Live Action Battle Gaming Goes OGL: A New Industry Growth Opportunity for Game Designers
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Dave Graham will explain how the rules consolidation of American battle gaming under a single OGL system provides a new business opportunity to role playing and strategy game designers. The seminar will include history of the sport, the new OGL rule set, how his company will be vetting and play test material, and how this will create growth in the market for game designers who can produce quality live strategy games and LARP scenarios.
Come and sit in on a live taping of the Amorphous Blobcast! Talk about the convention, gaming, and much more with the hosts. This will be a live taping, but there will be time for audience participation. Audience members should be aware, while we try and keep things tame, occasionally there are PG-13 situations that are discussed.
Chaste or steamy, romance can help drive your story, enrich your plot, and make your characters more complex. But writing an effective romance is a challenge. And just how far should you ... or your characters ... go?
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games have revolutionized computer gaming, and become the dominant mode for computer role-playing games. Thought about playing one? Are the acronyms confusing? Can’t follow the gaming chatter from your friends? Come learn about MMORPGs. Get suggestions from our panelists on the type of MMO would fit your gaming style, schedule and budget.
Bubonic Plague? That good ol’ Spanish Inquisition? Parasites, gruesome deaths, depravity, torture, pandemics, psychopaths, cannibalistic cults ... and those are just for starters. Our panelists discuss plot devices intended to make readers squirm. Just how uncomfortable can you make it to turn the pages? Are there lines you shouldn’t cross? Is anything off limits?
Some say it’s what the future would look like if it had come along earlier ... say, in the Victorian era. Steampunk has been around for quite some time, but it’s risen in popularity over the past few years. Our panelists look at the genre and discuss how to get published in it.
Medieval Feasts and Food: Making the Fantasy Match Reality
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Are you curious what medieval cooking was really like? Do you want your fantasy characters' dinner to be plausible? This seminar takes a look at medieval European cuisine as a whole, and discusses the misconceptions and misunderstandings that pervade the popular view. Some of the topics to be covered are food preservation, medieval dining on the road, common medieval food myths, and some of the strange things you can find in medieval books.
Join publisher Mike Varhola, assistant editor William Thrasher, and a roundtable of contributors for an informative discussion on the past, present, and future of d-Infinity Magazine, the gaming hobby’s only quarterly multi-platform game supplement.
Come and meet some of the gnomes behind the ENnie winning blog Gnome Stew! They'll talk about what is going on at the blog, as well as their latest book from Engine Publishing 'Masks: 1,000 Characters to Populate Your Worlds'. Learn the tricks used by these veteran GMs to make the most of every game that they run. The seminar ends with Q&A when the gnomes do their best to help you with your GMing problems.
Come talk about Open Design, but also about collaboration, how a shared world really works, egos, deadlines, compromises, benevolent dictatorship. Oh, and we mention why it's a cool setting.