Gary Con XVIII – September Newsletter
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Amy Vorpahl is a comedy internet nerd, actor, and game designer known for laughing a lot. You might have seen her on various Dropout TV shows including “Breaking News,” “Um, Actually,” and “Parlor Room.” Her extensive background in sketch and
Amy Vorpahl is a comedy internet nerd, actor, and game designer known for laughing a lot. You might have seen her on various Dropout TV shows including “Breaking News,” “Um, Actually,” and “Parlor Room.” Her extensive background in sketch and improv makes her Dungeon Mastering lean a little bit silly and a lotta bit fun! She has been playing D&D since college, and her two music albums, “Songs in the Key of D&D” and “Behold Her Dreams,” were inspired by many characters and experiences at the table. Amy has written for Official D&D books, “Candlekeep Mysteries” and “Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons;” and she has played D&D on notable streams such as Critical Role, Dimension 20, The Guild, and more. She was the Creative Director for Alchemy RPG’s world and campaign book “Dark Symmetry” and the DM for the TTRPG actual play “Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode.”
Pat Kilbane was bitten by the roleplaying bug in 1979 with the Holmes D&D Basic Set and has been playing ever since. He has a penchant for the science behind RPG rule mechanics (which led him to create the web
Pat Kilbane was bitten by the roleplaying bug in 1979 with the Holmes D&D Basic Set and has been playing ever since. He has a penchant for the science behind RPG rule mechanics (which led him to create the web series RPG Science) and is the director of The Dreams in Gary’s Basement, a documentary film about Gary Gygax and the creation of Dungeons & Dragons.
Beginning his career as an actor, Pat spent three years as a series regular on Fox’s Mad TV. He also played the Anti-Kramer in the Seinfeld episode “The Bizarro Jerry” and guest starred in films such as Evolution, Semi-Pro and Day of the Dead.
Now a writer/director, Pat penned the zombie book The Brain Eater’s Bible (St. Martin’s Press), wrote and directed the Discovery Networks series Dark Secrets and spent two years under contract with Dreamworks developing science-fiction concepts for television.
Born in the deep dark south in the mid-sixties. Brom, an army brat, spent his entire youth on the move and unabashedly blames living in such places as Japan, Hawaii, Germany, and Alabama for all his afflictions. From his earliest
Born in the deep dark south in the mid-sixties. Brom, an army brat, spent his entire youth on the move and unabashedly blames living in such places as Japan, Hawaii, Germany, and Alabama for all his afflictions. From his earliest memories Brom has been obsessed with the creation of the weird, the monstrous, and the beautiful.
At age twenty, Brom began working full-time as a commercial illustrator in Atlanta, Georgia. Three years later he entered the field of fantastic art he’d loved his whole life, making his mark developing and illustrating for D&D’s best selling role-playing worlds.
He has since gone on to lend his distinctive vision to all facets of the creative industries, from novels and games, to comics and film. receiving numerous awards such as the Spectrum Fantastic Art Grand Master award, and the Chesley Lifetime Achievement award. Most recently he’s created a series of award winning horror novels that he both writes and illustrates: “The Plucker”, an adult children’s book, “The Devil’s Rose”, a modern western set in Hell, “The Child Thief”, a gritty, nightmarish retelling of the Peter Pan myth, “Krampus, the Yule Lord”, a tale of revenge between Krampus and Santa set in rural West Virginia, “Lost Gods” one man’s determined trek through the brutal landscape of purgatory, “Slewfoot” a historical horror novel of witchery and vengeance, set in colonial America and a USA Today National Bestseller! And his latest, “Evil In Me”, a punk rock, demon possession, fairytale.
Brom is currently kept in a dank cellar somewhere in the most haunted city in America, Savannah, GA. There he subsists on poison spiders, centipedes, and cheesy horror flicks. When not eating bugs, he is ever writing, painting, and trying to reach a happy sing-a-long with the many demons dancing about in his head.
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