by Will Hindmarch | Jul 3, 2011 | Board Games, card games, Conventions, Dice
This is a short one. I mentioned earlier that I’d played 7 Wonders and Bears! at #Origins2011 and I wanted to say a little bit about them, still. This was my second time playing 7 Wonders — or almost. I came into the middle of a game in progress and took someone...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 29, 2011 | Conventions, RPGs
So I finally ran Apocalypse World. It was Thursday night at the Origins Game Fair and our plan to get two tables running simultaneously got pushed back and back and back to a single table running four players, with me as the MC. It went well enough, I think. You know...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 27, 2011 | Conventions, Events, RPGs
It’s my goal to write about #Origins2011 every day this week. This is tricky. How much do you want to hear about a convention that already happened, right? Probably not a lot. I played a lot of compelling games, though, and want to share some of what I’ve...
by Jeff Tidball | Aug 12, 2010 | Conventions, Story
Jason Pitre recorded the GenCon seminar that Matt Forbeck, Stan!, and I gave on the intersection of games and stories. Check it out (along with the audio of a few other seminars, all recorded with permission) at Jason’s Genesis of Legend Publishing website....
by Jeff Tidball | Aug 3, 2010 | Conventions
Here’s the skinny on Gameplaywright happenings at the Best Four Days in Gaming. Hamlet’s Hit Points: The Seminar What do Dr. No, Casablanca, and Shakespeare have to teach us about making the stories in our RPGs awesome? Roleplaying design authority and...
by Jeff Tidball | Jul 30, 2010 | Business, Conventions
Gen Con is next week, so the advice for attendees is going around. The best advice I’ve ever read about convention attendance comes from Derek Sivers, who’s not a gamer (as far as I know). Even so, his advice on how to attend a music conference is also the...
