GAMING EVENT! This will be a drop-in game run throughout the day in 15-minute blocks with 15 minutes between games. Description: Each player takes on the role of a Villager, a Werewolf, or a special character. It’s your job to figure out who the Werewolves are and to kill at least one of them in order to win... unless you’ve become a Werewolf yourself.
GAMING EVENT! This will be a drop-in game run throughout the day in 2-hour blocks, starting at 10:30 am, 12:45 pm and 3:00 pm each day. Description: The original beer & pretzels roleplaying game! For kobolds in the service of King Torg (ALL HAIL KING TORG!) their life will undoubtedly be silly, brutal, and short. They may be obliterated by meteorites, betrayed by friends, or brained by frying pans. Games set in the Kobolds Ate My Baby line cast you as these kobolds. Cheerily march to your death upon the beaks of chickens in the original beer & pretzels roleplaying game!
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY ALERT! Try Tripped, a fun, fast-paced, light strategy game. It’s a race across North America where you leave your hometown, sprint to 6 other cities and get back home again before any of your friends. But watch your step… because at some point you’re going to get Tripped! It’s the name of the game. Demos by the creator all day.
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY ALERT! MadMatix is a Thunder Bay–made card game that turns math into mayhem! Build sneaky number sequences, mess with your friends’ scores, and prove that math can actually be fun. 2–8 players take turns building number sequences on their own Track — or sabotaging others — to get the highest score. Number Cards create sequences from left to right, while Action Cards let you swap, morph, delay, or completely disrupt the math in play. There’s no complicated order of operations — just pure number-building, clever plays, and a race to come out on top. Easy to learn but full of twists, MadMatix is perfect for families, casual gamers, and math lovers (or haters!) looking for a quick, strategic challenge.
Featuring: Doug Jones and Harlan Kytwayhat Description: What is Hollywood like? What is the best place to film in Canada? Want to know the answers to these questions and more? Stars Doug Jones and Harlan Kytwayhat will sit down and answer questions about what it is like working in Hollywood versus working in the Great White North.
Featuring: ThunderCon Description: Ever wonder what it takes to keep ThunderCon running every year? Have questions you want to ask the people on the back end? Well this panel is your chance. Join us in the Paradox Pavilion to sit down and talk with some of the current and former members of ThunderCon's team and take a look at the cogs behind the machine.
Featuring: The Northern Dragon, Devon Phillips Description: As Creative Director and Fire Performer of Northern Dragon Fire Performers, Devon transforms his journey with mental health into breathtaking artistry, turning struggle into sparks of beauty. Get ready to feel the heat and the heart behind the flames when Devon takes the stage at ThunderCon 2025!
INTERACTIVE EVENT ALERT! Featuring: Star Wars Costuming Club Description: Join the Thunder Bay Star Wars Costuming Club for a bit of a march about. See Mandalorians, Jedi, Sith, Rebels and more. Follow them or just watch as they march past.
Featuring:Â Rosemarie Sarno Description:Â Join Rosemarie Sarno of Red Barrels Games as she plays through some of the first-person survival-horror series Outlast, where you assume the role of a reporter investigating a psychiatric hospital which has become overrun by patients with homicidal tendencies and must sneak around to survive. Since its original release in 2013, the franchise has expanded to include a sequel, a prequel, and is currently being adapted for the big screen by Lionsgate Films. This event is an 18+ activity due to the horror elements of the game.
Featuring: Thunder Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra Description:Â Some of your favourite fandom classics with a time-warped twist. Listen to members of the Thunder Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra perform a set of music from diverse fandoms and pieces imagined in styles from different time periods.
INTERACTIVE EVENT ALERT! Featuring: Northern Ontario Klingons Description: HUMANS! Bring your tiny humans to us so that we may train them in honour and the arts of war, as a Klingon. Kids, tell your parents you want to be a Klingon and join the Northern Ontario Klingons for a lesson in doing just that.
Featuring: Jeremy K., Ryan G., and Geared Up Games Description: Have you ever wanted to try running your own TTRPG? Join the Game Mastery panel to ask long-time Game Masters questions about running their favourite games, including Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, the World of Darkness, Exalted and more. Get some of the tricks of the trade from some of ThunderCon's favourite GMs.
GAMING EVENT! This is a tournament-style event and will require prior sign-up. Description: Get ready for Raising Rabbits - A Board Game Tournament, where we'll hop into some fierce competition and have a blast playing. Raise rabbits in this Euro-style economy and auction-based engine-building board game. To enter the tournament, sign up here.
Featuring: The Northern Dragon, Devon Phillips Description: As Creative Director and Fire Performer of Northern Dragon Fire Performers, Devon transforms his journey with mental health into breathtaking artistry, turning struggle into sparks of beauty. Get ready to feel the heat and the heart behind the flames when Devon takes the stage at ThunderCon 2025!
INTERACTIVE EVENT ALERT! Brought to you by: Hot Diggety Dog Description: Kids, join ThunderCon outside on the Wibbly Wobbly Way (or, in front of the main stage if it rains) to show off your cosplay and get prizes just for coming out!
Featuring: Northern Ontario Klingons, Star Wars Costuming Club, ThunderCon Description: Who will take the prize and make the opposing team eat Da' Bomb? You get to decide, and for a good cause. Join the Northern Ontario Klingons and the Star Wars Costuming Club in supporting the Kidney Foundation of Canada. Donate both Saturday and Sunday, and watch the event live on Sunday afternoon, to see who gets the most donations and which team gets to suffer.
Featuring: Shire of Mare Amethystinum of the SCA and Superior HEMA Description: Watch fighting and weapon demonstrations by members of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) and Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), and learn a bit about each of these organizations. Don't forget to visit the Medieval Encampment set up all weekend just behind the demo area, to learn more and see other aspects of the SCA.
Featuring: Aaron Rebelo Description: Join these independent game developers as they share a few of their secrets for developing successful tabletop games. Hear them discuss their passion for board games and the challenges of developing their own games from inception to release.
Featuring: The Northern Dragon, Devon Phillips Description: As Creative Director and Fire Performer of Northern Dragon Fire Performers, Devon transforms his journey with mental health into breathtaking artistry, turning struggle into sparks of beauty. Get ready to feel the heat and the heart behind the flames when Devon takes the stage at ThunderCon 2025!
Featuring: Thunder Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra Description:Â Some of your favourite fandom classics with a time-warped twist. Listen to members of the Thunder Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra perform a set of music from diverse fandoms and pieces imagined in styles from different time periods.
INTERACTIVE EVENT ALERT! Featuring: The Doctor (by Countdown Escape Rooms) and Dalek Thunder (J&K Creations) Description: Dalek Thunder got word that The Doctor was at ThunderCon, and now we need your help! Join us outside by the stage to help ThunderCon help The Doctor in this fast-paced interactive event, which will take you all over the Con.
Featuring: Matthew Cimone Description: Is exocomet 3I/Atlas an alien space craft?! Probably not! But that doesn't mean it isn't extremely cool – an ancient interstellar object older than our solar system on a journey through the Galaxy. But if it isn't an alien craft, why is Havard Professor Avi Loeb saying so? And what does this space drama tell us about the scientific community, research, and life beyond Earth?
Featuring:Â Rosemarie Sarno Description:Â Join Rosemarie Sarno of Red Barrels Games as she plays through some of the first-person survival-horror series Outlast, where you assume the role of a reporter investigating a psychiatric hospital which has become overrun by patients with homicidal tendencies and must sneak around to survive. Since its original release in 2013, the franchise has expanded to include a sequel, a prequel, and is currently being adapted for the big screen by Lionsgate Films. This event is an 18+ activity due to the horror elements of the game.
Judges: Description: Come and see the cosplay entries for ThunderCon's 2025 cosplay contest and find out who won. Are you interested in competing this year? You can enter your cosplay here.
Featuring: Peng You Tai Chi Description:Â Tai chi (noun): a Chinese martial art and system of callisthenics, consisting of sequences of very slow controlled movements. Fandom (noun/adj): the fans of a particular person, team, fictional series, etc. regarded collectively as a community or subculture. Fandom + Tai Chi: sequences of very slow controlled movements inspired by a particular person, team, fictional series, etc. Sit back and enjoy the show!