With our roleplaying programme getting fully back up to speed later this month (more details here), we thought we would take the opportunity to introduce you to our team of professional Game Moderators. The brave souls you see below will be running various Seasons and one-shots for you over this year. If you’ve ever been involved with roleplaying sessions at the Treehouse, there’s a good chance you’ll recognise at least one of these faces, but consider this an opportunity to properly get acquainted. We’ve asked each of them to describe themselves in their own words – enjoy!
Riley
Riley (they/them) is one of the original GMs here at the Treehouse, co-creating the Solken project that kicked off our RPG work back in 2017. Since then they’ve run games in a huge variety of systems, including Apocalypse World, Lady Blackbird, Call of Cthulhu and Cortex Prime. They are always looking for a new challenge and love learning new systems. As well as running games, Riley is responsible for organising the motley crew below into something resembling a coherent schedule of games. Right now, they’re kicking off a home game of Pathfinder 2nd Edition and cooking up a hell of an apocalypse…
Ashley
Ashley (she/her) is another of our 2017 veteran GMs, having helped to run our Solkien project when it first launched, as well as a number of subsequent games using D&D 5e, Tales from the Loop and Things from the Flood. As our resident teenage mystery adventure pro, Ashley is always looking to dive into new short-form and one-shot adventures, particularly in Tales from the Loop and Things from the Flood. Right now, Ashley is cooking up some new mysteries for you to solve, whenever she’s not too busy dishing up food in the kitchen.
James
James (he/him) has been part of the roleplaying team since 2019. He joined us to close out the final Season of Solken in style, jumping into the part of Lord Torgan with about thirty minutes of prep! He’s since run several one-shots and CSI-style D&D game called On The Case. His planned follow-up, a Monster Hunter riff called Into the Reach, was cruelly cancelled by the first lockdown last year – at least, for now. Recently James has had his head buried in the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying 4th Edition book, though the sheer number of tables involved means he’s unlikely to get it to the Treehouse without some serious persuading!
Matt
Matt (they/he) was a big part of establishing the Treehouse tabletop roleplaying initiative, and was responsible for keeping track of the extensive and constantly expanding lore of our Solken multi-table D&D world. With an eye for worldbuilding and detail, they take pride in trying to adapt every campaign to the individual players’ characters. As such they can be usually found staring into the middle distance in a futile attempt to anticipate every unlikely and chaotic decision the players will take. Matt’s next project is the highly anticipated Summits of Steam and Steel Season 2, a game whose players enjoyed it so much, they petitioned for a sequel!
Henry
Henry is the Treehouse’s self-proclaimed bad boy of roleplaying. If you’re not happy with your character having a fluctuating number of limbs/tentacles then maybe don’t let them wander into one of Henry’s games! Venturing forth from the sleepy town of Ashbourne in search of new players to torment, he’s perched and nestled at The Treehouse. The first delve into Henry’s imagination, the Level One Encounters one-shot, twisted players’ happy fairy tale memories into a Cronenbergian nightmare. The coming-soon sequel promises to be a walk into some very old, very dark woods. And then, just when you begin to feel safe again… the monsters appear!