Dave Megarry

Original Blackmoor player 

& 

Inventor of Dungeon the board game 

50th anniversary celebration

Greg Gillespie

Author of Barrowmaze, Archaia, HighFell, and Dwarrowdeep and two-time winner of the Three Castles Award for Game Design.  

David Wesely

The Grandfather of Role Playing Games 

Creator of Braunstein

Mark Jeranek

Played both with Gary Gygax's Lake Geneva group 

and with 

Dave Arneson's Blackmoor crew 

Avid AD&D gamer and Order of the Owl founder. 

Donna

Gygax 

Wife of Ernie Gygax 

William Hoyt

Original 

BlackMoor

 & 

Empire of the Petal Throne 

Player 

Ken Shepro

An original Blackmoor Player and Game Designer

D.M. Ritzlin 

founded DMR Books in 2015 with the aim of revitalizing sword-and-sorcery literature. DMR’s publications include reprints of classic material by authors such as Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock, and Clark Ashton Smith, as well as brand-new collections and anthologies by some of the finest fantasy writers active today. Ritzlin’s first collection of his own stories, Necromancy in Nilztiria, was released in October 2020. This was followed by a novel, Vran the Chaos-Warped (2023), and a second collection, Dark Dreams of Nilztiria (2024). His tales mix action, horror, wonder, and gallows humor in varying degrees. Lately the field of role-playing games has recaptured Ritzlin’s attention. His first professionally published adventure module, The Lair of the Brain Eaters, was released through one of the best-known publishers of old school RPG material, Lamentations of the Flame Princess. 

William Hart. Illustrator for DaveCon, Mystic Days, Smouldering Dung Games, Adventures Dark and Deep, among others.

Justin Alexander

Justin Alexander is the best-selling author of So You Want To Be A Game Master.

https://www.youtube.com/TheAlexandrian

Frank

Mentzer

Cancelled in 2026 due to Medical reasons

Game Designer 

and 

TSR Legend 

Mike Carr

Cancelled in 2026 due to Medical situation 

Original Blackmoor player

TSR Alumni 

Creator of Don't Give Up the Ship 

& 

Dawn Patrol

Minnesota Native

Those podcasters from Nerdcognito will be broadcasting from the convention and may even do their Saturday morning Speakeasy. 

https://www.nerdcognito.com/

Alexander Macris

 Has written 16 tabletop roleplaying game sourcebooks and designed four games, including the 2020 superhero game Ascendant. He is the author of the gamester guide Arbiter of Worlds and the creator of the Ascendant Universe. 

Minnesota Native

Limited quantities of this artwork will be available.