Teen Programming: Building Better Monsters with James L. Sutter
Whether magical beasts or intelligent aliens, monsters are at the heart of science fiction and fantasy. But how do you move beyond the classics and come up with your own unique creatures and alien cultures? In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to use evolutionary principles like natural selection and adaptation to jumpstart your creativity, fitting imagined creatures into your setting or creating fascinating new monsters in just minutes!
Teen Programming for ages 14-18.
About the Instructor:
James L. Sutter is a co-creator of the Pathfinder and Starfinder Roleplaying Games. For thirteen years, he worked as an editor and game designer at Paizo Publishing, eventually becoming both the Starfinder Creative Director and the Executive Editor of the Pathfinder novel line for Tor/Macmillan. He is the author of two novels: Death's Heretic, a finalist for the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel, and The Redemption Engine, which won the 2015 Scribe Award for Best Original Speculative Tie-In Novel. He has also written comics, video games, and a wealth of award-winning tabletop gaming supplements, plus essays and short stories for such publications as Escape Pod, Apex Magazine, Queers Destroy Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and the #1 Amazon bestseller Machine of Death. You can find him online at jameslsutter.com or on Twitter at @jameslsutter.
This workshop is provided in partnership with the Bureau of Fearless Ideas.
Whether magical beasts or intelligent aliens, monsters are at the heart of science fiction and fantasy. But how do you move beyond the classics and come up with your own unique creatures and alien cultures? In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to use evolutionary principles like natural selection and adaptation to jumpstart your creativity, fitting imagined creatures into your setting or creating fascinating new monsters in just minutes!
Teen Programming for ages 14-18.
About the Instructor:
James L. Sutter is a co-creator of the Pathfinder and Starfinder Roleplaying Games. For thirteen years, he worked as an editor and game designer at Paizo Publishing, eventually becoming both the Starfinder Creative Director and the Executive Editor of the Pathfinder novel line for Tor/Macmillan. He is the author of two novels: Death's Heretic, a finalist for the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel, and The Redemption Engine, which won the 2015 Scribe Award for Best Original Speculative Tie-In Novel. He has also written comics, video games, and a wealth of award-winning tabletop gaming supplements, plus essays and short stories for such publications as Escape Pod, Apex Magazine, Queers Destroy Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and the #1 Amazon bestseller Machine of Death. You can find him online at jameslsutter.com or on Twitter at @jameslsutter.
This workshop is provided in partnership with the Bureau of Fearless Ideas.