Paizo staffers reveal their secrets, including tips for engaging players & utilizing outside influences in your gaming style. Bring your questions & let them help you troubleshoot your campaign.
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Paizo’s most experienced Game Masters reveal their best game mastering secrets, including tips for engaging players and utilizing outside influences in your gaming style. Bring your questions and let them help you troubleshoot your campaign. Repeat of the Friday 2 pm seminar.
Paizo’s founding CEO Lisa Stevens has spent decades in the gaming industry & seen it all. Join her for lively anecdotes from her history in gaming, followed by a Q&A.
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Paizo’s founding CEO Lisa Stevens has seen it all, from the birth of White Wolf to her halcyon days as “employee #1” at Wizards of the Coast. She’s been president of the Star Wars Fan Club, helped manage the transition of D&D from TSR to WotC, and has guided Paizo from the start. Join Lisa for lively anecdotes from her history in gaming, followed by a Q&A.
Fictional worlds often include their own languages, but creating an entire language can be a daunting task. Learn tips for word generation, common pitfalls, and how to steal from the real world.
Each narrative cave setting can be different. View real cavern layouts, passages, formations, & tricky subterranean conditions. With Scott Rice-Snow, Prof. Geological Sciences, Ball State Univ.
Author Education: How – and How Quickly - Can Landscapes Change Over Time?
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To enhance your grand-scale storytelling, explore the causes, speeds and surprising outcomes of landscape change. Q&A welcome! With Scott Rice-Snow, Prof. Geological Sciences, Ball State Univ.
Where caves are found, the land surface also has odd terrain, strange hydrology, and weird events, building narrative potential. With Scott Rice-Snow, Prof. Geological Sciences, Ball State Univ.
Author Education: Medieval Cooking and Fantasy Foods
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Medieval food historian Daniel Myers compares cooking in medieval Europe to what is typically presented in fantasy media. Topics include common myths, medieval kitchen tech, feasts, and more!
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Have you designed a richly detailed fantasy setting for your game or story, only to have a gaping hole show up the first time a character needs to eat? What do you serve at a hero's feast? What does it take to cook that? Medieval food historian Daniel Myers compares the reality of cooking in medieval Europe to what is typically presented in fantasy books, movies, and games. Topics include common myths, medieval kitchen technology, realistic feasts, and rampant fruititarianism.
War is Hell and the impact and stresses of war machines on the human body are a growing aspect of that. Explore ways to write realistically about human-machine interaction and limitations.
Author Education: War Magic—When Magic Goes to War
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How might the presence of magic change warfare in your story? Join us for an interactive discussion where we answer your questions about magic and war and how it might work on different battlefields.
Stacey Gordon (Sesame Street's newest Muppet, "Julia") & Noel MacNeal (Bear in the Big Blue House) will share inspirations & personal experiences about using puppetry in connection with autism.
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“Autism” is not just a word; for some, autism is a way of life. But it also has many complicated associations. Professional puppeteers Stacey Gordon (the performer of the new “Sesame Street” Muppet character, “Julia,” who has autism) & Noel MacNeal (performer of “Disney’s Bear in the Big Blue House” & Nick Jr.’s “Eureeka’s Castle, among others) will share their inspirations, along with professional & personal experiences, using the art of puppetry in connection with autism, & share how interested guests can use this skill, too.