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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.

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Meet the Cast

creators and characters

Matthew A. Seibert
Zak Benko
Jay
Tessa Bryce
Autumn Blaze
Heather Janelle

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

Oxford Comma

Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager

Impromptu Showtunes

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.

Jay

Roleplayer | Cosplayer

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.

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

Dice Hoarding

Queen of the Faewwild

Your D&D Mom

tessa@nerdsmith.org

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

Artistic Evocations

Tech Support

Mysterious Fey Creature

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

Cat Wrangling

Random Facts and Useless Trivia

Ninja Dwarf

Fortune played by Jay
Coral played by Heather
Jaffer played by Zak
Gwylin played by Autumn
Crackers played by Matthew

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.

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

“That’s an incredibly bad idea, and the odds of our surviving it are astronomically thin! Of course I’m in.”

Sea Elf Fighter (Eldritch Knight)

Gwylin grew up near the port of Saltmarsh with mixed found-family of smuggl -of perfectly honest merchant sailors- captained by her mother, and kept in a vague order by her father. Half raised by her tutor, a dwarven scholar who acts as an uncle to her and her siblings, she’s learned to control a small amount of magic, which she uses to enhance her swordsmanship. In spite of an extensive education, she still prefers to chase after the thrill of adventure, and hopes to one day surpass her mother’s daring exploits.

Her dreams of recognition and greatness war with her parent’s efforts to become heroes in the shadows to the common people, creating an ever-present turbulence in her heart. Although quick to fall in and out of love, she’s fiercely loyal to her family and friends, and always repays her debts…eventually.

Crackers

played by Matthew

Awakened Parrot Bard

Crackers is… a parrot. A blue and gold macaw, to be precise. Those who don’t know him might mistake him for a simple bird, albeit a peculiar one. They miss that spark of intelligence in his eyes as he perches, ever so innocently, within earshot of their conversations. Those who know Crackers well know to mind their words around him, as the simple-seeming bird is truly far more than he seems and possesses an excellent memory.

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Meet the Cast

Matthew A. Seibert

Zak Benko

Jay

Tessa Bryce

Autumn Blaze

Heather Janelle

Matthew A. Seibert

Host

Skills

Zak Benko

Community Manager | Roleplayer

Jay

Roleplayer | Cosplayer

Tessa Bryce

Director | Singer | Actor | Roleplayer

Meet Tessa

Skills

Autumn Blaze

Artist | Roleplayer

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Heather Janelle

Director | Roleplayer | Host

Meet Heather

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Fortune played by Jay

Coral played by Heather

Jaffer played by Zak

Gwylin played by Autumn

Crackers played by Matthew

Fortune

played by Jay

Coral

played by Heather

Jaffer

played by Zak

Gwylin

played by Autumn

Crackers

played by Matthew

Bonus Content

Coming Soon!

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