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Advanced Game Mastery: Secrets of Worldbuilding and Campaign Design
A practical workshop for experienced Game Masters exploring the principles and hidden techniques behind worldbuilding, campaign structure, and adventure design that create engaging RPG campaigns.
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- Sat 50 tickets
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Advanced Game Mastery: Secrets of Worldbuilding & Campaign Design
A practical workshop for experienced Game Masters exploring the principles and hidden techniques behind worldbuilding, campaign structure, and adventure design that create engaging RPG campaigns.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 0 tickets
- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 50 tickets
Authentic Creature Characters Workshop
This creative workshop is designed for role-players, home-brewers, & creators who enjoy fantastical realms & alien worlds. It would encourage attendees to participate via writing & acting exercises.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 50 tickets
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Bagua
The lesser known of the Chinese internal martial arts. Learn the circle walking and spiraling movements behind airbending.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
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- Sat 20 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Basic Roleplaying Workshop
Game designer and Basic Roleplaying line editor Jason Durall teaches game design using the BRP engine.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 8 tickets
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Basics of Hand Sewing
In this class, we will give you kits so you can practice and learn basic stitches as well as how to properly seam rip, sew on a button, pin, and cut fabric.
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- Thurs 22 tickets
- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Bean Maps: A Beginners Guide to Fantasy Cartography
Scatter your beans and bring your homebrew world to life! All are welcome! All supplies will be provided.
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- Thurs 48 tickets
- Fri 24 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Beetle Pinning for Artsy Nerds
Learn the basics of insect taxidermy (also known as "pinning") on a beetle. Attendees will also take home a beetle they pinned during the class.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
- Fri 20 tickets
- Sat 20 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Beyond Game Mastery: Essential Skills for the Professional GM
GMs wear many hats, and professional GMs wear even more! If you dream of running TTRPG games for pay, you’ll need to hone a range of administrative, business, and soft skills outside of prep and play.
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- Fri 49 tickets
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Beyond the Compass, Advanced Fantasy Cartography
Take your map making to the next level in this intermediate course diving into the “why’s” of your world building. Learning how to craft a rich world without overwhelming your players (or yourself!)
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- Sun 30 tickets
Blade of Frontiers Academy
Study the Blade and learn sword play like Wyll Ravenguard himself using the Single Sword fighting style. No magic all blade.
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- Fri 16 tickets
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Bringing Fire's Practical GMing
A fast-moving, fun, hands-on exercise for novice, aspiring, and skill-seeking Game Masters where you work together to design a dungeon adventure and take turns running it with expert feedback.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
- Fri 24 tickets
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Bringing Fire's Practical GMing In Depth
A hands-on deep dive for novice, aspiring, and skill-seeking Game Masters to practice their adventure design and game-running, with expert advice and constructive feedback.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
- Fri 24 tickets
- Sat 24 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Buff Barbarian
Plyometric workout designed to maximize your inner barbarian's rage-filled berserk attack. Any fitness level can be accommodated, if you have joint challenges, you might prefer my other classes.
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- Fri 40 tickets
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- Sun 40 tickets
Build a Better Bard
The aim of this event is to invite role-players, home-brewers, & creators to practice some bard skills by understanding & performing Shakespeare in a safe, playful space.
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- Fri 30 tickets
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Build a Giant Wooden D20
Prepare and assemble a giant wooden 20 sided die that will be yours to keep. Each will be almost 4 inches tall and assemble with screws.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
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Build a Mimic Dice Box
Build a wooden dice box inspired by the iconic mimic.
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- Fri 72 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Butterfly Pinning for Artsy Nerds
Learn the basics of insect taxidermy (also known as "pinning") on a butterfly. Attendees will also take home a butterfly they pinned during the class.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
- Fri 20 tickets
- Sat 20 tickets
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Call of Cthulhu Scenario Writing
A legendary opportunity to learn TTRPG scenario writing from a pair of influential industry veterans, Mike Mason and Paul Fricker.
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- Fri 16 tickets
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Cartography
Learn how to draw maps for your TTRPG scenarios from a veteran cartographer, Matt Ryan!
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- Sat 8 tickets
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Chainmail D20 Pendant
Learn about the materials, their properties, tools utilized, proper sizing, following patterns, and better practices for clean construction as you build your own captured D20 pendant.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
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- Sat 20 tickets
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Chainmailleing a Headdress
Back for Gen Con 2026! We invite you to come and learn how to make your very own chainmaille headdress.
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- Sat 24 tickets
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Character Creation: Quick Guide to Character Sheets and Bios
How to make a character sheet, bio, and story for any type of story when you are wanting to play D&D 5th Edition (2014 or 2024 versions).
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- Fri 30 tickets
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Character Creation: Quick Guide to D&D Character Sheets and Bios
How to make a character sheet, bio, and story for any type of story when you are wanting to play D&D 5th Edition (2014 or 2024 versions).
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- Thurs 30 tickets
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Character Development for Puppetry & Beyond
The quality of a character should go far beyond a their looks & voice. Learn how to give your characters depth, how to make them emote, and how to connect in a way that deepens your performances!
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- Fri 20 tickets
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Character Voices for your RPGs
In this interactive workshop, actor and voice coach Tobi Mattingly will take you through exercises and techniques to help you create unique and consistent character voices in a safe and healthy way.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
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Choreography for Puppetry
Having puppets dance involves far more than the "kermit flail" --come find out what it takes to organize the puppeteers to make the puppets look amazing!
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- Sat 20 tickets
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Control Your Puppet's Hands
Everyone's obsessed with those little sticks on puppet hands & wants to know if there's a trick to use them. We're here to reveal those tricks and send you on your way with some brand new skills!
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- Fri 20 tickets
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Cosplay Fabrication: Electronic & Electrical Components
A math-free hands-on workshop where participants will learn about, and construct, a variety of common electronic and electrical cosplay components, including LEDs, EL wire and sheets, and motors.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
- Fri 20 tickets
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- Sun 20 tickets
Cosplay Fabrication: Hands-on Working with EVA Foam
Participants will learn & practice techniques for working with EVA foam. Each participant will leave with an armored helmet they will manufacture during the workshop.
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- Thurs 21 tickets
- Fri 21 tickets
- Sat 21 tickets
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Could Your Hobby Be A Business?
Want to sell your art or crafts, be hired as a GM, or turn some other hobby into a side (or full time) hustle? Come learn how to evaluate viability, and avoid common legal and financial pitfalls.
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- Sun 70 tickets
Craft a Laser Cut Dice Tower
During this class we will assemble and decorate wooden dice towers from kits designed by Emmie Mayne of Lightning and Lace.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
- Fri 24 tickets
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Crafting a Leather Dice Bag
We will be making dice bags from premium furniture grade leather.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Crafting Elegance: Leather Drawstring Pouch Creation
Whether you're a seasoned craftsman or a curious newcomer, this course offers a unique opportunity to master the art of making a classic leather drawstring pouch.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
- Fri 40 tickets
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- Sun 20 tickets
Creating Interesting & Memorable NPCs
An adventuring NPCs should be an important part of the story. They need to be more than a healbot or someone to carry stuff. You will learn to give them depth, personality, & make them a real person.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
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- Sat 20 tickets
- Sun 20 tickets
Creating Interesting & Memorable Villains
In essence, your Villain defines your entire campaign, so your Villain needs to be more than "I'm the bad guy!". In this workshop, you will learn to give them depth, personality, & conflict.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
- Fri 40 tickets
- Sat 40 tickets
- Sun 20 tickets
Crochet a Dice Bag
Come learn how to combine some basic crochet stitches and how to blend them together to create a dice bag.
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- Fri 10 tickets
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Crochet a Dice Bag
Come learn how to combine some basic crochet stitches and how to blend them together to create a nice little dice bag.
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- Thurs 10 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Crochet an Amigurumi Pumpkin
Participants will receive yarn, a pattern, and tools to keep as they learn how to make an amigurumi pumpkin.
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- Sat 12 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Daggerheart Learn, Play, and Create: Taster Adventure & Make a Character!
Dive into Daggerheart with a taster adventure followed by creating your own character! Play and walk away with your very own Class Pack.
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- Thurs 108 tickets
- Fri 108 tickets
- Sat 144 tickets
- Sun 72 tickets
Decora Card Sleeve Workshop with Crash Candy Cosplay
Give your favorite trading cards the creative frames they deserve! Join Crash Candy Cosplay for an introduction to the art of decoden and take home your very own custom 3D card sleeves.
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- Sun 40 tickets
Demon Hunter Training for K POP Kids!
Gear up. It’s time for a takedown! Come learn how to slay demons with your favorite purple haired Kpop idol!
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- Sun 30 tickets
Designing for Daggerheart
Learn from the development team and dive deep into where to start designing your own work for Daggerheart! Ticket comes with Daggerheart: Hope & Fear and more goodies.
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- Thurs 42 tickets
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Designing Serious Games
Back for another year, this updated combo seminar-workshop introduces key design features of serious games and then guides audience members through the design process with a custom scenario.
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- Thurs 30 tickets
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Dice Making
This class will teach you the basics of dice making. You'll cast & de-mold an opaque die, sand & polish a pre-made clear die, and paint in the numbers, and both will be ready for your next game.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
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- Sat 40 tickets
- Sun 20 tickets
DIY Leathercraft: Leather Armor
In this panel, we will teach you the basics of how to make leather armor using 4 oz cowhide, and leave you with a custom leather bracer made by your own hands.
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- Sun 24 tickets
DIY Leathercraft: Leather Armor
In this panel, we will teach you the basics of how to make leather armor, and leave you with a custom leather bracer made from 4 oz cowhide.
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- Sat 40 tickets
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DIY Leathercraft: Leather Cat Ears
Unleash your inner kitty meow meow! We’ll teach the basics of leatherworking, and guide you through making a pair of customized leather cat ears from 4 oz cowhide.
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- Sat 40 tickets
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DIY Leathercraft: Leather Collars
In this panel, we will teach you the basics of leatherworking and guide you through making a personalized leather collar from 4oz cowhide, double cap rivets, and one inch buckles.
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- Sat 40 tickets
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DIY Leathercraft: Leather Dice Bags
Want to make a custom bag for all of dice? In this workshop, we will teach you the basics of leatherworking, and leave you with a small dice bag crafted by your own hands from 4oz cowhide.
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- Sat 40 tickets
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DIY Leathercraft: Leather Dice Bags
Want to make a custom bag for all of dice? In this workshop, we will teach you the basics of leatherworking, and leave you with a small dice bag crafted by your own hands from 4oz cowhide.
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- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 24 tickets
DIY Metalwork: Chainmail Bracelet
In this workshop, we will teach the basics of making European 4 in 1 chainmail, and leave you with a small bracelet or necklace made from anodized aluminum rings.
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- Fri 40 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
DIY Metalwork: Chainmail Plushie
Learn to make a shirt of chainmail – scaled down to plushie size! We'll be using anodized aluminum rings and teaching the Japanese 4-1 weaving pattern. Bring your own plushie or use one provided.
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- Fri 60 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
DIY Metalwork: Plate Armor
We will teach you how to make medieval plate armor, and leave you with an engraved bracer (forearm guard) made from 18 gauge sheet aluminum.
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- Thurs 40 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
DIY Metalwork: Scale Mail Gauntlet
We will teach you the basics of making scale armor, and leave you with a small gauntlet made from anodized aluminum scales and chainmail rings.
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- Fri 40 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
DIY Metalwork: Wasteland Armor
We will teach you the basics of working sheet metal, and leave you with a three-piece spiked pauldron (shoulder guard) made from 18 gauge sheet aluminum.
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- Thurs 40 tickets
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- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Dynamic Fight Action: Cinematic Combat for your Tabletop
Add an extra level of epic narration to your ttrpg action sequences! The DFA system helps your table to describe action and fight sequences cinematically as a director or fight choreographer would.
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- Sat 30 tickets
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Ease Into Puppetry with Jennifer Barnhart
Join Jennifer Barnhart for an engaging, practical, hands-on puppetry workshop. You'll learn the essential skills that make puppets feel believable and alive. Oh, and it's going to be a hoot, to boot!
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- Thurs 25 tickets
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Easy Peasy Glove Puppet Make & Take
Puppet designer, Richard Gomez, will lead you in making a kid-friendly glove puppet! You'll learn the basics to design a great puppet face & create a really swell character of your very own!
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- Sun 20 tickets
Fantasy Figure Drawing
Draw a real armored knight from life! Get inside tips and tricks from a professional artist and a professional swordsman. This drawing session is for any level from beginners to industry creatives.
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- Thurs 60 tickets
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- Sun 60 tickets
Fear Itself: Using Horror in TTRPGs
Have you ever tried to run a 'horror' campaign just to have it fall apart? You don't need more gore, scarier beasts, a better gaming group, or a different game system. You need this presentation.
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- Fri 80 tickets
- Sat 70 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Fight like a Paladin: Longsword
Back by Popular Demand! Divine smite? Second wind? How will you defend your party! Come and join stage combat professionals as we guide you in the fight for glory!
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- Fri 18 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Fight Like a Pirate: Swashbuckling
Avast mateys! Come swash and buckle with our crew in this exciting stage combat sword fighting class! We will learn how to stick 'em with the pointy end safely and in style!
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- Fri 20 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Fit Fighter
A body weight workout designed to maximize your inner fighter's balanced and efficient attacks. Any fitness level can be accommodated. This "Fit's" nicely with my other exercise workshops.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 40 tickets
- Fri 40 tickets
- Sat 40 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Foam Armor Crafting Workshop
If you've ever wanted to learn how to enhance your cosplay with new foam prop making techniques, whether it's to make effects pop, or better outline a design this is the workshop for you.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 30 tickets
- Fri 30 tickets
- Sat 30 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Foam, Thermoplastics, & More: Featherweight Cosplay Mega Workshop
You can make great costumes and armor without metalworking! Learn to construct unique armor and accessories using lightweight, hall-safe materials. Make a custom thermoplastic bracer to wear out!
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- Fri 36 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Found Object Curio Tile Pendant Necklace
Wear a fragment of a forgotten story that you create on a domino using tiny found objects and alcohol inks.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
- Fri 24 tickets
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- Sun 24 tickets
From Script to Page: Writing Novelizations
Do you love reading movies? Have you ever thought about creating a novel based on a movie script? Then this is the workshop for you!
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- Thurs 34 tickets
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Gamemastering for the Writer, Writing for the Gamemaster
Author, TwitchTV host, and online/offline DM Gregory A. Wilson draws on 40 years of game mastering experience to discuss how to integrate writing and game mastering techniques to benefit both.
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- Fri 87 tickets
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Gamer Dice Jewelry: Make A D6 Bracelet & Earrings
Show your geek pride! Make a D6 bracelet, earrings, or both to wear out. Many kinds of dice and beads are provided. Variations and creativity are encouraged!
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- Fri 36 tickets
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Gen Con Stretch & Reset
Let's get some Gen Con tension and soreness out of our muscles through a combination of stretching, gentle calisthenics, and basic yoga. All levels welcome at this class led by a circus professional!
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- Sun 30 tickets
GM Workshop: Build a World
Come with nothing - leave with a world! Whether you've been at this for a while, are just getting started, or have never built a world, this workshop will take you from concept to world in 3 hours!
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- Fri 30 tickets
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GM Workshop: Dynamic Combat
Level up your combats to be more dynamic and special.
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- Sat 6 tickets
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GM Workshop: Engaging NPCs with Unique Voices
Level up your NPCs with unique personalities and fun character voices.
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- Sat 6 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
GM Workshop for Daggerheart
Join Team Daggerheart for a high-energy, interactive workshop designed to get you ready to lead your own games! Tickets come with Daggerheart: Hope & Fear and more goodies.
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- Sat 42 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
GM Workshop: Immersion
Learn about using narration, description, & imagery to immerse your players. We will work on using your voice to set tone & using all five senses to make a clear image in your player's minds.
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- Sat 6 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Gordon's Handy Secrets: Make Posable Puppet Hands
Puppet builder, Gordon Smuder, shows you how to make adorable, posable puppet hands for arm-rod style puppets. Participants will leave with two working puppet hands, one arm rod, and two thumbs up!
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- Fri 12 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Grayson v. Murdoc Behind the Sticks
Explore the weapon used both by Daredevil and Nightwing as we cover the basics of the Filipino Martial Art Kali. *No high flying acrobatics
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- Sat 16 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Great Story Openings
Learn how to write a great story opening that includes character, setting, conflict, tone, and mystery. All skill levels. Optional: bring the first page of your story/novel. Led by Kelli Fitzpatrick.
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- Fri 47 tickets
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Group Guided Meditation to Spark Creativity & Enhance Concentration
Experience a guided imagery exercise to unlock creativity, fuel imagination, enhance concentration and bring inspiration into your life.
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- Fri 20 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Hand Sew a Dice Bag
You will pick out your precut fabric and ribbon that you want, and then we will walk you through how to sew together your dice bag. This is a great project for beginners.
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- Fri 30 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Hand Sew a Plush Owl
You will pick out precut fabric for your soon to be owl friend and we will walk you through sewing it together. This is a great beginner project for people wanting to learn how to sew.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Hand Sewing for Beginners
Would you like to get a start making puppets or other crafty things, but don't quite have a grasp on sewing by hand? Good news! This sewing for beginners workshop is perfect for you!
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- Thurs 20 tickets
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Here Be Dragons: Exploring the Art of Fantasy Map Making
In this beginner course, you’ll learn the art of crafting worlds from coast to coast with just a pen. Learning techniques to turn simple shapes into trees, mountains, deserts and more!
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- Fri 60 tickets
- Sat 48 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Homeroom for GMs
Work on your leveling up your game with seasoned GMs! The workshop focuses on participants working in small groups led by a professional GM to receive personalized feedback on improving their games.
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- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 12 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Improv for GMs
So you only have an hour or so for game prep, but you want to run a smooth session. We'll show you the tools for running on-the-fly games, prepping for sessions quickly, and making NPCs on the spot!
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- Thurs 70 tickets
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- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Insect Mounting for Artsy Nerds
Learn how to decorate and mount an insect in a shadow box. Attendees will also take home a finished piece.
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- Sun 24 tickets
Insect Mounting for Artsy Nerds
Learn how to decorate and mount an insect in a shadow box. Attendees will also take home a finished piece.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Introducing the Deviant Tarot
Join the models and designers as we explore the creation and lore behind the Cosplay Deviants tarot deck! Exclusive print and beginner spread included! Basic decks provided for the session.
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- Fri 30 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Introducing the Deviant Tarot - 18+ NSFW
Join the models as we explore the creation and lore behind the Cosplay Deviants Tarot! Exclusive 18+ print and beginner spread included! Basic decks provided for the session. NSFW!
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- Fri 30 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Introduction to Longsword (HEMA)
Participants will learn the art of battling with the longsword, a Historical European Martial Art. Footwork & blade work will be taught. Test your new skills in bouts with your peers.
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- Thurs 60 tickets
- Fri 60 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Introduction to Rapier & Dagger
Learn the historical science of defense from the Spanish masters with a blade in both hands!
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- Thurs 40 tickets
- Fri 40 tickets
- Sat 40 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Introduction to Saber Fencing
Participants will learn the art of fencing with a saber. Rules, basic footwork, & blade work will be taught. Fencing sabers will be used. Test your new skills in bouts with your peers.
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- Thurs 0 tickets
- Fri 36 tickets
- Sat 56 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Intro to Block Printing
A fun introduction to the world of block printing! Participants will learn all the steps needed to make and create relief prints for paper or clothing.
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- Thurs 10 tickets
- Fri 10 tickets
- Sat 10 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Intro to Hand Puppets
This hands-on puppeteering workshop is perfect for beginning & early-intermediate puppeteers, librarians, teachers, or anyone who just wants a refresher on their puppetry skills.
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- Thurs 30 tickets
- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Intro to Leather Stamping - Make a Leather Key Chain
Learn about leather weights and types, stamping tools, safety, dyeing, and technique for design and application. As you go through each step you will create your own dynamic leather keychain.
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- Thurs 12 tickets
- Fri 12 tickets
- Sat 12 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Intro to Special Effects Makeup Workshop
If you've ever wanted to learn how to enhance your cosplay with new makeup techniques, whether it's to make effects pop, or better outline a design this is the workshop for you.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
- Fri 25 tickets
- Sat 25 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
It was a Dark & Stormy Night - Creating a Paranormal Setting for a RPG
Join paranormal podcaster Bob Anderson as he leads a live, audience-driven world-building session! Help craft a unique paranormal RPG setting—ghosts, cryptids, and horrors await!
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- Sat 70 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Jedi Yoga
Jedi Yoga focuses on power poses for every fitness level with contemplation of Jedi wisdom woven throughout. after practicing the individual poses, they will be combined into a flow.
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- Fri 40 tickets
- Sat 40 tickets
- Sun 40 tickets
Juggling 101
Learn the basics to three-ball juggling! All participants will receive a set of three juggling balls to take home.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
- Fri 20 tickets
- Sat 20 tickets
- Sun 20 tickets
Jumbo Plushie Chainmailleing
Back for Gen Con 2026! We invite you to come, select a large plushie, & armor it up medieval style!
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 30 tickets
- Fri 24 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Just Lip Sync (For Puppetry)
Learn how to move your puppet's mouth to make puppeteering easier, believable, and more engaging! Learn with Sesame Street performers, Jennifer Barnhart & Stacey Gordon, and have loads of fun!
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- Thurs 20 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Keepsake Curio Trinket Box
Take a thrifted hinged box and turn it into a unique memento vault for all of your tiny treasures.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
- Fri 24 tickets
- Sat 0 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
K-Pop Dance Lab: Learn, Choose, Dance
Move, learn, and vibe through K-Pop choreo. Learn a girl group chorus and a boy group chorus, follow the room’s energy on what to build next, then cut loose with open random dance. All levels welcome.
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- Fri 30 tickets
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K-Pop Slays
Agility exercises, martial arts, and a K-Pop playlist will help you slay some demons. To celebrate the success of K-Pop Demon Hunters, join us in strengthening yourselves and the honmoon.
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- Thurs 40 tickets
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- Sat 40 tickets
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Learn to Make a Barrel Weave Chainmaille Bracelet
Join me in creating a red and black barrel bracelet. We will be working with our hands using pliers and anodized aluminum rings to create a bracelet to take home.
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- Fri 40 tickets
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Learn to Make a Barrel Weave Chainmaille Micromaille Ring & Bracelet Set
Join me in creating a red and black barrel bracelet and ring. We will be working with our hands using pliers and anodized aluminum rings to create a bracelet and ring to take home.
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- Fri 20 tickets
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Learn to Make a Byzantine Chainmaille Bracelet
Join me in creating a red and black byzantine bracelet. We will be working with our hands using pliers and anodized aluminum rings to create a bracelet to take home.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
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Learn To Make A Byzantine Chainmaille Bracelet
Join me in creating a red and black byzantine bracelet. We will be working with our hands using pliers and anodized aluminum rings to create a bracelet to take home.
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- Thurs 10 tickets
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Learn to Make a Byzantine Chainmaille Bracelet Advanced Ladder Variant
Join me in creating a red and black byzantine bracelet. We will be working with our hands using pliers and anodized aluminum rings to create a bracelet to take home.
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- Thurs 10 tickets
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Learn to Make a Byzantine Chainmaille Bracelet Advanced Ladder Variant
Join me in creating a red and black byzantine bracelet. You will be learning the basic byzantine and using that to create ladder byzantine variant of the weave.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
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Learn to Make a Pair of Byzantine Chainmaille Star Pendants
Join me in creating two red, black, and silver Byzantine star pendants. We will be working with our hands using pliers and anodized aluminum rings to create two pendants to take home.
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- Sat 60 tickets
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Learn to Make Chainmaille: Bracelet or Other Projects
MM's small-sized chainmaille buffet! Here, you can pick 1 of 4 kits: encapsulated marble keychain, or a chainmaille diamond, or a Byzantine-variant bracelet or a wrapped D20.
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- Thurs 60 tickets
- Fri 48 tickets
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Learn to Make Chainmaille: Chainmaille Buffet
A project buffet! Pick 1 of 3 kits: Chainmailled Plushie [bear, dog, rabbit, others], or Our Modified Byzantine Weave Necklace, or a Full Persian Necklace.
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- Thurs 30 tickets
- Fri 24 tickets
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Leather Badge Holder
Learn about dyeing and stitching leather then walk away with your own customized leather badge holder.
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- Fri 20 tickets
- Sat 20 tickets
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Leather Tooling
Hands on education of transferring, carving, and tooling images onto leather to create a hand done embossed designed leather plaque.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 10 tickets
- Fri 10 tickets
- Sat 10 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Left-Handed Crochet
This introductory course is for our left-handed attendees. Get a "my first lesson" on crochet by our instructors with left-handed expertise.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 6 tickets
- Fri 6 tickets
- Sat 6 tickets
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Make a Deluxe Giant Acrylic D20
Prepare and assemble a 20 sided die out of red glitter acrylic. Each will be almost 4 inches tall and assemble with screws.
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- Fri 24 tickets
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Make a Dungeon Jelly Box
Craft and customize a cute dungeon jelly monster box out of florescent green laser cut acrylic.
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- Fri 24 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Make a Marionette
Learn the basics of marionette construction, from building to stringing! Participants will construct and customize a human marionette and learn how to string the puppet with an airplane controller.
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- Fri 15 tickets
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Make a Pair of Leather Bracers
Leather bracers are an excellent start project if you want to try your hand at leatherworking. You will be using a variety of leatherworking tools to cut and decorate your bracers.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
- Fri 20 tickets
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- Sun 20 tickets
Make a Renaissance Leather Ring Belt
Develop basic leather crafting skills and learn how to size, finish, and rivet together a Renaissance style leather ring belt, properly tie it.
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- Thurs 12 tickets
- Fri 12 tickets
- Sat 12 tickets
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Make a Rockin' Robin Puppet
Join puppet-building wunderkind Richard Gomez and make a moving-mouth Rockin' Robin puppet! This one is definitely worth waking up early for! See our longer description for a list of required skills.
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- Fri 15 tickets
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Make a Sandwich Puppet
Make a moving-mouth sandwich puppet with puppeteer, Stacey Gordon. Seriously, this will be the greatest, no-calorie sandwich you will ever make. Gluten free.
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- Fri 20 tickets
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Make a Talking Pizza Puppet
Create your own mouth-watering pizza puppet with puppet-maker, Stacey Gordon! Gluten and dairy-free, you'll top your pizza with anything from your imagination & then make it come to life!
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- Sat 20 tickets
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Make a Toy Theater
Make a beautifully illustrated tabletop theater from cardstock with puppets and sets for a complete production. Learn about the history of Toy Theater with paper artist Timothy Taylor.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
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Make Your Own Con Souvenir Tee
Use a variety of techniques to create your own unique, hand-decorated graphic tee (or other item) with nerdy themes to commemorate your own gaming adventures.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 12 tickets
- Fri 0 tickets
- Sat 12 tickets
- Sun 12 tickets
Make Your Own Fantasy World Map
This hands-on workshop, led by a fantasy cartographer, includes all supplies to create a map to take home! Learn techniques to draw terrain, forests, mountains, and more.
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- Fri 30 tickets
- Sat 30 tickets
- Sun 60 tickets
Make Your Own Fantasy World Map: A Cartography Workshop for All Levels
This hands-on workshop, led by a fantasy cartographer, includes all supplies to create a map to take home! Learn techniques to draw terrain, forests, mountains, and more.
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- Sat 30 tickets
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Make Your Own Fantasy World Map: A Cartography Workshop for All Levels
This hands-on workshop, led by a fantasy cartographer, includes all supplies to create a map to take home! Learn techniques to draw terrain, forests, mountains, and more. Open to all ages.
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- Fri 30 tickets
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Make Your Own Rosary
Join us to make a single decade Rosary and take it home!
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- Thurs 25 tickets
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- Sun 25 tickets
Making Fingerless Lace Gloves
In this class you will be using a premade kit to create fingerless gloves with provided instructions and patterns by hand.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Making Lace & Ribbon Choker Necklaces
This is an instructional class on how to make lace chokers from a premade kit with hand-sewing.
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- Thurs 48 tickets
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Making Maps for your Table
Learn to use paper, papyrus, wood, leather and other natural materials to make maps to bring to your table. We'll teach you map-making basics and leave time for you to perfect your creation.
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- Fri 50 tickets
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Managing a Game Store that Lasts
This is a Workshop that is a more in depth discussion of Managing a Game Store that Lasts, so we spend more time after Opening the Store on how you actually want to run it and traps to avoid.
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- Thurs 50 tickets
- Fri 50 tickets
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Mandalorian Martial Arts
This is the way. A martial arts/cardio workout that focuses on basic techniques that will have you ready to collect bounties from all over the galaxy! Workout can be modified for all fitness levels.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 40 tickets
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- Sat 40 tickets
- Sun 40 tickets
Map Your Player's Journey: A UX Tool for Game Design
Learn how journey mapping can help your game design process in this interactive workshop.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Metalsmithing a Cold Forged, Monogramed Pendant, Cuff Bracelet & Ring
Metalsmithing for beginners! We'll walk step-by-step through the creation of custom forged monogramed pendant, cuff bracelet and ring with your original idea, phrase, or alias in metal.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 80 tickets
- Fri 80 tickets
- Sat 80 tickets
- Sun 40 tickets
Metalsmithing Cold Forged Stamped & Embellished Earrings
Metalsmithing for beginners! We'll walk step-by-step through the creation of 2-3 pairs of your very own custom forged, raised, patinated and embellished earrings.
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- Sun 20 tickets
Metalsmithing Cold Forged Stamped & Embellished Earrings
Metalsmithing for beginners! We'll walk step-by-step through the creation of 2-3 pairs of your very own custom forged, raised, patinated and embellished earrings.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 20 tickets
- Fri 20 tickets
- Sat 20 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Micromosaic Jewelry
Learn a bit of history around an unusual form of mosaic art & make a modern version you can wear the same day! We will use a wide variety of beads, stones, gears, & other 'bits'.
- Wed 0 tickets
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- Fri 36 tickets
- Sat 36 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Midnight Micromosaic Jewelry
Learn a bit of history around an unusual form of mosaic art & make a modern version you can wear the same day! We will use a wide variety of beads, stones, gears, & other 'bits'.
- Wed 0 tickets
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- Fri 12 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Mold-making, Casting, Silicone & Resins for Costuming
Learn to fabricate custom resin & silicone accessories! In this workshop you'll sculpt an original design, make a reusable mold, and cast a finished resin copy. The mold and cast are yours to keep!
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- Fri 36 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
More Tips & Strategies for Neurodiverse Writers
Award-winning author Jason Sanford will explore tips and strategies that help neurodiverse writers along with how typical writing advice and expectations can sometimes be harmful.
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- Sat 30 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Multipurpose Dragon Wing Pouch
Come crochet a dragon-wing pouch for dice, cup, or jar! Suitable for crafters level 1-20, and the curious.
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- Thurs 20 tickets
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Multipurpose Dragon Wing Pouch
Come crochet a dragon-wing pouch for dice, cup, or jar! Suitable for crafters level 1-20, and the curious! Materials provided!
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- Sat 20 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Necklace Beading
Learn how to make a basic beaded necklace and get familiar with jewelry making supplies and tools.
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- Thurs 12 tickets
- Fri 12 tickets
- Sat 12 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
No More Side Quests: Brain-Friendly Planning for Puppeteers & Creatives
Level up with tools & strategies that work *with* your brain, not against it. You'll pick a project & leave with a customized roadmap & tools that turn your creative ideas into finished main quests!
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- Sun 15 tickets
Opening a Game Store that Lasts
Game Cafe is celebrating its 20 year anniversary. Ever wonder about starting your own retail hobby game store, and how to make it to 3 years and beyond? Join us for this Workshop.
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- Thurs 50 tickets
- Fri 50 tickets
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Painting 3D Printed Horns Large
You will get to paint a printed and prepped large pair of horns that can either be attached to a headband or strung to be worn.
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- Thurs 25 tickets
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Painting 3D Printed Horns Small/Medium
This class will provide 3d printed small/medium horns you will paint that can be adhered to the forehead with spirit gum.
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- Thurs 24 tickets
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Passion Into Profit: Business Fundamentals for Creatives
For beginners and seasoned creatives, join James P. Nettles to learn how to turn passion into profit; expand your reach, earn sustainably, and protect your work with practical business fundamentals.
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- Thurs 87 tickets
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Pitch Us & Refine Your Game
Pitch Us and Refine Your Game is a targeted, four-hour workshop with Scott Lynch, Brandon O'Brien, and Monica Valentinelli to help you polish and present your drafted game.
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- Thurs 34 tickets
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Player Workshop for Daggerheart
Build skills and expand your horizons as a Daggerheart player! Ticket comes with Daggerheart: Hope & Fear and more goodies.
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- Fri 42 tickets
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Playwriting - A Full Body Experience
In this workshop you will: learn playwriting basics, engage in quick writing prompts, and play theatre games to help get you out of your head and put your full body into your creative work!
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- Fri 34 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
Pocket Purr-Pal Kitty Cat Bag Charm
Create a plush kitty keepsake to tag along on all of your adventures.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 24 tickets
- Fri 24 tickets
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- Sun 24 tickets
Press, Public Relations and Marketing for Authors & Creators
Writing the book is only half the battle - the other half is promoting it! Join author, editor and publicist Sean CW Korsgaard who will guide you through selling your books and yourself!
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- Fri 87 tickets
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Project Management for Creatives
Jennifer Brozek teaches you how to manage your job, house, family, and get creative work done, all at the same time, without burning out.
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- Sat 47 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Puppeteering for Camera
If you've wanted to try your hand at puppetry, start here! If you have been doing puppetry for a while, the camera gives you feedback that helps your performance. Learn the basics and keep growing!
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- Sat 20 tickets
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Puppeteering for Social Media
You've got ideas plus the world's most watched platforms at your fingertips! Now's the time to learn how to connect with your audiences through puppetry & make it meaningful!
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- Sat 20 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Puppetry for Television & Film with Jennifer Barnhart
Learn TV puppetry with Jennifer Barnhart! This hands-on workshop builds on-camera performance skills and gives you the tools to grow your puppetry journey. Gain the camera skills and do the thing!
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- Sat 15 tickets
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Puppetry Voices for Kids & Teens
Come learn how to create voices for puppets & cartoon characters that will wow your friends and impress your enemies! Taught by Jennifer Barnhart known for Sesame Street, Helpsters, & more!
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- Sun 20 tickets
Querying an Agent
Join literary agent Gabrielle Harbowy for insider info and Q/A about the querying process, the submissions package, and how it all works.
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- Thurs 87 tickets
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Read & Critique: All Genres
Read the opening of your short story or novel and get feedback from professional writers! Each participant may read up to one minute.
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- Sun 10 tickets
Read & Critique: Genre Stories
Read the opening of your short story or novel and get feedback from professional writers! Each participant may read up to 5 minutes. W/ Bryan Young, Katherine Monasterio, and Michael A. Stackpole.
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- Sun 10 tickets
Read & Critique: Horror (novel excerpt or short), Game Writing, Flash Fiction
Read a piece (up to 5 minutes) of game writing, horror, or flash fiction for feedback from professional writers! A maximum of around 6 attendees per instructor per hour.
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- Sun 24 tickets
Read & Critique: SciFi, Fantasy, & Supers!
Read us a 5 min excerpt from your SFF (superheroes welcome!) short story or novel and get feedback from genre professionals Erik Scott de Bie, Kelli Fitzpatrick, Aaron Rosenberg, and Greg A. Wilson
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- Sun 8 tickets
Read & Critique Speculative: Speculative Works of Up to 2,000 Words
We will read the first 2,000 words of your prose or 1st 10 pages of your graphic novel/graphic novel script and give feedback. Each participant may read up to 5 minutes.
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- Sun 5 tickets
Read & Critique: Urban Fantasy
Have three professional authors critique up to the first five minutes of your urban fantasy story.
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- Sun 10 tickets
Redesigning Board Games for Instructional Purposes
We will play a very well-designed game (e.g. Pandemic), study its mechanics, then design an instructional variant of that game. For educators, training managers, and learning game designers.
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- Fri 28 tickets
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Rising Femme, NB & Trans GM Training
For girls, femmes, and nonbinary youth ready to lead their own games. This workshop presented by Super Heroines, Etc. teaches the basics of Game Mastering.
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- Thurs 25 tickets
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Running Cthulhu LARP
LARP Aficionado Bridget Jeffries teaches how to run large scale, live-action role playing games.
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- Thurs 8 tickets
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Running Pendragon
Beginner and veteran advice for running the generational game of Arthurian legends, Pendragon! Direct from line editor David Larkins.
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- Sat 8 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Running RPGs for Strangers & New Players
Introducing new players to your game? New games to old players? Wanna run something for the fine folks at Gen Con, but not sure if you’re ready? We’ve got you.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 50 tickets
- Fri 50 tickets
- Sat 50 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Run the Rules: Get your Rulebook in Shape for Game Time
This workshop will get your rules draft started, explain the common layout and expected verbiage of rulebooks, and work with you to help refine those tricky written explanations for your awesome game.
- Wed 60 tickets
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Saber Sunday: Feel the Force
Back by popular demand! Do you know the ways of the force? Bring a friend and learn to duel like Obi and Ani while we wield this weapon with brutal grace.
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- Sun 20 tickets
Saber Sunday: Force Academy for Kids & Parents!
Calling all Jedi's and Younglings! Do you know the ways of the force? Parents and their kiddos will learn to duel like Obi and Ani while we wield lightsabers with style!
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- Sun 30 tickets
Self-Publishing 101 A Practical Guide for First-Time Authors
Ready to publish your first book? This practical course walks you through every step of self-publishing so you can move from finished manuscript to confident launch.
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- Fri 87 tickets
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Sharpen Your Story: How to Keep Readers Hooked
Take advantage of professional editor Katherine Monasterio's perspective with these strategies to keep any novel enticing, engaging, and on point.
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Sith Core
An abdominal workout that you will fear, make you angry, will love to hate, and, yes, you will suffer! Workout can be modified for any fitness level and will include Sith teachings.
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- Thurs 40 tickets
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- Sun 40 tickets
Sleek & Simple: Crafting Your Minimalist Leather Wallet
This course is perfect for both experienced leatherworkers and novices eager to learn the fundamentals of crafting a stylish, functional minimalist wallet.
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- Sun 30 tickets
Sleek & Simple: Crafting Your Minimalist Leather Wallet
This make and take course is perfect for both experienced leatherworkers and novices eager to learn the fundamentals of crafting a stylish, functional minimalist wallet.
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- Thurs 30 tickets
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So you want to be a (better) GM...
Want to be a better GM? Looking to switch from player to GM? Then look no further – we have just the thing! This workshop will uncover system independent lessons learned the hard way!
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- Fri 24 tickets
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Spiral Wire D20 Pendant
This quick & fun intro wire jewelry class will teach you some basics of wire wrapping & introduce you to some of the tools & materials used. You'll leave with your own personal piece of jewelry.
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- Thurs 12 tickets
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Stained "Glass" Acrylic D20 Suncatcher
Create your own work of acrylic art! Work with acrylic and MDF to create a stunning creation perfect for your office or window. If you can assemble a puzzle, you can take this workshop!
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- Thurs 30 tickets
- Fri 30 tickets
- Sat 30 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Stained "Glass" Acrylic Dragon
Create your own work of acrylic art! Work with acrylic and mdf to create a stunning creation perfect for your office or window. If you can assemble a puzzle, you can take this workshop!
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 30 tickets
- Fri 30 tickets
- Sat 30 tickets
- Sun 0 tickets
Stained "Glass" Acrylic Snail D20 Suncatcher
Create your own work of acrylic art! Work with acrylic and MDF to create a stunning creation perfect for your office or window. If you can assemble a puzzle, you can take this workshop!
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- Thurs 30 tickets
- Fri 30 tickets
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Tarot for Insight, Story, & More
Join Nyx Tesseract (co-creator of Divination: The Tarot-Driven Roleplaying Game) to learn tarot reading for yourself, your storytelling, and more. Deck included! Deck TBA, at least $22 retail value.
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- Thurs 30 tickets
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Tarot for Storytellers
Tarot for Storytellers includes writing exercises and narrative prompts to build characters and plots using a deck of tarot cards. Taught by Monica Valentinelli.
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- Fri 87 tickets
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Teddy Bear Chainmailleing
Back for Gen Con 2026! We invite you to come, select a teddy bear, & armor it up medieval style! Loaner tools provided.
- Wed 0 tickets
- Thurs 30 tickets
- Fri 24 tickets
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- Sun 0 tickets
The Art of Rope
If you have ever wanted to explore a new side of yourself within kink, or learn safe, and new techniques to enhance your own rope play, this seminar will teach you that and so much more.
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- Thurs 70 tickets
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The Art of Writing & Selling Children’s Books
Remember how great books made you feel as a kid? Want to create one that does the same for others? Join acclaimed author George Jreije as he dives into how to write and publish your children’s novel!
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- Fri 87 tickets
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The Creative Reset Workshop
Join Author Sandra Tayler in a set of guided activities designed to help you reset, focus on the creative work you want to be doing, and make an action plan to take home with you.
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- Fri 34 tickets
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The Fashion of Worldbuilding: Clothing, Technology, & Taboos
Fashion is a big part of sci-fi and fantasy, where clothes create a sense of settings and cultures. Since fashion is inextricably linked to wealth and taboos, it is an exciting worldbuilding method.
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- Sat 87 tickets
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The Kessel Run
The Kessel Run is a cardio workout done is under 12 exercises. so, 11 different cardio exercises to help you avoid Imperial entanglements. Oh and beware the asteroids.
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- Fri 40 tickets
- Sat 40 tickets
- Sun 30 tickets
Theme, Motif, & Symbol
Plot, characters, setting. All you need to make a story, right? Nope. There's a 4th element: theme, or why any of this matters. Learn how to know your theme and amplify it w/ motifs and symbols.
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- Sat 34 tickets
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The Nexus Way - Behind the Screen of Professional Game Mastery
Learn the Nexus Method for professional GMing. Master table leadership, player experience, pacing, prep, and the business side of running paid games—and build a path from hobbyist to pro.
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- Sun 50 tickets
The Nexus Way: From Vision to Execution
Interactive workshop expanding on The Nexus Way. Build your store blueprint, refine revenue streams, design culture, and leave with practical systems to launch or scale a modern game store.
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- Sun 50 tickets
Tiny Dragon Collage Time
Make personalized, pocket-sized art you can turn into a cozy, cooperative story! Artists and designers help collage playing cards and show how the deck builds a story with the game Bonds Between.
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- Thurs 30 tickets
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Truth is Cooler than Fiction: Using Your Community's Hidden History as Inspiration for Your Campaign
Make your campaign unforgettable using resources in your own backyard - the history, stories, and legacy of your own community!
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- Thurs 50 tickets
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TTRPG From Cradle to Grave Publishing Workshop
If you're certain you want to publish your TTRPG but not how to go about it the best way, this workshop is for you as industry professionals guide you hand in hand in this intensive class.
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- Fri 8 tickets
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Video Game Writing 101
Join acclaimed video game writer Richard Dansky as he walks you through what makes video game writing unique and how to do it well.
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- Fri 34 tickets
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Villainy 101
Learn how to make dastardly and memorable villains who also act as a companions and as a character in your game. Villains are more than just mere stats on paper with a monologue…
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- Sat 40 tickets
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Voices for Puppetry & Beyond
Both puppetry and RPGs allow us to be just about any character we'd like. Jennifer Barnhart will help you spruce your characters up by finding dynamic voices to give your storytelling a distinct edge.
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Watching Movies To Make You a Better Writer
Bryan Young will show you techniques used in the cinema and how you can adapt them to your writing style to make it more effective and keep you learning for your entire life.
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What’s Your Game Plan?: Turn Your Lesson or Training into a Game
Can you enhance your teaching lesson or training exercise with the mechanics of board games in only 20 minutes? For educators, training managers, content & game designers.
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Wings to Wear
Make & decorate your own pair of hall-safe wings to wear around the convention! Young participants are welcome with adult supervision.
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Women & Femme-Aligned D&D DM 101
Learn to DM with the Ladies of D&D San Diego! This introductory workshop will give you the tools and confidence boost you need to DM your own D&D game. Women and femme-aligned participants welcome.
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- Sat 50 tickets
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Women & Femme-Aligned D&D DM 101 Class
Learn to DM with the Ladies of D&D San Diego! This introductory workshop will give you the tools and confidence boost you need to DM your own D&D game. Women and femme-aligned participants welcome.
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- Thurs 50 tickets
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Women & Femme-Aligned D&D DM 102 Class
Eager to hone your technique? Join the Ladies of D&D San Diego for an in-depth DM workshop, where you can learn to run and design a game with confidence.
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- Fri 30 tickets
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Worldbuilding for Writers & Gamers: Building Worlds That Breathe
Learn to build living worlds through culture, history, geography, and logic. A craft‑focused deep dive for writers and gamers who want settings that feel real, coherent, and alive.
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Worlds Within: Nation Building Workshop
In small groups you’ll create your own nation: define borders, government, culture, economy, territories, history, then add adventure hooks.You will leave with a kingdom and a take‑home guide.
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Write an Adventure for DMsGuild
Karen Menzel and DMsGuild collaborate to offer this workshop and workbook designed to help you design, create, and format your own D&D adventure for publication.
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Writing Age of Vikings
Learn how to pen your own sagas of epic viking conquest with line editor Jason Durall!
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Writing for Puppetry
Puppetry wunderkind, Richard Gomez, will teach you how to write a script for puppets that tells your story in a clear & concise way while adding all of the puppet-y fun your script deserves!
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Writing Pendragon Workshop
Pendragon line editor David Larkins teaches writing for the game of Arthurian legends
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Your Book In A Month Without AI
From bestselling novelist/game writer Jeri "Red Shepherd, enjoy 30 days of prompts and exercises in four phases to finish your book: Idea/Detail, Bulk/Believe, Sequence/Style, Transition/Take Apart.
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- Sun 87 tickets