Amanda Hamon is a Senior Designer working on Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast. She is also an award-winning tabletop game designer, developer, writer, and editor, her work has appeared in dozens of releases from numerous publishers, including Wizards of the Coast, Paizo, and Kobold Press. Cameron and Tara Rout are a Canadian brother-sister duo who together founded D&D in a Castle in 2017, to live out their nerdy fantasy of gathering fellow make-believists in an epic retreat to immerse themselves in fantasy and adventure. Returning for another edition of Meet Your Monsters is Makenzie De Armas, an Associate Game Designer for D&D at Wizards of the Coast. Her previous credits include lead writer for The Islands of Sina Una, co-designer for MCDM’s Kingdoms & Warfare, and lead designer for the ENnie Award–winning Knarl’s Candy Compendium.
Welcome to Dragon Talk, the official D&D podcast. Hosts Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito interview guests from the Dungeons & Dragons community on how they got started playing the world’s greatest roleplaying game, what creative endeavors D&D has inspired, and what tips they might have playing characters or weaving stories as the Dungeon Master. Check out Greg and Shelly’s book, Welcome to Dragon Talk, available everywhere now!