John
Head Designer /
Systems Editor
John is a career gamer and systems tinkerer who has been running and tweaking systems since the late 1980s. In addition to extensive tabletop experience, he is also an avid board, card and video gamer, all of which provides him with a breadth of different mechanical viewpoints and possibilities to draw from. He produces and runs multiple campaigns, both in person and online, for Hero's Journey on a weekly basis in addition to his systems and writing duties.
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John has a degree in Comparative Religion and Philosophy, with additional training in theatre and music, and spends most of his time actively researching to add to his understanding of world mythology and drinking dangerously toxic levels of caffeine to avoid ever losing work time by sleeping.
Anne is a lifelong roleplayer, games designer, and scholar of mythology. She is a prolific writer as well as a career gamer with experience on both sides of the table, and has previously worked with various game companies on a freelance basis, including Onyx Path and Biblioteque Interdite, as well as producing high-quality fan supplements and fiction for various games and IPs across the years.
Anne has degrees in Music, specializing in historical ethnomusicology, the study of music in different cultures around the globe, and Library and Information Studies, allowing her to find the juiciest of forbidden texts. She spends most of her time editing and cleaning up material for Hero's Journey as well as the five hundred other games she usually has running.
Anne
Head Writer /
Creative Director
Alex
Art Director /
Graphic Designer
Alex is a graphic designer and animator who works in the Toronto film industry with various film credits to his name, including work on Orphan Black, Killjoys, and the What We Do in the Shadows television series, as well as several feature films. He coordinates and directs the art team for Hero's Journey as well as providing image design and editing expertise for all projects.
Alex lives in Toronto with good friends and food, three cats, and an unstoppable LARP aesthetic. He also enjoys folk rock, spiced rum, and insisting that he is definitely not a hipster.
Tanay
Tanay is a scholar of Hinduism and player of many games who provides his expertise to the team in all matters of religion, spirituality, and excellent artwork of Hindu deities in the field. In addition to working on portrayal of Hindu deities, he also contributes to the writing and editing of the powers granted to their Heroes and the Devotionals that make up their representation in Hero's Journey.
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Personally, Tanay (also known as Samudra) is an endless primordial ocean of possibility and spirituality. His hobbies include cheering when badass lady deities do their badass thing.