Join us each day at this time for our second Game Masters Workshop. Six experts lead 8 sessions. So popular last year we have divided into 2 sections. Graduates receive outlines & a detailed adventure.
What do you do when you misplace your adventure notes? Do you get alarmed and upset? Worry no more! We’ll show you how to create and run effective one-shot scenarios, and run them easily.
Two seminars for 1 low price. Learn techniques to design credible castles (#400360) and then put these lessons to the test as you help design your own castle (#400361). Double XP for RPGA Members.
Enjoy two seminars for one low price. Examine adventuring in the wilderness (#400358) and How to balance your challenges versus your PCs (#400359). RPGA Members earn double XP.
Two great seminars for one low price. Learn how to make deviously simple traps your PCs can role play (#400362) and new tricks to challenge your PCs (#400363). RPGA Members earn double XP.
Enjoy two excellent seminars for one low price! Discuss the goals & dreams of your PCs (#400356) and What it takes to play a character well (#400357). Worth double XP to RPGA Members.
There’s nothing interesting here, or so it says in the scenario. You and your players deserve more. Create vivid descriptions that will sing to your players that adventure lies within its doors.
The Secret Society Wars are nearing their epic conclusion. Learn why your clones will be having a hard time finding Bouncy Bubble Beverage in the very near future.
Meet with Zeb Cook as he takes you on an excursion into the future of the AD&D game. Questions answered, developments discussed. Join the talk about this year’s hottest games.
TSR and SSI members discuss the current as I well as upcoming AD&D computer products, / including Curse of the Azure Bonds, Dragons Flame, and War of the Lance.
The Gateway To RAVENS BLUFF" product premiers this summer! Learn more about the city and how to contribute your own businesses, personalities, and adventures. Writing guidelines will be handed out.
You’ve seen us advertised in magazines & products! Maybe you’ve thought ofjoining and you want to know more. All participants will be offered a discount membership in the RPGA Network!!!!!
Buck Rogers lead the way predicting the direction of future science. Join us as we attempt to write what the future will bring with the new BUCK ROGERS role playing game and boardgames.
Here’s your once-a-year chance to jeer, cheer, sneer, and appear in front of the staff of West End Games. Hear us pontificate! See us spread rumors! It’s not just another seminar!
...and Ever-Filled Purses Examine religion from an adventurer’s point of view...PC clerics, NPC clerics, churches, chapels, cathedrals, gods, and clerical magic.
Michael Whelan, Game Fair Artist Guest of Honor, leads a question and answer session about breaking into the fantasy and science fiction art field and getting your work published.
How does a role-playing milieu come into being? What are the invisible decisions made at the start of a campaign? No sales pitch, no game system hype just an approach to create & maintain a campaign.
Michael Whelan, the Game Fair’s Artist Guest of Honor, tells how fantasy and science fiction book covers are produced, such as his covers for the Dragonriders of Pern books.
Nichole Harsch and Mike Sakuta...the Crossed Swords Theatrical Combat specialists... show why even pretend swordplay takes tremendous skill and practice. Spirited as well as instructive.
Discover the World of D&D, its continents, nations and secrets. The empires are introduced, along with what their global power over the D&D world is. Q&A on past, present, and future Gazetteers!
Join the editors and writers of the popular DC/TSR line from a look at the past year of successful hits, and a look to future for oncoming comics. Be there or be square!
Are there still tales untold about the companions of Krynn? The answer — a resounding YES. TSR digs deep into the roots of the successful fantasy epic with some of the authors.
Discuss the design of reasonable traps - small logical, mechanical ones. Learn how your PC thieves can role play interaction with traps rather than just roll play.
So, you thought Dragonlance was just this place filled with happy kender & cute gnomes? Boy, have we got a surprise for you. Find out what David ’Zeb’ Cook and Scott Haring have wrought.
A panel discussion with various industry editors. A chance to meet them and find the proper markets to submit articles, adventures and general rap. Hosted by Robin Jenkins and Barbara Young.
Strategy, tactics, and techniques designed to separate players from reality. Presented by Erick Wujcik, author of the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES RPG!
TSR’s newest fantasy setting has inspired best selling paperback page-turners. An intro, for writers/readers, to this world’s next generation. David Cook, R. A. Salvatore, Douglas Niles.
A guided tour through the latest of TSR’s best-selling Avatar novels. Special guest Ed Greenwood, and featuring book authors Scott Ciecin and Troy Denning.
Join Mike Pondsmith, Karen Boomgarten and Jeff Grubb, the people who make the FORGOTTEN REALMS great, in a panel discussion exploring the future of the Realms.
A ‘how-to’ about writing for a fantasy world you didn’t create—with tips for how to share the advantages, as well as the problems. Featuring Greyhawk Adventures author Robin Wayne Bailey.
Join Bruce Heard, Karen Boomgarden, & several of their stable of freelancers for this enlightening seminar on what freelancers do & how they do it. Great for those who want to break into the field.
The editors of DRAGON Magazine and DUNGEON Adventures want to hear what you have to say about the magazines! Q & A on article & modules. Hosted by Roger Moore and Barbara Young.
KUGAR is the Kansas Univ. Gamers & Roleplaying club. Our gaming is organized as 1 world with many groups. We’d like to tell you how we do it. Officers of large clubs are very welcome.
The benefits/limitations of writing in a “shared” SF world. Close encounters with Flint Dille and Mike Pondsmith, writers of the revitalized BUCK ROGERS world.
We all know how much we’ve learned from our involvement in gaming. But can gaming be used as an active teaching tool in our schools? How can it be done? And much more. Teachers/Students welcome!
What are the responsibilities of a gamer? What of a gamemaster? And a game company? What are the moral and ethical issues of gaming and gamers? This will be a discussion, not a lecture.
Without question, individuals change over time in a variety of ways. This affects their interests in gaming. We will explore the meaning of these changes for players, judges, and the industry.
How do good and evil fit into your campaign? Discuss with us the effects of murder, torture, assassins, gods and demons, paladins, and your public image.