Teddy Hulsker
Teddy Hulsker (He/Him) is an Oakland-based Bay Area native and Game Master for hire. As a DM Teddy creates a fun environment for play that rewards players for creativity and ingenuity. He loves games that feature a blend of humor, excitement, danger and collaborative problem solving. In addition to being a game master, he is also freelance theater artist specializing in sound and projection design. He loves story telling, collaboration, rich imaginary worlds, the bizarre, the strange, and the beautiful. He sees Game Mastering as a continuation of his artistic career and brings many of the skills he honed as a professional theater artist to his role playing adventures. He tends to favor creativity and imagination over a strict interpretation of the rules, he also loves having a well defined framework as restrictions are an impetus for creativity. He see role playing games as a collaborative art experience in which a group of story tellers work together to weave a tale of high adventure.
Greg Nunes Jr.
Greg is a Bay Area native, he has an affinity for miniature based games and fantasy. He loves running games with just as much strategy and haphazard luck. He is also an avid hobbyist and has a preference for games with miniatures that he paints himself. He prides himself in making his party work as a team and encouraging them to use critical thinking to disarm traps, solve puzzles and riddles. Greg’s classes may also include hobbying, giving kids the chance to paint and assemble their own heroes in miniature form.
Sam Tillis
Sam Tillis (He/him) been playing roleplaying games since the age of twelve and Game Mastering almost as long. His players have explored kingdoms of legend and lore, galaxies filled with scum and villainy, mutant-filled metropoles, and much more, defeating villains as grandiose as gods or as personal as their own demons. He’s done games with elementary school students and elders, soldiers and coders, teachers and therapists and authors and actors. Each has been totally different, unique to those people in that time and place.
Fenner Merlick
Fenner is a Theater artist and teacher dedicated to studying and embodying enduring forms of theater, melding them to new forms and generations of artists. They thrive by empowering young people to be expressive, generous and joyful in their unique experiences through theater arts. They have taught weekly drama workshops in public schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with New Conservatory Theater Company and American Conservatory Theater to children from 1st to 8th grade; creating connections through play. They have cultivated joy in failure as the resident clown at summer camps with Kinetic Art Center in Oakland, CA and introduced the delectable chaos of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ mechanicals to elementary school children at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s summer program. They can be found playing dnd on the podcast ‘The roll report’!
Slater Penney
Slater Penney is an Emmy award winning performer whose turned his interests towards ensemble creation. In the 25+ years of teaching and performing, he’s come to appreciate the combination of role playing and roll playing, and sees DnD as a beautiful form of group storytelling. Slater looks forward to the next adventure!
Dylan Waite
Dylan Waite (He/Him) is a Dungeon Master with over a decade of experience running campaigns in Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, 5th Edition and Pathfinder. His campaigns, usually written from scratch, focus on storytelling and player freedom, modifying the rulesets to streamline action and exploration. He has previously written for Palace Games escape rooms in San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, and has spent ten years writing musicals, interactive performances and radio plays. He currently lives in New York City.
Colin Epstein
Colin Epstein started playing D&D a long time ago, so long he doesn’t remember which edition, and then forgot about it. Five years ago a friend reintroduced him to 5e and the magic of digital character sheets, and he was hooked again. Since then he’s DMed upwards of ten campaigns, created a series of unique one shot adventures, and played in campaigns with friends all over the world. Colin prefers to run campaigns full of characters and humor and oddball NPCs while practicing his accents; and when not playing or voicing NPCs is a performer all around the SF Bay Area with 13th Floor Theater and others.
Jacob Walker
Jacob is a long time RPG player and particularly enjoys exploring different rule systems to gain a deeper understanding of what the best parts of role-playing games are for different audiences. From DnD 4e in elementary school, to Pathfinder 1e in middle and high school, to DnD 5e and a wide array of rules-light games and hacks in college (Mausritter, Dungeon Walk, DCC, Merciless HellBorg and more!). Jacob has tasted a bit of everything, and aims to bring the best of what he’s found into his games. He likes a combination of fast-paced action packed combat, and social intrigue plots that encourage interpersonal communication and deductive reasoning. He also loves including puzzles and traps in his games that encourage players to think critically and find out-of-the-box solutions, and he has many years of experience making funny voices and monster sounds.
Amy Langer
Amy Langer (she/her, or any) is a writer, performer, and avid lover of both tabletop and video games. She is a founding ensemble member of the San Francisco Neo-Futurists, and tries her best to create weird and wonderful experiences (including an immersive, full-length play that took place entirely over the phone). Amy loves the exploration, discovery, and absolute joy that comes with sitting around a table with friends and telling a story together. She almost always plays a cleric.
Emilio Garcia
Emilio Garcia-James has 6 years experience playing AD&D, and 3 years experience with 5e D&D, and have been DMing for 5 years. He was a staff member for an after school program for elementary and middle schoolers in 2017-2018, was later a cook for that very same after school program, and most recently was a part of a poetry initiative in Berkeley to help 4th and 5th graders deeply explore their unique creativity in a safe space. He enjoys a KungFu theater approach to dungeon mastering, creating campaign worlds inhabited by ninjas, samurai, wandering masters, and mysterious spirits.
Don Mancha III
Don Mancha III, is a California based writer/editor of comics and ttrpgs. He’s the eldest of five. He hates long walks on the beach. Was tricked into playing Dnd a long time ago then fell in love. And if he was stuck on an island and was only allowed to bring one thing with him, he’d bring a boat.
Hai Do
Hai Do (he/him) is a middle school science teacher, which coincidentally makes him an improv specialist, therefore making him a fun, collaborative DM. While he only feels comfortable with 5e so far, he values creativity and really enjoys working with beginners, just at the cusp of seeing the beautiful potential that this powerful game has to offer. Don’t let his Masters degree in education fool you — he may be a teacher, but being in front of 12 year olds all the time forces him to be theatrical and engaging. Come enjoy his silly maps and ridiculous voices.
Robbie Diaz
Robbie Diaz (he/they) has been running and playing tabletop games for over a decade. He blends a foundation of classic games (Pathfinder, Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonbane) with his newfound love of indie, narrative-focused systems (Mausritter, Fabula Ultima, Root: The RPG). A recent RPG experience was running a self-made hack of Lasers & Feelings for some first-time players at the local park. When he’s not at the table, Robbie pursues voice and stage acting, enriching his practice with stories from other mediums.
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