Heading to WisCon
I’m off to WisCon 37 in a couple days, so updates will again will rare until I get back early next week. I’m really looking forward to the con, and I’ll be on two panels that might be relevant here:...
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As usual, WisCon was entertaining, mind-expanding and generally wonderful. I have yet to fully recover. I will start posting reports soon.
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WisCon 37, part I: Why Is Pleasure So Problematic?
First part of WisCon 37 that was relevant here: a great panel called “Why Is Pleasure So Problematic?” I didn’t catch the whole thing, but what I saw of the panel dealt in a very thorough, interesting...
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WisCon 37, part II: Roleplay and Identity
Interesting interfacesAnother good gaming-related panel (WisCon had a bunch of them this year), this one was concerned with how we “expand our understanding of ourselves and the world” through RPGs....
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WisCon 37, part III: Creating a Religion 201
At last year’s WisCon, there was a fairly interesting panel called Creating a Religion. It was nominally about how to create religions for conworlds. Mostly, though, it just kept coming back to...
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WisCon 37, part IV: Feminism in Gaming 2013
This panel went quite well. In pre-discussion, we created a handout with tons of resources and information, and we also printed up a bunch of copies of the Feminist Gamer Bingo sheet. Yes, a panel with...
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WisCon 37, part V: Actual gaming
WisCon isn’t a gaming-heavy con; it’s primarily about programming and conversations. Still, I managed to get in a bit of gaming, all of it on Sunday: Dominion. We played one nice session of this. As...
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WisCon 37, part VI: Wrap-up
WisCon was again great. WisCon’s level of discussion is uniformly very high and much more clueful than at a lot of other cons. I don’t do much gaming there, but it entertains through mind-expansion....
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At last WisCon, there were several great panels about worldbuilding. One, in particular, brought up the concept of using different standard blocks, like “elves who are immortal and hate dwarves”, “the...
View ArticleConvergence 2013, part 8: Final thoughts
Convergence is still the con where I talk about gaming the most. Why not at other conventions, like Con of the North (where there’s tons of gaming) or WisCon (where discussions are such a major focus,...
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Con of the North 2014, part 4: Mountain Monastery Mystery
The afternoon game for Saturday was one I was running, using Blade & Crown. It was in some ways very conventional, but in many others one of the most experimental games I’ve run. The scenario was...
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Mountain Monastery Mystery at WisCon
If you missed my Mountain Monastery Mystery at Con of the North, you’ll get another chance to play it this coming Memorial Day weekend (May 23-26) at WisCon! WisCon is a wonderful convention with...
View ArticleOff to WisCon!
Just about time to head off to WisCon. I’m looking forward to a weekend of passionate, buoyant geekery. Getting to run Blade & Crown tomorrow night will be an added bonus! I hope to see you there....
View ArticleWisCon: Yay!
WisCon is over. Post-con blues have set in. But I have many pleasant memories. It was a great con. Not a lot that’s relevant to this blog, but I’ll be writing about a few things in upcoming posts. For...
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WisCon 38, part 1: Social Isolation
As I mentioned before, a lot of the panels I went to at WisCon this year didn’t have much to do with gaming. This one, however, did: Social Isolation and WisCon For many of us, WisCon can be a magical...
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WisCon 38, part 2: Actual gaming
This WisCon, I did a fair amount of actual gaming. Foremost among these, of course, was my Mountain Monastery Murder Mystery. As I’ve mentioned before, this is set in a monastery/abbey of Sister Earth,...
View ArticleWisCon 38, part 3: Wrap-up
Other general things WisCon 38 has me thinking about: As always, WisCon this year had a lot of powerful, important discussions. The discussion about social isolation was, for me, the one most directly...
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Towards a perpetual calendar of Minnesota-area cons
After some discussion on Steve Brust’s blog, I’m wondering if it’s possible to list all the cons in this area. There really are a lot of them, and it’s very easy to lose track. I’ve seen various...
View ArticleWisCon 39 coming up!
And with my Minicon 50 posts finally written up, I’m heading off to WisCon! I’m not scheduled for a lot that’s gaming-related, and it looks like I might even have a schedule conflict or two, but here’s...
View ArticleWisCon 39 was great!
WisCon 39 is now over, sadly. It was mostly pretty great. Lots of wonderful, deep and important conversations; superb panels; some surprisingly good gaming; and general fannish enjoyment a-plenty. I...
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