RPPR Game Designer’s Workshop: Everyday Hustlin’ in Game Design
Talk with Caleb, Ross, and publishers about how to get started writing for games. With a few tips, you could be barely scraping by just like the pros! The goal of RPPR’s GDW podcast has always been educational. To that end, Ross and Caleb will do their best to give advice on “breaking into the industry” in a post-Kickstarter age. The conversation will focus on the more logistical, legal, and mundane business of freelancing in RPGs. On the publisher side of things, Adam Jury and Rob Boyle from Posthuman Studios are dropping by to lend their expertise. Prepare to be demystified, warned, clued-in, and tipped-off about the path to seeing your work get included in games. Questions are welcome and encouraged.
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Panel Education & Games: With, In, & How To at Gen Con 2015
What advice can educators provide for teaching game rules to players? How about using games to enhance education? And what about the portrayal of education in games? This panel covers it all and more. Caleb Stokes is an educator and RPG writer. He frequently uses games in the classroom for a variety of purposes, and he recently worked with Arc Dream to publish No Soul Left Behind, a campaign book for the game Better Angels set in a charter high school. Ross Payton has written extensively for Monsters and Other Childish Things, and he’s been teaching rules to players for twenty years. Steve Radabaugh is a high school teacher and creator of app games like Dungeon Marauders and the upcoming dice game Fey Ball. Dan from RPPR was also a panelist.
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RPPR Episode 118: Limping away from Gen Con 2015
News: No Soul Left Behind is now available in print! Backers should get their copies soon. Also, Firewall will soon be out in print.
Synopsis: Gen Con is over and what a time we had! Between the games we played, fans we met, and panels we ran or attended, all of us had a blast this year. In this special extra long episode, we discuss our most memorable experiences of the con, and of course, our loot. Hear from Caleb, Tom, Aaron, David, Dan, Bill, Melissa, Michelle, and myself as we go over the con!
Shout Outs (wow so many very links)
- Eclectic Eccentricities: A neat shop of dice jewelery and other crafts.
- Michael Plondaya’s art blog: He made Red Markets fan art! Also, a great artist.
- Drunk and Ugly: They hung out with us and we were on some of their panels.
- Review Cultist’s Art: Gaze upon Lucille in all her glory!
- Feng Shui 2: Hong Kong style action movie gaming, now in print!
- Dreamhounds of Paris: The Surrealist movement meets Cthulhu. A winning combination!
- Cthulhu Apocalypse: 1930s post-apocalyptic Cthulhu survival horror.
- Superfight: A card game about arguing who would win a fight. Quite fun!
- Meow: M E O W.
- Bezier Games: Neat board and card games. David approved.
- Malleus Monstrorum: A compendium of Cthulhu monsters and gods.
- Shotguns vs. Cthulhu: An anthology of stories about fighting the mythos, presumably with shotguns.
- Geek Therapy: Therapy by and for geeks.
- Baby Bestiary: Super kawaii monsters – who could kill a baby owlbear?
- Snake Oil: a fun card game about salesmanship and creativity.
- The Cartel: An Apocalypse World powered game about powerful drug cartels.
- At the Hands of an Angry God: A game about building a Utopia.
- Cthulhu Dark Ages, Second Edition: A new edition for 7th edition Call of Cthulhu! No store page for it yet though.
- Noble Treachery: A card game about becoming king by screwing over the other nobles.
- Night Witches: An Apocalypse World powered game about female pilots in the Russian military during World War 2.
- Misspent Youth: A RPG about fighting the MAN as an angry teenager.
- Q Workshop: Cool dice maker.
- Ashen Stars – Accretion Disk: A supplement for Ashen Stars with new gear and aliens.
- Gadget Guides: Get your gadgets for your Mutants and Masterminds game!
- Adorable Pandaring: Who has the cutest panda?
- Alpha Bandits: A word game about stuff. God so many licks to write up
- Wordariffic: A card game about picking words from random cards.
- Kettle of Fish, Accidental Cyclops, and Lurkers in the Valley: Cool LARP groups that put on great games!
- Pocket belts: Lack pockets? Get a belt of them!
- Lowlife: great counter-culture looking RPG with a unique setting.
- Skirmish Outbreak: A new miniature based skirmish game – survivors fighting zombies and each other.
Music: The Mach Rider by the Encounter.
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