Special Thanks to

The DSU gaming club and Nanocon would like to thank the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business and Information Systems, and the President's Office at Dakota State University for sponsoring the game design panel Friday November 6th at Nanocon. Without the help and support of these programs this event would not be possible.

Chris Sims

D&D Designer/Web Specialist

Chris started out as freelance D&D editor for RPG R&D in 2004. He came onboard at Wizards in 2005 as a contractor working on editing the Duel Masters trading card game. After working on trading card games for about a year, he moved into RPG R&D again as an editor. Since then, he qualified to wear just about any hat in R&D and settled into a designer role. When D&D Insider launched, Chris transitioned to working as a web specialist, which functions much like a magazine editor. He still works as a designer and developer at times, and he plays or DMs regular D&D games at least six or seven times a month.

Richard Dansky

Horror Writer and Game Designer

He is currently employed, as the Manager of Design for Red Storm Entertainment in Morrisville, North Carolina. He also works as the Central Clancy Writer for UbiSoft, Red Storm's parent company, which means that he gets his hands on the storylines and content of most Tom Clancy-themed computer games. For more visit his bio here

Jeff Tidball

Game Designer

Jeff Tidball is an Origins Award-winning game designer whose credits include contributions to more than 50 roleplaying games, card games, and board games, including work on a technologically innovative massively multiplayer mobile phone game. He worked as The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game's line developer during the period of New Line's film releases, won both the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design's professional and gamer's choice awards for card game Cthulhu 500, and optioned board game Cults Across America for feature development. He's contributed to prestige game lines including Ars Magica, Vampire: the Requiem, and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and writes a column on roleplaying for Games Quarterly magazine.