The Dwarvenaut’s Guide to Game Mastering - Doing it at Cons with TERRAIN!

Stefan Pokorny is a fine artist and former art teacher who began running 1st edition D&D games around the tender age of 14 years old. In 1996, he founded Dwarven Forge, a Miniatures Terrain company that was the FIRST to innovate modular 3-D Painted terrain tiles! Dwarven Forge consistently runs multimillion dollar Kickstarter campaigns. His recent KS "Wildlands" topped 4 million dollars in funding! He is a frequent industry guest at various conventions in the USA and overseas, including GameHole Con, Founders and Legends, Gary Con, NTRPGCon, Spiel (Germany), Lucca Comics and Games (Italy) and others. He has been featured in several documentaries: The Dungeons and Dragons Experience by Jesse Spiro and Enter the Dungeon by Richard DiNardo. In 2016 he was the subject of Josh Bishop’s Documentary Film: The Dwarvenaut (now available for purchase or rent on multiple platforms). Due to the success of The Dwarvenaut, and the renown of his innovative company he has been mentioned or has been the subject of articles in Forbes, New York Magazine, NY Daily News, The Brooklyn Paper, The Brooklyn Ink, DNA-info New York and has been invited to talk at the Barney School of business, and AOL talks. He is the original creator of the fantasy world of Mythras and the City of Valoria. With the help of others, he has put forth the module: Tapestry of Deceit and published a book of Cartographic Maps and Dungeons. His latest ongoing project is to release the Mythras Campaign sourcebooks to the world!