WotC/TSR Alumni
- Bruce A. Heard (Ambreville), former TSR Product Manager, Mystara Guru etc. is currently posting in this thread.
- Keith Baker, creator of Eberron and now working on Phoenix:Dawn Command, is posting in this thread.
John Terra is johnjt2, a Freelance Game designer who has written for D&D, AD&D 2nd Edition, Top Secret/SI, Dark Sun, Dragonlance, Spelljammer, Forgotten Realms, d20 Star Wars RPG, DC Heroes, Star Wars RPG (d6 from West End Games), TORG, Star Trek: The RPG, Earthdawn, Shatterzone, Indiana Jones RPG, Kingdoms of Kalamar, and some small projects for Flying Buffalo. - Deborah Teramis Christian (Teramis) has written material for Dragonlance, Kara-Tur and Mystara (Gaz 9 The Minrothad Guilds) as well as games for many of the other major RPG publishers. She has been discussing her free Quq-lun novel in this thread.
- Mike Brealt, who worked as a full time employee at TSR from 1984-1989 and as a freelancer for TSR for a few years after that, has his own thread here. Of Mystara interest, he worked on the Golden Khan of Ethengar, IM2 Wrath of Olympus and Ship of Horrors.
- Allen Varney who worked on Mystara, Spelljammer, Dark Sun, Paranoia and many other things has a thread here.
- Colin McComb, creator of Thunder Rift has his own Q&A thread here.
- Wolfgang Baur is a well known game designer having worked on Planescape, Birthright, Al-Qadim, Star*Drive and Dark•Matter settings as well as numerous contributions to Dragon/Dungeon. Today he is perhaps best known as the man behind Kobold Quarterly.
- Tim Kask, former TSR editor etc etc
- Andrew Steven Harris, Thunder Rift has his own Q&A thread here.
- Frank Mentzer (ExTSR), author (formally editor) of the BECMI D&D line and writer of various other D&D products and creator of the Aquaria/Empyria Setting posts in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=44&t=4102
IN RANDOM ORDER
- RegularZac wrote, produced, and designed Chronica: Age of Exploration for Pathfinder.
- Robert Nuttman (RobJN), author of the ENWorld Published WOIN: Incident-at-ICEREACH-1.
- Alain Giorla (haazeven) contributed to the Scarred Lands Player's Guide (5e).
- Uri Kurlianchik (Urikson) has written an Eberron adventure, called "Murder in Oakbridge" for Dungeon Magazine, created a mini-campaign setting called Mavet Rav for Dragon Magazine, and worked on Conan, Interface Zero, Pathfinder RPG, Rune Quest II and Traveller products. He is also the co-creator of the DND Kids comic strip.
- Stephanie McAlea is a professional cartographer. She has worked with Chaosium, Cubicle7, Mongoose Publishing, Arc dream, and others. She posts her own published setting, Distant Realms in this thread.
- Daniel "Arnuya" Cook (Arunya) has been KoDT and Hacklopedia of Beasts for Kenzer.
- Keith Baker, creator of Eberron and now working on Phoenix:Dawn Command, is posting in this thread.
John Terra is johnjt2, a Freelance Game designer who has written for D&D, AD&D 2nd Edition, Top Secret/SI, Dark Sun, Dragonlance, Spelljammer, Forgotten Realms, d20 Star Wars RPG, DC Heroes, Star Wars RPG (d6 from West End Games), TORG, Star Trek: The RPG, Earthdawn, Shatterzone, Indiana Jones RPG, Kingdoms of Kalamar, and some small projects for Flying Buffalo. - Tony Lee is tmlee15, Designer of Sovereign Stone Pathfinder Edition, Wild World Wrestling, WWE: Know Your Role, Extreme Vengeance, Killer Thriller, Chronicles of Ramlar, Odyssey Prime, Warchon. He posts in the Sovereign Stone thread.
- Greg Benage is Greg Benage, co-creator of the Dawnforge Setting. Benage has also written for Dragonstar and other D20 properties as well the contributed to the Blue Planet Players Guide. He is the author of the novel A Circle of Iron (Eldernost: Book 1). He participates in the Dawnforge thread in the Other Worlds Forum.
- Mophidius is Chris of Mophidus Games, producers of Achtung! Cthulhu, Mutant Chronicles, Dust RPG and now Infinity RPG's as well as Mindjammer and Mutant Year Zero.
- George "Loki" Williams (DungeonMasterLoki) is Community Manager/Lead Pathfinder Developer for Savage Mojo and has designed gaming material for Kobold Press, Heroic Journey Publishing and Savage Mojo.
- Miles M Kantir (Savage Mojo) has been lead designer for the Suzerain setting since its inception in 1997. His company, Savage Mojo Ltd, has published RPG books, game accessories such as story maps and cards under the Gamescapes brand, and fiction/art prints under the Brainradio brand. Savage Mojo also provides creative services to many companies across the industry.
- Robert Bledsaw III (rbledsaw3) is the grandson of Wilderlands creator Robert Bledsaw, and is working on Judges Guild's new Wilderlands products. He posts in the Wilderlands Forum.
- Chris Bernhardt (chrisbernhardt) is a designer who wrote for several d20 System Wilderlands products. His current company Bernhardt Publishing LLC published City State of the Sea Kings.
- George Fields (George.Fields) wrote Legacy of the Elm King for HackMaster (Kingdoms of Kalamar).
- Robert Adducci (Raddu) is the founder of the official Dark Sun website: The Burnt World of Athas and the Community Manager for the D&D Adventurers League (the 5th Edition Organised Play program run by Wizards of the Coast).
- Mark CMG is a designer from Creative Mountain Games.
- Michael Tumey is a contributing author for the Paizo Publishing Jade Regent AP, contributor to The Empty Throne module, creator of the Kaidan Setting (PFRPG) and other works. More details here.
- Mark Edwards ( Black Jack Rackham ) has written for Adventure a Week, Paradigm Concepts (both for their Witch Hunter Revelations line and a forthcoming Rotted Capes campaign), Melior Via (an unreleased, as yet, adventure world), Margaret Weis Productions (on both their Serenity and Supernatural lines), and Catalyst Game Labs (all from their Shadowrun line).
- Deborah Teramis Christian (Teramis) has written material for Dragonlance, Kara-Tur and Mystara (Gaz 9 The Minrothad Guilds) as well as games for many of the other major RPG publishers. She has been discussing her free Quq-lun novel in this thread.
- Brett M. Bernstein (brettmb) of Precis Intermedia, publishers of MasterBook, Shatterzone, Bloodshadows, Lord of Olympus and various other games.
- Megan Robertson (Megan) co-wrote Way of the Witch, a d20 System sourcebook for Citizen Games.
- Richard Green (RichGreen) is one of the designers of the Midgard products: Defenders of Midgard and Midgard Bestiary for 4th Edition D&D. He is also developing his own campaign setting, called Parsantium.
- Nate Christen is the author of Peril in Freeport and Kingdoms of Legend: All Hands on Deck!. He posts in the Freeport Forum.
- Jimmy T. Swill, co-designer of the Wayfarer's RPG posts in this thread.
- Lance Hawvermale has done work on a wide range of RPG material ranging from Dungeon Magazine articles to work for Necromancer Games. He posts in this thread.
- Tim Eagon has written several articles for DDI Dragon/Dungeon, including two articles converting Mystara monsters to 4E. He posts in this thread.
- Jim Wampler (Mad Mage) is the Art Director and Editor at Gygax Magazine and also runs Mudpuppy Comics (publisher of the Marvin the Mage RPG comic). He has been answering questions in the TSR Games and Gygax Magazine thread.
- Darlene Pekul, creator of the Greyhawk maps and other TSR art is posting in this thread.
- Keith Done (keithdone) is the creator of the Eldoria Campaign Setting. He is currently converting Encyclopedia Eldoria to Pathfinder RPG.
- Wolfgang Baur is a well known game designer having worked on Planescape, Birthright, Al-Qadim, Star*Drive and Dark•Matter settings as well as numerous contributions to Dragon/Dungeon. Today he is perhaps best known as the man behind Kobold Quarterly.
- Cliff Rice (cliffrice) has worked on several products for the Scarred Lands.
- Matthew Beard, author of the D&D novel The Last Garrison, published by WotC.
- Bruce A. Heard (Ambreville), former TSR Product Manager, Mystara Guru etc. is currently posting in this thread.
- Lawrence Whitaker (Loz) currently working on RuneQuest 6 for Design Mechanism, has worked for Chaosium and Mongoose in the past and written products for Eternal Champion, Glorantha and Traveller. He posts in this thread.
- Robert Blezard (Knightfall), co-author of White Robes, Black Hearts: Enigma of the Arcanexus among other things.
- John P Seibel (Deogolf), author of Harvesters
- Tim Dugger (Rasyr)Original Author/Designer of HARP; Author of Combat Companion and many issues of HARPer's Bazaar and Express Additions. Primary author of Cyradon. Author of Novus RPG (currently in Open Beta) for Firehawk Games.
- Alyssa Faden (Alyssa) designer of Torn World, talks about her setting here.
- Allen Taliesin of Clockwork Gnome Publishing. There is a thread about his Sailing the Starlit Sea Preview in The Wishing Well.
- Tim Emrick (timemrick) , Freeport expert can be found in the Freeport Forum
- Pawsplay who has worked on Dawning Star for the D20 Future game.
- Bart Savenije (seafloorian), author of Talislanta sourcebook: The Underground Highway, posts in the Talislanta forum.
- Tim Brannan (Web Warlock) who has worked on multiple products published by Eden Studios
- Angel Tarragon has worked on Headless Hydra's Eldritch Secrets Spell Compendium, Volume 1 and contributed the character sheet to Suck Da Head, Squeeze Da Tail
- Stephen Michael Sechi aka SMS, creator of Talislanta and The Arcarnum posts in the Talislanta forum
- Jeff Talanian (Ghul) formerly ofTroll Lord Games and who is currently working on working on sword-and-sorcery RPG called Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea.
- Tim Kask, former TSR editor etc etc
- Christopher Clark from Inner City Games Designs
Adam Black, illustrator of various Talislanta Sourcebeooks posts in the Talislanta Forum - Douglass "writermonk" Bramlett has written material for Talislanta and The Hellas RPG. He posts in this forum.
- Frank Mentzer (ExTSR), author (formally editor) of the BECMI D&D line and writer of various other D&D products and creator of the Aquaria/Empyria Setting posts in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=44&t=4102
- Mike Brealt, who worked as a full time employee at TSR from 1984-1989 and as a freelancer for TSR for a few years after that, has his own thread here.
- Monte Cook, D&D3E, Malhavoc Press, Alternity, Planescape, Mystara, Dark Sun, Hero Games etc etc.
- Allen Varney who worked on Mystara, Spelljammer, Dark Sun, Paranoia and many other things has a thread here.
- Colin McComb, , Birthright, Ravenloft, Mystara (Thunder Rift), Dragonlance has his own Q&A thread here.
- Tim Beach, Mystara, Red Steel, Monterous Compendiums etc. He posts on the Savage Coast subforum here.
- Andrew Steven Harris, Thunder Rift has his own Q&A thread here.
- James Mishler, Wilderlands, C&C, Hackmaster, Mystara
- Geoff Gander, published by Expeditious Retreat Press
- Cam Banks , Dragonlance, MWP
- Trampas Whiteman (Dragonhelm) Dragonlance, Sovereign Stone
- GMWestermeyer, Hackmaster, Spelljammer, Knights of the Dinnertable.
- Night Druid (Adam Miller) Hackmaster, Spelljammer.
- Silverblade-T-E, has art published in Polyhedron, Dragon and more.
- Jonathan M. Thompson of Battlefield Press (BPIJonathan) can be reached in the [Crystal Spheres] Offical Q&A thread. Jonathan has also aquired the rights to the Terran Trade Authority RPG - something that might appeal to Traveller fans. He posts information about this in the [Traveller] Terran Trade Authoritythread.
- Plaag (Shane G), runs the Acaeum's Judges Guild website and has co-authored Bard's Gate from Necromancer Games. He has also done work in the first two FoS Ravenloft netbooks.
- Robert S. Conley , Wilderlands, Points of Light etc
- Quickleaf (Aaron Infante-Levy) wrote Tales of the Caliphate Nights ( Arabian setting for the True20 game) has a thread in the Al Quadim forum.
- Dennis Payne (Dulsi) of Identical Games
- Louis Porter Jr. of LPJ Design is answering questions about his new Spelljammer-like game, Pirates of the Bronze Sky, in the SJ forum.
- Azaghal who contributed to the Starfirestrategic board game.
- Aldarron, the author of the Arnesonian RPG Dragons at Dawn.
Mystara
* Bruce A. Heard (Ambreville), former TSR Product Manager, Mystara Guru etc. is currently posting in this thread.
* Mike Brealt, who worked as a full time employee at TSR from 1984-1989 and as a freelancer for TSR for a few years after that, has his own thread here. Of Mystara interest, he worked on the Golden Khan of Ethengar, IM2 Wrath of Olympus and Ship of Horrors.
* Allen Varney who worked on Mystara, Spelljammer, Dark Sun, Paranoia and many other things has a thread here.
* Colin McComb, creator of Thunder Rift has his own Q&A thread here.
* Tim Beach, who worked as a designer on the Red Steel line and a developer on the Mystara *2e line. He posts on the Savage Coast subforum here.
* Andrew Steven Harris who worked on the Thunder Rifts line (among other things) has his own Q&A thread here.
* James Mishler who published Wilderlands supplements for his own company and also worked on the (abandoned, but not forgotten) Hackmaster Mystara book.
* Geoff Gander, published at DF, inventor of the Outer Beings.
* Shawn Stanley, who runs the Vaults of Pandius, the official Mystara Fansite.
[*]Tim Eagon has written several articles for DDI Dragon/Dungeon, including two articles converting Mystara monsters to 4E. He posts in this thread.
Dragonlance
* Mike Brealt, who worked as a full time employee at TSR from 1984-1989 and as a freelancer for TSR for a few years after that, has his own thread here.
* Cam Banks who posts in the Dragonlance Forum.
* Dragonhelm (Trampas Whiteman) has also worked on various of Dragonlance books with Sovereign Press/Margaret Weis Productions and is the founder of the Whitestone Council, the organization behind the Dragonlance Nexus.
* Colin McComb, , Birthright, Ravenloft, Mystara (Thunder Rift), Dragonlance has his own Q&A thread here.
* Tim Beach
Spelljammer
* Allen Varney who worked on Mystara, Spelljammer, Dark Sun, Paranoia and many other things has a thread here.
* GMWestermeyer, co-author of Hackjammer and with a regular column in KotDT
* Night Druid who worked on the Hackjammer book for Hackmaster, who posts in the Spelljammer forum and elsewhere.
* Silverblade-T-E, has art published in Polyhedron, Dragon and more.
* Jonathan M. Thompson of Battlefield Press (BPIJonathan) can be reached in the [Crystal Spheres] Offical Q&A thread. Jonathan has also aquired the rights to the Terran Trade Authority RPG - something that might appeal to Traveller fans. He posts information about this in the [Traveller] Terran Trade Authoritythread.
* Louis Porter Jr. of LPJ Design is answering questions about his new Spelljammer-like game, Pirates of the Bronze Sky, in the SJ forum.
Ravenloft
* Mike Brealt, who worked as a full time employee at TSR from 1984-1989 and as a freelancer for TSR for a few years after that, has his own thread here.
* Colin McComb, creator of Islands of Terror has his own Q&A thread here.
* Plaag (Shane G) co-wrote Bard's Gate from Necromancer Games and has done work in the first two FoS Ravenloft netbooks.
* Tim Beach, who worked as a designer on the Red Steel line and a developer on the Mystara *2e line. He posts on the Savage Coast subforum here.
Birthright
* Colin McComb, creator of Birthright has his own Q&A thread here.
Dark Sun
* Allen Varney who worked on Mystara, Spelljammer, Dark Sun, Paranoia and many other things has a thread here.
* Tim Beach
Wilderlands
* Robert S. Conley who worked on the Wilderlands and has written various products for the industry.
* James Mishler who publisheg Wilderlands supplements for his own company and also worked on the (abandoned, but not forgotten) Hackmaster Mystara book.
Talislanta
* Bart Savenije (seafloorian), author of Talislanta sourcebook: The Underground Highway.
* Adam Black, illustrator of various Talislanta Sourcebeooks posts in the Talislanta Forum
* Douglass "writermonk" Bramlett has written material for Talislanta and The Hellas RPG. He posts in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=61&t=4128
* Stephen Michael Sechi aka SMS, creator of Talislanta and The Arcarnum posts in the Talislanta forum
Aquaria
* Frank Mentzer
* Christopher Clark
* Tim Kask
Freeport
* Tim Emrick (timemrick) , Freeport expert can be found in the Freeport Forum
Other
* Quickleaf (Aaron Infante-Levy) wrote Tales of the Caliphate Nights ( Arabian setting for the True20 game) has a thread in the Al Quadim forum
* Azaghal who contributed to the Starfirestrategic board game.
* Aldarron, the author of the Arnesonian RPG Dragons at Dawn.
Havard
or at least ideas, addenda, etc
Me? Celebrity? I think that stretches the definition a bit... 
Quite how they can get away with this double standard, I have no idea, but anyone actually thinking of buying something from Adobe should seriously consider getting it through an American friend or relative if at all possible. It'll end up costing almost half the money for the same product.