Do your RPG sessions feel stale? Are you trying to take things to a higher level, but feel like you're playing a board game? Come learn about conversational GMing and inject some life into your RPGs.
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A conversational approach is more natural than you might think, and draws in more creativity from players at the table. The more invested everyone is, the better the game. The system you're playing is irrelevant. You can make Conversational GMing a part of anything from D&D to FATE and anything in between. The event is open to all regardless of experience level. Players are welcome too!
Animals are common in RPGs. Learn to make your world more immersive with real-life behavior, ecology, and history of human-animal interactions. Taught by a scientist versed in biology and education.
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Do you want your dungeon ecosystem to make more sense? Did using Speak with Animals in Baldurs Gate 3 have you wanting to voice your own animal NPCs? Writing a horror campaign and want some inspiration from disturbing animal facts? Or maybe youre a history fan who wants the use of animals in your history-themed setting to be more authentic? This seminar will help you think about all of that! Learn about subjects such as animal behavior, ecology, and animal-human interactions through time. There will be time at the end to ask questions, be they general or a specific idea youre workshopping.
Andrew has been running RPGs since the late 70's and has many tips and tricks for both novice and intermediate GMs. Q&A included.
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Are you a new RPG game master? Are you looking to learn a few new tricks to prep your game sessions? Do you have some game night issues that need solutions? Join this Q&A style panel to level up as a GM. Andrew Valkauskas has been a GM for over 40 years and is the lead designer of the Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok RPG.
Game Theory For Gamers: Decisions, Strategies, & Payoffs
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This session will provide an introduction to formal Game Theoretics as used in the social sciences and explore how choices impact the player experience.
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The player experience in games is frequently a combination of chance and choice. Many gamers understand the math and probability that dictate chance, but few understand the numerous ways in which choices are influenced and evaluated.
Gen Con Celebrates 50 Years of Glorantha - The Early Years
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Greg Stafford's Glorantha setting was the basis for many fantasy games, including Runequest. Fantasy is not so much a suspension of disbelief as it is an acceptance of our own unconscious.
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In this first seminar, focusing on the early years, we'll look at the discovery of Glorantha in the 60s, the Hero Wars of the mid 70s, into the first publication of Runequest by a little upstart publisher called Chaosium in 1978, through the 1984 third edition from Chaosium and Avalon Hill.
Gen Con Celebrates 50 Years of Glorantha - The Later Years
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Greg Stafford's Glorantha setting was the basis for many fantasy games, including Runequest. Fantasy is not so much a suspension of disbelief as it is an acceptance of our own unconscious.
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In this second seminar, we'll take a look at the later years of Glorantha, the lost 90s, the influence of Runequest as seen in Chaosium's other games like Call of Cthulhu, the revivial of Runequest by Mongoose in 2004, the 2014 publication of the magnum opus Guide to Glorantha, and more!
New to Gen Con? Have questions? First time can be overwhelming. This session provides tips, tricks, and highlights of events to experience each day of the convention. Each day, a different focus.
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At the convention on Wednesday, attend our most in-depth session and get an advanced look at all the fun that awaits you at Gen Con. Designed to help introduce new attendees to all the experiences of Gen Con with tips, ticks, and answers to questions. Each daily session highlights different events to experience that day, or throughout the show. Finished with plenty of time to get to the Stink and Block Party. Let the fun continue throughout the day with the Gen Con Passport! Designed to introduce attendees to all the varied activities at the con, Passports will be handed out at this session. Visit locations to receive stamps and be entered to win prizes on Sunday.