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Best Wizardly D&D Game Master

Mike Nystul at Sherwood Forest Faire

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photo by John Anderson

What better environment than a rollicking Ren fest out in the wilderness in which to throw your dice and adventure up some arcane treasure with fellow travelers? None, we avow – especially when the game master is the wizardly Mike Nystul, who's been leading successful quests for decades and who, with performative flair, now plies his trade in the midst of Sherwood Forest's magisterial milieu. Bonus fact: Nystul's father used to play with Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax(!) back in the early Balrog-bashing days.