David Wesely

The Grandfather of Role Playing Games 

Creator of Braunstein

Minnesota Native

Dave Megarry

Original Blackmoor player 

& 

Inventor of Dungeon the board game 

50th anniversary celebration

Minnesota Native

Mike Carr

Original Blackmoor player

TSR Alumni 

Creator of Don't Give Up the Ship 

& 

Dawn Patrol

Minnesota Native

William Hoyt

Original 

BlackMoor

 & 

Empire of the Petal Throne 

Player 

Minnesota Native

Stephen

Rocheford

Blackmoor Original

 Minnesota Native

Frank

Mentzer

Game Designer 

and 

TSR Legend 

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

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. 

Greg Gillespie

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

Mark 

Rein-Hagen

Game Designer 

and 

author of 

Vampire: The Masquerade

Minnesota Native

Phil 

Grant

Original Blackmoor player

Minnesota Native

Matthew

Tapp

Creator of
Barrows and Borderlands

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

Donna

Gygax 

Wife of Ernie Gygax 

Tenative

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

https://www.nerdcognito.com/

Nerdcognito Store

Ken Fletchner

Local Minneapolis artist 

Staff artist at Dave Arneson's Adventure Games company, and sci-fi and fantasy fan 

&

Davecon Silent Auctioneer

Minnesota Native

Andy
"The Dishwasher" Thomas 

& 

Dave
"The Busboy" Yeager 

Co-Creators of Mystic Days

Ken Shepro

An original Blackmoor Player and Game Designer

Mad Overlord 

David Konkol

He writes the 

Grim Future series

&

Castle of Blackwood Moors 

and can be found here. 

Mad Overlord Studios

Kenny Palurintano 

Author 

"Real Life is an RPG", 11+ years as a nomad, Lifelong Gamer-Geek, and WFPB Chef. 

Richard C. White

Multi Genre Author 

Richard's Website