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Merle Rasmussen

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Merle Rasmussen

So far in 2025, Merle appeared during a live “Zoom” Interview with Don Semora on February 16, 2025. He can be heard on “This Ol’ Dungeon Episode 50! Our “Golden Anniversary! Interview” with Luau Lou on February 1, 2025.

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Merle Rasmussen

So far in 2025, Merle appeared during a live “Zoom” Interview with Don Semora on February 16, 2025. He can be heard on “This Ol’ Dungeon Episode 50! Our “Golden Anniversary! Interview” with Luau Lou on February 1, 2025.

In 2024, Nicholas Seidler mentions Merle Rasmussen in Zepo Publishing’s first book, “How to Celebrate Your Fandom.” If you want to see him, Merle appears in a Stephen Clement’s Zoom Interview. If you want to hear his voice, Shane Plays interviewed Merle for over two hours during Episode 278 of Geek Talk Blog.

Merle appears briefly in Pat Kilbane’s Film “The Dreams in Gary’s Basement: A Documentary on Gary Gygax.” He previously appeared in the Canadian documentary, “The Satanic Panic and the Religious Battle for the Imagination.”

In case Merle’s name seems familiar it could be because he and TOP SECRETTM Espionage Role-Playing Game are mentioned in Ben Rigg’s book, “Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons.” He is also mentioned in Jon Peterson’s books, “Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons” and “The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged their Identity.”

When not serving as a footnote in Tabletop Role-Playing Game history, he is researching and writing “Merle’s Worlds,” a sequel to Frog God Games’ “Rasmussen’s Planetarium.” You might have seen his 1,000-word article about “Rasmussen’s Planetarium” in Issue #5 of “Scientific Barbarian” megazine.

In case you missed these titles, Merle is a co-author with Dr. Artika Tyner of I CHOOSE TO R.I.S.E!©: An educational card game honoring Black Heroes who chose to R.I.S.E. and make a difference. Merle is credited with “Rendezvous Oasis (SOL1),” for TOP SECRET: NEW WORLD ORDERTM The Espionage Role-Playing Game published by Solarian, LLC, in February 2022. He also wrote STAGECOACH KING: Western Stagecoach Commerce Game published by Kenzer & Company on August 2, 2018.

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Chris Prynoski

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Chris Prynoski

Chris Prynoski is an award-winning producer and entertainment executive, and the founder and president of Titmouse, Inc., a multi-hyphenated animation studio and pop culture brand with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Vancouver.

Prynoski began his career in New

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Chris Prynoski

Chris Prynoski is an award-winning producer and entertainment executive, and the founder and president of Titmouse, Inc., a multi-hyphenated animation studio and pop culture brand with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Vancouver.

Prynoski began his career in New York City directing and creating hit shows for MTV such as Beavis and Butt-head, Daria and his Emmy-nominated creation MTV Downtown. Shortly after his Emmy nomination, Prynoski and his wife Shannon moved to Los Angeles and launched Titmouse, Inc. in 2000, naming the company after Prynoski‘s favorite Northeastern‐American bird species.

Originally starting as a t-shirt company that utilized short Flash animations to promote its designs, it soon became apparent that the animation was the standout part of the business – and the part of the company that the Prynoskis were most passionate about. They soon restructured the business to focus on more high‐quality animation production, resulting in a company that’s the home for passionate artists making high-quality animated productions, and has since expanded well past animation and into other fan-focused areas including merchandise, events, interactive experiences and more.

As the leading voice of Titmouse, Inc., Prynoski has helped bring to life a string of hits including: Metalocalypse, China IL, Black Dynamite, Superjail!, The Venture Bros, Big Mouth, The Legend of Vox Machina, Star Trek: Lower Decks and many more!

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Stefan Pokorny

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Stefan Pokorny

Stefan Pokorny is a classically trained painter and sculptor who began running 1st edition D&D games around the age of 14 years old. In 1996, he founded DWARVEN FORGE, a first of its kind modular miniatures terrain company that

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Stefan Pokorny

Stefan Pokorny is a classically trained painter and sculptor who began running 1st edition D&D games around the age of 14 years old. In 1996, he founded DWARVEN FORGE, a first of its kind modular miniatures terrain company that would go on to fund many hugely successful Kickstarter campaigns. Game Tiles were the FIRST modular 3-D painted tiles and continue to be the gold standard of the modular terrain space.  Dwarven Forge’s most recent KS topped 4 million dollars in funding! He has been invited to run his Theatrical D&D games at countless conventions, including Lucca Comics and Games, Essen Spiel, Gen Con, Gary Con, GameHole Con, HawaiiCon, KublaCon, TotalCon, ConnectiCon, and many others. He has run and been a player in countless livestreams including Founders and Legends, Nerdbauchery, Actoroke, Jaspers game day, and others. He has been featured in several documentaries: “The Dungeons and Dragons Experience” by Jesse Spiro and “Enter the Dungeon” by Richard DiNardo. In 2016 he was the subject of Josh Bishop’s Documentary Film: “The Dwarvenaut” (now available on: Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, Vimeo, Googleplay, YouTube, KinoNow) ). Due to the success of The Dwarvenaut, he has been mentioned or has been the subject of articles in Forbes, New York Magazine, NY Daily News, and The Brooklyn Paper, and has been invited to talk at the Barney School of Business, and AOL talks. He is the original creator of the fantasy world of Mythras and the City of Valoria. He was co-creator of the module: Tapestry of Deceit and has published a book of Cartographic Maps and Dungeons. His latest ongoing endeavors are to release the Mythras Campaign sourcebooks to the world, and to co-produce and star in a TV project called Destination Fantastic!

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Jon Pickens

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Jon Pickens

Jon Pickens is an American game designer and editor who has worked on numerous products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR and later Wizards of the Coast.

Jon Pickens was born in Mishawaka, Indiana. In 1968,

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Jon Pickens

Jon Pickens is an American game designer and editor who has worked on numerous products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR and later Wizards of the Coast.

Jon Pickens was born in Mishawaka, Indiana. In 1968, he was introduced to miniatures wargaming, and his parents bought him the Blitzkrieg wargame for Christmas that year. A couple of months later, Pickens responded to an ad in Popular Mechanics for a magazine titled Strategy & Tactics. He wrote in for a sample copy, and “spent the rest of the summer mowing lawns to get enough money to buy some wargames advertised in the magazine, and to get all the back issues.” The publishers did not carry back issues, “So I wrote a letter to this collector, whose name was Gary Gygax, and arranged to buy the back issues from him. Gary invited me to attend a gaming convention in Madison. By a coincidence, my father had a speaking engagement in Delavan, which is near Lake Geneva, on the same weekend, so he took me up.” Pickens and Gary Gygax drove up to Madison, and Gygax later invited him to the Gen Con convention; Pickens attended beginning with Gen Con 3 and for many years after that.

Jon Pickens has worked on many game products for the Dungeons & Dragons game since 1978, as an editor, designer, coordinator, and creative director. Some of his works as a game designer include the original Arms & Equipment Guide, and design contributions to the third edition Player’s Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Masters Guide. He has edited many Dungeons & Dragons books, including notably the Castle Greyhawk module, and the Rules Cyclopedia.

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Jon Peterson

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Jon Peterson

Jon Peterson is a role-playing and wargaming historian. He is the author of Playing at the World (2012), The Elusive Shift (2020), and Game Wizards (2021), and provided the images and commentary for Wizards of the Coast’s The Making

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Jon Peterson

Jon Peterson is a role-playing and wargaming historian. He is the author of Playing at the World (2012), The Elusive Shift (2020), and Game Wizards (2021), and provided the images and commentary for Wizards of the Coast’s The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons (2024). He is also co-author of the books Dungeons & Dragons: Art & Arcana (2018) and Lore & Legends (2023), as well as the bestseller Heroes’ Feast (2020) and its sequel. (2023), as well as the Deck of Many Morsels (2024). He has also worked on various ancillary projects for Wizards of the Coast, including the guide to Trivial Pursuit: Dungeons & Dragons Ultimate Edition (2022). He has contributed to numerous academic anthologies and lectured on games at UCLA, USC, Stanford and NYU, and has been a guest of honor at numerous industry conventions. He has also contributed to several film and television projects, including his appearance in The Dreams in Gary’s Basement (2023, also executive producer) and the television show Heroes’ Feast (2024, also associate producer). Since 2022 he has assisted the Koder Collection in cataloging.

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Erol Otus

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Erol Otus

Erol Otus is an artist and game designer, best known for his work in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game. He was a member of TSR’s art department from 1979 to 1981. After TSR, Otus worked on computer

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Erol Otus

Erol Otus is an artist and game designer, best known for his work in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game. He was a member of TSR’s art department from 1979 to 1981. After TSR, Otus worked on computer games at several studios including MicroProse, Hasbro, and Toys For Bob/Activision; notable titles include Star Control 2 and the Skylanders franchise. He lives in Berkeley, CA, and continues to create artwork for RPGs.

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Mike Nystul

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Mike Nystul

Malix is a gamer, game designer and game master who has been involved with the hobby for more than 40 years. During his time as a professional designer he worked in-house for TSR, FASA, and Mayfair Games on lines such

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Mike Nystul

Malix is a gamer, game designer and game master who has been involved with the hobby for more than 40 years. During his time as a professional designer he worked in-house for TSR, FASA, and Mayfair Games on lines such as D&D, BattleTech, Shadowrun, DC Heroes, Chill, Underground, and Role Aids. As a freelancer he worked for companies such as White Wolf, Steve Jackson Games, Hero Games, and West End Games on lines such as TORG, GURPS, Champions, Fantasy Hero, and In Nomine. Under the banner of Pariah Press he published The Whispering Vault (an offbeat horror game) and he released NUkED (and even more offbeat post apocalypse game) through Geeks Collaborative Gaming.

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Erik Mona

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Erik Mona

Erik Mona is Editor Emeritus of Dragon, Dungeon, and Polyhedron magazines. He co-founded the Living Greyhawk organized play campaign and edited the Living Greyhawk Journal. After leaving Wizards of the Coast, Mona co-created the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and its Lost

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Erik Mona

Erik Mona is Editor Emeritus of Dragon, Dungeon, and Polyhedron magazines. He co-founded the Living Greyhawk organized play campaign and edited the Living Greyhawk Journal. After leaving Wizards of the Coast, Mona co-created the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and its Lost Omens campaign setting, founded the Pathfinder Society Organized Play program, and is the Chief Creative Officer and Publisher of Paizo, Inc.

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Sarah Moore

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Sarah Moore

Sarah Moore is the host of Sarah’s Table on GenConTV where she spotlights RPGs created by indie designers and small publishers. She embodies her philosophy of Joyful Gaming by emphasizing safety and comfort at the table while encouraging people to

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Sarah Moore

Sarah Moore is the host of Sarah’s Table on GenConTV where she spotlights RPGs created by indie designers and small publishers. She embodies her philosophy of Joyful Gaming by emphasizing safety and comfort at the table while encouraging people to be vulnerable and tell a collaborative story. Sarah is a contributing writer on The Vanishing Lands, an upcoming fantasy RPG by Square Pixels Entertainment. She’s the co-designer of The Crowned, an RPG by Formerly Feral Games, where you play a god of a small slice of reality. Sarah is also the production coordinator for Actoroke and wears many hats for Peter Adkison’s World of Chaldea. You can find out more about her exploits at www.pixiesandpins.com.

Facebook: @actorsarahmoore

Twitter: @PixiesAndPins

Instagram: @pixiesandpins

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Roger E. Moore

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Roger E. Moore

Roger E. Moore was added to the ranks of TSR, Inc., by Kim Mohan, of blessed memory, in May 1983. From the staff of Dragon Magazine, he wrote articles, novels, short stories, and edited magazines and game products for 17.5

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Roger E. Moore

Roger E. Moore was added to the ranks of TSR, Inc., by Kim Mohan, of blessed memory, in May 1983. From the staff of Dragon Magazine, he wrote articles, novels, short stories, and edited magazines and game products for 17.5 years. His greatest accomplishment was the co-creation of the Giant Space Hamster with Jeff Grubb for the Spelljammer campaign. He currently lives with his wife Diana and 16 cats in upstate South Carolina, tinkering with new materials for the venerable Greyhawk campaign. He is writing Spelljammer articles as well as Greyhawk ones.

Also, he wishes you and yours the very best.

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