How do I find a group? How do I keep my group together? What game do I want to play? Answer these & more with our panel of experts!
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Join author and gamer Teri Litorco and others in learning how to get yourself into tabletop gaming! Maybe you have a passion for it but no one to play with yet. Maybe you can't seem to keep a steady group together. Maybe you have no idea where to start in gaming. This panel will give you tips and tricks on how to get a group going and keep it running smoothly.
Join Stacy Dellorfano as she talks with Monica Marlowe, Lynne Hardy, Athena Peters, & Kiel Chenier as they delve into what creative tools & processes make a designer tick!
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Bring your questions about the creative process, and our panelists will let you pick their brains!
Lolita is a popular, extremely feminine Japanese fashion that evokes the Rococo era. It's often misunderstood in the West, especially when one is both a Lolita & a gamer. So where do the two meet?
Join Senda & Emily of the She's a Super Geek podcast along with some special guests to talk about how to plan to run rules light games.
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Want to expand your game repertoire or incorporate more indie style improv in to your current games? Senda and Emily talk running rules light games with guests. How much prep do you really need? How do you plan for a story with an unknown ending? How do you encourage your players to create world building details and riff from those? These questions and more!
Tabletop Gaming with Kids: Design, Storytelling, Facilitation, & Training the Next Generation
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A panel discussion on challenges, solutions, & joys of playing tabletop games with kids (your own and not). Panelists: Shanna Germain, Lynne Hardy, James Walls and daughter Carrie, and John Harness.
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This panel will bring together some great minds coming with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. The first half of the panel will be questions from the moderator on topics of challenges and tips for gaming with kids, the second half will be questions collected from audience members. Shanna Germain from Monte Cook Games is lead designer of the kids RPG “No Thank You Evil”, debuting at Gen Con this year. Lynne Hardy of Modiphius Entertainment is the designer of the tea-time steampunk pulp adventure RPG “Cogs, Cakes & Swordsticks.” James Walls talks about gaming on Living 4 Crits (living4crits.com) and Youtube. His wife and daughters have become gamers and GMs themselves, and his daughter Carrie will be a panelist. John Harness is an artist and arts educator who runs a weekly after-school RPG night for 9-12 year olds and is the founder/moderator of the RPG for Kids Facebook page.
Join us as we open up a day of ConTessa events with a keynote speech by Margaret Weis of Margaret Weis Productions, followed up with a speech by Shanna Germain of Monte Cook Games.
We'll talk to some game designers about their creative process. How they set up their project, where they got their inspiration, and of course audience questions!
Join us for an in-depth discussion on how to adapt your favorite fandoms from TV, comics, & movies to tabletop role playing games for your home group!
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We will be focusing on the many flavors of Apocalypse Word hacks for the mechanics, but we may touch lightly on a few other systems. Make sure to bring questions of your own!