Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and games designer Matt Forbeck has been playing Dungeons & Dragons since he was 13. After gaining his degree in creative writing from the University of Michigan, Matt embarked on a prolific writing career which included working with the late legendary D&D co-inventor Gary Gygax. Forbeck has won Origins Awards for Best Roleplaying Game for Deadlands and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game, Best Miniatures Rules for Warzone and The Great Rail Wars, Best Roleplaying Adventure for Independence Day, Best Fantasy Board Game for Genestealer, and Best Short Story for "Prometheus Unwound" from The Book of All Flesh. He is the author of the well-received Secret of the Spiritkeeper, the first book in the Knights of the Silver Dragon series. Forbeck and his wife Ann live in Beloit, Wisconsin with their five children.