About us

We are the RPG Empire.

A group of creators, writers, DMs and players making roleplaying content for your inspiration and entertainment. We come from screenwriting, acting and game creation, and we've been playing RPGs for more than 20 years.

Paul, our creative director, learned the game in a college class taught by Dave Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons. That's the lineage. We make Dust World RPG and Strangers in the Pines, our own game Dust World RPG PBTA, and the TableTop Tees line.

Cast and crew

The table

Paul Parnell

Creative Director. GM of Dust World. Lucas Santiago in Strangers in the Pines. Writer of Dust World RPG PBTA.

Paul has worked in media for 15 years as a writer, director and creator. He has written sci-fi and fantasy TV and film scripts, directed a feature on Amazon, and made several viral YouTube shorts. He has loved tabletop RPGs since the 90s and had D&D co-creator Dave Arneson as his college professor. Dust World has been his passion project for over a decade.

Fun facts

First roleplaying experience?: My buddy Michael Yatskar introduced me to D&D 3.5 in 11th grade. That was 20 years ago.
Favorite setting?: Right now Cyberpunk, but I also love sci-fi westerns and modern magical.
One thing nobody could guess?: I've been to over 10 countries and I'm a pretty good beatboxer.

Blaise Marcoux

Clarence Wells (Dust World). Dotty Luzhkov (Strangers in the Pines). Co-host, Behind the Screens.

Blaise is from Rockport, IN, went to the University of Kansas where he won the Edgar Wolf Award for short fiction, and now lives in the Raleigh area. He writes and roleplays exceedingly absurd characters for the RPG Empire. His fiction is at betterlivingthroughlowselfesteem.com.

Fun facts

First roleplaying experience?: D&D with friends in my college dorm.
Favorite setting?: Original science-fiction settings.
One thing nobody could guess?: I don't know how to whistle.

Josh G.

Danny Fields (Strangers in the Pines). Co-host, Behind the Screens.

Josh was probably born somewhere in the United States sometime in the 1980s. After being a baby for a while he got bored with that and started eating solid food. He now enjoys tabletop RPGs among other things (eating food, drinking liquids, etc.).

Izaak Sutherland

GM of Strangers in the Pines.

Keeper of Pine Forge and its secrets. Owner of one of the most mellifluous GM voices in actual play podcasting, according to The Gothic Podcast.

Tanner

Dr. Andrew "Doc" Miller (Neon City).

Creator and writer of Pit of the West, a weird-western horror audio drama.

Frank

Silent Monday (Neon City).

The sword monk of Neon City.

Dumaresq de Pencier

Head Writer.

Liam Mackenzie

Editor and musician.

Past contributors and cast: Robert "Lachiel" (Chad Woodmore), Preston Parnell (Kevin Wolfkin), Jonathan Vuytecki (Gage Thane), Michael Yatskar (co-creator of Dust World), Ryan Mulder (GM of Ototo, Dexter Ward).