Andrea’s career path hasn’t exactly been a straight line – she started out as a marine biologist and ended up a game store owner. Sometimes you get some weird dice rolls, okay? She now co-owns Rain City Games with her husband Channing.

Blair is passionate about sharing his love of gaming with others! He loves teaching games to new players, and can often be found at friendly local games stores recommending games to other customers. Blair loves playing any kind of tabletop game, though RPGs and strategy games are his favourites. Blair’s professional background is in Business Systems management and Information Technology.

Andrea is a multi-classed Bard-Wizard in real life: a lifelong storyteller, a book devourer, and a drinker-of-all-the-tea. She’s been playing RPGs for over 20 years, and loves a good cooperative board game (bonus points if it’s also a legacy game!). Andrea is a small business owner and certified Dice Dragon, with a professional background in communications and events.

Matthew Seagle is an RPG obsessive who found his calling as a forever GM back in high school with AD&D. In his middle age, he now runs several games a week with different systems and groups and never tires of seeing the excitement on his players faces when they work together to solve any challenge presented to them. He is proud of his extensive library of PDFs and books that he reads exhaustively. Schooled in Literature and Film Studies, he uses that knowledge to weave the stories for the players at his table. He and Christoph have been teaming up for several years now to make sure the RPG room is a success. If you ever want to talk about anything related to RPGs, Matthew will always give you a big smile and a passionate discourse about the subject.

Channing’s tumble down the tabletop rabbit hole began at 13, when he was introduced to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles roleplaying game. By 19, he was regularly making frenemies in board games like Catan and Ultimatum, wrecking opponents in miniatures games like Blood Bowl and Battletech, and terrorizing friends as the GM in TTRPGs like Star Wars and AD&D 2nd Edition.

Christoph began gaming in the 1980s with a Sega Master System and the red box D&D. He was hooked. After film school and a trip to Europe, he started designing video games in 2002. After a few years of designing other people’s games, he designed and published Free Spacer—an Indie starship TTRPG. He and Matthew nagged the team at TCTC until they allowed them to start the RPG Room. Together, they’ve been running it ever since. During the pandemic, he began working on a game about scholarly spellcasting. It’s still in development, but if you ask him he’ll talk your ear off about Thaumaturgy—A Roleplaying Game of the Scholarly Art Mathematical.

Growing up in rural Ireland of the 1980’s and 90’s, Denis began his nerd life with books, comics and video games. But during his first week in university, he discovered tabletop gaming, and his life changed forever.

On moving to Canada, Denis searched for local board game stores and found the nearest one, making friends he still has today. When he saw a poster for a new local tabletop convention, he marked his calendar, and grew his circle of friends, attending that first Terminal City Tabletop Convention for every minute the hall was open.

Denis loves teaching his favourite games, and will happily share those games with anyone that even glances in his general direction. The moral of the story is, if you have places to be, avoid eye contact, otherwise, pull up a chair and join the fun!

Still building her character sheet.

Still building his character sheet.

Still building his character sheet.

Still building her character sheet.

Olive is an avid board game lover who is always itching for a good party game. Having spent too many hours to count in libraries or friends houses playing games, they were ecstatic to be involved in the tabletop community in Vancouver. Olive hopes to be able to share their joy for TCGs, RPGs, and Board games with those around them through events. Currently he is the president of UBC Wargamers, a tabletop club, and wants to find ways to make finding community more accessible.

Still building his character sheet.

Still building her character sheet.