Gen Con 2025 Events

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Seminar

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"Cursed" Design in Games

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25-years of Green Ronin: A Retrospective

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25th Anniversary, Sinking of Kursk

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A City of Shadows: Creating your City in Urban Shadows

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A Crash Course In Game Manufacturing

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Abe no Seimei: Man, Magician, & Myth

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Adventures in Brainstorming: Helping You Be More Creative

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Adventures in Parenting: Raising The Next Generation Of Nerds

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Afrofuturism 2.0

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Afrofuturism and Community Work

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AfroFuturism in Game Design

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AI: The Good, The Bad, and the Reality

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All Good Things Come to an End

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All The World's Our Stage

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All Year I Dream About Live Gaming Convention Podcast Recordings

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American Revolution Outbreak 1775, 250th Anniversary

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And They Lived Happily Ever After - Now What?

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Avatar Legends Cosplay Meetup

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Avatar Legends: the RPG Casual Q&A

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Avoiding Common Art Files Pitfalls in Board Game Manufacturing

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Becoming a Professional GM

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Beginnings, Big and Small

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Behind the Board with Paverson Games: Secrets of Making Luthier

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Blood Soaked Mayhem: Action and Horror in RPGs

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Bluebeard's Bride Casual Q&A

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Brainstorming 101: From Downpours to Droughts

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Branding Yourself: Identity Design for Artists & Independent Creators

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Build Your Valiant Hero

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Building a Long-Term Career

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Building The Labyrinth

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Building Your Fantasy World

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C-Drama Confidential

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Can't Eat Exposure: Sustainability as a TTRPG Creator

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Candlekeep Presents: Secrets on the Horizon

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Character Creation 101

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Charisma Check!

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Chernobyl Closing, 25th Anniversary

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Christianity and Gaming Panel

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Coffee Klatch with Arley Sorg

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Coffee Klatch with Brady McReynolds

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Coffee Klatch with C. S. E. Cooney and Johannah Simon

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Coffee Klatch with Daniel Myers and Bryan Thao Worra

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Coffee Klatch with Diana Pho

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Coffee Klatch with Erin M. Evans and Danni Williams

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Coffee Klatch with Erin Roberts

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Coffee Klatch with Gregory A. Wilson and Richard Lee Byers

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Coffee Klatch with Jason Sanford and David A. Rodriguez

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Coffee Klatch with Kelli Fitzpatrick and James A. Hunter

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Coffee Klatch with Matt Forbeck

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Coffee Klatch with Michael A. Stackpole

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Coffee Klatch with Monica Valentinelli and J. B. Garner

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Coffee Klatch with Morgan Wilson

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Coffee Klatch with Oriana Leckert

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Coffee Klatch with Richard Dansky and Brandon O'Brien

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Coffee Klatch with Sheree Renée Thomas

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Coffee Klatch with Shveta Thakrar and Katherine Monasterio

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Coffee Klatch with Tim Waggoner and Stephen Kozeniewski

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Collaborating With Other Mediums

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Color & Cloth: The Art of Visual Storytelling

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Community Building

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Confidence in TTRPGs

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Connecting Scouts With Game Design and FLGS

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Content Creation Brand Management for Beginners

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Cosplaying Do's & Don'ts w/ The Costume Corpsman

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Crafting a Starter Campaign in One Hour

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Crafting Quarterly Adventures - Paizo Adventure Paths

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Create Your Own Puzzle Hunt!

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Creating Community Content with Green Ronin

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Creating Custom Moves for PbtA GMs

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Creatively Conquer Your Cosplay Conundrums!

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Crowdfunding Together: Level Up Your Next Project

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Current Operational/Tactical Uses of Drones

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Cyber Horror in TTRPGs

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Dealing with Writer's Block

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DEI Designer Meetup

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Delta Green and Arc Dream Presents

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Designing the Future of TTRPGs

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Designing With Manufacturing In Mind

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Developing Community Partnerships To Sustain Your Career

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Developing Unmatched Fan Decks

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Dice Math for Gamers and Game Designers

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Diverse Writing as Resistance

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DM-ing on the Dark Side

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Do Beholders Have Buttholes?

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Do Owlbears Lay Eggs?

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Drawing Inspiration from Religions and Myths

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Dungeons & Dragons: Future of the Forgotten Realms

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Epic Fantasy Quests that Actually Happened

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Europe in Crisis, What the Heck Happened?

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Event Organizing at a Local Level

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Everyone (Info) Dumps

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Evolution of the Substance Use Recovery Revolution from the Steampunk Era to Today

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Expanding the Self Through TTRPGs

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Exploring the Aedana System

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Exploring the Process and Sources for Writing Gaming History

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Exploring the Synergy between Hip-Hop, Blerd Culture, and Trading Card Games

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Fallen London: the RPG Casual Q&A

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Fallen London: the RPG In-Depth

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Finding Your Character's Voice

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Firing the Glass Cannon: A Sneak Peek into 2025-2026

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First Time Game Masters

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FLQ Crisis of 1970: Canada Declares Martial Law

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For the Love of (Writing) the Game

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Free League Showcase

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Freelance Mentorship for the TTRPG Industry

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Fresh Blood In Old Tropes

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From Battles to Fisticuffs

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Game Theory For Gamers: Decisions, Strategies, & Payoffs

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Gen Con: Session Zero

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Geopolitical Worldbuilding Masterclass

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Get in the Game (At the Library!)

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Get The MOST Out Of Your Playtests

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Getting Great Art for Your Game

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Ghost Stories - Ghost Galaxy News Seminar

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Gimme Da Diversity: Adding More Multicultural Influences to TTRPG's

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Global Hotspots 2025 Update

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GM 101: Introduction to Gamemastering

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GM 201: The Art of Conversational GMing

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GM Like a Druid: Animals

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GM Master Class

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Go West! The Journey to the West Legend

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Grant Writing 101

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Hacking & Slashing Dungeon World

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Have You Considered Making Decisions Without a D20?

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Having Fun with Feminine Horror: GMing Bluebeard's Bride

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Historical Horror

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History as Worldbuilding

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History of a Virtual Universe: Eve Online

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How Gaming Helps with the Mental Health of Military Veterans

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How Monsters Go Extinct

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How Project Management Wisdom Can Help You Get More Joy Out of Dming

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How to Celebrate Your Fandom Seminar

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How to Cosplay Your Character (with Ginny Di)

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How to Create When the World is On Fire

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How to Develop Your Writing Process

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How to Engage Your Players

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How To Not Suck At Storytelling

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How to Run a Great Playtest

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How to Run a Kick-Ass Youtube Channel in 2025

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How to Start and Grow Your Local Board Gaming Community

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How to Write an Indie Tabletop RPG

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How to Write Complicated Antagonists

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I Make Games for the Military Industrial Complex -- AMA!

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Impact of Tariffs on the International Economy

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Imposter Syndrome

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Improv for GMs: How to Run a Great Game with Zero Prep

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Improve Your GMing

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Improve Your GMing (Redux)

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Integrating Combat into Role-playing and Literature

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Intro to Skies of Fortune, the Sky Pirate TTRPG

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Introducing the Body by Gygax App!

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Introduction to RPG Podcasting

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Invitation to the Ball: A History of Ballroom Dance & Culture

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Ja-PUN-ese: Fun With Japanese Wordplay

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John Scalzi Spotlight

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Jubensha: Revolutionising Murder Mystery

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Just One More Roll: Writing Mysteries for RPGs

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Kickstarter Spotlight

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Launch Sequence: Starfinder Second Edition Reveals

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Launching Your Board Game: Insights into Crowdfunding, Manufacturing, and Fulfillment

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Learn About Competitive Unmatched

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Lessons Learned - How to Get Started in the TTRPG Industry

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Level Up Game Night

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Level Up: Legal Considerations In Game Design

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Lore Weavers TTRPG: Cooperative Role Play & Storytelling in TTRPG's

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Magic Systems 101

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Magpie Games Discord Meet & Greet

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Magpie Games Showcase

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Making A Monster Your Players Will Never Forget

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Making Deadly Monsters with the Dungeon Dudes

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Making Games in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere

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Making The Leap: Switching Mediums

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Maps & Magic: The Art & Industry Behind Fantasy World, Battle and Encounter Maps

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Marvel Champions Designer Panel

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Masks Casual Q&A

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Mastering the Avatar Legends: the RPG Combat System

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Mental Health Role Playing Concepts

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Mercenaries, Non-State Actors, Hybrid and Grey-Zone Warfare

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Middle-earth in Tabletop Gaming

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Military Logistics in Ancient & Medieval Times

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Monster Mash - Live Pathfinder and Starfinder Creature Building

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Monsterology 101

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Monsters In Games: How To Design A Monster That Matters

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More Than Alt Text: Designing For Accessibility

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Music in the Key of D&D

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Mutants & Masterminds Roadmap

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Nature Systems Game Design

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Navigating Safety in your TTRPGs

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Networking Basics for Live & Online Events

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Nilah Magruder Spotlight

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No AI in Inspiration: Preserving Human-Crafted Creativity

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One Hour to Craft a Starting Campaign

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Oops, Is This Actually A Trilogy?

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Open Q&A with Pointy Hat

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Paid Ads vs Organic Social: The Road to Building Hype for Your Kickstarter Campaign

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Palladium Books 2025 Q&A

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Panel: How Do We Design Games to Promote Health?

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Pathfinder Battlecry! and the Hellfire Crisis

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Phantasy Star Tabletop Sneak Peak

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Philosophy of Horror: Why Are We So Attracted To Being Scared?

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Play Fair - Designing Equitable Games

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Playing It Safe: Mental Health in RPGs

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Pluralism and Interfaith Relations in the Worlds of TTRPGs

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Poisons in Gaming/Literature: Nature Wants to Kill You

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Poisons in Gaming/Literature: War Agents and WMDs

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Practical UI/UX for Game Design

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Practice, Practice, Practice (Iteration In Game Design)

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Prepping Your Files For Mass Production Printing

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Presenting Scorched Basin: A System Agnostic Setting by ZachTheBold and More

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Press Buttons. Make Magic - How to Produce a TTRPG Stream

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Press Start: Tales of Getting Into Gaming

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Professor Dungeonmaster and Friends- sneak peek of Deathbringer

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Professor DungeonMaster Live: Less Exposition, More Demolition

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Proposed Lunar Projects

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Protect Yourself: Intellectual Property For Designers & The Hobby Games Industry

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Publishing On A Tight Budget: RPGs

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Puppet Building Techniques

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Puppeteers of Color

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Queer Worldbuilding for All

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Rapscallion Casual Q&A

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Ray Bradbury's Enduring Legacy In Modern Speculative Fiction

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Reaction! Pathfinder and Starfinder Rules Q&A

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Reading Aloud for the Writer or Poet

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Recruiting, Retention, and Retirement for Gaming Groups

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Red Markets 2nd Edition Panel Discussion

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Roll for Insight: Games are Therapeutic Tools

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Rolling onto D&D Beyond

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Root: the RPG Casual Q&A

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Running a Good Con RPG

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Running Compelling Combat in PbtA

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Running your first PbtA Game

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Sacred Play: Spiritual Direction & TTRPGs

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Self Publishing Master Class with Jason Anarchy

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Setting as Character

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Shadowrun GM Boot Camp

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Skincare for Beginners

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Small Creator Looking for Sponsors: A How to Guide

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So You Want To World Build?

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So, You Want to Make an Anthology...

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Social Commentary in Your Writing

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Space Combat in Movies, Books and Games: Getting It Not Wrong

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Star Wars: Unlimited Designer Panel

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Starting Your Own Board Game Company, Legally Speaking

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State of the Wheel

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Stop, Collaborate, and Listen

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Streaming Solo: Learning Technology on Your Own

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Strong Female Character

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Studio Update Gen Con Special Edition

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Surviving the Madness: Bringing Don't Starve Together to Board Games

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Sword & Sorcery

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Tableside Interventions - A Conversation for GMs Managing Mental Health Symptoms at the Table

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Tabletop Rainbow: Encouraging Diversity at Your Table

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Taking your Players on a Hero's Journey: How to Actually Do it

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Tap Tap Tap into Building More Diverse TTRPG Tables

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Teaching Game Design

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Technology and Game Design 2025: Apps, AI, and Automation

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangenes Redux Q&A

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The "Design Around" Crash Course - Avoiding IP Infringement

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The Aesthetics Of Chance (Why Games Have Randomness, Whether You Like It Or Not)

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The AGE System: Simple, Versatile, Fun

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The Alchemist & the Golem: Ludological Alchemy Live

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The Art of Being a Game Master

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The Art of Rope

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The Battle for the Soul of Dungeons & Dragons

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The Best Strategies to Grow your Streamed Talk Show

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The Broken Empires RPG Sim-Lite Roleplaying

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The Business of TTRPGs

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The Care and Keeping of Agents

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The Coming War of Genshin Impact

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The DesiQuest Panel - Play What You Don't Know

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The Final Dungeon Master Therapy

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The First Superhero: A History of The Scarlet Pimpernel

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The Forever Dungeon Masters Support Group

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The Guns of Tanegashima

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The Interplay Of Mechanics & Narrative In Games

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The Intersection of Games and Novels

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The Joys of Speculative Poetry

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The Music of Cowboy BeBop OST 1

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The Nexus Way - Building a Successful Gaming Store Post-Covid

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The Panel That Gets Everybody Sued

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The Power of Names

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The School of Movie Magic

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The Science of Science Fiction

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The Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons

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The Soundtrack of Horror

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The Surprising Origins of Arthurian Kingship

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The Terror Toolkit: Running Horror RPGs at Your Table

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The Upcoming Financial Crisis of 2025

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Thinking Of Your Game As A Product

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Timeless Game Mastering Techniques

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To Self Publish or Not to Self Publish

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Tripping on Tropes in Genre Fiction

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Under The Umbrella - Inclusivity in Cosplay

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Understanding Paradigm: Mage The Ascension

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Urban Fantasy in Dungeons and Dragons

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Urban Shadows Casual Q&A

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US Civil War, the First Modern War

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Using Horror Effectively

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Using Your Heart for Flair; The Methods of Sad Story Telling in TTRPGS

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VIG - The Art of the Badge

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Vikings, Norse Mythology & Pop-Culture

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Weis Dragonlance Celebration 2025

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Welcome to the Jianghu: An Introduction to Chinese Fantasy Drama

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Welcome to the Writer's Room: Creating and Publishing TTRPGs

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Welcome to the Writers Room

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What is the Indie Game Developer Network (IGDN)?

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What's Up with Pinnacle Panel

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When to Stop Worldbuilding

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Who's Telling This Story Anyway?

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Why Writing Middle Grade is Fun

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Work Life Balance

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World Building for Game Masters, Game Designers, and Authors

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World Building for RPGs

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World's Largest Dungeon Redux and More Panel

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World-Building The Real World

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Write Smarter, Revise Easier: Learn a Proven Blueprint for a Page-Turning Novel

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Writing Despite Existential Crisis or Despair

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Writing Horror When the Real World Is Horrible

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Writing Urban Fantasy

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Writing with Emotional Intensity

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Writing Without Othering

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Your Home Table Should not Be an Actual Play

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ZOE & DG Fan Forum: Talky Talk with Q&A

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