We're running an 8-week workshop series about converting/creating a proactive roleplaying-style game with your group! The purpose is to help you turn your current or new campaign into a proactive, character-driven game and practice designing encounters that respond to your group's goals. Here's the syllabus: - Week 1: Welcome & About PARP - Week 2: Creating/Refining PC Goals - Week 3: Faction Design - Week 4: NPC Design - Week 5: Location Design - Week 6: Rewards - Week 7: Conflict - Week 8: Encounter Design + Testing Extravaganza This is a workshop we've run before and gotten good feedback on, but we've added/refined some things that I'm excited to show you. Enrollment in the workshop is a free bonus available to Gold members who signed up for the annual plan, so if you are interested but haven't done that yet, go check out Gold. We'll be recording the workshop and posting it in the Classroom for everyone else. The main drawback of the recordings is that you won't be able to work through the exercises with us and get feedback, but you'll still be able to do them on your own. Attached: some feedback from our last round of workshop members. If you're interested in joining us for the workshop, check out Gold!

Good news and bad news! The bad news is, Happy Hour Wednesday will be going on hiatus for a bit---I've shifted my work schedule around and I'll have to stop running on Wednesdays. I've made a community poll to see what other times might work here! Since we have Coffee Hour with Jonah, I may hold off on this for now and just making that, but we'll see! If you can't make coffee hour but want to join the chats, definitely let me know and I'll try to prioritize getting this back up sooner. To soften the blow, there are new prep videos in the classroom! We're trying to show proactive prep more in action, so if you want to check them out, you can find some concrete examples in the classroom or at this link: https://www.skool.com/game-masters-laboratory/classroom/b10da8af?md=23cd1876a2ae43f9b5e571db4ba8d69a

Join us this evening for Happy Hour! I've adjusted the time to match my new work schedule, so it's a bit later than before (which I hope might better suit our friends not on the East Coast). Anyone is welcome and encouraged to hop in, chat about their games, seek advice, and generally talk shop. I'll be working on some prep for my upcoming Draw Steel session and would love some ideas for some cultist shenanigans :)

GenCon is upon us! This thread is for organizing social and gaming meetups for everyone who will be in Indy for GenCon this year. If you'll be attending this year, post in this thread! Let us know what you're playing, what you WANT to play, and connect with other forum members who will be there this year. See you all there!

Hey folks, really hate to do this, but I've got some additional work on my plate this week, so I won't be able to make Happy Hour tonight. The link is still up, so please pop in and chat if you can! I should be back next week if things calm down!