John Tynes founded Pagan Publishing in 1990 at the age of 19 in Columbia, Missouri, with a volunteer staff.
[2] Dennis Detwiller reached out to Tynes after seeing an issue of The Unspeakable Oath, and then began volunteering with Pagan.
[2] Tynes began working at Wizards of the Coast in May 1994, when Jonathan Tweet was the new role-playing game department lead.
[1]: 245 Tynes resigned from his position at Wizards of the Coast in June 1995, disliking their new corporate branding ideals, and he moved on to work at Daedalus Games.
[2] Tynes told his partners on January 1, 2001, that he was leaving the role-playing game industry, expecting to be fully out of the field by 2002, and Adam Scott Glancy became the new Pagan president.