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So, now I can finally let this cat out of the bag...

A few months ago (shortly after GenCon SoCal) I emailed Peter Adkison about an RPG Workshop for GenCon...kind of an all-day affair where people could sign up and attend various seminars on theory, design, writing and publication. Needless to say, he loved the idea (he was thinking of doing something similar).

So I called the Justice League of Indie Game Design together and came up with a rough outline for the Workshop. Everyone got on board and planning began. The initial idea was to do a hardcore workshop with a catered lunch, group projects, presentations...but alas, this didn't come together for a variety of reasons. The current plan is to set up a series of four seminars on the Friday of the con, with each running between an hour and 1.5 hours -- with a lunch break in between sessions 2 and 3. If it goes well, maybe next year we'll do something even more ambitious. Buy-in is $5 per session ($20 for the whole thing). I don't have the exact write-ups of each seminar with me, but the details are:

Session I: Theory of Roleplaying, hosted by D. Vincent Baker (kill puppies for satan, Dogs in the Vineyard)

Session II: Game Design, hosted by Yours Truly and Luke Crane (Burning Wheel)

Session III: Worldbuilding and Mythic Storytelling, hosted by John Wick (Legend of the Five Rings, OrkWorld, Thirty, etc.)

Session IV: Print & Electronic Publication, hosted by Clinton R. Nixon (Paladin, Shadow of Yesterday) and Luke Crane

I'm really looking forward to this...I have a feeling it's going to be a good time, and much more useful/informative to aspiring game designers and RPG fans than the usual "talking heads" panel. And I think the line up of hosts is really great...we're all more or less on the same page (the whole "indie" RPG movement, I guess?) but we all have our own ideas of how to go about it. At the very least, it'll be fun to watch me and Luke Crane duke it out in our steel cage match. Check for details in the GenCon booklet or (I guess?) the website. I believe we might have a special page in the pre-registration book.

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Also, Mike Miller! I totally deleted your darkpages email before I got a chance to read it. So please re-send, if at all possible.

	From: gbsteve	Date: May 16th, 2005 02:50 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I chose one US Con to attend and it seems now that it was the wrong one. I want some of your gaming goodness too. I fully expect this to be videoed so that it can be presented at huge gaming rallies around the world.

"You Too Can Be A Game Designer!" - $300 for a video and a 3 ring binder with exercises.

Also, darkpages, do you still want feedback from v2 or is that now deprecated?

	From: memento_mori	Date: May 16th, 2005 02:53 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Like a Hendrix fan, I welcome feedback. har har.

Check out the Daedalus version and feel free to comment.

	From: wickedthought	Date: May 16th, 2005 06:43 pm (UTC)		(Link)

"You Too Can Be A Game Designer!" - $300 for a video and a 3 ring binder with exercises.

Shame on you for giving me good ideas...

	From: gobi	Date: May 16th, 2005 02:55 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Ooooh.... Let's see if I can sucker my friends into bringing me along to GenCon this year. :D

	From: dr_beep	Date: May 16th, 2005 03:08 pm (UTC)		(Link)

NEAT!

Hmm, can I make this happen... between a trip to vegas and the Man What Burns I might be pushing it travelwise this year :)

	From: xorphus	Date: May 16th, 2005 03:11 pm (UTC)		(Link)

	From: amanofhats	Date: May 16th, 2005 03:15 pm (UTC)		(Link)

	From: jaegamer	Date: May 16th, 2005 03:17 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Yaaggg!

Here I am, sorting out my choices (curses that Cats!, My Life With Master and Dogs in the Vineyard are all offered only once, in the same slot), and you come out with this!

Well, I just won't schedule anything for Friday. Hmph. Is there a particular code we should enter when Gencon registration goes live later today?

	From: memento_mori	Date: May 16th, 2005 03:22 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Yaaggg!

I don't know any details yet. I'll be sure to post them when I do.

	From: zigguratbuilder	Date: May 16th, 2005 04:10 pm (UTC)		(Link)

My God, my PANTS ARE SHRINKING!

	From: jonaskarlsson	Date: May 17th, 2005 06:55 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Man, another reason I should be living in the US and be closer to all the fun!