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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheRpgAcademy" data-source="post: 6880622" data-attributes="member: 6785626"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">Hello everyone,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">You may know my podcast, The RPG Academy, but you may not know that my podcast partner and I have started our own tabletop gaming convention called AcadeCon (as a play on Academy - don’t worry if you didn’t get that, no one does). </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">We had our first public event last year and used Kickstarter as our way to sell badges and solicit donations. We funded in just over 1 day and went on to hold an amazing event. So amazing that we decided to do it again - AND BIGGER! </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">This year we have rented out a much larger venue and have 500 badges for sale.  If you are near to Dayton, Ohio or are willing to travel I hope you’ll give it a look. If not, we do have some digital rewards you can get by donating at certain levels. These include audio tracks from **Battle Bards**, PDF adventures from **Tabletop Terrors, City of Brass, Melvin Smif**, PDF’s of an in-development game from **Third Act Publishing** (Jim McClure of Talking Tabletop part of the One shot Podcast network) as well as a PDF copy of the **Godsfall wordbook** from Aram from the Godsfall podcast.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">More than the cool stuff you can get for helping us out, I hope you’ll want to support us because this is just a couple people who love RPG’s and board games wanting to create something awesome.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">The motto of our podcast is *if you’re having fun, you’re doing it right!*  our show is about helping new people get into our hobby and maybe help some of the people already here have more fun.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">AcadeCon is an extension of that. We just want a weekend of gaming.  We’ve leveraged our podcast contacts to get an amazing list of special guests (especially for a show our size) who will be on site running and playing games. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- John Wick</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- Keith Baker</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- Rich Baker</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- Kenneth Hite</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- Will Hindmarch</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- A.P. Klosky</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- You Too Can Cthulhu gaming group </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- DM Mitch & Chris from DM’s Block Podcast</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- James & Kat from One Shot podcast and Campaign Podcast</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- Jim McClure from Talking Tabletop Podcast</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- Shane from Total Party Thrill Podcast</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- Space Tavern Games</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">- Devon from Shark Bone Podcast</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">and more</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"> </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">I hope you'll check it out and come about and play games with us!</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/therpgacademy/acadecon-2016-leveling-up</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'">~Michael</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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