What's Up with Battletech, Shadowrun, & Dragonfire?
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Learn all about the exciting new releases from Catalyst Game Labs for these products. Special Guests include Randall Bills, Loren Coleman, Jason Hardy, Brent Evans & more.
Did you know you can create supplements for your favorite games and make money? Find out how! Come learn about Onyx Path's Community Content programs for Pugmire, Scarred Lands, & more!
Left to our own devices, character names can become repetitive or worse, too similar. How can you avoid that pitfall? Anna Smith Spark, Howard Jones, Linda Robertson, and Melissa Olson tell you how.
Come meet fancy-pantsy freelancer Russell Zimmerman to talk about his fiction projects, Kickstarter plans, Patreon, podcasts, & ongoing career with CGL, Green Ronin, Ulisses NA, FASA, and more!
When All You Have is a Hammer: Gaming without Violence
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RPGs were born from tabletop skirmish games & often fall back into using combat to resolve every conflict. Talk to creators about what a game session looks like when no one draws their sword.
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Roleplaying games were born from tabletop skirmish games and often still fall back into using combat to resolve every conflict, but the rise of story games if giving gamers and creators new insights into telling stories that revolve around dialogue, character growth, or wacky hijinks as the core mechanics. Talk to various creators about what a game session looks like when no one draws their sword.
First it's one comment, then another, and then your social media feed is a firestorm with real-life implications. Keith Law, Cat Rambo, and Patrick Tomlinson discuss the dark side of social media.
When is the right time to quit the day job and become a full-time author? After your first book sale? Once you've hit the NYT Bestseller list? Never? Scott Lynch and Kristen Britain discuss it.
You have a group of players. Loud, rowdy, impossible to wrangle. Sometimes to get them through the plot is like pulling teeth. But is that what you have to do?
Where to Deploy Your Magic Weapons on the Battlefield
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Battles are fought with many different weapons, each with different capabilities, which influences where and how they're used. Robert Mosher discusses possibilities for magical weapons and war magic.