GenCon

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.