PAIZO CON 2010 GUEST OF HONOR

Paizo is proud to announce our Guest of Honor for Paizo Con 2010!

Wayne Reynolds

Pathfinder RPG cover artist Wayne Reynolds was born in Leeds, UK, and attended art college in Dewsbury and Middlesborough, leaving with a HND Distinction. After a spell alternating freelance work (Chaosium, Iron Crown Enterprises) with work for a sign painting company, Reynolds settled for a few years as a concept artist in the computer games industry. However, the lure of freelance art proved too strong, and he returned to work as an independent illustrator in 1998.

Reynolds has worked on commissions for Wizards of the Coast (MTG, D&D—Eberron, Forgotten Realms, miniatures), Osprey Publishing, Games Workshop (Redeemer, Kal Jerico), 2000AD (the 2000AD comic, plus Futureshocks, Slaine, and Judge Dredd), Online Games Company, Paizo (Dragon and Dungeon magazines and the Pathfinder RPG and Pathfinder Adventure Path lines), Reaper Minatures and Green Ronin (Freeport). Reynolds occasionally takes time out from illustration to work on custom motorcycle murals, done in conjunction with The Roadhouse of Troydale, Leeds.

PAIZO CON 2010 GUESTS

In addition to our Guest of Honor, Paizo Con 2010 will be wall-to-wall industry professionals. Here's a list of confirmed guests for Paizo Con 2010.

Wolfgang Baur

Wolfgang Baur is the founder of Open Design and the publisher of Kobold Quarterly, a magazine of RPG goodness. Wolfgang is the author or contributor to dozens of RPG adventures and supplements, including Pathfinder #4: Fortress of the Stone Giants, Pathfinder Chronicles: Classic Monsters Revisited, The Book of Roguish Luck, Empire of the Ghouls, GameMastery Module J3: Crucible of Chaos, and the Dark*Matter campaign setting and the Kobold Guide to Game Design, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.

Tom Beckett

Tom Beckett is the Director of the Theater Arts Department at da Vinci Arts Middle School in Portland, OR. The Theater program is based on direct participation in creative endeavors; process, performance, and understanding are equally stressed. While the department concentrates much of its attention on traditional live theater, the education provided serves as basic training for many other current genres of performing arts, and for emerging genres as well. In 2009, Beckett directed Paizo's first Pathfinder Adventure Path adventure, James Jacobs's "'Burnt Offerings,"' as a live stage play in Portland. The show was well attended by Paizo staff and enjoyed so much that Tom was invited to Paizo Con 2010 to share props and a video presentation of the "'Burnt Offerings"' play with the Paizo fans.

Jason Bulmahn

Jason Bulmahn is the Lead Designer of Paizo Publishing, LLC. After having coordinated Living Greyhawk, the world's largest D&D organized play campaign for the RPGA, Bulmahn joined Paizo Publishing as the Managing Editor of Dragon magazine in 2004. Since then, Jason has published dozens of articles and adventures in Dragon and Dungeon magazines. His RPG design credits include Dungeonscape, Elder Evils, Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk, Pathfinder Chronicles Gazetteer, Secrets of Xen'drik, and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. His work has earned an Origins Award and nine ENnie Awards.

Christopher Carey

Christopher Carey has been an editor at Paizo Publishing since 2008, working closely with all of the company's lines. He is the editor of three collections by science fiction Grand Master Philip José Farmer—The Other in the Mirror, Venus on the Half-Shell and Others, and Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories—and the author of short stories and essays in various anthologies.

Don Early

Don Early is the director of Dead Gentlemen Productions, a group of filmmakers located in the Seattle/Tacoma area of the Pacific Northwest, as well as Los Angeles, CA. Their recent film The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, is currently distributed by Anthem Pictures and Paizo Publishing. Dead Gentlemen met each other over 1996–97 while attending Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. Between 1998 and 2000, the Dead Gentlemen filmed two feature films: Demon Hunters, and its sequel, Demon Hunters: Dead Camper Lake. The films were met with great acclaim on campus. In 2001 they shot what would be their flagship property for many years to come, a 45-minute featurette called, The Gamers. With the success of The Gamers, in 2002 the group founded Dead Gentlemen Productions, LLC.

Since then, Dead Gentlemen Productions produced several comedy sketches and short films, the high definition feature The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, and co-produced with Margaret Weis Productions, creating the Demon Hunters Roleplaying Game, containing the newly canonized world of their original Demon Hunters and a short film entitled: The Brotherhood Orientation Video. To this very day the Dead Gentlemen exercise their super power of unmatched collaboration to create projects together.

Joshua J. Frost

Joshua J. Frost is Paizo Publishing's Events Manager as well as a freelance writer, game designer, and photographer. After a series of soul-sucking corporate jobs, Frost joined Paizo Publishing in 2005 as the Advertising Sales Director for Dragon and Dungeon magazines. He is currently managing Pathfinder Society Organized Play, Paizo's world-wide RPG organized play system set in the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting. His RPG design credits include Pathfinder Chronicles: Classic Monsters Revisited, the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting, several Pathfinder Society scenarios including Pathfinder Society Scenario #7: Among the Living, Pathfinder Chronicles: Dungeon Denizens Revisited, Taldor: Echoes of Glory, and the Pathfinder Bestiary for Paizo Publishing and the soon-to-be-released A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide for Green Ronin. He is also the co-designer of Yetisburg, a comedic American Civil War card game by Titanic Games. His RPG industry work has garnered him two ENnie awards.

James Jacobs

Paizo's Creative Director, James Jacobs: the man, the myth, the legend. Raised on the wild shores of Point Arena, CA, Jacobs was traumatized early on by the scaled and tentacled creatures of the deep, and has spent the last 30 years trying to expurgate these horrors from his subconscious via therapeutic game design. Something of a child prodigy, Jacobs published his first adventure in Dungeon at the age of 14 and later went on to become the magazine's Editor-in-Chief. Jacobs made major contributions to roleplaying with his many adventures (Red Hand of Doom, Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk, installments in the Shackled City, Age of Worms, Savage Tide, Rise of the Runelords, Council of Thieves, and Serpent's Skull Adventure Paths), sourcebooks (Dungeon Master's Guide II, Lords of Madness, Fiendish Codex I), article series (Demonomicon of Iggwilv), and countless pseudopoded monsters, as well as vast and incalculable additions to the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting. He's won numerous awards and accolades, from ENnies to Origins Awards, but just how many is unclear, as he's not really one to brag. (Note: This bio was written by Mr. Jacobs' adoring underlings without either his knowledge or consent.)

Corey Macourek

Corey makes pretty pictures. Sometimes they move, sometimes they make sound. Corey Macourek owns CMNMD, a multimedia design studio in Tacoma, WA. With over 14 years working in the gaming industry, his design, illustration, animation and soundtrack work has appeared in trading card games, RPG books, computer games, TV commercials and online for Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing, Hasbro, LucasFilm, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, The Sci-Fi Channel and DC Comics. Corey's work has been the centerpiece for Paizo's GameMastery line of maps. He can be seen most often staring at pixels and pushing Photoshop to its limits.

Rob McCreary

Rob McCreary is Paizo's newest Assistant Editor, and has recently taken over development of the Pathfinder Modules line. He was a Top 4 finalist in the inaugural RPG Superstar competition, which opened the door to freelancing for Paizo. His writing credits include the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting, Pathfinder Chronicles: Cities of Golarion, Pathfinder Chronicles: Classic Horrors Revisited, Pathfinder Chronicles: Dungeon Denizens Revisited, Pathfinder Adventure Path #24, The Final Wish, and Pathfinder Adventure Path #32: "'Rivers Run Red."' In October 2009, Rob moved from Prague, Czech Republic (where he'd eked out a living as an English teacher for four years) to the Seattle area to join Paizo's staff, where he spends his days toiling away in the darkness of the editorial pit.

Erik Mona

Erik Mona is the Publisher of Paizo Publishing, LLC. After a series of freelance writing and editing jobs for TSR, Mona joined Wizards of the Coast in 1999 as Global Publications Coordinator for the RPGA, a duty that saw him co-launch the largest organized play D&D campaign in history (Living Greyhawk), edit the RPGA's Polyhedron magazine, and launch the Living Greyhawk Journal. Erik joined Paizo Publishing in 2002 when Paizo took over publication of Wizards' magazines. At Paizo Erik became Editor-in-Chief of Dungeon and Dragon magazines, launched the Pathfinder brand, and created the Planet Stories fiction imprint. His RPG design credits include The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, The Whispering Cairn, Fiendish Codex 1: Hordes of the Abyss, Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk, The Pathfinder Chronicles Gazetteer, and Howl of the Carrion King, the first adventure in the Legacy of Fire Adventure Path. His RPG industry work has garnered him two Origins Awards and a teetering pile of ENnies.

Sean K Reynolds

Paizo Developer Sean K Reynolds was born in a coastal town in southern California. A professional game designer since 1998, he's best known for his work on the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, Greyhawk, and the 3rd edition Monster Manual. He lives in Seattle with his four cats, and spends his free time reading, painting miniatures, and writing three-sentence biographies.

F. Wesley Schneider

What feels like not that long ago Paizo's Managing Editor, F. Wesley Schneider, was the new kid at Paizo Publishing, having moved from Baltimore, MD to work on Dragon magazine and freelance for a half-dozen other RPG companies. Unbelievably, that was more than five years ago. Now the managing editor of Pathfinder and various related projects, Schneider frequently writes for all of Paizo's lines, drives Pathfinder's developers and editors like slaves, preciously guards Golarion's various bestiaries, and seeks to assure a healthy dose of unnerving content in every product he touches. The last five years have greatly increased his knowledge of world mythology, horror fiction, and B movies, along with his alcohol tolerance and number of white hairs. He's even recently caught himself sounding like Sean, telling stories about the "'good ol' days"' (which are mostly going on right now).

Lisa Stevens

When Mark Rein•Hagen and Jonathan Tweet asked her if she was interested in helping out with a new company they were forming called Lion Rampant, she jumped at the chance to turn her lifelong love of gaming into a career and became the company's editor. Since then, she has been involved in all facets of game production, starting with design and editing credits for the critically acclaimed Ars Magica and Vampire: The Masquerade roleplaying games. Stevens has been an art director, graphic designer, typesetter, licensing manager, and a marketing and sales director. She was also instrumental in the merger between Lion Rampant and White Wolf in 1990. In 1991, she left White Wolf to help Peter Adkison start Wizards of the Coast. Her first job encompassed sales, marketing, and production. When Magic: The Gathering spurred the rapid growth of the company, Stevens settled into managing new business and licensing. In 1996, she became the vice president of event marketing and helped launch the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. Later that year, she helped launch the Wizards of the Coast Game Center in Seattle. In 1997, she joined the TSR brand team as the brand manager for the Greyhawk campaign setting and the RPGA, the organized play program for RPGs. In 1998, Stevens went to the new strategic planning department, where she lent her immense industry knowledge to the TSR and miniatures divisions, including the launch of the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons. In her final position at Wizards, she was the brand manager for Star Wars and launched the d20 version of the Star Wars RPG, in addition to acquiring the Official Star Wars Fan Club, and serving as the club's president for three years. In May of 2002, she formed Paizo Publishing, LLC. As the CEO of the company, she led the group which published Dragon and Dungeon, the official D&D magazines, and also published Star Wars Insider, Undefeated, and Amazing Stories. In 2004, she launched paizo.com, a gaming website that sells more than 20,000 different gaming products and PDF downloads, in addition to having an active messageboard community. Stevens received her MBA from the University of Washington. She has won numerous awards, including Origins Awards for the design of Ars Magica and Vampire: The Masquerade, as the Assistant Editor of White Wolf Magazine, and for the graphic design of Magic: The Gathering. In addition, she was honored by Advertising Age in 1995 as one of the Top 100 Marketers of the Year for her work on Magic: The Gathering. In addition to her work, Lisa loves to play the guitar and has an extensive collection of Star Wars memorabilia that threatens to engulf every room in her house. She lives in Seattle with her significant other, Vic, and her two cats, Juliet and Jake.

Bryan Stiltz

Bryan Stiltz has worked at Reaper Miniatures for over 7 years, and has been everything from the shipping monkey to production manager. He currently plays in several weekly RPGs, co-hosts the City of Doors podcast on the d20 radio network, and has forgotten the concept of 'spare time'. He has worked with Reaper on the development of Warlord, first and second edition, and has been involved in Reaper's product demo team for 5 years.

Shannon Stiltz

Shannon Stiltz is a freelance painter and has been with Reaper Miniatures on and off for 6 years. She has worked in nearly every aspect of the production floor, and even worked on the development of Warlord, CAV, and some consulting work for Master Series Paints. In her off time, she paints miniatures freelance. It's pretty much about the minis.

James Sutter

Paizo's Fiction Editor James Lafond Sutter is an award-winning author, game designer, and musician. In addition to his fiction and gaming projects for Paizo, his short fiction has appeared in such venues as Black Gate, Catastrophia (PS Publishing), and Apex Magazine. Formerly the Assistant Editor of Dungeon, he now spends his days developing for the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting and spearheading the new Pathfinder Fiction novel line. When not writing, Sutter tours locally with his hardcore metal band Shadow at Morning and serves on the board of directors for children's charity The Power of Hope.

Greg A. Vaughan

Greg A. Vaughan cut his professional adventure-design teeth writing in Dungeon magazine for Paizo Publishing with his first adventure Tammeraut's Fate. Since then he has continued to write for Paizo as well as Wizards of the Coast, Necromancer Games, and Nicolas Logue's Sinister Adventures and is a member of the Werecabbages freelance writers' guild. He studied archaeology at the University of Oklahoma and continues to live in Oklahoma City with his wife and children. One of his goals in life is to own a World War I-era biplane and put a stamp on the fuselage for each TPK one of his adventures has caused. Vaughan's Pathfinder credits include Spires of Xin-Shalast, Into the Haunted Forest, River into Darkness, The Impossible Eye, Shadow in the Sky, and Mother of Lies.

Pierce Watters

Pierce Watters is Paizo Publishing's Director of Sales and has done almost everything in publishing at one time or another except run the printing press. He was Assistant Librarian for Tuolumne County at the age of 16, was the buyer for a major book and magazine wholesaler, managed a bookstore, and was a sales and marketing rep for a number of publishers including Ace, Tor, Ballantine, Berkeley, and Warner. Watters attended Clarion East for six weeks in 1974 and his teachers included Robin Scott Wilson, Gordon R. Dickson, Harlan Ellison, Tom Disch, Damon Knight, and Kate Wilhelm. Watters entered game publishing as Editor-in-Chief of Dragon and Dungeon magazines at TSR and was the Executive Editor for both and Publisher at Wizards of the Coast and also served as the Executive Editor of Amazing Stories. Currently, Pierce writes book reviews for Kobold Quarterly magazine, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Fantasy Book Spot. Watters has studied Internal Chinese Martial Arts for 25 years, serving as the Founding Editor of Internal Arts Magazine, teaching tai chi chuan in Seattle, and writing an occasional article for Kungfu magazine.

Bill Webb

Bill Webb is the owner of Frog God Games, and has been active in the game industry since the 1990s. Bill has over 70 books to his credit-writing, developing and directing the creation of over 100,000 pages of fantasy RPG material as the creative director and still half owner of Necromancer Games (with his old buddy Clark Peterson). His best known works include Rappan Athuk, Wilderlands of High Fantasy, Dungeon of Graves, Demons and Devils, the Crucible of Freya, and The Lost City of Barakus (with WDB Kenower). His works have won several ENNIE Awards, including his pride and joy, the Golden Grognard award in 2007.

He has had the pleasure of working with some of the finest writers in industry, including Bob Bledsaw (Judges Guild), Gary Gygax (Necropolis), Greg Vaughan (Slumbering Tsar), Rob Kuntz (Maze of Zayene 1-3), Monte Cook, Stewart and Steve Wieck (White Wolf and Sword and Sorcery Studios, Multiple titles), Rob Schwalb (Trouble in Durbenford), WDB Kenower (Lost City of Barakus, Vault of Larin Karr), David Kenzer (multiple titles) and Troll Lord Games (multiple titles). His proudest publishing moment was when Necromancer games released Judges Guild books that he had used in his home campaign since 1977.

He currently lives on his farm in a remote area of Washington State with his dogs, guns, pickup truck, wife and two kids where he designs roads, bridges and parks in his spare time.

EVENTS

Though we're still weeks away from opening Paizo Con 2010 events for registration, here's a small sample of what we're planning to offer.

Advanced Player's Guide Preview Banquet, with new revelations of upcoming products, a look at the actual Advanced Player's Guide book, a tour of its contents with author Jason Bulmahn, a giant Pathfinder trivia contest, and food so good you won't believe you're eating in a hotel!
Video presentation of the da Vinci Arts Middle School theatrical production of the very first Pathfinder adventure, "'Burnt Offerings,"' complete with in-person director commentary, props, and actors from the production.
More Pathfinder Society scenarios than you can shake a +1 holy stick of flaming burst at.
Pathfinder Fiction seminar, Planet Stories seminar, and a Fiction Workshop.
Pathfinder Society contributor workshop.
Rob McCreary GMs his Free RPG Day adventure, Master of the Fallen Fortress.
Sean K Reynold's "'Suicidal Strikeforce"' and "'Angelic Armageddon"' events, several Sean-lead miniatures painting workshops, and many developer seminars that give you a glimpse behind the Pathfinder Chronicles curtain.
Jason Bulmahn's "'Fight Club 2: The Revenge"' and "'Cursed Lot 3: Curses for Everyone!"' as well as several Pathfinder RPG seminars.
The continuation of F. Wesley Schneider's terrifying "'Beyond the Gates of Bastardhall,"' his dread adventure set in the spooky counties of Ustalav.
James Jacobs's "'Unspeakable Futures—Knights of Dagon,"' "'Call of Cthulhu—The Prodigy of Death,"' and a Serpent Skull Adventure Path preview session.
A GM-focused city-building workshop led by James Sutter and other members of the Paizo staff.
Erik Mona's "'Spire of Nex"' convention-exclusive series continues!
24 hours of open gaming (board games, RPGs, TCGs, you name it!)

…and much more!

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