Want to learn how to use your RPG experience in your work? We'll make character sheets for your clients & coworkers to help you communicate more effectively & design better software/solutions.
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Imagine that you are a big hulking barbarian and you find and try to use a scroll of Cure Poison to save the king from death. -- Not going to happen. -- You needed a potion or something more aligned to your skills. This is the situation we are presenting to our clients and coworkers when we offer them solutions from our perspective. As gamers, we already know how to approach problems based on class, alignment, or anything else on our character sheets, why not leverage that experience in our jobs. This session will explore the how and why we can use character sheet personas in a meaningful way. We'll center the seminar around a fictitious software project with users as characters in an RPG. We'll have hands-on work and include take-home materials. At then end of the workshop you'll have new tools for how you can relate to clients and coworkers, making you more successful in your work.
Puzzles are classic obstacles in games. Used effectively, they can be a rewarding experience. We'll discuss elements of puzzle design & how to use them to build engaging interactions in your games.
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Puzzles are classic obstacles to players in role playing games. When done well, they are rewarding for both game master and players. There's a fine line between a rewarding puzzle and one that is frustrating. Members of geekspective.com will discuss successful elements of puzzle design, how to combine those elements and build puzzles that are complex yet fun for players. We believe that puzzles should always be solvable, either the easy way, or failing that, "The Hard Way". Puzzles can add an extra dimension to gameplay and with the elements of good puzzle design, you'll be able to create more exciting and rewarding games for your players.
We successfully played an evil aligned party on a campaign for seven years & we are still friends! Learn what we did right, wrong, & the best way to run an evil themed adventure.
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We happily played an evil aligned 3.5 campaign for seven years. We recorded it as an actual play podcast that can be found at Geekspective.com. By taking a break from the campaign, we were able to look back and reflect about our game. Obviously, we got some things right; the party didn’t fall apart, we didn’t murder each other, end up in prison, and we had a lot of fun. Our evil characters are the most memorable characters that we’ve ever played. But there are other lessons that we had to learn the hard way, things that we should have done differently or not at all. Through it all, we have found a few pointers to help your game last for more than a few sessions. Learn from our experience in order to GM or play an evil aligned campaign, the most fun and successful campaign you will ever have.
If your tabletop RPG seems dull, one problem could be the characters. Learn how to create more vibrant characters with more personality. We will help you put the ‘role’ back into role-playing!
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At geekspective.com, we firmly believe that role-playing characters are more than stats on a character sheet. Early RPGs didn’t encourage personality, favoring maps and equipment lists. The latest generation of RPGs, however, encourage storytelling and social role-play. If you aren’t sure how to adapt to a new system that requires more role-play, or just love the idea of more vivid and interesting characters, this is the discussion for you! We make actual play podcasts which requires us to create voices for our characters. That helps, but adding personality traits, interesting possessions, and personality quirks in addition to those voices, your characters will become much more fun and your RPG sessions will too.