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Courting Trouble Megagame @ PAX Unplugged 2025

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Become a character in a romance novel! Woo your desires, challenge your rivals, and craft your story in this rules-light roleplaying-heavy megagame.

For the less romantically inclined, there are still diamonds to steal, family legacies to secure, vampires to slay, gossip to spread, inheritances to fleece, parties to throw/crash/explode, and so much more!

Sunday, November 23, 2025
10:00 AM — 4:00 PM

Pennsylvania Convention Center (map)

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Become a character in a romance novel! Woo your desires, challenge your rivals, and craft your story in this rules-light roleplaying-heavy megagame.

For the less romantically inclined, there are still diamonds to steal, family legacies to secure, vampires to slay, gossip to spread, inheritances to fleece, parties to throw/crash/explode, and so much more!

Sunday, November 23, 2025
10:00 AM — 4:00 PM

Pennsylvania Convention Center (map)

Google Calendar • ICS

↓Details below↓

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The board of relationships across the characters & factions, a visualization of the ties that bind.

The Event

The Megagame Coalition is proud to present the Courting Trouble by Benjamin Kanelos of BK Games - the first ever romantasy megagame (citation needed). Courting Trouble premiered recently at Gen Con 2025 (under the title of Bound by Desire) to great acclaim! The game was the second highest-rating megagame of the convention (behind the recent expansion of the Den of Wolves megagame, Den of Wolves: Infinite Domain - that’s also coming to PAX Unplugged).

This is part of the PAX Unplugged 2025 suite of megagame events being hosted by the Megagame Coalition. Badges to the PAX Unplugged convention are required to attend the event and can be purchased here.

Courting Trouble is rules-light megagame with a focus on melodrama, role-play, and interpersonal transactions/alliances/negotiations/trades/wedding proposals.

The Setting

Romance + Fantasy = Romantasy

Pride & Prejudice + Lord of the Rings = Counting Trouble

Bridgerton + A Game of Thrones = Courting Trouble

Twilight + Chronicles of Narnia = Courting Trouble

Vampires and werewolves and fey, oh my! If you’re a fan of fantasy or regency romance novels (Twilight, ACoTaR, Fourth Wing, Bridgerton, etc.) and have ever wanted to be a character in one of those books, Courting Truble is the megagame for you! Team up with up to 5 friends and enter a fantasy roleplaying world brimming with romantic possibilities. Who’s heart will you pursue? What rivals will you challenge? What storylines will you create? The choices are yours in this sandbox game of courtship, intrigue, and adventure. The plot is for you and 20+ players to drive forwards in this rules-light roleplaying-heavy megagame.

Note: This is a ‘closed door’ romance game. No explicit sexual content will be a part of this game. Safety tools will be employed. No touching above the elbow!

The Deetz!

  • Rules and roles will be distributed via email before the event. The rules will also be gone over at the start of the game for those who didn’t have time to read the rules.

  • Cosplay welcomed and praised but entirely optional.

  • Mature Themes. The game has major mechanics revolving around love, marriage, and attraction to each other. Immature players not welcome.

  • Age Limit. 18+

Have questions or concerns? Please reach out at phillymegagames@gmail.com