Tabletop Gaming

Tabletop gaming this year will be location in the Hyatt Regency O’Hare on the International Level (lower lever).

Making their debut at Anime Central, Cephalofair will be setup in Heathrow where you can play their tabletop games. Gloomhaven is an award-winning board game known to most people with any interest in tabletop games, there have been multiple spin off games and a video game made after it. In addition to Gloomhaven, this year Cephalofair is debuting a new spin off card game Gloomhaven: Buttons and Bugs.

Throughout the convention, our tabletop gaming partners will be running various tournaments. Some tournaments will require a fee to enter; however, winners will win prizes varying from cash, flight vouchers and store credit. See more details on the individual event pages. Bring your decks, be ready to play!

We will have hundreds of games to choose from and check out. There will be people on staff to help find the right game for you!

Japanime Games will be here with their own specific curated library of games and events! Tanto Cuore, Heart of Crown, Kamigami Battles, Tokyo Sidekick, Cowboy Bebop, and everything else!

Shayla Rucker will be on hand to teach a great assortment of her favorite games! The Gaming Lady has many great games to show you — Dragonball Z, Lupin the 3rd, My Hero Academia, Full Metal Alchemist, Avatar the Last Airbender, and MORE! Check out the online schedule to see more.

Join the Evanston Go Club in Tabletop Gaming on Friday and Saturday to learn to play the world’s oldest and most challenging board game. Go has been played for thousands of years and was considered one of the “Four Accomplishments” in China, along with calligraphy, painting and music. It is played by hundreds of millions of people around the world and became popular in the U.S. through the anime Hikaru No Go.

Go is easy to learn, yet challenging to play well. The rules are the essence of simplicity, yet they result in endless possibilities. There are more possible Go games than there are subatomic particles in the known universe. Chess grandmaster Edward Lasker has said, “While the Baroque rules of chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.”