Wizards of the Coast Seminars

All Wizards of the Coast seminars take places from 12:30 to 2PM in the Seminar area. You must have a signed NDA to enter the Seminar area.

Charting the Course: An Edition for all Editions (Thursday)
Join Mike Mearls, Monte Cook, and Jeremy Crawford as they discuss the origin for the idea to create an edition of Dungeons & Dragons that encompasses all previous editions. The designers discuss the challenges in creating compatibility and balance, as well as the exciting possibilities such a system creates. Seminar to be followed by a Q&A session.

Class Design: From Assassins to Wizards (Friday)
Designers Monte Cook, Bruce Cordell, and Robert Schwalb discuss their approach to class design, including the difficulties in creating iconic versions of the classes that speak to players of all editions. Should the cleric be more martial or more healer? Does the default ranger have an animal companion? What level of complexity should the fighter have? Seminar to be followed by a Q&A session.

Future Products and Q&A (Saturday)
Mike Mearls presents upcoming D&D products for 2012, as well as a vision for the future of Dungeons & Dragons. Seminar is followed by a Q&A session. Other members of R&D on hand to answer questions as well.

Reimagining Skills and Ability Scores (Sunday)
The role of skills has fluctuated throughout the life of Dungeons & Dragons, and ability scores have been of varying importance in each edition. Find out what the design team has done to reimagine these aspects of the game, and how they arrived at a system to marry the two concepts more closely together. Seminar includes Monte Cook, Bruce Cordell, and Robert Schwalb, and will be followed by a Q&A session.

Baldman Games Seminars

All BMG Seminars take places between 6:30-8PM in the Seminar area.

Ashes of Athas Meet and Greet – (Thursday) - Come and meet the staff of the exciting campaign Ashes of Athas premiering at D&D Experience. Ask some questions and give us your feedback on how we are doing so far.

Epic Tier Writing, Judging, and Playing – (Friday) You saved the village in heroic. You saved the kingdom in paragon. In epic, everything is on the line. This seminar provides tips on writing, playing, and running epic-level adventures, presented by the LFR Epic Writing Directors

The Baldman Speaks – (Saturday ) - Come and meet The Baldman in person. He might even drag some of his cohorts in crime to the meeting to meet as well. Talk about new things at the show, things planned for the future, and pretty much anything else you want to ask him. We will talk about the future of the show, our organizing play campaigns and future plans, and maybe even my evil plans for regaining hair at the expense of midget hamsters.