Davecon isn't just about one Dave, its about all the Daves that made RPG gaming great ! 

2025 Special Guests

Dave Megarry

Original Blackmoor player 

Inventor of Dungeon the board game 

The Grandfather of Role Playing Games 

Creator of Braunstein


Original Blackmoor player

TSR Alumni 

Creator of Don't Give Up the Ship 

Dawn Patrol

William Hoyt

Original BlackMoor

 & 

Empire of the Petal Throne 

Player 

Ross Maker

Co-Creator of Source of the Nile and original Blackmoor player 

Baron DeRopp
Dungeon Masterpiece

David Johnson

DJ is a D&D Streamer, Host of the podcast "Architects of Imagination" and award winning Video Game FX Artist, currently the CEO and Creative Director for Undertone FX. If you've played Call of Duty, Halo, Mortal Kombat or many other games you have probably experienced his work.

Justin Alexander

Justin Alexander is the best-selling author of So You Want To Be A Game Master and the RPG

Developer at Atlas Games.

Ken Fletcher

Local Minneapolis artist 

Staff artist at Dave Arneson's Adventure Games company, and sci-fi and fantasy fan 

Greg Gillespie

Author of Barrowmaze, Archaia, HighFell, and Dwarrowdeep and two-time winner of the Three Castles Award for Game Design.  

Mark 

Rien -Haugen

Game Designer 

and 

author of 

Vampire: The Masquerade

Andy
"The Dishwasher" Thomas & 

Dave
"The Busboy" Yeager 

Co-Creators of Mystic Days

Kevin McColl

Dave Arneson's Webmaster 

and

Blackmoor Historian

The Infamous

EGG of COOT

It's not Gary Gygax as some suspect.

Nathan
Heard

Creator of MYTHCRAFT