Guild Masters

The Guild Masters are the core group that write and run the majority of RP-Artisans games and other events, and help maintain this website.

Alyson Enright:

Alyson has been involved in gaming for 12 years. She started off with her first campaign in Role Master and has been hooked every since. She then went off to play ShadowRun and Werewolf. Much like her, she started her gaming hobby unconventionally....she didn't play Dungeons & Dragons until about three years ago!! The D20 system was almost a foreign entity, as she had been playing primarily ShadowRun and Cthulhu and just started GMing for Cthulhu about 4 years ago, starting at a con by answering a Call for Judges. She has been hooked into GMing Cthulhu ever since, and is constantly looking for new blood to sacrifice to the Old Ones :-) With her involvement in RP-Artisans, she hopes to contribute by constantly bringing fun to the table.

Bill Keyes

Bill has been gaming for well over 25 years, starting with the original hardback AD&D books (which he still has, proudly showing them off to anyone foolish enough to ask) in 1980. He discovered the original Champions superhero RPG at the tender age of 11, and has been running various heroic adventures (alternating between D&D, Hero, and other systems too numerous to mention) ever since. People keep coming back to play, so he must be doing something right. A long-time resident of Colorado, he currently lives in Johnstown.

Known as "The Bunny" by his fellow gamers (for reasons we are unable to explain), he claims to have been elected President in an rigged election, conquered the Midwest, been shot and killed at least once, sworn (and achieved!) vengeance on the gods themselves, crowned himself King of the World, become the arch-enemy of a llama, deposed the Pope, and had torrid love affairs with several well-known movie starlets. It is unlikely that any of these things are actually true, but it's best to just humor him when he gets like this.

Michelle Norton

Michelle was introduced to 2nd ed D&D in high school by a former boyfriend who had nothing else to impress her with, and let her get away with murder. She played a 1st/2nd ed mishmash exclusively until moving to Denver in 2002. She began playing and running 3rd ed until Cortex where she learned if you take 8 players and put them in a room with a few noisy boxes people will entertain themselves for hours. She's been running Cortex ever since.

Rich Kohl

Back in time, about 2 days after light was invented.....

Yes I've been playing a long time. Almost thirty years ago, I noticed some older kids talking about a game they played where they pretended to be knights and Wizards fighting dragons and rescuing princess (or something like that) and I asked them about it. They showed me the AD&D PHB and described the game as a way of playing out the stories of Tolkien , Lieber, and Moorcok. At the time I was heavy into SciFi, (Still!!!), but was intriqued. They invited me to play the following Saturday. Luckily one of them was a friend who could drive, and I joined them. Created a Wizard and was almost killed by the players in the first 15 minutes. I was hooked, and have been playing ever since.

There isn't a system I won't try. There have been plenty, of which the ones I liked I have copies of, and sometimes use for inspirations. Current favorite systems are DnD 3.XXX, Traveler (0-F Version), Warhammer, and Arduin Grimoire. I've had several campaigns which I've been in or ran through the years. Currently my longest running one is Warhammer with the Harem. 3+ years. My first love is DnD. Just look at the collection. Greyhawk will always be my favorite published campaign, followed by the Imperium. But as I usually say, "If the story is good, and we're having fun, who cares about the mechanics. Let's Play!!""

Scott Field

Scott Field has been gaming since roughly the Neolithic Age, starting when a friend "borrowed" his older brother's Original D&D books. ("All the cool kids are playing it…") Later in college, a friend introduced him to the Hero System, and he instantly fell in love with its strength and versatility. Scott still runs primarily Hero, be it superheroes, pulp, fantasy, sci-fi, or modern-day action. But he'll play any system as long as the game is good. In more than 30 years of gaming, he'd never been to a convention until moving to Denver five years ago; now we can't get rid of the guy!

Scott is a little short for a Stormtrooper, and his career path is non-linear.

Troy Latta

Troy Latta has never liked to follow the crowd, so when he was seven and everyone else was playing D&D, he convinced his parents to buy him Star Frontiers instead. He moved on to the Palladium system and Shadowrun before sinking every bit of his allowance for several years into GURPS, of which he ran and played several campaigns from about 1988 until the birth of his son in 1996. He found Vampire (and, more to his liking, Werewolf) in college, which is also where he played his first game of AD&D 2nd edition.

He hated it.

When d20 came along, he suddenly couldn't get anyone to play anything else, so he buckled to pressure and got into D&D for the first time. His sense of the absurd and his need to mock class/level mechanics collided in the Cheesy Munchkin Adventures campaign which lasted over three years until one intrepid player discovered how to destroy the universe (and get xp for it). In the process, Troy re-discovered his love of writing and came to realize that flaws in a game's advancement system don't matter in a one-shot storyline.

He's now been gaming for 25 years and is currently working on his first solo foray into character-provided events.

Gone, But Not Forgotten: The following Guild Masters are no longer currently active with RP-Artisans, but still turn up every now and then.

• Mike Kenyon
• Tim White
• Scott Dunphy
• Chris Weeda
• David Stroh
• Kim Stone