Gencon 2025 Events:

Linked below is some additional information on my RPG sessions and the topics that will be covered during my seminar sessions this year

Games

Demonhunters:

A darkly humorous take on the modern supernatural genre. Mechanically, it can best be described as a mix of Cortex and FATE. It really does feel like those two systems got together and made a baby.

Zoetrope:

Zoetrope is a card based RPG of time travelling rent-a-cops. Raucus fun and unexpected events at every turn. The GM will challenge you at every moment to adapt and overcome the twists of fate and bad luck that comes your way.

Leverage:

The Leverage RPG, published by Margaret Weiss Games back in 2010 is an RPG version of the television series of the same name. If you've seen the show, then you will completely understand the game. Even the opening credits of that show read like an RPG. Each of the players will takje on the role of the team's Grifter, Mastermind, Hitter, Hacker, or Thief. If those sound like class names in and RPG to you then you're brain is already moving in the right direction.

This was the first game I played that utilized flashback scenes as an actual game mechanic, and its pulled right from the show. It just WORKS. Don't worry about overplanning evey move of your heist - you can figure out the fine points in flashbacks after the fact. It isn't a game about succeding or failing at roles - but rather more about what happens when things go wrong. Notice the difference there? Things going wrong and failing an action might not be the same thing, but they sure are close cousins.