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Posted by: Adhoc Oct 19 2004, 01:25 PM

Hi,

I've been asked to be responsible for the Guest Of Honor/VIP for Denmark's most prestigious RPG-convention http://www.fastaval.dk/.

My first task is to find out who I should invite. I would like it to be a gamedesigner, who has worked with both digital and non-digital games and RPGs as well as other games and who has written with various p&p-RPGs. Monte Cook is out of the questions; he's a nice chap, but he's just been to Denmark.

Previous guests include Mark Rein-Hagen, Steve Jackson and Mike Pondsmith.

Current suggestions are:
http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=1112 - very possible choice.
http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=1699
http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=811 - developer and writer on the new WoD.
http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=2538
http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=4 - lotsa design-experience, but allmost exclusively for Wizards Of The Coast.
http://www.johntynes.com/ - Delta Green alone justifies it (http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=804)
http://www.costik.com/weblog/ -allways ready for an honest opinion.
http://www.neilgaiman.com/ - plain writer; a different prospect then the usual G'o'H's.
http://www.clivebarker.com/ - same as Gaiman.

Do you have any suggestions?

Adhoc

Posted by: Wutasumi Oct 19 2004, 10:57 PM

Gary Gigax still alive? Even if he hasn't done anything digital...

Come on... HE ****ING DEFINED RPGS.

Posted by: Gyrox10 Oct 22 2004, 03:08 AM

Michael Stackpole would be interesting to have as a VIP...

if you dont know who he is, hes done tons of battletech novels, random stuff for battletech, a REALLY good collection of short stories for Shadowrun(Its called Wolf and Raven, pick it up if you get the chance). do a google search for his site. its got some interesting stuff on it

Posted by: Casazil Oct 22 2004, 05:58 AM

David Arnson Co-Creator of D&D. Is alive and well right here in central Florida. He teaches Gameing and game making at a school down here.

Then of course you could invite someone from Fanpro What is Mr. Boyle up to?? Or say someone from this community say Mr. Jury??

There are several people that would make a cool vip but picking just one is a big job good luck.