Special Guests for CelestiCon 2012

Richard Borg

Richard’s professional game credits cover a broad spectrum, which includes over 50 game titles. Milton Bradley in 1988 published his first game, ‘Liars Dice’ a family dice game. Following up this initial success were a number of AD&D games (TSR), a series of X-Men games (Pressman Toy) and another hit for Milton Bradley ‘Times to Remember’.

In 1993 ‘Liars Dice’ went to Europe as ‘Bluff’ and won the German Prize ‘Spiel des Jahres’. Richard was also part of the ‘Star Wars’ customizable card game design team and involved with a number of other collectible card games. Many of Richard’s award winning hobby game designs are still currently available, they include: Memoir ’44 (Days of Wonder), Commands & Colors Ancients and Napoleonics (GMT Games), BattleLore (Fantasy Flight). Some of Richard’s newest game designs will be showcased during CelestiCon 2012. 

Because his body of work does encompass so many age groups and genres, you just may have one or more of Richard’s designs in your personal game collection.

Frank Chadwick

Frank Chadwick, a founder of Game Designers' Workshop (1972) and Origins Hall of Fame inductee (1984), will be a speaker in the War College as well as a Game Master running "celebrity" games at CelestiCon. Chadwick has more than sixty published games to his credit, including Space 1889, A House Divided and Command Decision. Chadwick's Desert Shield Factbook (1991) reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list.

Kevin Zucker

Winner of the 2003 Charles S. Roberts Clausewitz Hall of Fame Award, Kevin Zucker began his designing career with SPI back in the 1970s. Since then he has managed the Operational Study Group and designed numerous Napoleonic wargames including the influential Napoleon at Bay and Bonaparte in Italy.  OSG produced some WWII games too including the J. A. Nelson design, Rommel & Tunisia.  After a hiatus in 2009, the company once again commenced production in 2010. Kevin’s latest design, The Coming Storm: Quadrigame of the Fourth Coalition October 1806 - June 1807, was published on 22 December 2010.  In 2011 OSG formed a strategic partnership with GMT Games.

Dana Lombardy

Dana Lombardy was an Associate Online Editor for ArmchairGeneral.com and now does research, writing and design through Lombardy Studios. Dana is best known for his multiple award-winning Streets of Stalingrad board wargame (three separate editions since first released in 1979), and for his nearly twenty television appearances, including multiple episodes of The History Channel's "Tales of the Gun" series. He has contributed as an editor, cartographer, graphic artist and designer on many books, games and magazines, and was Publisher of Napoleon Journal from 1996-2000.