About Us

Jon Klement rolled his first d20 at age 11 in 1982. He’d already been reading superhero comics since he was three. Nerd credentials: locked in early.

Both of Jon’s parents were teachers. On his father’s side, teaching goes back five generations. Jon resisted the family calling, planning instead to become a lab scientist, but teaching, it turns out, was inescapably in his blood. In 2000, he stepped into his first high school science classroom and never looked back.

During the COVID years, Jon became a professional Game Master, running over 500 games of Dungeons & Dragons online for players hungry for connection and adventure while stuck at home.

In 2021, Jon brought Classcraft into his science classroom, late to the party, but instantly hooked. Students who had never engaged before lit up with excitement. Those already excelling became even more immersed. It wasn’t long before he began enhancing Classcraft with his own 40+ years of D&D experience, adding player-vs-player systems, deeper lore, and more interactive mechanics. Soon, the game in his classroom was half Classcraft, half tabletop RPG.

When Classcraft was acquired by HMH and restructured in 2023, the fantasy elements vanished, and so did the spark in his students’ eyes.

So Jon built something new.