Darker Days Radio Creators & Guests

Mike bought his first copy of Vampire: the Masquerade in 2004 on the same day Vampire: the Requiem was released, and has enjoyed the diverse storytelling of the World of Darkness and Chronicle of Darkness ever since. In particular, he has written academic papers on the Judeo-Christian eschatological elements of the World of Darkness, and run numerous crossovers between World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness games.Mike works as a civil engineer in the Boston area designing and constructing bridges and earthworks. He is also an enforcer for the PAX gaming conventions, and a host for the Unbuttoned History podcast.

Chris is a computational chemist working in the field of materials science at the University of Sheffield, where he combines machine learning and quantum mechanics to help understand novel battery and solar power materials. He is a longtime wargamer and miniatures painter.He is also co-developer of FASA’s 3rd edition of Noble Armada (a space ship combat game set in the Fading Suns setting), and freelance writer for the Fading Suns rpg. He has worked recently with Beasts of War, writing articles for their wargames ezine “Reroll” and creating “Let’s Play” videos with them for Kingdom Death: Monster.Chris has been a fan of the World of Darkness (WoD) game lines for almost two decades, and has played almost every game from WoD and Chronicles of Darkness (CofD). He fully admits to being more of a fan of CofD these days, and has written extensive fan settings for Manchester, UK, and Venice, Italy.

Kage is a streamer, podcaster, community manager, and freelance TTRPG writer and layout designer. She is Solred Bluthammer on Majestic Goose Network's Eclipse and formerly played Charlie in Qmenera, the Exqueerience Points Numenera podcast and Thania the Tortle Barbarian in Heroes of Four Worlds, a D&D 5th Edition actual play stream.

Dominic McDowall-Thomas is a game designer and publisher who has worked primarily on role-playing games and card games.

#blacklivesmatter Writer, game designer, veteran, husband, father, scotch drinker. 3 Gold ENnie Awards. (he/him)