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The Dungeon Dudes

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The Dungeon Dudes

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The Dungeon Dudes

Dr. Monty Martin along with longtime friend Kelly McLaughlin are the Dungeon Dudes. Together they produce video guides and live play series for D&D and more, drawing on three decades of collective experience running and playing tabletop games.

MONTY MARTIN
Monty holds a PhD in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Toronto, and worked as a digital media designer for interactive and immersive live performance projects for a decade. Monty’s eclectic interests span games, performance, literature, history, art, and technology. He co-authored Dungeons of Drakkenheim (2023 ENNIE Judge’s Spotlight Award Winner), followed-up by Sebastian Crowe’s Guide to Drakkenheim, and has been a contributing author to TTRPG publications by Ghostfire Gaming and Kobold Press.

KELLY MCLAUGHLIN
Kelly grew up in a suburban town with little to do but dive headfirst in to Warhammer, Magic: The Gathering, and Dungeons and Dragons. Eventually making his way to the big city to go to film school, his passion for story telling and writing won him a few awards at local film festivals. After many years of playing D&D with his long time friend Monty, the two decided to take their passion for the game, as well as their passion for media production and story telling online and create the Dungeon Dudes.
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Brian Duckwitz

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Brian Duckwitz

Brian has written over twenty products for Paizo, Kobold Press, and Legendary Games since breaking into the industry in 2014. A lifelong gamer and Wisconsin resident, Brian grew up just down the road in New Glarus. He’s proud to be

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Brian Duckwitz

Brian has written over twenty products for Paizo, Kobold Press, and Legendary Games since breaking into the industry in 2014. A lifelong gamer and Wisconsin resident, Brian grew up just down the road in New Glarus. He’s proud to be one of the few writers who has written official products for all editions of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, including the Playtest edition and the just-released Remastered 2nd edition. Some of his favorite publications include the Free RPG Day adventure “We Be Heroes?” and “Siege of Gallowspire,” the final Pathfinder Society Scenario of Pathfinder 1st edition. He’s written numerous other PFS scenarios, a standalone module, a volume of the Blood Lords Adventure Path, and just finished another AP volume for Paizo. After two decades of teaching college English, he’s now a full-time freelancer who recently worked as a narrative designer and writer for Pixagon Games. He is also a professional GM and a certified modern sport fencing coach.

More information about Brian is at: https://www.brianduckwitz.com/

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Kelsey Dionne

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Kelsey Dionne

Kelsey Dionne is a critically-acclaimed new and old-school TTRPG designer who founded The Arcane Library in 2017. Her modernized take on OSR gaming, Shadowdark RPG, launched on Kickstarter in 2023.

Visit The Arcane Library to find out more and

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Kelsey Dionne

Kelsey Dionne is a critically-acclaimed new and old-school TTRPG designer who founded The Arcane Library in 2017. Her modernized take on OSR gaming, Shadowdark RPG, launched on Kickstarter in 2023.

Visit The Arcane Library to find out more and explore her work at: https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/

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Darlene The Artist

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Darlene The Artist

DARLENE is the first woman artist for TSR (1977), openly signing her first name to her art instead of hiding her gender behind her initials—which was a recommended practice at the time for women artists.

Through the Wizard-head logo, stationery

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Darlene The Artist

DARLENE is the first woman artist for TSR (1977), openly signing her first name to her art instead of hiding her gender behind her initials—which was a recommended practice at the time for women artists.

Through the Wizard-head logo, stationery for TSR and its Divisions, column art for The Dragon, ads, calendars, as well as cartography and illustrations for GenCon and the RPGA, DARLENE created TSR’s graphic look, collectively
defining TSR’s public image during their formative years.

Her most remembered contribution to fantasy gaming is as cartographer of The World of Greyhawk maps. Many of her iconic illustrations—the DMG title page unicorn, Party of Adventurers, Mermaid, Paladin & his war Horse… are now available online. Darlenetheartist.com/store

In 1980, DARLENE became the creator of 1st fantasy adventure role-playing card game, ten years before a more prominent game company claimed that distinction. “The Story of Jasmine” Fantasy Adventure saga is still being produced episodically (Patreon.com/Darlene_Artist)

DARLENE left the gaming industry in 1984 to pursue her MFA and worked as an art director, marketing specialist, and in the publishing industry until Gary Gygax encouraged her return in 2004. Since then, she is ecstatic to interact with her fans as a Special Guest of GaryCon.

Most recently, DARLENE gratefully acknowledges her intrepid fans for their kind donations to save her house in North Carolina.

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Michael Curtis

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Michael Curtis

Michael Curtis is Director of Product Development for Dungeon Crawl Classics at Goodman Games, overseeing the DCC, Mutant Crawl Classics, Xcrawl Classics, and other product lines since 2021. Before taking on this role, Michael spent more than a decade as

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Michael Curtis

Michael Curtis is Director of Product Development for Dungeon Crawl Classics at Goodman Games, overseeing the DCC, Mutant Crawl Classics, Xcrawl Classics, and other product lines since 2021. Before taking on this role, Michael spent more than a decade as a freelance writer and designer in the gaming industry. Michael is best known for his DCC RPG adventures, including Frozen in Time, The Chained Coffin, and Danger in the Air!, his award-winning gaming supplement The Dungeon Alphabet, the OSR-inspired megadungeon of Stonehell, and his work as lead writer on the DCC Lankhmar line of products. Michael lives on Long Island, NY, with far too many books and a reasonable number of cats.

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Michael Croitoriu

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Michael Croitoriu

Magazines, radio, podcasts, development, and localization: Michael Croitoriu has been in the RPG industry for decades and has done it all. He also created serious games for L’Oréal and Danone, and the Wakfu TCG for Ankama. Now, as the Head

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Michael Croitoriu

Magazines, radio, podcasts, development, and localization: Michael Croitoriu has been in the RPG industry for decades and has done it all. He also created serious games for L’Oréal and Danone, and the Wakfu TCG for Ankama. Now, as the Head of Edge Studio, he supervises all things RPG-related for Asmodee. Legend has it that he can dismount an electric transformer in less than 22 seconds blindfolded.

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Zeb Cook

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Zeb Cook

David “Zeb” Cook joined the TSR design staff in 1979, as employee #24 and through the dint of persistence rose employee #2 or 3 (in senority only) the time he left in 1994.In those years he designed such things as 

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Zeb Cook

David “Zeb” Cook joined the TSR design staff in 1979, as employee #24 and through the dint of persistence rose employee #2 or 3 (in senority only) the time he left in 1994.In those years he designed such things as X1: The Isle of Dread (with the late Tom Moldvay), the D&D Expert Set, Oriental Adventures, the AD&D 2nd Edition Rules, the Conan RPG, the Indiana Jones RPG, the Escape From New York boardgame (really!), the Planescape Campaign Setting, and what must have been the personal pinnacle of his career the Bullwinkle and Rocky Party Game. After leaving TSR, Zeb entered the world of videogames where he worked on a lot of things that never saw the light of day and a few that did such as Lords of the Realm III and the City of Villains MMO. He currently works as a Content Zone Lead on the successful and entertaining Elder Scrolls Online MMO. 

In addition to RPGs and MMOs, he’s a big fan of historical and not-so-historical miniatures, welding and laser cutters, bicycling, and good beer.

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Brent Chumley

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Brent Chumley

Brent is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and has produced art for a multitude of media including cover paintings, interior illustrations, collectible card art, cartography (maps), graphic design, page layout, t-shirt designs, miniatures paintings, concept art and

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Brent Chumley

Brent is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and has produced art for a multitude of media including cover paintings, interior illustrations, collectible card art, cartography (maps), graphic design, page layout, t-shirt designs, miniatures paintings, concept art and commercial photography for a plethora of clients. Some of the gaming brands Brent has produced work for include: Dungeons & Dragons, D&D Dragonfire, Shadowrun, Battletech, Leviathans, Legend of the Five Rings (CCG and RPG), Doomtown: Reloaded CCG, 7th Sea Card Game, Metal Magic & Lore, The Vampire’s Codex, as well as his own DragonVerses® line of art. Brent lives in southern mid-Illinois and is available for commissions.

https://brentchumley.com/

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Stephen Chenault

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Stephen Chenault

Stephen Chenault is the current CEO of Chenault & Gray Publishing & Troll Lord Games. He is an author best known for his work on the world of Aihrde, Castles & Crusades game system, and short fiction.

In 1999 he

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Stephen Chenault

Stephen Chenault is the current CEO of Chenault & Gray Publishing & Troll Lord Games. He is an author best known for his work on the world of Aihrde, Castles & Crusades game system, and short fiction.

In 1999 he co-founded Troll Lord Games with his brother Davis Chenault and longtime friend Mac Golden. He worked on layout, writing, and marketing until 2002 when Mac Golden stepped down as head of the company. Steve took over the mantel and has run the company since Mac’s departure. He was instrumental in bringing Gary Gygax on board in 2001, oversaw the release of Castles & Crusades, a game that continues to headline TLG’s publishing, added print facilities to the companies’ publishing arms, expanded into the crowdfunding arena, and released the companies content on multiple digital platforms.

He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas with his wife Kathryn and children. He is passionate about history and regularly reads books that range from colonial America, native American, 19th century central European history and more. He enjoys a good cheeseburger, and a cold Dr. Pepper (in a can). His recent penchant for UFO studies has sent him on a whole new journey.

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Jason Carl

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Jason Carl

Jason Carl is best known as the gamemaster host of “L.A. by Night,” a Vampire: The Masquerade streaming actual play, and as a guest Dungeon Master at D&D in a Castle. He has been a writer and developer for Dungeons

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Jason Carl

Jason Carl is best known as the gamemaster host of “L.A. by Night,” a Vampire: The Masquerade streaming actual play, and as a guest Dungeon Master at D&D in a Castle. He has been a writer and developer for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, Vampire: The Masquerade, Mind’s Eye Theater LARP, and other TTRPGs. Today he is the Brand Marketing Manager for World of Darkness. Jason’s favorite D&D campaigns are set in Ravenloft, the Domains of Dread, where death is not always a career-ending injury….

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