Tabletop Gaming with Kids: Design, Storytelling, Facilitation, & Training the Next Generation
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A panel discussion on challenges, solutions, & joys of playing tabletop games with kids (your own and not). Panelists: Shanna Germain, Lynne Hardy, James Walls and daughter Carrie, and John Harness.
Description:
This panel will bring together some great minds coming with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. The first half of the panel will be questions from the moderator on topics of challenges and tips for gaming with kids, the second half will be questions collected from audience members. Shanna Germain from Monte Cook Games is lead designer of the kids RPG “No Thank You Evil”, debuting at Gen Con this year. Lynne Hardy of Modiphius Entertainment is the designer of the tea-time steampunk pulp adventure RPG “Cogs, Cakes & Swordsticks.” James Walls talks about gaming on Living 4 Crits (living4crits.com) and Youtube. His wife and daughters have become gamers and GMs themselves, and his daughter Carrie will be a panelist. John Harness is an artist and arts educator who runs a weekly after-school RPG night for 9-12 year olds and is the founder/moderator of the RPG for Kids Facebook page.
YouTube is a beastly maze to navigate. We've been running a YouTube series for several years now, & are eager to share our know-how, from structuring your release schedule, to designing thumbnails.
Join us for a talk about Tak, a new two-player strategy game first described in The Wise Man’s Fear made real by Cheapass Games. Learn what it takes to design and manufacture a classic game!
What is terrorism & how does it differ from other types of violence? This lecture looks at the basic definition, tactics, strategies & types of groups that are part of terrorism.
Use of thermo-plastics has always been popular in the cosplay world, and used for everything from armor to props and accessories! Come join in for live demos on various thermoplastics!
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Use of thermo-plastics has always been popular in the cosplay world, and the current fad in cosplay use for everything from armor to props and accessories! Come join internationally award winning cosplayer, Mogchelle, and learn about shaping techniques, and different types and uses for Worbla, Terraflex, Wonderflex, TechTack, styrene, sintra, and more! There will also live demos so you can see how easy they are to work with in person!
Always wanted to run your own D&D, Pathfinder, or other RPG campaigns but have no idea how to start? Let The Angry GM help you understand the basics & start your own group.
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Always wanted to run your own D&D, Pathfinder, or other RPG campaigns but have no idea how to start? Let The Angry GM help you understand the basics and start your own group. Learn how to run your first session, the basic skills of narration and adjudication, and balancing freedom and planning. If you're a player looking to jump behind the screen for the first time or an interested outsider trying to organize their first RPG session, this seminar is for you. For over five years, The Angry GM has provided RPG Advice with Attitude through his website, TheAngryGM.com, for tens of thousands of game masters every month by combining an analytical understanding of the most basic aspects of running and designing games with a straightforward, no-nonsense style of delivery.
There's certain words the GMing community LOVES to overuse. And those words lead to terrible GMing advice and useless aphorisms. Let's violently kill those words and find better ones.
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There's certain words the GMing community LOVES to overuse. And those words lead to terrible GMing advice and useless aphorisms. If we want to advance the GMing community and gaming as a whole, we need to elevate our language. It's time we kill off these overused, useless words and replace them with better, more meaningful, more actionable advice. For over five years, The Angry GM has provided RPG Advice with Attitude through his website, TheAngryGM.com, for tens of thousands of game masters every month by combining an analytical understanding of the most basic aspects of running and designing games with a straightforward, no-nonsense style of delivery.
Join Paizo Publishing’s award-winning art & graphic design staff for a discussion of the visual elements that bring the fantasy world of Pathfinder to life & a preview of what’s to come.
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Join Paizo Publishing’s award-winning art and graphic design staff for a discussion of the illustrations, maps, and other visual elements that bring the fantasy world of Pathfinder to life and a preview of what’s to come.
Join the team from Baen Books as they announce the winner of the 2016 Baen Fantasy Adventure award and give a preview of some of the great new books coming from Baen in the coming year.
The Campaign Podcast: Evading the Empire for Fun & Profit
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The notorious fugitive crew of The Mynock provides advice to spacers considering a career running afoul of the Galactic empire. (AKA- The Campaign Podcast in Character Panel)