Contributors

A trained photographer, graphic artist and psychotherapist, he founded G*M*S Magazine in July 2010 to help promote his passion for games and gaming, and help both big and small companies reach their gamers.

Megan Robertson

She is well known for her work in RPG Resource, where the bulk of her writing can be enjoyed.

Hi everybody, my name is Thilo, but most of you may know me from my rampant reviewing under the screen-name Endzeitgeist. I’ve been playing roleplaying games for about 15 years now and started playing with 2nd edition Planescape and Ravenloft (which were incredibly hard to get in Germany!) – my love for dark and gritty settings has never ceased and I still love them. I’ve been a DM for all this time and RPGs are still my favourite hobby. Apart from versions of (A)D&D, I’ve also played Engel, Shadowrun, old WoD (Vampire and Wight), Midgard (the German Old-school-Rpg), Call of Cthulhu (which I love to death), Trail of Cthulhu, Warhammer Dark Heresy and several others. Right now, I’m DMing a weekly campaign that switched from homebrew-3.5 to homebrew-PFRPG with a focus on horror, madness, insanity and political struggles.

Apart from reviewing, I’m working as a translator, programmer, editor as well as a teacher at a university and currently work on my PhD. I’m also a language nerd and am constantly trying to pick new ones up.

I’ve started reviewing both thanks to Lou Agresta nudging me in the right direction and Dark_Mistress’s excellent and informative reviews.

My ambition is to be as impartial as possible in my reviews and I hope it shows.

You can contact me in my email address.

I’m a gamer… I’m not ashamed of that. I’ve played games all my life. My earliest gaming memories are of games like Ghost Castle, Mouse Trap and Screwball Scramble. In my early teens I remember big box games based on Tv Shows, like The Crystal Maze and Gladiators.

By the time I was sweet sixteen I was heavily into wargaming and roleplaying. Obviously I played Warhammer, from 5th edition through to 7th, I also concocted my own version of Mordheim from what I read in White Dwarf (interestingly my game was eerily similar to what is now Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition).

Talking of Roleplay, during the early years I played a hybrid 1st/2nd edition AD&D game, which lasted for over 5 years, although the players came and went. I finally retired my rather vast collection of 2nd ed books in favour of the simpler d20 system, right after 4th edition was released!

As I hit university and the roleplaying group was split across the country I took to playing cards, Wizards of the Coast’s Star Wars Trading Cards to be precise. The game was an absolute blast and actually was the long and slippery road that led me into eurogaming, believe it or not!

I discovered Settlers of Catan after visiting a friend in Oxford. The two of us loved the game so much that we each bought a copy. Now of course, I own all the expansions too. Settlers led to Board Game Geek and that of course led to many, many, many other games.

My collection, not including out of print games, roleplaying or collectable games is now close to 100 games and growing. I am an eclectic gamer and I’ll play almost anything. I have dozens of Eurogames and a host of Ameritrash games. I have dungeon crawls and farming games. Co-ops and all-for-one Munchkin like games.

My current favourite game is Warhammer: Invasion, a war game in card format that includes a massive amount of strategy as well as hand and resource management.

I also have two gaming related blogs, Unboxed: The Board Game Blog, in which I take a game and review it one week and then review an expansion/variant/scenario the week after. My other blog Duke of the Blood Keep is a hobby blog containing detailed step by step guides on how I painted various miniatures including a recent series on Descent.
But Games are not the be all and end all of life. After all, I’m a 20 something gamer living and working in the heart of Manchester, one of the most up and coming cities in the UK. As well as writing several blogs, working on commission as a miniature painter, and freelancing as a Theatre Technician, I am a writer, working on a series of fantasy novels I hope to one day retire on.

So that’s about it, I look forward to many more years of gaming and, of course, pontificating on them!”

Vix is a gamer, writer, wife and home-educating mother living in Brighton. She has written extensively for blogs and websites on a variety of subjects, and occasionally writes some fiction too. She has recently completed her first novel, which has a female gamer as its main character.