Ed Greenwood is the creator of the Forgotten Realms fantasy world, which became the setting for his home D&D game in 1975. Play still continues in this long-running campaign, and Ed also keeps busy producing Realmslore for various TSR publications. Ed has published over two hundred articles in Dragon magazine and Polyhedron newszine, is a lifetime charter member of the Role Playing Game Association (RPGA) network, has written over 30 books and modules for TSR, and has been GenCon Game Fair guest of honor several times. In addition to all these activities, Ed works as a library clerk and has edited over a dozen small press magazines. He invented the character Elminster from the popular Forgotten Realms RPG series and currently resides in an old farmhouse in the countryside of Ontario, Canada.

Paul Crilley (who also writes thrillers under the pseudonym Paul Herron) has been writing professionally for the past 20 years. In that time, he has worked on over 27 television shows--one of which was nominated for an iEmmy--as a head writer, writer, script editor, and storyliner. Over the years, Paul has worked with Marvel, 20th Century Fox Television, NBC Universal, Anonymous Content, Krysten Ritter's production company Silent Machine, Disney, the SyFy Channel, and IDW. He has written 12 novels, worked on five computer games, and also novelized Frank Miller's seminal graphic novel Daredevil: The Man Without Fear for Marvel.