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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Artist Guest of Honor Michael Whelan discusses his upcoming museum art showings and talks about science fiction and fantasy art’s place in the galleries.
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!!!!!
Not quite big enough to stomp on Tokyo, the RTG staffers run loose, attempting to sound coherent as they discuss their new projects and wildest dreams, making crazy promises they may yet deliver
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.
Discuss historical weapons and armor. Examine the impact of magic weapons, armor, and weapon specialization on melee. What does that + 2 sword really do?
Open seminar on the TALISLANTA game with author Stephan Michael Sech, artist PD. Breeding Black, and editor W.G. Armintrout. Q & A: crating a new world, the art of TALISLANTA. No elves, please.
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.
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.
Our Author Guest of Honor discusses the process he follows when creating a novel. Aspiring authors and short story writers interested in writing books won’t want to miss this session
The 6th year of this council that matches up the greatest of super-powered roleplaying designers. Roger Moore hosts this discussion as the designers explain why THEIR vision of comic books is right.
Come meet the crew -Jordan Weisman, Sam Lewis, and Dave Wylie will talk about Battletech, Star Trek, Renegade Legion, and Shadowrun, as well as answer questions from attendees.
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.
If you’ve never played wargames here’s your chance to discover why these games are so fascinating. If you play wargames, join our frank discussion on what topics make the best wargames and why.
...and Ever-Filled Purses Examine religion from an adventurer’s point of view...PC clerics, NPC clerics, churches, chapels, cathedrals, gods, and clerical magic.
Joe Alford, Kim Humphries, and Don Prust will contrast 3 styles of developing RP characters. Each will demonstrate how they would develop characters using the same scenario. Q & A follows.
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.
Having problems with your campaign that are just too weird? Describe your problem to the Game Lizards of TSR and we’ll solve it in 60 seconds or less, or you win a prize!
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!
Or Die...it’s how you play the game. Tracy Hickman game designer and author, gives his annual discourse on radical role playing game techniques for players & DM’s. Put fun back in your games.
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.
Strategy, tactics, and techniques designed to separate players from reality. Presented by Erick Wujcik, author of the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES RPG!
We will divide into small groups to design a castle adventure in this workshop. Create a castle complete with surrounding environs, evil inhabitants, floorplans, tricky traps, and more.
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.
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!
Definition by example. Salvatore discusses how he defines the classic hero through excerpts from his best-selling books - Crystal Shard and Streams of Silver.
Join the masters of Krynn, The Forgotten Realms, & Kara-Tur in a discussion of the care & feeding of world-spanning fantasy campaigns. Hosted by Jeff Grubb, Zeb Cook and other world authors.
Larry Bond discusses the analyses that went in to forecasting what a second Korean War would be like in his book RED PHOENIX, from Warner Books. Join this frank discussion of warfare in Korea today.
Tracy Hickman wants to run a game for everyone! Players chosen randomly from those present at the game. Pre-rolled, 1st level PC’s stand up to Lord Soth and others. Wahoo dungeoning at it Wahooiest!
Victory through superior role playing. Tips for players(not GM’s) on staying alive, playing smart, and (gasp!) psyching out the game master. Presented by Erick Wujcik.
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!
Meet the designer of Star Fleet Battles and of Federation & Empire. Discuss tactics, propose new ships, debate rule changes. All questions will be answered, even those that start with ‘why?’
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.
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.
Volunteers, the newsletter of Civil War gaming, sponsors an opportunity to hear from today’s leading Civil War designers. With Jon Southard, Rich Berg, and many others.