Dungeons & Dragons launched the great tradition of roleplaying games in 1974 with an unprecedented mix of adventure and strategy, dice-rolling, and storytelling. Wizards of the Coast continues to honor that tradition, bringing to market a diverse range of D&D game and entertainment experiences and influencing numerous writers, directors, and game designers by tapping into an innate human need to gather with friends and tell an exciting story together.
Kyle Newman is an author and award-winning filmmaker who has directed numerous feature films including the
Star Wars-fueled comedy
Fanboys, A24 Films'
Barely Lethal, the e-sports comedy
1UP, and the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons documentary for Hasbro, Inc. He has directed the music industry's top artists, and produced films such as
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made. As an author, he is known for his work on
Dungeons & Dragons: Art & Arcana, the
New York Times bestselling cookbook
Heroes' Feast, and its follow-up,
Heroes' Feast Flavors of the Multiverse. An honors graduate of NYU's Tisch School of Film/Television and a member of the Directors Guild of America, Newman resides in Los Angeles with his partner, Cynthia, and their three sons.
Jon Peterson is widely recognized as an authority on the history of games, best known as the author of
Playing at the World,
The Elusive Shift, and
Game Wizards. He also co-authored
Dungeons & Dragons: Art & Arcana,
Heroes' Feast: The Official Dungeons & Dragons Cookbook, and
Heroes' Feast Flavors of the Multiverse. He has contributed to academic anthologies on games, including MIT Press's
Zones of Control and Routledge's
Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations. Jon also has written for various geek culture websites, including
Wired, Polygon, and
BoingBoing, as well as maintaining his own blog.
Michael Witwer is a
New York Times bestselling author known for his work on the Hugo-nominated
Dungeons & Dragons: Art & Arcana, the critically acclaimed
Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons, and the bestselling
Heroes' Feast: The Official Dungeons & Dragons Cookbook. His most recent works include
Dungeons & Dragons: The Legend of Drizzt Visual Dictionary,
Heroes' Feast Flavors of the Multiverse, and his debut novel,
Vivian Van Tassel and the Secret of Midnight Lake. He holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago and resides in Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, two daughters, and two sons.
Sam Witwer is an American actor and musician, best-known for a series of sci-fi genre roles spanning a twenty-year career. He led the SyFy drama series
Being Human, playing down-and-out vampire-gone-straight Aidan Waite (8+3 Hit Dice), and played conflicted Raptor Pilot Crashdown in the Hugo Award-winning series
Battlestar Galactica, Superman-killing Doomsday in CW's
Smallville, misunderstood Mr. Hyde in ABC's
Once Upon a Time, and antagonist Agent Liberty on WB's
Supergirl. Sam is also well-known for his continuing work for the
Star Wars saga, bringing various characters to life in video games, film, and television, including Starkiller in
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and a multi-year, Emmy-nominated run voicing the villainous ex-Sith lord Darth Maul. Recently, Sam served as the main character in Sony's
Days Gone videogame. He is a longtime fan of science fiction and fantasy, and an avid player of both electronic games and pen-and-paper role-playing games.
