Travis Vengroff (born January 20, 1987) is an American podcast maker, comic book writer, composer, musician, actor, and role-playing game designer.
Vengroff usually acts as director, producer, sound designer, and editor of Fool and Scholar Productions' works, with Statz as writer.
He has also composed and performed music and voice acted in their works, and is the gamemaster of the actual play podcast Dark Dice (2018–present).
[3] Harvey was the founder and owner of Vengroff Williams Inc., a housing company, for over 50 years, and also worked at a debt collection agency.
[34][35][36][37][38][25][39][40][41][42][43] In 2017, Fool and Scholar Productions released their first Liberty-unrelated work found footage horror podcast The White Vault, about a group of individuals sent to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard to investigate a remote outpost gone radio silent after sending a distress signal.
[49][50][51][52] It emphasized the potential deaths of all player characters, with campaigns including, among others, Statz (who joined Vengroff as co-gamemaster from season 3 onwards), Jeff Goldblum, Eric Nelsen, LilyPichu, and many voice actors featured in other works of Fool and Scholar Productions; it is still ongoing.
[53][54] Vengroff also contributed as a composer and musician, directed an orchestra, a 40-person choir, and more than 30 medieval instruments for the soundtrack of the Dark Dice podcast.
[55] The tabletop role-playing game Domain of the Nameless God, designed by Vengroff and based on the universe of Dark Dice, was released on 2023 by Dungeon Masters Guild.
[57] Don't Mind: Cruxmont, a mystery story intended to be the first season of a Don't Mind anthology series made of stand-alone seasons, was released in 2022, starring Adjoa Andoh and Marcus Bentley as two strangers who meet on their way to the small elusive town of Cruxmont, both in search of answers.