OrcaCon2019

Fear of the blank page is real! Learn tips and techniques to punch your creative blocks in the face through the use of randomness generators: a deck of cards, dice, websites, we're gonna try them all (as well as some potential pitfalls that they might create). Failure is always an option, though, and we're gonna tackle that topic too. Bring your favorite means of generating random numbers with you: this is an interactive panel! Guest of Honor Liz Courts will give a talk or panel at this time.

 When you're working as a contractor for an established RPG whose setting you didn't create, how do you write in an original way? How, indeed, can you pry things open to make them more interesting and inclusive? Look for the cracks in your setting, everything unexplained, everything that's a throwaway line, and dive into the breach looking for latent functions, folkways, symbolic interactions and all sorts of other juicy concepts that will make your work sing. 

Join Jeremy Crawford, lead rules designer of Dungeons & Dragons, for a conversation about LGBT+ content in D&D and other games. There will also be time for your questions about D&D rules, stories, and more!