International Games: Native Americas: Kolowis Awithlaknannai
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Learn and play traditional native South and North American board games. Kolowis Awithlaknannai, AKA Fighting Serpents, is a two-player strategy board game from the Zuni Native American Indians.
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A brief introduction highlighting the historical/regional significance of the games will precede play. Pregenerated characters will be provided. All 'dice" will be rolled by the Game Master with a dice tower on camera.
A roll-and-move board game played by the Kiowa Indians mostly located in North America.
Description:
Learn and play traditional native South and North American board games.
A brief introduction highlighting the historical/regional significance of the games will precede play. All 'dice" will be rolled by the Game Master with a dice tower on camera.
Mark Berle author of; Rifter fanzine issues, Rift chi-town anthology, Nightbane survival guide, and Nightbane dark designs, is interviewed by Jodi Brandt of Questwise.
Jason Richards, author of Rifts World Book #28: Arzno Vampire Incursion, will be interviewed and will do a Q&A with fans!
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Jason Richards author of Rifts World Book #28: Arzno Vampire Incursion will be interviewed and will do a Q&A with fans! He contributed to and helped put together D-Bees of North America and did the revisions for the second printing of Chaos Earth, and continued to support Rifts where he could. He has a manuscript, First Responders, for Chaos Earth awaiting print; a preview version has been released. For Savage Rifts, he had the chance to do some minor consulting on the core book. When the second series of books came around, he was given the chance to contribute and wrote the Psyscape material for Arcana and Mysticism.
Come meet comic book artist Steven Cummings, who has worked for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Kenzer & Company, Arcana Studio, and now Palladium Books!
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Presented his first professional work by DC Comics editor Bob Schreck, Steven Cummings penciled an unpublished inventory issue of Green Lantern featuring John Stewart. This work opened the doorway for Gene Pool (a graphic novella written by Marv Wolfman and Len Wein through IDW Publishing). Since then Steven Cummings has worked for Marvel Comics on Elektra and New Excalibur. He has also worked with DC Comics editor Joey Cavalieri on Flash (written by Geoff Johns and featuring the Mirror Master), the Deadshot mini-series and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (which have allowed him to expand his creative wings as he does both the pencils and the inks for those stories). Kenzer & Company, Arcana Studio, Th3rdWorld Studios, and now Palladium Books!
Learn about Glen A. Evans, one of Palladium Book's freelance writers since 2006. He was honored at The Palladium Open House when Kevin called him the new heart and soul of Palladium fantasy.
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He is the author of Bizantium and the Northern Islands and the upcoming sourcebook Lopan. Two additional Palladium Fantasy sourcebooks are in the pipeline.
Author and Illustrator Katie O'Neill sits down with Chris to discuss all of her amazing work including The Tea Dragon Society, Aquicorn Cove, and Princess, Princess Ever After.
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Her graphic novels cover fantasy, slice-of-life stories that are intended for all ages. These have won multiple awards, with The Tea Dragon Society, in particular, winning two Eisner Awards, a Harvey Award, and a Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids' Comics. The Tea Dragon Society also led to a card game and plushies, and another Tea Dragon book was published in 2019. When not working on a book, O'Neill is a fulltime freelance illustrator. Source: Wikipedia
Brendan Conway and Mark Diaz Truman, designers of Root: the RPG, talk about the process of creating the game. Come learn how the board game of woodland might and right was transformed into an RPG.
Illustrator The Mico sits down with Chris to discuss how he ended up illustrating the amazing North Sea and West Kingdom games from Garphill and Renegade.