It's a simple retrieval job for your team, but can you avoid being crushed by the two skyscraper-sized leviathans battling for dominance between you and your goal?
Description:
Explore the ruins of an Ancient city and bring back a powerful artifact. Can you avoid being crushed between the fighting kaiju while sneaking in? Or – even worse – what happens if they see you?
Play an innovative, new fantasy tabletop roleplaying game with prewritten characters in a sandbox style format. Looking for players who are strategic and desire a challenge.
Description:
The short game will be open world with a focus on strategic combat. The setting is a small town near a mystical crater where monsters have been seen and no one has returned. Drama and risk in every encounter, while simultaneously permitting amazing acts of heroism and villainy. The came features many mechanics uncommon to tabletop gaming, with inclusions from many of the better strategy video games of our era. Featuring streamlined and parallelized game flow, each player may, for the most part, decide his or her turn concurrently. Players will need to consider the abilities and motivations of their cohorts just as carefully as those of their enemies. The rules are free online!
Play an innovative, new fantasy tabletop roleplaying game with prewritten characters in a sandbox style format. Looking for players who are strategic and desire a challenge.
Description:
The short game will be open world with a focus on strategic combat. The setting is a small town near a mystical crater where monsters have been seen and no one has returned. Drama and risk in every encounter, while simultaneously permitting amazing acts of heroism and villainy. The came features many mechanics uncommon to tabletop gaming, with inclusions from many of the better strategy video games of our era. Featuring streamlined and parallelized game flow, each player may, for the most part, decide his or her turn concurrently. Players will need to consider the abilities and motivations of their cohorts just as carefully as those of their enemies. The rules are free online!
Play an innovative, new fantasy tabletop roleplaying game with prewritten characters in a sandbox style format. Looking for players who are strategic and desire a challenge.
Description:
The short game will be open world with a focus on strategic combat. The setting is a small town near a mystical crater where monsters have been seen and no one has returned. Drama and risk in every encounter, while simultaneously permitting amazing acts of heroism and villainy. The came features many mechanics uncommon to tabletop gaming, with inclusions from many of the better strategy video games of our era. Featuring streamlined and parallelized game flow, each player may, for the most part, decide his or her turn concurrently. Players will need to consider the abilities and motivations of their cohorts just as carefully as those of their enemies. The rules are free online!
The Onyx Syndicate is tired of waiting & wishes to aggressively re-negotiate its “non-interference” pact. It’s time to see what these gangsters want, & politely tell them to buzz off.
Professional writers discuss techniques for writing fallible, yet relatable, characters.
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A protagonist's depth relies as much on their weaknesses as their strength. Join our panel of expert character writers as they discuss how to write a character who is authentically fallible without being too much so. Panelists: Karen Menzel (moderator), Richard Lee Byers, Erin M. Evans, Gabrielle Harbowy, Chris A. Jackson, Track: GCWS Writing.
Get ready to activate some Allies! Join our panel discussion creating DEI Adventure Quests with tangible actions to improve the lives of those that are most deeply affected by systemic injustices.
Fantasy writer, cook, and entertainer Daniel "Doc" Myers teaches the basics of believable medieval-inspired cuisines in your writing.
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A fantasy world should have a cuisine that takes into account the resources and technology of the people that inhabit it. In this seminar, join medieval cooking expert Daniel "Doc" Myers to learn how to make up a consistent, believable fantasy cuisine using the workings of medieval European cooking as a template. Track: GCWS Classroom.
NPCs need to be more than a gopher, damage soaker, or mindless automaton. In this workshop, you will learn to give them depth, personality, & conflict.
Description:
The adventuring NPC shouldn't be simply there to be a heal bot or meat shield, devoid of personality. Absent of emotions, desires, and their own goals. If you do it well, your players should be affected emotionally when an NPC dies or leaves the group. In this workshop you will learn how to build your NPCs from the ground up, creating a real person. Humanize them, so your players and PCs relate to them, more naturally and treat them like actual people. This Workshop is "system agnostic", so don't worry about knowing any particular rule set, although general knowledge of game systems will enhance your experience.