Players will choose their favorite faction &, with the assistance of experienced Legion Members, assemble them for battle. Once assembled, players will learn to play!
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Players will choose their favorite Wrath of Kings faction and, with the assistance of experienced CMON Legion Members, assemble them to prepare for battle. Once assembled, players will learn to play the exciting skirmish game Wrath of Kings! Players ticket cost INCLUDES a discounted faction Starter of their Choice for Wrath of Kings.
Ordinary traffic accident. Unlucky turn of events. This grisly scenario explores the initial horrors of life beyond death.
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Ordinary people involved in a traffic accident doesn't sound like the opening of a great story. It is the start of your story... Death was only the beginning. Play one of six pre-gen characters in this grisly scenario that explores the personal horrors that await you after you die... Wraith is often called the darkest of any of the game settings from White Wolf's World of Darkness.
Have you ever wanted to write a love letter to your anime crush? Now’s your chance! There will be lots of adorable paper, markers, etc. to write sweet nothings to your senpai!
Find out what it takes to truly master the written form. From point-of-view and punctuation to dialogue tags and scene breaks, learn the basic techniques that will help you to succeed as a writer.
Writer's Craft: Avoiding the Exxon Valdez Infodump
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The infodump! Dreaded bane of interesting SF/F... or is it? Learn how to throw huge amounts of information at your audience elegantly, naturally, and subtly.
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The INFODUMP... that infamous scene where characters lecture the reader for fifty pages on everything they'll ever need to know in case they want a PhD in the writer's work. Spare your readers-- there's a better, easier way to feed them clues! This presentation will explore a variety of techniques for worldbuilding and information presentation that can give your reader massive amounts of painless knowledge, often without them even realizing it...
Find out how to put your characters through the proverbial (or perhaps literal) ringer in a way that pushes them to their limits but doesn’t feel like unnecessary abuse.
Examine different approaches to creating backstories for your characters, and find out just how much time and effort you need to put into fleshing out your characters before you start writing.
Characters will give you everything else, they bring their own world and plot. How do you come up with ones that are interesting and not cliches? An interactive workshop.
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A man comes through the door with a gun! Wait, what kind of man? An old man? A child? A woman? A white man? A black man? A man with zebra stripes? An alien? An elf? A man in a wheelchair? An old elf in a wheelchair comes through the door with a gun -- why, this story is more interesting already! A fun interactive workshop. Bring your imagination and come prepared to put it to work.
Writer's Craft: Characters That Aren't Reflections of You
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Unearth new ways to create characters with unique personalities while still drawing on personal experience. Learn to create a cast of true individuals rather than just different versions of you.