Running GAGG Special Guests
Jen Adcock
Jen Adcock is a game designer and writer from Buffalo, NY. She is best known for The Price of Coal, the acclaimed storytelling game about labor rights and forgotten American history. She has also worked on a number of other games, including D&D, for which she was featured in Dragon+ Magazine.
William Adcock
William Adcock is a gamemaster and scenario author who has specialized in cosmic horror scenarios for the Call of Cthulhu and Cthulhu Eternal RPGs. A historian by training, he uses his writing to explore the dark corners of humanity’s past, illuminating the lives and experiences of those who came before us and encouraging players to confront their own assumptions along the way. He’s written material for Golden Goblin Press, Cthulhu Reborn, and Forge of Ice as well as Chaosium’s Miskatonic Repository. A graduate of SUNY Geneseo, he credits the Geneseo Area Gaming Group and the support he received both as an active student member and as an alumnus for laying the groundwork for his success. William lives in Buffalo with his wife and cat, and can be seen in the microbudget independent horror film Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast.
Aaron H.
Aaron is a game designer polymath from Ithaca who also enjoys writing, coding, and creating art & music. He's a father of two teens, and his card game Robot Hospital was initially designed to play with his son (then 4 years old). As a child, Aaron enjoyed playing the small-by-contrast variety of board games available in the 80s, often creating variants and inventing new games with his friends using blocks and game components from other games. Between that background, experience as a software developer and as an artist, his approach towards game design is a "prototype early and often" paradigm, focusing on rapid and early iteration.
In 2022, Aaron joined Stillfleet Studio, initially as a technical advisor, but then almost immediately as a writer and contributed The Rain Thieves as a first-run publication for the tabletop RPG Stillfleet (created by Wythe Marschall), co-released in the successful 2022 core rulebook kickstarter. Aaron continues to contribute to Stillfleet Studio as a technical advisor, writer, game designer, GM, etc.
You can find Aaron's various online public presences at https://aaronh.me
Dan Hundycz
Dan is a retired counselor with a lifelong interest in board, card, and role-playing games. He loves tabletop games because of the interaction they provide, as well as their non-linear direction. DPH Games Inc was founded in 2013 and has produced a number of titles that use different mechanics to provide a variety of experiences. Look for Dan and his funny hat!
Mad Habit Games
Mad Habit Games is an Ithaca-based game design duo that creates board games with a unique and playful flair. Blending competitive and cooperative game play, as well as elements of turn-based and real-time play, their games aim to challenge players' wits, spark their imaginations, and provide memorable experiences. Check them out at www.madhabitgames.com
IG: mad_habit_games
FB: Mad Habit Games
Brian Keller
Brian is the Vice President of Business for Windmill Game Co. He got his start in the gaming industry because of Running GAGG. Brian came to GAGG and ran games leading to being invited to other conventions run by Dan Brace. He eventually ended up at Origins and met his current game company companions at Windmill. He became part of their Demo team and then was made VP of Business with a concentration on the sales and marketing side of the industry. He also is a writer and editor for the company, having just put work into their recent release ADGNEPSEF555 (if you like candy ask about this0. Without GAGG, Brian would be relegated to just an 8-5 job in Sales.
Kevin Kreiner
Dr. Kevin Kreiner (he/him) is a co-founder of Carcosa Creations, a Lovecraftian LARP company with over 50 original convention-length scenarios, that runs games at conventions across the northeast. He is the primary writer and dreams up most of the horrors the LARP players will face. He is also one of the writers of Hometown Horrors, Volume One, a popular Call of Cthulhu supplement published through Miskatonic Repository, with other projects soon to be published in partnership with Miskatonic Repository. His secret identity is a professor of history at SUNY Cortland and Finger Lakes Community College.
Min Kreiner
Min Kreiner (they/them) is a co-founder of Carcosa Creations, a Lovecraftian LARP company with over 50 original convention-length scenarios, that runs games at conventions across the northeast. They are the company's primary prop and sound designer, bringing the LARPs to life with hand made props and immersive live mixed soundscapes. They are also the Lead Storyteller for the By Night Studios official Discord LARP, Miami by Night, and official By Night Studios LARP liaison for Origins Game Fair and GenCon.
Wythe Marschall
Wythe Marschall (founder and lead game designer, Stillfleet Studio) is an experienced writer, science communicator, anthropologist, and game designer. He created the sci-fi RPG Stillfleet, the underlying Grit System, and the Stillfleet Studio to blend two lifelong obsessions—Leftist politics and tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). He is the co-developer of Blister Critters by Anthony Grasso and the cohost of Why We Roll with Christopher Pickett. Wythe is currently working on several new books, including PICARO!, an early modern fantasy game.
Angela Murray
Ang has been a gamer for many decades and remains as obsessed today as the day she started playing. She writes for Gnome Stew, an award winning blog providing GMing advice and other gaming information. In addition, she can be heard on her podcasts, the Gnomecast and THAC0 with Advantage talking about all things gaming to help everyone run and play better games.
Jonathan & Lola Myers
Jonathan and Lola Myers have worked professionally as Fantasy illustrators for 25 years. They have created artwork for games, comics, puzzles, books, film and television. Some of the clients they have worked for include: Disney, Lucasfilm, Marvel Comics, Chaosium, Atlas Games, Z-man Games Dungeoneering Guild and many more. They have completed work on such properties as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Spider-Man and Dracula Untold. They are currently working on The Arthuriad, a volume of work illustrating the adventures of King Arthur and the forthcoming RPG Futures End. The couple will be sharing their artwork and techniques and look forward to visiting with attendees of Running GAGG.
Brandon Osorio
Author and Game Designer Brandon Osorio is best known for creating the Dark Refuge: The Adventure Game and the Time Shredders ttrpgs. They have written two video games and eight novels including the philosophical science-fantasy epics Godswords: Saga of the Bladed Sun and Day Earth Died.
Brandon was proud to join with the Wisdom Vault team and Meta-Game for the successful kickstarter of Seas of Kansas. A bleeding edge survival horror experience where heroes are rescue workers in a flooded city. Using a revolutionary relationship system, Seas of Kansas is a must play experience.
Their proudest moments include running the national Border Wars Campaign, bringing together hundreds of players, as well as designing products and taking part in speaking engagements that helped inspire a whole generation of new game designers.
Brandon is a Guest Speaker at conventions and colleges across the country, speaking on topics such as Independent Game Design and Creating Compelling Villains. Though of all the conventions that Brandon attends throughout the year, Running GAGG always feels like coming home.