Game Night!

Lon Lademann

Lon comes with a background of thirty-six years as a history teacher and twenty-seven years of coaching swimming and diving. He started playing board games with extended family members in the 1950's and has kept his interest in games and gaming ever since.

In the mid-70's he expanded into historical wargames and D&D, and along the way has enjoyed playing every genre of hobby games. In the mid 90's, Lon helped out at a local game store working on Sundays before opening his own game store in 1997. After two years he could no longer continue working two full time jobs, so he closed the store, but kept vending game conventions and selling games on-line.

In 1999 Lon became a regional administrator for the RPGA Living Greyhawk (D&D 3E) organized play campaign. In this capacity he took on the responsibility of plot coordinator and adventure module editor. He also authored or co-authored over a dozen adventures. Today, Lon continues to vend gaming conventions in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin; and has joined Dean's Dugout as the Game Sales Coordinator.

Jay Grember

Jay Grember, Tournament & Event Organizer, is familiar with all kinds of games: board games, role playing games, miniatures games and card games. Having spent years playing a little bit of everything, he is glad to be able to demonstrate and teach all kinds of games to the customers at Dean’s Dugout. Jay’s favorite games are Dungeons & Dragons (4th Edition, most of all) and Star Wars Miniatures.

In the past, Jay has worked freelance marketing for several companies including WizKids Games and Wizards of the Coast. He also spent several years in video production, both in a corporate and broadcast environment, where he produced live television events as well as segments for E! Entertainment and the BBC. Currently he works in marketing and merchandising, representing the movie studios in local DVD sales.

Jay is an avid baseball fan (Go, Cubs, Go!) and is in his eighth year coaching youth baseball overseeing his son, Ben. A former actor himself, Jay is currently looking forward to seeing his daughter, Katie, perform in Maplebrook school’s version of Alice in Wonderland!

Bob Oswald

Bob Oswald has been an avid adventure gamer since the late 1970's. He did some play test work and illustrations for FASA corporation and his play test credits include Top Gun, Battleforce, and from the Renegade Legion line of games, Interceptor, Centurion and Leviathan. On Wednesday evenings, he hosts the Organized Play League for Arcane Legions from Wells Expeditions. His current favorite games are Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, Memoir '44, Serenity: The Role Playing Game, Axis & Allies Miniatures and of course, Arcane Legions!

Kevin Martin

Kevin, a life long gamer, had up until the last couple of years, put his love for gaming on hold do to life’s craziness. He has recently jumped back in headfirst due to his son Elias’ enthusiasm for all things "Monsters". Kevin’s wife Laura, wanting to see her son and husband, has also succumbed to the sickness known as gaming. Kevin feels blessed to be able to be part of a hobby that the entire family can enjoy. He not only enjoys being able to get together with his family and friends to play, but also finds introducing others to the gaming world just as rewarding. Favorite games include: Dungeons & Dragons, Heroscape, Arcane Legions, Risk, Poker, Pool, Descent and Monsterpocalypse.