On purple blue background, on the left the word Games. On the right hand side, on the top the Creative Scotland logo, underneath the hashtag #Cymera2024
Meet the Cymera Hosts
ABS is known to hunt vampires and all manner of undead…
ABS
ABS programs and produces the Cymera Festival Games strand amongst other things and he is hoping you would like to playtest the adventure he has just written called 'Worm Moons and Mad Hares and Mayhem Oh My!' set in Auld Reekie, running on Liminal the excellent urban fantasy system set in present day UK and ‘The Hidden World’. This is part of the 'Seasons of the Sun' campaign he is creating. He can be found at https://morefunwith.games/ or ab5.bsky.social Insta @_A_B_5_ or @ABS@mastodon.social
Alexa MacBett
Alexa MacBett is an Edinburgh-based game designer and the creator of TRACK DOGS and The Family
Cam Hall
Cam is a game maker of immersive outdoor fun games, RPGs and likes to forge swords in his spare time. He has been GMing for over 39 years! OSR, new wave, weird, D&D, Sci-fi - I love them all. I have previously run Liminal and Godlike events for Cymera both face-to-face and online; and I am currently running community role-playing sessions in the Borders of Scotland most nights of the week.
BTG - Borderlands Tabletop Gamers and cameronhall@skiff.com are ways to find him.
Fiona Leslie
Fiona Leslie is an Edinburgh based writer, currently in the query trenches with an Edinburgh based urban fantasy novel, while working on a cozy sci-fi mystery. She holds a PhD in evolutionary genomics which led to her being a technical consultant for Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Vampire series. She is also a member of Edinburgh SFF. When not reading or writing she can be found cuddling her two bookish cats or playing games of all sorts from video to board games. Her most recent obsession in the gaming space is Blood on the Clocktower. @biblo_fi/ bibliofi.bsky.social
Hildegard Von Bringem aka Hilde
Games Space Assistance Pup and Moral Support Mascot
Hildegard loves the magic of hugs and chasing balls
She thinks games are pawesome!
She particularly enjoys Call of Cat-thulhu
Hildegard!
John Hedge
Hedge designed his first game when he was 6 years old. He then went on to have about 5 completly unrelated careers before settling on life as a travelling circus artist and writer. Hedge is probably best known for his podcast the Miskatonic Playhouse, which champions Call of Cthulhu community content and he's also the creator of the Waters of Leith. A Rivers of London Roleplaying game Actual Play podcast based in Edinburgh. More recently, Hedge has released his own roleplaying game 'Embers of Humanity' which he'll be demoing at the con. Hedge likes talking about play, diversity in the hobby and TTRPG discourse.
Insta: @JohntheHedge Bluesky: @johnthehedge
Kate Wirfler
Kate is a cruciverbalist and board game enthusiast from Sydney, Australia. She has a healthy obsession with dicey Euros, escape-rooms-in-a-box, and any and all word games.
Lynne Hardy
Multi-award-winning games designer Lynne Hardy first discovered roleplaying games at university. Over the last few decades, she has worked for Nightfall Games, Pelgrane Press, Cubicle Seven, Modiphius, and Green Ronin—amongst numerous others—as a writer, editor, or both. She also created her own steampunk pulp adventure game: Cogs, Cakes & Swordsticks. More recently, she formed part of the team responsible for updating Chaosium’s legendary Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign. Her principle duties are currently Line Editor for the ENnie award-winning Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game and Associate Editor for the Call of Cthulhu RPG. When not creating games, Lynne gives talks and workshops on historical hand embroidery techniques. lynneahardy.bsky.social
Matt Noel
Matt was hooked on interactive stories since happening upon a Fighting Fantasy book as a wee lad and soon after moved onto playing the ubiquitous DnD as well as trying other RPGs like Traveler, Tunnels & Trolls, Runequest, Bushido & Warhammer FRP. That was in the 80s when all sorts of stranger things were going on, now he’s still playing & running a wide variety of games, the majority of which are self-written.
Morgan Edmonds
I'm Morgan! I've been running, playing and enjoying RPG's for almost a decade now and I'm not planning on stopping any time soon. Most days, you can find me at Ancient Robot Games, where I am more than happy to talk about my favourite games for hours on end. I'm also a budding designer and writer with the self published RPG: Minion. https://thealmightyjawa.itch.io/minion-rpg
Phil Harris
Forged in the fires of the Summer of Love, Phil Harris managed to break in through the fire exit of the games industry, find a seat and no-one has managed to get rid of him since. With experience of writing, narrative, concept and systems design, production, marketing and a strong skill in drawing stick-people, Phil has worked on all types of projects from mobile to VR and AAA to Indie. With a couple of graphic novels and some TV work thrown in for good measure. Generally hired as a troubleshooter, Phil manages to dazzle everyone in a room with the glint off his bald head! @philipgharris.bsky.social
Lakeside: https://craigpaton.gumroad.com/l/lakeside
Neksus: Closed Circle: https://handiwork.games/product-category/guest-titles
Robert Gelb
Gelb is the game designer of titles like HotShot Pickleball, Onestone, and Aster, and the director of Midnight Trading Co, an independent board game studio in Edinburgh. He’s also the cofounder of the Ancient Robot Workshop, a community and co-working space for game designers, artists, and authors working in TableTop games.
https://instagram.com/midnighttradingco
Roderick Easton
Roderick has been running and playing in RPGs since AD&D, and Live-action/Freeform events since the turn of the century. For many years he has been involved with Edinburgh University's role-playing society GEAS and their long-running annual gaming convention Conpulsion. He’s used many different game systems over the years and likes to try out new and varied settings
Stuart Boon
Stuart Boon is a writer, university lecturer, and game designer. He is best known for game fiction, most notably "Shadows Over Scotland" (2011), which won a number of prestigious gaming awards including Best Roleplaying Supplement or Adventure at the 38th Annual Origins Awards (2012), 'Gold' Best Setting at the ENnie Awards (2012), and Best Adventure Collection at the Diehard GameFAN 2011 Tabletop Gaming Awards. Stuart's fiction to date has focused on weird and speculative fiction occasionally diving into horror and fantasy. His first novel 'This Dying Machine' is currently in edit and tells the story of a soldier's struggle to return to normalcy in post-Great War Glasgow while suffering from acute neurasthenia.