Acadecon brings the guests!
Despite our small size, we have a bunch of Special guests from the TTRPG worlds. Podcasters, Game Designers, Streamers and more. Some will be running games (or maybe playing in yours) hosting live events or panels. Here is our confirmed list of Guests for 2023. Watch this space for updates
DM Scotty
DM Scotty is the face and voice of The DMsCraft Youtube Channel with the mission of helping you make your own cheap and easy Terrain, props and Set Pieces for your DnD and Table top games.
He is also the creator of EZD6 a rules light fantasy RPG.
Doug Shute
Doug Shute is a professional content creator, podcaster and host. In 2017 Doug founded Victory Condition Gaming, a multi-platform podcast that promotes the hobby of tabletop games with interviews, reviews, and actual plays. Over the last 5 years, he has created content for over 100 crowdfunding campaigns totaling over $20.5M for various tabletop games and projects. For the past 3 years, Doug has also been the Youtube host and video producer for Free League Publishing as well as their representative for North American events.
When Doug isn’t creating content or playing tabletop games, he is usually geeking out about Transformers, G.I. Joe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or debating that frosted raspberry is the superior flavor of Pop-Tarts.
Roo Thompson
Born the daughter of a sci-fi/fantasy-loving Dad and a true crime/mystery-following Mom, Roxanne was destined to place somewhere on the awkward geek spectrum. Her personal baptism into the geek fold took place when her dad would plop her on the sofa with him to watch Dr. Who reruns on PBS and Star Trek: The Next Generation in the evenings. It was his influence that later led to her following many different science-fiction franchises across many mediums, including her all-time favorite, Mass Effect, the video game series that has spawned novels, comics, an animated film, and many a shaken fist and bitter tears. In 2014, she was introduced to the world of modern board- and roleplaying games that ultimately led to meeting John, a veteran tabletop gamer. Together they formed Passionerdly Podcasts covering a wide range of topics in the general field of nerd-dom. Roo is now the President of Rook and Rasp, a Twitch channel focusing on Indie RPGs and community development. When not producing streams Roo spends her days working as a Freelance Layout Designer in the Tabletop RPG industry for companies such as Modiphius and AAW Games, and pouring tabletop enhancing candles for Epic Adventure Candle Co.
Michael Waldschlager II (He/Him) - Podcaster/Streamer/Voice Actor
Michael Waldschlager II (He/Him) - Podcaster/Streamer/Voice Actor
Whether it‘s the gravelly voice of his signature character, ’Enssan Tazi‘ on ’Smuggler‘s Blues’, or the even-keeled calm of ‘Maxi’ on IDENTECO‘s ’CHAOS, Inc.’, one thing is certain: Michael lives for playing interesting, three-dimensional characters! The only thing better is meeting wonderful new folks to game with at AcadeCon!
He has a long & wonderful history with The RPG Academy as well, guesting on a number of their productions. This will be his 7th AcadeCon, and he will be hosting this year‘s ’AcadeCon Karaoke Bash’ on Friday and Saturday evening!
Michael can be found at @losermlw on social media, various Discords, and can be seen and heard here:
Smuggler’s Blues: A Redemption Story
http://youtube.com/@SmugglersBlues
http://redemptionpodcast.com/
IDENTECO‘s ’CHAOS, Inc’ Actual Play - http://twitch.tv/identeco
Tubular Teens with Titans Audio Drama https://anchor.fm/tubularteens
Dragon Age: A Time of Masks & Daggers
http://twitch.tv/rookandrasp
Ghostlight Media
Ghostlight Media is an Ohio-based podcast network that focuses on the nexus of theatre and gaming. With their flagship show, Another Path, launching in May of 2017 they have continued to grow and branch out into different games and topics ever since! Check us out at www.ghostlightmedia.net
Rin Moran
Rin is a voice and stage actor, DJ, musician, writer, and avid player of wonderful silly games. Rin voices Jhori Ostiir on Ghostlight Media’s “Imprinted Echoes,” as well as other miscellaneous roles across other Ghostlight shows.
Nicole Tuttle-Robb
Nicole Tuttle-Robb (she/her) As a writer, performer and creator, Nicole has been involved in several audio projects over the last few years. She plays Avery on These Silent Secrets, Ghostlight Media’s Monsterhearts 2 Actual Play. She also produces and performs as Aurelie in fantasy audio drama The LaFresian Chronicles.
Ryan Albrecht
Ryan is a proud founding member of Ghostlight Media. You can hear him as Cecil Styles and Jackson Silver on Another Path, a 5e theatrical play. He also is currently one half of By the Ghostlight, a theatre news and education podcast. Ryan can often be found in the theatre as an award winning actor, director, and designer.
Chase Greenlee
Chase is the creative director of Ghostlight Media, GM of Another Path, and plays Nehemiah on Imprinted Echoes. He was also 1/4 of the founding cast of Shakesbeer, portrayed Arsen on the fantasy audio drama The LaFresian Chronicles, and was a regular contributor to the round-table podcast Crit Chat.
Zack Tuttle-Robb
Zack Tuttle-Robb is the MC of These Silent Secrets (A Monsterhearts 2 Actual Play) and Co-Host of Zack and Griffin’s Multiversal Petshop (a deep dive into mythical creatures and discussion on their viability as pets). He loves gaming deeply and is living proof that there isn’t such a thing as being in too many home games!!
Matthew Balogh - Professional GM
Matt is a professional game master with over 30 years of experience. He‘s been telling stories since childhood and has run over 1000 professional sessions for over a dozen campaigns. He and his family operate out of their not-so-underground bunker in Dayton, Ohio, spinning stories and printing minis of future BBEG’s. (And castles made of mimics.)
Kaylee Jung
Kaylee Jung is best known for her work on the Redemption Podcast where she is both the editor and producer, but the voice actor for the twi‘lek Jedi, Karrell. She also can be found on the IDENTECO series Chaos, Inc where she portrays the hacker Ch0wn, on several RPG Academy shows over the years, and on several episodes of the Rook & Rasp "Seriously, Let’s Play!" Twitch series. In her non-interesting, non-gaming life, she works as a Systems Administrator and is mom to two neurotic orange tabby cats named Kyber and Ahsoka.
Tabletop Journeys - Lewanika, Josh, and Glen
Friends for much longer than any of them care to admit, your three hosts bring extensive RPG experience from even before they met. For almost 100 years combined, they have played in and ran tabletop and live-action games of every stripe. Since then, they have discussed, argued, kibitzed, broken down, built up, rearranged, and dissected every imaginable topic, frequently in living rooms in front of horrified onlookers who couldn’t get a word in edgewise. The Tabletop Journeys project started as friends wanting to get together over Zoom to talk about the games they were running, the stuff that they had bought, and things that they thought were cool. And now, we hope that you do too!
Neal Powell
No one can be told the mystery of Neal. They must experience him themselves.
John Thompson
John has been an avid computer and console video gamer since the Atari 2600 and his collection of Sierra Entertainment games (King’s Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, etc). By the third grade, to cement his rightful place in general geekdom, he became the president of his elementary school’s Computer Club. Not long after, friends in his neighborhood introduced him to tabletop roleplaying games like Battletech, Greyhawk, and Ninjas & Superspies. Moving away, he lost touch with the roleplaying community until, in college, his future brother-in-law started a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying group and invited John to join. Since that time, he has been heavily involved in the multiple genres of roleplaying from serving as Assistant Regional Storyteller for the state of Texas in the official White Wolf fanclub, The Camarilla to writing submissions for White Wolf Fanzine in the early-2000s to working in design and layout for TTRPGs from Dark Skull Studios and AAW. His first experience with podcasting came in the mid-2010‘s. His first company, Passionerdly Podcasts was the integration of the website The Nomadic Nerd and formed under the Southgate Media Group. He has now helmed various podcast and Twitch Actual Play shows as either producer or GM allowing him to share his enthusiasm for tabletop gaming with a whole new audience. Later this year, he’s bringing his first tabletop RPG, Gutterpunk, to Kickstarter. Check out our booth for more information or a demo.
Chris Skinner
Chris is a lifelong Ohio resident and first fell in love with RPGs with D&D in 1981 with friends he still plays with to this day. His latest passion is the superhero RPG Mutants and Masterminds. He is a part of the Untold Stories Project, where he writes and runs original one-shots. He is also the co-founder of the non-profit FAST (families are stronger together) Gaming where he assists families with communication and problem solving using board games.