Pax Unplugged is almost upon us! We won’t have a booth, but several Kobolds will attend. Come see us in the wild!
What is PAX Unplugged?
“PAXU” is a great way to close out the convention season. As the name implies, the focus of this convention is any non-electronic type gaming. It includes board games, card games, TCGs, TTRPGs, and whatever else doesn’t need an extension cord.
Last year was the 20th anniversary of PAX Unplugged. The event hosted 350 exhibitors, more than 800 media and content creators, and more than 17,000 attendees. It was the second-largest gaming convention in the country, next to Gen Con. (Which has approximately 72,000 attendees this year. So it’s a distant second. But still! 17,000 people!)
IN addition to providing organized and open play games, PAXU hosts a lot of game release announcements, live plays, panels, concerts, competitive tournaments, and workshops.
Who’s going from our team?
Some of us will be crawling out of the Warrens and lurking around the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Come find us and say hi!
Kendo (Media Production Manager)
You’ve seen Kendo in our YouTube videos, TikToks, and live streams. Now, see him live and in person!
Saturday November 22, 2025
RPG Help Desk Live. 7:30 PM–8:30 PM, Crab God Theatre (Lvl 1, 1113C)
Can you dispel magically-created food after eating it? There are no dumb questions here. Jesse Galena (Adventure Is Nigh!, RPG Help Desk), Jack Packard (Second Wind, Red Letter Media), Diana Fay (DianaOfTheRose), Kendo (Kobold Press), and RUN DMG take any and all of your questions about TTRPGs, no matter how absurd or basic. This is a full Q&A event, so be ready to ask your strange, thoughtful, or divisive questions.
Panelists:
- Jesse Galena (any/all) [Media Producer, TTRPG Creator, Co-owner, at Second Wind Group]
- Kendrick “Kendo” Smith (any/all) [Media Production Manager, Kobold Press]
- RUN DMG (he/him) [Content Creator]
- Diana Fay (she/her) [Content Creator and Host, DianaOfTheRose Media and the Worlds Apart Podcast]
- Jack Packard (he/him) [Video Producer and Game Master, at Second Wind Group]
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Before the Jackals: The Quiet Year. 1:30 PM–3:00 PM, Crab God Theatre (Lvl 1, 1113C)
Before the Jackals arrived, our community thrived. Before the Jackals arrived, our community floundered. Before the Jackals arrived, our community feared. Come watch us play a riveting journey through the ever-inspiring world building game The Quiet Year live with an artist to sketch over the map while we play! We’ll take big swings, make an awesome map along the way, and take audience suggestions on the formation of the world, creating something fantastically fated for doom.
Cast:
- Lexi McQueen (he/she) [Professional GM, Performer, Content Creator, and Game Designer for Strix U, Good Time Society, The Command Zone, Tabletop Jock, SACRED MACHINATIONS Ghostfire Games]
- Kendrick “Kendo” Smith (any/all) [Creative Director, Tales Yet Told]
- Nala J. Wu (they/them) [Art Director, Illustrator, and Actual Play Performer]
- Edward Spence (he/him) [Game Designer, Producer, and Game Master]
- Drakoniques (he/they) [Content Creator]
Taking the Spotlight: A Roundtable for Marginalized Creators in Games (13+). 3:30 PM–4:30 PM, Mothman Theatre (Grand Ballroom A)
In this honest and candid roundtable BIPOC queer disabled and other historically sidelined voices share what it really means to exist play and work in the tabletop games industry today. We’ll discuss what needs to change—structurally culturally interpersonally—and what real support looks like for us. We’ll break down gatekeeping what it means to hold privilege and power talk about building better spaces and explore what “diversity” actually looks and feels like when it’s more than just a feel-good-look-good checkbox.
Panelists:
- Nala J. Wu (they/them) [Freelance Art Director, Illustrator and Actual Play Performer at Metal Weave Games Hunters Entertainment]
- Alix Skye (they/them) [Executive Producer and Creative Director, BaddieBards]
- Rogan Shannon (they/them) [Deaf Interpreter]
- Kendrick “Kendo” Smith (any/all) [Creative Director, Tales Yet Told]
- Danny Quach (he/him) [Marketing Manager and Community Manager, Ravensburger]
- Jenn Mac (she/they) [Assistant and Actual Play Performer]
Monica Paprocki (Social Media Manager)
I will be bouncing around between Booth 3863 (Lurkers Loot) and Room 105 (Lurking Fears), checking in their GMs. I’m happy to chat with you about what Kobold Press has going on for next year!
Stay tuned on our social media accounts on Bluesky as I cover the event.
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