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Where to find me at Gen Con Online 2021

15 Aug

It’s convention season again, and once again I’ll be attending Gen Con Online via Twitch! I don’t have any games scheduled, but you can find me on two Pelgrane Press seminars. Once again I’ll join Rob Heinsoo to design a new monster for 13th Age using input from the audience, this time along with the talented Liz Argall and J-M DeFoggi (who developed my adventure Crown of Axis.) Also, last year’s Dramatic Interaction in RPGs Masterclass was one of my favorite parts of Gen Con Online 2020 and I’m incredibly honored to be invited onto this year’s panel!

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How to Design a Monster for 13th Age

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Saturday, 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

Duration: 1 hour

Location: Twitch

We’ve all run battles where the Completely New Monster The Group’s Never Encountered is actually a reskinned bugbear! But if you want to create a cool new enemy from scratch, join Rob Heinsoo, Liz Argall, J-M DeFoggi, and Wade Rockett as they go through the process of designing a brand-new monster for the 13th Age Roleplaying Game.

Dramatic Interaction in RPGs Masterclass

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Saturday, 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET

Duration: 1 hour

Location: Twitch

Learn the structures and techniques that turn emotional confrontations between PCs from frustrating roadblocks into rich, surprising moments of human drama. Join Wade Rockett, Cat Tobin and a surprise guest (or two!) as they dispense precious interpersonal wisdom. Whether you’re experienced in Pelgrane Press’ Hillfolk / DramaSystem or looking to infuse play in other systems with satisfying conflict, they’re here to grant your most fervent petitions.

Dramatic Interaction in RPGs Masterclass

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Sunday, 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

Duration: 1 hour

Location: Twitch

Yep, we’re doing two of them! One on Saturday, another on Sunday.

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OrcaCon 2019: Join Me for DramaSystem, Night’s Black Agents, and Fall of DELTA GREEN

28 Dec

I’ll be running Pelgrane Press roleplaying games at OrcaCon 2019 in Bellevue, WA January 11-13. There are still seats open at my sessions — if any of these strike your fancy, sign up to play.

Friday

perveniet-calixPerveniet Calix (DramaSystem/Hillfolk), 7:00 p.m. – midnight

A secret cabal within MI6 has made an unholy alliance with vampires to fight the war on terror. As a sleeper cell of Operation Edom working undercover in the U.S., your secret life and the supernatural horrors you face take their toll: rivalries, resentments, and forbidden desires threaten to tear you apart. Can you keep your cell intact, and survive the terrible ordeals to come? Is the cost worth it?

Saturday

Hillfolk_Cover_reduced1Ragnarok (DramaSystem/Hillfolk), 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. 

In this game of emotional drama and interpersonal conflict, you are beings of fallen Asgard – valkyries, giants, dwarves – fleeing with the surviving gods in a massive starship. Now you journey through a dark and hostile galaxy searching for a new home; but not even Ragnarok can quench your fiery passions, or heal the bitterness dividing you.

deltaOperation ALADDIN’S CAVE (Fall of DELTA GREEN), 7:00 p.m. – midnight

It’s 1968. Your team of DELTA GREEN agents has been assigned a mission in war-torn Vietnam—and a confrontation with cosmic horror. U.S. forces recently captured a Viet Cong tunnel complex in Quang Tri province near the DMZ. They may have removed something from that tunnel complex. Investigate this possible outbreak of the unnatural, and contain it by any means necessary.

Sunday

nightsblackBlood Coda (Night’s Black Agents), 11:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

It’s 1971, and a famous Romanian ballet company has defected to the West. But your covert team of vampire-hunting MI6 agents suspects that the Ballet Brasov has a dark secret. Is Dracula once again active in England? If so, who among the company are his servants?

 

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I’m Running 13th Age at Gen Con. Come Play!

10 May

13th Age logoPUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Pelgrane Press seeks GMs to run Night’s Black Agents, Ashen Stars, Trail of Cthulhu, 13th Age, Hillfolk, Esoterrorists, Dying Earth and other games at Gen Con – short demos and/or adventures. GMs will be compensated with store credit and swag. Interested? Let me know!

Gen Con Indy has posted its lineup of 2013 events. If you’re going, you can add the ones you want to attend to a wishlist and then officially register for them on the 19th.

I’m going to run two games of the 13th Age fantasy roleplaying game at Gen Con, and I hope you’ll join me:

Danger at Deathless Gulch (for Kobold Press)

Description:  Journey to the badlands of Midgard’s magic-blasted Wasted West to recover a magical tome from a crashed dwarven airship. This 13th Age adventure will use icons from the Midgard Campaign Setting.

I ran Danger at Deathless Gulch at Gen Con 2012 using the Old School Hack system, and it was a huge amount of fun. Switching to 13th Age is more than a matter of porting the characters and monsters over — 13th Age has completely different strengths, and I look forward to drawing on them to create a wholly different (but equally madcap) adventure.

Deep Gnome Rising (for Pelgrane Press)

Description: Lord Azbqiplth of the Deep Gnomes sets up court in a city of the Dragon Empire — and brings the Underworld’s madness with him! Choose your PCs’ backgrounds, uniques and icons, and go sort him out.

With this adventure I’m going to use the improv-heavy mode of 13th Age gamemastery, starting with the location: the characters’ icon relationships will determine where the Gnome King decides to set up his court. That’s all I’m ging to say about it for now, because I’m still working on the adventure.

I also hope to take in some panels this year and play a game of Night’s Black Agents, the vampire espionage game by Kenneth Hite. What are you looking forward to at Gen Con 2013?

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