2012 Judges

Dave Chalker (guest judge)

Dave “The Game” Chalker is the Editor-in-Chief of Critical Hits, the 2011 RPG Site of the Year and Gold Ennie Award winner. He also is a freelance game designer and developer, working on projects for Dragon and Dungeon Magazines, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying and Dragon Brigade for Margaret Weis Products, and Get Bit! from Mayday Games. His thief was killed by Gary Gygax’s wild boar.

Tourq Stevens

Tourq is just another normal father, husband, gamer, and geek. He’s been gaming for awhile now, and feels it’s time to start giving back. Both Stuffer Shack and the SOTY Award are his way of doing just that. Profile Page / Article Portfolio

John Lewis

I’ve been roleplaying for more than 25 years (just thinking that makes me feel old!). Over the years I’ve enjoyed dozens of different games – including board games, CCGs and (of course) RPG’s. I regularly run events at gaming conventions, and I’m a huge fan of the Warhammer setting.  Article Portfolio

Jonathan Baldwin

Jonathan Baldwin is a designer-in-training at UC Davis. When he’s not busy learning to make awesome things, creating epic stories with friends, writing for his blog Powergaming for Dummies (or for this site) or doing cool projects like designing the Site of the Month badge, he likes to curl up with a good book or lift weights to some old episodes of Batman Beyond (ladies). His favorite class is the Warlock, because he likes action and character types that have high potential for brooding and good old fashioned angst. Profile Page / Article Portfolio

Cheri Arbuckle

I’ve been gaming since August of 1980 when I crashed a D&D game at summer camp. Little did I know that I’d started a life-long addiction that day. Two weeks after that, I DM’ed a game for the first time. Since then, I’ve GM’ed everything from D&D to World of Darkness to Toon. Basically, if I can get my hands on it, I’ll try to run it.

I also have a small game company: rpgGM.com. My first product, The Adventure Creation Handbook is available now, with the second book to come out (hopefully) around the beginning of March 2012.  Article Portfolio

Adam Bragg

Spiralbound (known as Adam Bragg to his immediate family and Google+) is an avid gamer and consumate creator of worlds. When he isn’t noodling around in fictious realities, he can be found spending time with his wife (current gamer) and infant son (future gamer).” Profile Page / Article Portfolio 

Robin Stacey

I’m a business analyst/programmer who lives in the UK. Among other things, I’m a writer, photographer, 3d render addict, Linux advocate and role-player. I can be found at Greywulf’s Lair.  Article Portfolio

Anthony Laffan

Anthony Laffan is an aspiring professional game designer and author, currently working in IT and sales. He has been gaming since the early 90s, starting with a home brewed system based off of the collectible Marvel trading cards, and then running through a wide variety of systems covering everything from D&D to silhouette core. He enjoys a wide variety of games, gaming, and play styles as well as anything that promotes the theory side of design, GMing, or playing the game.

Updated 1/21/12