Roll a Con Save: A Workshop on Creator Burnout & Fatigue
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Deadlines approaching? At the end of your rope with videos to make and no spoons to do it? Feeling the stress of freelance work? This is the panel for you!!
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This seminar, run by 4 mental health professionals within the ttrpg space, is aimed to help you build your resilience and fight the ultimate BBEG: burnout! Attendees will leave with tools help make change in their lives and keep their creative fires
Learn from professional DMs tips and tricks on making your players really feel like the heroes of the story. How to make your players feel cool 101.
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Learn how to reward creative thinking without breaking the game, how to use the player's backstories to create moving story moments and how to target your players strengths to make them feel powerful.
Total Party Kissing: Navigating Romance Amongst Player Characters
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Everybody's favorite subject, romance!! Come chat with some wonderful TTRPG creators about navigating PC to PC romance and PC to DM romance.
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Come and learn the dos and donts of in-character romance, chat about how to utilize safety tools appropriately, and learn how to navigate character bleed with some wonderful TTRPG creators.
We Are Live: Sharing Your Home Game with the World
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Learn how to take your game from the living room, to live on Twitch!
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Come listen to Actual Play professionals as they offer tips and tricks for taking your home game into the Live Play or Podcast space. Learn how to foster community, increase entertainment value and network with your fellow Actual Players.
While todays TTRPG space encourages diversity and inclusivity so that everyone feels welcome, there are still echoes of its original patriarchal structures.
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Led by a mental health professional who specializes in ttrpgs, come listen to masculine folks from across game design, actual plays, and content creation discuss how ideals of what its meant to be a man at the table has impacted how they play the game.