D&D at TwitchCon

Reuben Bresler

Reuben has been creating tabletop gaming content for the last ten years and playing both Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons for at least the last twenty. He is best known for his live tournament hosting and coverage at over one hundred Magic, Hearthstone, and poker tournaments. He is also a Dungeons & Dragons content creator, as creator of The Arcana Philosophical and appearances on other podcasts such as Dragon Talk with Greg Tito.

Bart Carroll

Bart Carroll has been a part of Wizards of the Coast since 2004, having worked with the Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Magic: the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons brands through the years. He’s also been a D&D player since 1980 (with fond memories of coloring the illustrations in his 1st Edition Monster Manual), and is thrilled that his current role includes the D&D website and Dragon+. His favorite monster is the brain in a jar.

• Twitter:@bart_carroll

Commander Holly

Holly Conrad is an artist and storyteller who writes, streams, creates, and makes YouTube videos. On her journey here she got a degree from the University of Santa Barbara in Medieval History, and studied at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland specializing in folk magic and Medieval literature. These days she spends time rescuing pigeons, streaming, and playing Dungeons & Dragons. Holly plays Strix, a tiefling sorcerer and trash witch, on Dice, Camera, Action, the official Wizards of the Coast D&D show.

• Twitch:commanderholly
• YouTube:CommanderHolly
• Twitter:@HollyConrad

Jeremy Crawford

Jeremy Crawford is the lead rules designer of Dungeons & Dragons, in addition to being the game’s managing editor. He led design of the Player’s Handbook and co-led design of a variety of other D&D books, including the Dungeon Master’s Guide, Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, and Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes. Before coming to Wizards of the Coast, he wrote for the games Blue Rose, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and Mutants & Masterminds.

• Twitter: @JeremyECrawford

Tanya DePass

Tanya DePass is the Founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a not-for-profit foundation based in Chicago. She’s part of the Spawn on Me podcast, the programming coordinator for OrcaCon; and often speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality & other topics at conventions. Her writing appears in Uncanny Magazine, Polygon, Vice Gaming, Mic, Waypoint, Wiscon Chronicles, Paste Games and other publications. She's been a Industry Insider at GenCon (2017), Guest of Honor at OrcaCon (2016), and is a partnered variety streamer on Twitch.

• Podcast: Spawn on Me
• Twitch: cypheroftyr
• Twitter:@cypheroftyr

Gaurav Gulati

Gaurav is a role-player, streamer, and video editor living in Los Angeles, who is well versed in both Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. He's been working with Saving Throw Show to bring quality RPG content to Twitch since 2016.

Matthew Lillard

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.

• Twitter: @MatthewLillard

Chris Perkins

Chris Perkins is a 20-year veteran of Wizards of the Coast and principal story designer for Dungeons & Dragons. He has served as editor-in-chief for Dragon, Dungeon, and written numerous D&D articles and books, including most recently Curse of Strahd. He’s probably best known as Dungeon Master to Acquisitions Incorporated.

• Twitter:@ChrisPerkinsDnD

Satine Phoenix

Satine Phoenix is an illustrator, comic book creator and author who spent the last 8 years encouraging the Los Angeles Dungeons & Dragons Community. She began by coordinating weekly D&D games at Meltdown Comics and building meetup.com/LATabletopGamers. She founded CelebrityChariD20.com with Keith Baker for Reach out and Read in 2010. Satine co-created Maze Arcana in 2016 with Ruty Rutenberg as a way to connect with fellow gamers across the world. As Guild Adepts, they create tabletop content & travel the world from game stores to conventions teaching others how to take their games to the next level. You can read about her Gaming Escapades over the years on io9.com, Wired magazine, Maxim and Time Magazine.

In 2017 Satine continued Geek & Sundry's GM Tips, previously hosted by Matthew Mercer. In her new format, she showed their audience the value of learning from one another's experiences by interviewing Game Masters from all walks of life. Other shows she's been on recently are Geek & Sundry's Table Top (hosted by Wil Wheaton) & Projectalpha.com's Sagas of Sundry: Dread (game mastered by Ivan Van Norman).

You can watch her Tuesday nights 6pm PST Dungeon Mastering Sirens of the Realms on twitch.tv/dnd. Sirens of the Realms is about an all-girl bard band on tour through Faerun with special guests. Wednesday nights 7pm PST she plays Rose, an Aundairian Elf lounge singer, in Maze Arcana's Inkwell Society: A Neon Noir Live Play D&D game set in Eberron. Dungeon Mastered by Ruty Rutenberg on twitch.tv/mazearcana.

• Facebook:satinephoenix
• Instagram:satinephoenix
• Website:mazearcana.com/burningquill.com
• Twitter:@SatinePhoenix

Jordan Pridgen

Jordan is a Los Angeles based comedian, writer, and role-player originally from Richmond, Virginia. When he’s not performing with his sketch group “The Money Pit” out of The Ruby LA theater, he plays the con man/miracle worker Gabriel Prior in “Wildcards” on Saving Throw. Jordan has been playing D&D since stumbling across some 2nd edition AD&D books in middle school, and Magic: The Gathering since picking up a 7th edition starter deck (the green one). His favorite format is Commander, and he has a soft spot for Naya and Golgari decks.

ProJared

ProJared is a reviewer, comedian, gamer with an emphasis on RPGs and retro games—most people have never heard of! Jared is playing Diath Woodrow, a human rogue he's played in several previous campaigns.

• Twitch:projared
• YouTube:DMJared
• Instagram:projaredgram
• Twitter:@ProJared

Anna Prosser Robinson

Perhaps most recognizeable as a host and video games media personality, Anna Prosser Robinson works day-to-day as Programming Manager for Twitch. She's also co-founder of Misscliks, an online community dedicated to providing support and exposure for women role models in geek and gaming culture (where she also livestreams weekly D&D games). She has lots of crazy stories, from moving to Dubai on 3 days notice to work as a lifeguard consultant, to being crowned Miss Oregon USA, to managing an esports house for Team Evil Geniuses. Anna is playing Evelyn Marthain, a human paladin of Lathander.

• Website: annaprosser.com
• Twitch:annaprosser
• YouTube:annaprossertv
• Instagram:annaprosser
• Twitter:@AnnaProsser

Ashlen Rose

Ashlen is a cosplayer, voice actress, and streamer who's been playing Magic: The Gathering since 2010. She makes elaborate costumes and travels to Grand Prixs and conventions around world. When she's not attending events or cosplaying, she is either streaming magic on her twitch channel or playing Commander/Modern with friends at her local game store (her favorite deck is R/G Tron). Her quirky and charming personality has lead her to be featured on Tolarian Community College, Game Knights, Masters of Modern, Local Game Show and many more Magic-centric content channels.

Nathan Sharp

Nathan Sharp is a Korean-American voice actor, musician and songwriter best known for his music-oriented channel, NateWantsToBattle. Covering a wide array of songs, his music portfolio totals up to over 200 compositions and renditions that range from parodies of popular hits to English renditions of anime openings to music about video games and anime to his original album "Sandcastle Kingdoms" released in March 2017 that charted on iTunes #1 Alternative Albums and Billboard’s Heatseekers Chart. His channel has amassed over 1.2 million subscribers and 300 million unique video views.

His voice can be heard in Luck & Logic as Yoshichika Tsurugi, Attack on Titan as Marcel, Gapri in Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry, Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator as Craig Cahn, Shantae: Half Genie Hero as Bolo, Midboss's 2064: Read Only Memories as Chad, Heintz in Atelier Firis, Skip Beat! as Imai, Kieran from the original animated series Indigo Ignited, Pinstripe as George the Dog from Atmos Games, as well as Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, One Piece, Rurouni Kenshin, Puzzle and Dragons X, Cheer Boys, Disastrous Life of Saiki K, Handa-kun and Endride.

Nate is playing Paultin Seppa, a human bard.

• Website: nathansharponline.com
• YouTube: NateWantsToBattle
• Facebook: NateWantsToBattle
• Twitter: @natewantstobtl

Riley Silverman

Highlighted by VICE for her "wry observational comedy, radical openness, and casually inviting demeanor," Riley Silverman has been seen on Take My Wife, Comedy Central’s Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, and multiple appearances headlining Portland Queer Comedy Festival and the All Jane Comedy Festival. Her debut comedy album, Intimate Apparel, was a #1 best seller on Amazon. Riley is the head writer for the International Waters comedy panel show podcast, as well as a contributing writer for SYFY WIRE FANGRRLS and the comedic sci-fi series Bubble.

Brandon Stennis

Brandon Stennis is a partnered content creator on Twitch.tv for the last 4 years. He also works as the Influencer Manager of the indie publishing company Versus Evil. Brandon has gathered quite the career in the gaming industry since 2012 and has innovated himself into a self made gaming personality. He continues to try and help other creators find their place within themselves and the gaming/streaming communities.

• Twitch:iamBrandon
• Twitter:@iamBrandonTV

Greg Tito

Greg Tito has had weird and long career as an Off Broadway stage manager, a playwright, a theater carpenter, a secretary, an RPG designer, a games journalist, and now a PR/Marketing person. He has loved Dungeons & Dragons ever since 1985 when he found an old copy of the AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide on his brother’s bookshelf and he honed that love of fantasy storytelling in the dark streets of Sasserine by way of the Upper West Side gaming group he joined in 2004. He moved his family (wife + two young kids) to Seattle in 2015 to work on D&D and he’s never looked back.

• Twitter:@Gregtito

Vivid Vivka

Vivid Vivka is a one-woman virtuoso of all things geeky. She is an accomplished and seasoned cosplayer, specializing in armor and detailed builds. She's a video-game fanatic, Magic: the Gathering obsessed & has a long list of Waifus. She has been seen on Celebrity Apprentice, been in music videos and CD covers for Steel Panther, been written about in Maxim, been featured in and on the cover of multiple Cosplay Culture Magazines, and has been interviewed about Cosplay is not Consent and Body Positivity by Vice Magazine. Her collection of sparkly dice is to be envied but doesn't have the best luck with rolls.

• Twitter: @VividVivka
• Instagram: @VividVivka