Seminar Schedule 1: Alsace
1100 Shades of Vengeance presents: How to Start (and Finish!) your Creative Project
Ed and Leo of Shades of Vengeance discuss the methods they use to choose which creative projects to begin, as well as how to give them the best chance of succeeding!
Based on experience from publishing over 150 products across various genres, including RPGs, comics, novels, audio dramas and movies, the pair give a large number of tips relating to finding time for your work, and breaking through anything from writer's block to creative apathy!
If you're wondering when to publish your work, or how to even approach a huge, overwhelming project, this is the place for you.
1200 Designing the Ultimate Nemesis
Guy, from the popular YouTube channel How to be a Great GM, wants your next villain to be as vile and vicious as possible without being cliche, predictable and boring. Join him as he explores what makes the Ultimate Nemesis and how you can make yours truly memorable. Who doesn't love a good bad guy?
13:00 Immersive storytelling techniques for RPGs
Award-winning performance storyteller and veteran GM Jason Buck leads you on a journey of how to make your games jump out of the stats tables and into your players imagination. Jason played his first game of 'Basic D&D' in 1985 and never looked back, creating and running thousands of hours of adventures across fantasy, gothic horror and futuristic genres. GMing RPGs is how Jason cut his teeth as a performance storytelling, when audiences asked him how he got started, he always refers back to the RPGs in his teens. Now, Jason writes and performs stories face to face and online to audiences in the UK and across the globe, and has written, illustrated and published 7 collections of stories.
1400 Tabletop System Wars - UK Edition
Over the past 10 years a score has tried to be settled with little success. The Tabletop System Wars has been raging since 2013 when a seemingly innocuous panel of seasoned D/GMs gathered together in Boston, MA to answer the ultimate question: what is the best tabletop system for a given scenario? Now for the first time the quest to answer this ever so difficult quandary has spread to The Old World and has landed on the shores of this ever so Sceptred Isle. Welcome to Tabletop System Wars - UK Edition
How does this work? Well, attendees of Dragonmeet gather and come before a collection of experienced D/GMs and they proffer one-shot and campaign ideas to them. The gathering of wisened D/GMs, all of whom have been drawn from The Roleplay Haven TTRPG collective, will then inform the attendees which tabletop gaming system they should be running and why.
Each suggestion is considered by the moderator and a point awarded to what is deemed to be the most appropriate tabletop RPG system in an entirely arbitrary manner, with the winner being afforded the right to gloat for a bit, to the point of even being allowed to utter the phrase 'I think you'll find' without a hint of irony. So come one and come all to those who seek guidance on how to decide which system is Fated to carry their next one shot or campaign idea! Does your Dungeon really need Dragons? Do blades have to be in a negative light environment? Do Old Ones have to be that malevolent? If it is answers you seek then the collection of tabletop cardboard shield wielders will brainstorm, suggest, and debate until one is chosen, at which point a point is bestowed upon them and wisdom is shared.
Moderator: Chris O'Regan - Branch Manager of the Lewisham Branch of Roleplay Haven
1500 Update from Cubicle 7
Join Dominic McDowall of Cubicle 7 as he discusses latest news on Cubicle 7’s exciting games, including Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Age of Sigmar: Soulbound, Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Doctor Who, Victoriana, Broken Weave, Uncharted Journeys, our Vault 5e plans, upcoming Kickstarters and much more. There will also be a live Q&A session.
1600 How to be a great GM with Guy Schlanders
Join Guy Schlanders (from the You Tube channel How to be a great GM) to discuss how to take your GM to the professional level. Gain insight on what steps to take on this journey and what you'll need to be a Pro GM
1700 Oldies but Goodies
Faced with the Cult of the New, some gamers are retreating back to explore titles from the previous century - or even earlier. What can old games offer modern players, is there a collector's market, and what's worth grabbing if you see it on the shelves of Oxfam? Join games historians James Wallis and Holly Nielsen, Ian McAllister from Giant Brain, and Dicebreaker writer Matt Thrower. This will cover board games, RPGs and minis.
Ed and Leo of Shades of Vengeance discuss the methods they use to choose which creative projects to begin, as well as how to give them the best chance of succeeding!
Based on experience from publishing over 150 products across various genres, including RPGs, comics, novels, audio dramas and movies, the pair give a large number of tips relating to finding time for your work, and breaking through anything from writer's block to creative apathy!
If you're wondering when to publish your work, or how to even approach a huge, overwhelming project, this is the place for you.
1200 Designing the Ultimate Nemesis
Guy, from the popular YouTube channel How to be a Great GM, wants your next villain to be as vile and vicious as possible without being cliche, predictable and boring. Join him as he explores what makes the Ultimate Nemesis and how you can make yours truly memorable. Who doesn't love a good bad guy?
13:00 Immersive storytelling techniques for RPGs
Award-winning performance storyteller and veteran GM Jason Buck leads you on a journey of how to make your games jump out of the stats tables and into your players imagination. Jason played his first game of 'Basic D&D' in 1985 and never looked back, creating and running thousands of hours of adventures across fantasy, gothic horror and futuristic genres. GMing RPGs is how Jason cut his teeth as a performance storytelling, when audiences asked him how he got started, he always refers back to the RPGs in his teens. Now, Jason writes and performs stories face to face and online to audiences in the UK and across the globe, and has written, illustrated and published 7 collections of stories.
1400 Tabletop System Wars - UK Edition
Over the past 10 years a score has tried to be settled with little success. The Tabletop System Wars has been raging since 2013 when a seemingly innocuous panel of seasoned D/GMs gathered together in Boston, MA to answer the ultimate question: what is the best tabletop system for a given scenario? Now for the first time the quest to answer this ever so difficult quandary has spread to The Old World and has landed on the shores of this ever so Sceptred Isle. Welcome to Tabletop System Wars - UK Edition
How does this work? Well, attendees of Dragonmeet gather and come before a collection of experienced D/GMs and they proffer one-shot and campaign ideas to them. The gathering of wisened D/GMs, all of whom have been drawn from The Roleplay Haven TTRPG collective, will then inform the attendees which tabletop gaming system they should be running and why.
Each suggestion is considered by the moderator and a point awarded to what is deemed to be the most appropriate tabletop RPG system in an entirely arbitrary manner, with the winner being afforded the right to gloat for a bit, to the point of even being allowed to utter the phrase 'I think you'll find' without a hint of irony. So come one and come all to those who seek guidance on how to decide which system is Fated to carry their next one shot or campaign idea! Does your Dungeon really need Dragons? Do blades have to be in a negative light environment? Do Old Ones have to be that malevolent? If it is answers you seek then the collection of tabletop cardboard shield wielders will brainstorm, suggest, and debate until one is chosen, at which point a point is bestowed upon them and wisdom is shared.
Moderator: Chris O'Regan - Branch Manager of the Lewisham Branch of Roleplay Haven
1500 Update from Cubicle 7
Join Dominic McDowall of Cubicle 7 as he discusses latest news on Cubicle 7’s exciting games, including Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Age of Sigmar: Soulbound, Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Doctor Who, Victoriana, Broken Weave, Uncharted Journeys, our Vault 5e plans, upcoming Kickstarters and much more. There will also be a live Q&A session.
1600 How to be a great GM with Guy Schlanders
Join Guy Schlanders (from the You Tube channel How to be a great GM) to discuss how to take your GM to the professional level. Gain insight on what steps to take on this journey and what you'll need to be a Pro GM
1700 Oldies but Goodies
Faced with the Cult of the New, some gamers are retreating back to explore titles from the previous century - or even earlier. What can old games offer modern players, is there a collector's market, and what's worth grabbing if you see it on the shelves of Oxfam? Join games historians James Wallis and Holly Nielsen, Ian McAllister from Giant Brain, and Dicebreaker writer Matt Thrower. This will cover board games, RPGs and minis.