On purple blue background, on the left the word Games. On the right hand side, on the top the word Cymera2026, underneath the Creative Scotland logo
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 written called 'Hunt the Gowk!' 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 is also showcasing the adventure he has been co-creating with the History & Gemes Lab at Edinburgh University He can be found at https://morefunwith.games/ or https://bsky.app/profile/abs.ventures or Insta @_A_B_5_ or @ABS@mastodon.social
Alex McGivern
Alex McGivern is a videogame developer and TRPG designer whose credits include Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer, the adventure game Gatefold, the narrative authoring system Folia, and the upcoming dungeon-RPG The Black Tower; and who is currently acting as a referee for Vanitera 451, a large-scale real-time wargame based on Cataphract by Sam Sorensen. https://aeon.bsky.social
Alexa MacBett
Alexa MacBett is the creator of The Family. She ran her first RPG at the age of 19 and hasn't stopped since. You can find her running games at several conventions and festivals throughout the year and also at @clevercrumbi.sh on Bluesky
Andy Carey
Andy has been playing and running games since the Dark Ages of the 1980's, and can wax lyrical on the glory days of White Dwarf and Games Workshop, prior to the Warhammer hegemony!
Enthusiastic on playing old games in new ways, he's a big fan of indie games that play with the classic SF & Fantasy tropes.
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 author. Her first novel, an urban fantasy exploring the history and urban myths of Edinburgh, is currently out on submission, and hopefully, she will have news to report soon! She is also a moderator of the Edinburgh SFF Writers' group and part of a guild of Blood on the Clocktower Storytellers that run games in association with Ancient Robot Games.
Find her online @biblo_fi/ bibliofi.bsky.social
Hildegard!
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
Iain Nisbet
Iain is an experienced GM and has run roleplaying games at Conpulsion, Tabletop Scotland, Airecon and now Cymera! He has also tried writing for role-playing games and in particular enjoys creating adventures for Chaosium's Pendragon RPG based on old folk ballads. These have included "The Love and Labours of Sir Cauline" and "The Adventure of the Loathsome Wyrm and the Machrel of the Sea".
To peruse and buy his work go to https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?author=%22Iain%20Nisbet%22
Jamie Heitler
Jamie Heitler is a tabletop roleplaying game designer and writer based in Edinburgh. He’s been obsessed with board games and role-playing games since he stole his first Fighting Fantasy book at the tender age of eight. When he’s not working his day job at the University of Edinburgh, Jamie writes RPG modules. He worries that his massive RPG collection may be contributing to land sinkage on the north side of his tenement block. So he distracts himself from this worry by starting a new project every two weeks. You can find him at https://bsky.app/profile/wind-blown-vagrant.bsky.social
Marco Rinaldi
Marco Rinaldi is an author and founder and co-host and GM of the actual play and interview TTRPG podcast, Narrative Damage, as well as also hosting the popular writing podcast, Page One - The Writer’s Podcast. Most ‘free’ time he has is spent recording and editing podcasts or prepping new adventures for his players! In between all of that, he tries to write books, and won the Pitch Perfect prize at Bloody Scotland in 2025 with his Lovecraft meets True Detective story set in 19th Century Venice. You can find out mroe about him on:
Instagram: @marcorinaldiwrites and @narrativedamagerpg
Bluesky: @marcorinaldi.bsky.social and @narrativedamagerpg.bsky.social
Morgan Edmonds
Morgan has been running roleplaying games for over a decade now and has no intention of stopping. He’s one of the managers of Ancient Robot Games and this gives him the pleasure of constantly discovering awesome new roleplaying games regularly. He’s bought way too many and is futilely trying to catch up with his back log.. He’s also a budding designer and writer with the self published RPG: Minion. https://thealmightyjawa.itch.io/minion-rpg
The Rookery
The Rookery are Andy Law, Andy Leask, Mark Gibbons, and Lindsay Law, four award-winning TTRPG professionals with over a century’s combined experience in the gaming industry. They not only host Inside the Rookery, but also run their own company, Rookery Publications. Out now from Rookery Publications is Dark Deeds a darkly humorous game of skullduggery and suspicion for 2 to 5 players, created by industry veterans Andy Chambers and Mark Gibbons available online via Modiphius or in-person at your FLGS.
Watch their previous livestreams on YouTube and Twitch and support Inside The Rookery on Patreon and find them on Bluesky