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A StoryCon teen experience brought to you in partnership with

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Level up your WRITING, ACTING, and GAME skills by joining our three-day summer camp adventure for RPG lovers.

June 17-19

Registration Opens late March

Space is limited.

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GENERAL INFO

WHO?

Teens ages 13-19 seeking an epic summer camp!

WHERE?

Utah Valley University

Lehi Campus

WHEN?

June 17th-19th

9:00 am-4:30 pm

COST

$179 Includes:

Lunches, 3-days of amazing instruction, and a custom workbook.

Enter the portal to an epic 3-day summer camp filled with tabletop role-playing games!

From the minds behind StoryCon and Teen Author Boot Camp comes a new immersive conference experience connecting teenagers with industry professionals.

 

Join professional dungeon master Dax Levine of Dungeon Master Direct as he assembles a party of published authors, theater educators, and game designers to deliver the best training to level up your writing, acting, and gaming skills to make your D&D campaigns more epic than ever!

 

Each morning, prepare for battle with instructional workshops on worldbuilding, improvisation, voices, puzzles, combat tactics, and more. Each afternoon, enter the dungeon with your friends or become the Dungeon Master yourself. Become the hero (or villain) of the world’s greatest roleplaying game! 

General

CLASS TRACKS

Players Handbook
Dungeon Masters Guide
Monster Manual
PRESENTERS
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2025 PRESENTERS 

AUTHORS-ACTORS-TTRPG GAMING EXPERTS

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Dax Levine

Program Director
TRACK:
Host

Dax Levine is a full-time professional Dungeon Master who runs games of Dungeons & Dragons for clients all over the world. He helped set the Guinness World Record for the largest game of D&D in 2023. He utilizes his training in acting, improv, psychology, writing, and business to craft immersive experiences and dramatic performances for new and experienced players alike. Join the adventure in an online D&D campaign, a weeklong Game Night Getaway, a Dungeon Master University course, an epic fan convention, or your next corporate teambuilding event. Learn more at www.dungeonmasterdirect.com

Your camp director and host for all opening and closing ceremonies!

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Jeff Wheeler

Keynote
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Mainstage Keynote

Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler took an early retirement from his career at Intel in 2014 to write full-time. He is a husband, father of five, and a devout member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Jeff lives in the Rocky Mountains. His fantasy books have sold more than 6 million copies and have been translated into multiple languages worldwide.

Players Handbook Keynote address

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Charlie Flint

Blood and Fury: How to Play Fighters and Barbarians
TRACK:
Players Handbook

Charlie is a professional stage performer who has been playing D&D for over a decade. His love for the stage and translated to his love for TTRPGs and his background in psychology has helped him to craft multi dimensional characters to play and use as NPCs in his games. At his day job Charlie uses D&D to help cultivate social connections with the clients that he works with as a Behavior Consultant.

From duelists to archers to raging axe wielders, Fighters and Barbarians conquer the frontlines of combat in Dungeons and Dragons. Learn how to create and play a Fighter or Barbarian that is unique, functional, and, most importantly, a blast to play. Learn more about different types of combatants, different styles of fighting (in D&D and from history), and ways to make your Fighters and Barbarians fun to play in and out of combat.

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Oaths and Vows: How to Play Paladins and Monks
TRACK:
Players Handbook

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Ethan Sproat

Study of the Arcane: How to Play Wizards and Sorcerers
TRACK:
Players Handbook

Before becoming UVU's Director of Research Development, I was the only university professor in Utah with a graduate degree in Science Fiction Studies. Also, I nearly beat the World Record for eating the most M&Ms with chopsticks in a minute, but the Guinness judge timing me said I wasn't even close.

Coming Soon

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Amber Davies

Devotion to the Beyond: How to Play Clerics and Druids
TRACK:
Players Handbook

As Chief Project Director for Dungeon Studios, Amber is a talented worldbuilder, scriptwriter, and the "Swiss Army Doer of Whatever You Need." Amber writes stories and scripts for the horror-fantasy audio drama, Fables From the Forgotten, harvests teas and herbs from her garden, and obsesses over her Frenchie, Doctor Jones.

Have you ever found it challenging to describe your Cleric’s healing abilities with flair? Or to convey the interactions your Druid has with nature? Unleash your inner adventurer and discover how to channel divine energy or commune with spirits of the wild. We’ll look at Clerics and Druids in history and fiction in order to master the art of healing, spellcasting, and connecting with the nature around you!

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Stealthy Shenanigans: How to Play Rangers and Rogues
TRACK:
Players Handbook

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Charismatic Charlatans: How to Play Warlocks and Bards
TRACK:
Players Handbook

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Ryan Bouche

ARIUM Worldbuilding Workshop x2 hours
TRACK:
Dungeon Masters Guide

Ryan is the dungeon master for the live play D&D podcast DadsNDragons and the youtube channel DragonsKeepTV. He writes his own TTRPG game adventure modules for D&D and DreadRPG published on Drivethrurpg

Coming Soon

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Magical Artifacts of Legend
TRACK:
Dungeon Masters Guide

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Quiana Chase

Traps and Puzzles that Kill
TRACK:
Dungeon Masters Guide

Quiana has worked as a professional game master for LARPS and spaceship simulators for over a decade. She has also been a professional actor, writer, educator, and (technically) cult leader. Her love of game design and storytelling has taken her many interesting places.

Are your players hungry for a challenge? Force them to become masters of enigma or die trying! In this breakout, you will come to learn the fundamentals of deadly puzzles, and leave with a mini dungeon of your own design.

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Adam Berg

Secrets of Comedy
TRACK:
Dungeon Masters Guide

Born and raised in Utah, he spends his days jotting down dumb jokes and annoying his maltipoo with relentless kisses. If you Google him, just know he's not actually worth 10 million dollars (yet?) or is a 50-year-old Swedish film director (yet).

Coming Soon

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Adrian Ford

Social Party Dynamics
TRACK:
Dungeon Masters Guide

Adrian is a Webby Award-winning audio engineer, writer, new media producer, interactive entertainment designer, and professional game master.

Coming Soon

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Monster Biology, Ecosystems, and Evolution
TRACK:
Monster Manual

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Civilizations of Fantasy Realms
TRACK:
Monster Manual

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C.R. Langille

Haunting Secrets of Death and Undeath
TRACK:
Monster Manual

C.R. Langille is an award-winning author, affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association, the DEI Chair for the League of Utah Writers, earned her MFA: Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in 2014, and was named Editor of the Year by the League of Utah Writers in 2024.

Unravel the spine-tingling truths behind mortality and its twisted echoes. Explore the dark arts of necromancy, from its subtle manipulations to its grandest rituals. Learn to identify and combat the myriad forms of undead that plague the living, and confront the philosophical implications of cheating death itself. This class will equip you with the knowledge to understand, combat, and perhaps even command the forces that linger between worlds.

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Mari Murdock

Folktales, Fey Bargains, and the Devil in the Details
TRACK:
Monster Manual

Mari Murdock is a writer and professional dungeon master based in Utah. She is the author of Whispers of Shadow and Steel and has had novellas, short fiction, and gaming content published by Fantasy Flight Games, Green Ronin Publishing, and Gallant Knight Games. Visit her website at marimurdock.com.

Coming Soon

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Jon Liddiard

Monster Voice and Movement
TRACK:
Monster Manual

Jon Liddiard is an actor, director, and educator specializing in voice, movement, and physical storytelling. He helps students transform into unforgettable monsters, mastering character creation through performance. With degrees in Theatre and over a decade of experience, Jon currently leads The Ruth Academy in Pleasant Grove, UT

Unleash your inner creature in this thrilling course on monster voice and movement! Students will learn how to transform their faces, bodies and voices to create original, terrifying (or hilarious) monsters. Through physical storytelling, vocal technique, and character design, you'll craft creatures that creep, crawl, charge, and roar. No matter the monster, you'll be sure to leave a lasting impression.

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Cameron Abaroa

Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Great Villain Monologues
TRACK:
Monster Manual

Cameron is an actor, singer, educator, and TTRPG enthusiast. When he's not slaying dragons, playing with funny voices, or hand-crafting dice out of resin, he is a high-school theater teacher dedicated to helping his students tell stories and create strong, meaningful characters and tell stories that matter.

Coming Soon

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SCHEDULE

BREAK OUT CLASS INFO WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON 

Day 3

 

9:00 AM-9:50 AM

Morning Shake Up (50 minutes)

 

10:00 AM-10:50 AM

Break Out 5 (50 minutes)

 

11:00 AM-11:50 AM

Break Out 6 (50 minutes)

 

12:00 PM-12:30 PM

LUNCH (30 minutes)

 

12:30 PM-1:00 PM

Keynote (30 minutes)

 

1:10 PM-2:20 PM

Gaming Session 5 (70 minutes)

 

2:30 PM-3:40 PM

Gaming Session 6 (70 minutes)

 

3:50 PM-4:30 PM

Closing Ceremonies (40 minutes)

Day 1 

 

9:00 AM-9:50 AM

Opening Ceremonies (50 minutes)

 

10:00 AM 10:50 AM

Break Out 1 (50 minutes)

 

11:00 AM-11:50 AM

Break Out 2 (50 minutes)

 

12:00 PM- 12:30 PM

LUNCH (30 minutes)

 

12:30 PM-1:00 PM

Keynote (30 minutes)

 

1:10 PM-2:20 PM

Gaming Session 1 (70 minutes)

 

2:30 PM-3:40 PM

Gaming Session 2 (70 minutes)

 

3:50 PM-4:30 PM

End of Day Wrap Up (40 minutes)

Day 2 

 

9:00 AM-9:50 AM

Morning Shake Up (50 minutes)

 

10:00 AM-10:50 AM

Break Out 3 (50 minutes)

 

11:00 AM-11:50 AM

Break Out 4 (50 minutes)

 

12:00 PM-12:30 PM

LUNCH (30 minutes)

 

12:30 PM-1:00 PM

Keynote (30 minutes)

 

1:10 PM-2:20 PM

Gaming Session 3 (70 minutes)

 

2:30 PM-3:40 PM

Gaming Session 4 (70 minutes)

 

3:50 PM-4:30 PM

End of Day Wrap Up (40 minutes)

 

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