Guests of Honor

Greg Stafford

Greg Stafford is the man behind Glorantha, a vast fantasy world familiar to all RuneQuest players. RQ itself was a revolutionary game when it appeared in 1978. It discarded experience points and levels in favor of a practice-based skill advancement system.

Other works by Stafford include the Pendragon and Hero Wars RPGs. Most recent game is HeroQuest, published in 2002, which also makes use of the Glorantha setting. Stafford still develops Glorantha in many ways, writing background material and articles.

http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=521
http://www.glorantha.com/inc/bios_authors.html

Bill Bridges

Bill Bridges is a very topical guest of honor, as he is the lead designer of the brand new World of Darkness 2.0. He has worked before on first-generation Werewolf and Mage. Bridges is also familiar with fantasy worlds, as he was a lead designer in the Fading Suns RPG.

http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=566.

Claus Raasted

Claus Raasted is a jack-of-all-trades in the Danish RPG scene. He makes a living by GMing tabletop and live role-playing games for youths and adults - in Denmark larping in particular is en established form of leisure activity for children and youngsters. Games lead by adults are offered by school clubs and youth societies.

In addition to GMing Raasted has written nonfiction RPG books, supported Nordic collaboration and become probably the most famous Danish role-player. Raasted was involved in a Danish reality show, where a bunch of nerds was formed into a football team (http://fcz.dk/, in Danish).