Aethercon Announcement

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Thanks greatly for your support in our endeavour. We hope to see everyone there.

Stephen

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Stephen J. Holodinsky
Event Manager - AetherCon

E-mail: stephen@aethercon.com
Website: www.aethercon.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AetherConRPG
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/AetherCon

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Here are the latest updates for our event from the past three weeks:

We are pleased to announce Ryan Costello Jr., noted for his work with Paizo, Kobold Quarterly as well as his site 3.5 Private Sanctuary to the staff of AetherCon. He will be our Guest Coordinator going forward. Welcome aboard and well met Ryan!

We’d also like to welcome Andrew Waibel, Liam Commins, Tiffany Jefferson, Sebastian Sonne and Sean Ulczycki to the AetherCon team.

It is also our pleasure to confirm that CGL’s Steve ‘Bull’ Ratkovich, Shadowrun’s Mission point man will be available for a moderated Q&A chat in our Fest Hall during the weekend.

Battlefield Press, makers of Gaslight setting books and the upcoming RPG Eldritch Skies, have taken a booth in the Vendors Hall. Welcome aboard and well met!

Events added to our schedule this time around include our Savage Worlds Tournament ‘A Justified Termination’ written by M.J. Holmes using the Gaslight setting by Battlefield Press; a Mongoose Games’ Paranoia scenario ‘Cutieness Overload’ written by Sebastian Sonne as well as a West End Games Star Wars scenario called ‘Dead In Space’ by Shawn Lovelett.

In addition artists Axel Alonso (Varda Rils) and Anton Kagounkin Magdalina (Anton ‘The Hammer’ Brickshaw) have confirmed their booth opening hours in the Artists Enclave.

At this time we’d like to congratulate Axel, who with his colleagues at Dream Zero Studios, will work with Pixar on their latest project. To infinity and beyond!

You can find all of our free downloadable wallpapers here.

The following games and GMs have recently been confirmed:
Shadowrun Tournament – Adams Zermano
Palladium RIFTS – Will Barron
Atomic Highway – Joe Edwards

The following artists have been added to the Artists Enclave:
Britain’s Mark Adams
Russia’s (via California) Anton Kagounkin Magdalina
CGL featured John E. Kaufmann

The following online communities have joined the RPG Community Alliance:

Gamerati, information brokers to the roleplaying world.
3.5 Private Sanctuary, specializing in all things Pathfinder and 3.5.
Pen and Paper Games, fine purveyors of a multitude of RPG options.

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

Finally, a question: Who would you most like to see in a Q&A session at AetherCon? Check out our poll on Facebook and have your say.

Coming Soon:

Anton Kagounkin Magdalina’s Anton’ The Hammer’ Brickshaw
Brent Chumley’s Malthazas Rhyllanor
Paul Abram’s Harzgrin Stouthammer

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 favourites:

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
HERO
Cyberpunk2020
Dark Heresy
Palladium
Paranoia
Spycraft

If you have a cult favourite 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

Find us here:
AetherCon

Facebook

Twitter

[Lazarus]

Here are the latest updates for our event from the past three weeks:

We’d like to welcome Brian Yingling, John Davis, Julian Constantino, and Kenneth White to the AetherCon team.

We are happy to announce that starting Saturday/ March/31 AetherCon will be running live demos via ustreamtv of Pious Paladin hosted by Kenneth White. These will be run at Noon EST, 4 PM EST, and 7 PM EST every Saturday. Look for his tutorials in the coming days.

Events added to our schedule this time around include L5R scenario ‘Gempukku’ by Michael Tedford, Castles and Crusades adventure ‘Legacy of Light’ by Stephen Smith, and HERO game ‘The Rise of H.E.R.O.’ by Jon Mitchell.

Our latest wallpapers Anton ‘The Hammer’ Brickshaw by Anton Kagounkin Magdalina as well as Harzgrin Stouthammer by TSR and Shadowrun featured artist Paul Abrams have been released.

At this time we’d like to congratulate Axel Alonso once again who was recently grabbed up by Alderac Entertainment to work on a future L5R project.

You can find all of our free downloadable wallpapers here.

The following games and GMs have recently been confirmed:
Pathfinder – Julian Constantino
Legend of the Five Rings – Michael Tedford
Castles and Crusades – Stephen Smith
Time Lord – Ben Isaac

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.

Additionally we now have a Pinterest board thanks to Tiffany Jefferson.

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

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

Finally, a question: What are your favorite RPG genres? Check out our poll on Facebook and have your say.

Coming Soon:

Brent Chumley’s Malthazas Rhyllanor
Jaana Heiska’s Tyrhythias Eldorion

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
HERO
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: jeffersonhowell@yahoo.com

Michael Chumbler
Pen and Paper Games RPG Community Liaison

Find us here:
AetherCon

Facebook

Twitter

[Lazarus]

Here are the latest updates for our event from the past three weeks:

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

Michael Chumbler
Pen and Paper Games RPG Community Liaison
Find us here:
AetherCon

Facebook

Twitter

[Lazarus]

Here are the latest updates for our event from the past three weeks:

We’d like to welcome Tom Olson and Miguel Berrios to the AetherCon team.

Events added to our schedule this time around include Kyle Hood’s Leverage Scenario ‘The One Night Stand Job’, Borna Pekarić's Atomic Highway Scenario ‘A Drive down Toomstone Allee’, and Mark David Montgomery’s Shadowrun Scenario ‘Tokyo Lift’.

The following games and GMs have recently been confirmed:
Dark Heresy – Michael Richards
WEG D6 Star Wars – Kalman Farago
Serenity – C.J. Holman

Pinnacle Entertainment Group joined the growing list of names on the ‘To The Victors’ page by agreeing to contribute prize support to AetherCon

The following artists have been added to the Artists Enclave:
Eric Lofgren (Paizo, White Wolf, Mongoose Publishing among others)
Chris Malidore (Fantasy Flight Games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group)
Patrick McEvoy (WotC, Alderac Entertainment Group, Fantasy Flight Games among others)

Our latest wallpaper, a rendition of Drindera ‘The Abacus’ Saldemaar by Brazil’s Andre Freitas Cardozo, has been released.

You can find all of our free downloadable wallpapers here.



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.


Top five cities in North America for unique visitors to our main site to date: Austin, Tex; Seattle, Wash; New York, NY; Pittsburgh, Pa; 4 way tie for fifth.

Top five cities in Europe, Asia, and Oceania for unique visitors to our main site to date: Nuremberg, Ger; Brisbane, Aus; Budapest, Hun; Sydney, Aus; Melbourne, Aus.

Finally, a question: What tournament do you look forward to playing in the most at AetherCon? Check out our poll on Facebook and have your say.

Coming Soon:

Brent Chumley’s Malthazas Rhyllanor
Chris Malidore’s ‘One Eyed’ Jarmby Mudgelmurk
Ian Llanas’s Mirri ‘The Mouse’


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


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

Michael Chumbler
Pen and Paper Games RPG Community Liaison
Find us here:
AetherCon

Facebook

Twitter

[Lazarus]

Here are the latest updates for our event from the past three weeks:

GeekMom write us up for wired.com. Check it out Here

The following games have been added to our schedule:

Ben Isaac - Time Lord - 'The Star of Aqua'
Bruce Paris - Call of Cthulhu - Terror Australis: Shadows over Undara"
Janne Andsten - A Thousand and One Nights - "In the Sultan's Palace..."
Janne Andsten - Mouse Guard - "Winter's Wheat"

The following games and GMs have recently been confirmed:

Leonard Arcilla - Savage Worlds - Hellfrost
Roger French Jr - The Dresden Files
Tyler Hydek - Call of Cthulhu
William Thrasher (Creative Director, Kettle of Fish Productions) - Call of Cthulhu Tournament
Michael Whaley - Pathfinder


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:

Imperfekt Gammes
Scrying Eye Games
Silver Gryphon Games

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


The following artists have been added to the Artists Enclave:

Stanley Morrison (AEG)
Chile's Cristián Montes
Canada's Will O'Brien
Germany's Kai Ortmann

Our latest wallpaper, Mirri 'The Mouse' by Ian Llanas has just been released.

Coming Soon:
Grendorey Hu Maggrath by Will O'Brien
Billoby Windwarble by Fiona Meng
Thermin 'The Rinker' Karmenza by Jesse Meads
Izael 'Deeds' McBride by Patrick McAvoy

You can find all of our free downloadable wallpapers Here.


The following RPG blogs have joined the Bell & Scroll

d-Infinity Online
Game Industry News]
The Most Unread Blog on The Internet. Ever.
Roleplayers Chronicle

The following Game Stores have joined the The Merchant's Guild

Mythplaced Treasures, Lakewood, Col
Pair A Dice Games, Vista, Cal
http://therop.com/] The Realm of Possibilities[/url], Santa Fe, NM
http://www.roll2play.com/store/] Roll2Play [/url] Coppell, TX
RPG Orbit, Online
The Griffon Bookstore, South Bend, Ind

The University of Toledo's BASHCon is the first convention to join the soon to be launched ConCentric Circle


The engine of AetherCon, http://roll20.net/ ] Roll20[/url] is in **Open Beta**. Go here to create your account and check it out today.

You can also catch regularly held http://www.twitch.tv/roll20app] Roll20 Live Streams [/url] every other Monday. The next one will be Monday/July/23 at 9 PM EST.


You can also check the menu bar across the top of our http://www.aethercon.com/] website [/url] for Roll20. The corresponding submenu shows has a variety of useful links.

We’d also like to welcome Leonard Arcilla, Louise P. Boyer, Jonathan Felber and Eric Kinkead to the AetherCon team.

Louise will be co-ordinating our various outreach initiatives and keeping things running smoothly for us there. Leonard will be coordinating our efforts to get the word out via various online convention calendars and Eric has signed on to be one of our chat moderators during the convention.

Finally, Jonathan will be producing the inaugural AetherCon convention program which will feature exclusive interviews with industry insiders and will be downloadable from our main site in the run-up to the big weekend.


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

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 http://www.facebook.com/AetherConRPG ] Facebook [/url] or Google+ and have your say.



[FONT=&quot]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 giving us a +1 on http://www.gplus.to/aethercon] 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:

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

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.


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

Michael Chumbler
RPG Community Liaison - AetherCon

Find us here:
AetherCon

Facebook

Twitter


[FONT=&quot]http://www.gplus.to/aethercon] Google+

[Lazarus]

Here are the latest updates for our event from the past three weeks:

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 http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/]DriveThru RPG[/url] 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:

http://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/]Campaign Mastery[/url]
http://www.dicejockey.com/]Dice Jockey[/url]
http://geek-life.com/]Geek Life [/url]
http://www.mindofthegeek.com/]Mind of the Geek [/url]
http://irontavern.com/]The Iron Tavern[/url]

The following Conventions have joined the ConCentric Circle:

http://www.bashcon.com/]BashCon[/url]
http://www.gfgr.org/] Great Falls Gaming Rendezvous[/url]


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 http://www.aethercon.com/]website[/url] 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

Find us here:
AetherCon

Facebook

Twitter

[Lazarus]

Here are the latest updates for our event from the past three weeks:

We’d like to welcome Cape and Mallie Rust from Geek Life as well as Wayne Humfleet of Heroic Journey Publishing to the AetherCon staff. The Rusts will take the Public Relations portfolio while Wayne has signed on to run the Bell & Scroll.


The following games have been added to our schedule:
Greg McClendon - Dark Heresy - "First Reckoning".
Ted Tunnell - Mutants & Masterminds - "Prison Break".

The following games and GMs have recently been confirmed:
Bernd Pressler - Marvel Heroic Roleplaying.
James Todd - Mutants & Masterminds.
Trent Caron - Shadowrun.

As well we have added two more tables to our Shadowrun tournament on Friday. Gear up and jack in folks!


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:
GRAmel Publications.
Heroic Journey Publishing.

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

We would also like to thank http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/]DriveThru RPG[/url] for stepping up and facilitating the prize bundles for our event.

Among the members of our Vendors Hall, the following have recently released new titles:
Battlefield Press - Kaiser's Gate.
GRAmel Publications - Beasts of the Dominion.
Skimisher Publishing - 16 page preview of Sword of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting.


Among the latest artist news we are happy to announce the additon of two new members of the Artists Enclave:
Jordy Lakiere - Belgium (Exposé, 10th Ed)
Sam Manley - UK (AEG, Fantasy Flight Games)

Additionally, AetherCon Art Director Jon Gibbons has been tapped to do the cover of Fainting goat Games new ICONS supplement, Stark City.

Our latest wallpaper Izael 'Deeds' McBride by Patrick McAvoy has just been released.

Coming Soon:
Malthazas Rhyllanor by Brent Chumley
Billoby Windwarble by Fiona Meng

You can find all of our free downloadable wallpapers here.


The following game stores have joined the :
Guardian Games
Parker, Banner, Kent & Wayne Comics and Games

The following Conventions have joined the ConCentric Circle:
Gaming Hoopla
KantCon
TengaiCon


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
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
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

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
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
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
Palladium
Paranoia
Runequest 6th Ed

Dark Heresy
Mutants and Masterminds
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 http://www.aethercon.com/]website for Roll20. The corresponding submenu shows has a variety of useful links.


Top five cities in North America for unique visitors to our main site to date: Portland, Ore; New York, NY; Chicago, Ill; San Francisco, Cal; Seattle, Wash.

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

Top five cities in ports abroad for unique visitors to our main site to date: Wellington, N.Z.; Sydney, Aus; Brisbane, 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 or Google+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 http://twitter.com/#!/AetherCon]Twitter[/url] page and adding us to your circle on Google+.

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A lot has happened over the last two weeks:

We heartily thank those who have contributed prize support. The prize bundles for each of the tournaments are currently valued at 265 dollars for first; 170 dollars for second; and 100 dollars for third. You can see the growing list of companies adding to our prize list by visiting ‘To The Victors’.

You can see the games in our lineup by checking the Game Glance page.

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

Everything you'll need to register in the Events menu bar on our main site. So get your spot today!

The following games and GMs have recently been confirmed:
Joseph Flanery – Shadowrun
Marcus Flores – Monster of the Week

The following games have been added to our schedule:
Dave Michael – Cyberpunk 2000 – Vanilla Extract – Saturday and Sunday
Joseph Flanery – Shadowrun – Things that go Bump – Saturday and Sunday
Dave Michael – Steampunk Crescendo – Fire in Cairo – Friday
Anthony Preece – Savage Worlds Deadlands Reloaded – Red River Blues – Friday and Saturday
Erik Evjen – Basic Fantasy RPG – The Battle of Mount Ravinfell – Friday and Saturday
Stephen Smith – Castles and Crusades – A Scratching on the Glass – Saturday
John Dorman – Dungeon Crawl Classics – Lake’s End Portal – Saturday

Here’s a quick view list of all the games we have in our schedule at this time:

System	Total Sessions	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Tourney
All Flesh Must Be Eaten	2		X	X
A Thousand and One Nights	1		X
Atomic Highway	2		X	X
Basic Fantasy Roleplaying Game	2	X		X
Burning Wheel	2	X		X
Call of Cthulhu	13	X	X	X	X
Castles & Crusades	2		X
Cyberpunk 2020	2		X	X
Dark Heresy	4	X		X
Deluxe Revised RECON	1	X
Dresden Files	4	X	X	X
Dungeon Crawl Classics	2		X
Eclipse Phase			X	X
Labyrinth Lord	2		X
Legend of the Five Rings	2	X	X
Leverage	2	X	X
Macho Women with Guns	2		X
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying	3		X	X
Mouse Guard	2	X		X
Mutants and Masterminds	1	X
Paranoia	2	X		X
Pathfinder	20	X	X	X	X
RIFTS	2		X	X
Savage Worlds	19	X	X	X	X
Serenity	4	X	X	X
Shadowrun	10	X	X	X	X
Star Frontiers	2		X	X
Star Wars (D6)	2	X	X
Steampunk Crescendo	1	X
Time Lord	2		X	X

Current games confirmed for AetherCon currently include:

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

We are currently looking for GMs to help run the following tourneys:

Pathfinder
Savage Worlds
Shadowrun
Call of Cthuhlu


The Artist’s Enclave welcomes Jordy Lakiere, the hand behind Gartlegarn Coalcrusher, and Kai Ortmann, the hand behind Brindlebee Burrbonnet, our latest free downloadable wallpaper release. Eric Lofgren has been nabbed by http://privateerpress.com/] Privateer Press [/url] for a project. Watch for his upcoming wallpaper, Kruultok Azgraatugaan.

You can find all of our wallpapers http://www.aethercon.com/Wallpaper/Wallpaper.html] here.[/url]

Watch for Carver 'Crash' Doering by Jon Gibbons (U.K) (AEG, PEG), Keburil Kotsboddle by Stanley Morrison (USA) (AEG) and Eduourd 'The Gallic Rooster' Henrique by Cristian Montes (Chile) coming soon.

The Fest Hall welcomes Charles White of [http://fabledenvironments.com]Fabled Environments[/url] and Robert W. Thomson of http:/4windsfantasygaming.com]4 Winds Fantasy Gaming[/url].

The Vendor’s Hall welcomes http://www.clockworkgnome.com/] Clockwork Gnome Publishing [/url] to booth #7. http://polyhedrongames.com/] Polyhedron Games[/url] adds demos for their D6 based Keep It Simple System (KISS). [url=http://www.imperfekt-industrees.com/] Imperfekt Games [/url] adds demos for Invulnerable RPG and playtests for Broken Symmetry. Ophelia’s Shop of Roleplay Specialties adds a raft of Fiasco demos to the schedule all weekend long.

Check out the rest of our Vendor’s Hall here

http://www.silvergryphongames.com/category/news/] Silver Gryphon Games[/url released Part 3 of Camp Wicakina: “Wanagi Mato Lives!” for Aether and Savage Worlds.
http://www.skirmisher.com//] Skirmisher Publishing [/url] released Insults & Injuries: A Role-Playing Game Sourcebook for Medical Maladies

The following releases at Aethercon are confirmed:
http://www.trolllord.com/] Troll Lord Games [/url] confirms the release of The Giants Wrath.

Thanks to X-Split for facilitating the live streaming of games.

We welcome Nerd Trek, Bring You’re A-Game, and The 23^rd Stage to the Bell and Scroll.

http://dorkland.blogspot.com/] Dorklands [/url] joins our Talking Drums initiative.

Top five cities in North America for unique visitors to our main site to date:
Chicago, Illinois;
New York, New York (tied);
Portland, Oregon;
San Francisco, California;
Houston, Texas (tied)

Top five cities in Europe for unique visitors to our main site to date:
London, UK;
Hamburg, Germany;
Nuremberg, Germany;
Helsinki, Finland;
Moscow, Russia.

Top five cities in points abroad for unique visitors to our main site to date:
Wellington, New Zealand;
Sydney, Australia,
Toronto, Canada (tied);
Melbourne, Australia;
Vancouver, Canada.


Finally, a question: Which of our latest games would you like to play the most? Check out our poll on Facebook or Google+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 http://twitter.com/#!/AetherCon]Twitter[/url] page and adding us to your circle on Google+.

Don't forget to let us know you'll be a part of AetherCon with our event pages on http://www.facebook.com/events/183089191764889/?fref=ts]Facebook[/url] and https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ct1s2kplnkgmu7ivne4kad9jm5s]Google+[/url]

If you would like to contact us for any reason including to inquire about volunteer opportunities feel free to use our http://www.aethercon.com/Contact%20Us/Contact%20Us.html]Contact Us[/url] page to do so.

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