Join members of Wizard’s R&D team to learn how to best craft encounters to create rousing adventures for your D&D game. From skill challenges to traps and hazards, monster selection to terrain, and more, we’ll dig into what makes a good encounter and a great adventure in this hand’s-on workshop.
Is there room in life for gaming when you've got a spouse, a career and children? You bet your sweet dice there is! Join a panel of seasoned gamers from GnomeStew and the Masters of GM-Fu to discuss how to balance real life and your imagination. Topics include: gamers with careers, gamers with (gasp!) offspring, and non-gaming spouses. Come seeking advice, or with experiences to share.
The mics are off, the show is published, but now what? What else can you do to build your community and listenership? What else should you do? Join podcasting veterans to learn some ways of keeping your audience and building new listenership. Between online communities, partnerships, social marketing and going to conventions your listeners are out there, let us help you find them!
If the big houses turn you down, consider selling your manuscript to a small press publisher. It might be your best chance to get your foot in that proverbial publisher door. Does the small press give more freedom and assume less control? Authors and editors who have worked with small press publishers discuss the benefits and disadvantages.
How do you inspire mood when the players cannot see? Join us and learn techniques to stimulate the non-visual senses and create proper atmosphere for the horror genre.
How can you send shivers down your readers' spines? What is evil, and how can you portray it? Together, let's discover those things that go bump in the night. You don't have to write in the horror genre to deliver a really good scare.
A discussion with some of the industries’ influential leaders. Topics range from concept development, play testing, getting your game noticed by publishers and everything in between. Learn what is necessary to get your concept “in the gameâ€!
Creating a level of tension in any genre is important if you want to hold a reader's attention. We'll discuss some of the strategies for putting readers on the edge of their seats and keep them turning the pages.