Industry Guest

Ava Islam is a fool, a wretch, a rogue, and a rapscallion. You can read the ravings of her brain worms on her blog (permacrandam.blogspot.com) or check out her game, Errant.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Cassandra is a perpetual storyteller with a love for indie RPGs weird and unique. They were inducted into the cult of D&D at an age most would consider "too young", and are best known for their breakout DM's Guild title Skullport: Shadow of Waterdeep, as well as their work on ENWorld's Level Up and MCDM's Flee Mortals and upcoming Draw Steel. They've been tinkering and homebrewing for over a decade now, and Must Be Stopped™.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Sebastian Yūe (they/them) is an award–winning, queer TTRPG designer, writer, and editor based in Canada. They are best known for their contributions to Apocalypse Keys: Doomsday Delights, Cloud Empress: Year One Adventure Bundle, and Pathfinder Lost Omens: Divine Mysteries, and their editing work on the Cosmere RPG, Daggerheart, and UNCAGED: Goddesses.

Todd Crapper is an award-winning tabletop roleplaying game designer and indie publisher for almost 30 years. Looking at that number for the first time, he fell back against the chair and felt a shiver run down his spine. A career of beloved games flashed before him, from the Combat Advantage zine to Killshot to High Plains Samurai. As if chiming in to a narrator's rendition of chilling poem, he whispered, "What if there was more?"

Felix Isaacs is the ENNIE award-winning writer and designer of the Wildsea and Pico, and spends as much time as possible on balconies.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Greg Leatherman (he/him) graduated with a degree in Theater Arts and he’s put all those skills into bringing characters to life in his favorite pastime playing Tabletop RPGs on his actual play podcast Very Random Encounters and off the mic. He has self-published his own award-winning RPG called Glitter Hearts in 2020 and has published his second TTRPG called The Mystery Business. He is working on his third TTRPG that should kickstart soon.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Shiraz Sheikh is a passionate educator and creator with a multifaceted career spanning academia, game design, and media. As a professor in the Liberal Arts, he teaches a wide range of subjects at various colleges and universities in Toronto and surrounding area. Shiraz is also a game designer and one of the creators of the CATaclysm: The Roleplaying Game.

Emiel Boven is a game designer and artist from the Netherlands. You might know him from his work on DURF or the science-fantasy zines series, The Electrum Archive, which he creates together with Ava Islam. Due to Emiel's talent for switching effortlessly between design, art, and writing, there is a good chance you have seen some of his work in any of the indie RPGs that have come out in the last few years.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Rui Albino is a Story Artist, Director, and Animator for Film and AAA gaming since 1990. Rui received an honorarium for dungeon mastering in the early 80s and has been a Table Top Gamer ever since. Some of Rui’s accomplishments can be seen on IMDB or in the credits of Ubisoft games, Disney’s “The Gargoyles” and many, many more.

Dwight aka The Big Bearded Nerd, is a Michigan based stream producer, project manager and mini painter. As 1/2 of Mini Terrain Domain, Dwight has produced several charity streams including Legends of Eleanora and Jasper's Game Day. Dwight also produces an ever growing pile of unpainted minis, but let's not talk about that.