<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; ">When a magical gateway appears, is your first instinct to jump in? Are you the one casting it?</div> <div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; ">The last day to pre-register for <a href="http://www.strategicon.net/" style="text-decoration:none;">Gateway 2015</a> is Monday, August 31. Pre-registration can save you money and let you save a spot in scheduled games you’d like to play at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel this Labor Day weekend, September 4-7, 2015.</div> <div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; ">You Played It Here First!</div> <div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; ">Be the first among your friends to try unreleased, soon-to-be-hot games! Just a sample of sneak peeks available at Gateway: Steve Jackson Games’ Munchkin Steampunk Deluxe, Villains & Henchmen from Ravensdale Publishing and ILIOS, a collaboration between Playford and Modest Games.</div> <div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; ">Mulmaster Undone and Siege of Serpents</div> On Saturday evening, the Adventurers League will present <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Mulmaster Undone, a massive, multi-table <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Dungeons & Dragons event. Tables are filling up fast, but if you join the waitlist we will add more tables as necessary. Magic! Sign up for MULMASTER UNDONE (DDEP2) via Warhorn: <a href="https://warhorn.net/events/gateway-2015/schedule/2015/09/05" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">https://warhorn.net/events/gateway-2015/schedule/2015/09/05</a> Meanwhile, the Pathfinder Society will run <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Siege of Serpents, a huge interactive adventure in which an old enemy attempts a brazen assault and it’s up to the Pathfinders to defend the Grand Lodge. <a href="https://www.warhorn.net/events/gateway-2015-pfs" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">https://www.warhorn.net/events/gateway-2015-pfs</a>. Family-friendly Pathfinder games are also on the menu; sign up at PFS Headquarters in Los Angeles Ballroom B. L.A. Board Game Jam Gets A Room Top off your summer by designing a game! Gateway will host the second L.A. Board Game Jam, a competition challenging teams of participants to design, test and demo a board game in five hours. The event will be held in the Bel Air room on Sunday; veteran designers will mentor and judge. For more information and to sign up, visit <a href="http://www.laboardgamejam.com" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">http://www.laboardgamejam.com</a>. Steampunk… and the Seventies? Live-action roleplaying returns with <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Steampunk Shark Tank, in which inventors pitch their ideas for amazing racing machines. With Nikola Tesla hosting, it’s bound to be interesting! The <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Steampunk Differential team has also partnered up with the <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Spirit of '77 crew to create <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">New Years Disco Eve, which promises funkadelic, disco-tastic LARP shenanigans! Try Play-By-Mail For Free Reality Simulations, Inc. (RSI) has been producing fine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-by-mail_game" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">play-by-mail</a> (PBM) games since 1984. Attendees can experience this time-honored tradition LIVE at Gateway, with turns ending every two hours. Try <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Duel II (formerly known as <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Duelmasters), a turn-based gladiatorial combat game, or <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Dwarves vs. Orcs, which is pure strategy set in the Forgotten Realms universe. Dealers and Freebies and Demos, Oh My! Gateway’s Dealer Room will feature more than 40 dealers selling games, accessories, memorabilia and handmade crafts. The Strategicon Game Library boasts nearly 500 games, ranging from classic to contemporary; Miniature Boot Camp and Gaming 101 sessions are perfect for learning new games. Between seminars, Super Nerd Trivia and our Paint and Take mini painting pavilion, Gateway has something for everyone. The first 1,300 attendees in the door will receive an exclusive flat plastic mini from <a href="http://www.arcknight.com/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Arcknight</a>! Check out the full schedule and register before the portal closes at <a href="http://www.strategicon.net/" style="text-decoration:none;">http://www.strategicon.net</a>!<div> </div><div> </div></body></html>