Author, will be at Play 2026
A behavioral veterinarian and a passionate role-playing gamer since the late 1980s, Matteo Cortini—known as “Curte”—will be at Play 2026 to play and run his games!
A passion that led him not only to be a player and Game Master, but also to become a game designer and later a publisher with the publishing house Serpentarium.
Among the role-playing games he has created are: Sine Requie, Anime e Sangue, Alba di Cthulhu, L’Ultima Torcia, L’Ultima Bomba, and L’Ultima Rotta.
In 2023, the award-winning RPG Sine Requie celebrated its 20th anniversary, with uninterrupted yearly releases.
He is also the author of two gamebooks: I Randagi delle Terre Perdute and La Notte del Graal, the latter awarded Best Gamebook at Lucca Comics 2023.
With Serpentarium, he also created and published the Crawlers line—Dungeon Crawlers, Zombie Crawlers, and Dragon Crawlers—an engaging and well-balanced mix of role-playing game, board game, and gamebook.
At Play, he will present, in preview, a session of The Age of Dust – The Role-Playing Game, based on the work of Eleonora Villani, soon to be published by Villanora, for which he developed the game system.
