{"id":980,"date":"2009-08-30T17:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T23:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/?p=980"},"modified":"2017-11-20T22:09:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T11:09:18","slug":"game-mastering-at-conventions-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/game-mastering-at-conventions-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Mastering at Conventions Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ofdiceanddragons.com\/rpg-blog-carnival\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid white\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-736\" title=\"rpg blog carnival logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/images\/rpgblogcarnivallogo.jpg\" alt=\"rpg blog carnival logo\" width=\"167\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/oldguyrpg.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/rpb-bloggers-carnival-for-august.html\">RPG Carnival<\/a> is about RPG conventions. GMing at cons is a fine art. It&#8217;s high pressure chaos that includes a lot more table and environment management than your typical home game. Add in a group of total strangers as players with unknown skills and game knowledge, and you have a recipe for an interesting game.<\/p>\n<p>Roleplaying Tips has covered GMing at RPG conventions a few times in the past. Following are links to tips you might find useful next time you run a convention game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roleplayingtips.com\/downloads\/supplemental_08_conventions.txt\">Running Games At Conventions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roleplayingtips.com\/readissue.php?number=430\">How to Game Master at Conventions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roleplayingtips.com\/readissue.php?number=263\">Epic Weekend Convention Gaming: A Tale From The Trenches<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roleplayingtips.com\/readissue.php?number=222\">4 Tips For Whipping Up Scenarios For Conventions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roleplayingtips.com\/readissue.php?number=378#R1\">Speeding Up Convention Play<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roleplayingtips.com\/readissue.php?number=323#R1\">GMing Convention Games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s RPG Carnival is about RPG conventions. GMing at cons is a fine art. It&#8217;s high pressure chaos that includes a lot more table and environment management than your typical home game. Add in a group of total strangers as players with unknown skills and game knowledge, and you have a recipe for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70,71],"tags":[322,109],"series":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gm-ing","category-johnn","tag-blog-carnival","tag-dm-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1toiD-fO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21459,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/21459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}