OUR JUDGES (in alphabetical order):
Tomek Baginski – Polish artist and animator, winner of BAFTA Award for his short movie Fallen Art, and nominated for Academy Award (yes, we mean the Oscar thing) for another of his animated shorts – The Cathedral. Recently, Tomek created animated intro for the computer game The Witcher. See Tomek’s company at
http://www.platige.com
Wolfgang Baur –Wolfgang Baur has written dozens of adventures for Paizo, Wizards of the Coast, and Open Design. He has been nominated for Origins and ENnie awards for Dark*Matter and Castle Shadowcrag. He loves all flavors of fantasy and reads a ludicrous number of genre novels.
Wolfgang is a former editor of Dragon magazine and is currently the publisher of Kobold Quarterly magazine. You can learn more about Wolfgang and Kobold Quarterly at
http://koboldquarterly.com
Kevin Cook – known as “The Dice Collector”, Kevin owns the world’s largest collection of dice – over 22 000 different dice in all possible sizes and colors. He holds a Guinness World Record award for this achievement, but he continues to collect new dice designs and support the dice collection hobby all over the world. Kevin’s amazing dice collection can be found at
http://www.dicecollector.com
Florian Don-Schauen – German author of Fantasy books. Co-creator of Das Schwarze Auge, most popular German Role Playing Game. Florian is working on DSA since mid-90s. and he’s responsible for expanding and revision of DSA rules. He is also one of authors of English version of the game – “The Dark Eye”. Apart from his gaming industry activity, Florian dedicated his life to music, he’s well known flute musician. Visit Florian at DSA webpage:
http://www.dasschwarzeauge.de
Gamer Bling -Gamer Bling played the Original White-Box D&D many long years before it was called the Original White-Box D&D. He eagerly awaited the release of Greyhawk, the availability of polyhedron dice, the AD&D hardbacks, and facial hair (which did not arrive until he was in his 30s). Although his first RPG adventure was published in 1986, he ended up in the TCG industry. Nonetheless, he launched
http://www.gamer-bling.com, a pimptastic site jam-packed with kick-ass reviews of the best gaming excessories and phat gamer lewt. With his discriminating palate and haute couture tastes, it was inevitable that he would judge this contest.
Ralph Horsley– Freelance artist and illustrator. Ralph has worked in the gaming industry for over ten years. He creates artwork for Dungeons & Dragons, Magic the Gathering, Warhammer, and the World of Warcraft TCG. Recently his artwork was featured on the covers of Black Industries WFRP books and the new edition of the Talisman board game. Visit Ralph at
http://www.ralphhorsley.co.uk
John Kovalic – cartoonist, illustrator and writer, best known for his Dork Tower comic and work for Steve Jackson Games, especially the Munchkin game series. Kovalic is an award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Wisconsin State Journal. His work has appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post.
Charlie Krank – RPG industry veteran, Charlie is associated with Chaosium since 1980, and currently holds the position of President. He was involved in virtually every Chaosium product.
Mr. Krank is certainly one of most devoted Cthulhu cultis…erm, fans. You can find his company at
http://www.chaosium.com
Rick Loomis – since 1970, Rick is the CEO of FBI… well, that’s Flying Buffalo Inc, of course ! FBI is the oldest "Adventure Game" company still under its original management! Rick is also creator and publisher of the popular "Death Dice", "Adventure Dice", and the infamous "Pizza Dice". Rick wrote first RPG solo adventure, "Buffalo Castle", which is now included with the Tunnels & Trolls rules. However, he has also another job – he is the President of GAMA (Games Manufacturers Association). You can find Flying Buffalo at
http://www.flyingbuffalo.com and GAMA at
http://www.gama.org
Paul Maclean – webmaster of Yog-sothoth.com, one of biggest websites for Call of Cthulhu fans. Paul maintains the portal and runs several of its features, notably the audio recordings of CoC games and the Yog Radio podcast. You can find Paul’s portal at
http://www.yog-sothoth.com
Wayne Reynolds – freelance artist and illustrator, known for his work for Wizards of the Coast, Games Workshop, Paizo, Green
Ronin and others. Wayne is currently working on covers to main rulebooks of 4th ed of Dungeons & Dragons. His website is
http://www.waynereynolds.com
Thomas Römer – co-author and -developer of the biggest German RPG system Das Schwarze Auge (DSA). A former student of physics and astronomy, he is involved with DSA since 1988 and is responsible for dozens of publications within the DSA system. He was also editor of the German version of the Shadowrun cyberpunk RPG. DSA-related information can be found at
http://www.dasschwarzeauge.de
Anne Stokes- freelance fantasy artist who has worked for Wizards of the Coast on their D&D Eberron and Forgotten Realms campaign books, plus Dreamblade and various other miniature designs. She is currently working on illustrations their new 4th edition D&D core rule books. Other gaming artworks include sleeve art for Max Protection Deck Armor, World of Warcraft CCG, Mongoose publishing covers and Sabertooth Games CCGs. See Anne's wonderful work at
http://www.annestokes.comAnd Q-workshop team members:
Patryk Strzelewicz - Owner and Founder
Dariusz Strzelewicz - Chief Technician
Michal Lisowski - International Departament Manager
Krzysztof Fabjanski - Customer Service Specialist
Jakub Jaraczewski - Brand Manager
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