You & a party of nerds embark on a series of quests to level up, gather your cred, challenge obstacles, & survive a comic convention. A meta co-op game.
Quickly Creating Interesting Characters to Roleplay
Summary:
Creating interesting characters that are both playable & meaningful takes more than just rolling stats. Learn how to make a robust character in less than 15 mins & enjoy the character arcs to come.
Description:
Offers a series of must-haves to create a dynamic and realistic character and a set of questions to ask and answer when making a new character. Taught by a writing professor and game designer, this presentation showcases shortcut creative writing techniques that can be used individually and in pairs or small groups to improve your character’s backstory, motivations, conflicts, quirks, and other traits that make them more playable, intense, meaningful, and dynamic. Includes samples of arcs you can have your character follow over short and long-term play.
Learn the skills & techniques needed to make a piece of art embellished with quill work. Dancer or Mermaid to choose from. Good manual dexterity is essential for this class.
Description:
During the Renaissance, French and Italian nuns and monks used Quilling to decorate book covers and religious items. The paper most commonly used was strips of paper trimmed from the gilded edges of books. These gilded paper strips were then rolled to create the quilled shapes. Quilling often imitated the original ironwork of the day.Today, quilling is seeing a resurgence in popularity with quillers (people who practice the art of quilling) on every continent and in every walk of life. It is used to decorate wedding invitations, for Christmas, birth announcements, greeting cards, scrapbook pages, and boxes. Quilling can be found in art galleries in Europe and in the United States and is an art that is practiced around the world.
Learn the skills & techniques needed to make unique custom jewelry. Earrings, pins, bracelets, hair clips & more. Good manual dexterity is essential for this class.
Learn the skills & techniques needed to make an assortment of greeting cards or items for scrapbooking. Good manual dexterity is essential for this class.
Description:
During the Renaissance, French and Italian nuns and monks used Quilling to decorate book covers and religious items. The paper most commonly used was strips of paper trimmed from the gilded edges of books. These gilded paper strips were then rolled to create the quilled shapes. Quilling often imitated the original ironwork of the day.Today, quilling is seeing a resurgence in popularity with quillers (people who practice the art of quilling) on every continent and in every walk of life. It is used to decorate wedding invitations, for Christmas, birth announcements, greeting cards, scrapbook pages, and boxes. Quilling can be found in art galleries in Europe and in the United States and is an art that is practiced around the world.
Your career, & possibly even your life, have been hijacked by a paranoid Starfleet Counter-Intelligence admiral who sends you after an enemy no one thinks is real.
A small skirmish scenario involving scout & fire lances vying to control the border between defending forces & those of the invaders.
Description:
Two fire support lances, have come across more than they bargained for as the invaders tactical leader in his Atlas and two heavy recon lances stand in front of their defense of the loose borders between invaders and defenders of a planetary invasion. This is a challenging game using all 3025 technology with a couple of twists.
GM-Carl Scheu
REAL 3025 Battletech!: The Solaris Open, Heavy Division
Summary:
12 Mechs enter & only 1 will leave. Come enjoy the original game w/3025 technology just like we used to play. 65-75 ton Mechs.
Description:
Back by popular demand, the Solaris Arena returns to Gen Con. The original Thunderdome meets Battletech game. 12 Mechs + enter and only one will leave this Gladiatorial game of 65 - 75 ton 3025 Mech designs. Come enjoy a game of the original Battletech game, that got you started with 3025 technology just like we used to play. This game has been successfully running annually for 10+ years, and is always a popular event with many of the same players returning every year. Standard Mechs and variants will be provided, players are welcome to bring their only miniatures.
GM-Carl Scheu