Emi Tanji (She/Her) is an Art Director on the Dungeons & Dragons creative team and is happy you’re here. In her short stint of 16 years at Wizards of the Coast, she has loved seeing how D&D has evolved and is excited for what comes next. For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble & Wizards of The Coast. Show production by Lisa Carr & Ryan Marth of Siren Sound. Podcast recording,...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 3 min
James Wyatt is a Senior Game Designer on the creative team for Magic: The Gathering. His work at Wizards of the Coast since 2000 includes five novels, more than 20 short stories, one poem, dozens of Dungeons & Dragons game sourcebooks, and nine Magic art books. He was a lead writer for the 5th edition Player’s Handbook and a lead designer of the Dungeon Master’s Guide, Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica, Eberron: Rising from the Last War, and Mythic Odysseys of Theros. For general inquiries or s...
Jun 29, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Riley Rose Critchlow and Valen Shore are creators and producers of Real Housewives of Dungeons & Dragons, a real play D&D podcast that follows five fictional reality stars as they are dropped into a fantasy world and embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Valen (she/her) is a mother, composer and DM whose music has been featured in popular projects like Riverdale, The Vampire Diaries, and The Sims 4. She currently resides in Austin, TX, and her favorite NPC is her 3-year-old daughter, Dy...
Jun 22, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Brandy Rose aka CutestPatoot is a queer Latine GM, game designer & writer, head of Patoot Podcasts and a TTRPG AP Producer as well as a Twitch streamer, using their platform to amplify others in their community and of other marginalized communities as well as to teach others how to fulfill their TTRPG dreams. CutestPatoot has written setting and adventures as well as designed playable characters for several publications such as CHEW and Queerz! and was the executive producer of several D&...
Jun 15, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Sensei Suplex (He/Him), an African American Dungeon Master, is the lead director of Project Aurora, an MMORPG D&D experience boasting 50 dungeon masters and numerous campaigns in a shared, dynamic universe. Project Aurora empowers anyone—players, community members, or chatters—to leave a lasting impact on this ever-evolving world. Sensei Suplex orchestrates interactive D&D shows where audiences can influence sessions in real-time. He also manages a thriving Discord community of 1,800 ind...
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Andrew Ashby is a local game store owner in Provo Utah. His goal was to make his store the coolest place to play D&D. The store looks and feels like a medieval tavern, and stock locally brewed mead and snacks. He wanted to give anyone a chance to play D&D, so every night they have open DM's to play, free books, miniatures, tv tables, and terrain to use. They host Dungeon Master classes and painting classes to encompass the other parts of the hobby. This year Andrew got to live out an 8-y...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Indrani Ganguly (she/they) is the co-founder of Desis & Dragons, India's largest tabletop RPG community. Under the moniker Nonagon Dice, she also became India's first handmade dice maker. Indrani is also a fledgling game designer. She is based out of Mumbai, India. Through Desis & Dragons, Indrani, and her two co-founders have worked to spread international awareness about India’s TTRPG creators, as well as grow the nascent hobby within India. Indrani’s game-changing work within the Indi...
May 25, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Devon Chulick is the creator of Total Party Chill (TPC), a San Francisco D&D and TTRPG Studio. TPC creates in-studio Actual Plays, TTRPG News, Game Shows, and merchandise. Devon has contributed to projects like Spectacular Settlements, and Little Game Master. In 2019 Devon was featured in Bloomberg Business Week for his content on Total Party Chill and his work as a professional Dungeon Master. Recognized as one of the most community centric creators in the gaming and arts space, Devon has o...
May 18, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, Lucas Maxwell has been working with youth in libraries for fifteen years. He is currently the librarian at Glenthorne High School in London, England. In 2017 he was named the UK’s School Librarian of the Year by the School Library Association and in 2022 he won the UK Literacy Association’s Reading for Pleasure Champion Award. He is a Dungeon Master for both youth and adults and speaks regularly about the mental health and wellbeing benefits of D&D, espec...
May 11, 2023•1 hr 37 min
Todd Stashwick is an actor, writer, improvisor, TTRPG player and Dungeon Master, who hails from Chicago Ill. An alumnus of the Second City comedy theatre, he’s known for his television roles Captain shaw on Star Trek Picard and Deacon from 12 Monkeys. As a writer he is co-writing the Marvel/Skydance New Media Black Panther/Captain America game. Todd also kickstarted and published, with his friend "Trader Brandon” Kleyla, a Fantasy TTRPG themed Tiki Cocktail book called Mystic Libations: Critical...
May 04, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Adam Davis is a founder and executive director for the nonprofit organization Game to Grow. Adam has been using tabletop role-playing games like D&D professionally since 2011 to help players become more confident, creative, and socially capable. He's brought his training in drama therapy and education into the Game to Grow Method, which has been taught to hundreds of therapists and educators around the world. Game to Grow has most recently expanded services to provide RPG programs to youth i...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Dragon Talk welcomes Ryu and Ava from Girls Run These Worlds, a women-owned, women-run production studio. Their mission is to uplift the voices, profiles, and status of women and femme-presenting people in TTRPG and to create a place where all can come to find themselves represented and celebrated. Ryu is an accomplished content creator on the rise! Both a Founder and the Director of Technical Productions for Girls Run These Worlds, an award winning women/femme empowered tabletop production stud...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Dare (She/They/Fae) is a trans freelance writer, editor, and actual play performer. When they’re not writing their own independent work, they’re running home games with her friends, or being on shows like Transplanar RPG, an all trans and POC led dnd actual play. Their position as a player and writer who retained her love and found a lot of her gender expression through dnd makes them an interesting person to talk to in the space. For general inquiries or show messages, please email dragontalk@s...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Dr. Megan Connell is a board certified psychologist. She formally served in the US Army and is now working out of her practice, Health Quest Innovative Therapeutics in Charlotte NC. She has a new book out now from Norton publishing called Tabletop Role-Playing Therapy a Guide for the Clinician Game Master. For general inquiries or show messages, please email [email protected] Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble & Wizards of The Coast. Show production by...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Jeremy Latcham is the head of Latcham Pictures, a production company based at eOne, and the Producer of eOne and Paramount Pictures' March 2023 release DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES. Previously, Latcham Pictures was based at 20th Century Fox where Jeremy produced BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE. Prior to launching Latcham Pictures, Latcham served as Senior Vice President of Production and Development at Marvel Studios, where he was an Executive Producer on SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING. Prior ...
Mar 30, 2023•55 min
Jayden King (He/They), a Black and Queer advocate for inclusion and diversity in gaming, serves the community as a professional Game Master, Narrative Designer, and Live Performer. With a background in acting and directing films and live theater combined with a passion for video games and animation, they provide cinematic storytelling experiences as a Game Master through Start Playing Games and across multiple streaming platforms like Twitch. Additionally, the ability to create stories and devel...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Matthew Lillard, a veteran of both stage and screen, is well known for his performances in over 50 films and television shows over the last 20 years. With titles like Scream, The Descendants and Scooby Doo 1 & 2, Lillard is associated with a number of Hollywood Box Office hits totaling over $800 million dollars in revenue worldwide. He received critical success with independent titles SLC Punk! and Ed Burn’s The Groomsmen and debuted three films at the acclaimed Sundance Film Festival. For g...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 17 min
V.J. Harris (they/he) is a freelance TTRPG designer and professional GM. He is most well known for his work on An Elf and an Orc Had a Little Baby Volumes 1 - 3 which splits race into parentage and upbringing, allowing for more player choice while character building. They've also written for MCDM's Arcadia and Flee Mortals. When not discussing design aspects of D&D, V.J. spends his time educating others about bigotry in game design and the TTRPG space and how to remove/combat it. They've rec...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 28 min
Ryan LaPlante (He/Him), Tom McGee (He/Him), and Tyler Hewitt (He/Him) are the team behind Dumb-Dumbs & Dragons - the hit podcast where comedians and improvisers play Dungeons & Dragons for the first time. It's like Lord of the Rings if everybody was an idiot! The show blends professional storytelling (DM Tom is a playwright, dramaturg, voice actor and lifelong DM) with some of the most outrageous and talented performers out there (most of the cast and guests are Shakespearean- and Second...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Hamnah Shahid (any/all pronouns) is a queer, agender, Pakistani TTRPG Actual Play performer, producer, and writer specializing in high emotion, character-driven narratives. They love to explore themes of the tendervicious, the complexity of morals, and what or who it is that makes life worth living. When not working in the TTRPG industry, Hamnah is a PhD student, labour rights activist, writer, dancer, and haver of too many hobbies and not enough time. For general inquiries or show messages, ple...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Jas (Jazz) Brown is a twenty-something author and TTRPG performer. When they're not pretending to be another person, they enjoy singing, acting, writing, drawing, and everything creative! They’ve been playing dnd for a little over four years and even live tweet their home games under the Twitter tag #dndadventures. They're known for playing maternal and protective characters, but boast a wide variety of archetypes and accents they can pull out at the drop of a hat. Though they're always down for...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 10 min
April Raygun (she/her) is an Atlanta-based TTRPGer, co-founder of SlaydiesATL, and an organizer for Games for Change. She is currently in multiple D&D actual plays including playing a Monkin Fairy on Ampistrano. April is focused on helping create more diversity in gaming and bringing representation to the games she is in. You can find her online playing games, doing crafts, and causing trouble at @AprilRaygun on Twitter. For general inquiries or show messages, please email dragontalk@sirenso...
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Stefan began his educational career as an elementary teacher, during which he ran an increasingly popular Dungeons & Dragons tutoring and mentoring club. He later returned to school himself to advance his knowledge of game design and development, combining his passions to found UnboxEd in 2021. UnboxEd is a nonprofit afterschool program that uses board games and RPGs to engage low-income students in the subjects of Social Emotional Learning, History, STEM and Entrepreneurship. Stefan has pre...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Kendrick "Kendo" (They/He) is a video editor, tabletop game designer, and award-winning Game Master and the host and producer for the award-winning Actual Play Podcast: Tales Yet Told. They are also the creator and host of the award-winning Actual Play Livestream: PRAYERS in the STATIC. The games they run are dripping with intense drama, social criticism, and horrific imagery, colored by their years of experience in filmmaking and long-form improv comedy. Their highly improvised, character-focus...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Samm Spearman (she/they) is a tabletop RPG performer and screenwriter who’s a sucker for telling stories of romance, grief, found family and evolving into one’s true self through friendship and community. Their passion is creating and telling diverse stories in various forms of media with all types of creators but especially BIMPOC storytellers, writers and performers. Dan Dillon is a game designer for the D&D Studio. He discovered D&D at 8 years old when a family friend cleared out a bo...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 39 min
Zac Clay is a content creator, educator, and professional dungeon master from the San Francisco Bay Area. For years, he taught drumline ensembles throughout the Bay Area, with a focus on contemporary percussion and mallet keyboard instruments. Now, Zac produces gaming and tabletop content on media platforms like Twitch and YouTube, and also makes a living running games of D&D for private clients and corporations. Every week, he works with youth at his local middle school and high school D&am...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Tom and Bodhi Kambouris are a Father & Son team bringing you original D&D content, including an upcoming D&D Kickstarter, called "Sky Zephyrs - An Airship (and Spaceship) Combat Overlay for 5e settings", a podcast with guests who love D&D (including awesome Dungeon Masters and content creators), a D&D5e actual play livestream called "The Sky Realm". Tom and Bodhi also produce Family-made XL dice and other D&D supplements like stat-blocked NPCs, Magical Items and Monsters....
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 22 min
A 20-year industry veteran, Rob Daviau has worked on over 80 published games. For 14 years, Rob was at Hasbro Games, where he worked on Risk 2210 AD, Axis & Allies Pacific, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Star Wars Epic Duels, Heroscape, Clue DVD, Clue Harry Potter, Risk Star Wars, Risk Lord of the Rings, and many more. He was editor of Trivial Pursuit for 8 years and ran the editorial department for 1. F. Wesley Schneider joined the Dungeons & Dragons team in 2019 after nearly two decade...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Katie Downey, otherwise known as Goblinkatie, is a D&D connoisseur with an unending appetite for dice. Owing to her extensive hoard, she’s the acknowledged Patron of The Pact of The Polyhedral. You may recognize her as Saesha Valispard (Aasimar Oath of Vengeance paladin/Inquisitive Rogue) on the weekly D4 stream & podcast. She also currently appears as Rollo (School of Evocation Urd Kobold wizard) on The Dawnbringers stream. Katie is deeply passionate about bringing attention to mental h...
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 35 min
Justin Taylor is an award winning professional game designer, writer, performer, and friend! Their most recent work as a designer was co-designing Deimos Academy, working on the award winning book Arcon, and yet to be announced work with MCDM along with various work found in NPC guidebooks. His most recent performing work however has been spilt between three 5th edition actual play series, Transplanar, Mind and the Marty, and of course Strix U; not to mention being featured on two WoTC sponsored...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 4 min
