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Ryan Faricelli
Ryan Faricelli has hosted 3 episodes.
Ryan Faricelli is is the Marketing Coordinator for DrachenFest US. He has lived in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Chattanooga, and is currently the creative director for an independent marketing and public relations agency. He can often be found speaking on crisis communications, public relations, marketing, gaming, and cinema.
Ryan attended film school at Columbia College in Chicago. He is cofounder of Cleveland Geekster, author of several works including "On A Roll: Level Up Your RPG”, and has produced multiple long-running podcasts – including the official podcast of the United States Space and Rocket Center’s Space Camp Dare to Explore.
Ryan has been roleplaying since 1989, and larping since 2001. He has held multiple leadership positions in both national and international larp organizations, and was one of the founders of The Garou Nation in 2005.
Ryan is currently knee-deep in The Goblin Project, as he attempts to collect one of every goblin ever printed in Magic: The Gathering, and is developing an original tabletop RPG called “The Gun Belt.”.
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Carie Varner
Carie Varner has hosted 3 episodes.
Carie Varner is the Art and Aesthetics Lead for Limbus at DrachenFest US. She is an artist, a private art teacher, a mother, and a drinker of much Pepsi.
She graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (who needs to eat?). Some of her work is available to view and purchase on her Facebook page and on Lulu, and in galleries in southeast Tennessee. One of her sculptures is featured in the lobby of VNA Hospice in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Her first gaming book was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness, and since those early years, she's played everything from World of Darkness to Earthdawn. Carie has larped in three different networked organizations, holding organizational positions in two, and helping cofounder one. She even once helped playtest several larps, including Shadow Run.
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Jason Hughes
Jason Hughes has hosted 3 episodes.
Jason Hughes is the Limbus Coordinator for DrachenFest US. He is a professional carpenter, but his passion is roleplaying games – in particular, LARPs. He has been playing RPGs since the mid-1990s, and is a regular game runner and panelist at gaming conventions across the southeast United States.
Jason got his gaming start in wargamming, CCGs, and tabletop roleplaying, but then quickly discovered boffer LARPs. From there, he moved into World of Darkness parlor LARPs, even running a Shinning Host game for a while. Since then, Jason has been running games consistently, even for his coworkers during their lunch breaks and as a paid professional storyteller.
For several years, Jason was the Organizational Storyteller for the national larp organization Underground Theater. During this time, he also worked on various development think tanks for By Night Studios as they developed their first larp products.
