Jesy Fortino’s music is “black and desolate.” She likes to call herself Tiny Vipers after the monsters from her teenage D&D games.

The members of “Troglodyte jug band” Thee Hobo Gobbelins are nerds inspired by mythology, “the traditional sounds of Americana and the Old World,” “the horrors of modernity,” and Dungeons & Dragons.

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Esther Schindler believes that playing Dungeons & Dragons has been of great benefit to her career. Not only did she find employment with one of her DMs, but she also credits the game with teaching her valuable business lessons. My favorites include:

The best quests require a mixture of skills in the party.

Simple and internally consistent is more fun than random.

You create your own traps.

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Nevermet Press is a new publisher of system-neutral supplements—primarily villains and encounters. The company was founded by two members of the RPG Bloggers Network to build on that experience by crowdsourcing RPG material.

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