"It was a dark and stormy night..." Bulwer-Lytton look out! It's no secret that some memorable manuscripts cross an editor's desk-but often they're ones the editor would rather forget. Now our panel shares with you the best of the worst (all in good fun!) Hopeful authors can expect to learn about the don'ts... and the don'ts of unsolicited submissions.
Come and talk to your favorite authors up close and personal. Authors in attendance will be Gen Con Game Fair Lifetime Guests of Honor Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman as well as Linda Baker, Steven Stan! Brown, Jeff Crook, Miranda Homer, Richard Knack, Steve Miller, Douglas Niles, Chris Pierson, Jean Rabe, and many more! Refreshments will be served. Remember to stop by the Wizards of the Coast Author autographing area first for your free invitation.
Come meet your favorite authors up close and personal. Guests include: Jeff Grubb, J. Robert King, Vance Moore, Lynn Abbey, Loren Coleman, and Corey Herndon as well as many of your favorite Magic: The Gathering artists and game designers. Refreshments will be served. Remember to stop by the Wizards of the Coast Author Autographing area first for your free invitation.
Too good to be true, you say? Not on Science Fiction Saturday! Join Babylon 5 actors Julie Caidin Brown, Roblin Atkin Downes, and Walter Koenig, and author Neal Barrett, Jr. as they reminisce about the roles they played in bringing to life the SF sensation that was the last, best hope for mankind.
Two, two, two autographings in one! Babylon 5 fans can meet Julie Caiflin Brown, who plays Na'toth, and Roblin Akin Downes, also known as Byron the rogue telepath, at the Exhibit Hall's Autograph Area. Get there early for this session, as space is limited! This ticket does not guarantee you a space in line. It is merely a reminder of the time and place.
Come share a late dinner with the RPGA. We have taken the slot off from most of our gaming so you can enjoy the meal. The Living Death LARP players will be in costume and sharing the Archaeological Society dinner while the rest of us share each other's company, listen to guests entertain you with stories of the gaming industiy, and help honor those members who serve so hard during the year. The dinner will end by 10:30, but the Living Death game will continue through the rest of the game slot. If you're not in the game, you can go to the bar after dinner or get some sleep and be rested for the Friday activities. Entree choices are: Cranberry chicken (event# 1661), roast pork (event #3071), and baked vegetarian lasagna (event #3072).
Baseball Tycoon puts you in the shoes of the owner of a professional baseball team. Unlike traditional baseball based games, you are not playing a nine inning baseball game. Instead, you are in the race against other owners to see who can build a championship team first.
Baseball Tycoon puts you in the shoes of the owner of a professional baseball team. Unlike traditional baseball based games, you are not playing a nine inning baseball game. Instead, you are in the race against other owners to see who can build a championship team first.
Baseball Tycoon puts you in the shoes of the owner of a professional baseball team. Unlike traditional baseball based games, you are not playing a nine inning baseball game. Instead, you are in the race against other owners to see who can build a championship team first.
Baseball Tycoon puts you in the shoes of the owner of a professional baseball team. Unlike traditional baseball based games, you are not playing a nine inning baseball game. Instead, you are in the race against other owners to see who can build a championship team first.
Major Zocchi tells of major RAF and Luftwaffe blunders as well as errors made in his Battle of Britain game design. Six exciting, new discoveries could have changed the battle. Gen Con Symposium.
Battleship Cage Match Don’t miss this special playtest of a new set of starship combat rules focusing on the big ships: cruisers, destroyers, carriers, and battleships! What could be more fun that vaporizing your best friends with matter torpedoes and plasma cannons?
Regardless of genre, all writers use certain tools to create good fiction. Author Kij Johnson discusses how to build plot and structure, characters, settings, dialogue, and narrative-all the building blocks that work together to make a short story or novel exciting.
Come and meet the Game Masters of the play-by-mail game Beyond the Stellar Empire(BSE). We will be discussing the current BSE system as well as the upcoming BSE 2000 game improvements. Pete and Neil from Rolling Thunder Games look forward to meeting our current (and future) Players.
Boat Trip Home Rules by Warren Dimock. Twelve passengers travel from Paris in late 18th century Europe. Of course, no one is fleeing France or smuggling anything or hunting traitors . . . are they? This is a non-vampire LARP.
Boat Trip Home Rules by Warren Dimock. Twelve passengers travel from Paris in late 18th century Europe. Of course, no one is fleeing France or smuggling anything or hunting traitors . . . are they? This is a non-vampire LARP.
Mr. Maker explains why Great Britain was forced to field the largest expeditionary force in its history, to fight a handful of farmers. He tells what made their guerilla warfare tactics so effective and the long term consequences. Gen Con Symposium.