Join Paizo CEO Lisa Stevens for anecdotes from her history in gaming, followed by a Q&A session!
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Paizo’s founding CEO Lisa Stevens has seen it all, from the birth of White Wolf to her days as “employee #1” at Wizards of the Coast. She has been Star Wars Fan Club president, helped manage the transition of D&D from TSR to WotC, and guided Paizo from the start. Come hear stories from her years in the tabletop game industry!
How can you get all the details of your world/characters/backstory into your book without annoying readers? Kristin McFarland, Jerry Gordon, Shanna Germain, and others tell all!
Do you want to be a streamer on a social platform like Twitch, YouTube, Mixer? Come learn from Twitch Affiliated Streamer RAYN.
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Do you want to be a streamer on a social platform like Twitch, YouTube, Mixer? Come learn from Twitch Affiliated Streamer RAYN about marketing yourself for your audience and what it takes to get started as well as what to expect from it.
Being Your Own Boss: Trials and Tribulations of Self Publishing
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How does self-publishing work? What are the ups, downs, and pitfalls? Bryan Young, Richard Byers, Philippa Ballantine, and Elizabeth Vaughan discuss everything a self-publisher needs to know.
Fictional worlds often include their own languages, but creating an entire language can be a daunting task. Daniel Myers discusses word generation, common pitfalls, and stealing from the real world.
Beyond Battles: Overlooked History for World-Builders
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This interactive seminar explores ways you can enrich your games & fiction by riffing on examples of real-world history.
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This year, we’ll look at long-distance trade and how it determines what’s commonplace, what’s precious, and what’s even possible; touch on the history of real-world magic in Europe; and explain why crime and punishment wasn’t as simple as turning the suspect over to the town guards. The emphasis is on western Europe with examples from other world cultures. The audience is encouraged to ask questions and offer comments.
Beyond the Speculative: How Reading Other Genres Can Help Your Writing
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Can reading mysteries, romance, or contemporary fiction make your spec fic stronger? Panelists including Philippa Ballantine and Crystal Connor discuss the question.
Seminar/Demo: Examination of the politics and violence in Kansas in the pre-civil war period as reflected in "Bleeding Kansas" by Decision Games, with "Doc" Cummins of Decision Games.
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Overview of the politics and violence in pre-statehood, pre-Civil War Kansas as reflected in "Bleeding Kansas" by Decision Games, followed by a guided play demo. Presented by "Doc" Cummins of Decision Games.
Learn about Crypto Games and Dapps on the Ethereum (ETH), Tron (TRX), and STEEM blockchains. We'll discuss e-wallets, extensions to safeguard your private keys, and the latest innovations in games.
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Topics:
- Buying cryptocurrency through exchanges (Coinbase Pro; Binance)
- Electronic wallets (MetaMask; Dapper)
- Extensions to protect your private keys (MetaMask; TronLink; Steem Keychain)
- For ETH, I'll explain gas/gwei and talk about breeding games (CryptoKitties), card games (Gods Unchained; Mythereum), and VR games (Decentraland; CryptoVoxels)
- For STEEM, I'll talk about Steem Power, Resource Credits, and games like Steem Monsters and the ill-fated Drug Wars.
- For Tron (TRX), I'll talk about how games from other blockchains (ETH Chibi Fighters and STEEM Steem Monsters) have expanded into Tron.
- New innovations with applications to gaming include interoperability between games, tokenization of booster packs, verifiable scarcity of cards, trustless lending and renting of cards, bots, and cheats/exploits by viewing information on the blockchain.
Bloodlines & Black Magic: Playing with the Modern World
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Want to learn about Bloodlines & Black Magic? Sit down with Jaye Sonia & the Storm Bunny Studios team as they discuss the game, the setting, & how they balance all that weirdness.