Con on the Cob 2025

It's the world's most off-the-cob celebration of GAMES, ART, FREAKS, and FUN! Con on the Cob is a tabletop gaming con, chock full of RPGs, board games, card games, party games, and all sorts of that kind of jazz. It’s also an art fair, with a large selection of talented artists in attendance and an amazing abundance of fantasty, science fiction, horror, and geeky art and art activities. Oh, and it’s Oddmall: The Mother of All Marketplaces, with over 100 vendors showcasing a wide variety of jazz, snazz, and zazz, boosting the geekonomy like old school Robin Hoods (but without the stealing and the giving stuff away for free (ok, not like Robin Hoods). I failed analogy class in Kindergarten.

Don’t forget the parties… Did I mention the parties? There are parties. A LOT of them. Also there are other things, like our amazing Special Guests, the Children of the Cob, the Nerdcore Explosion and Comedy Music Extravagasm!, a super sweet Auction, a Games Library, Panels, Workshops, and Demos, Food Trucks, a whole track of Cosplay and Fandom related activities, and a massive horde of potential friends and peeps who dig the same things you dig!

It's a magical sort of place where all people are welcome, nobody's a nobody, and everybody is weird (just like you and me).

Oh, wait. I forgot to mention this year Con on the Cob is goosin' CURSED! Yep, it seems the coblins have miffed some magical entities and now the whole place is bonkers. Nobody knows the full extent of the shenanigans but we really need your help in returning things to whatever counts as normal at Con on the Cob.

AND... as a result of this curse or whatever, the open gaming area will be open starting WEDNESDAY EVENING (which is why it says the show starts on the first).

All Con on the Cob attendees will receive a card along with their convention badge that explains the manner in which they have been cursed as well as a cursed artifact (a wicked necklace). The goal of this meta-game is to cure yourself of a curse by getting somebody else to enact the symptoms of your curse - thus transferring the curse to that person. For example, if you are cursed to act like a pirate you must get somebody else to act like a pirate. If they do, trade curse cards with them and take one of their accursed necklaces for yourself (if they have any). Another way to nab somebody's necklace is to trick them into verbally identifying the manner in which you are cursed ("Why are you walking backwards", etc..). If that happens, nab one of their necklaces but do not trade curse cards. Whoever has the most necklaces at the closing ceremony on Sunday wins a FREE badge to Con on the Cob 2026 and a coveted Corny Award!

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