Contributors

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Star

Star is an avid player and GM of table top role playing games. While her first love is Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, she's always ready to try new systems and has played Cozy Town, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Wanderhome, Call of Cthulhu, and Kids on Bikes among others. Star loves nothing more than playing pretend with her friends all over the world and creating memorable characters who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances.

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"Rook" Roger Peters

Roger Peters, who also goes by Rook, is the owner of Epic Sages, a multi-TTRPG focused hosting site. He’s played and/or ran various TTRPGs for over 15 years.

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AC Lawrence

Adrian is a Mexican-American DM who co-hosts a podcast named Dungeons & Degrees, where he interviews individuals in the TTRPG space to show that the path to creativity isn't just a single path. They also have been a part of many charity events for numerous causes that use TTRPGs as outreach to raise money.

https://www.characterswithoutstories.com/guests/adrian-lawrence

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Aetherius Bordeaux

Aetherius Bordeaux is your new favorite Vampire Himbo. He is a mystery/thriller/horror content creator and lifelong answerer of the eternal question "whodunnit?". Aetherius is a theater kid turned TTRPG baby and has finally fought off his anxiety long enough to launch into content creation.

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Alex

Alex, also known as apples-n-cinnamon, is a ttrpg enthusiast and a blooming forever GM. They make TTRPG content somewhat sporadically but play in a variety of games in as many systems as possible!

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Amelia Antrim

Amelia Antrim is the co-host of the Character Creation Cast podcast, a show where they discuss and create characters with guests using the guest's favorite games. Amelia does most of the social media, organizing and graphic design for the podcast, and was also an ENnies judge for two years.

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Andrew Rahman

Andrew Rahman has been playing D&D for 10 years in his home, at local game stores, gaming conventions, and now online. He's introduced hundreds of players to the game and specializes in introductory games that show off virtual tabletop magic. The focus in his games is inclusivity and having fun. When not playing D&D he enjoys making content on TikTok, hanging out with his toddler, and playing video games.

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Blerdy Disposition

Blerdy Disposition is a Black Queer Professional GM and Content Creator. He makes TTRPG YouTube content, focused on covering either indie rpgs or player and GM advice. When he is not obsessing over the Cthulhu Mythos, niche rpgs, or the ever annoying Youtube Algorithm, you can find him yapping about his next favorite rpg of the month on Youtube.

https://www.characterswithoutstories.com/guests/blerdy-disposition

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Caroline Vahrenkamp

Caroline Vahrenkamp is a suburban parent of two who does silly D&D character voices on TikTok from time to time. Caroline’s podcast, Wonders of the World, is about all of the amazing places on Earth and the cultures that created them.

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Chriss Knight

Chriss is a life long creative who found her calling with D&D in college where she earned a degree in theatre. After a winding road of various career paths, she found her way back to TTRPGs and now runs her own podcast all about them, alongside running and playing in several games herself. She is a passionate advocate of TTRPGs as a means of expression and exploration, as well as a way to process and heal, and her personal goal is to spread happiness by sharing what she loves about tabletop gaming with as many people as she can.

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Dungeon Mistress Katie

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Glenn Buettner

Glenn Buettner has been a tabletop gamer since the 70's and an almost always forever GM. He has been working on the retail side of the gaming industry for the last 16 years and has a self-published rpg, Mistrunner.

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GM of Reven

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Grant Nordine

Grant is the titular Game Master of Game Master Monday and the guide for Bella's Comet. Grant is an award-winning actor and writer with stage, film, music, and podcasting credits. As the GM of Game Master Monday, he runs a new one-shot in a new system with a new cast every episode.

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I Sneeze Stars

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Jack

Jack is a Jewish trans man just trying to play and learn as many different games as he can. Currently working on a Risus setting/adventure about VR games.

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Jay

Jay is a retired U.S. Navy Broadcast Journalist, a High School Teacher, and the creator of Better Backstories. She is also a D&D Dungeon Master, a cosplayer, and she identifies as a non-binary femizenter.

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Jeffrey Baker

Jeffrey Baker is a dad, LARPer, and game designer. Jeffrey has been playing TTRPGs ever since his older brothers would allow him to join. His creative well consists of using his personal life, theatre training, and LARP background to make fully realized characters.

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Jim S

Jim S is an office worker in the Buffalo NY area and a TTRPG player and GM spreading the word about Savage Worlds on TikTok.

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Jordan Peacock

Jordan is an independent game designer, founder of Sortilege, and a near-forever GM. He regularly runs non-D&D games for people new to the hobby, and has an RPG narrative project coming out later this year.

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Joseph Byler

Joseph is an aspiring TTRPG writer and nurse. They're also a proud redneck and leftist.

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Joseph Speak

Joseph Speak is a chronic DM that desperately wants to play Dungeons and Dragons but is stuck as the storyteller. Creating Pokémon themed TTRPG miniatures, commissions and more.

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Juniper

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Kurt Refling

Kurt Refling is a designer, writer, and artist based in Ottawa, Canada. Kurt has published GM-less tabletop roleplaying games including Knots in the Sky, This Spells Trouble, and Faewater. He is currently launching a Kickstarter campaign for his game Here We Used to Fly, a tabletop role-playing game about abandoned theme parks and the bittersweet nostalgia of growing up.

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Mamaicailleach

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Meadow

Meadow is a TTRPG malcontent who just wants to tend their garden and tell stories with friends.

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Morgan Nuncio

Morgan Nuncio is a TTRPG writer and content creator. They have written for Kids on Bikes, Teens in Space, and Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall. They are a professional GM and an active actual play streamer and podcaster, most notably with their Podcast, Powered by the Players.

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Natalie Marley

Natalie is a behavior therapist who primarily works with children under the age of 10, teaching social communication, self-help, and coping skills.

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Natasha Ticotin

Natasha is an artist, corgi mom, and Princess of Genovia.

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Nate

Nate grew up the small town of Seward, Alaska as a theatre kid who grew up working on boats. He's now a boat captain living in California who fell in love with TTRPGs and is now working to get more into that space professionally through storytelling and character creation.

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Navaar Seik-Jackson

Navaar Seik-Jackson is a narrative game designer, podcaster, and occasional TTRPG performer. Navaar enjoys providing a platform for marginalized people in the TTRPG space to tell their stories and exploring the apocalypse as a setting with nuanced themes. You may have heard of Navaar from the Secret Nerd Podcast, An Unwavering Force podcast, or his game The Corrupted.

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Owen Kerr

Owen Kerr is a writer, teacher, indie game designer, voice actor, professional game master, TikTok enthusiast, LGBTQ+ father, husband, and ally. He was recently certified as a Therapeutic Game Master and will run or play in just about any TTRPG you'd like.

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PlotDoc

PlotDoc is a 34 year old stay-at-home dad and TTRPG TikToker, writer, and enthusiast. They focus on narrative heavy, emotionally compelling stories. They are an ADHD gender-fluid "disaster bi" with far too little filter.

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Quinn

Quinn is a 41-year-old trans woman who is decolonizing their TTRPG tables one at a time. They are using TTRPGs to explore decolonization and respecting other cultures without cultural appropriation.

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Rachel Voss

After facing ableism within the Dungeons & Dragons community, Rachel Voss, a retired wheelchair athlete/record-holder and advocacy specialist, co-founded Forge Ahead: A Party To Access to shift perspectives of disability within the gaming industry. When she's not increasing disability representation in games, she is helping her community access affordable housing as the Development Director for Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County.

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Ryan Boelter

Ryan is the co-host of the Character Creation Cast podcast, a show where they discuss and create characters with guests using the guest's favorite games. Ryan does the editing and production while also dabbling in game design and freelance audio editing.

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Sam Dunnewold

Sam is an award-winning filmmaker, podcaster, and game designer best known as the host of Dice Exploder, a TTRPG design podcast that breaks down one mechanic an episode. His games include Doskvol Breathes and Space Train Space Heist, and one time he won a Golden Cobra. Sam was a judge for the 2022 The Awards. He has no colon.

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Savannah Rayne

Savannah Rayne is an RP enthusiast, art witch, and podcaster. While relatively new to TTRPGs, Savannah has been making original characters and building their worlds and their stories outside of game spaces pretty much her entire life.

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Simon

Simon is a queer, non-binary, autistic, and ADHD STEM educator that builds TTRPG characters to appease his brain spiders.

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Sophie Katz

Sophie Katz is a Jewish, aromantic/asexual writer, storyteller, and all-around nerd! She is the host of the podcast "I Love This Thing So Fricking Much."

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Stevie

Stevie is currently a grad student studying to become a mental health counselor and enjoys DMing and playing D&D and Pathfinder.

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ThisAbstractThought

Abstract is a forever DM and D&D TikToker working towards owning a gaming store and cafe.

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Tori Fica

Tori is a TTRPG enthusiast, actual-play performer, and GM. She is one of the creators of Level 1 Geek, a TTRPG education and entertainment channel to help new players get into this magical hobby.

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V.J. Harris

V.J. Harris is a professional TTRPG designer and pro game master. They're most well known for their work with MCDM Production's Arcadia magazine and An Elf and An Orc Had a Little Baby. They strive to make TTRPGS fun and inclusive for all those that wish to play and respect others.

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Wes Ascolese

Wes Ascolese is a leftist TTRPG collector and enthusiast, amateur bookbinder, and obsessive knowledge seeker. He co-wrote Beyond Deep, an adventure for Mörk Borg, with Christopher Koger, which you can find at Exalted Funderal: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/beyond-deep-pdf

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Wesley Magee-Saxton

Wesley is a disabled, queer performance artist and disability advocate based in Tkaronto Canada. They are the co-founder of Forge Ahead: a Party to Access.