Learn how to make a big prop that's safe for the con, light to carry, and will fit in your car!
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Big props are one of the best parts of cosplay, but they can also be stressful to design and build, hard to carry around a con, and a tad risky at crowded events! At The WOW Factor, you’ll learn how to solve these problems and confidently tackle your big builds. Includes lots of examples and project walkthroughs!
Takes 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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20+ years of writing and producing black box theater, haunted houses, LARP’s, 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 they’ll never want to forget.
DPS. Healing. Tanking. A mental triangle for many gamers. However, powerful ideas exist outside this. Ideas that end encounters and shape stories. Let's get you thinking outside the triangle.
Writers discuss timing heroic fights to keep your readers engaged - and cheering.
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As the writer, how do you build tension, timing, and dramatic turns during combat to make the audience cheer and not groan? How do you handle pace, technique, and blocking? Join our expert panelists as they discuss this and other nuances of writing combat scenes. Panelists: Bradley P. Beaulieu (moderator), Howard Andrew Jones, Katherine Monasterio, Gregory A. Wilson. Track: GCWS Writing.
Join Gen Con Staff & DEI Advisory Committee members as we talk about the changes we’ve made, our goals for improvement, mission & values in creating a more diverse, inclusive, & equitable Gen Con.
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Join a moderated discussion with Gen Con staff and DEI Advisory Committee members Mandi Hutchinson and Aaron Trammell as we discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion at Gen Con. Includes a 2023 update to the community on the work Gen Con has undertaken, outlining our goals for fostering a more diverse and inclusive Gen Con, and discuss ways in which you can become involved. Questions can be submitted in advance using the form sent in the message to registered players, or during the Q&A session of the presentation. The Q&A session will be moderated by Suzanne Sheldon.
Two panelists working in book agenting discuss their perspective on what an agent offers—and whether they see cases where they think unagented traditional publishing can work.
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Panelists: Brady McReynolds, James Farner. Track: GCWS Career.
Transformation Of Your Epic Campaign Into AudioSaga.... RolePlay made REAL (TM)
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Learn how to immortalise your favorite TTRPG campaigns in Audio through the process of AudioSaga creation! Recording style, editing, sound effects, and music creation will be discussed and explained.
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Capture the thrill of your favorite campaign, allowing your friends, or audience, to hear the events unfold in REAL TIME, enriched with full cinematic score and meticulous sound effect application! Native audio from Table Top Role Playing Games, improvised in character, can be made into immersive, Movie-Theatre-Quality audio productions, what we like to call HyperChronicles! Learn how to record your campaign to make the best foundation for audio enhancement, develop the skills to cleanly edit aural masterpieces, discover the subtleties of sound effect application and environmental sculpting, access your inner musician to create inspiring musical scores to underlie your action and Role Playing scenes.. Receive the basics of sound sculpting, and the inspiration to reach for the stars, with Master Audio Artist Paul Greenleaf!
A free-ranging discussion of the Traveller role-playing game rules system with system designer Marc Miller, covering concepts and philosophies of the Traveller rules. Will include a Q&A session.
A wide-ranging discussion of the Traveller universe with designer Marc Miller. He will cover the concepts and philosophies of Traveller, its background and history, including a Q&A session.
Join Gen Con's Peter Adkison, Dwarven Forge’s Stefan Pokorny and TD founder Jeff Martin for a look back at TD’s origin & the past 20 years at GC. Hear how it all started, grew, and where it is headed.
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Join Gen Con's Peter Adkison, Dwarven Forge's founder Stefan Pokorny, and TD's founder Jeff Martin for a look back at True Dungeon's origin and the past 20 years at Gen Con. Hear how it all started, how it grew & adapted, and where it is headed