RinCon 2024

"What did you wish you knew the very first time you sat down to GM a tabletop RPG?"

This is the question that our panel of experienced GMs is going to address this year. If you've ever wanted to GM a tabletop RPG but felt intimidated, anxious or uncertain about it, you will be our honored guest! If you have started to GM a tabletop RPG but ran into a problem, struggled or couldn't quite find your feet. we welcome you to a community of practitioners who have all "been there." And if you're an experienced GM in our community, please come and share your wisdom and let us learn from your mistakes as well. The GM's Conference has been a place for the community to meet for many years, and this year it is turning to how to cultivate that community's best practices from the very first session.

We need to keep talking about this, until we don't need to anymore. This panel will focus on the many faces of inclusion, what diversity means, and how to support them at our gaming tables, throughout our events, and in our industry.

Panelists:
Chaz Kemp (Chaz Kemp Art)
Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games)
Weyodi Old Bear Wuratsaakupu (Coyote & Crow)

Never been to RinCon before? Want to know what it’s all about? Grab yourself a lunch from the concession stand or one of the resort venues and bring it to this informal discussion about all that the convention has to offer. Board members will be on hand to satisfy your curiosity about all things RinCon, including scheduled programming, how to sign up for events, what’s where in the convention site, and questions like, “Where do I get these RinCoins, and what the heck do I do with them?”

Join us for a fantastic opportunity to buy and sell board games!

Sellers: Bring your priced games and set up on Saturday at 2:00 PM. You will need to purchase the $10 “Table at the Flea Market” add-on with your RinCon registration via Zeffy. If you’re already registered, you can buy it separately. You’ll get half of a large six-foot round table, with potential for more space depending on the number of sellers. Be ready to manage your own items and sales. Most buyers will have cash, but it’s great to have QR codes available for digital payments.
Buyers: The doors open at 2:30 PM. Come with cash in hand and hunt for fantastic deals until 4:00 PM! Whether you’re looking for a rare find or just a great bargain, there’s something for everyone.

Kind of like "Whose Line Is It, Anyway" for game designers. Watch and participate as our illustrious team of board game designers (James Ernest of Crab Fragment Labs and Emily Vincent of Pink Hawk Games) come up with silly new games from scratch. The twist is that you, the audience, get to add to the fun by submitting concepts, mechanics, and materials along the way that they must then build into the final products.

"Sooo, it's a dice drafting game... about taco trucks that are really a front for DC-based spies... and we're supposed to incorporate WHAT?!?"

Hilarity will ensue, we feel certain!

"The soft glow of the willowisps and fireflies dance amidst the moon dappled grove of the ancient woods. The heady scents of flowers and earth waft upon the cool evening breeze. The gentle rustle of leaves, the babbling brook, and denizens of the forest, entwine with the soft music of flutes and harps floating through the velvety night. Before you stand a henge of tall stone pillars reflecting the brilliant light of the full moon. A shock shudders through you as you take in the grisly scene before your eyes! In the center of the standing stones, lies a battered and bloody form.

Who could have wrought such violence in the very heart of the Enchanted Forest? Who had the motive, means and opportunity to commit this crime? Are you up to the challenge of finding the killer?

Join us at RinCon 2024 for "An Untimely End in the Enchanted Forest - A Murder Mystery Event". You can be a creature of legend and find the culprit who committed murder! You, and the other forest folk, will strive to find who had the motive, means, and opportunity to take another's life. Role play is encouraged, but not required. There will be swag for all our participants and a prize for the winner! Join us and enter a magical and deadly world!