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OrcaCon is a tabletop games convention, which includes board and card games, role-playing games, and miniature games. OrcaCon is focused on creating a safe and welcoming space for promoting the tabletop games hobby, supporting diversity in tabletop games, and building a community of both novice and experience game players.

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Saturday, January 13 • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Escapism vs Empowerment

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Games fill many roles, especially for minorities whose daily lives are filled with stress, depressing news, and microaggressions. In gaming, we can be empowered to fight against forces that tax us daily, or escape them entirely to worlds where we suffer no stigma. But which solution is more helpful or appropriate?
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Crystal Frasier

Developer, Paizo Publishing
Crystal Frasier is a writer, game developer, and graphic designer with eighteen years’ experience, best known for her work on the Pathfinder line of roleplaying games and adventures. She strives to make games worlds where everyone can see themselves reflected. She is a survivor... Read More →

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Kiva Maginn

Lead Designer, Harebrained Schemes
Kiva is the Lead Designer for BattleTech at Harebrained Schemes, where she's making giant robots fight and making their pilots kiss. She's been in the video game industry for 15 years, doing game system design and battling her impostor syndrome. She's worked on large-scale MMOs and... Read More →
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Ari Marmell

Putter-downer of wordy bits
When I have free time left over between feeding cats and posting on social media, I write a little bit. My work includes novels, short stories, role-playing games, and some recent scripts. I'm the author of the Mick Oberon fantasy/noir series, the Widdershins YA fantasy series, The... Read More →
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Saturday January 13, 2018 12:00pm - 1:00pm PST
Vancouver Room
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