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Ask the Gamemaster: Part I

You asked, and Mike Boozer Answered Mike Boozer, Gen Con’s Customer Service and Event Team Manager, and the revered GM of Series Three of Actoroke on Gen Con TV has all the answers to your most dire Dungeons & Dragons questions. How do you get your players to do their homework? Make things enticing enough […]

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Games Help us Through the Worst of Times and Reflect the Best of Them

A guest post from Raffael Boccamazzo, PsyD, of Take This, one of our official Gen Con 2021 charity partners. Despite various iterations of moral panic over the decades lamenting the dangers of gaming, during the COVID-19 pandemic we’ve seen more people gaming than maybe ever. Parents are playing more video games with their kids. Dungeons […]

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Ask a Necromancer

Ask a Necromancer: Scheduling Your Gaming Group and Keeping Your Plants Alive

In our advice column, your questions are answered by the infamous necromancer Lazaro the Wicked, drawing upon his knowledge of the dark arts, the thin line separating the dead and the living, and the special sense of perspective gained from plunging into the void and returning with great power at a great cost. “Dear Lazaro, […]

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Ask a Necromancer: Reviving a Dead Sourdough Starter and Explaining the Death of a Pet To Your Child

In our brand-new advice column, your questions are answered by the infamous necromancer Lazaro the Wicked, drawing upon his knowledge of the dark arts, the thin line separating the dead and the living, and the special sense of perspective gained from plunging into the void and returning with great power at a great cost. “Dear […]

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Gaming Life

Autumn Adventure Forecast

RPG-Class Horoscopes — Advice for the Season Ahead These are uncertain times in an uncertain world. As the sun sets red in the distance, it casts a strange light over the valley below. From your campsite in the foothills, you gaze abroad, tracing your intended path across the landscape, wondering what the future will hold. […]