he/him || Jay is a roleplayer and an artist from Texas. When he isn’t rolling dice, he’s designing yet another new character, feverently sewing yet another costume last minute, or raising his little orange (bearded) dragon.
Fridays
7:30pm PST | 10:30pm EST on Twitch
About The Show
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Or do they…
They say the cure for every ailment is saltwater. Sweat, tears, or the sea. And there are few rules in the small seaside village of Saltmarsh: pick a crew, ride the tide, keep afloat. Folks here know what it takes to build something, but with the monarchy interested in more than just the town, will that something last?
Dead Men Tell No Tales is a live-streamed pirating campaign using the D&D 5e Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign setting and adventures.
Set sail with us Friday nights at 7:30 PST!
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Meet the Cast
creators and characters
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Jay
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Heather Janelle
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Zak Benko
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Tessa Bryce
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Autumn Blaze
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Matthew A. Seibert
Jay
Roleplayer | Cosplayer
Heather Janelle
Director | Roleplayer | Host
Meet Heather
she/her || Heather has been actively embracing her nerdier and geekier tendencies her entire life. She was started down this path at a young age as she was raised on a well-rounded diet of British humor, science fiction, fantasy, musicals, video games, and Saturday morning cartoons.
Her parents always supported her love of learning, allowing her to devour reading material quickly and voraciously. This included driving her around so that she could work her way through entire Science-Fiction/Fantasy sections at her local libraries and a few book stores. It also included depriving her of non-school related reading materials as punishment, rather than grounding her (no joke folks—this is truth).
Heather’s foray into her geekier side became a full-blown submersion after playing Dungeons and Dragons with her friends her freshman year of college. She immediately loved it and has been playing RPGs ever since.
She is also an avid animal lover with a special affinity for felines and has worked at a cat-only veterinary hospital for over 12 years. She can definitely be classified as Nerdsmith’s resident “crazy cat lady”. She may be a few polyhedrals short of a full set, but to be fair…the cats stole them…
Heather is the host of Geek Thyself, a roleplayer on Countless Heroes and Shenanigoons, and a singer on Charm and Trouble.
Skills
Zak Benko
Community Manager | Roleplayer
(he/him) | Zak (Zach/Zack/Zaq/etc) is a storyteller and writer with a focus on overcoming adversity through enchanting narratives and subverting social expectations. A born entertainer raised in a coal-mining town in Northeast Pennsylvania, his experiences through growing up in a perpetually evolving world of the early to late 90’s has given him his signature insane flexibility and “yes, and…” mentality. I mean, he remembers having a corded phone, to an answering machine, then the ridiculousness of cordless. He was taught in elementary about floppy disks and then a week later was told to scrap that for CD-ROM. He had wind pants of flourescent colors and then moved on to FUBU (No shame…).
First roleplaying on Neopets (right?) and then moving on to avidgamers, acornrack, ag2, acornrack2, and even GaiaOnline to get his storytelling fix. Zak has always felt at home embodying a role vastly different from his own, a poor boy that needed no sympathy and always pulled himself up by his bootstraps.
Zak is the Community Manager for the Nerdsmith Discord, and is always willing to lend attention to those who deserve it.
Tessa Bryce
Director | Singer | Actor | Roleplayer
Meet Tessa
(she/her) | Singer, story-teller, writer, collector of snails and cephalopods, gamer, baker, and overall tempest in a teacup. Tessa has been actively involved in entertainment for 24 years. May or may not also be a dice dragon always looking to increase her hoard.
Tessa is a roleplayer on the Shenanigoons, the storyteller on Allison Underland PI, an actor on WAND Radio, the co-host of Married to the DM, and can also be found singing on Charm and Trouble.
Skills
Autumn Blaze
Artist | Roleplayer
Autumn is a self-taught freelance digital artist, author, and full-time nerd. She learned to draw reading Marvel comics. She’s into solarpunk, steampunk, science-fiction, and fantasy.
When she’s not working on her art or writing, she’s also an avid PC gamer. She loves coffee and cats because they help her keep up the appearance of being human.
Skills
Matthew A. Seibert
Host
Matthew (he/him) lives in Saskatchewan, Canada with his husband, Brian Legg, and their two cats. Since discovering Star Trek: The Next Generation at an impressionable age, Matthew has been an incurable nerd. His previous endeavors include: authoring LGBTQ+ romance short fiction, co-hosting the Drunk Trek Podcast (2015-2017), and voicing Earthbreaker Groon in “Vox Machina: an Exandrian Musical” (2018).
Matthew is the creator, producer, and Dungeon Master of The Land Above, and creator and host of the Homebrew Studio stream.
Skills
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Fortune played by Jay
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Coral played by Heather
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Crackers played by Matthew
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Jaffer played by Zak
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Gwylin played by Autumn
Fortune
played by Jay
Tiefling Monk
Fortune is a man with a sordid past and an aspirational name. He has a lot of love for the seas and for money, and little else. His skills include brawling and mapmaking, both of which he takes a near excessive amount of pride in, and will glady talk any ear off about over whiskey.
Coral
played by Heather
Lutradine Bard
Coral loves life in Saltmarsh. When her family migrated back to the shores of Lamina Island, Coral decided to stay home with her Gran to help out the town. She is always ready with a song, steel, or sass as needed.
Crackers
played by Matthew
Awakened Parrot Bard
Jaffer
played by Zak
Gnome Artificer
From Lianthos to the north, there’s a prominent figure that most would like to have on their ship, if they’ve the coin. Stout, muscled, scarred and tattooed, Jaffer Zanzib is known for the hardened focus she puts to her work. If you’ve a ship that needed repairing, you hope to find her in one of the many dockside taverns, likely as not, either working, drinking, gambling, or sleeping the three off.
Gwylin
played by Autumn
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