Conventions – New Agenda Publishing Diverse Games for a New Generation Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:10:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 https://i2.wp.com/newagendapublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/300x300_NAP_Logo_ani.gif?fit=32%2C32 Conventions – New Agenda Publishing 32 32 138001092 Join Us at GenCon! /2018/04/25/join-us-at-gencon/ /2018/04/25/join-us-at-gencon/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:10:37 +0000 /?p=232

Wednesday

From 3PM-4PM join Eloy, Jerry, and a panel of other distinguished guests for We need Diverse Books…and Games

Thursday

From 2PM-6PM join one of our fabulous GM’s for Vaults of the Withered Tongue, The heroes are tasked by the Union of Ascendancy to oversee the construction of a colony on a lost Pre-Ascendancy prison world.

Friday

From 10AM-2PM join us for The Switchblade Nebula, as an ancient device discovered on Aye Sofoto calls the Luminaries to certify its power. Travel into the Switchblade Nebula is dangerous, but getting out will prove even more difficult.

Or join us for a second chance to play Vaults of the Withered Tongue, also running from 10AM-2PM

Saturday

From 7PM-8PM two of New Agenda Publishing’s founders (Eloy Lasanta & Jerry Grayson) give you a run-down of 2018-2019 plans/releases, & how this new venture hopes to change the RPG Industry for the better at Welcome to New Agenda Publishing.

Immediately following join us for three simultaneous games from 8PM-Midnight:
The Burning Hands of Abosam, During an armistice between 2 warring Oro Houses, the heroes are tasked by the Union of Ascendancy with mediating peace.
The Switchblade Nebula
Vaults of the Withered Tongue

Sunday

From 10AM-2PM, join us for a second shot at The Burning Hands of Abosam to round out our GenCon offerings.

]]> /2018/04/25/join-us-at-gencon/feed/ 2 232 Dreamation Wrap-Up /2018/03/01/dreamation-wrap-up/ /2018/03/01/dreamation-wrap-up/#respond Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:00:23 +0000 /?p=208 Just back from Dreamation, a lovely con in picturesque Morristown New Jersey, hands down one of my favorite cons consistently. I get to reconnect with so many of the people I usually only get to interact with electronically. Saturday nights are often couch cuddle parties with my harpies and harridans around me (and a few guys we like) swapping ideas and stories about everything from makeup to games to laughing at mansplaining and more.
It did get me thinking about player bases and parity though. For reference, I played in 6 sessions worth of games. (I bowed out of my Saturday night game due to mood issues following a really poor dinner experience but that’s a rant for another time). In those 6 sessions I played with one other Black person. In the 4 tabletop slots (2 long con and 2 one shots), only 1 game achieved gender parity but I was the only PoC at the table. In the other of the oneshots I was the only woman at the table and all of the pregen characters were male. Granted, I had fun at all these games, even accounting for differing definitions of fun. (I laughed, I cried, I was a poo flinging chimpanzee.)
But this is not that rare of an event for me. The first time I got to play with another Black woman at the table was at a small 50 person house con. All but one of the times were where I was playing a Black female designers game with her. (The 4th was serendipity and knowing both the GM and the player well.) And the fact that I’ve been gaming since 1994 and can count all the Black women I’ve played with and still not have used all the fingers on one hand is telling. If I include Black men I still only fill one hand. It’s not for lack of their existence. I’ve worked with and for other designers, but at cons their games are full, or conflict with when I’m running, or a million other ships crossing in the dead of night reasons.
Which gets me to another point. Over the years I have come to recognize a few other Black women and other WoC at various conventions and I greatly noticed the absence of many of them this year. I’m not sure if circles are contracting or shifting or the Trumpian nightmare we find ourselves in has made people less likely to travel or what but I noticed. Your absence was noticed and you were missed.

–MB

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]]> /2018/03/01/dreamation-wrap-up/feed/ 0 208 Looking for a few GenCon 2018 GMs /2018/03/01/looking-for-a-few-gen-con-gms/ /2018/03/01/looking-for-a-few-gen-con-gms/#respond Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:31:34 +0000 /?p=216

HELLO!

Are you a person from an underrepresented group who likes GMing games?

Are you going to Gencon this year?

Would you like to run a game for New Agenda Publishing using, what Jerry’s mother calls, “the best game ever created by my son, this week”?

We’re looking for a few good GMs to run a session (or two) of Orun, our soon to be released Afrocentric Sci-fi RPG game, at Gencon.

What we can promise you-

  • A warm welcome.
  • A safe and friendly place to play.
  • A good time.
  • A hearty Thank you!
  • A free game book and PDF!!

If you will be at Gen Con 2018 and have availability in your GM schedule, Contact Us!

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