Betty Law Morgan and Sean Patrick Fannon to create an atmosphere reminiscent of 1920s-30s pulp scifi.
INTO THE LAIR OF DOCTOR ODD
Friday 1:30 pm
Saturday 9:00 am
ICONS
Number of Players: 3-8
Experience Needed: None
Pre-gen characters provided
Dr. Odd, master of robotics, bioengineering, and mystical master of probability, is at it again and only the timely intervention of Team Virtue can save the day and maybe the world. As our heroes rush against time and chance, will they be able to defeat Dr. Odd and his underlings on their home turf before he completes his master plan - the creation of a virus that will remake the innocents of the world into his obedient minions?
ICONS: A fast and easy playing system for superpower settings which will be run with a hand full of house rules to ease play. Your GM for this scenario is SilverMeet Stalwart and Major Domo, Brandon Schiffler.
WRONGNESS IN ROCKET CITY
Friday 1:30 pm
Saturday 1:30 pm
The Crew (Savage Worlds)
Number of players: 3-8
Experience needed: None
Pre-gen characters provided.
SilverMeet's Carinn Seabolt presents a world of dark fantasy, modern horror, and high-tech action adventure. Join the special agents of the C.R.U.E. (Containment and Research of Unnatural Events) division of Global Special Services. The unknown terrors and horrors of the world, hidden by the Veil from the population at large, cannot hide from "The Crew." Awakened Humans, Were-tainted Lukanos, Vampire-spawned Dhampir, and others touched by the Shadows are all that stand between the world we know and one of total Darkness.
Huntsville, AL is "Rocket City, USA" - one of the most high-tech places in the world, and a center of military and aerospace development. It's the kind of place that mad scientists call home, and it's a place of power that draws ancient beings seeking to control the world. Important people are disappearing, people with knowledge and security clearances that give federal intelligence officials cold sweats. Supernatural influences are suspected, which means it's time for the Crew to go to work.
The Crew is an OMNIVERSE Setting, and it uses Savage Worlds.
PRINCES AND PIRATES
Saturday 9:00 am
Sunday 9:00 am
Shaintar (Savage Worlds)
Number of players: 3-6
Experience needed: None
Pre-gen characters provided.
In the fantasy world of Shaintar, on the burning sands of the Eternal Desert, a new threat emerges. With mysterious Amulets of Demonic Flame, this new evil seeks to revive the power of the Dragon Cult and rule the desert with the might of the unholy Abyss. Our only hope is the arrival of heroes with the will to risk it all in an adventure that sparks an epic that will cross the sands of the burning desert and one day take to the dangerous oceans of Shaintar.
Lee Ballew, up-and-coming writer and game designer for SilverMeet Studios, presents a whole new face of the Epic High Fantasy setting that is Shaintar.
Shaintar: Legends Arise and a whole line of support material is being published by Reality Blurs, creators of Runepunk, Iron Dynasty, and Agents of Oblivion.
The Gilded Cage: Bite of the Paper Tiger
Saturday 9:00 am
Sunday 9:00 am
Modern Adventure (Modified D10/Storyteller)
Number of Players: 3 – 6
Experience Needed: None
Pre-gen characters provided
The world is dark, the shadows overflowing with the forces of evil. Standing against this are corporate sponsored troubleshooting teams. These teams complete investigations and fight the evil tide under a careful cover of secrecy and anonymity.
Welcome to the Metropolitan Media Management Troubleshooting Department. On paper, your job is internal audit and investigation. In practice, you will be investigating the wide range of unexplained phenomena that affect our organization. We hope you have a long and full career with us.
The Gilded Cage is a setting developed and run by SilverMeet's Rob Fitch.
FLIGHT OF THE TIFFANY
Saturday 1:30 pm
Sunday 1:30 pm
Fate of Nations (Savage Worlds)
Number of Players: 3-6
Experience Needed: None
Pre-gen characters provided
The fabulous Tiffany Airship - pride and glory of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair - is on its world tour. An elegant dirigible with a gondola completely designed by none other than Louis Comfort Tiffany, the airship also features some of the finest engineering and extraordinary alchemical enhancements ever put into a vehicle. Naturally, this makes the craft a prime target for opportunists the world over. Join an intrepid band of agents for His Majesty's government as they attempt to prevent a powerful craft with potentially dangerous secrets from falling into the wrong hands. Fate of Nations is a setting for the OmniVerse Project, written and designed by Mark Warner. He's the GM for this game, and a member of the SilverMeet team.
