Rob Heinsoo @robheinsoo.bsky.social Game designer
Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com she/her
Author. Not the one from Rent.
IG: https://www.instagram.com/maureenjohnsonbooks/
https://maureenjohnsonbooks.com
jenn martin is not trying so hard @tenpenjenn.com Chicago-adjacent ttrpg designer (Dead After Dinner) & editor (Apocalypse Keys, The Zone & more), SFWA member and AFT/IFT 604 union member, people>profit | she/her
tenpenjenn.com/links
Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com Actor and tabletop RPG nerd, the order depends upon the week. I handle marketing for Evil Hat Productions. Currently playing a long game to get cast as Ned Flanders in the live action Simpsons movie.
www.tomlommel.com
lyndsay @magpie.tips I'm Lyndsay. Bird photography & dogs. I love the LA river. Canadian posting from Snuneymuxw territory. She/her
✨ TERFs log off ✨
RPG Trader @rpgtrader.bsky.social A modern tabletop RPG marketplace built for the next generation of creators and players. TTRPGs from digital to print, made simple. No AI allowed.
https://rpg-trader.com/
A platform by @TenAcreGames.bsky.social
Shawn Tomkin @shawntomkin.bsky.social Creator of the Ironsworn family of TTRPGs. Contributor to other cool games. Banner art by Joshua Meehan.
Games & Downloads: tomkinpress.com
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DriveThruRPG: tomkinpress.com/drivethrurpg
Itch: tomkinpress.com/itch
Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social Managing Director and co-owner at #TTRPG publisher http://pelgranepress.com. I mostly post about analog games, Irish things, books, and feminism. Proud Childless Cat Lady. She/her, sí/í
Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social An academic publisher of scholarly and educational games | https://linktr.ee/clgs | Our Scholarship and Lore: Games for Learning series is open for submissions: https://cmichpress.com/scholarshiplore/
Bungie @bungie.net News, updates, and community love from the developers of @DestinyTheGame.bungie.net and @MarathonTheGame.bungie.net. For status updates about the game, follow @BungieHelp.bungie.net.
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com Award-winning Gen X Tabletop RPG Designer—Rusty Sellsword Design Ltd. He/him. Tangata Tiriti. 💜🩶🤍 Opinions mine.
🔺Now for Wrath! 🔺Now for Ruin!
🔺And the Red Dawn!
https://linktr.ee/rustysellsword
Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social Turning Passion into Great Games! Publisher of Fate, Monster of the Week, Blades in the Dark, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, and other games. www.evilhat.com
Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social @ktwelves on the other socials
improvforgamers.com
karentwelves.com
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social artist of sorts
Episodic Adventures @episodicadventures.bsky.social A Chicago-based TTRPG podcast
Reviewing modules for discerning GMs and nosy players
Answering the eternal question: Would You Run It?
https://linktr.ee/episodicadventures
Mythworks is making the Myth Work @mythworks.bsky.social Original Worlds. 🌎 Original Stories. 📖
Award-winning TTRPG and Indie Comics publisher. 🏆
Find your next adventure at myth.works! 🗡️
Linktree 🌲: https://linktr.ee/mythworks
Keith Baker @keith-baker.com Game Designer and Writer! Illimat, Gloom, and Eberron. Co-owner of @TwogetherStudios.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Twogetherstudios
Check out my Patreon! (http://patreon.com/keithbaker)
Skeletal Games 💀🎮 @skeletalgames.bsky.social We are Skeletal Games - a UK and Canada-based indie game studio making games with heart, soul and also bones. 💀 Currently working on Spill The Beans, a reverse detective visual novel ☕
NEW DEMO OUT NOW ➡️ https://bit.ly/spill-the-beans-steam
Chicago Alternative Comics Expo @cakechicago.bsky.social The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) is a celebration of independent comics! 🍰
www.cakechicago.com/
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social Illustration, zines, fortunes, playing with metal sometimes
Seattle
Pamwishbow.com
Tristan Zimmerman - Molten Sulfur Press @moltensulfur.bsky.social Ennie award-winning TTRPG designer of Shanty Hunters. Historically grounded RPG content at http://MoltenSulfur.com. U.S. Navy veteran. Big ol' dweeb. Minneapolis. He/him.
James D'Amato @oneshotrpg.bsky.social Host of the ONE SHOT and Campaign Skyjacks Podcasts, Author of The Ultimate RPG Guides, Chicago's second best Illimat player, bone filled meat dice.
he/him
The Ultimate RPG Podcast @ultimaterpgpod.bsky.social A One Shot Network podcast hosted by James D’Amato. Join James as he and his guests talk through their ultimate experiences in all facets of the TTRPG experience. Gain new tools, insights, and more from The Ultimate RPG Podcast!
Pelgrane Press @pelgranepress.bsky.social We publish #RPGs focused on character & story: #13thAge, #TrailOfCthulhu, #NightsBlackAgents #TheYellowKing and #SerpentineRPG.
🔗👉 https://pelgranepress.com/
Follow Merryshire Detective Club on Backerkit: https://bit.ly/4vm2hrI
Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social Creative Director, Bully Pulpit Games. Designer of games and playful experiences like Fiasco, Night Witches, and Zhenya's Wonder Tales.
Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social Made Zombies, Run! and Perplex City, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects.
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Larp: strandfall.com
Video: youtube.com/adrianhon
Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social We are an innovative tabletop gaming publisher. We make Fiasco, Star Crossed, Ghost Court, The Warren, Night Witches, Desperation, Zhenya's Wonder Tales, and Nine Space Games!
JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social Zach. They/Them. Scarf-covered creature in a wizard hat. Makes RPGs as @SoulMuppet.co.uk. Thinking about Vampires, Moons, Greeks and Cowboys. Non-Binary Skeleton Creature. B. PP by @oddsbod.bsky.social.
Buy games at https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/
SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk We make spooky and sad games for nice folks
https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/
Darcy L Ross, Imperator Gastropoda @darcylross.bsky.social Snailologist & TTRPG Evangelist
Sweet Shop @sweetshop.app There's a comic for everyone, find yours! A digital comic store. https://sweetshop.app
Ray 🩸 @rays666hell.bsky.social Chicago comic creator (Light Carries On, I Felt Myself Slipping, Raise Hell!) • jerk of all trades • local pervert 🔞 • drink girlie • they/he
Tags: #art #nsfwart #vampiretime #HouseDurango
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@capriconsfcon.bsky.social @capriconsfcon.bsky.social 
Ross Thompson @itsrossthompson.bsky.social Often found playing games, painting miniatures, travelling to conventions and hitting friends with sticks | he/him
Tea Vampire @stras.bsky.social Game designer | RPG nerd | Scum and Villainy | Band of Blades | Spell and Blade | Illuminated Worlds | he/him
Tabletop Bookshelf @tabletopbookshelf.com Handpicked tabletop RPGs and solo games delivered to your doorstep! Supporting indie creators and crowdfunded projects. Now with a one-of-a-kind gaming destination in Milwaukee, WI.
TabletopBookshelf.com
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com Writer, game designer, artist | Making SIGNET CITY | WISHLIST NOW - https://bit.ly/SC-Steam
Creator of Citizen Sleeper series + In Other Waters | editor Heterotopias | IndieCade, GDCA winner | BAFTA, IGF, DICE + TGA nominee | PhD | they/them |
Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com Chicago comic geek, author of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE: The Definitive Edition
For art sales go to https://www.panelpunk.com/collections/gene-ha
Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social Not writing nearly as much about RPGs or Agile as I would like to be.
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Adam Jury @adamjury.com Graphic & Game Designer • Leder Games • he/him/they/them
Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
Sweet @sweetdotdev.bsky.social We're making software for comic folk at Sweet: sweet.dev.
We're building findyourcomic.store.
We're building bindings.app for marketing your comics.
We're building sweetshop.app for selling your comics.
Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social He/Him. Novel THE DUNGEON BOOK out August '26. Currently writing: Black Iron 4, The Dreadful Heir, Terraforming Mars rpg, Metadungeon!, PISCES, Tunnels & Trolls, too much tbh
Party of One Podcast @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social An actual play podcast where the gaming table is always set for two. Award-winning actual play podcast. More TTRPGs featured than any Actual Play in the history of the arform. Get it where you get your podcasts!
Website: www.partyofonepodcast.com
Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social Actor/Writer/Producer. ♿️.
DM/Dungeoneer.
Words: Candlekeep Mysteries, 2024 DMG, Haunted West, Dreams And Machines.
Art Description: Draw Steel.
twitch.tv/dreamwispjen
linktr.ee/dreamwisp
Accessibility in Gaming Resource Guide: https://bit.ly/3QSqfJE
Darrington Press @darringtonpress.bsky.social Tabletop publishing company of Critical Role.
From our table to yours, creating games and art books to inspire and empower storytellers everywhere!
Chris Spivey (Author) @darkerhue.bsky.social Multi-award-winning writer and game designer. Veteran, part-time historian, podcaster, SFWA, and WWA member. Harlem Unbound, Haunted West, Genreless Podcast. Arc Dream Publishing Director (He/Him) #BlackLivesMatter
Kenneth Hite @kennethhite.bsky.social Game designer and writer in the Greatest ✶ City ✶ in ✶ the ✶ World.
Laser 🏳️⚧️ @lasertheboy.bsky.social Producer guy
🏳️🌈🎥 laservisionproductions.com/ 🍆🦈
Tabletop Game Designers Association @ttgda.bsky.social Official account of the Tabletop Game Designers Association. More information at ttgda.org
Jay Bushman @jaybushman.bsky.social Writer of interactive entertainments
javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social 🫂🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🫂
writer/producer of the middleman, the witcher, lost, the dark crystal age of resistance, from, cowboy bebop, blood and treasure, the 100, and, of course, seaQuest 2032.
www.linktree.com/okbjgm
Marie Enger - @ Gen Con @soengery.bsky.social It's like "ANGER" but with an E. Cartoonist & Illustrator. Creator of DEATH TO THE WIZARD KINGS and CASKET LAND, Dirt-slinger fired to Cone 6. Open to cartooning and illustration work. They/Them ∅. No NFTs, No AI. Chicago via StL. www.so-engery.com
Ryan Lynch @outridercreative.bsky.social
👑 Creator of Perils & Princesses TTRPG
🎨 Vintage Illustration & Design
Fairy Tale Role Playing: Perilsandprincesses.com
Portfolio: Outridercreative.com
MegueyB @megueyb.bsky.social Mother of the Apocalypse, founded #PbtA. ALA & Morgan Ellis award winner. Museum curator. Material culture, leftist politics, kindness & appropriate levels of vengeful fury. She/her,☪️,🌈, breast cancer survivor. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lumpley
momatoes @momatoes.com Diana Jones Emerging Designer, Ennie-nominated tabletop game designer and visual artist. Featured in Polygon, Rascal, Dicebreaker and more. She/her
👹 Games: ARC, The Magus, The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri
📌 Learn more http://momatoes.com
#RPGSEA 
Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social Chicago's 1st Manga Shop! 🌈Proudly Queer-Owned & Arab-Owned
Manga • Manhwa • Danmei • Comics • Crafts • RPGs • Games • Curiosities
(Posts, comments, and bizarre opinions about popular media are by Ryvre/@NikaRiots)
scene_four @scenefour.bsky.social Pro GM, game designer, writer, creator. Tabletop RPGs are my vice. He/him
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social 👩🏻🦼🏳️⚧️💨
Game designer, writer, educator, cyborg. Chicago, ill, annoyed. Currently available for work!
Banner by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social, avatar by Sarah Heng Hartse sarahdrawsacrowd.com
https://cyborgurl.neocities.org/
Wizard Staffing Co. @wizardstaffing.bsky.social 🔮 Connecting people to the tabletop roleplaying games they love.
👉 What we're running: https://linktr.ee/wizardstaffing
📷 https://instagram.com/wizardstaffing
Eric Garneau @ericcgarneau.bsky.social I like stories, games, and their intersection. Producer: Mortified Chicago. Head person: Critical Lit Publishing. He/him. ericcgarneau.substack.com
shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social they/them • art director • visdev • illustration • comics • ttrpgs • videogames
🏞️ • 🐦 • 🎨 • 🎸 • 🎶 • 🏳️🌈 • 💪
www.portablecity.net • stories.portablecity.net • sorcererscatalogue.itch.io • shel@portablecity.net
🚫AI / NFT / etc
Sarah Doom @scorchadoom.bsky.social Sarah Doom (she/her) is a tabletop role-playing game designer, writer, layout artist, and visual artist.
www.scorcha.net
https://www.patreon.com/sarahdoom
will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social interactive biofreak. ½ of @goodluckpress.co. award-winning game designer, editor, and publisher. going to make one of each game.
pgh
(they/them)
😷
goodluckpress.co
willjobst.itch.io
ndp 🔥 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com Nathan D. Paoletta | he/him | Game designer, independent publisher and graphic artist. I make World Wide Wrestling 💪 Imp of the Perverse 😈 Annalise 🥀 and more good games for interesting people.
he/him | ndpdesign.com | unwrittenearths.com
"Eppy-Deppy-Diah!" a thing I say at the end of every episode. @epidiah.bsky.social Author & tabletop role-playing game designer, perhaps known for Dread, Swords Without Master, Vast & Starlit, or Wolfspell.
Suddenly, also a Clojure developer!
(he/him)
https://unwrittenearths.com
https://dig1000holes.com
💀
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Cory O'Brien @bettermyths.bsky.social Advanced swearologist. ND for Monster Prom and Holovista. Author of Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, and Two Truths and a Lie. He/They
coryob.com
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social How could she breathe in that house so crowded with Norma Desmond?
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
John Nephew @johnnephew.bsky.social Game publisher (www.atlas-games.com), plastic recycler (www.replayworkshop.com), woodworking hobbyist, parent, spouse, container of multitudes. He/him.
Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social The game designer behind Star Crossed, For the Queen, Precious Little Animal, POP!, Hero Dog Saves Town, Our Time on Earth, Rat Trash Party, and more. helloalexroberts.carrd.co please send inquiries to helloalexroberts at gmail
LaTia will be at Gen Con, oh god @latiajacquise.com A Legendary Dragon/Psychic Pokemon. ...oh wait, that's Latias.
D&D Community Manager @ Wizards of the Coast & stationery nerd. Silken Windhound guardian. she/her, opinions mine. Personal account.
I have a website; check it out: https://latiajacquise.com
Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social Words for sale.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/KieronGillen/
Comics: https://bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6kLb
Website: www.kierongillen.com
Susan Haarman @suzphdm.bsky.social Queer Nerd PhD of Educational Philosophy. Perma (& often paid) GM. Improviser. The games we play & the stories we tell will save us & democracy. TTRPGs are what the world needs.
Onsmith @onsmithcomics.bsky.social Chicago cartoonist, instructor, and "reluctant banker."
Tasha Robinson @tasharobinson.bsky.social Freelance editor/writer. Former editor at Polygon, Verge, The Dissolve, A.V. Club. Next Picture Show podcaster. My wheelhouse is full of weird stuff. She/her.
Letterboxd.com/tasharobinson
Goodreads.com/user/show/10244904-tasha-robinson
Nextpictureshow.net
Nerdronomicon @nerdronomicon.com I'm Andy Edmonds - writer, illustrator, designer, layout artist, and publisher of indie and third-party TTRPG content. Check out Nerdronomicon.com!
The Diana Jones Award @dianajonesaward.org The award for excellence in tabletop gaming and the home of our Emerging Designer Program. Visit www.dianajonesaward.org for full details. 
Ra3ndy @ra3ndy.bsky.social Artist, Dad, 5th generation woodworker and owner of Field Woodworking.
Matt Forbeck @forbeck.com NYT bestselling, award-winning author/game designer. He/him. Current projects: Marvel Multiverse RPG, Minecraft: Roll for Adventure, and Shotguns & Sorcery 5E.
Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social Game designer. Radical optimist.
Play is essential. he/him
Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social Writer. Rogue One, The Book of Eli, Star Wars Rebels, Batman, The Walking Dead, Gundog etc #COYS
Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (#TTRPG digital storytelling performance) (MIT)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
buttstuff werewolf @mattfraction.bsky.social social media was a mistake
Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com (he/him) tabletop gamer, game designer, superhero fan, anti-fascist, geek, witch, polyamorous, and queer 🏳️🌈 partners with @christopherpenczak.bsky.social and @adamsartwell.bsky.social 💖 stevekenson.com • patreon.com/stevekenson
Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online Podcaster: Party of One, All My Fantasy Children, Yazeba's B&B
Designer: Anyone Can Wear the Mask, Mission: Accomplished!
I've played more systems on-mic than anyone in the history of Actual Play.
Moonlights as the Great Clown Pagliacci.
jeffstormer.com
Worrier Poet @wordwill.bsky.social Writer, designer, game developer, producer, voice actor, wary, human. wordwhile.xyz
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
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