Featured Facilitators

DeAngelo Murillo (he/him) is an award-nominated writer, game master, and game designer. Throughout his career as a content creator, he’s been recognized by Wizards of the Coast, Renegade Games, and many other companies for his work. His most recent project is Emerald Templars, a dark fantasy TTRPG.

DeAngelo is running two games at this event. On Saturday, October 28, at 7:00 PM PDT, DeAngelo is hosting “Blood and Gold,” a scenario for Hunter the Reckoning 5E. Heirs to a wealthy family, you must prove yourself by putting down the silver spoon and picking up a silver weapon in order to defend your community. Sign up at https://goplaynw.org/events/blood-and-gold for this game!

And on Sunday, October 29, at 7:00 PM PDT, DeAngelo is hosting “The Haunting of Hotel Esperanza”, a scenario for Vampire the Masquerade 5E. When kindred go missing, your coterie of vampires must uncover the secrets that lie within the accursed depths of New Orleans’ luxurious Hotel Esperanza. Sign up at https://goplaynw.org/events/the-haunting-of-hotel-esperanza for this game!

Lyla McBeath Fujiwara (she/her) is a game designer and project lead on Jukebox: The Karaoke Musical TTRPG. This karaoke-based, GM-less rules-lite, drama-driven role-playing game pays homage to musicals of the stage and screen. She’s also writing and producing Lead Your First Collaborative TTRPG Project, a course with the Storytelling Collective about managing and leading collaborative projects.

Lyla will be running “Dressed to Kill,” the official quickstart adventure for Candela Obscura. This new episodic horror TTRPG centers on a group of paranormal investigators working for the mysterious Candela Obscura, an organization that protects a world similar to our own from dangerous magicks and the occult. Lyla will be hosting her game on Saturday, October 28, at 9:30 AM PDT. Sign up at https://goplaynw.org/events/dressed-to-kill to join her game!

Mattias Lehman (he/him) has been running games for fun for more than a decade and a half, but has only recently started to run them professionally, as well. He has worked with Riot Games as a game development communicator, but his heart lies in world-building and storytelling. In his day-to-day, he works with the Green New Deal Network.

Mattias will be running “The Liminal Express,” a playtest of Third Rail. On the Liminal Express we guarantee that you will find yourself—or lose yourself—between your hopes and dreams, your fears and nightmares. Take a journey to understand why you left your past behind with a one-way ticket to… somewhere. Mattias will be hosting his game on Sunday, October 29 at 9:30 AM PDT. Sign up at https://goplaynw.org/events/the-liminal-express/ to join his game!

Connie Chang (they/he/she) is a queer and trans Chinese-American actual play GM with a background in screenwriting and poetry. He's currently developing the ashcan of GODKILLER, a holypunk PBtA game, with Magpie Games. Connie has appeared on both NPR and in the New York Times. They excel at threading queer drama with blackhearted apocalyptica, and serves as the Game Master and Creative Producer for Transplanar RPG, an all-transgender, POC-led D&D show. Outside of TTRPGs, Connie is a narrative designer with Bungie.

Kevin Thien Vu Long Nguyen (he/they) is a ttrpg writer and designer with a special interest in South-East Asian fantasy and resource management. He’s currently developing a story-forward OSR Vietnamese fantasy ttrpg inspired by Breath of the Wild, Nethack, and the literary works of Neon Yang.

Mo (they/she) is a TTRPG content creator, writer, and sensitivity consultant. When they aren't streaming or podcasting or anything else, she is a Caretaker of Huetopia, a Discord for BIPOC people in the TTRPG community, by BIPOC people. Mo is currently co-writing Kids in Capes, a new superhero game with the Kids On... series!

JR Zambrano (he/him) is an experienced writer, designer, and performer in the indie TTRPG space. He streams games with All Nerds Here and plays a space priest on a Lancer podcast. You can find his writing in Slayer’s Almanac, Roleplayer’s Guide to Heists, and the upcoming Exquisite Corpse in Maggots’ Keep, as well as at his Bell of Lost Souls author page. Keep an eye out for his upcoming adventure set in Bloodbeam Badlands and some new Let’s Plays!

Kaleb Wade (they/he) runs the biweekly actual play podcast Creme Demented. They just wrapped their first arc of Heroes of New Halcyon, so now is a great time to get into it. Kaleb also records video game content, edits podcast audio, and sometimes streams TTRPGs.

Rue Dickey (they/he) is a 2022 Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program nominated game designer, sensitivity reader, and tabletop rpg streamer. They have over 10 years experience running a variety of systems, and started writing and publishing both independent and freelance tabletop writing in 2020. Rue is currently working on writing a Nest for Overisles, a zine for PlusOneExp, and a Background for Ma Nishtana, as well as a number of secret projects he’s not allowed to talk about just yet. They are also thrilled to be doing sensitivity reading for Validate: Struggling Singles in Your Area, coming to Steam and console this fall. (They also crafted this well-phrased bio!)