The
Chain Mail Girl - Twisted
Fate Productions/Toledo Terrain
From the Chain Mail Girl 2002 Convention Calendar!
Steve Bryant - Freelance Illustrator
Illustrator
Steve
Bryant
credits include staff positions at GDW
and FASA, as well as
freelancing for TSR/Wizards
of the Coast, AEG, Pinnacle, White Wolf, West End Games and
others. In addition to his RPG and CCG workload, Bryant ‘s
artwork has appeared in comics from Caliber Press, Moonstone Books,
Penny Farthing Press
and Ultimate Sports
Entertainment. He lives in the suburban wilds of central
Illinois with his wife, son and four companion animals.
Stuart John Bernard - Stupendous Games
Stuart John Bernard is the owner of Stupendous
Games. He jumped into the market with Beer: the card game,
earning him the moniker “Hey, Beerman” at conventions
everywhere. Last year saw the release of three Diplomacy ©
variants, one (Ard-Ri) designed by Stuart. Most recently he has
brought us a new way to look at the state quarters, with “Too
Many Georges”. This collectible coin game assigns powers to
the different state quarters, each power used to help you reach
the finish line before your opponents. With the US Mint
releasing new quarters every year, be on the look out for new
powers for “Too Many Georges”. Also, be on the look out for
new Stupendous Games.
Daniel Kast - Majestic Twelve
Games
Dan Kast has been playing games since before he
can remember, and started designing shortly thereafter. His
motto is, "I've never met a game that couldn't use a bit of
tinkering." His first (successful) design, Starmada,
started life as a text file distributed freely over the 'Net.
Now that he's president of Majestic Twelve Games and Starmada is
into its fourth revision, he finds that more and more of his
time (and his budget) is getting tied up in "market
research" -- which is, of course, just another way of
saying "buying every game that shows up on the store
shelves". Just don't call it an obsession...
Forrest Harris - Knuckleduster Publications
Forrest Harris began publishing books in 1998,
knowing nothing about desktop publishing or marketing, and
having no contacts in the gaming business. In the three years
that followed, he produced two solitaire Western adventures and
a compendium of guns of the Old West, all of which received rave
reviews and beat the averages for sales by small game
publishers. His gun compendium, The Knuckleduster Firearms Shop,
has sold over a thousand copies worldwide, and is quickly
becoming a standard reference for Western RPG players.
Jeff Colledge - Bard's
Productions
Jeff Colledge, president and
co-founder of Bard's Productions, has been playing DnD since the
blue box (you know, the one with the cardboard chits for random
number generation). With the advent of the d20 Open Gaming
License, he decided to put his gaming experience to good use and
produce products that DMs have been asking for.
Bard's Productions first two products, Common Ground I - Instant
Churches, Inns and Merchant and A Race for Retribution have
received great reviews from DM's Haven, EN World and
Mortality.Net as well as being listed must have gear in Gaming
Frontiers Magazine. Now if he can only teach his daughter
to quit using d4's as caltrops.
Rob Lusk - Freelance Writer
A mad scientist by trade, Rob
has written adventures for Pinnacle's Weird Wars and Deadlands,
as well as a couple of chapters for Knuckleduster's Cowtown
Creator. He is probably best known for having personally painted
almost none of his thousands of gaming figures, and for killing
off Greg Whalen's characters at an alarming rate. Rob has been
role-playing since the mid-70's, when he tried a virtually
unknown game (called Dungeons & Dragons) run by Gary Gygax
at a convention.
Fred Jandt - Freelance Writer
Fred Jandt began his career in the gaming
industry when he was drafted out of college to join the ranks of
West End Games (well, he was able to fog a mirror and spell WEG
correctly). He spent four and a half years at the WEG offices
where he worked on the Indiana Jones, Men in Black, and Hercules
& Xena roleplaying games. He is probably best known for his
creation and overseeing of the DC Universe Roleplaying Game
while at WEG. Feeling a calling back to his native land of Wis-con-sin,
he obtained a position at Model Retailer magazine, where he
currently resides as Associate Editor when he isn't inflicting
the horrors of the Weird and Wasted Wests upon a new group of
gamers with his work on the Deadlands d20 and Deadlands: Hell on
Earth d20 games.
Curtis Bennett - Thunderhead
Games
Ryan S. Johnson - Guild
of Blades Publishing Group
Bill Stackpole - ZenoGames
