Today we feature another article from Brian about how to approach narrative event organizing, and, more specifically, how to communicate expectations to your players before an event. How do you know whether or not a narrative event will be successful? For NEOs running an event with new players, the question most often comes down to some … Continue reading How to Talk to Your Players about Narrative
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How to register players
Why should you consider a formal way to register players for your event? For an event like Coalescence, or any independent event with online promotion, it’s possible some players beyond your gaming group may decide to drive an hour or more to attend. And without any kind of formal registration you may have many more … Continue reading How to register players
Advice for first time NEOs
In the wake of our success with Coalescence 2017, we look forward to future events in 2018 and beyond. Bearing that in mind, we would like to share some experiences of some Narrative Event Organizers. So for today's post, we've asked NEO Jake Castro in Orlando, Florida to touch on the differences between planning an … Continue reading Advice for first time NEOs
How to find space for your event
Finding a space is the most central task of planning for your event. The location where you run the games will determine how many players you can allow to register and if you need to charge an entry fee. If you already have a club space or a friendly local gaming store, the venue may … Continue reading How to find space for your event
Why NEO?
Why do we NEO? Many of the Narrative Event Organizers in the network talk about why they want to run narrative events as much as they play narrative games. Brian Orban has written an examination of his reasons why, and we wanted to share his article here. As we started updating the "How to NEO" … Continue reading Why NEO?
NEO of Note: Mark “Mitzy” Mitzman
We welcome Mitzy as our NEO of Note for January! We'll let him introduce & tell you about himself here. Hello Age of Sigmar players and hobbyists. My name is Mark Mitzman (although I’ve been known as Mitzy since as far back as I can remember). I am very fortunate to have been asked to … Continue reading NEO of Note: Mark “Mitzy” Mitzman
Grand Narrative at NOVA Open 2018
In September 2017 the NOVA Open tabletop wargaming convention featured Warhammer: Age of Sigmar for the third year. Players returned to the shores of Dawnland, an obscure region of Ulgu, to resume the story of Neferata's conquest of that portion of the realm of Shadows. You can read an overview of the event on a … Continue reading Grand Narrative at NOVA Open 2018
Calling All NEOs!
The Coalescence global narrative event in 2017 was successful because of the Narrative Event Organizers that signed up to run it for players in each respective area. We're looking for NEOs to sign up to run one of the two events we have planned for 2018. Sign up HERE to run the event on March 17th, June … Continue reading Calling All NEOs!
Rise of Empires
Excited about the upcoming Rise of Empires: Border Wars, we asked Kye Baker about his memories of last year's event and what the Hobby Hammer team is looking forward to for this next one. Kye: Wow, well it's been a year, so let's see what sticks out. Of the build up to the event, it was … Continue reading Rise of Empires
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