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Grab your virtual dice bags folks and mark down November 16-18, 2012 on your calendar, the AetherCon Online RPG Convention is coming to your computer. The event will feature the Roll20 browser based VTT allowing GMs and players alike to simply click on a link and sit at a table as opposed to having to download, install and boot up a program in order to play. This solves one of the major problems that had dogged previous events of this nature.


You can find out more about Roll20 here: http://roll20.net/

We will be featuring tabletop RPGs of all types throughout the weekend highlighted by four three day tournaments of Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, Savage Worlds, and Shadowrun.

Additionally vendors, industry guests, and artists are also in our plans. We will be releasing free downloadable wallpapers throughout the months leading up to the con.

You can find them here: http://www.aethercon.com/Wallpaper/Wallpaper.html

Members of the Artists Enclave currently include Paul Abrams (TSR, Shadowrun); Alex E. Alonso Bravo (DC Comics, Pixar, L5R); Brent Chumley (L5R CCG); John L Kaufmann (Shadowrun); Eric Lofgren; (Paizo, White Wolf, Fantasy Flight Games) and Chris Malidore (Fantasy Flight Games, PEG) among others.

Confirmed guests to date are Steven ‘Bull’ Ratkovich (Shadowrun), Wedge Smith and Doug Bush (Chronicles of the Void)

Be sure to visit our websites and show your support for AetherCon via Facebook and Twitter.


Website: http://www.aethercon.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AetherConRPG
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/AetherCon
AetherJC
We’d like to welcome David Cast, Erin James Carney, and Sebastian Sonne to the AetherCon team.

Additionally, we are happy to announce that Mayhem Gaming’s Dan Dautel has signed on as AetherCon’s Technical Manager.

Events added to our schedule this time around include Lane Burnside’s Savage Worlds - Necessary Evil scenario ‘Good Business’ and Adams Zermeno’s Shadowrun Tourney troika ‘Lost in the Shadows’

Our latest wallpaper Jaana Heiska’s Tyrhythias Eldorion has been released.

You can find all of our free downloadable wallpapers here.

The following games and GMs have recently been confirmed:
Call of Cthuhlu Tournament - Jon Mitchell
Atomic Highway - Borna Pekarić
Shadowrun – Mark David Montgomery
Shadowrun – Jesse Jones
Spycraft – Erin James Carney
Kyle Hood - Leverage

Current members of the RPG Community Alliance:
3.5 Private Sanctuary
Barrok’s Tower
The Comeback Inn – Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor
Dragonsfoot
Galactic Campaigns
Gamerati
Mayhem Gaming
Pen and Paper Games
RPG.org
Swords and Wizardry
The RPG Site
The Tangled Web
You Meet In a Tavern

To date the RPG Community Alliance encompasses 54,608 members.

We have also added to our website by introducing ‘To The Victors’ which will keep a running total of all sources of prize support leading up to the big weekend.

Top five cities in North America for unique visitors to our main site to date: Pittsburgh, Pa; Seattle, Wash; Oklahoma City, Okla; Austin, Tex; New York, NY.

Top five cities in Europe, Asia, and Oceania for unique visitors to our main site to date: Auckland, NZ; Wellington, NZ; Nuremberg, Ger; Budapest, Hun; Brisbane, Aus and London, U.K (tie)

Finally, a question: Who is the best ‘Fish out of Water’? Check out our poll on Facebook and have your say.

Coming Soon:

Brent Chumley’s Malthazas Rhyllanor


Help us get the word out about AetherCon by liking and sharing on our Facebook event page as well as following and re-tweeting via our Twitter page.

We are currently looking for GMs to run the following games:
Pathfinder
Savage Worlds
Shadowrun
Call of Cthuhlu

As well as these cult favorites:

Dresden Files
Atomic Highway
Legends of the Five Rings
Serenity
Mutants and Masterminds
Mongoose Traveler
All Flesh Must Be Eaten
Eclipse Phase
Runequest
Halcyon
Macho Women with Guns
WEG Star Wars
Fantasy Craft
Pre-D20 Gamma World
Cyberpunk2020
Dark Heresy
Palladium
Paranoia
Spycraft

If you have a cult favorite you’d like to see or run, let us know!

If you have a game yourself that you would like to run use our handy-dandy GM Pre-Registration tool. on the site.


If you would like to inquire about other volunteering possibilities let us know by sending an e-mail here: stephen@aethercon.com

Stephen J. Holodinsky
Event Manager – AetherCon

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AetherJC
We’d like to welcome Ethan Parker and Jon Gibbons to the AetherCon staff. Mr Parker, the organizer for KantCon, has signed on to take the position of GM Coordinator. Mr. Gibbons (AEG, PEG) has been named to the Art Directors post.


The following games have been added to our schedule:
William T. Thrasher - Call of Cthulhu Tournament - "The Wounded Sky"
Julian Constantino - Pathfinder - "Justice For All"

William has also been recently tapped by Paizo to do some writing on an upcoming project.

The following games and GMs have recently been confirmed:
Greg McClendon - Dark Heresy
Roger French Jr - Macho Women with Guns
Sherman Sheftall - Runequest 6th Ed


The following game publishers have been added to our supporters by either contributing prize support, guests for the Fest Hall, or taking a booth in our Vendors Hall:

4 Winds Fantasy Gaming
Chapter 13 Press
Crafty Games
d Infinity
Silver Gryphon Games
Thistle Games
White Haired Man

You can see the growing list of companies adding to our prize list by going ‘To The Victors’.

We would also like to thank DriveThru RPG for stepping up and facilitating the prize bundles for our event.

At this time we can also confirm that Ennie nominated Chapter 13 Press, Skirmisher Publishing, and The Design Mechanism will be among those featured in our inaugural convention program.


Among the latest artist news Bradley K. McDevitt has been commissioned by Goodman Games for illustration on an upcoming release.

Our latest wallpaper Grendorey Hu Maggrath by Canadian Will O'Brien has just been released.

Coming Soon:
Izael 'Deeds' McBride by Patrick McAvoy
Billoby Windwarble by Fiona Meng
Kruultok Azgratugaar by Eric Lofgren

You can find all of our free downloadable wallpapers here.


The following RPG blogs have joined the Bell & Scroll:

Campaign Mastery
Dice Jockey
Geek Life
Mind of the Geek
The Iron Tavern

The following Conventions have joined the ConCentric Circle:

BashCon
Great Falls Gaming Rendezvous


Current games confirmed for AetherCon include:

All Flesh Must Be Eaten
A Thousand and One Nights
Atomic Highway
Call of Cthulhu
Castles & Crusades
Dark Heresy
Dresden Files
Eclipse Phase
Fantasy Craft
Labyrinth Lord
Legends of the Five Rings
Leverage
Macho Women with Guns
Mouse Guard
Mutants and Masterminds
Palladium RIFTs
Paranoia
Pathfinder
Pathfinder Society
Runequest 6th Ed
Savage Worlds
Shadowrun
Star Wars (D6 WEG)
Swords and Wizardry
Time Lord


Top five cities in North America for unique visitors to our main site to date: Chicago, Ill; San Francisco, Cal; New York, NY; Houston, Tex; Austin, Tex.

Top five cities in Europe for unique visitors to our main site to date: London, U.K.; Nuremberg, Ger; Helsinki, Fin; Moscow, Rus; Hamburg, Ger.

Top five cities in ports abroad for unique visitors to our main site to date: Wellington, N.Z.; Brisbane, Aus; Sydney, Aus; Melbourne, Aus; Florianopolis, Bra.


Finally, a question: Which of our latest games would you like to play the most? Check out our poll on Facebook and have your say.


Help us get the word out about AetherCon by liking and sharing on our Facebook event page, following and re-tweeting via our Twitter page and adding us to your circle on Google+.


We are currently looking for GMs to run the following games:

Pathfinder
Savage Worlds
Shadowrun
Call of Cthuhlu

As well as these cult favorites:

Barbarians of Lemuria
Cyberpunk2020
Gamma World (Pre-D20)
GURPS
Halcyon
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
Spycraft
Star Frontiers
Traveler

All Flesh Must Be Eaten
Atomic Highway
Dresden Files
Eclipse Phase
Fantasy Craft
Legends of the Five Rings
Macho Women with Guns
Mutants and Masterminds
Palladium
Paranoia
Runequest 6th Ed

Dark Heresy
Serenity
Star Wars (D6 WEG)

If you have a cult favorite you’d like to see or run, let us know!

If you have a game yourself that you would like to run use our handy-dandy GM Pre-Registration tool on the site.

If you want to play in one just fill out our Player Pre-Registration Tool.


All of our Game Tables and Booths are now linked to Roll20 making it easier than ever for you to try out the engine of AetherCon.

You can also check the menu bar across the top of our website for Roll20. The corresponding submenu shows has a variety of useful links.


If you would like to inquire about other volunteering possibilities let us know by sending an e-mail here: stephen@aethercon.com

Stephen J. Holodinsky
Event Manager – AetherCon

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AetherCon

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sinthalix
The Catalyst Demo Team is looking for volunteers to run Shadowrun events for Aethercon.

Please e-mail me directly if you are interested: sinthalix@yahoo.com

Thanks!
sinthalix
Recruiting is open to any GM that would like to run Shadowrun at Aethercon.

Please e-mail me directly at: ray@aethercon.com if you are interested.

Thanks!
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