The Pain of Invisibility - Invisible Disabilities in TTRPGs
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ADHaDventures presents a panel focused on working with, accommodating, and representing invisible disabilities in TTRPGs - both at home and in content creation.
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Disabled players and GMs can achieve just as much as their abled counterparts. But what kind of help is actually helpful, what is harmful, and what is a "reasonable accommodation"? Our diverse panel of professional players, GMs, and streamers will address topics of both mental and physical health, and seek to bring light to the unique challenges you and your fellow TTRPG-lovers can face in different gaming settings. Our goal is to provide visibility, awareness, ideas, and solutions in an attempt to increase TTRPG accessibility for all.
Join our panel of scientists & engineers in a discussion focused on the real science behind your favorite science fiction & fantasy shows, movies, stories, & games.
Join our panel of scientists & engineers in a discussion focused on the real science behind your favorite science fiction & fantasy shows, movies, stories, & games.
Historian Ben Riggs will unfold to you the complete history of D&D in 50 minutes. From the birth of D&D in 1974, through its rise, peak, decline, and awesome re-birth in the 21st century.
The System As Villain: Explore Goodness Through Media
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Join our panel of experts as they discuss and explore different forms of media depicting the system as a villain, such as police brutality, military force, and political oppression.
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Our panelists discuss which stories, shows, and games do this well, and what the *heroes* then look like in such contexts. Featuring: Brandon O'Brien, Khaldoun Khelil, Michael R. Underwood, Sarah Hans, Will Sobel #gcws #worldbuilding
The Themes the Thing: Worldbuilding and Storytelling with Theme as Your Polestar, Not Plot
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Worldbuilding is one of the great privileges of storytelling - and also one of its greatest challenges. But what if we reimagined our approach to this crucial task, making theme paramount?
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Worldbuilding is one of the great privileges of storytelling - and also one of its greatest challenges. But what if we reimagined our approach to this crucial task? What if we explicitly considered theme before plot? Too often, apparent needs of the storyline can become a creative straightjacket on what we consider when creating and playing within our settings. In this session, well explore what theme-based worldbuiling can look like, and some practical ways to allow it to inform your storytelling. Well also examine ways to identify what themes are already in motion in an existing campaign and even individual characters, and how to enhance or expand upon them as desired.
Join Howitt, Taylor and others to discuss the Resistance line of TTRPGs and check out the brand-new, full-length supplement!
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Sit in for a round-table and Q&A with creators of critically-acclaimed fantasy-punk RPG about rebellion, brutality, and oppression - along with its award-winning sister RPG, a story-forward dungeon crawl that will give you what you want or kill you in the process.
We'll take you through how to include theatrical elements into your tabletop sessions. Build a more immersive experience for your players, and yourself.
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With 20+ years of writing and producing black box theater, haunted houses, LARPs, and every gamification in-between, Uncle Yo has cheats and quick tricks to heighten the emotional experience of your next tabletop gaming session. From in-person scavenger hunts, to texting inner monologues to rapid-fire NPCs, you can pull your players into a night theyll never want to forget.