Executive

Christian has been playing tabletop RPGs for more than 20 years, starting with D&D and Pathfinder before diving deep into countless indie games. He ran a professional GMing service for five years and now designs games as Knock Thrice Games.

He’s passionate about introducing people to the hobby and helping them discover their own love of play. Christian also wrote a long-running blog with advice for GMs and players, and he continues to champion other creators in the community.

A big kid at heart, Yvonne (she/her) has been playing board games for most of her life and, courtesy of the pandemic, has also become involved in several RPG campaigns. Thanks to her wonderful neurodivergent brain, she has many “favourite” games, but prefers those that involve peaceful strategy, cooperative gameplay, elegant tactile elements, intricate problem solving, and an engaging narrative. She also loves any game that enables her to seamlessly accommodate her knitting endeavors while participating.

David Kingsmill has been a gamer and a storyteller almost all of his life, and works for Toronto-based video game developer Massive Damage as a content designer with a focus on narrative. He got into board games in the early 2010s, and went deep into the hobby fast, rapidly discovering a love for playing both group competitive and cooperative games, and perhaps most impactfully to him, playing solo.

Christopher Ono is an architectural designer and manager whose love of boardgames, graphic design and history has translated into a variety of activities within the table-top gaming community. He is founder and current organizer of the Canucks Amuck monthly wargaming meet-up, does freelance graphic art and scenario design work for game publishers and has been a member of the Toronto Area Boardgaming Society steering committee since 2013.

An avid gamer since youth, Pete’s interest in the hobby increased tremendously after being introduced, like so many, to D&D. Shortly thereafter, his passion for tabletop gaming grew as countless hours were spent with friends playing a variety of board gaming titles.