Out shopping one day you come across two humans fighting over a bag, when one stabs the other and runs off dropping the small pouch. Curious you pick it up and find a small carved statue, a small dirty crystal, and a crude hand drawn map. The crystal proves to be one of the rare Tears of the Sun of Mars, if the map leads to more of these your fame and fortune is assured!
Advanced Lawsuit Protection for Gaming Industry Professionals
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From this presentation, you will learn lawsuit protection, tax reductio, and estate planning strategies most advisors are unaware of for gaming industry professionals.
Through proven tools, strategies and tactics learn how to reach outside the walls of the game store and invite the rest of the community inside with cost effective marketing opportunities that increase your customer base. Presented by Pat Fuge, CEO Gnome Games, GAMA Marketing Power Retailer of the Year
Learn how to use graphic novels in your classroom or library. We will cover a brief history of comic books. These include but are not limited to: Types of comics, developing your ideas, copyrighting your idea, owning your own property, tools of the trade, getting published, promoting your work, conventions and other topics.
Joseph Campbell's 'Heroes Journey' transcends tradition and enters the next storytelling medium. Comparisons between gaming heroes and mythological heroes are drawn. As the similarities solidify, participants will create their own storybuilder deck. This tool is useful in classrooms where creativity often has a deadline. Storybuilder decks focus on the main themes common in stories and provide a framework for creative writing.
Need some concrete lesson ideas for your classroom or youth group? This session uses existing games like Great Dalmuti, Backseat Drawing, Tsuro, etc. Essentially using several games and talking about how they can be used to start discussions on real life issues (using the examples before, Class Struggles, Communication, Life as a Competition etc.) Lesson plans for games used during workshop provided.
This seminar is designed to introduce you to an email contact management tool for targeted marketing that will bring sales to you. Presented by Pat Fuge, CEO Gnome Games
These days, with libraries and schools cutting their budget for nonessentials, how can you get games into your library when you don't have much money to spend? We will cover topics such as: Finding untapped sources; Inexpensive games with educational value; Internet resources for free or extremely inexpensive downloadable games; Simple DIY projects easy enough for anyone.
Level 16: When Learning the Rules Becomes Ruling the Learning
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Gamers and educators wishing to incorporate games into the classroom need to understand the requirements and expectations of schools and administrators. You can't just claim that learning is occurring from games; you must demonstrate it or you won't be allowed to continue. Librarians involved in university-wide assessment provide an overview of the standards and assessment expectations as well as provide suggestions to deomonstrate learning.
Learn the best practices on how to use traditional board and card games as learning tools and step-by-step activities that will guide students through the game creation process. Presented by David Niecikowski, U of A LRC Doctoral student, Interactive Media Literacy
Today’s modern board games are an often underutilized resource in the school environment that provide an immersive and engaging application for many of the skills being addressed in the classroom and school library. Learn where to start and how to help build a successful program that gets the support from administrators and staff in this interactive and hands-on two hour workshop.
We will present ways to begin and/or expand your gaming programs, how to build a collection to support it, how to partner with local organizations, how to both include games as part of your collection and how to acclimatize other staff members to using games as part of the collection. There will be a chance to play some of the library friendly games in this session.
Come Have Fun! Foam Fight Club! If you do not have weapons we have loaner weapons. Around 9PM and on is when we get the large 50 Vs 50 Battles. Do not leave young children here.
What tools and expertise do you need to create and cultivate a winning selection of board games that will help expand your customer reach and grow your sales? You will find out in this seminar. Presented by Dan Yarrington, Managing Partner of Myriad Games
Video games and online gaming are becoming more a part of our lives, and the lives of our patrons and students. How can the library be more involved in this activity? Topics discussed will be how to organize gaming groups, what games to use, how to evaluate games, how to present the idea of gaming to other staff members, LAN and online gaming, electronic security, and the use of social media along with the library website for promotion.
Role-Playing Games as Objects of Study: A Workshop on Ethical Criticism for Educators
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This workshop will first provide a basic introduction on how role-playing games may be treated as an object of study, how ethical criticism can be used as a primary method of investigation, and the implications of this approach for educators, scholars, and writers of role-playing games. The workshop will then continue with a practical examination of existing texts. Bring a sample RP supplement that is interesting.
Using Games in Large Groups and Educational Settings
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This seminar for Retailers, Educators, and Librarians will cover how to adjust games to fit large groups including those with varied ability levels. Participants will learn how to amend game rules, use game components in unique ways and address issue of fair and competitive play. Presented by Leah Sugar, Vice President of Marketing, Out of the Box Publishing Inc
Authors Erin M. Evans and Susan J. Morris discuss the educational benefits and practical applications of bringing D&D for kids into the classroom, and how to use it to create both team and individual storytelling experiences.
Professor Adam Pernell, head of the History department has been murdered and on his remains this inscription was found, “As the 13th zodiac, Ophiuchus, comes into alignment, so too do the stars... 'the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom'”. His fate is entwined with yours...
King Josef Calvarion I opens the new Hope Bridge across the river Knox, when the realm faces a crisis & needs new heroes. You will need to make a new character, or bring an existing 1st-3rd level KotD character.
You were sent by a secret society to investigate a possible Mummy in New England. It went too easy, almost like something was helping. Now there’s news of kids disappearing and it seems this happens every 50 years or so. With the cops looking at you strangely you know they aren't buying into ghost stories so it's up to you to find out.
We all know that a gathering of geese is a gaggle and a gathering of crows is a murder! Well, what do you call a gathering of gamers? A Stink, of course! For the last seven years, the Indy Mavens have brought the Gen Con community a wonderful party. This year we're bringing 'The Funk'. Come to the original Wednesday night event and start Gen Con off right!
On his way to retrieve Amy and Rory from their honeymoon, the Doctor is surprised to find the TARDIS crowded with his Second, Fourth and Tenth incarnations. Alarmed by the implications, he becomes positively shaken when Romana and the Master next appear, bearing a message from the White Guardian; 'Equilibrium has fallen and the universe dies. The Doctor must seek the eyes which see no more, that a new eye might be opened.'
A Pet Rock and a Hard Place (Cthulhu by Strobe Light)
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A panic has hit the city. Normal men, woman and children have gone berserk for no apparent reason leaving behind strange symbols and death in their wake. Take on the roles of TV's greatest super sleuths: Kojak, Frank Cannon and Starsky and Hutch as they and hunt down the horror that haunts the day and night. The 70's will never be the same.
Our 1st Annual Tournament: Fun, Simple, Ridiculous! Gaming the way it use to be. Come play random board, dice, and card games, to beat out your fellow rival gamer. 4 players to a game, 1 hour each game, 3 games to play. Prizes will be given to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. And you thought you were the grand poompa dragon slayer - you better watch it buddy.
1918. The battlefields of Europe. The war has raged for four years now, and even though American troops have joined the fight, the horror shows no signs of ending. Now, a relief effort headed by a famed physician has been attacked, and you have been assigned to help them in any way you can.
In the early stages of the War of Retribution, a Narn fleet attacks the Centauri colony of Coutor. The Centauri suspect the attack and ambush the Narn with one of their new model fleets. Will the Centauri systems planet fall before the might of the Narn war fleet, or will the untried new technologies of the Centauri fleet turn the tide?
Okay, so you get obsessed with a game and create 3D buildings that make it look great for a small tile board game. Come see madness in action and play an intro game. The scenario is similar to the the regular rules but some changes to make it playable for 8.
Wildling raiders have a family sword, but you have to go beyond the Wall to get it. Are the stories of the mythical creatures living beyond the wall based on fact, or just stories to scare young children? Second in a series.
This is an organized play 'living'-style campaign. First-time players welcome! Zeppelins, courtesans, feral children, alchemy, sorcery, engineering, politics, dragons, and slavering undead. Pregens are available, or check the website for campaign info.
Learn how to demo and sell 4 Mayfair titles and then take home one demo copy of each title, plus receive support materials and promotional items and surprises to help increase sales. This session is limited to 16 Mayfair Authorized Retailers. Up to two participants per retailer may attend but only one demo copy will be provided. Mayfair Games will contact nonauthorized retailers who register for this event to become authorized retailers.
Are you looking to get your grind on this year? Looking for a female sorceress to buff you? Forget lame dance parties, LFP is the party for ‘players’ interested in power-leveling and bringing their own potions. LFP is going to punch you in the balls and refuse to apologize, so bring your jock strap (or female equivalent).
Geopolitical, military and economic role-playing game. Players take senior leadership positions in a real-world nation. Scenario: the world as you know it today. Can you solve the world’s problems? New countries, issues and problems in every game.
Back by popular demand! Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' is an iconic dance, and always useful - and you can learn it. Yes, you! This tutorial is specifically for novice and less confident dancers (experts are welcome, too!). Your instructors are TAGteach-certified to help you achieve your best with the most fun possible.
After surviving an assault by rival Jawa clans, your Clan Shaman has asked your group to investigate the lightsaber found in the ruins of the former clan leaders speeders. Traveling across the Jundland Wastes in search of information may be the least of your worries. Jawas and LEGOs provided.
Setting the stage for Gen Con 2012's ultimate battle, the Justice Society's old time traveling enemy is back and determined to shape the world in his image for all time. This may be the most challenging Justice Society game yet and that's saying something after over a decade of serving up justice Golden Age style!
You retrieved the Golden Spoon for Lord Talbot. You found his daughter Andeela. A mysterious Mojh is hot on your trail. Can you help Andeela find the rest of her family heirlooms? Can you make if off of Noll without becoming just another ingredient in the famous Inshon Chowder? Role-playing encouraged, Cutlery inevitable. 5th level characters provided.
This is the first game of a three part character creation and customization series. Please consider also signing up for SST02 at 12 PM Thursday and SST03 at 8 AM Friday or a players' choice on Saturday or Sunday for maximum enjoyment of this ongoing series. Otherwise consider skipping this one and going straight on to SST04 and later modules using one of our template characters.
1/600 ancient naval :211 BC: Pirates fleeing with the Roman coin collection are intercepted by Romans near the location of the Greek victory over the Persians. The Romans know the Pirates will flee or will history repeat? Will the Pirates accept the Roman offer of money and land and never ever go to sea?
A game of paranoia, deception and mob rule. Fabulous at parties! A mind game for 8-15 players, in which a vengeful group of villagers must figure out who among them is secretly a werewolf (before it's too late). Each 'night' the werewolves eat a villager, and each 'day' the surviving villagers attempt to rid the town of werewolves by lynching one of their own.
Okay, so you get obsessed with a game and create 3D buildings that make it look great for a small tile board game. Come see madness in action and play an intro game. The scenario is similar to the the regular rules but some changes to make it playable for 8.
Killer Bunnies and the QUEST for the Magic Carrot (Blue Starter)
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KB Quest is a fast paced, action filled card game, in which you must try to keep as many bunnies alive as possible, while eliminating your opponent's bunnies. The problem: your opponents are armed with weapons and will stop at nothing to keep you from winning the game! Can you keep from being attacked by the whimsical Whisk or the torching Flame Thrower? The KB craze is in full force - Play the original game that started it all!
Old Skool module playtest! Demented Nekromagiker Phlimmius is dead-set on raising a horde of undead minions and unleashing them upon the Keep on the Badderlands! To set the wheels in motion, all he must do is wait for the dismal rays of tonight’s Wyrm Moon to fill his unholy cauldron o’ doom. Can your party of adventurers thwart his evil endeavors and stop this zombie-fest from happening? Get ready for more undead action than you can handle!
Starship Troopers Ongoing Campaign - Outposts on Pluto are reporting missing personnel and damaged equipment. Can this be political dissidents or human pirate raiders? (1st part of the First Pluto Campaign)
A small mute girl walks into the capital city of Udriapolis. All she has are the rags she wears and a scorched doll she carries. The questions pile up and getting to the answers will leave their scars. This is a 6th level graphic horror adventure set in Palegain (author's campaign setting). It is not necessary to have played in any of the other parts.
You were all minding your own business when all of a sudden, men in parachutes just started landing on the playground... with assault rifles! Choose a butt-kicker from some of the cheesiest 80's/kung fu action movies & put a stop to the evil commies trying to take over your fine American town! (Or could it be something far worse?) Let's get cinematic! Lock and load your biga** guns, & get ready to throw some fists & feet of fury!
2011. A terrible menace threatens the world, but the Defiant are nowhere to be found. Assumed to be dead, they have instead gone through the looking glass to glimpse the might-have-been world where things have gone terribly wrong. Can they look into the Abyss and return with enough morality to save not just one world… but two? A game emphasizing mature role-playing in the Post Human Age.
Psychic Mystery novelist Vivianne Trevalyanne, Reporter Dianna Manderley and Company have their hands full as usual, but in England, not Chicago. Something wicked has taken up residence in the British Museum. Role Playing and Problem Solving stressed.
Later in the evening, during a water right something happens. You are witnessed to the birthing of a storm. Do you run, fight or watch with intrest knowing it is all a dream
Must have played CV01 or CV03. To the esteemed members of the crews of the ships The Crimson Dawn and The Knightly Valor. You are invited to attend the coronation of the prince of Castile. Long live the King! By Mark Edwards
Come Have Fun! Foam Fight Club! If you do not have weapons we have loaner weapons. This is the large 50 Vs 50 Battles. Do not leave young children here.
By request, we've added a second THRILLER session! This tutorial is specifically for novice and less confident dancers (experts are welcome, too!) who have completed Learn to Dance Thriller 1 or last year's event. Your instructors are TAGteach-certified to help you achieve your best with the most fun possible.
Nazis in America at the height of WWII? Robbing Fort Knox with a Sasquatch Death Squad? Not if the Bureau of Unordinary Gentlemen have anything to say about it!
It's been a long time since you set foot in here, and you vowed at the time it would never happen again. Welcome to the Inn of the Feisty Wench! Role-playing essential! Uses Alea Tools Magnetic Markers.
Bloodbath and Beyond: A Monstertown Vice adventure
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Dinner was on the table, the Gators were on TV, and the Zombie lay on the living room floor - head bashed in, brains eaten. Now who’d want to do a thing like that? And where’s his wife? Time for the gang at the 13th Precinct to earn their pay and track down this murderer before Monstertown is engulfed in a bloodbath.
Mysterious deaths and odd events drew you into an investigation. But what is with the pizza toppings? Bring a smart phone if you have one while we bring Chill to the 21st Century.
In the town of River Heights, there is an ancient house owned by the eccentric Mrs. Ayreshire. Local legends say the house is “alive,” and changes dimensions when “the stars are right.” The normally private Mrs. Ayreshire has asked her friend Carson Drew for help, but she hasn’t indicated what the nature of her “problem” might be. Can Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys solve the mystery of the Five and a Half Minute Hallway?
Killer Bunnies and the QUEST for the Magic Carrot (Blue Starter)
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KB Quest is a fast paced, action filled card game, in which you must try to keep as many bunnies alive as possible, while eliminating your opponent's bunnies. The problem: your opponents are armed with weapons and will stop at nothing to keep you from winning the game! Can you keep from being attacked by the whimsical Whisk or the torching Flame Thrower? The KB craze is in full force - Play the original game that started it all!
For the first time ever in a game, recreate the events of JAWS (1975)! Play as Quint, Hooper, Brody, or Jaws! Everything that happens in the last 1 hour of the JAWS movie can be done here. Will The Orca and her crew kill Jaws? Or will Jaws sink The Orca and devour everyone!?
The world’s most powerful and devious have received word that Tesla’s deadliest invention is up for sale. Suspended high above the earth aboard the smuggler’s airship, only the brave and the clever will triumph. Can the denizens of the auction hold the veneer of civility long enough to get out alive? Step into our fully-immersive steampunk theatrical set complete with special effects to find out.
Ticket to Ride Europe Mega - T2R Tournament Qualifier
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Fast paced and easy to learn. This is a qualifying event for the Ticket to Ride Tournament. Your best score from 4 different types of T2R games will be combined and the top ranking players will compete in the Semi-finals on Sat at 8pm followed immediately by the finals. See Puffing Billy HQ for information about the tournament format. PBT
Play any of the 18xx variants. 1856, 1835, 1870 will be provided but bring any others variants/kits would like to play as well. This event is a qualifier for18xx Tournament (Finals Saturday 6pm) PBT.
Try the U.S. Eastern seaboard game of railbuilding and stock market manipulation that started the 18xx craze in North America. Winners of this event will qualify to play in the Finals on Friday at noon. This event is also a qualifier for the 18xx Tournament. PBT
You are a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. You want a Dominion! In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and fiefdoms. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner. Several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible, fending them off along the way.
The final German offensive of the war is underway in mid-July of 1918. Far above, a mixed flight of French and American fighters engages a formation of German Fokker D.VIIs.
As new students to Hope Preparatory School, your characters get to tour the facility, meet your classmates, and save the planet. All that before classes even start! Dive into a game that covers all the ups and downs of an elite metahuman high school.
Dr. Bailey's acting strangely... even by his usual standards. In Super Science class, he spent the whole time asking US questions. Then, we saw him actually reading the sports section. What's going on?
Sail into adventure in an all new campaign setting, back for its third year at Gen Con Indy. Your crew will explore a mysterious tropical island frought with untold danger and intrigue. Uses Alea Tools Magnetic Markers.
The tapestry of existence is becoming unraveled & the ink of history is quickly fading, a cataclysmic force has infiltrated the grandfather clock of time! The greatest heroes of the age have been reduced to babbling infants, and it is up to you the auspicious champions, selected from across the multiverse to throw a wrench in the cogs of disaster, before the world turns back on itself, and there is nothing left to save.
Come and get the info that members of Terra/Sol's insiders forum get everyday. Learn about the Twilight Sector a Transhumanist flavored setting published under the Traveller logo license. Learn about upcoming products in RPGs, Fiction and Comics set in the Twilight Sector.
Storms of Steel! is the second stand-alone title in the best selling “Conflict of Heroes” series and follows in the footsteps of Awakening the Bear! Each game in the series uses the same core rules system, so it’s easy to advance from one game to the next!
Dinner at the King's Castle II/Search for the Heir
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Well, here you are, in the banquet room of the king's castle. How did you get here? Are YOU the heir to the kingdom? If you aren't, are you willing to cause total chaos if you have to in order to make the kingdom yours? Characters provided, creative role-playing emphasized.
In the encampment there was a map delivered, and the place appears for a week every 200 years... Do you want to follow it to folly or to great finds? The shadow clock is running out...
An agent of the Red Currant Syndicate has gone missing while investigating a lead on the cause of the Collapse of magic that seems to point to the conjurers of the School of Worlds. Willem Analore has dispatched the PCs to find out what happened to him and what secrets are being kept hidden. This adventure is set in the Dark Golden Age campaign setting. 7th level characters are provided.
Annual favorite… Triple-scale (Big!) version of the Red Shirt Smash game. Sign up, grab a starfighter, and duke it out against up to 11 other players in this fast-paced, easy-to-learn space dogfight game.
Good, Bad or just Ugly. You control one or more monsters in this annual struggle to be the Last Monster Standing. We call the rules D&D Skirmish 3.99. Quick and Fast play for everyone.
When the temple called on you yet AGAIN, you were surprised that, at least, you got to stay on the Prime Material Plane... But a group of Set cultists...? Really?
King Josef Calvarion I opens the new Hope Bridge across the river Knox, when the realm faces a crisis & needs new heroes. You will need to make a new character, or bring an existing 1st-3rd level KotD character.
Don't worry about buying lots of individual tickets. Buy your Puffing Billy Ribbon and enjoy unlimited Play in all Train Gamer Association Sponsored Events. PBT
Waking up in a strange room no real memories of what happened after the doctors visit. Now you are surrounded by the things you told the adults about; 8 foot tall blue men, men and women with goat legs and horns, and talking animals. They must have thought you were crazy to be put in here. Now you have to be mad to get out This event is associate with the Darkness Remembered LARP, 'When Irish Eyes are Smiling'.
It's the 1950's and your group has been awarded to see the brand new movie: Mind Sucking Robots from Outer Space, in Mind-Blasting-O-Vision. You'll feel like you're in the movie fighting Robots and Aliens. A great game for parents to introduce their children to role playing.
Part 1 of the Ripper Anniversary series. One of our Gatherers is also a name at Lloyd's of London who reports that some of his recent investments may involve the business of the supernatural rather than of insurance. Go to London to see if you can help. An event for low level characters occurring on Friday, April 3, 1908.
It is December 1944 and World War II rages on in the Pacific ocean. Germany and Japan on the defensive. You and the crew of the attack submarine, U.S.S. Angelfish are on patrol. War is hell, yes, but what other horrors exist beneath the depths?
The crew of the salvage ship, the Coral Sea, is given a chance to buy information about a derelict deep in space. The information is suspect, and likely obtained illegally, but that isn’t a problem.