Amber M. Davies

Amber M. Davies is a creative force in the TTRPG, audio drama, and storytelling communities. Known lovingly as “The Swiss Army Miss of Whatever The Hell You Need,” Amber brings a rare blend of narrative instinct, production expertise, and entrepreneurial drive.

She is the Chief Project Director and Showrunner for the horror fantasy audio drama Fables From the Forgotten, a freelance adventure/game designer, and a consultant for worldbuilding and narrative design.

As the founder of Perty Nerdy, Amber creates TTRPG accessories, adventures, workshops, and creative tools for storytellers. She is a speaker, workshop facilitator, and a familiar face at conventions across California and Utah. Outside her creative career, Amber is a hobby homesteader, lifelong storyteller, and extremely obsessed with her chaos-goblin French Bulldog, Doctor Jones.

Ginny Di

Ginny Di is a Denver-based YouTuber, cosplayer, and singer with a passion for tabletop gaming. On YouTube, she makes videos about tabletop gaming for a dedicated audience more than 850,000 strong. Her work ranges from instructional videos that guide her viewers through roleplaying, game mastering, and tabletop etiquette to creative videos where she explores character building in games with music, skits, and in-character roleplay.

Ginny’s love for storytelling and character creation isn’t confined to the gaming table — it also springs to life through her fantastical cosplay creations. When she paints herself a rainbow of hues or dons fantastical prosthetics like horns and famously large elf ears, even her own most dedicated fans sometimes struggle to recognize her in costume!

In addition to writing her own adventures for fifth edition, like “The Corruption of Alder Glen,” “Bard Behind Bars,” and “Trouble on the Fey Train,” she creates downloadable fifth edition supplements for Patreon and has game writing featured in publications from Steamforged Games, Ghostfire Gaming, and more.

Luke Gygax

Luke Gygax is an Ennie Award winning designer, Founder of Gary Con®(garycon.com), Gygax Ink, and the son of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) creator, Gary Gygax. Luke literally grew up at the gaming table with the designers who laid the foundation of the RPG industry. He played the iconic character Melf, whose spells are still in the D&D rules. Luke is an author and game designer with numerous design credits including The Lost City of Gaxmoor, The Eye of Chentoufi, Dread From Geneva Lake, and The Tomb of Gyzaengaxx. He is the creator of the World of Okkorim Fantasy Setting and Melf’s Guide to Greyhawk series. Luke is thoroughly enjoying being a leader in the gaming community after retiring from the US Army in in 2022. He resides in Southern California with his beautiful wife, Bouchra, their three daughters, Miriam, Amira and Sabrina, as well as his faithful canine companion, Grogu Spoticus Gygax. You can follow luke on social media (@lukegygax) and the gaxxworx.com website.

Darrell Hayhurst

Darrell Hayhurst is the Creative Director at Pinnacle Entertainment Group, where he writes and develops Savage Worlds lines including Deadlands, Necessary Evil, the Legend of Ghost Mountain, Lost Colony, the Savage Worlds Companions, and more.

Darrell works in Tucson, Arizona, and actually enjoys the weather there. (Madness!) He’s always happy to chat with anyone about the past, present, or future of gaming and the industry in general.

Alex Kammer

Alex Kammer is a lawyer, a freelance adventure/game designer, and is the Director of Gamehole Con, the largest tabletop gaming convention in the upper Midwest. Alex has numerous published titles to his credit from an array of publishers. His most notable releases include the epic length adventures, Sea King’s Malice and The End of Everything. His other works include a series of platinum and mithral bestselling titles on the Dungeon Master’s Guild, the most recent being, Thay Land of the Red Wizards. Alex is also the president of Gamehole Publishing. GHP is best known for the popular Wardens of the Eastern Marches organized play program. Finally, Alex also is one of the owners of True Dungeon, the magnificent, life-sized, immersive, role-playing experience played in a walk-through dungeon environment. In sum, while Alex has not stolen anything recently, the wise play is to keep an eye on him. One cannot be too careful.

Karl Keesler

Karl Keesler is an award winning Art Director that started in the gaming industry in 2002 with United Playtest. He was the “Layout Guy” on Gaming Frontiers, a d20 magazine. From there he partnered up with the guys at Dog House Rules and took his passion for graphic design and gaming and turned it into a Gold ENnie in 2004 for Best Electronic Product for their flagship book, Sidewinder: Recoiled.

Karl has taken his love for gaming and graphic design and has worked with companies like Just Insert Imagination, Atomic Ninja Studios and Pinnacle Entertainment Group; in which he did the Trade Dress for Savage Worlds Adventure Edition and most of their settings and companion books. Karl was also the lead graphic designer for Pinnacle’s Pathfinder for Savage Worlds which garnered them an Origins Award in 2023 for Best Graphic Design in a Game.

Karl and his Dog House Rules partner, Chris Warner, also had the opportunity to be on the developmental team behind Pathfinder for Savage Worlds with Pinnacle Entertainment Group. For Dog House’s 20th anniversary in 2024 they reimagined Sidewinder: Recoiled into a successful Kickstarter campaign for Sidewinder Recoiled for Savage Worlds.

Over the past years, Karl has designed and ran many unique conventions games such as his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen adventure series, Goonies meets the Ghostbusters, Mystery Men and Trailer Park Shark Attack! to name a few. He likes to make his games eye-catching and exciting with custom designed maps, one-of-a-kind miniatures, custom terrain, specially designed character sheets and original Benny ideas.

When he isn’t working on his next art project, gaming or creating props he is enjoying life in sunny South Florida with his wife Kathy.

Claudia Loroff

Claudia Loroff is the terror of the north, the mistress of the Wild West and demonic boy bands. She’s from Berlin, Germany, and has been running Chaosium games since the Wall came down.

Joseph A. McCullough

Joseph A. McCullough is a writer and tabletop game designer who burst onto the scene with his multi-award winning game, Frostgrave, which started a new movement of RPG-lite wargames. Since then, he has been one of the most prolific miniature wargame creators, releasing a stream of hits including Rangers of Shadow Deep, Oathmark, The Silver Bayonet, Stargrave, and most recently, Hairfoot Jousting. His close association with Osprey Games means that over 30 of his gaming books, including numerous supplements for all his games, are currently in print. His RPG writing credits include work for Dungeons & Dragons 5e, Savage Worlds, and The Middle-Earth Role-Playing game.

Outside of games, Joseph is the author of several books that blur the line between fiction and non-fiction, including Dragonslayers: From Beowulf to St. George, The Story of Santa Claus, Steampunk Soldiers, and Zombies: A Hunter’s Guide.

Although Joseph grew up in North Carolina and spent the first twenty odd years in the American South, he’s spent the last twenty with his wife and family in England, living in Oxford and on the Channel coast. This divide has allowed him to explore two different gaming traditions and try to present the best aspects of both in his own work.

Stefan Pokorny

Stefan Pokorny is a designer and artist known for his origination and popularization of the Dwarven Forge miniature three-dimensional terrain systems. Stefan dreamed of emulating the elegance of Roman, Greek, and English architecture from his studies, Stefan yearned for a terrain system to complement his collection of miniatures, yet found nothing to suit his imagination. So Stefan set out to sculpt the first-of-its-kind: a fully modular, 3-D terrain system that came fully hand-painted. When not shaping tabletops everywhere, Stefan DJs Black Sabbath tribute parties.

Jeff Richard

Living a life of international adventure and mystery, Jeff is the Chair and Creative Director of Chaosium Inc., publisher of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, Seven Sea, and Basic Roleplaying. He’s an award-winning game designer, writer, and world builder – including the Diana Jones Award, numerous Ennies, Graal d’Or, Dragon Con, UK Game Expo, Tabletop Gaming Magazine, and others.

Jeff has recently arrived in Colorado, having been in Berlin Germany for the past 14 years. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife and children. He’s best known as Claudia’s husband, and the host of the legendary, infrequent, and informal JefeCon.

Tracy Sizemore

Tracy is a trans game designer and creator of the Han Cluster® Sci-Fi Roleplaying game, a unique setting with themes of human connection and optimism in the face of extreme adversity. Tracy has also worked for Pinnacle Entertainment as the developer for Holler: An Appalachian Apocalypse, and Pinebox Middle School. She was also a contributor to Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (SWADE), the Savage Worlds Super Powers Companion, the Savage Worlds Horror Companion, and the Savage Worlds Science Fiction Companion. She has written several stand-alone adventures for Savage Worlds, including “Disaster at Gran Atomica,” “Teen Crush,” “The Curious Death of Violet Evans,” “The Savior of Hollow Oak,” “The Curse of Wilson Quarry,” and “Apocalyptic Party Crashers.” She has written extensively for Torg Eternity also, including multiple Delphi Mission adventures, and was the co-writer of the Orrorsh mega-adventure, A Trifling Matter. Tracy grew up in, and still lives in, Tucson Arizona, and besides her work in game design is an accomplished classically trained singer, music composer, and award winning theatrical lighting designer.

Michael Stackpole

Michael A. Stackpole is an award-winning novelist, game designer, computer game designer, podcaster, editor, screenwriter and graphic novelist. He’s had over sixty novels published, the best known of those being the New York Times bestselling I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron. He has an asteroid named after him (165612). In 2023 the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers named him their Grandmaster by presenting him the Faust Award. His most recent novels are DARK SOULS: Masque of Vindication and BattleTech: A Night in the Woods. He oversees The Chain Story Project at http://chainstorycore.com.

Luke Stratton

Luke Stratton, also known by his alias Limithron, has been fascinated with the Golden Age of Piracy ever since he first rode the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at age 4. Forced to find a new career at the onset of the pandemic, he built a Patreon following drawing pirate ship battle maps. He is the the author and illustrator of the PIRATE BORG as well as Limithron’s Guide to Naval Combat for 5th Edition. Luke lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife and an ewok dog “Yogi”. When not sequestered in his wizard’s study, he can be found traveling the globe with his other professional pursuit as a concert lighting designer.

Bryan Young

Bryan Young works in many different media. He’s published thousands of essays and hundreds of short stories in publications like Marvel and Image Comics, Star Wars Insider, Huffington Post, SYFY, /Film, Script Magazine, Weird Tales, the Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Library Literary Magazine and many more. He’s worked in the Star Wars, Robotech, Doctor Who, Shadowrun and BattleTech universes, among others. He teaches writing at the University of Utah and Writers Digest’s Online University. He served two years as President of the League of Utah Writers, was named the League’s Writer of the Year in 2023, has won two Diamond Quill Awards, and the Utah Humanities Foundation awarded his novel BattleTech: A Question of Survival the 2025 Utah Book Award in the Speculative Fiction category. His latest novel is BattleTech: Outfoxed. His latest non-fiction tie-in work was the bestselling Big Bang Theory Official Book of Lists. He’s currently co-writing the upcoming BattleTech series of graphic novels alongside New York Times bestseller Michael A. Stackpole. Follow him on social media @swankmotron or visit www.swankmotron.com.