In 2012, Ropecon’s Guests of Honour will be Peter Adkison and Larson Kasper.

Peter Adkison, the founder of Wizards of the Coast, the company behind Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon Trading Card Game, Robo Rally, Dungeons and Dragons, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, D20 System, and many others. Adkison currently runs GenCon, one of the largest roleplaying conventions in the world, as well as Hidden City Entertainment, publisher of Clout: Fantasy, and Bella Sara, a collectible card game for young girls.

Adkison is also responsible for The Primal Order, a religion-based fantasy roleplaying game supplement, which was the first game with the "capsystem" concept, supporting gamemasters to integrate it into other role-playing games. Ropecon’s previous Guests of Honor have included Kenneth Hite, Greg Stafford, Jonathan Tweet, and John Kovalic among others.

Larson Kasper (born 1972) is a German larp game designer and educator. In his work with teenagers with special needs, he strives to use his experience with live roleplaying games as an educational tool.

During the last 14 years, Larson Kasper has also had plenty of experience in organising various larps, among them the F.R.E.D. award-winning games “yksi/üç” and “The Living Dead” (as part of team Reality Check). Both of these have been realised in cooperation with the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. Together with game designer Karsten Dombrowski, Larson Kasper was hired to create an alternate reality game taking place during the Liverpool Biennial, an international festival of contemporary art.

His influence on the German larp scene is most obvious when considering that he was both one of the driving forces for the first Mittelpunkt (the German spin-off of Knutepunkt) in 2005, and part of the event’s organizing team for five consecutive years.

In 1996 Larson Kasper was co-founder of 'Kampfküche' (Combat Kitchen) a group of non-professional volunteers catering for larps. Up to today, the group has cooked approximately 100.000 meals.

Larson Kasper’s experience with role-playing games goes back far into the 80's (or 70's), depending on whether you count D&D or Cops and Robbers.