Category: The Gauntlet: Gauntlet Con

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