Meet the Crew

Adam is a Two-Spirit Choctaw artist and labor leader, originally from rural Oklahoma, now happily living in Los Angeles. They have been playing RPGs since age 12, dungeon-crawling through AD&D with childhood friends. In college, they discovered theatre costuming and White Wolf games, both of which fit perfectly into their creative needs. Moving to California led to learning about story-games, and Adam is now unapologetically Powered by the Apocalypse. Adam prefers playing as a PC most of the time, but often plays as a GM in order to do fun voices and watch his friends squirm by shamelessly adoring everything about them.

Alex (he/they) is a queer/trans LA-based storyteller originally from NYC. They work in the TTRPG publishing industry as a freelance writer, art director for Hunters Entertainment, and project assistant for the Confluence RPG. Prev. New Player Ambassador at One More Multiverse and Community Manager for NeverEnding. Alex is the GM of the ongoing horror campaign Strange Hungers and a lover of wizards, secrets, and monstrosities in all of their forms.

Artem is a Ukrainian born Jersey raised NY refined performing artist, TTRPG nerd and podcaster based in LA. Artem’s live performances have been seen at bars, basements, rooftops, warehouses, and some honest to goodness regional theaters such as The Public (NY), Luna Stage (NJ), Edmonton/Minneapolis/Philly Fringe Festivals, and many, many more. Check out Artem’s podcasts Scary Movie & A Sandwich (movies/food), and I Only Got Three Voices (ttrpg) wherever you get your ear listening entertainment. IG @artemdirectly

Bill is a well-known figure in the global video game industry. A GM and player who is also a game designer, musician, voice actor, and creative that has created many of the intro sequences here on Happy Jacks.

Blythe is long-time geeky, queer, Latinx producer/host who’s run the gambit from Geek & Sundry, Nerdist, IGN, and more!

Gamer dad of all types, video/board/ttrpg.  Spending time telling amazing stories with amazing people rocks.

Cai is first and foremost a storyteller. Costume designer, voice artist, writer, TTRPG performer, and artist all revolve around telling the stories of people. Cai uses his experience in theater, film, and television to create characters that he wished for his whole life that represent the diverse world we live in.

He has a Masters in Fine Arts from UCLA in design for entertainment media and a desire to use world-building, characters, and their stories to inspire others. Cai has worked for major powerhouses of fan media (Marvel, HBO) and by day is a historian, archivist, and union costumer.

Christopher Grey is the creator of Highcaster, The Great American Witch, The Great American Novel RPG, and The Happiest Apocalypse on Earth. His gaming started way too young and has gone on for far too long, cutting his teeth on Rifts and worst, he eventually graduated into the indie scene where he loves playing everything from Year Zero Engine to PbtA. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, teenager, a pack of angry cats, and the perfect dog.

Former professional mermaid, current art department goblin. Thinks far too much about games and will use any excuse to use the word “ludonarrative.” She’ll probably never GM a game because “I can’t do the voices.”

Courtney has been LARPing and roleplaying for 20+ years. She loves trying something new every game.

Cousteau writes for games and lends his voice to podcasts and other projects. He loves roleplaying games, game mechanics. He also has a soft spot for LARP’ing.

Long term story-teller; new tabletop player.

Eli really likes rolling polyhedrals and eating snacks and he is all out of snacks.

Emily St. James has been playing tabletop role-playing games since that one episode of Community convinced her to give it a go. When she’s not doing that, she’s a senior correspondent for Vox covering American identities and the co-creator of the fiction podcast Arden. She lives in Los Angeles with her wife and an ever-shifting number of cats.

Jon is a forever DM with a scorching case of Adult Onset Queer. He played his first game at 5 and started GMing around 10. He’s a writer/director/editor in the entertainment industry and even built a gaming table with his own two hands!

J. writes things.

Jason is a game designer, streamer, and high school teacher. He loves all kinds of ruleset explorations, even if he ends up ignoring most of the rules-as-written anyway.

Jay is a freelance game designer, graphic designer, theatre designer, and occasional actor and musician. He lives in sunny Los Angeles CA, USA and is the father of two cool kids. In addition to playing RPGs with Happy Jack’s, he has appeared as a Dungeon Master on Saving Throw’s Iron Keep Chronicles, a player on Geek & Sundry’s Game the Game, and as a guest on a variety of other RPG live streams.

Head of the RPG department for Strategicon conventions with 40 years experience in role playing games. Jim loves the RPG hobby and more than that loves the community of fans that love the hobby.

Story consultant, mental health advocate and storyteller, TTRPG and neurodiversity geek. We should be friends if you have interest in satisfying narrative arcs, mental health and wellness, neurodiversity awareness, and are not a jerk.

TTRPG Gaymer/Real-life Bard biding his time until the Fae make him an offer he can’t refuse. If Oscar Wilde were in a CW “‘Teen’ Drama”.

Kimi runs Happy Jacks RPG. She owns her own game design company, Golden Lasso Games.

Kurt is a Creative Director by trade with a healthy love for tabletop games and game design. He’s worked as a professional graphic designer for over 17 years and has been immersed in tabletop games for a little over 13.

Leona is a South Asian woman based in Metro Vancouver, Canada. She currently works freelance in the game industry as a diversity and inclusion consultant and desires to make games fun and inclusive for all. She takes great pride in her South Asian heritage and culture and identifies as demi, pan, and queer, as well as an ADHD spoonie. She adores cats and currently lives with two.

Fresh on the podcast scene, Lloyd has been running and writing games for the better part of 10 years. Eager to try his hands at new things, Lloyd’s speciality comes from high octane improvisational rpgs that simply allow him and the audience to play to find out.

Michelle has been in the gaming space since the dawn of time, and she has been performing even longer. From acting to singing to just being a goofball, she is always ready for a show. She loves her family, ttrpgs, and music. You can find her on the socials as @michulhu.

Minerva Fox is a comic artist and TTRPG illustrator. At character creation, she put ALL her stats in art and ignored everything else. She likes playing brutish characters.

Hero Games games Stan, PBTA/ FitD dude. Too old for random encounters.

Born in the fires of a forgotten star, the being known as Nick has been playing games since time immemorial, or since seeing a Greyhawk hexmap at age 6. His course as a RPG player was set and only further reinforced by growing up in the theater and one summer with a circus. A lover of puns, wordplay, and dad jokes, Nick is the guardian of the worst joke in the universe. He has sworn a mighty oath to take this dread joke to the grave of galaxies, letting the inevitable entropy devour it and his wasted body at the heat death of the universe. He also loves cooking, baking, Lego, reading, and his 2 cats.

Ttrpg player, sometime GM, prop master. Pooja has been playing ttrpgs for over 20 years, and brings her love of story and giant nerdiness to everything she does

Ray is a writer, educator, designer, and founder of Mythopoeia. You can find his work at: www.myth.works

Riley Silverman is a writer, comedian, and professional geek. An author of Star Wars books, Riley is also a contributing writer for Nerdist and Fandom, the award-winning sci-fi podcast, Bubble, as well as SYFY’s Forgotten Women of Genre limited podcast series. She has rolled dice on numerous actual-play D&D and roleplaying shows, including in the role of Bragafor the official tabletop adaptation of Rat Queensand as GM on the Doctor Who TTRPG series Game of Rassilon. Her comedy album Intimate Apparel was a #1 bestseller. She lives in Los Angeles, California

Rose is your quintessential forever GM, she got into the hobby by running her own dungeon and dragons games at 19 and has been active in the hobby ever since. She has an ever abiding love of Masks: A New Generation and an never ending supply of hot takes about your favorite super hero. Her greatest claim to fame is being the worlds greatest RPG pitch hitter, once joining a live streamed campaign on ten minutes notice.

Sam de Leve is a roleplaying performer, variety streamer, and science communicator for Twitch and YouTube. They’re known for their shows on Geek & Sundry, including Shield of Tomorrow and Callisto 6, as well as their work with Streampunks, an indie TTRPG production company.

Eldritch abomination stuffed into a vaguely human-shaped containment unit. Will make heart eyes at monsters and robots. Legendary taker of notes.

Sarah Chaffee is a queer non-binary performer, writer, and TTRPG lover! They’re currently one half of the D&D Community Management team, where they work to make D&D and games more safe and accessible for all. They can be found pretty much anywhere on the internet under the handle @sarahiscoffee.

Sloan is a human who does graphic design, video editing, and tech direction, working on projects like Alice is Missing: Silent Falls, The Vineyard RPG, Failed Save, Salt & Serpent, and more. They also stream and make art. You can find them most places on the internet @artplebe.

Stu loves the Generic Universal Role-Playing System (GURPS (Yeah!)). He is the co-founder and director of the World Famous Poxy Boggards, a songwriter and occasional Renaissance Faire performer.