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Zev Shlasinger
Zev Shlasinger started Z-Man Games in 1999 in order to bring back his favorite CCG, Shadowfist. With the successful revival of that CCG, Z-Man Games went on to produce their B-Movie card game series, starting with Grave Robbers from Outer Space.
In 2004, Z-Man dipped into board games and several years later made a name for itself with excellent licensed and original board and card games (and some RPGs too!). The banner year for Z-Man was 2008, which saw the release of Pandemic and Agricola.
In 2011, Zev sold the company, but still maintains a role as developer, procurer (of games), and convention rep. There are lots of exciting original and licensed games coming out from Z-Man and Zev means to be a big part of it.
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Matt M McElroy
Matt M McElroy is the Director of Marketing for DriveThruRPG.com, DriveThruComics.com, and other related sites. Here, he works with companies like White Wolf Publishing, Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight Games, and many more to deliver RPGs, comics, games, and genre fiction to fans around the world. A long-time horror, dark fantasy, and dark science fiction fan, he is also the owner of Flames Rising Press which publishes the type of fiction and games he loves. Haunted: 11 Tales of Ghostly Horror, an award winning anthology, is Flames Rising's most popular book in its current catalog.
Matt also occasionally dabbles in freelance writing and editing in the role-playing game industry. Currently, he is working on supplements for Vampire: the Masquerade and Hunter: the Vigil.
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Michael Curtis
Michael Curtis has been playing role-playing games since 1980 and a freelance writer and game designer since 2008. He has written or contributed to more than two dozen roleplaying games, supplements, and articles. Best known for Goodman Games’ The Dungeon Alphabet (for which he was awarded the 2011 Three Castles Award for Game Design) and Stonehell Dungeon, he’s also worked on the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Goblinoid Games’ Realms of Crawling Chaos, and Secret Fire Games’ forthcoming Fragments I: The Way of Tree, Fire & Flame. Author of the DCC RPG adventures The Crawling Corruption, Emirikol Was Framed! and The Sea Queen Escapes!, Michael’s work has appeared in the pages of Gygax Magazine and he is a regular contributor to Fight On! magazine. He’s also had a cameo appearance in the web-comic Marvin the Mage. He writes the popular old school gaming blog, “The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope” (poleandrope.blogspot.com) when not working on RPG projects. Michael’s upcoming projects include contributions to Chapter 13 Press’ Tales from the Fallen Empire, the Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures Frozen in Time, In the Court of Chaos, and The Croaking Fane, a soon-to-be-release RPG from Goblinoid Games entitled MAJUS, and his own indie RPG, Shiverwhen.
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Oscar Rios
Oscar Rios is an author of horror fiction and role playing scenarios for the Call of Cthulhu RPG. Since 2002 he has written countless Call of Cthulhu scenarios for nearly every historical era possible. He’s authored five monographs for Chaosium, including Ripples from Carcosa and The Ravenar Saga. His scenarios appear in various Chaosium monograph collections, including every Halloween themed one produced to date. His work has appeared in The Unspeakable Oath, Worlds of Cthulhu and Independent Roleplayer’s Magazine. Oscar works for Miskatonic River Press, as a staff writer and editor. His scenarios appear in several MRP books, including More Adventures in Arkham County, New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley, Lux in Tenebras and Tales of the Sleepless City. He is also the author of The Legacy of Arrius Lurco, a campaign for Cthulhu Invictus published by Miskatonic River Press. Oscar has several scenarios included in the upcoming expanded re-release of the classic Chaosium campaign, Horror on the Orient Express. Most recently he has launched a new Chaosium Licensee called Golden Goblin Press, to produce material for the Call of Cthulhu RPG line.
He has branched out into the realm of Lovecraftian fiction, with short stories in Cthulhu’s Dark Cults, Horror for the Holidays, and the upcoming collections Undead and Unbound and Cthulhu’s Dark Cults II. He further branched out into the world of Fantasy RPG’s, writing A Faceless Enemy for Chapter 13 Press, as part of Tales From the Fallen Empire: Post-Apocalyptic Sword and Sorcery Setting for the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG (coming soon). At his core Oscar remains an avid gamer, running and playing Call of Cthulhu whenever possible.
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Andre Kruppa
Andre runs a theatrical style game with a presentation designed to create an immersive role-playing experience. Characters are provided with a full bio and description to give players a solid role to play. Lights, sound, music, handouts, and some props are used to help set the scene and the mood. Players should expect a long session and some fun role-playing opportunities.
Three convention-style Call of Cthulhu scenarios, by Andre, have been published by Chaosium as monographs. These scenarios, The Vault, Rise of the Dead, and Rise of the Dead: Part 2 - The Raid, include detailed characters, handouts, and staging advice.
Andre recently launched Game Soapbox Productions, a studio and publishing company dedicated to the passion and power of storytelling. In the works are campaigns set in the dark 50s and a shadowy post Lovecraftian 30s, core rules for gritty role-playing, audio books, soundscapes, e-books, and immersive RPG tabletop production elements.
www.gamesoapbox.com
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Cam Banks
Cam Banks is Brand Manager for Atlas Games. He was born in the antipodean paradise of New Zealand, a nation whose geography doubles for such fictional landscapes as Mythic Greece and Middle Earth. Despite his uneventful education in history, philosophy, and psychology at NZ's Waikato University he learned his true passion was in playing games and making things up. Forsaking his homeland, he emigrated to the USA to marry his soul mate and pursue such diverse careers as retail manager, cafe manager, client engagement manager, and library annex manager. He spent the last decade working for Margaret Weis Productions and helped create, develop, and manage over fifty roleplaying games and sourcebooks, including award-winning RPGs based on Marvel Comics and Leverage. Now living in Saint Paul with his wife and two sons, Cam is thrilled to add "brands" to things he can manage.
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