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2024 Panel Discussion Agenda
Update: Here are the re-uploaded streams in remastered audio and video quality.
2024 Keynote | The Kult: Divinity Lost upcoming Kickstarter
Ring in the 2024 Illusion Horror Con with a discussion of the upcoming Kult: Divinity Lost Kickstarter
Featuring Petter Nallo, Jacqueline Bryk, Gabriel, Torsten Gatu, and moderated by the Con Organizers
Slot 1.5 || Body Horror in TTRPGs
Discover how to effectively use body horror in tabletop games and explore techniques to provoke visceral, unsettling reactions to enhance the horror experience.
Featuring Bear Winters, Petter Nallo, Gunilla Jonsson, Alan Patric, and moderated by Scott Dorward
Slot 3.5 || Dreams, Nightmares, and the Surreal in Horror Games
Explore how dreamlike or surreal settings and mechanics can enhance the horror atmosphere.
Featuring Tom Murr, Jason Fryer, Gunilla Jonsson, Michael Petersén, Travis Vengroft, and moderated by T A Newman
Slot 4.5 || The Role of Isolation in Horror
How physical, emotional, and psychological isolation can be used in horror TTRPGs to heighten tension and dread.
Featuring T A Newman, Petter Nallo, Travis Vengroft, Jon Hook, Scott Dorward, and moderated by Alan Patric
Slot 5 - Anger: Oakwood Heights
A Kult:DL Actual Play
A Kult:DL Actual Play
Featuring XPLoveCat, Travis Legge (ONYX Path), and T A Newman
November 2016. A gray and rainy Detroit. We follow a group of people from the DA's office and and the local Police Force partaking in a crime scene reconstruction. Soon we learn that everyone has a hidden agenda as the story unfolds.
CW's: CWs: Blood & Gore, Parental Verbal Abuse, Children in Peril/Harm, Possible Drug & Alcohol Use, Possible Vulgar Language, God Complex, Altered Realities
Slot 5.5 || Beyond Elysium & The Borderlands
Delve into Kult’s deeper realms and how to use these otherworldly dimensions to expand horror themes and deliver unique, existential experiences for players.
Featuring Tom Murr, Jason Fryer, Petter Nallo, Gabriel, and moderated by Bear Winters
Slot 6.5 || From Classic to Modern
Discover ways to adapt and deconstruct classic horror elements—like haunted houses and vampires—to modern settings.
Featuring Brandon F, Rina Haenze, and moderated by Jacqueline Bryk
Slot 7.5 || Horror Without Violence
Discuss how horror can thrive without emphasizing combat, instead focusing on dread, suspense, and atmosphere.
Featuring Tom Murr, Jason Fryer, Matt Sanderson, Paul Baldowski, Travis Vengroft, and moderated by T A Newman
Slot 8.5 || Horror in Sci-fi
Examine the fusion of horror and science fiction, discussing techniques for creating fear and suspense in futuristic or technologically advanced settings.
Featuring Matt Sanderson, Paul Baldowski, Michael Petersén, Jon Hook, and moderated by Bear Winters
Slot 9.5 || Podcasting and Actual Plays
Join creators as they share insights into the process of producing horror TTRPG podcasts and actual plays, from story planning to performance.
Featuring Brandon F, Travis Vengroft, Jon Hook, and Moderated by Scott Dorward