Gaming // Featured Storytellers
Storytellers Forge
Gather your party for a weekend of storytelling craft, memorable characters, and tabletop adventures.
Friday–Sunday
Panels + one-shots
Multiple RPG systems
Weekend dispatch // Roll for story
Your Next Tale Awaits
Learn the craft, try a new system, and join a table where every choice can reshape the adventure.
Beginners and veteran players welcome
Adventure Log // Friday–Sunday
The Storytellers Forge Schedule
14 events across three days
FRI
Friday
5 events
How to Not Suck at StorytellingStorytelling panel
A Storytellers Forge panel about the craft of storytelling.
The Black BalladStorytellers Forge RPG session
So, you died—now what? Welcome to the Sunless Crossing, a plane between life and the afterlife. Souls wind up here because they are destined for resurrection, or because they simply do not have an afterlife waiting for them.
- GM / Host
- Alex Zurita
- Players
- 6
- System
- D&D 5e/5.5e
- Duration
- About 2.5–3.5 hours
Con of the Dead GameStorytellers Forge RPG session
You and your friends purchased tickets to your favorite convention. You arrive and have fun, but when you try to leave, you cannot. Now it is a fight for survival as your favorite con might become your final resting place.
- GM / Host
- Kyle Moore
- Players
- 5–6
- System
- Dread
- Duration
- 3–5 hours, depending on party size
A Party to Remember!Storytellers Forge RPG session
You are court wizards entrusted with the kingdom’s most vital matters. Your latest task: give the heir to the throne the best birthday party she can imagine!
- GM / Host
- Levi Angel
- Players
- 5
- System
- Fate Accelerated
- Duration
- About 3 hours
Heist on the Ghostflame ExpressStorytellers Forge RPG session
Rumors spread among outlaws crossing the grand desert: the Ghostflame Express, a spectral train holding a rare treasure, haunts the mesas and canyons once again. Using grim rites and criminal expertise, your band of rogues plans a heist for the prize within the cursed locomotive. Will you claim it, or will longtime rivals steal your glory and become legends of the haunted sands?
- GM / Host
- Alex Zurita
- Players
- 6
- System
- Daggerheart
- Duration
- About 3 hours
SAT
Saturday
6 events
Monster of the Week… but It’s the ’90sStorytellers Forge RPG session
It is the 1990s, and your team works for a mysterious monster hunter named Colton West. He sends you on a top-secret mission to hunt and destroy a dangerous monster. Think Supernatural and Buffy the Vampire Slayer meet Hellboy.
- GM / Host
- Kyle Moore
- Players
- 4
- System
- Monster of the Week
- Duration
- 3.5–4.5 hours
King for a DayStorytellers Forge RPG session
Have you wanted to dive into Daggerheart but did not know where to start? King for a Day blends dynamic storytelling and thrilling combat in a quiet, forgotten castle ruled by a strange king with an even stranger request. Clockwork guards, ancient spirits, and off-key karaoke ballads await the brave party that takes on this unusual job.
- GM / Host
- Alex Zurita
- Players
- 6
- System
- Daggerheart
- Duration
- About 3 hours
Dessicatia Day DisasterStorytellers Forge RPG session
You are a bug—a magic bug! Enjoy the local festival until something goes wrong, then save the town in a fantasy bug world.
- GM / Host
- Levi Angel
- Players
- 5
- System
- Open Legend RPG
Con of the Dead GameStorytellers Forge RPG session
You and your friends purchased tickets to your favorite convention. You arrive and have fun, but when you try to leave, you cannot. Now it is a fight for survival as your favorite con might become your final resting place.
- GM / Host
- Kyle Moore
- Players
- 5–6
- System
- Dread
- Duration
- 3–5 hours, depending on party size
Heist on the Ghostflame ExpressStorytellers Forge RPG session
Rumors spread among outlaws crossing the grand desert: the Ghostflame Express, a spectral train holding a rare treasure, haunts the mesas and canyons once again. Using grim rites and criminal expertise, your band of rogues plans a heist for the prize within the cursed locomotive. Will you claim it, or will longtime rivals steal your glory and become legends of the haunted sands?
- GM / Host
- Alex Zurita
- Players
- 6
- System
- Daggerheart
- Duration
- About 3 hours
The Black BalladStorytellers Forge RPG session
So, you died—now what? Welcome to the Sunless Crossing, a plane between life and the afterlife. Souls wind up here because they are destined for resurrection, or because they simply do not have an afterlife waiting for them.
- GM / Host
- Levi Angel
- Players
- 6
- System
- D&D 5e/5.5e
- Duration
- About 2.5–3.5 hours
SUN
Sunday
3 events
King for a DayStorytellers Forge RPG session
Have you wanted to dive into Daggerheart but did not know where to start? King for a Day blends dynamic storytelling and thrilling combat in a quiet, forgotten castle ruled by a strange king with an even stranger request. Clockwork guards, ancient spirits, and off-key karaoke ballads await the brave party that takes on this unusual job.
- GM / Host
- Alex Zurita
- Players
- 6
- System
- Daggerheart
- Duration
- About 3 hours
Monster of the Week… but It’s the ’90sStorytellers Forge RPG session
It is the 1990s, and your team works for a mysterious monster hunter named Colton West. He sends you on a top-secret mission to hunt and destroy a dangerous monster. Think Supernatural and Buffy the Vampire Slayer meet Hellboy.
- GM / Host
- Kyle Moore
- Players
- 4
- System
- Monster of the Week
- Duration
- 3.5–4.5 hours
The Last Torch?Storytellers Forge RPG session
The great ritual is almost complete. The previous heroes fell while bringing the light here. Someone must finish the ritual.
- GM / Host
- Levi Angel
- Players
- 5
- System
- Daggerheart · Age of Umbra campaign frame
Creator Files // Meet the Team
Meet Storytellers Forge
Forge Profile
Kyle Moore
Kyle Moore is a professional artist, amateur storyteller, and dork extraordinaire. He loves pop culture and lives with his fiancé and three cats.
Matsuricon 2026
Forge Profile
Alex Zurita
Alex has been running tabletop roleplaying games since his sophomore year of high school. A forever GM, he prioritizes dynamic, engaging stories over a by-the-book approach to games. His games are heartfelt, silly, and memorable for everyone at the table.
His current preferred system is Daggerheart, and he is also fluent in D&D, Vampire: The Masquerade, Blades in the Dark, and smaller systems including Perils & Princesses and Eat the Reich.
Matsuricon 2026
Forge Profile
Levi Angel
A chill GM of more than a decade, Levi loves to improvise and roll with whatever punches players throw his way.
Levi enjoys running fantasy, high fantasy, and science-fiction games across a wide range of systems, including Pathfinder, Edge, Fate, and more. With experience running games for players from ages 8 to 68, there is room for everyone at his table. A master of improv and thinking on the fly, Levi can “yes, and” almost any character concept or dice roll into a rollicking good time.
Matsuricon 2026
Forge Profile
Pat Edwards
Pat Edwards is one of the co-founders of Storytellers Forge. In addition to his Space Tripping novel series, he has co-authored multiple tabletop roleplaying projects, including The Red Opera, The Black Ballad, Songs of Chaos, and the official Universal Soldier RPG adaptation.
Pat is also the GM for the Wayward Shores actual-play show on Geekly, Inc. and co-host of the Storytellers Forge, Let’s Rewatch, and Bounty Buddies podcasts.
Matsuricon 2026
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