Check out who’s going to be here at RinCon 2025! These industry stars and all-around phenomenal humans will all be presenting programming of various kinds at our event.
Charlie Bink
Charlie Bink has always been an avid gamer and lover of the arts. He founded Bink Ink as a means to self-publish his own games, artwork and products, and his first game Trekking the National Parks was the winner of the 2015 Mensa Select Award. This led to his next venture, Underdog Games, which has several more titles in the Trekking series and supplemental materials, as well as other creations like HerStory and High Tide. Charlie uses a model of game design rooted in collaboration with the gaming community, and believes that board games ignite curiosity and bring family and friends together in meaningful ways.
Magpie Games
Magpie Games are best known for creating TTRPGs that give players a chance to immerse themselves in dynamic, intriguing worlds in a real and meaningful way. Titles include Avatar Legends, Root, Masks, Rapscallion, Cartel, Pasion de las Pasiones, Urban Shadows, and their newest project, Fallen London. The team have dedicated themselves to shaping the TTRPG industry as a whole, working regularly with the Game Manufacturer Association (GAMA) on diversity and inclusion efforts and creating a game design team and community that lift all voices. Several members from the Magpie team will run games at RinCon: Mark Diaz Truman, Derrick Kapchinski, Katherine Bull, and Justin Rogers.
James Ernest
RinCon welcomes back the prolific board game designer and founder of Cheapass Games and Crab Fragment Labs: James Ernest! Previously, he’s presented panels and playtests and a plethora of programming; who knows what marvels he’ll be bringing this year?
Brendan LaSalle
Brendan LaSalle [bɹɛnˈ dən lə sælˈ] (n): 1) creator of Xcrawl 2) writer on Dungeon Crawl Classics from Goodman Games 3) stalwart supporter of RinCon 4) GM extraordinaire! He will once again be bringing his special brand of chaos to our li’l shindig. Check out his game sessions, as well as the DCC for Charity: Improv Game raising money for our chosen cause!