MisCon

06/26/2025

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06/21/2025

MisCon is in full swing and tonight at Midnight is your final deadline to enter the costume contest. No entries will be accepted after midnight! You can find our rules and sign ups here: https://www.miscon.org/costuming/costume-contest.php

06/21/2025

Cattle Coffee is here for all you caffeine needs!

06/15/2025

Congratulations to Chaosium on their 50th Anniversary!
To celebrate they sent us presents—including Amazing Prize Support and a Discount for Everyone!

06/14/2025

Aspiring writers! Bring your first page to MisCon's annual First Page Idol. At the start of the panel, hand in the first page of your work. MisCon author Theresa Johnson Miller will randomly read submissions aloud for everyone to hear.

Our panel of editors, including Author Guest of Honor Jonathan Maberry, and Featured Publisher Patrick Swenson of Fairwood Press, Tod McCoy of Hydra House Press, and Lynsey G Lagsalot of Oneshi Press, will indicate when they'd stop reading if the submission had come across their desks. Then they'll tell us why.

Submissions are anonymous and will not be returned.

06/14/2025

Artist Todd Lockwood has created art for Magic the Gathering, World of Warcraft, and a ton of iconic D&D settings & characters n the Forgotten Realms to Dragonlance and beyond (like Drizzt, Raistlin, and a zillion dragons).

Through discussion panels, hangouts, games, readings, craft demos, and workshops, we bring fans together with authors, artists, game designers, actors, costumers, and other professionals in the world of speculative fiction.

06/13/2025

Lots of cool new stuff in store at Con Next Week, including a very special beverage from OddPitch Brewing!

✨ Tatooine Sunset - Raspberry Sour ✨

Introducing the official beer of MisCon 39 ()!

A bright, tart raspberry sour — as vibrant as the twin suns dropping below the Dune Sea. Crafted for the scoundrels, Jedi, smugglers, and storytellers gathering at MisCon 39 right here in Missoula!

MisCon kicks off June 20-23. Whether you're rolling dice, cosplaying your heart out, or playing pinball into the night — Tatooine Sunset is a refreshing, 4.8% abv, raspberry packed beer perfect for any adventure.

Limited batch — once it’s gone, it's gone. This is the beer you're looking for.

06/13/2025

MisCon Apps

The Android and iOS apps have been updated for this year. Read more at

MisCon 39 Announcements Missoula

06/08/2025

MisCon 39: Hive of Scum & Villainy

Trust is hard to come by these days, but at least MisCon 38’s dark forest is finally gone. That cybernetic raccoon’s diabolical plan seems to have worked: between the Empire’s orbital weapons, Howl’s banishment spells, and Van Hohenheim’s alchemy, the fairy portals closed and the trees dwindled into sparkly dust and withered leaves.

We should have learned our lesson about bargaining with strange powers, I suppose, but we had to get rid of the fairies somehow, didn't we? Our seers, scientists, and sages sent a distress call across the multiverse, never imagining it would draw the interest of so many scavengers.

Word got out that there's something special about MisCon, and it seems like every pirate, mercenary, and Ravager is showing up to claim it.

Is it literal treasure? Magic? A holocron? Is it just a feeling?

I don't know, but Deadpool seems to think I do.

Of course the Empire was quick to send in a fleet to try and blockade the convention and secure it for themselves. At least their checkpoints are pretty easy to bypass, or so Andor says.

Just yesterday a fleet of pirate ships docked in the Clark Fork River, and now we're overrun with salty sea dogs looking for fun.

If you ask me, they’re no worse than the space pirates who landed pretending to be honest traders. That Firefly class ship doesn’t look very solid, but the crew seems nice enough (except for the big guy in the ugly orange hat).

This year let's take a look at heroes and villains, but let’s focus on the many shades of gray in between. On one hand we’ve got good-hearted criminals with hearts of gold like Han Solo, Korben Dallas, Jack Sparrow, Starlord, Yondu, Aladdin, Madmartigan, and Arya Stark.

On the other hand, let's also consider more hard-hearted rogues like William Butcher from the Boys, Littlefinger, Jarlaxle, Harley Quinn, Mystique, Jinx, and Catwoman.

What about Loki? Peter Venkman? Mat Cauthon? Robin Hood? Jack Burton?

While you're working on costumes, panel ideas, and game scenarios, think about scoundrels, rogues, pirates, smugglers, anti-heroes, and international spies. Maybe watch Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Su***de Squad, and read some Song of Ice and Fire to get in the mood. We’re thinking of a gritty place where smugglers and spies have hearts of gold yet might turn you over to Vader if it makes sense to them.

Join us at MisCon 39: Hive of Scum and Villainy. Sip a few drinks in the Cantina, and dance the night away at the Nerd Prom.

06/05/2025

Author/Artist Todd Lockwood created this banner for us, so we hung a few on the fence at the Missoula County Fairgrounds, which we're going to take over in a few weeks

You might recognize Todd's work from Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering, and many book covers including a bunch for RA Salvatore's dark elf ranger Drizzt Do'Urden books.

Todd will be at MisCon again this year, along with our many skilled artists who will be doing art demos, hanging out, talking about how to make a living as an artist, and more.