His cousin, Matthew Bannock, is a prolific indie game designer. Tim Bannock is a best-selling Dungeon Masters Guild developer and writer, and has been an editor and project manager on over two dozen tabletop roleplaying game releases. Together they've been publishing experimental diceless games like DeScriptors and Dragon's Grave, incredibly rules-lite games like SHARP, OSR and 5e campaign settings and adventures like the Trueland and Dalentown campaign settings, as well as the Darkness Beneath.