About Us

Arc Dream Publishing is a small-press publisher of high-quality games (and whatever else strikes its managers’ fancy), founded and run by Dennis Detwiller and Shane Ivey. We produce the critically-acclaimed roleplaying games Delta Green, Puppetland, Monsters and Other Childish Things, Wild Talents, Better Angels, the classic World War II superhero game GODLIKE, the infamous horror gaming magazine The Unspeakable Oath, the Swords & Sorceries series of D&D adventures, and the squamously fun card game Wrestlenomicon. Arc Dream is developing a new, licensed RPG based on The Black Company, Glen Cook's legendary tales of swords, sorcery, and soldiering.

Contact: info@arcdream.com

Creative Director: Dennis Detwiller

Dennis Detwiller is an award-winning writer and artist and coauthor of 2016’s Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game. He was art director for Pagan Publishing for ten years, and in 1994 he co-created Pagan Publishing’s acclaimed Delta Green with John Tynes and Adam Scott Glancy. He received the prestigious Origins Award for Best Game Supplement of 1996 for Delta Green, and again for 1999’s Delta Green: Countdown, and won multiple Ennie Awards for Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity. He also won Origins Awards for Magic: The Gathering — Homelands (Best Card Game Supplement, 1997) and The Hills Rise Wild (Best Board Game, 2000).

In 2001 he coauthored the role-playing game Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946. with Greg Stolze. A sequel of sorts, the RPG Wild Talents, appeared a few years later. Dennis’s work has also appeared in various Call of Cthulhu supplements, Call of Cthulhu d20, Magic: The Gathering, Polyhedron, The Unspeakable Oath, Hogshead Games: New Style Line, Castle Falkenstein, Fangoria, Shadowfist, Mythos and elsewhere.

As a videogame designer, Dennis helped conceive, script and develop Sierra Entertainment’s [Prototype], along with other titles for Radical Entertainment, Nickelodeon, Warner Brothers Games, Harebrained Schemes, and Monte Cook Games.

President and Publisher: Shane Ivey

Shane Ivey is coauthor of Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game, The Black Company Roleplaying Game, Wild Talents, and the upcoming second edition of Godlike. In past years he was a newspaper copy editor, a university magazine editor, webmaster, and freelance writer. Shane has won over a dozen ENnie Awards for his work in Delta Green and The Unspeakable Oath.

Publishing Director: Chris Spivey

Chris Spivey is an award-winning game designer and writer, and he is the founder of Darker Hue Studios. A U.S. Army veteran, Chris has decades of project management and analysis experience which he brings to his true passion for historical research, storytelling, and horror in tabletop roleplaying games. He created Harlem Unbound, an acclaimed roleplaying game exploring the Harlem Renaissance and the horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos, and Haunted West, a Weird West roleplaying game inspired by forgotten history, folklore, and the American West. Harlem Unbound received three Gold ENnie Awards for Best Writing, Best Setting, and Best Cover, while Haunted West earned a Silver ENnie Award for Best Rules.

Some of his freelance credits include Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Pathfinder, Geist: The Sin-Eaters Second Edition,  Cthulhu Confidential, Vampire: The Masquerade—Chicago by Night, Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game, Trail of Cthulhu, 7th Sea, along with numerous Call of Cthulhu and Cyberpunk Red supplements.

Chris serves as Publishing Director at Arc Dream Publishing, overseeing the development and publication of tabletop roleplaying games. He also hosts Genreless, a podcast exploring genre, storytelling, and the creative forces behind the worlds we imagine.

Co-Conspirators

  • Adam Scott Glancy, Delta Green co-creator
  • John Scott Tynes, Delta Green co-creator
  • Caleb Stokes, senior writer

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