Happy Jacks RPG is about friends sharing their love of RPGs with the world. We are a real group of friends who have all connected through a wide variety of nerdy, fortuitous events. Many of the faces have changed since we started in 2009, but regardless of if they’ve been here since the beginning, just joined the crew, or haven’t been at our table in years, everyone is part of our (very weird) family.
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Adam Nestra-West
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Alex Teplitz
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Bill Roper
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Blythe Kala
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CADave Hoover
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Cai
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Christopher Grey
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Claire Broderick
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Clara Allison
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Courtney Kraft
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Eli Basquez
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Emily St. James
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Jameson
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Jason Mills
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Jay Africa
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Jim Sandoval
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Joe Kou
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Joey Nestra
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Kimi Hughes
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Kurt Potts
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Leona Neelam Maple
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Lloyd
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Minerva Fox
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Mitchell Wallace
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Nick Levy
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Pooja
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Riley Silverman
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Rose
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Samantha Terry
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Stu Venable
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Teri Gamble

Adam Nestra-West
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Adam Nestra-West
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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 Teplitz
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Alex Teplitz
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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.

Cai
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Cai
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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
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Christopher Grey
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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.

Claire Broderick
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Claire Broderick
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Claire is an actor and musician who stumbled into TTRPG as many do, dragged kicking and screaming by their friends. They found they very much enjoyed the opportunity to delve into a character, while also having an opportunity to feel heroic in vanquishing foes, and they've been playing RPGs ever since, about 20 years.
When they're not attempting to make their tablemates laugh, you can find Claire singing with one of their two bands, The Mary Sues, with Happy Jacks Goddess of All Kimi, or The Merry Wives of Windsor, with Happy Jacks' own Clara. While they didn't INTEND to be in two bands with such similar names, they ARE seeking a third project that includes the word Marry (this is not true, Kimi please don't fire me).

Emily St. James
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Emily St. James
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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.

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J.
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J. writes things.

Jay Africa
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Jay Africa
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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.

Leona Neelam Maple
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Leona Neelam Maple
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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.

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Nick Levy
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Nick Levy
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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.

Riley Silverman
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Riley Silverman
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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
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Rose
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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.

Stork
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Stork
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Stork has been playing RPGs for most of his life.

Teri Gamble
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Teri Gamble
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TERI GAMBLE – Actor, Writer, Podcaster, Scream Queen! Teri Gamble is an international performing artist and drama coach who has performed on stages from Los Angeles to Moscow, Boston and New York. She has appeared on the hit TV series Dollface, Superstore, Modern Family, ER and has appeared in numerous theater productions and commercials.
Teri is the co-host of Horror Movie Survival Guide – a horror movie podcast you can stream anywhere you listen to podcasts. She is also an avid D&D – tabletop roleplay gamer – and can be found on various podcast and streaming channels on Twitch & YouTube. She is a founding member of the Diversity Higher Comedy sketch comedy team & a member Ripley Improv! She has an MFA, MBA and BA…because she loves school.
You can follow her on the social media platforms @TheTeriGamble |