SEM – Seminar
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Game ID: SEM22214109
Group: Writer’s Symposium
Short Description: Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, teaching artist and game designer from Trinidad and Tobago. Join us to learn more about him and his work.
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 3:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214113
Group: Writer’s Symposium
Short Description: How (and when) to make your historical fantasy setting more diverse and inclusive. Cat Rambo, Tanya DePass, Mary Fan, Howard Andrew Jones
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 3:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214111
Group: Writer’s Symposium
Short Description: Is it ever okay to use a trope? When, why, and how? Chris A. Jackson, Erik de Bie, Carlos Hernandez, Brandon O’Brien
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 3:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214110
Group: Writer’s Symposium
Short Description: How do you step into a major IP with a ton of history and a huge fanbase? How do you keep from being overwhelmed? Bryan Young, Richard Lee Byers, Erin M. Evans, Richard Dansky, Christopher Morgan (M)
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 3:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22206003
Group: Kwald Design
Short Description: Panel discussion from current 3D printers (FDM and resin) on applications, concerns, and future of the industry discussion. Guests will be welcome to ask questions to the panelist.
Age Required: Everyone (6+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22209388
Group: Evil Genius Games
Short Description: This panel explores tips, tricks, and fresh ideas for writing good RPG adventures for the modern setting in Everyday Heroes.
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 2
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22218118
Group: FASA Games
Short Description: Meet with the Earthdawn development team, listen to them talk about upcoming projects, and answer questions from the audience.
Age Required: Everyone (6+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214116
Group: Writer’s Symposium
Short Description: Tips on how and where to send stories. Cat Rambo, LaShawn M. Wanak, John Wiswell, Jason Sanford, Karen Bovenmyer
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22210856
Group: The Burning Wheel
Short Description: Is there a right way to teach RPG design? Sam Roberts (USC) and Luke Crane (NYU) discuss designing collegiate-level curriculum specifically to teach roleplaying game design.
Age Required: Mature (18+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214118
Group: Writer’s Symposium
Short Description: Is the genre coming back? Did it ever go away? Jaym Gates, Howard Andrew Jones, Matt John; Jason Ray Carney, Paul Weimer, S.E. Lindberg (M)
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214417
Group: Goodman Games
Short Description: Join a discussion of the evolution of DCC and its iconic art styles with Doug Kovacs, Stefan Poag, and others.
Age Required: Everyone (6+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 2
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22210858
Group: National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Inc.
Short Description: Ryan and Elizabeth were into Chernobyl before the HBO miniseries made it cool and well before the Russian occupation, travelling there in 2013, ’15, and ’16. They will share photos, videos and stories from areas not accessible on past public Chernobyl tours, such as the hospital basement, contaminated vehicle graveyards, the unfinished Unit 5 reactor […]
Age Required: Everyone (6+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22216694
Group: Puppetry Program
Short Description: Stacey Gordon will be interviewing Victor Yerrid about all of the amazing things he’s done and where he’d like to go next! From an internship to Sesame Street to working on shows like Bear in the Big Blue House, Crank Yankers, Sid the Science Kid, Robot Chicken, and Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and working […]
Age Required: Everyone (6+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22211158
Group: Kobold Press
Short Description: This panel is moderated by Little Red Dot, and panelists include Gabe Hicks, Eugenio Vargas & Celeste Conowitch.
Age Required: Everyone (6+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22210955
Group: David Niecikowski, PhD
Short Description: David Niecikowski, PhD will present his dissertation research on rulebook comprehensibility. The dissertation’s findings were co-constructed by 21 solicited surveyed industry experts and informed by unsolicited public forum comments by 541 users on the website Boardgamegeek. The evaluation results of eight published rulebooks are discussed using the performance list’s 92 weighted comprehensibility features organized into […]
Age Required: Mature (18+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214117
Group: Writer’s Symposium
Short Description: How to make sure your scenes have a feeling of physical space. Jennifer Brozek, Gini Koch, Erin M. Evans, Patrick S. Tomlinson
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214119
Group: Writer’s Symposium
Short Description: Lessons learned from Kickstarting your first book or game: Matt Forbeck, Christopher Bell, Sandra Tayler, Tanya DePass (M)
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22209146
Group: National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Inc.
Short Description: Considered a world war by some historians, the 1756-1763 conflict was a primarily a struggle for global pre-eminence between Great Britain and France involving nearly all major world powers. The French and Indian War, already being waged in North America, became subsumed into the broader conflict. The outcome changed the world balance in many respects, […]
Age Required: Everyone (6+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214123
Group: Writer’s Symposium
Short Description: A chance to hang out and ask what YOU want to ask. Bryan Young, Cat Rambo, Matt Forbeck, David Mack
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214654
Group: StartPlaying
Short Description: As tabletop gaming continues to grow, so does the desire for amazing and professional game masters. Join StartPlaying cofounder Devon Chulick in a talk about the future of paid gaming, industry insights, and how to get started and succeed as a professional game master.
Age Required: Everyone (6+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214124
Group: Writer’s Symposium
Short Description: How to make sure your characters grow, learn, and change by your novel’s end. Katherine Monasterio, Erin M. Evans, Gregory A. Wilson, Nick Martell
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22216695
Group: Puppetry Program
Short Description: Pro puppet builders will discuss the various types of arm-rod construction with methods and benefits of each. (That’s the stick that the puppeteer holds to control the hands) Ask questions!
Age Required: Everyone (6+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214122
Group: Writer’s Symposium
Short Description: Dos and don’ts as you set out to self-pub your book. Chris A. Jackson, Michael R. Underwood, Marie Bilodeau, Christopher Bell (M)
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
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Game ID: SEM22214395
Group: The Cantrip Cast
Short Description: To Brew or Not To Brew is a seminar where the crowd makes a homebrew 5e monster with The Cantrip Cast. This will be engaging to the crowd. Join us as we both discuss and create some 5e homebrew creations that you can use in your very own games!
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
Rating (average): (0 )
Game ID: SEM22214125
Group: Writer’s Symposium
Short Description: Most writers have at least one book they wrote but doubt they’ll ever publish. Hear about some of ours. Erik de Bie, Patrick S. Tomlinson
Age Required: Teen (13+)
Experience Required: None (You’ve never played before – rules will be taught)
Start Date & Time: Friday 08/05/2022 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1
Convention: Gen Con 2022
