Rising Phoenix GameCon is pleased to announce as our Guests of Honour for 2025, Emily Care Boss and Epidiah Ravachol, partnered game designers from Western Massachusetts.
Emily Care Boss is an independent role-playing game designer/publisher and conservationist living on land of the Wabanaki Dawnland Confederacy and Pocumtuck First Nations, in western Massachusetts. Emily’s designs include Breaking the Ice, Shooting the Moon, and Under my Skin which won the player’s choice Otto award at Fastaval in 2009. These games were published in a single volume compendium as the Romance Trilogy in 2016 and earned a nomination for the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming in 2017. An early participant at the Forge forums and a proponent of independent publishing, Emily founded JiffyCon in 2006, a regional RPG convention showcasing independent and small press games. Emily’s games are found at Black & Green Games.
Epidiah Ravachol is an author and tabletop roleplaying game designer who owns the publishing company Dig 1,000 Holes and is perhaps best known as the creator of the Dread Role-Playing Game and Swords Without Master. He originally hails from the Midwest but these days he lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and fellow game designer, Emily Care Boss and their hermit crab Tanith.
At Rising Phoenix, Emily will be running one of her favorites, Misericord(e) and Epi will be running Dread, Swords Without Master and his newest RPG Wolfspell and they will headline the Panels: Ditch the Dice: Alternative Game Mechanics to Dice! and The State of TTRPG Publishing and Play
Be sure to sign up for a game, a panel or stop and say hi and they are more than willing to sign their work for you!
Links:
The Complete Epidiah Ravachol Collection | Dig a Thousand Holes Publishing
