In this interactive workshop, actor and voice coach Tobi Mattingly will take you through exercises and techniques to help you create unique and consistent character voices in a safe and healthy way.
Description:
Bring your characters to life! You'll walk away from this session with a toolkit you can use to quickly and easily create many different character voices. You'll also learn tricks to reliably find those voices again, whether you're switching between many voices in one scene or bringing an NPC back months later. This is an abridged version of a workshop originally developed for professional actors doing audio drama, so the tools will serve you whether you need them for your home game, your Twitch stream, or your podcast!
Want to sell your art or crafts, be hired as a GM, or turn some other hobby into a side (or full time) hustle? Come learn how to evaluate viability, and avoid common legal and financial pitfalls.
Description:
Many people turn their hobbies into successful businesses. But plenty others make errors early on that cost them time, money, and even their love of the hobby. Still others never try at all, fearing exactly such a negative outcome. Do I need a business license? When do I have to pay income tax, or sales tax? What do I need to charge to make a profit? Whatever your hobby, this workshop provides answers to many of these questions, and a clear blueprint on how to find answers for the rest for your specific hobby and location. Facilitator Tobi Mattingly is an Enrolled Agent (licensed tax pro) and provider of small business services, working with hobby-entrepreneurs of all stripes for more than a decade. She's also a creator herself, having worked over the past 25 years as an actor, director, musician, and game designer, and successfully Kickstarting Divination RPG in 2024.
Join Nyx Tesseract (co-creator of Divination: The Tarot-Driven Roleplaying Game) to learn tarot reading for yourself, your storytelling, and more. Deck included! Deck TBA, at least $22 retail value.
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Tarot is an incredibly rich tool for introspection, guidance, and story, but can feel intimidating to learn. With the right introduction, though, it can actually be very easy to start reading any deck with confidence! In this workshop, Nyx will demystify the structure behind the symbols and get you reading the cards faster than you thought possible. Then she'll teach you how to apply your reading to your personal questions of introspection, your storytelling in writing or games, or any other application where you might want a bit of inspiration, insight, and magic. The two hours will include some lecture time and some hands-on reading time, and you'll even get your very own deck to take home! This workshop is designed for those who have little to no knowledge of tarot coming in, but will offer great depth and insights for those with some prior experience as well.
In this interactive workshop, actor and voice coach Tobi Mattingly will take you through exercises and techniques to help you create unique and consistent character voices in a safe and healthy way.
Description:
Bring your characters to life! You'll walk away from this session with a toolkit you can use to quickly and easily create many different character voices. You'll also learn tricks to reliably find those voices again, whether you're switching between many voices in one scene or bringing an NPC back months later. This is an abridged version of a workshop originally developed for professional actors doing audio drama, so the tools will serve you whether you need them for your home game, your Twitch stream, or your podcast!
Want to sell your art or crafts, be hired as a GM, or turn some other hobby into a side (or full time) hustle? Come learn how to evaluate viability, and avoid common legal and financial pitfalls.
Description:
Many people turn their hobbies into successful businesses. But plenty others make errors early on that cost them time, money, and even their love of the hobby. Still others never try at all, fearing exactly such a negative outcome. Do I need a business license? When do I have to pay income tax, or sales tax? What do I need to charge to make a profit? Whatever your hobby, this workshop provides answers to many of these questions, and a clear blueprint on how to find answers for the rest for your specific hobby and location. Facilitator Tobi Mattingly is an Enrolled Agent (licensed tax pro) and provider of small business services, working with hobby-entrepreneurs of all stripes for more than a decade. She's also a creator herself, having worked over the past 25 years as an actor, director, musician, and game designer, and successfully Kickstarting Divination RPG in 2024.
Don't get caught by tax surprises! Facilitator is a licensed tax pro who ran and fulfilled the Divination RPG Kickstarter, giving her both theoretical and practical knowledge to share with you.
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Despite having run her own businesses for close to 20 years and being an Enrolled Agent (licensed tax pro) since 2017, Tobi Mattingly still discovered some surprises and nuances in the various tax responsibilities associated with crowdfunding when she ran and fulfilled the $45,000 Divination RPG Kickstarter. Having seen the process from both the theoretical and practical sides now, she wants to empower you with tax confidence for your crowdfunding campaign—from maximizing your writeoffs to understanding your sales tax responsibilities.
In this interactive workshop, actor and voice coach Tobi Mattingly will take you through exercises and techniques to help you create unique and consistent character voices in a safe and healthy way.
Description:
Bring your characters to life! You'll walk away from this session with a toolkit you can use to quickly and easily create many different character voices. You'll also learn tricks to reliably find those voices again, whether you're switching between many voices in one scene or bringing an NPC back months later. This is an abridged version of a workshop originally developed for professional actors doing audio drama, so the tools will serve you whether you need them for your home game, your Twitch stream, or your podcast! Expanded from last year, with more time to explore and play!
Want to sell your art or crafts, be hired as a GM, or turn some other hobby into a side (or full time) hustle? Come learn how to evaluate viability, and avoid common legal and financial pitfalls.
Description:
Many people turn their hobbies into successful businesses. But plenty others make errors early on that cost them time, money, and even their love of the hobby. Still others never try at all, fearing exactly such a negative outcome. Do I need a business license? When do I have to pay income tax, or sales tax? What do I need to charge to make a profit? Whatever your hobby, this workshop provides answers to many of these questions, and a clear blueprint on how to find answers for the rest for your specific hobby and location. Facilitator Tobi Mattingly is an Enrolled Agent (licensed tax pro) and provider of small business services, working with artists, performers, creators, and hobby-entrepreneurs of all stripes for more than a decade. She's also a creator herself, having worked over the past 25 years as an actor, director, musician, and game designer. Expanded from last year's workshop!
Marketing as an unknown game designer can feel overwhelming. But like assembling a game engine, it's all about aligning the right pieces early so that the system sustains, feeds, and grows itself.
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There's a ton of marketing advice out there, making it hard to know where to focus, especially when you'd rather be working on your game itself. But designing your marketing strategy isn't actually all that different from designing a game. In this workshop you'll learn a straightforward way to figure out which marketing moves are right for you at any given time, and how to get them working together in harmony so your engine starts to do a lot of the work for you.
In this interactive workshop, actor and voice coach Tobi Mattingly will take you through exercises and techniques to help you create unique and consistent character voices in a safe and healthy way.
Description:
Bring your characters to life! You'll walk away from this session with a toolkit you can use to quickly and easily create many different character voices. You'll also learn how to reliably find those voices again, whether you're switching between many voices in one scene or bringing an NPC back months later. This is an abridged version of a workshop originally developed for professional actors doing audio drama, so the tools will serve you whether you need them for your home game, your Twitch stream, or your podcast! All exercises can be performed while wearing masks, and we kindly encourage all participants to wear appropriate face masks during this event.