A Dagger in the Heart: Creating Emotional Story Hooks in your RPG

Elisa Teague is a game designer and RPG author with 25 years in the tabletop games industry. With experience in many areas of game manufacturing, such as game development and design, pre-production design and layout, art direction, game production/manufacturing, she has worked on over 100 game titles. In the past 2 years, she has designed or written content for the Marvel Multiverse, Welcome to Nightvale, Gloomhaven, The Crooked Moon, and Imaria RPGs. She was the lead designer of the Essence20 Roleplaying Game System, the Wardlings 5e RPG, the Power Rangers, G.I. JOE, and Transformers Roleplaying Games, Geek Out!, Kingdom Hearts Talisman, Betrayal at House on the Hill: Widows Walk, a co-designer and art director of Apocrypha Adventure Card Game, oversaw the development of new Vampire: The Masquerade and Hunter: The Reckoning RPGs, wrote three D&D AL Epics for Gary Con and Gamehole Con, and has written various modules and contributions to D&D and other RPG books, including the puzzle section in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. Currently she is the VP of Creative at Infinite Stories.