Dave Mattingly

In addition to serving as the President of BlackWyrm Games, Dave Mattingly has been the editor-in-chief of Digital Hero magazine since its inception in spring of 2002. Digital Hero is the official bimonthly online magazine of Hero Games. Dave contacts and coordinates the authors and artists, and also edits, lays out, and occasionally writes for the magazine.

Aaron Sullivan

Vice President of BlackWyrm Games, and the primary author of The Algernon Files, Aaron Sullivan has also been a contributing author to several of the sourcebooks for the Origins Award-nominated San Angelo: City of Heroes product line from Gold Rush Games. Aaron was responsible for many of the M&M conversions for the characters in the San Angelo 1.5 core book and The Dragon’s Gate supplement, and all of the M&M conversions for the Enemies of San Angelo supplement.

Derrick Thomas

Our Art Director, Derrick Thomas, has provided illustrations for several published works. Chief among these are interior and cover art for Digital Hero as well as several pieces for Hero Games.

More examples of his work can be found on-line here.

Ryan Wolfe

Coming from the video game industry, Ryan Wolfe is responsible for our graphic design, cartography, 3D modeling, and digital art. He also does some writing and handled the design of the company web site.

In addition to our in-house projects, his art credits include Digital Hero and D6 Adventure Locations by West End Games, as well as the deckplans for the Serenity and Battlestar Galactica RPGs. A detailed portfolio of work can be found on his personal web site.

The following are projects and contracts completed by BlackWyrm as a whole, or which involved the effort of more than one founder.

The Algernon Files

Our first wholly in-house production, this 128 page hardcover is a collection of allies and adversaries for use with the Mutants and Masterminds game by Green Ronin Publishing.

Women of the Woods

This book combined art by Larry Elmore with short stories written about the characters depicted. BlackWyrm Games was contracted to provide the d20 system statistics for the characters. Given the art and the fiction we provided a brief synopsis of the character in game terms. You can see a rough overview of a chapter here. The final section (beneath the rune stones) contains the text and statistics provided by BlackWyrm.

Larry Elmore: New Beginnings

Tintagel Media took a collection of Elmore's art and put it onto collectible trading cards. The back of each card briefly described the character in the given piece of art and directed the buyer to a website where full d20 statistics, and further text, could be found. It was our job to supply the text and the game stats, which were created using the D&D 3.5 rule set.

One Thousand Faces: Villains & Scoundrels

This project involved the creation several dozen non-player characters of various races, classes, and levels. The write-ups included history and personality notes as well as game stats.

These were all created as D&D 3.0 characters for use with Citizen Game's proprietary world. BlackWyrm founders Dave Mattingly and Ryan Wolfe designed and developed many of the characters while Dave was also responsible for editing the work.