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 has been a tabletop gamer since high school. He is very passionate about TTRPGs and strategy board games that take a minimum of 4-6 hours to play.

Matthew previously co-managed the RPG Room since its inception almost 10 years ago, and is excited to bring his professional experience in Customer Success and his passion for the customer experience to give the attendees of TCTC the best time of their lives.

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!

Lily Knelsen is the Main Stage manager for TCTC, where she’s happiest with a microphone in one hand and organized chaos in the other. Outside the convention world, she works in insurance, reads far too many books, and is always chasing her next creative project. A proudly AuDHD queen of the squirrels, she’s powered by enthusiasm, hyperfocus, and the occasional completely unrelated tangent. If you see her around the convention, don’t hesitate to say hi… just be prepared for her to get excited about whatever you’re excited about.

Hello I’m Andrew. I am an avid TTRPG and board game enjoyer. Over the last 4 years I have fallen in love with board gaming and everything this wonderful community has to offer. I’ve been attending TCTC for the past 4 years and am now been fortunate enough to find myself in a position to help organize the convention. My top 3 games are currently Its a Wonderful World, Creature Caravan, and Dune Imperium: Uprising. I look forward to seeing you all next year!

Still building his character sheet.

Jae has been involved with games in some form since they were ‘knee-high to a grasshopper’. They started playing card games with their grandparents and cousins, would host board game nights with friends, felt the call to adventure with TTRPGs, participated in video game tournaments and took the plunge into designing their own games.

They serve as the chairperson for ProtoCON BC, and loves to support indie game developers on their journeys. For fun, ask them about how playing games connects to Community Development!

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.