Icon 2008

Role playing is an exceptional experience, a combination between a social game, shared story-telling and improvisional theatre. What would you do if you were the heroes in the "Matrix"? What has happened to the characters of your favorite novel just past its ending? How does it feel to save the kingdom from the dragon's menace, being at the battle of Trafalgar or the decleration of Independence, experience adventures just like Indiana Jones, Batman or Buffy the vampire slayer?

You, the participants, tell the story together, and decide what the heroes do. Similarly to the theatrical world, you can choose the character that you'd like to play. You can imagine what it thinks and feels. Unlike theatre, nobody is telling you what to do – you decide how your characters will act. Unlike books or movies, the imaginative experience is all-encompassing and offers dialogue and interaction.

The Icon festival offers you a large variety of games: for beginners and experienced players, kids and adults alike. The themes are wide and varied, moving between sophisticated tactical games featuring robots and computers, epic voyages in the lands of dragons, stories taking place in the far future, others where you rewrite history itself.
These games are assembled into programs according to the games' atmosphere and content…

Being someone else has never been that easy.
 

Roleplaying Gaming at Icon

The main roleplaying convention at Icon - This will be the seventh year a roleplaying gaming convention is a part of Icon. Next to a multitude of events for veteran gamers, the convention is especially accesible to everyone that wants to experience roleplaying games, with many activites that require no prior knowledge or experience, just come and play. The convention takes place during Wednesday and Thursday, and exhibits various games divided into different worlds and scenery. Just close your eyes and imagine...

Exact dates and information: the convention is held on 15-16 October, from 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM the following day. Each day has 3 gaming rounds of about 4 hours each - morning, afternoon and evening rounds. Start times are: 10:00, 16:00 and 21:00, each day.

Children's Roleplaying Games will be available Wednesday to Saturday, in short two-hour gaming sessions, from 10:00 to 18:00. During Saturday, a whole list of events will take place in a dedicated compund for Children's roleplaying activities called "The Fellowship of Heroes".

The Fwllowship of Heroes - A while day of children's roleplaying activities during Saturday.

LARPs - two LARPS will take place at Icon this year - "Modifications of consumer habits" by masters Sharon (ber'le) Berl & Erez Zvulun and "The Burning Torch Inn" by master Ofir Geller

Pub-con - Friday evening will house a roleplaying activity for veterans gamers and those intending to become ones. at the "Cultue Club" (oposite the Eshkol-Pais complex on Ha'arba'a street) a alcohol-soaked roleplay event will take place, from 18:00 to 24:00, entrance 18 and up.

LARP Exhibiton at the Coliseum

GM workshops - Some of the most experienced and venerated GM's in Israel, courtesy of the Israeli Roleplaying Society, will host workshops intended to enrich the worlds, skills and technics of participating GM's.

The Gamers - Since 2005 a movie at the film festival is dedicated to the roleplaying realm, this year "the Gamers" - funny, whacky and for the first time actually resembling quite closely the actual lives, habits and siliness of roleplayers.

Sleepy Icon - part live action role-playing game, part community and social event.

Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition Presentation - Dungeons and Dragons, the oldest gaming system of role-play is celebrating its fourth edition all over the world, as are we, with the added value of celebrating its translation to Heberw. We'll present the main changes, and discuss the preferences of DnD upon other gaming systems.
Orcs present.