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Quickstart Guide for Costuming

Crisis! T-minus two days to Awesomesaucecon and you have nothing to wear. And your budget’s already stretched thin for gas, tolls, hotel, admission and all the incidentals that add up so fast. What’s a...

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Making Your Live Action Role-Playing Game Accessible: Part 1 of 3

Believe it or not, the key to gaining your players’ hearts and minds isn’t spending a huge sum of money on props and costuming. The key is to remove the obstacles between the player and the game.

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Making Your Live Action Role-Playing Game Accessible: Part 2 of 3

Today, I’m going to write about what should happen during the game: how to start the entertainment and keep the ball rolling.

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Making Your Live Action Role-Playing Game Accessible: Part 3 of 3

In the first and second parts of this series, I wrote about how to make your game easy to play, and how to keep players involved. In this third part, I’m going to talk about why people stop playing.

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Top 10 Convention Survival Tools to Get Your Favorite Con Goers Through 2011

With the approach of the holiday season comes the start of a new year. A new year filled with conventions, panels, crowded exhibit halls, signings, cosplaying, and travel. All this fun can get a bit...

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Finding Conventions: The Internet is Your Research Buddy

How do you find out if there are conventions near you? "Look it up" is all find and dandy, but what's the best way to do it? Here are the internet tricks and sites that I use to find conventions.

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The Conventionist App Puts Con Schedules in your Palm

Going to Anime Boston this weekend? Have a smartphone? Want to know what's going on but need one less thing to juggle? You're in luck, 'cuse there's an app for that.

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Convention Lists & Calendar Sites

A fuller collection of good convention lists and con calendar sites.

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How to Pose Gracefully For Cosplay Photography at Conventions

Here we have a guest post from Sado, the CEO of MicCostumes.com, on how to pose gracefully for convention photography. This is a great quick list for those who are just starting out.

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Cosplay Ideas for Families and Groups

Conventions are a great place to meet up with friends and dressing up can make it even more fun! Attending a convention can also make a memorable family vacation, but finding costumes that work for...

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Resources for Comic-Con 2011

There's so much SDCC info to trawl the internet for, it's a bit overwhelming. Here's a list of some of my favorite resources for attending the 2011 San Diego Comic Con.

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Steampunk at SDCC 2011

his week is the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con. As, uh, you may have noticed. Among the comic books and other pop culture fare is a thread of steampunkery woven by various local groups. Here's a quick look...

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I made it to SD Comic Con

I am here and I have my badge and it only took like 5 minutes. I told a friend to go to the Town & Country to avoid the lines, but it was a mad house just trying to get into the hotel.

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SDCC Fans Turned Away From Fashion Valley Transit Parking

If you were trying to take the trolley to Comic-Con from the Fashion Valley Mall's transit center this morning you got a rude surprise; chained off parking and security.

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PAX Prime: My ‘Must See’ Panels List

There's a huge list of panels for the 2011 PAX Prime convention this weekend. To help with the 'what ever shall I see' dilemma I figured I'd share my personal 'must see' list.

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