Breakout 2025

Thank you for joining us, @rrookstudio.bsky.social @dndbeyond.bsky.social @shannonmcdowell.bsky.social @ericabouyouris.bsky.social!

Oh did we have fun!
Friends were made & games were won.
We played something new.
And painted cute minis too.
There was so much great hair!
Breakout 2026: See you there?

#breakoutcon #tabletopgames #boardgames #rpg #ttrpg #boardgaming #boardgamegeek #rpgcommunity #tabletopgaming #TTRPGCommunity

Me and my son playing Finspan.

Pointing to a sentence. "Many species of fish, especially deep-sea fishes, live a more ..." Pointing to the word "fishes" as being appropriately pluarlized.

Cover of Finspan game.

Enjoying my first play of Finspan! @stonemaiergames.com

As a biologist I appreciate the bio-info on cards and in booklet. With proper pluralization of "fishes"!
🐠🐠FISH if >1 fish of one species.
🐠🦈FISHES if >1 species of fish.

My friend won it at @breakoutcon.bsky.social play-to-win.

Breakout Con was such an uplifting experience, thanks so much to the organizers @breakoutcon.bsky.social. I feel like I was losing touch with my hobby and now I have so much energy to create and share.

Now I gotta playtest this new project >:]

Daniel & Drew Meet Border Control | No Dice, No Problem #30 Asians Represent! · Episode

Fresh from @breakoutcon.bsky.social, @danielhkwan.itch.io and @drewquon.bsky.social discuss their first in-person #Warhammer40K match, Wandering Blades playtests, Drew's encounter with Canadian border control, and more on the latest episode of No Dice, No Problem! open.spotify.com/episode/7dQH...

i always love to see pictures of my games in-play, but @deepdark.games is doing more for my marketing with that cackle than any blurb could ever do.

Throwback to another full session of Cyberpunk Red, “The Angel’s Share.” Help a bartender keep her establishment open, just a smidge of dirty business required.

#breakoutcon #tabletopgames #rpg #ttrpg #rpgcommunity #tabletopgaming #TTRPGCommunity #cyberpunkred @rtalsoriangames.bsky.social

And it looks like those darlings had a blast playing Sock Puppets, the RPG at the con with you! For anyone who missed picking up this one, you can still find it on Kurt's Kickstarter page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ref...

That’s a wrap for @breakoutcon.bsky.social! Grateful for the opportunity to play games with friends, playtest Wandering Blades, and hang out with members of the @aznsrepresent.bsky.social community! Thank you to all of the wonderful con staff and volunteers!

A cartoon portrait of a white woman in pink and blue glasses and short brown hair smiling, saying "Thank you" in a speech bubble. The background is a photo of a table display with nerdy merchandise on it. The Breakout Con logo is in the top left.

Breakout Con mission complete! Huge thank you to @breakoutcon.bsky.social for creating such a wonderful event. Super grateful for all the new friends I met and the wonderful people who stopped to check out my table. Your support means the world to me and I hope to see you all in 2026! ✨ #BreakoutCon

Gary is a force of nature and a wonderful human! (And no, this isn't Gary writing this post).

A line of simple drawings of eldritch chicken characters on index cards atop a table with scattered game supplies

A line of simple drawings of silly geese characters on index cards atop a table with scattered game supplies

A line of simple drawings of eldritch chicken characters on index cards atop a table with scattered game supplies

A line of simple drawings of silly geese characters on index cards atop a table with scattered game supplies

What a collection of eldritch chickens and silly geese from this year’s @breakoutcon.bsky.social!

These and lots of other silly geese and eldritch chickens (friends) not pictured made this a fantastic weekend

Big thank you to @breakoutcon.bsky.social for having me as a guest and the incredible weekend filled with lots of laughs and way too many games 🤘

Special shoutout to @dragonshield.bsky.social and @gemroomgames.bsky.social for the guest prizes that I received, these are so freakin' cool!

Finally home from @breakoutcon.bsky.social. It was such a great time! I’ll post about the zines I bought and the games I played later but for now it’s time to shower and sleep.

@dcrapuchettes.bsky.social My son and I played your game Evolution: The Beginning at @breakoutcon.bsky.social. We loved it!

I own your game Evolution: Climate. The Beginning version has similar vibes but easier. I'm going to buy it and play it with my family and my biologist colleagues. Great game!

Just a small loot pile from @breakoutcon.bsky.social in Toronto this year. I’m super looking forward to (eventually) running The Last Caravan.

I gotta say, my first @breakoutcon.bsky.social was very fun. Happy to have met so many new folks, and connect with a number of people who have known me since my baby international ttrpgs designer days!

Apologies to everyone I wasn't able to meet up with. Let's stay in touch, please. ❤️

backlit portrait of Amanda in a cosplay of babydoll from sucker punch

I did a shoot with @vampx13.bsky.social an afternoon during @breakoutcon.bsky.social
and these photos turned out so gooood!!

A collection of RPG zines arranged so the titles are visible. Included are: Bloomfall by Sharang Biswas, Yeonsoo Julian Kim, and Joshua Gleason Together Among the Stars by Takuma Okada Galatea and Her Odyssey by S. Kaiya J. Band of Horses by Aaron Lim Oddfolk by Maxwell Lander Slender Threads of Freqs and Fortune and Hook, Line & Cyber by Satah (Wicked Glitch Games) Hidden in the Margins and Deadline by Will Jobst and Seb Pines (Good Luck Press) Auspex by Seb Pines This Discord Has Ghosts in It by Adam Vass and Will Jobst Longsword by Viditya Voleti Told by Starlight by Ryan Khan Wands & Laserguns by Christian Bahnweg and Justin Vandermeer Bad Moon, Good Game and Print it Yourself by Justin Vandermeer (Shouting Crow) SPLAT 3, SPLAT 4, and Skill Points by Summoning Circle Press.

My zine haul from @breakoutcon.bsky.social! I’m so excited to read and play all of these 🤩

Conservas board game on the table to play

Conservas board game box

Have been crawling back into routine after @breakoutcon.bsky.social but made sure to get a quick game in last night.

Conservas is a solo only bag builder game with multiple monthly missions. It's super quick and stream lined. Looking forward to more.

@25thcentury.games #boardgames #boardgamesky

Two Mothership character sheets, the SHIFT RPG QuickStart, a Big Grave Fashion Fantasy character sheet, and a Draw Steel character sheet.

I got to play three new (to me) systems at @breakoutcon.bsky.social: Mothership, Big Grave Fashion Fantasy, and Draw Steel. I also ran SHIFT.

Games are good.

Had a great time once again, at years @breakoutcon.bsky.social! Thanks to all my fellow Protospiel North designers for a great time.

A Tim Hortons gift card, business cards for Soul Operator and Shouting Crow Press, And a sticker for Misty Mountain Gaming (dot com). On the other side of the Shouting Crow Press is a small TTRPG game. You are a CROW. You went to get a SHINY THING. You have two stats: BOLD & CLEVER. Begin the gome with 5 points each. When you want to do something challenging, roll 1d20 and add a relevant stat. If the total is higher then the dificulty of the task, you succeed. 10, tough. 15, hard. 20, improbable. 25, incredible. Any time you roll a natural 20, add a single point to the stat you intended to apply to the roll. Any time you roll a 1, subtract a point.

Other cards which makes me think the Magic card came from @breakoutcon.bsky.social. I love that one card has its own mini TTRPG on the back. And I got a Tim Horton gift card and didn’t use it, noooooo! 😧

Finished @breakoutcon.bsky.social with Brindlewood Bay - squee'ing when I saw the Maven Moves, I knew +90% of the references.

This yrs takeaway: BB and Blades in the Dark were standouts for me, enjoyed Cypher System, SHIFT was fresh and interesting.

Good seeing old friends and compatriots.

A glowing Toronto sign lights up an ice rink in downtown.

A glowing maple leaf lights up an ice rink in downtown.

A shaft of light illuminates the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The needle peaks out from behind several buildings in downtown Toronto.

Thank you to the staff of @breakoutcon.bsky.social for another amazing gaming weekend. I had a wonderful time, played some fantastic games, and saw so many friends.

Always a fun time! @breakoutcon.bsky.social

This post brought to you by finally running some of the games that have been sitting on my shelf at @breakoutcon.bsky.social this weekend. Gotta play more soon.

We love your always popular games @pg-yyz.bsky.social and hope you will be back again next year!!! Thanks for helping to make Breakout great!

Did you get to try the Silly Goose Convention!?Something is Wrong with the Chickens was a HUGE HIT last year and Silly Goose looked just a fun!

I played more awesome games this weekend at @breakoutcon.bsky.social

1. My very first game of DIE! with @aramvartian.com where we played kids at a camp for troubled teens. Loved the story+premise and wish I could have played for 8 hours instead of just 3, Aram is so good at building tension!