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Jason Charles Miller

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Jason Charles Miller

Jason Charles Miller is a critically acclaimed and highly accomplished singer/songwriter and an award winning voice actor. As a voice actor he has appeared in hundreds of productions such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, Attack on Titan, The

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Jason Charles Miller

Jason Charles Miller is a critically acclaimed and highly accomplished singer/songwriter and an award winning voice actor. As a voice actor he has appeared in hundreds of productions such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, Attack on Titan, The Outer Worlds 2, Star Trek Online and many chapters of the Final Fantasy series. His music has been featured on such TV shows as True Blood, The NFL Today, The Deadliest Catch, Critical Role and The Legend of Vox Machina. He’s also a featured singer in the video games Final Fantasy XIV, Cyberpunk 2077 and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Jason has written songs with Billy Ray Cyrus, Rickey Medlocke [Lynyrd Skynyrd], Charlie Starr [Blackberry Smoke], Ben Moody [Evanescence], and has been awarded three gold records. For three years, Jason co-hosted Bardic Inspiration, a live Dungeons and Dragons songwriting show for Codename Entertainment, has hosted the Geek & Sundry RPG show Starter Kit (as well as written over 14 theme songs for the network) is the DM of The Gaxx Pack on GaryConLive, and is a regular cast member on the Glass Cannon Network’s, Legacy of the Ancients. Jason is also widely recognized as the founder of the rock band Godhead.

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Anna B. Meyer

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Anna B. Meyer

Anna B. Meyer is a professional Fantasy Cartographer specializing in visualizing fantasy worlds using the latest digital tools and an artistic eye. Her goal is to create a vision of your world in the form of maps and images that

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Anna B. Meyer

Anna B. Meyer is a professional Fantasy Cartographer specializing in visualizing fantasy worlds using the latest digital tools and an artistic eye. Her goal is to create a vision of your world in the form of maps and images that inspires and guides you and your players, or readers, to experience your world in ways beyond what words and and traditional fantasy maps alone can accomplish.

She started pursuing fantasy cartography as a hobby over twenty years ago, and specializes in large area setting maps. The past decade she has worked full time on both commissioned work for publishers and authors and projects for the Greyhawk community through her patreon.

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Rick Meints

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Rick Meints

Rick is the President of Chaosium. His career in the gaming industry started in the mid 90’s when he moved to the UK and helped with the layout for Tales of the Reaching Moon magazine. His Gloranthan and RuneQuest roots

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Rick Meints

Rick is the President of Chaosium. His career in the gaming industry started in the mid 90’s when he moved to the UK and helped with the layout for Tales of the Reaching Moon magazine. His Gloranthan and RuneQuest roots stem back to the late 70s. An avid RPG collector, his love of all of Chaosium’s publications, plus anything Gloranthan or RuneQuest in nature has earned him the nickname “Mr. Suitcase” (or “Monsieur Valise”, as he is known on the Continent). His Meints Index to Glorantha is the comprehensive product guide to all Gloranthan publications, games, conventions, and miniatures produced from 1975 to 1997. In 1999, Rick founded Moon Design Publications, with the launch of the Gloranthan Classics line of reprints of classic RQ2 material.

Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Rick spent 25 years as a corporate trainer in the automotive industry before becoming a full time Chaosium employee. He now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a university town often dubbed the “San Francisco of the midwest”.

Rick is a member of Chaosium’s Board of Directors, and a co-owner of the company.

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Mike Mearls

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Mike Mearls

Mike Mearls is the executive producer for roleplaying games at Chaosium, focused on the RuneQuest line. He led the creation of D&D 5th edition and continues to tinker away on TTRPGs of his own design. He has designed award-winning board

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Mike Mearls

Mike Mearls is the executive producer for roleplaying games at Chaosium, focused on the RuneQuest line. He led the creation of D&D 5th edition and continues to tinker away on TTRPGs of his own design. He has designed award-winning board games, worked on Magic: the Gathering, and is still pretty amazed at how lucky he is to be here. He teaches game design at the University of Washington and spends much of his time trying to keep up with his wife, daughter, two dogs, and three cats.

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Ross Maker

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Ross Maker

Ross Maker was the first person to play a Dwarf Character in an RPG. He played that same character for roughly 40 years. As part of the Blackmoor Bunch, Ross witnessed the invention and evolution of Arneson’s fantasy campaign. In

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Ross Maker

Ross Maker was the first person to play a Dwarf Character in an RPG. He played that same character for roughly 40 years. As part of the Blackmoor Bunch, Ross witnessed the invention and evolution of Arneson’s fantasy campaign. In his real life career he has been a game designer and computer programmer. As a founder of the 4D Interactive team he helped port many games produced by Coleco such as Zaxxon.

Ross Maker has been gaming for some sixty years and designing games for nearly all that time. He was a member of the Midwest Military Simulation Association (MMSA), a group of wargamers and friends based in St. Paul, MN, that included Dave Arneson, Mike Carr, David Megarry, Maj. David Wesley, and several others that would go on to design a number of popular wargames.

Ross played the original dwarf in Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor campaign, a game that incorporated much of the Fantasy Supplement of Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren’s Chainmail Medieval miniature wargame but innovated with concepts of roleplaying individual characters, experience gains, levels, and most importantly the fantasy dungeon adventure.

In 1978 he was co-designer with David Wesely of Source of the Nile, which won two Charles S. Roberts Awards, two Strategist Club Awards, a Game Designers’ Guild Select Award and was named to the Games Magazine 100.

More recently he was the editor for the unpublished 4th Edition of Don’t Give Up the Ship, and designed the Of Czars and Sultans module for Sergeants Three’s Bring Up the Guns.

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Arthur Loftis

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Arthur Loftis

Arthur Loftis is an art director at Titmouse Los Angeles, currently working on the record-breaking Kickstarter success, The Legend of Vox Machina. Since the first days of development, Arthur has worked with the creative executives of Critical Role to forge

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Arthur Loftis

Arthur Loftis is an art director at Titmouse Los Angeles, currently working on the record-breaking Kickstarter success, The Legend of Vox Machina. Since the first days of development, Arthur has worked with the creative executives of Critical Role to forge an animated adaptation which both honors the source material and introduces new viewers to the story that hooked him years ago. Currently he manages an amazing team of both 2D and 3D artists who bring fresh ideas to the world of fantasy action-adventure cartoons. We also play Dungeons and Dragons on the weekend.

Previous Projects:
Voltron: Legendary Defender, Motorcity, Son of Zorn

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Brendan LaSalle

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Brendan LaSalle

Brendan J. LaSalle is a staff writer for Goodman Games who has been writing and publishing in the game industry since 2002. He has written for Goodman Games, Fat Dragon Games, Troll Lord’s Games, Legendsmiths, Savage Mojo, Pandahead Publishing, and

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Brendan LaSalle

Brendan J. LaSalle is a staff writer for Goodman Games who has been writing and publishing in the game industry since 2002. He has written for Goodman Games, Fat Dragon Games, Troll Lord’s Games, Legendsmiths, Savage Mojo, Pandahead Publishing, and Hand Made Games, among others. He has written many adventures and RPG source books, including the award-winning Age of Cthulhu: A Dream of Japan. His most recent release is the Xcrawl Classics Role Playing Game. He lives in Kennesaw, GA, with his wife, dog, and two cats.

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Dave “Diesel” LaForce

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Dave “Diesel” LaForce

David S. LaForce is one of the first generation artist for Dungeons & Dragons. LaForce started his career in 1979 with TSR where he was initially hired in the shipping department. Catching the eye of David Sutherland, (head of TSR’s

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Dave “Diesel” LaForce

David S. LaForce is one of the first generation artist for Dungeons & Dragons. LaForce started his career in 1979 with TSR where he was initially hired in the shipping department. Catching the eye of David Sutherland, (head of TSR’s art department) who had him submit some sample drawings. Two of the three samples were bought and used for the Dungeon Master’s Guide. LaForce was hired by the art department where he remained until 1998. One of his first assignments was “C1: The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachin.” Many of his illustrations can be seen in the first Dungeons & Dragons manuals. LaForce’s love of historical map cartography can be depicted in the designs he has created in Dragonlance, Birthright and Dark Sun.

Fun Fact: Laforce earned the nickname “Diesel” at TSR. This came about because there was several individuals named David that worked there at that time and Mike Carr happened to notice that LaForce was signing his artwork with his initials “DSL”. Slurring the letters together made the word “Diesel.”

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Doug Kovacs

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Doug Kovacs

Doug Kovacs grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, playing Dungeons and Dragons and other RPGs . He drew his way through High School, avoiding involvement in most things but art class, where he cultivated a love for all

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Doug Kovacs

Doug Kovacs grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, playing Dungeons and Dragons and other RPGs . He drew his way through High School, avoiding involvement in most things but art class, where he cultivated a love for all forms of painting and drawing. At 16 he thought he invented cubism, but then realized he was wrong. In 1996 he received a BA from Columbia College Chicago, however over four years of school it was never mentioned that the internet and digital media might completely change the world. Then they did. Since then he has adjusted , and has worked on many projects including 3rd and 4th Edition D&D, collectable trading card illustration and concept art for miniatures games. Doug may be best known for having worked with Goodman Games in developing Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG.

Recently Doug as begun conjuring up a series of art/gaming books called the Hobonomicon. and he continues to produce images that he believes would never have come into existence without the application of his own personal gumption.

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David Kenzer

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David Kenzer

David formed Kenzer & Company with six other stalwart RPG enthusiasts in 1993, later teaming up with Jolly Blackburn in 1996. He is responsible for publication of “Knights of the Dinner Table” (of which Jolly is editor in chief) as

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David Kenzer

David formed Kenzer & Company with six other stalwart RPG enthusiasts in 1993, later teaming up with Jolly Blackburn in 1996. He is responsible for publication of “Knights of the Dinner Table” (of which Jolly is editor in chief) as well lead designer of award winning RPG games including HackMaster, Aces and Eights, the Monty Python CCG, and dozens of D&D products (Kingdoms of Kalamar fantasy campaign setting). David is also responsible for starting the retro-clone movement in 2001, with the release of Hackmaster.

David is the proud father and stepfather of four daughters and a stepson and stepdaughter, a loyal Chicago Cubs and Bears fan (Bear Down!) and is dedicated to traveling the world with his wife, Suzanne. He is best known at Gary Con for running numerous pick up sessions of Hackmaster and finding new inventive ways to achieve TPKS.

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