Gen Con 2025 Events

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Trade Day Event

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A New Adventure For Synagon In TTRPG, Higher Education, & Business Development

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Advanced Iterative Playtesting

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All Brains Welcome: Making Cons Accessible For Neurodivergent

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Ask The Question - Connect With Your Military-Connected Community!

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BattleBattle! - How Do You Balance a Massively Complicated Game?

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Beginning & Sustaining A Magic: The Gathering Youth Club For Free!

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Bespoke & Beholden: How Custom World-Building Creates Client & Employee Investment

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Beyond D&D: Building Indie RPG Programs At The Library

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Beyond the Board: Designing Games Beyond Dice & Cardboard

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Beyond the Dice: How Games Fostered Connection For A Neurodivergent & Queer Community

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Board Game Rapid Prototype Workshop

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Board Gaming, Trains & A Free Game! Social Studies Curriculum For Middle & High School

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Boardgames And The Brain!

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Brain Games: Dementia & Using Games To Sharpen Your Mind

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Brotherwise Games -- New Retailer Program!

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Build Your Own Escape Room

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Building A Gaming Community

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Class Economy Game: Empower Students & Battle BurnOut With This Passive Game

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Collaborate & Educate: Using Cooperative Board Games In Learning Spaces

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Combinatorial Game Theory In The Classroom: A Hands-On Approach To Teaching Mathematics

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Converting Ideas & Inspiration Into Playable Mechanics

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Crafting Compelling Games: What Makes Players Stay?

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Creating a Laboratory for Games--Teaching, Learning, And Community

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Creating An Escape Room With The Use of AI

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Creative Project Constraints For Student Learning Outcomes

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Custom Toys As Summative Assessment

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D&D & LARP In Schools - Hot Tips & Tricks For Fostering In Class Collaborative Storytelling

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Demo Night & Social Mixer

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Designing Games As Products

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Designing Games To Promote Health

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Developing RPGs With Renegade Games

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Documentation And Hard Conversations

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Does Knowing The Math Help, Really?

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Dune The Boardgame - Gamifying General Education Humanities

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Dungeons & Dragons & Democracy: How TTRPGS Can Build Stronger Civic Communities

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Educational Games & Crafting Curriculum

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Emergence: A Theoretical & Practical Approach To Games-Based Transformation

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Engaging Research - Using RPGs to Guide Research Driven Creative Writing

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Epic Success Or Critical Fail: Which Is Your Financial Plan?

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Escaping From Bad Leadership: An Escape Room Experience

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Evolution Of The Substance Use Recovery Revolution From The Steampunk Era To Today

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Feywild Invasion Biology: Scientific Outreach Activities Using Cosplay & Role Play

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Finding The Perfect Real Estate Space For Your Gaming Store

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Five-Hundred-Year-Old Vampire

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Friday Assignment Session - Theme: Rapid Prototyping & Testing

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Friday Office Hours - Theme: Rapid Prototyping & Testing

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From Assessment To Discharge: Implementing Games Throughout All Steps Of The Therapeutic Process

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From Game Idea to Prototype

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From One-Shot To Campaign: A GM's Guide To Growing A Gaming Club

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Game Of Games 2025 Edition

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Game Theory For Gamers: Decisions, Strategies, & Payoffs

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Game Theory In The Classroom Or Boardroom

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Games That Boost Cognitive Skills & How To Implement Them In The Classroom

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Gamification & UDL: A Practical Application

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Gamification 101: Introduction to Gamification in the Classroom

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Gamification 201: Leveling Up with XP and Roles

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Gamification For Classroom Engagement

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Gamifying ENG 101: TTRPGsIn College & Dual Credit Education

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Gamifying The Classroom

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Get In The Game!

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Get Materials To Start & Grow Your School/Library TTRPG Program

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Goal-Driven Development

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Homeostasis: The Game

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How Do You Want To Synergize This: TTRPGs & AAC

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Failure

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How To Build Worlds For Games: Some Considerations & Pitfalls

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How To Develop For IP & Theme

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How to Profit with Keymaster Games

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How to Run a Gygax-style D&D Club for Colleagues

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I Think, Therefore I Game: Games and Pedagogy in Higher Education

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ICv2 Hobby Games Market White Paper

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Intro to Shipping and Distribution in Asia

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Jubensha: Murder Mystery For Edu-tainment

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Junked Journeys: Legacy Board Games As A Genre With A Beginning And (Sometimes) No End

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Know Your Audience : Lessons Learned

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Learning On The Winning Team!

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Les Gobelins Attaquent! :TTRPGs In The CI World Language Classroom: A Magical Fit!

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Lessons Learned From Using Game Design To Teach A College Subject

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Let’s Play: Games That Improve Communication & Empathetic Understanding

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Leveling Up Healthcare Education: Gaming Elements For Simulation Classes

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Leveling Up Learning: Exchanging Best Practices For Games In Education & Workforce Training

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Loss Aversion & Player Psychology

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Make It, Make Sense - Intutive Design

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Mapping Out The Future With Loke Battle Mats

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Marketing On A Shoestring Budget

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MARLA: Preservation In A Third Space

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Mechanisms Make It Go: Balancing Complex Causality With Playability

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Medicine Check Proficiency: Adapting Gaming Mechanics To Scenario Based Evaluations

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Mental Roadblocks: How Your Brain Can Keep You from Making Wise Financial Decisions

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My Experience Publishing Games As An Independent Designer

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Nature Systems Game Design

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Networking: Using Outside Professionals To Expand Your Reach

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Periodic: A Game Of The Elements - Adapted For Use In The High School Classroom

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Photography For Promotion: Capturing The Best Shots For Social Media, Press, & Products

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Play Fair - Creating Equitable Experiences

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Playing God: How to Create a World for Classrooms Using a Muli-disciplinary Approach

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Playing With Our Ancestors: Ancient Games For Modern Learners

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Pokémon Club: Empowering Young Minds Through Play

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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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Protect Your Business From Fraud

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Quest For The Third Space: Using Tabletop To Forge Identity & Boost Emotional Wellness

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Questing For Knowledge: Aligning TTRPG Information-Seeking Behaviors & Academic Research Skills

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Return To RPG Summer Camp!!

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Role Playing Games As Community Building For Neurodiverse Audience

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Roll For Adventure: Using Role-Playing Games To Increase Engagement With Library Materials

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Roll Persuasion With Advantage On Your Workplace Initiatives

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RPGs Go To College: Teaching The University's First Class in Role-playing Games

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Running Inclusive & Safe TTRPGs For Young Players

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Running Magic: The Gathering Club - Increasing Student & LGS Involvement

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Saturday Assignment Session - Theme: The Game Industry Ecosystem

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Saturday Office Hours - Theme: The Game Industry Ecosystem

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Shaping The Future Of Tabletop Game Book Publishing: Trends & Opportunities

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Smarty Pawns: Level Up Your Lesson Plans

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So You Want To Build A Game: Getting Started With Rapid Prototyping

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Social Media Marketing And You

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Story & Strategy: A Library Con

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Strategies for Crafting Your Own TTRPG Courses at the Collegiate Level

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Sunday Office Hours - Theme: Final Submissions & Reflection

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Table Top Programming For All Ages In Libraries

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Tabletop RPG Theory For Its Own Sake

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Tangents Of Play: Teaching & Learning Through Misdirection

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Teaching Analog Game Design

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Teaching Creative Writing With The Carved From Brindlewood Game System

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Teaching Critical Thinking & Analysis Through Board Game Design

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Teaching With Games That Challenge Gaming Norms

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The Accidental Gamer

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

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The British Are Coming: Using TTRPGs To Teach History

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The Interplay Of Mechanics & Narrative In Games

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The Non-Academics Guide To Games For Your Classroom : Learning Outcomes Map To mechanics, Not Themes

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The Quest Begins: Engaging Community Partners To Reimagine Free RPG Day

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The Rulebook Isn't Broken: Adaptive Strategies For Neurodiverse Gamers

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The Tomb Of Annihilation: Programming Dungeons & Dragons For Tweens

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Therapeutic Gaming In A College Setting

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Thinking Of Your Game As A Product

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Thursday Assignment Session - Theme: Game Design Foundations

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Thursday Office Hours - Theme: Game Design Foundations

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Tools To Resolve Real Live Conflicts At The Game Table

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Traditional & Abstract Game Design (Adding Is Easy, Subtracting Is Hard)

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Trouble in Dodge City: How Do You Design Meaningful Choices?

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Unlocking Resilience: One Game at a Time

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Upcoming RPG, Boardgame + Hobby Product Demonstrations

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Using D&D in Corporate Team Training: A Myers-Briggs Case Study

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Using Escape Boxes To Gamify Learning & Review In The Classroom

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Using Games To Teach

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Using Modern Board Games To Teach In A Special Education

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Using Simulations In the Classroom, National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Panel

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Ways To Save In Shipping & Logistics

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What Teachers Want From the Games They Play In Class

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Why Kids Need Superheroes (2025 edition)

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Wingspan: The Classroom Adaptation

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Working With Community Partners To Bring Adventure To The Library

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Writing, Running, & Publishing Table Top RPGs For Classrooms

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You Too Can Miniature Paint

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Your Perspective, Your Voice, Your Passion

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Your Turn To Roll (Playing TTRPG Adventure with Educators & Professionals)

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