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FRIDAY 19
35 Dungeons & Dragons 4.0 (6hr) Harbor I (3E)
g Interested in playing D&D but can never get a group together?
Come on down and play some 4th edition D&D. Prior knowledge
of how to play is requested. There will be premade characters if
you do not have your own. Lvl 14–17. Kfir Wexelblat
36 D&D Adventurer’s League (5th Edition D&D) (4hr 30min)
Harbor I (3E)
g Hey Wizard Games is running the D&D Adventurer’s League
“Rage of Demons” storyline throughout the con. Charles
Morgridge
37 Battle Merchants (1hr 30min) Harbor I (3E)
g Battle Merchants is a 2–4 player game about war profiteering in
a world of high fantasy. A yearlong battle has erupted between
orcs, hobgoblins, elves, and dwarves. The different armies require
weapons of various types, and the players represent arms dealers
competing for their business. Will you craft vorpal weapons that
win every time, or shoddy junk in hopes of repeat business? If you
like worker placement games, economic games, or Euro games in
general, you will enjoy this game. Taylor Heffernan
38 ConBuddy Connection Paine (2W)
What’s your favorite area of Arisia Fandom? Maybe you need
someone to watch the Masquerade with or a few new friends to
cosplay with? Share your favorite new game? Or you just want
to see new faces. This meet-up is like speed datng but for con
friends. Your hosts will arrange a rotation around the room and
give pairs of people one minute to say what they’re looking forward
to during Arisia. After 30–40 minutes of friendly “speed
dates”, mingle and exchange contact info.
39 I Live, I Die, I Live Again! Mad Max: Fury Road Marina 1 (2E)
A sequel 30 years in the making that no one was demanding
became one of the most acclaimed films of 2015. Was Tom Hardy
a great replacement for Mel Gibson? Was the foregrounding of
Imperator Furiosa and a largely-female cast a genuinely feminist
act, or is the acclaim given to the movie a sign of how bleak genre
filmmaking has become for women? How does a movie in which
everyone is physically and/or emotionally scarred work as an
action film? And does the plot itself hold up, and does it matter?
JoSelle Vanderhooft (m), Randee Dawn, Joey Peters, Barbara M
Pugliese, Lauren M. Roy
40 Why Human Spaceflight? Marina 2 (2E)
In a time when there are so many legitimate, pressing concerns
for humanity here on Earth, we often hear the question: “Why
spend so much money sending humans into space?” Let’s go
beyond the stock philosophical answers and get practical: energy,
food, water, climate, technology, and even socioeconomic concerns
such as wealth disparity, all improved by space programs.
Tom Wysmuller (m), Terry Franklin, Jeff Hecht, Ken Kingsgrave-
Ernstein, Nalin Ratnayake
41 How Lord of the Rings Stunted Fantasy’s Growth Marina 3 (2E)
LotR’s shadow looms huge over fantasy. From the moment it
achieved its massive popularity, it’s had a stranglehold on the
genre. The diverse and weird pre-LotR fantasy landscape was
obliterated in favor of decades of Tolkien clones, and we’re only
barely beginning to see the genre recover now. Why did something
so stilted, mediocre, sexist, and racist capture the public’s
imagination in such a fevered and intense way? What would fantasy
look like today in a world where LotR never happened? Kate
Nepveu (m), Erik Amundsen, Shira Lipkin, Mark Oshiro
42 Masquerade Basics Marina 4 (2E)
Whether you’re entering the masquerade or only just now thinking
about it, we’ll cover what to expect from registration through
rehearsals, in the green room and after you’ve come off the stage.
We’ll cover such topics as how to prep audio and what’s expected
of documentation. Karen Purcell DVM (m), Gaia Eirich, James
Hinsey, Anastasia Holt, Sharon Sbarsky
7:15pm
43 Snow White and the Huntsman (2hr 7min) ArisiaTV
t In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow
White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her pro-
e Presentation a Anime f Film v Video t ArisiaTV