2026.03.24 Looks Like Kenny Might be Causing a Stir with His GAMA Candidacy

We had some GAMA Facebook Group discussion(s) forwarded that were allegedly about Ken Whitman running for the Board of Directors. We're told (mostly likely 3rd hand) that he showed up at the recent GAMA Expo, which was held pretty much in Kenny's back yard (Louisville KY, less than 2 hours away) March 1st -5th, in a suit passing himself off as a "successful filmmaker". We were also told he was bragging not only about his successes, but that he had money stashed away in "various trusts".  

That's all hearsay, but in our opinion that leads credence to our speculation back more than a year ago that Kenny was lying about money because he claimed he "only" paid himself $18K a year. If he's limiting his income down to $18K then he has means above that number.....

.....fortunately that's all our thoughts on the subject and worth about the same amount of money you paid NAD to type this out ($0.00).

Getting back to the internalized GAMA discussion, we were told that there were members discussing Kenny ever since the Expo, but not always using his name. Some members were concerned, which is human nature, that all this discussion might be baseless rumormongering. Allegedly Not Another Dime (for Ken Whitman) was quoted at least once, which makes our efforts here worthwhile. Believe us, don't believe us, not really the purpose behind the last 127 months(?!) of posts.

It's important to restate that please (PLEASE) assume we're completely biased against Ken, or Whit, Whitman (because we are). Read these posts with that particular grain of salt in mind. Read the comments, follow the links, and make your own informed opinion. Ken's issues within this industry started long before August 2015, but good luck finding all those threads. NAD exists specifically to have some documentation....

Now on to the shared discussion at hand:

"What are the code of conduct limits before someone is removed from gama? I don't want to bring up specifics, because there is more than 1 individual or company that I am surprised can be members, especially board members or people running for the board."

Good question?

"It's always such a fine line to walk as a board member and someone who believe in transparency (not that as a whole we are discouraged from talking about things, but sometimes we just have privileged information that duty dictates we can't share publicly. And the time it takes to dot our Ts and cross our Is (sic), things may move slower than we all like.) ALL OF THAT BEING SAID, in regards to some recent concerns that arose due to what amounted as a clerical issue, and prospectus members ending up on the roster, that has been taken care of.

An unfortunate side effect of the board of director election process, which I learned last night, is we cannot remove any names once the ballot has gone live; otherwise we'd have to negate the whole election and do it over (at a cost to GAMA as well).

Thank you all who wrote, message, and voiced their concerns to board members. We heard you, and will work with the membership committee on their processes to make sure incidents like this, and others, don't repeat. And really, thanks to the membership committee for being on top of this. Not gonna throw them under the bus here, because like I said, this really was a mistake that took longer to untangle due to policies and processes."

"What makes someone a Prospectus member. Either you are a paying member or you are not. I am sure there is a nuance to that but what is that nuance."

"I believe there is a time frame from when you apply and pay to when you are an accepted member. I believe there was a time frame between when I applied and paid and when I was welcomed as a new member."

"all companies are prospectus members until they are approved by the Membership Committee. Then they are full members. The Membership Committee was created in the bylaws for exactly this reason- to have a group of folks from each division who know folks and can determine if there have been historical events that would make them bad members of the organization"

2026.03.19 GAMA Elections Are Starting Today-SAVE GAMA!

 

Electronic ballots for the Game Manufacturers Association's (GAMMA) Board of Directors should have gone out today for the election of the 2026-2028 Board of Directors. The election starts today and runs through next Wednesday (2026.03.25). 

There is also an effort to "Save GAMA" with a website at, fittingly enough, SaveGAMA.org. The expressed reason behind Save GAMA: "a coalition of concerned members of the tabletop gaming industry working to restore accountability and member representation within GAMA: The Tabletop Association."

You know what....they have opinions regarding this election, although they generally are refraining from "supporting or opposing any current candidate" they have tried reaching out to most candidates to get some information on them, with limited success. To nobody's surprise, they do have a very specific stance on our main man Ken Whitman: "One candidate, Ken Whitman, was not emailed this questionnaire. Until every retail member of this collective receives refunds for PencilDice we support his removal from the organization, not his election to the Board."

Hmm.....

.....looks like your own "peers" don't want you around Kenny. Maybe you should've used "Whit Whitman" when running for office......but at least whoever is behind savegama.org gave a very specific path to redemption, "refund every GAMA member you ripped off with the Pencil Dice Kickstarters". Now that's clearly an opinionated rephrasing of the words on the website, but we're giving them the benefit of the doubt that they meant both Kickstarters, even though RPG Pencil Dice didn't have a Retail level. Wish they would've added the KoDT:LAS and Castles & Crusades because we're reasonably sure KenzerCo and Troll Lord Games are GAMA members too and would like a piece of the action (and/or his removal, but this is all speculation/opinion).

We're still wondering what GAMA Member Company is employing Kenny so he could be eligible for the Board in the 1st place......

2026.03.19 Edit:

Got a screenshot of the appropriate ballot:

Hmm...that's interesting. "Ken Whitman Games".......Ken Whitman Games does not exist as a legal entity.....at least not in Kentucky as of the time of this post. We checked.....to make certain we just searched for active companies with the word "Games" in their title. For the record we also looked for "Whitman" and "Game". There are a lot of "Game" companies listed and four "Whitman", but none are even close to "Ken Whitman Games". We did look up the four Whitman companies, not our guy.

So, if you have to be employed by a "GAMA member company", and said company doesn't exist.....wouldn't that mean it's a fraudulent registration as a candidate for office? That logic seems to pan out, but maybe there is an angle we're not aware of.....it just seems like "Ken Whitman Games" literally only exists on this GAMA ballot.....

2026.03.20 EDIT: We got word today that the original wording about having to be employed by a "GAMA member company" is a bit misleading. Ken is 100% eligible to run for the Board of Directors because "Any freelancer/self-employed game designer/self-publisher, etc., that has paid their $300 annual dues to be a Voting member, is equal to any business with two or tens of thousands of employees."

As a bit of an aside, thanks to GAMA for responding to our inquiry and resolving that particular issue for us.

2026.03.12 Vote for Ken Whitman, Seriously?

So we got this graphic sent to us regarding Mr. Whitman and while we cannot currently verify this information, it is a time-sensitive and the background details pan out:

"Today is the last day to apply to be considered for election to the GAMA Board of Directors or Team Retail? 

As per our bylaws we are required to hold an election for our Board of Directors. Each of the six voting membership groups has two representatives on the board, each serving a two-year term. Directors who were elected or appointed to the 2024-26 term will expire on March 31, 2026. As such, we will be holding an election for a new two-year term, which will run from April 1, 2026, to March 31, 2028. 

If you would like to be considered for election to the GAMA Board of Directors or Retail Board, please fill out the application by clicking the link below. Candidates must be employed by a GAMA member company. "*

As much damage that has been attributed to Ken/Whit Whitman over the years from within the gaming industry, at least from the consumer side of things, why would any organization think it would be a good idea to have him on a Board of Directors?

According to the Facebook (was also in Instagram) post, this seems to be a vote for volunteers for these positions, which would mean Ken would have to thrown his hat in the proverbial ring. At this point we'd have but on clarifying question: What GAMA member company is employing Ken Whitman?

2026.03.19 Edit:

Got a screenshot of the appropriate ballot:

Hmm...that's interesting. "Ken Whitman Games".......Ken Whitman Games does not exist as a legal entity.....at least not in Kentucky as of the time of this post. We checked.....to make certain we just searched for active companies with the word "Games" in their title. For the record we also looked for "Whitman" and "Game". There are a lot of "Game" companies listed and four "Whitman", but none are even close to "Ken Whitman Games". We did look up the four Whitman companies, not our guy.

So, if you have to be employed by a "GAMA member company", and said company doesn't exist.....wouldn't that mean it's a fraudulent registration as a candidate for office? That logic seems to pan out, but maybe there is an angle we're not aware of.....it just seems like "Ken Whitman Games" literally only exists on this GAMA ballot.....

*2026.03.20 EDIT: We got word today that the original wording about having to be employed by a "GAMA member company" is a bit misleading. Ken is 100% eligible to run for the Board of Directors because "Any freelancer/self-employed game designer/self-publisher, etc., that has paid their $300 annual dues to be a Voting member, is equal to any business with two or tens of thousands of employees."

As a bit of an aside, thanks to GAMA for responding to our inquiry and resolving that particular issue for us.

2025.12.03 Well This is Awkward

 

Taking a look at PieoSync and seeing if there was any...substance to it. There is an AI-filled webpage where the vast majority of the links don't work on a website selling....."stuff" for between $4.99 and $17.99. Yes, the "stuff" has names, but no idea what any of it is. No product description to be had for any of the 12 alleged products.

Now the Facebook page is a different animal. There are several AI tools, basically specialized prompts* and one makes us just shake our heads: MEET GARY ... YOUR NEW CROWD FUNDING COACH — DOWNLOAD NOW Just $19.99

Really? Kenny has such a great history with crowd funding that anyone would want to spend $20 ....on a PDF that sets up some AI prompts?

A campaign coach built for creators stepping into the arena. Powered by the PieoSync cognitive engine, Gary breaks crowdfunding into clean beats—what you’re offering, who you’re talking to, how to build trust, and how to convert attention into committed backers. Warm tone, direct guidance, and structure that keeps you moving instead of second-guessing.

Kenny can't even post a graphic for this "product", but we're supposed to think that he has a put-together PDF for AI prompts? For $20? Does he think if he throws a bunch of techno-babble at the internet "wall" that eventually something will stick?

Taking a look at PieoSync and, well wouldn't you know it......."Gary" isn't listed. We're only showing the first product page here....for reasons. The website is just a mess. Most of the links just reload the page, and oddly enough, the top "Product" link on each page....doesn't actually go to one of the two product pages. Basically this is just one big-assed placeholder, really half-assed (our opinion) and not something you'd have on a "live" website (again our opinion).

We find this really rich seeing how Kenny...er Whit, is practically bragging about his expertise working with AI, which is literally the reason for the website to begin with as he wants you to pay him for his "expertise" with this very subject.....(emphasis is ours):

"What I’ve Actually Been Doing With AI

By Ken “Whit” Whitman 

I keep seeing posts about AI — what it might do,

what people are afraid of, what some guru says it’ll replace. Here’s what I’ve actually done with it.

I assembled 120 game cards in two hours. Not designed them — I’d already done that. I fed AI my spreadsheet of stats, symbols, and rules. It placed the text, positioned the artwork, formatted every card to print-ready Photoshop templates. 120 cards. 90% accuracy. Fifteen minutes of machine time plus my quality pass. That’s a week of production work. Done in 60 mins.

I built a 300-page website in four hours. Not a landing page. Not a template. Three hundred individual HTML pages, structured and styled, deployed on WordPress. From zero to live in a single afternoon. 4 hrs start to finish build. 

I researched 300 game designers — properly. Not Wikipedia summaries. Structured profiles following a consistent format, averaging ten minutes per person. The kind of research that would take a team of interns a month. I did it solo, with coffee. Did it in 8 hrs. 

I ran 30,000 simulations of a card game I designed. Monte Carlo analysis. I fed the AI every card and every rule, then let probability do what playtesting can’t — surface the hidden weaknesses, the broken combos, the edge cases no human would catch in a hundred play sessions. Done in 30 mins. Ran it 6 times after it game modification.  Thats a year of test play. 

I built a system that cuts AI hallucination by 95%. Then I patented it. It’s called a governance framework. It doesn’t just prompt the AI better — it restructures how the AI thinks about accuracy, giving it guardrails that make its output trustworthy. That one matters. Cuts mistakes and overconfident ai by 95%.  Took 3 months to develop and now saves yeaes of bad decidions.  

I’ve now created over 50 specialized AI programs. Each one is purpose-built for a specific job — keeping the AI focused, structured, and useful instead of wandering off into generic responses. Think of them as lenses. Same AI, different expertise.  I can bulid a soecual one in 4 hrs for soecific tasks. 

Here’s what I’ve learned. AI doesn’t replace expertise. It amplifies it. Every one of these projects worked because I brought thirty years of game design, filmmaking, and systems thinking to the table. The AI didn’t know what a good card layout looks like. I did. The AI didn’t know which simulation parameters matter. I did. The AI didn’t know how to stop itself from making things up. I built the system that taught it.

The people who will thrive with AI aren’t the ones who know the most about AI. They’re the ones who know the most about their craft — and figure out how to plug AI into it.

So what’s next? Three things.

First — more specialized programs. The fifty I’ve built are just the beginning. The real unlock is creating AI systems that stay locked onto a specific task without drifting. Not chatbots. Workmates. Purpose-built tools that know their job and do it without wandering off script.

Second — production modeling. I make films and I design games. Both are complex, expensive, and full of moving parts. I’m building AI systems that can model a film shoot before it happens — scheduling, budgeting, creative logistics — and do the same for game production. Think of it as a rehearsal you can run a hundred times before you spend a dollar.

Third — the boring stuff that isn’t boring. Organization. Scheduling. Reminders. The infrastructure of a creative life. I’ve spent thirty years keeping a dozen projects spinning at once. Now I’m building the AI layer that helps manage all of it — not by replacing my judgment, but by making sure nothing falls through the cracks while I’m in the creative zone.

The pattern is always the same: take what I already know how to do, and build the system that lets me do more of it, faster, without losing quality.

That’s not the future of AI. That’s the future of work.

— Ken “Whit” Whitman, filmmaker, game designer, and the guy who taught AI to stop lying."

So.....Kenny is an AI expert who can use AI to build "a 300 page website" but he can't build the website where he tries to sell his expertise? That math doesn't math....

Did you know you can actually search the US Patent and Trademark Office? According to the database search Kenneth Whitman does not have a single Patent, well at least not our Ken Whitman. There is a Kenneth Whitman referenced in two Patents having to do with Irradiation, but even then they aren't the patent "inventors" from the 2002 applications. Also did a search for "Whitman" and "governance framework"...still nothing.

Lastly, if you can use AI to create stuff, and logically a Facebook post is also "creating stuff", you'd think that maybe, just maybe you'd use AI to....I don't know.....get stuff spelled correctly? 

*This is an assumption. We're not paying to find out.

2026.02.27 We Get Word (Indirectly) that Kenny is Taking Another Swing at a Kickstarter Project...Kind of?!

Ken has a new online operation at www.kenwhitman.com, which includes a future web store and a compilation of efforts from at least the last decade (games, movies, and music).

We got an email yesterday, a notice from NAD's contact form.

"Looks like Kenny's setting up an online storefront for his games, films, 

and other oddities..."

We're finding this interesting for a couple reasons. One, it reinforces our documentation of Kenny's AI Music, but doesn't yet prove it. Another it ties directly into one of his failed Kickstarters.

We looked into the URL before......for other reasons. It's not a new site, but the changes are new. In the past it was the website for his A1A Dumpster Rental, at least it was until December of 2023....

The new site now.....

The interesting part, for us, is the crappy rendition of the Deck Dice graphic, mostly because that isn't...well, wasn't, the original graphic for the Deck Dice Kickstarter.

2026.02.28:

2016.04.11:

The Kickstarter comments seem to indicate that the Kickstarter Deck Dice was never fulfilled, but Kenny is setting up a website/webstore to sell Deck Dice?!

Now to be fair, maybe Kenny is attempting to revisit Deck Dice so as to fulfill those Kickstarter obligations, but it's been more than a decade overdue and aside from the updated graphic Kenny hasn't provided an *actual* update since 2024. It'd be great to see one of his Kickstarters get fulfilled, but it's been long enough that we don't think he should get the benefit of the doubt.