meet-the-team

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WELCOME TO THE DUNGEONS & DRAGONS DISCORD!

Please make sure you have read through our #rules before engaging, and check out the below to learn more about the server!

ABOUT THE SERVER

This is the OFFICIAL server for Dungeons & Dragons, meaning that this server is owned and operated by Wizards of the Coast staff.

In 2022, Wizards of the Coast acquired D&D Beyond, and the Dungeons & Dragons and D&D Beyond servers merged to become one very large, very awesome server that continues to grow to this day!

SERVER ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• <@&516369057990180869> – the D&D Discord account and poster of very important, official messages
• <@&1420890697124548719> – the server bosses, message writers, solver of (most) problems
• <@&516370028053004306> – the fantastic team enforcing the rules across all our community spaces
• <@&1045171214966075463> – the awesome people assisting with all things D&D Organized Play
• <@&516369428615528459> – the cool people working on the products

YOUR COMMUNITY TEAM

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Hey everyone! 👋🏾 I'm LaTia (she/her). I'm a Community Manager for D&D, and Discord is one of my primary responsibilities! (That's why you see me the most 😉) I've been at Wizards for a little over three years, and my past lives include board game retail, hula hoop teaching (yes, seriously), and massage therapy!

I've been playing D&D since the mid-2000s, but dove in deep during the 5e zeitgeist and never looked back. Attending conventions in the Midwest (where I'm from) as an Adventurers League DM got me interested in the inner workings of D&D, and I thought I wanted to be a game designer, but after some time as an AL admin (shout-out Organized Play!), a stint as a freelance writer (Call of the Netherdeep) and other community management work in the industry, when the opportunity to do what I ended up loving here at WOTC arrived, I jumped in with both feet.

Outside of work, I still do flow arts as a hobby, am really big into notebooks and stationery, video games, and really enjoy gardening in the warm months! I have two dogs (Dio & Raven—they're mother and son!) and enjoy getting lost in the woods with them whenever we can.

D&D-wise, I'm a big fan of playing Druids, Monks, and Wizards (obviously). My favorite dinosaur is currently a raptor.

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Hi, I’m Regina (she/her)! I’m a Senior Community Manager on D&D and have been at Wizards for a few years now and mostly work behind the scenes here. Before Wizards, I spent nearly 15 years at ArenaNet/NCSOFT working on Guild Wars 2 and other games as a community and content marketing manager. I’ve been playing D&D since the early 2000s, starting with 3.0. Outside of work, I’m into indoor bouldering/climbing, cheering for the Seattle Torrent in the PWHL, reading, watching Star Trek, playing Animal Crossing and survival horror games, watching horror movies, and of course D&D.

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Hey everyone, I'm Aaron "Tank" Kaufman (it's an old school college nickname I carried over into my online gaming sphere here). Feel free to use it! I'm your Director (er DM?) of D&D Community (and yes, I'm full of corny Dad jokes because I am one), as of starting here at Wizards last August. I've been in hiding a bit while my incredible colleagues (like LaTia!) run the party here. I'm a relatively new D&D player, enjoy the prized Fighter class, prefer an Axe in hand (I worked on God of War for 8yrs at Santa Monica Studio, maybe you know the legend who is Kratos, we're best friends). My history runs deep in the video game industry with 20 years in community engagement across some incredible fandoms in C&C, WWE, God of War, Borderlands, and a few others 🙂 That said, with my path now leading here to D&D, I could not be more proud, honored, humbled, and excited to be sitting at the table with all of you. You'll see me journeying and engaging around here. Thank you for the warm welcome, let's roll!

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YOUR MODERATOR TEAM

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Hyo! I'm Elgate (She/Her)!
I'm a brit who got into D&D in the early 2000's through the 3e based Neverwinter Night. Eventually found the online 3.5 SRD and went 'Hey, this isn't right!... ooh, NwN is D&D! My dad has that!' and then being even more confused when my dad's 1e books matched nothing at all. I've played 1e, 3e and 5e and have somehow skipped the even numbers. I was active in the now archived D&D server before the D&D Beyond merge, and was apparently active enough they decided to put me to work as a moderator. My other work is in a literal castle where I get to talk about history and art. Very rarely, I get to arm small children with sticks.

Dabbling enthusiast in art and gardening, had a fixation on batman comics that I've decided 'Sure, why not, I'll incorporate that into my personality/interests' and a fixation on Star Wars that I refuse to. It has become a running theme that no matter what game I play, D&D or otherwise, my PC will become a parent with very dubious parenting skills. I'm not sure how this happens either. Fav Dino: Fancy Velociraptors as depicted in The Punchline is Machismo.

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Hello there!

I'm Anoth your local german server dragon!

I have been roleplaying since the early 2000's but I only really started with TTRPG's around 2015 and really got into D&D around 2018 when my friends and I were just done with making our own homebrew systems and we haven't stopped using Fifth Edition ever since . Although my first contact with the wider D&D Universe was with the original D&D Movie in 2000 and my Dad having a HUGE amount of the Dragonlance novels.

I've been a moderator for this server in particular since 2020 and I have to say I came to love this community through the past 6 years. Sure we had ups and downs and being a moderator gave me a grey hair now and then but throughout highs and lows this community is awesome and I am happy to be of help to you all!

When I make a D&D Character, expect them to be a Dragonborn, a Kobold or a Changeling! Those are my favorite species to play! And my favorite Classes to play are Armorer Artificer, Celestial Warlock and Eldritch Knight Fighter!
And as you can see I enjoy True Strike very much

My hobbies are: Of Course D&D and other TTRPGS (with Shadowrun having a very special place in my heart), doing the occasional art piece now and then as I am a hobby artist, tabletop wargaming now and then though I haven't played in a while, Magic the Gathering with my buddies and video games with space games being my favorite genre in that regard.

I've been using the name Anoth since I was 14 and originated from a pretty old video game called "The I of the Dragon" where one of the protagonist Dragons was named Annoth.

Not much else I have to say really Have fun, enjoy your time here and don't be afraid to reach out to us mods in moderator support. We're here to help you and make this place the best place to talk D&D there is!

My favorite Dinosaur is the Utahraptor

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Heyo! I'm UndyingNoob (he/him), your friendly undead lich moderator!
Introduced to D&D in the 80's (hello Red Box!), I played other TTRPGs through my high school years. Then things got busy with college, career, and family.
I came back to D&D and TTRPGs in 2014 and have been playing ever since. I currently play D&D with friends and family, including my kids, both as a DM and player. I love to walk, be in nature, listen to music (pretty eclectic tastes but Soundgarden is always a good bet on my music rotation), and I love the arts generally. I am a graphic/web designer in my day job and a big proponent of accessibility. I love to read with history and sci-fi being some of my favorite genres/topics. Favorite D&D adventure? checks profile Dungeons of Drakkenheim.
Favorite dinosaur? Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes T-Rex flying an F-14
I hope to see you around - may your dice roll well and happy adventuring!

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Hi!

I'm DC (he/him). I've been a Producer on many TTRPG Actual Plays (AP), streamer, moderator, and creator of free TTRPG resources. At cons, I run panels about Producing APs. Most of my working life has revolved around video tech, and I now enjoy sharing that knowledge. My Friday streams are dedicated to tech and RPGs. There's never a bad time to talk to me about technology, Obsidian, or Markdown.
I'm into horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.

Bonus Fact: I once wore a turkey suit in a short film a friend of mine made for a 24-hr film contest.

Forever DM.
I haz cat.

Favorite Dinosaur: Triceratops

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Hey hi, I'm Zeke (they/him)! I've been playing D&D since late 2016 (since just before my Discord join date, haha), and helping moderate the Avrae Development server for a good 7 years or so. Outside of the 5e system, I also play systems like Pathfinder 2e, Fantasy Flight, and the new(ish) Cosmere RPG!
Beyond tabletop gaming, I've been playing TCGs like Magic: the Gathering for over 10 years. Outside of Hasbro properties, I'm usually found playing games with friends of mine, of both the video and board variety.

Bonus fun fact: The nickname Zeke actually originated from the very first iteration of the OC that became my first and favorite D&D character, and that character is my PFP on most platforms to this day!

Favorite species: Tiefling or changeling
Favorite class: Warlock (usually Pact of the Tome)
Favorite dinosaur: Therizinosaurus
Timezone: CST/CDT (not that you'd be able to tell from my sleep schedule )

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Heya, I'm Dusk (he/him)! I've been playing D&D since 2017. I started moderating for Avrae Development in 2017 as well, and have been very proud to watch Avrae and the community surrounding her grow and thrive since, and was beyond ecstatic to be invited to the team here once Avrae was welcomed to the D&D Beyond toolset.
When I am not playing D&D, I can be found playing FFXIV and other RPGs. I also like roguelikes and simulation games. I also do some hobbyist programming from time to time, mostly in Python. I dabble in reading fantasy as well (currently slowly working my way through Discworld!).
Some D&D-related fun facts about me: I tend to name my PCs with 3-letter names. I have been DMing for the same group for nearly six years. I first began to explore my love for D&D after listening to The Adventure Zone: Balance.

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Mellow greetings. I've been playing D&D since 2012, when there was an online resource available to play easily. I have lived in mostly extremely rural areas (most of my neighbors are Amish and Mennonite where I live) so in-person play has been difficult to organize. I've been using the internet (and web) since 1996. Remember your basic netiquette: Read the manual, read the rules, and don't ask to ask.

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Hi! I'm V2Blast (he/him). I've been playing D&D since 2017, and have played a number of other tabletop RPGs on occasion as well. I've been using D&D Beyond for a little over 8 years, and I've been a moderator since 2021. In that time, I've been a moderator for this Discord server, the D&D Beyond site forums, the D&D and D&D Beyond social media, and most recently the /r/DnDBeyond subreddit. Outside of my work here as a mod, I've also edited some third-party D&D adventures and anthologies, including Uncaged: Goddesses and Unbreakable: Revolution. I've even been a player in a D&D 5e actual-play podcast called Planeslip: Echoes of Creation.

Outside of D&D, I work as a community manager as my day job. I'm also a moderator of a bunch of other online communities across various platforms as well. In my free time, I enjoy playing video games (especially single-player RPGs) and board games. I also enjoy watching TV shows, movies, and my favorite YouTube channels. I love a good book, too.

Fun fact: My favorite dinosaur is Deinonychus!

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Hi! I’m Sillvva (he/him). I’ve been playing D&D since college, starting around 2009 with 3.5e. Since then, I’ve regularly played 4e and 5e organized play at conventions and still enjoy playing online. I joined D&D Beyond at the start of the beta in March 2017 and became a moderator around late 2018 to early 2019. Before that, I was an avid forum-goer across communities like Magic: The Gathering, Minecraft, and Yu‑Gi‑Oh!, and had prior experience as a moderator.

Outside of D&D, my main hobbies are smart home tinkering, anime and manga, Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, and web development (which is also my profession). As a web developer, I specialize in TypeScript and modern JS frameworks like React and Svelte, but also have backend experience with PHP. I love cats, even though I don’t have one (yet). I don't have a favorite dinosaur.

Bonus fact: my username is based on a Yu‑Gi‑Oh! card from the Dark World series, slightly modified. I don’t play the game anymore, but I still have my cards.

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Calamity Jayn here, hi y'all.. My journey with D&D began with 3.5e with a small group of friends and a party we called "elfquest", I enjoyed the game, had a druid with a riding dog companion who knew the trick "trip" and used it as often as possible to help with crowd control. Sadly, Elfquest fell to the baddest BBEG of all: Scheduling.

It was years later, the days of 5e, when a very good friend of mine said "Would you be interested in playing a game of D&D with me for ExtraLife?" - that one game turned into a series of campaigns that spanned into another Extralife and several years. Without them and the patience of the others in the group who later acted as DMs in other campaigns and taught me the value of teamwork, chaos and roleplaying, I surely would not be here today. I fell in love with the sheer number of possibilities of characters for D&D, the storylines, the environments (and yes, the ability to befriend critters as companions).
Eventually that led me to D&D beyond, and it's then community manager, Oboe, who invited me to become a moderator on their discord.
This community has been a part of my life for just about 6 years now and I am happy to have served as a moderator for the majority of that time.

D20s aside, I am a gamer girl at heart and enjoy everything from first person shooters to Minecraft, so when I am not here, playing D&D or at the muggle job that pays the bills, I am usually unwinding with friends in a videogame or sitting with a book with a cat meowing at me for food.

Favourite Dinosaur? Probably the Kosmoceratops.

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ORGANIZED PLAY ADMINS

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Howdy! Ma'at (pronounced "ma ought," they/she) here! I've been the D&D organized play admin and community manager since 2019.

I'll add more to this description very soon!

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Hi all, I'm Greg Marks (he/him), also known as Skerrit or Skerritthegreen. I am currently the Creative Lead for Legends of Greyhawk and the Content Manager for the D&D Adventurers League organized play campaigns. I'm here to answer LoG and DDAL questions.

I have two cats (Fitz and Simmons), am a professional academic, and have a PhD in Biochemistry.

I played my first D&D game at the age of six at Gen Con a very long time ago, where I became enamored with role-playing games, and I went on to work on products for every edition of Dungeons and Dragons since 1e. I have been an admin of WOTC's OP campaigns for 26 years, and written too many adventures for organized play campaigns to count.

I'm also a a frequent freelancer, writing for Wizards of the Coast, Dragon and Dungeon Magazines, Fantasy Flight Games’ Midnight setting, Raging Swan Press, Schwalb Entertainment, Ghostfire Games, and Kobold Press, among other companies. I've won two ENNIES and some of my credits include Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Tome of Beasts, Queen of Gold, Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault, Arora: Age of Desolation, and Grim Hollow Transformed. You can learn more at on my website WorldsByGreg.

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WIZARDS OF THE COAST STAFF

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Hey y’all! I’m Cody, Principal Engineer for D&D Beyond. I work across all of our engineering teams as we update our core systems and create new features for our players.

Over my four years at D&D Beyond, I’m most proud of my contributions to the architecture and launch of Maps VTT. Other favorite features I’ve worked on include our new status page and maintenance pages. They may not be the most complex features on the site, but I hope they’ve helped keep you informed about anything that might impact your enjoyment of the game.

I’ve been playing D&D since 2018, when a friend pulled me into a Lost Mine of Phandelver campaign, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Outside of D&D, I love board games, pro wrestling, and bar trivia.

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I’m Zac, and I’m thrilled to introduce myself as the Principal Product Manager for D&D Beyond’s Maps team.

I've been playing D&D for 20 years, and it's a great honor and responsibility to be in this position. My job is to support you—the community, the players, the DMs. To make it easier to play D&D. To make it easier to get new people into D&D.

My job is all about making sure we’re building the best tools for you, and the best way to do that is to have a close, transparent relationship where you have a strong hand in shaping how these new features work.

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Hey all! I’m Laura (she/her). I wear a few hats on the team, but you’ll probably know me best as the Architect helping drive our 3rd-Party roadmap on D&D Beyond. I got into D&D just before 5e launched (3.5e girly) and really fell in love with it through actual plays like Critical Role, Dimension 20, Acquisitions Incorporated, and The Adventure Zone.

I love this game and this community. D&D is full of passionate players and worldbuilders, sharing ideas and stories, laughing, and punching things together. I genuinely believe every way people want to play D&D is the right way, and the game is stronger with the collective creativity of all of you.

Outside of D&D, I worked in animation for a long time in LA on things like the 2012 Ninja Turtles, the most recent Monster High series, and even painting textures for Thordak on The Legend of Vox Machina. I have three cats (Sokka, Katara, and Zuko), and I’m on the hunt for the perfect croissant here in Seattle.

If you see me around, please come say hi—maybe we can roll some dice together!

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Hi folks! I'm other Laura on the D&D Beyond team, and while Laura H does content architecture, I handle the deep magic that runs D&D Beyond on the back end. If you've seen our announcement about rebuilding our game platform, my team is the one doing most of the heavy lifting. We're opening up all sorts of new capabilities for Maps (such as Stickers and Reveals) and Characters we hope you are going to love. I started programming and playing D&D in the same year - 1981; both have been lifelong passions, and it is a both an honor and a thrill combine them on such a great platform.

In addition to here, you can often find me at shows like GenCon, PAX West, Emerald City Comic Con, GenghisCon, and Winter Fantasy helping our partners provide amazing organized play experiences for our players. Please don't hesitate to ping me or chat me up either here or in person. I always have time for the fans.

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Hey y'all! I'm Hayley (they/them) and I am part of the ✨ "Lorekeeper" ✨ team that transforms all of our beloved tomes into interactive digital experiences on D&D Beyond. I joined the team back in 2023 and have since gone on to lead the implementation of some really amazing books like Eberron: Forge of the Artificer and The Crooked Moon 🌜!

I originally became obsessed interested with D&D by listening to The Adventure Zone over a decade ago. Since then, I've shared countless engaging and hilarious hours with my friends as a player and DM.

Outside of D&D, I am a major gamer in all three vectors: tabletop, board, and video! I'm also an avid reader, somehow managing to read exponentially more books every year. I have two adorable cats (Captain Benjamin and Major Kira) and am currently in the process of getting a dog (Star Trek name pending...)

I hope to be around more here and at events moving forward, so please don't hesitate to say hi! 💕

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Well met (and happy last day of Nowruz)! My name is Justice Ramin Arman. I'm the Game Design Director for the D&D Game Design team. Prior to that, I was the Managing Game Designer and a Senior Game Designer for the same team. I cut my teeth on the DMs Guild in the late 20-teens and in the wider TRPG community, working with many wonderful folks whose names you might recognize. In an era before memory, I worked in the healthcare industry, so Wisdom (Medicine) checks have a special place at my table.

During my time in the Wizards Tower, I've worked on products like Dragon Delves ("Baker's Doesn't), Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel ("Shadow of the Sun"), Keys from the Golden Vault ("Affair on the Concordant Express"), and Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, among others. I was also a lead or co-lead on Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse, Quests from the Infinite Staircase, Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club, and the latest D&D Starter Set: Heroes of the Borderlands.

I was a bit of a late bloomer to the world of tabletop roleplaying games compared to some of the giants I'm fortunate to work alongside. I rolled my first d20 in 2013 in a subterranean dorm room somewhere in Utah, quickly stepped behind the screen, and haven't looked back since. I love D&D and think it is a magnificent tool for empathy—few other mediums encourage you to step into someone else's shoes and ask what you would do if you were in their position. I am also a fan of dragons and weirdo monsters. I especially enjoy running games for new players who don't know about a beholder's antimagic cone, a displacer beast's illusion, or that every chest could be a mimic in disguise. In addition to playing and running games, I enjoy cooking, baking, and playing guitar.

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Hey! I’m Greg Bilsland, Executive Producer for Dungeons & Dragons. My day-to-day involves working with game design, art, graphic design, D&D Beyond, and the franchise team to plan upcoming D&D products/seasons.

I returned to Wizards recently after a decade away working in videogames. Turns out, working on tabletop D&D is pretty great, and I couldn’t stay away. Previously, I’d spent a decade as an editor, producer, developer, and designer working on titles from the tail of 3.5 up to early 5e. I was the first producer on D&D and supported the launch of the 5e CRBs and Starter Set, as well as some campaign books. A few of my other favorite projects including launching D&D Extra Life (somewhere there’s a video of me stayinga wake 48 hours 💀), D&D Encounters, the D&D miniatures skirmish game (RIP), and some 4e setting guides like the Eberron Player’s Guide, the Shadowfell box set, Heroes of the Feywild, and the Dark Sun setting books. I also occasionally write and still have a few titles on DM’s Guild (now free for anyone – just be kind, I didn’t have an editor 😅).

I started my D&D journey when a friend in fifth grade handed me Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Eighty novels later, I ran out of new things to read and turned to trying to play D&D. Unfortunately, I lived in a rural area without many kids nearby, and most of my friends were more interested in Doom LAN. Instead, I developed an problematic addiction to playing MUDs, early text-based MMORPGs. The one I played was called Arctic and was (unsurprisingly) based on Dragonlance. It’s even still around!

If you ever want to share feedback, you can always DM me or post to #1433854431513804973. When I’m not working on D&D, thinking about D&D, or playing D&D (currently, a heavily home-brewed Dragonheist campaign), I’m usually out adventuring with my family in the Seattle area, birding, or in my yard battling invasive twig blights and shambling mounds.

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Hey everyone! I'm Jess, I'm a Software Engineer working on D&D Beyond! I'm part of the team that works on the Character Builder and Sheet, among many other things. I really love frontend development - I get a lot of joy making things that look nice and reduce friction for our users. I also have a niche in web accessibility, and making D&D Beyond accessible to all users wherever I can is a passion of mine. Some things I've worked on are the 5.5E enablement and most recently, I contributed to the new Quick Builder!

My interest in D&D, and fantasy in general, started with me flipping through my older brother's 3.5E books when I was young. But it wasn't until college that I finally found a group to play my first campaign with. From there, I very quickly jumped off the deep end and started LARPing. I love all the aspects of creating a character, but I especially love costuming and accessories; usually my characters are created following the question, "But what are they going to wear?" For the past 10 years now, I have helped run and manage LARPs in my local area; I've written content, contributed to rules development, and managed the logistics of running events several times per year.

Outside of work (and LARP), I love hiking, gardening, video games, and crafting of all sorts. I've got three dogs, a cat, and a chinchilla!

I've been a long time lurker in this Discord, and now I hope to pop in and contribute when I can!