Some say it’s what the future would look like if it had come along earlier ... say, in the Victorian era. Steampunk has been around for quite some time, but it’s risen in popularity over the past few years. Our panelists look at the genre and discuss how to get published in it.
Medieval Feasts and Food: Making the Fantasy Match Reality
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Are you curious what medieval cooking was really like? Do you want your fantasy characters' dinner to be plausible? This seminar takes a look at medieval European cuisine as a whole, and discusses the misconceptions and misunderstandings that pervade the popular view. Some of the topics to be covered are food preservation, medieval dining on the road, common medieval food myths, and some of the strange things you can find in medieval books.
Join publisher Mike Varhola, assistant editor William Thrasher, and a roundtable of contributors for an informative discussion on the past, present, and future of d-Infinity Magazine, the gaming hobby’s only quarterly multi-platform game supplement.
Come and meet some of the gnomes behind the ENnie winning blog Gnome Stew! They'll talk about what is going on at the blog, as well as their latest book from Engine Publishing 'Masks: 1,000 Characters to Populate Your Worlds'. Learn the tricks used by these veteran GMs to make the most of every game that they run. The seminar ends with Q&A when the gnomes do their best to help you with your GMing problems.
Come talk about Open Design, but also about collaboration, how a shared world really works, egos, deadlines, compromises, benevolent dictatorship. Oh, and we mention why it's a cool setting.
Join us as we examine and dissect various cryptozoological mystery monsters from Bigfoot to Nessie and look at their plausibility and the evidence presented for their existence. We'll delve into the methods used to search for them and look at some real animals who are way cooler than some pretend ones. Dress code: please wear your best gorilla costume.
Come learn about the Twilight Sector's 'Setting Within a Setting', Netherell. Be one of the first to preview this new Fantasy setting powered by the Mongoose Traveller Rules. Fully integrated with the Twilight Sector setting it allows referees to switch genres at will and create interesting genre mashups!
The Internet is a useful tool for research, finding writer’s resources, joining a writer’s group, and submitting internationally. But it’s also a great way to promote yourself and get your writing out there. We’ll tackle Facebook, Twitter, web pages, and software.
On Writing: From RPGs to the Big Screen with George Strayton
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George Strayton has worked on more than three dozen RPG and card game products for companies ranging from Wizards of the Coast to Goodman Games. In addition, George has written for Sam Raimi television shows, including XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS, and he penned the screenplay for DRAGONLANCE (starring Kiefer Sutherland) for Paramount Pictures. He also worked on TRANSFORMERS 1 and 2. Come and see what it takes to write from RPGs to the movies.