Author: Lauren McManamon

I hope the start of everyone’s Gauntlet Con is amazing! Just one more post about our talented, wonderful guests as we kick-off Gauntlet Con 2018 with Todd Crapper, Michael Prescott, Jeff Barber, Gareth Graham, and Ken Breese!!

Happy Gauntlet Conning, all!!

Todd Crapper (yes, you read that right) is a graphic designer and a two-time ENnies award winning game designer, for Killshot: The Director’s Cut and High Plains Samurai: Legends. Currently living in the middle of nowhere over an hour outside of Ottawa, he’s currently working on future games like theDinosaur Project, Dimensions, and a poker larp called The Deal. And he’s eager to talk about games, play games, smell games… ok, maybe just the first two. You can learn more about his games at brokenrulergames.net and discover more about High Plains Samurai at highplainssamurai.com

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Michael Prescott writes and illustrates the Trilemma Adventures series of free fantasy adventures. He’s also got a trio of PbtA RPGs in the works, including a gritty mech mercenary company game, Too Good To Be True. Find him at blog.trilemma.com or on Twitter @fuseboy.

During Gauntlet Con, Michael will be playtesting Too Good To Be True.

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A science teacher by day and game designer by night, Jeff runs Biohazard Games. He is the creator of our Blue Planet RPG, lead author for FFG’s Midnight setting and the creator of our newest roleplaying game, Upwind.

During Gauntlet Con, Jeff will be running Upwind.

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Gareth H. Graham is a tabletop role-playing and story game designer based in Cape Town, South Africa. His designs are often games exploring stories of characters pushed to their limits. He runs the boutique RPG publishing company Frenzy Kitty Games and his recent releases include Children of the Fall, KARMA, DUSK, Unchained and many more. Gareth will be running Children of the Fall.

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BerlingsBeard offers for-hire dungeon master services in the New York City area since 2013, co-creates Bored Ghost actual play podcast for indie TTRPGs since 2016, and has been partnering with NYC based creators to produce memorable role playing game events, products, & experiences both online and IRL since 2010.

​He will be running his adventure “Madness of the Majestic Menagerie.”

Kia ora koutou!! Today is the first official day of Gauntlet Con and we have just a couple more fantastic guests to celebrate as we kick off, so I appreciate you bearing with me! We are so very pleased to have Julien Pouard, Jennifer Adcock, Jeremy Strandberg, and Katriel Page this year at Gauntlet Con!

Julien Pouard is definitely multiclassed : podcaster and game designer by night, teacher by day, and baking pastry in between. He lives in Paris suburb, France and often blesses the long commute that lets him daydream and work on his games. In June 2017 he self-published his first game (De Mauvais Rêves , about bad dreams) and is working on publishing a collection of hacks for the game later this year.

During Gauntlet Con, Julien will be running Standing Watch.

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Jennifer Adcock is an RPG designer, prose fiction writer, and blogger from Buffalo, NY. She believes in story above all, and has written for games as varied as Dungeons and Dragons, Costume Fairy Adventures, and Fiasco. She loves to introduce new gamers and long-timers alike to the wide world of indie games. You can support her work here: patreon.com/jenkatwrites.

During Gauntlet Con, Jennifer will be running D&D 5e: CLERIC CON LXXVII, and Costume Fairy Adventures: Swan Lark.

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Jeremy thinks way, way too much about Dungeon World and is endlessly working on his “hearth fantasy” DW hack, Stonetop. You can find him in the Dungeon World Tavern on G+ or at spoutinglore.blogspot.com. He lives in Madison, WI.

Jeremy will be running a three-part Stonetop series at Gauntlet Con.

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Katriel Paige tried playing D&D and roleplaying games in the 90s, but kept getting pushed away from the table. However, they never lost the passion for creating stories, and resumed playing in 2003 with D&D 3.5. Now, they play D&D 5e, have helped to copyedit the Emerald Spire Superdungeon (Pathfinder), and have most recently freelanced for Onyx Path (Night Horrors: the Tormented and Dystopia Rising: Evolution, as of now upcoming) and written a short story set in Freeport for Nisaba Press (as of now, upcoming).

During Gauntlet Con, Katriel will be running Chronicles of Darkness.

Please check out more information on our other guests on the Gauntlet Con website! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Kia ora! Are you all excited for Gauntlet Con? I know I’M excited for Gauntlet Con, because today we’re celebrating Keith Stetson, Jonathan Lavallee, and K.N. Granger as delightful guests!!!

Keith Stetson is an educator and game designer in Glenside, PA. He has been running, playing, and creating games since getting his hands on the original red box D&D set. In addition to contributing to the Itras By Menagerie and Dialect, his game Seco Creek Vigilance Committee was Kickstarted in 2017. His thoughts and creations appear at HumanHandAndBrain.com.

During Gauntlet Con, Keith will run Seco Creek Vigilance Committee.

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Jonathan (He/Him) has been working in and around games for over a decade. His latest project is called We Used To Be Friends and it’s a collaborative teenage detective drama game published by Growling Door Games. Let’s have some fun telling stories together!

Jonathan will be running Awoke: Cold Shoulder Road and We Used to Be Friends.

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KN Granger is a writer, artist, musician, and game designer who lives in the tri-state area. She develops games that prioritize inclusivity and enjoys low-crunch, high-story concepts. Her best-known games are Ghost Ship Enyo and Traction Park.

During Gauntlet Con, KN Granger will be running Musical Mystery Mansion.

Please be sure to check out our other guests on the Gauntlet Con website! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Kia ora everyone!! Today we’re celebrating the attendance of three more fantastic guests, Jason Cox, Cat Tobin, and Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, at Gauntlet Con, which is now just under a week away!

Elizabeth Chaipraditkul is a game developer, author, and owner of Angry Hamster Publishing. She is the author of dark fantasy game WITCH: Fated Souls and a game about human heroes and their animal companions, Familiars of Terra. Liz has been the lead developer for John Wick Presents with books set in the 7th Sea World including the Crescent Empire and Heroes & Villains. She has also written for numerous companies including Wizards of the Coast, Onyx Path Publishing, Magpie Games, and Third Eye Games.

During Gauntlet Con, Elizabeth will be running Afterlife.

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Cat Tobin is the Managing Director and co-owner of Pelgrane Press. An Irish native, she has been heavily involved with the roleplaying community in Ireland and the UK since the late 1990s, doing everything from writing and design, to marketing, finance, and convention organisation. She likes coffee, hates mornings, and her favourite vegetable is the potato. Cat tweets from @CatTHM.

During Gauntlet Con, Cat will be running Alma Mater Magica.

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Elizabeth Chaipraditkul is a game developer, author, and owner of Angry Hamster Publishing. She is the author of dark fantasy game WITCH: Fated Souls and a game about human heroes and their animal companions, Familiars of Terra. Liz has been the lead developer for John Wick Presents with books set in the 7th Sea World including the Crescent Empire and Heroes & Villains. She has also written for numerous companies including Wizards of the Coast, Onyx Path Publishing, Magpie Games, and Third Eye Games.

During Gauntlet Con, Elizabeth will be running Afterlife.

As always, you can check out the Gauntlet Con website for more information on other lovely guests in attendance. http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Kia ora~~! Just me again letting you know that we’re super excited to have Jim Dagg and Rach Shelkey as guests at this year’s Gauntlet Con!

Jim Dagg of Saddle Shaped Games is an indie RPG designer based in Dayton, Ohio. His work focuses on positivity and empowerment, and the hope that the right people in the right place can be the force for good we need. His previous work includes Just Got Real, a zero-prep game about action heroes, and Battle Princess (published as part of the charity anthology Two Weeks), a game starring adventurous young princesses who lead the realm and its citizens from the front.

During Gauntlet Con, Jim will be running Retrievers and Swords Without Master.

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Rach Shelkey is a game designer, writer and podcaster from Toronto. Her love of tabletop gaming comes from a lifelong fascination with experimental media and culture. You can hear her thoughts on gaming as a host of +1 Forward: A Podcast Powered by the Apocalypse. Rach is one of the organizers of Breakout Gaming Convention and her design work has been featured in The Sprawl: November Metric, Golden Sky Stories: Twilight Tales and Codex.

During Gauntlet Con, Rach will be running Golden Sky Stories.

For more information on registering and to check out our lovely guests, please visit the Gauntlet Con website! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Kia ora~~!! We’re very pleased to celebrate Todd Nicholas and Adrian Thoen as guests at Gauntlet Con as it rushes ever closer!

Todd Nicholas is a game designer and co-owner of Wheel Tree Press. His games include The Sword, The Crown, and The Unspeakable Power and Time Cellist.

During Gauntlet Con, Todd will be running The Sword, The Crown, and The Unspeakable Power.

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Adrian Thoen is a lover of RPGs that focus on tense, theme-based choices and consequences. Designer of Impulse Drive.

During Gauntlet Con, Adrian will be running Impulse Drive.

Gauntlet Con is just under two weeks away, so be sure to get yourself registered if you haven’t already, and check out more of out lovely, talented guests at the website! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Kia ora koutou~~! Hii everyone~~! We’re so very delighted to have Michelle Lyons-McFarland and Josh Fox as guests at Gauntlet Con, which is just a few shy weeks away!

Michelle Lyons-McFarland is co-owner of Growling Door Games and president of the Indie Game Developer Network. She has a Ph.D. in British literature, with specialties in material culture, eighteenth-century literature, and composition. She’s the designer of A Tragedy in Five Acts, and has contributed to more games than she can count since she entered the industry in 200o.

During Gauntlet Con, Michelle will be running Clue: A Tragedy in Five Acts.

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Josh got into roleplaying through playing D&D in school lunch breaks and has never looked back. He started designing indie-style RPGs a few years ago and is the co-designer of Lovecraftesque and designer of Flotsam: Adrift Amongst the Stars, and has designed many smaller games like The Big H and the Fiasco playset House of Ill Repute, available on blackarmada.com. In real life, Josh is an adviser to the UK Government, smallholder, and parent of two cheeky children.

​During Gauntlet Con, Josh will be running Last Fleet.

Be sure to check out our other lovely guests at the Gauntlet Con website! Oh, and get yourself registered if you haven’t already! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Hiii everyone!! We’re celebrating more lovely guests at Gauntlet Con today with Ryan Macklin and Lowell Francis!!

Ryan Macklin is a tech writer by day, convention GM and game creator by night. Which is like being an introverted werewolf. He’s worked on Fate, Cortex Plus, Mage: the Ascension, Primetime Adventures, Unknown Armies, and many other games (including his own Mythender and Katanas & Trenchcoats). But Ryan always comes back to his first joy of sitting down with a few humans to tell and play out fun, dramatic stories. Unrelated, his cat is a lovable jerk.

During Gauntlet Con, Ryan will be running Katanas & Trenchcoats.

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Lowell is a freelance writer/editor and gaming enthusiast. He contributed to the Eisner Award-winning Legends of the Guard and IDW’s Rocketeer Adventures. He also scripted DC Comics’s Flashpoint: Project Superman. Lowell runs games regularly for The Gauntlet Hangouts. He co-hosts The Guantlet Podcast and records multiple Gauntlet Hangout rpg sessions each week. His blog, Age of Ravens, won the Silver ENnie for Best Blog in 2017.

Lowell will be running several sessions of Hearts of Wulin during the con. This PbtA game aims to emulate the high drama feel of stories like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Fox Volant of Snowy Mountain; Painted Skin; Proud, Smiling Wanderer; Princess Agents, and more. Tales of misunderstandings, betrayals, and farce mix with martial arts action.

Please check out the Gauntlet Con website to get yourself registered and check out our other amazing guests! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Hello again all you lovely people! We’re so very fortunate to have Christopher Grey and Stentor Danielson as guests at Gauntlet Con this year!

Christopher Grey is a tabletop roleplaying game designer, publisher, author, and marketer. His work spans from fantasy and science fiction, to alternative history, supernatural, and conspiracies. He published the Border Kingdoms Fallen Dungeons & Dragons adventures on DM’s Guild, was lead writer for 2CGaming’s Lion’s Vault adventure path for 5th Edition, and successfully Kickstarted The Happiest Apocalypse on Earth, a satirical horror Powered by the Apocalypse game.

During Gauntlet Con, Christopher will be running the Great American Novel: A Roleplaying Game.

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Stentor Danielson is a kitten wrangler, map maker, and environmental studies teacher living in Pittsburgh. Along with Cheyenne Grimes they co-own Glittercats Fine Amusements, publisher of Laser Kittens and other games.

During Gauntlet Con, Stentor will be running Cat-pocalypse World.

Please check out the Gauntlet Con website to register and to check out more amazing guests! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html