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Designing a Better Flyer for Starfest: Fold Your Own Adventure

Let’s be honest: Flyers in convention bags are ignorable. When I got the opportunity to include 1000-2000 flyers in the bags of convention goers at the 2017 StarFest convention in Denver, I knew I had to do something different, else I’d be throwing away $200 worth of printing and paper. I decided to set out some guidelines:

  • Flyer must provide entertainment for the reader.
  • Flyer should not require any additional tools not easily accessible (e.g. writing utensil is okay, dice are not).
  • Flyer should be rated PG and be fun regardless of attendee’s pop culture knowledge.
  • Flyer should encourage real-world sharing and interacting with other attendees.

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Open Legend RPG: Redesigning the Data

Recently I stumbled upon a Kickstarter project called Open Legend RPG, an open source roleplaying game. The system is a labor of love that has been built over the last 4 years and was now ready to bring to a larger audience. The creators were raising money for printed additions, additional rulesets , and pre-made adventures, but the beauty of the system was that all the rules were online already; anyone could play it without spending a dime.

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