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

Dave Megarry

Original Blackmoor player 

& 

Inventor of Dungeon the board game 

50th anniversary celebration

Mike Carr

Original Blackmoor player

TSR Alumni 

Creator of Don't Give Up the Ship 

& 

Dawn Patrol

David Wesely

The Grandfather of Role Playing Games 

Creator of Braunstein

Frank

Mentzer

Game Designer 

and 

TSR Legend 

Ross Maker

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

William Hoyt

Original BlackMoor

 & 

Empire of the Petal Throne 

Player 

Greg Gillespie

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

Mark 

Rein-Hagen

Game Designer 

and 

author of 

Vampire: The Masquerade

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.

Ken Fletcher

Local Minneapolis artist 

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

&

Davecon Silent Auctioneer

Donna

Gygax 

Wife of Ernie Gygax 

Justin Alexander

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

and 

RPG Developer at 

Atlas Games.

Andy
"The Dishwasher" Thomas & 

Dave
"The Busboy" Yeager 

Co-Creators of Mystic Days

D.M. Ritzlin 

founded DMR Books in 2015 with the aim of revitalizing sword-and-sorcery literature. DMR’s publications include reprints of classic material by authors such as Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock, and Clark Ashton Smith, as well as brand-new collections and anthologies by some of the finest fantasy writers active today. Ritzlin’s first collection of his own stories, Necromancy in Nilztiria, was released in October 2020. This was followed by a novel, Vran the Chaos-Warped (2023), and a second collection, Dark Dreams of Nilztiria (2024). His tales mix action, horror, wonder, and gallows humor in varying degrees. Lately the field of role-playing games has recaptured Ritzlin’s attention. His first professionally published adventure module, The Lair of the Brain Eaters, was released through one of the best-known publishers of old school RPG material, Lamentations of the Flame Princess. 

The Infamous

EGG of COOT

It's not Gary Gygax as some suspect.

William Hart. Illustrator for DaveCon, Mystic Days, Smouldering Dung Games, Adventures Dark and Deep, among others.