Confirmed Guests for AcadeCon 2018: Community. Include:
Katrina J. Ostrander
Katrina Ostrander is a writer, editor, worldbuilder, and game master who currently works in the tabletop games industry for Fantasy Flight Games. In addition to her work as an editor of tie-in fiction and the story manager of FFG’s proprietary IPs, she has written for or developed over a dozen roleplaying game products, including adventures, supplements and core rulebooks. Her most recent credits include design and development on the core rulebook of the Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game, as well as writing and development credits on the Genesys Core Rulebook and Realms of Terrinoth. She writes advice and how-to articles relating to gamemastering, adventure design, writing tips, and more at http://triplecrit.com.
DM Mitch
DM Mitch is the co-creator of the DMs Block podcast and founder of the Block Party Podcast Network as well as the creative force behind the Geek Wars Trivia podcast and the GM Showcase podcast ( and probably ten more projects by the time you read this).
Tracy Barnett
Tracy Barnett is the Editor-in-Chief of Exploding Rogue Studios. His game design work includes School Daze, One Shot and Iron Edda: War of Metal and Bone. He recently worked with Brian Patterson to publish Karthun: Lands of Conflict with Evil Hat.
James D’Amato
James D’Amato is the co-founder of the One Shot Podcast network and host of the One Shot podcast. He’s also the co-designer of the Noisy Person Cards party game and is currently working on a Dungeon Dome card game based around the D&D meets Pro Wresting live stream he produces. James is a masterful Game Master, game designer and collaborator.
Rich Baker
Rich Baker has credits on D&D in various products and projects since 1991 including Spelljammer, Forgotten Realms, Planescape and Ravenloft. He is co-designer of the Birthright campaign setting. He was the co-author of the Red Hand of Doom adventure module. He is current part of Sasquatch Game Studio which produced the D&D 5e module Princes of the Apocalypse and the Ultimate Scheme board game and is currently working on the new Alternity Role Playing Game system.
PK Sullivan
PK Sullivan is game designer from the Windy City. He loves adventure, retro futurism, and swashbuckling in all forms – all things he tries to share through his games. When not talking about Star Wars or designing games, you can find him exploring Chicago and telling tales from IT.
A.P. Klosky
A.P. Klosky is the owner and chief creator at Blackfall Press LLC, through which he wrote and produced the award-winning Cold Steel Wardens: Roleplaying in the Iron Age of Comics. Last year, Klosky successfully Kickstarted the follow-up for Cold Steel Wardens: Rogues Gallery, the first of several planned follow-ups to the book. As a freelance writer and editor, Klosky has worked for companies including Cubicle 7 Entertainment, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, GameWick Games, Red Turban Games, Fainting Goat Games, and numerous others. His current projects include the roleplaying game De Civitates Dei: Occult Horror in 1135 Jerusalem and several board game prototypes. He is a native of Englewood, Ohio
Additionally, the RPG Academy Faculty will be on site running the event and games.
We expect several members of the Redemption Podcast as well
and possibly more to announce as we get closer to the event.
