Gary Con XVIII – November Newsletter
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Courtney Mason
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Greg Marks
After playing his first D&D game at the age of six at Gen Con, he became enamored with role-playing games. Greg has worked on products for every edition of Dungeons and Dragons and written too many adventures for organized play
After playing his first D&D game at the age of six at Gen Con, he became enamored with role-playing games. Greg has worked on products for every edition of Dungeons and Dragons and written too many adventures for organized play campaigns to count. He is currently the Creative Lead for Legends of Greyhawk and the Content Manager for the D&D Adventurers League organized play campaigns. Greg is a frequent freelancer and has written for Wizards of the Coast, Dragon and Dungeon Magazines, Fantasy Flight Games’ Midnight setting, Raging Swan Press, Schwalb Entertainment, Ghostfire Games, and Kobold Press, among other companies. Some of his contributions include Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Tome of Beasts, Queen of Gold, Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault, Arora: Age of Desolation, and Grim Hollow Transformed. You can learn more at on his website WorldsByGreg.
Gary Con XVIII – October Newsletter
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Gavin Stenhouse
Gavin Stenhouse is a professional actor trained at London’s prestigious Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he studied classical theatre techniques and voice work. He was introduced to D&D 3.5 edition during his drama school years, beginning a lifelong
Gavin Stenhouse is a professional actor trained at London’s prestigious Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he studied classical theatre techniques and voice work. He was introduced to D&D 3.5 edition during his drama school years, beginning a lifelong love of collaborative storytelling.
With nearly two decades of professional experience in theatre, television, and film — including credits such as NBC’s ALLEGIANCE, The CW’s KUNG FU, and the Emmy award-winning BLACK MIRROR episode “San Junipero” — Gavin has spent his career creating characters under professional pressure. After reigniting his passion for TTRPGs over the last five years, he’s been developing a new coaching program that brings classical acting training to GMs — teaching vocal stamina, character creation, and dramatic improvisation to create more engaging, sustainable, and memorable gaming sessions.
Michael Witwer
Michael Witwer is a New York Times bestselling author known for his work on the Hugo-nominated Dungeons & Dragons: Art & Arcana, the critically acclaimed Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons, and
Michael Witwer is a New York Times bestselling author known for his work on the Hugo-nominated Dungeons & Dragons: Art & Arcana, the critically acclaimed Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons, and the bestselling Heroes’ Feast: The Official Dungeons & Dragons Cookbook. His most recent works include Dungeons & Dragons: The Legend of Drizzt Visual Dictionary, Dungeons & Dragons: Lore & Legends, Heroes’ Feast Flavors of the Multiverse, and his debut novel, Vivian Van Tassel and the Secret of Midnight Lake--a middle grade fantasy novel inspired heavily by Dungeons & Dragons and the life of Gary Gygax. Michael also stars on the new eOne fall cooking show Heroes’ Feast, based on his book of the same name. When he’s not writing books about games, he loves playing them! He holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago and resides in Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, two daughters, and two sons.
TJ Storm
American Actor, Director, and Writer, TJ Storm has forged a legendary path in Hollywood by mastering the art of bringing larger-than-life characters to breathtaking reality. Forged in the fires of imagination and disciplined by decades of dedication, Storm has an
American Actor, Director, and Writer, TJ Storm has forged a legendary path in Hollywood by mastering the art of bringing larger-than-life characters to breathtaking reality. Forged in the fires of imagination and disciplined by decades of dedication, Storm has an impressive resume of iconic roles.
From the gaming table to the big screen, Storm is a lifelong Dungeon Master with over four decades of experience wielding both dice and sword. Storm is also an avid Magic: The Gathering player. This passion for fantasy, science fiction, and larger-than-life stories became the foundation for an incredible career. A 7-time Martial Arts Masters Hall of Fame Inductee and former professional dancer, Storm’s physical expertise is one of the secrets behind some of the most iconic creatures and heroes in pop culture.
Storm is one of Hollywood’s top motion capture actors, bringing to life characters like Godzilla in the Monsterverse films, Colossus in Deadpool, and Darth Vader in Vader Immortal. His skills have also powered roles including The Predator, Red Hulk, and Iron Man. Beyond his motion capture work, he’s appeared in a myriad of projects, from Conan: the Adventurer and Punisher: Warzone to blockbusters like Avatar, Black Panther, and Avengers: Endgame.
He now shares his extensive knowledge through the Mind’s Eye Tribe: Action Actors’ Academy, a school dedicated to training the next generation of performers. Whether he’s directing or rolling a 20-sided die, Storm proves that the greatest stories are often the ones you create yourself.
Gary Con XVIII – September Newsletter
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Amy Vorpahl
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
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.
Gerald Brom
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.