Master Plan #69: Sean Nittner on Convention Games

Ryan is joined by Sean Nittner—owner of Big Bad Con, project manager for Evil Hat Productions, and all around excellent human. (Or human-wolf hybrid.) The conversation revolves around thinking about convention games as part of the design process, but our journey takes a few twists and turns. About Big Bad Con: A fantastic tabletop RPG and LARP convention in Oakland, California on October 16–18, 2015. Check out the Kickstarter (ends July 2nd)! We also talk about: Organizing conventions Being a publisher Katanas & Trenchcoats Useless speculation about Apocalypse World 2 All games will be made into convention games "It doesn't matter if you have a square or round peg, we will shove it into a con slot." The amount of work it takes to set up a game The first scene problem in GM-less games Love letters, as seen in Apocalypse World In medias res adventure games Supernatural season 10 Drama game set-ups, notable with Smallville RPG "Shut the fuck up" as a technique Follow Sean at @SeanNitter . 1:22:04 / 41 MB - Ryan

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Master Plan #69: Sean Nittner on Convention Games is an episode from Master Plan by Ryan Macklin.

This episode is 01:22:05 long.

This episode was published on Jun 18, 2015.

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