Author: Lauren McManamon

Kia ora koutou~~! Hi everyone~~! We’re very excited to have Agatha Cheng and Jacob Wood as guests at this year’s Gauntlet Con!

Agatha Cheng is a Canadian podcaster with a deep love for story games and Chinese dramas. She co-hosts Asians Represent!, a show celebrating Asian creators and investigating Asian tropes within the analogue gaming community. In her free time, she likes to sink money into glossy Kickstarter projects and listen to audiobooks.

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From Jacob: “My name is Jacob Wood, a blind gamer and the person behind Accessible Games. My belief is that games are for absolutely everyone. They connect people to one another in meaningful ways by building lasting friendships and strengthening family bonds. They improve cognition, motor skills, and social skills. Most importantly, games have the potential to change lives–and I have first-hand experience with that. Not every game is designed for every person, but I believe every person should have the opportunity to find a game for them.”

During Gauntlet Con, Jacob will be running Survival of the Able, and Psi-punk: Born of Two Worlds.

Please check out the Gauntlet Con website for more exciting rundowns of our guest, and to register for some fantastic games! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Tēnā koutou i tēnei ahiahi~~! Good evening all~~! We are so very delighted to have Maury Brown and Tara M. Clapper running some amazing digital larps (or LAOGS) at Gauntlet Con 2018!!

Tara M. Clapper is a professional storyteller with a background in publishing and content marketing. Tara is the founder and publisher of The Geek Initiative, an online community devoted to women in geek culture. After larping and marketing larps for nearly a decade, Tara co-wrote “The Poe Project,” a single-actor play about the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe. She’s also the creator of “She’s Got a Gun,” a four hour salon larp exploring women, marginalization, and power. Best known for her innovative foray into digital larp, Tara creates and runs digital events in multiple genres, also writing and running supplemental digital content for others’ traditional larp events. Together with two other women in gaming, Tara hosts the interactive talk show “Larp Chat Live” on Twitch.

During Gauntlet Con, Tara will be running CHARIOT Larp, and First Bite, Second Birth: A Contemporary Vampire Digital Larp Experience.

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Maury Brown is President of Learn Larp, a US company that produces high-immersion, mechanics-light destination larp experiences and of Snow Dragon Games, a games publisher seeking to improve the accessibility, inclusion, and diversity of representation in the gaming community. A pioneer in using safety and calibration tools in games, Brown applies instructional design principles to her design and organization. She researches how games can create radical empathy and personal transformation and writes allegorical games that cause players to examine social norms and issues.

During Gauntlet Con, Maury will be running Magimundi.

Be sure to check out other Gauntlet Con news and register yourself for a game or two on the website. http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Kia ora koutou~~ We’re kicking off this week by celebrating the wonderful Jay Iles and Hijos Del Rol as guests at Gauntlet Con~~!

Jay is a UK-based designer of roleplaying games, storygames and microgames that try to transport you to new worlds.

​During Gauntlet Con, Jay will be running Psi*Run and Blades in the Dark.

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Ángel García Jiménez is the owner of Spanish-speaking indie RPG youtube channel Hijos del Rol and organiser of the Netcon online RPG convention.

During Gauntlet Con, Angel will be running Scum & Villainy, and Damn the Man, Save the Music!

Please check out the Gauntlet Con site to see our other lovely guests! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Hiii lovely people, we’re so very excited to have these two talented Canadians as guests at Gauntlet Con this year!

Fraser Simons is the producer of two of The Gauntlet’s podcasts: Pocket-Sized Play and We Hunt The Keepers! He’s a cyberpunk​ aficionado and game designer best known for Hack the Planet and The Veil.

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Jason Pitre is a game designer and professional ecologist from the wilds of Canada. Jason is the creative mind behind Genesis of Legend Publishing, which has produced games such as Sig: Manual of the Primes. He also runs the RPG Design PanelCast, sharing information on roleplaying game design and publishing.

During Gauntlet Con, Jason will be running Sig: Manual of the Primes.

Kia ora! We’re so very pleased to have the Storybrewers — Vee Hendro and Hayley G as guests from good ol’ Straya in attendance at Gauntlet Con 2018!!

Vee Hendro is a game designer, graphic designer, and one half of Storybrewers Roleplaying. She has published two major games so far, Alas for the Awful Sea and Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG, and has no intention of slowing down! She is passionate about creating safe and fun RPG play spaces, and loves a good-looking book. You can find her IRL in Sydney, Australia, or online @Rocketeer_Vee.

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Hayley is a game designer from the mythical land of Straya, and one half of storybrewers roleplaying. Together with co-designer Vee, she’s created games such as Alas for the Awful Sea, and Good Society. She’s shamelessly addicted to story games and cheese based snacks.

​During Gauntlet Con, Hayley will run May He Most Favoured By the Gods Take Victory and The Fictionalised Memoirs of Harriette Wilson and Her Sisters.

Please do check out the Gauntlet Con website to keep up with other fab news! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

(I can say ‘Straya, right? Even though I’m a New Zealander?)

Kia ora once again!! Today we’re very pleased to announce that the Ron Edwards will be one of our amazing guests at Gauntlet Con 2018.

Ron is the owner of Adept Press (Sorcerer, It Was a Mutual Decision, Spione, and other games); co-founder and moderator of the Forge; now playing, designing, and consulting at Adept Play.

During Gauntlet Con, Ron will be running Cosmic Zap and Champions Now.

Be sure to check out the Gauntlet Con website for further exciting news and announcements. http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Hiiii alll! We’re also very pleased to have the wonderful Kira Magrann and Jenn Martin as guests at Gauntlet Con 2018!

Jenn Martin is mostly harmless. She’s currently working on Autumn of the Ancients, a hack of Fall of Magic- IN SPACE- as well as MPDGA, a LARP about a bullsh*t trope. She also co-wrote the 2017 Golden Cobra award winner for Game that gives us the most Hope (One Year). By day, a cog in the capitalist machine. By night a game designer, writer, editor, geek parent, crafter and part fae (allegedly).

During Gauntlet Con, Jenn will be running Autumn of the Ancients.

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Kira is a ttrpg game designer + queer cyborg + snake mom living in Columbus, Ohio. She currently has a Patreon where she designs experimental games and a Youtube channel where she talks about game design. With the support of her patrons she recently released a game about Lesbisnakes in wintertime titled A Cozy Den.

During Gauntlet Con, Kira will be running SYNC.

Look out for more exciting announcements on the Gauntlet Con website! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Kia ora~~! We’re very excited to have GM Jeff Stormer and Phil Vecchione facilitating games at Gauntlet Con 2018!!

Jeff Stormer is a podcaster, game designer, eggnog enthusiast, superhero scholar, and occasional pro wrestling commentator from Philadelphia, PA. He is the host of Party Of One, an Actual Play podcast focused on two-player roleplaying experiences, and co-host of All My Fantasy Children, a character creation, storytelling, and worldbuilding podcast powered by listener prompts. He loves stories, in whatever form they take, particularly when shared with friends. He also makes a pretty exceptional mixtape.

During Gauntlet Con, Jeff will be running Mission: Accomplished!

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Phil Vecchione is the co-Host of both the Misdirected Mark and Panda’s Talking Games podcasts, one of the founding Gnomes at the Gnome Stew, and one of the partners at Encoded Designs. He is the creator of Hydro Hacker Operatives and co-creator of Turning Point (in development).

During Gauntlet Con, Phil will be running Hydro Hackers, and Turning Point.

Kia ora once again~~! We are very pleased to say Catherine Ramen and Sharang Biswas will be running a selection of delightful games at Gauntlet Con 2018!

Catherine Ramen is a game designer, one-time blogger, and trivia professional who lives in New York City. She is the author of Midnight at the Oasis (Codex #22), the science-fiction game Rovers (based on World of Dungeons), and the upcoming Red Carnations on a Black Grave, a storygame based on the brief rise and catastrophic fall of the Paris Commune.

During Gauntlet Con, Catherine will be running Rovers and Night Witches.

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Sharang is an award-winning, internationally-published game designer, writer, and artist. He has exhibited games at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PioneerWorks in Brooklyn, and The Denny Gallery in Manhattan. His RPG “Feast” won the IndieCade Dark Horse Award, and his boardgame Mad Science Foundation was published in 2016 by Crypotzoic Entertainment. He regularly speaks at universities, conferences and museums, and writes for various magazines. Sharang holds a Masters from ITP at NYU-Tisch, and a Bachelors of Engineering from Dartmouth. He is the experience designer at The Medici Group, a strategy consulting firm focusing on diversity and innovation.

During Gauntlet Con, Sharang will be running Blades in the Dark.

Do be on the lookout for other new on the Gauntlet Con site! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html