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It could be argued that going to Gaelcon in my current mental state was unwise - it’s hard to relax at a con when your embryos are being defrosted and transferred the next day. I also learned that I actively need to GM at least one game early in a con. Apparently, if I can’t ( Read more... )

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Warpcon happened again last weekend. Each con has its own unique twist; the theme this year seems to be ‘oh God, we’re old, we’re old.’

Warpcon XX. The twentieth year of the con. I was at Warpcon IV. That’s sixteen years ago. The people running the con are barely older than ( Read more... )

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First, the saga of the comics.

We ordered a somewhat ambitious print run of 100 copes of Fish for Fish from Comicxpress in the US about a month ago. Shipping should have taken two weeks. Even if there was a delay, we should still get them in plenty of time for the Edition Book ( Read more... )

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This weekend (Sat. 4th July), deli and I will be at Edition Book Arts in Dublin. It’s a book, comic and zine fair, and entry is free. It’s on in Temple Bar.


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Back in part 1, I said that as a rule of thumb, you can assume you’ll have three to five scenes between opening and finale. Each of these scenes should last around half an hour each. That’s actually quite a lot of play time. Depending on your game system, that’s one or two ( Read more... )

This article isn’t about running convention games, but from this point on it will be impossible for me to entirely divorce writing the game from running it. I’ll keep the GM asides to a minimum.

The opening scene needs to:

• Get the players’ attention
• Introduce the player characters to each other
• Start them roleplaying
• Set the tone of the whole ( Read more... )

What goes into them?

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Disclaimer: All this is my opinion, but it’s based on what’s worked for me over the past eight years of writing con scenarios - and since writing said con scenarios has led directly to a job in the gaming industry, I’ll admit to a smidgin of ego on this topic. Contrary comments and arguments welcome.

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