Gaming Guests, Pros, and Panelists
MisCon 39
Discussion of game-related topics. Usually these panels deal with role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, Shadowrun, GURPS, Deadlands, Call of Cthulhu, Amber, and many others.
- MisCon Electronic Gaming
- Jason Benner
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General Manager of "Muse Comics and Games." I GM several game demos and manage our store's table in the merch room.
- Jason Benner
- Michael Brugger
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Michael Brugger is an award winning Digital Artist and Clinical Engineer who lives and works in the Upper Left Coast. An avid gamer and and watcher of B movies who loves Fandom and all its aspects.
- Henry Edwards
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- Kyle Elliott
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Kyle Elliott, a Seattle native, has been building gaming communities for the last decade online as well as off. His latest accolades include Volunteer of the Year for Paizo Publishing, and the first Campaign Service Coin Award. Professionally he has worked in the gaming industry as both an in house QA tester for AAA video game titles, and as a marketing and Kickstarter guide for the tabletop gaming industry. Chances are, you have pledged to at least one of the Kickstarters he has worked for.
Kyle served in Israel as a combat medic and designs, operates, imports, and wholesales fireworks from China, which has allowed him the chance to travel extensively throughout Asia.
- Stewart Fleming
- Jason A. Holt
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Jason writes books and works in the board game industry. He helped design the English-language word list for Codenames, which won the 2016 Spiel des Jahres. He co-authored the rulebook for Alchemists, which won the 2015 Essen Feather, a prize for best board game rulebook. Jason has also worked on rulebooks for Galaxy Trucker, Space Alert, Lost Ruins of Arnak, and every other game ever published by Czech Games Edition.
In his Fighter Fred novels, he combines his love of fantasy with his love of rulebooks and discovers that the result can be hilarious.
- Sierra Dawn Holt
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Sierra Stoneberg Holt has a doctorate in botany that she earned in the Czech Republic. (All her classes were in Czech, but she got to defend her dissertation in English.) She's using it on a 100-year-old family ranch where she gets to practice useful skills like hand milking cows, making cheese, monitoring ecosystem health, handling cattle on horseback, producing electricity, and teaching.
- Luke Hutson
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Luke Hutson is a professional Game Master who recently moved to Missoula, he is a certified CTE teacher, cartoonist, improv performer and comedian. He runs games on his own and is a reserve member of Black Shield Productions. He also appears twice monthly as host on the podcast RPGPysch currently in it's first season.
- Esther Jones
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Esther is the owner of Impulsive Walrus Books, and the co-author of the Gift of Grace series and many other short stories with her husband, Frog. Esther has always loved creating fantastical stories, characters, and paintings. She loves cooking good food, watching k-dramas, and puttering around killing plants in her garden, if she's not already too busy killing her characters
- Joshua Pate-Terry
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Optimized for shenanigans.
- Jason Rocheleau
- Greg Schneider
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Greg is a life long gamer and has been running events at Miscon for the past twenty years. He has run a game store, run a gaming convention, written a gaming column, been president of a gaming club and started Black Shield Productions, a gaming event company. Greg is currently working on Fantasy Live, a live action D&D style role-playing game and will be hosting a prototype of Fantasy Live Friday and Saturday nights.
Follow Greg's gaming on Twitter @BurnBlackRose or his politics stuff @schneiderlorax