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Four Reasons to Take “Finding Your Niche”

Gen Con and CMU are back to give you a look at the upcoming course in applied tabletop game design, “Finding Your Niche: Expanding Your Skillset Across Five Different Gaming Genres.” Below, instructor and game designer Travis D. Hill gives four reasons to take “Finding Your Niche.” “Finding Your Niche: Expanding Your Skillset Across Five […]

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Jeffrey Roth’s “7 Life Lessons I Learned From Playing Dungeons & Dragons in the 7th Grade”

Jeffrey Roth, Director of Experiential Analytics with Booz Allen Hamiltion, and lifelong “Dungeons & Dragons” fan, talks about a few important lessons he learned when he was younger from the world’s most popular tabletop RPG. Dungeons & Dragons, or D&D for short, is a tabletop role-playing game that has been around for over 40 years. […]

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Join The Op Games Road to Gen Con and Compete in the Disney Sorcerer’s Arena: Epic Alliances World Championship!

Our friends at The Op Games have some exciting news! In case you missed the first Disney Sorcerer’s Arena: Epic Alliances championship tournament at last year’s Gen Con, you’ll be excited to hear that Disney and Pixar fans and gamers alike are still heading to their local game stores to take part in The Op […]

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Meet the Designer Behind the New CMU Course

Gen Con has partnered with CMU for another exciting virtual class, “Using Games to Teach: What You Can Convey Through Play.” Meet Liz Davidson, the designer and instructor behind the class. Teaching is my day job, but when I got a chance to teach a class as part of a collab between Gen Con and […]

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5 Reasons to Take Intermediate RPG Design with Eloy Lasanta

If you haven’t heard, Central Michigan University, in cooperation with Gen Con, started offering classes focusing on Applied Game Design. These six-week online courses make it easy to learn new game design techniques and pursue a new gaming passion, learning from RPG Industry Experts of all stripes.  The next and newest class begins on January […]

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Twentieth Century Roleplaying: D20 Modern and the Future

Everyday Heroes from Evil Genius Productions Now On Kickstarter Twenty years ago, in November of 2002, Wizards released d20 Modern, and it was a very different sort of RPG. The game system was designed by Bill Slavicsek, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, and Charles Ryan, aided by Chris Perkins and Stan! Brown. The game was edited […]

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Extend Your Gen Con Adventure With an Epic RPGTravel Experience

We all know that Gen Con is the Best Four Days of Gaming,™ but did you know that you can now experience some of the excitement of those Best Days outside the halls in Indianapolis? We are excited to partner with the travel and event team RPGTravel Gaming to create a new type of Gen […]