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Mythos Chronicles

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We are a dynamic duo of content creators united by our love for tabletop role-playing games. Our story is one of friendship, creativity, and a shared journey through the vast and imaginative landscapes of TTRPGs. Our paths crossed years ago, initially as fellow players, taking turns in the roles of Game Master and player. This experience laid the foundation for a deep, collaborative friendship, one where our strengths as storytellers and GMs complemented each other perfectly. Today, as DMSlash and JonnyDM, we founded Mythos Chronicles, dedicated to creating and sharing content that enhances and celebrates the TTRPG experience. We believe in the transformative power of storytelling and the unique magic that collaborative creativity brings to the gaming table. Our goal is to craft content that not only sparks the imagination but also strengthens the bonds within the 5E community. Throughout our journey, we have honed our craft and emerged as bestselling authors for 5E on various platforms such as DMsGuild, DrivethruRPG, and Patreon. After our successful Kickstarter campaign for Mythological Creatures, this project marks our second venture into crowdfunding, standing on a solid foundation of experience and a proven track record in creating engaging and beloved content for this amazing game. If you wish, you can check out our adventures and past projects on Kickstarter: 300+ Mythological Creatures for 5E Atlantis: War of the Tridents for 5E You can also follow our work on Instagram: DMSlash: @dungeonmasterslash JonnyDM: @jonnydmandgames
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Judge Cro

626 Followers
When I was 12 in 1983, I got the Player's Handbook and the Dungeon Master's Guide for the world's most played RPG. Since my parents had removed our television from the house (that's a funny story for another time), my two brothers and I would roll three 6-sided dice in a row and took what came. We expected to fare badly, but hoped to get rich while collecting scars. I would sketch a horribly simple dungeon on graph paper and let my brothers crawl through while unleashing a rust monster or a gelatinous cube and, of course, a reanimated skeleton or three. Obviously, this story is not unique. Many young players got their start in tabletop roleplaying games in a similar fashion.  Then I grew up and had a family. My first child had no interest but tolerated one large, chaotic session at a family reunion. The second child started off interested, but then found music and dating and it was all over. The youngest took to it fervently. Many nights, it was just a game of two people co-authoring a story and seldom even consulting the polyhedral oracles. Then we took to worldbuilding with hand-drawn maps. In between sessions, one or the other would say, "you know what would be cool?" until one day, one particular idea really stuck out. And it happened to be at the time that Dungeon Crawl Classics was the favorite game in the house. The simple idea was that a fake cult ended up really upsetting the deity that they were pretending to worship. So I starting writing and my daughter helped develop it every step of the way. After having a blast playtesting it a dozen times, it became clear that this adventure should be shared.  A little backstory: I have already published a children's book for my oldest daughter, I am 80K words into a coming-of-age novel for my middle kid, and I published The Cult That Never Was (for DCC RPG) adventure idea as the legacy publication that I dedicate to my youngest. So, thank you from the entirety of my heart for your support! ~Judge CRO (Charles Royston)  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Death Guaranteed Games came about after so many conversations with Paul Keller at conventions. I just kept noticing his absolute depth and breadth of knowledge and experience in TTRPGs. I thought to myself, with my creativity and project management skills combined with his vast wealth of ideas and experience, we could build a powerful 3rd party publishing effort. While he plays and loves dozens of games (Shadowrun, Delta Green, Call of Cthulhu, CyperpunkRed, etc.), I made him commit to the DCC cult and chose our business name to be a parallel. We both agreed that the best of tabletop gaming comes from immersion in the risk of it all. After all, Death is Guaranteed. Paul and I are not just gaming partners though, we are friends. So, to break any ties in any (inevitable) disagreements between two passionate creators, Paul suggested we bring on a third founding member. I had been playing in an actual IRL game at the Guild House in Bellflower, CA for the better of a year with Judge Shadowfoot (Marc Anderson) and found him to be one of those very special DMs that gives so much to his players in his preparation for and creative adjudication of the game. He and Paul had only met once at Strategicon, but they hit it off well. We agreed that no other candidate for our third would be better, so I asked Marc if he would be interested. In that same conversation, he shared about the 15 different ideas he had for publication. The partnership has been strong. We each bring complementary strengths. Death Guaranteed Games is here to stay! 
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Sloane Leong

612 Followers
Sloane Leong is a self-taught cartoonist, illustrator, and writer of Hawaiian, Chinese, Mexican, Native American and European ancestries. Through prose, illustration, and comics, she engages with visceral futurities and fantasies through a radical, kaleidoscopic lens, the extrapolation and hybridization of ecologies within speculative frames, and the violent cultural structures of our world and others, both micro and macro. She is the creator of several graphic novels: From Under Mountains, Prism Stalker, A Map to the Sun, and Graveneye. She has been self-publishing her own comics since she was a teen and has done various work for companies like Pixar, Viz Media, New Republic, Image Comics, Cartoon Network, DC, Dark Horse, Namco, and more. Her fiction has appeared in many publications including Dark Matter Magazine, Apex Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Analog, Realm Media and many more. In 2022, she attended Clarion West's six week summer workshop. As an editor, she has Kickstarted and overseen editing the illustrated horror anthology, Death In the Mouth: Original Horror by People of Color. She has also worked privately with clients as a fiction and comics editor and coach, providing career guidance and creative mentorship. When she's not drawing or writing, Sloane co-hosts a show about storytelling with a focus on comics and film. As an organizer, she runs The Minicomic Awards, an annual virtual showcase that spotlights the unique, challenging, yet under-recognized work in short form comics with Leslie Hung. She is also the co-founder of the Cartoonist Cooperative, an organization dedicated to helping cartoonists develop a generative and sustainable creative practice. Sloane is currently living on Chinook land near what is known as Portland, Oregon with her family and three dogs.

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