Industry Guests

Guest of Honor: Bridgett Jeffries

Bridgett is a 2x ENNIE Award, Origins Award, and CRIT Award winning content creator, community cultivator, storyteller, writer, podcaster, streamer, publisher, host, and professional hugger.

Bridgett owns Symphony Entertainment, a company dedicated to horror roleplaying games. She’s also host of the Miskatonic University Podcast and works at Chaosium Inc. as their Community Coordinator.

Bridgett also hosted the 2024 & 2025 ENNIES!

Find Bridgett online at: symphonyentertainment.com

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Guest Emeriti

Will Niebling is a game designer who began working part-time for TSR on the original Dungeon Masters Guide. He later became the executive vice president of TSR’s Sales and Marketing, as well as their convention director, including running a Gen Con game convention. He has been involved in just about every aspect of the gaming business: design, development, publishing, sales, and distribution, working or consulting for companies such as Random House, Berkley Publishing, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and Capital City Distribution, Grenadier Miniatures, Wizards of the Coast, and Koplow Games. He was part of group that took over the company Mayfair Games, later leaving to form a new game company called Elfinwerks. He continues to develop games and work with a number of companies as a consultant on international partnerships. He has also served on the board of directors of the Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA), becoming a board member emeritus as well as contributing to numerous committees and programs. Will is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is married to his lovely wife Schar and has two kids, including his son William who has also pursed his own career in the games hobby.

Ryan Macklin is a veteran tabletop game designer best known for his work on Fate, as well as his own Mythender and Katanas & Trenchcoats. He’s exploring app-centric approaches to tabletop games these days, at least when not dealing with a day job or cultivating his rural land.

Alexander Thomas is an author, game designer, dog lover, karaoke enthusiast, and all around nerd. He has been a forever GM since his father gave him a D&D starter box at 11 years old. You may know him as the line developer for Mutants & Masterminds at Green Ronin Publishing, as the author of the Titan City Chronicles novel series, or as Executive Producer of the Untold Stories Project actual play network on Twitch and YouTube. His latest works include the upcoming Valiant Adventures Roleplaying Game, Astonishing Adventures Assembled, Chaotic Good Vol. 1, and Danger Zones. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife.

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