Keith Baker is a game designer and fantasy novel author. In addition to working with Wizards of the Coast on the creation of Eberron, he has also contributed material for Atlas Games, Goodman Games, Paizo Publishing and Green Ronin Publishing and many more. Keith has also designed card and board games, including his bestselling game Gloom. In 2016, Baker and Jennifer Ellis co-founded the indie tabletop game company Twogether Studios, creating games such as Illimat, The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance, and Phoenix: Dawn Command.

Having worked as a professional writer for more than 30 years, Monte Cook can honestly say that he’s never had a real job. As a game designer, he’s worked on hundreds of products, including as a codesigner of D&D 3rd Edition, and designer of HeroClix, Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, Ptolus, Arcana Evolved, Numenera, the Magnus Archives RPG, and so much more, including a number of Planescape products, Call of Cthulhu d20, Monte Cook’s World of Darkness, a whole bunch of d20 stuff, and—going way back—products for Rolemaster and Champions. As a fiction writer, he has published numerous short stories and two novels, The Glass Prison, a heroic fantasy set in the Forgotten Realms, and Of Aged Angels, a modern day conspiracy and paranormal tale. He attended both the prestigious Clarion West SF&F writer’s workshop and the NASA-funded Launchpad workshop. As a comic book writer, he has written a limited series for Marvel Comics called Ptolus: Monte Cook’s City by the Spire, as well as some shorter work. As a nonfiction writer, he has published the wry but informative Skeptic’s Guide to Conspiracies.

Monte has been and is currently the creative director and lead designer at Monte Cook Games, since 2012.