Tabletop Game Talk is made up of three people with a shared love of gaming. To hear our origin story, you can listen to episode 21 where we talk about how we all got together and why we started the podcast. Below is a quick bio and contact information for each of us.
Chris Steele has been gaming for as long as he can remember. This started out with games like Risk and Monopoly when he was very young but around middle school age heard of this game called Dungeons and Dragons and found someone at school to teach it to him (and become best friends with that person for the remainder of middle and high school). D&D lead to realizing there were other role playing games as well, and he consumed as much of it as he could. Near the end of high school, Magic the Gathering came out and he spent a few years with that. Eventually real life took over (if you can call it real life since he got a job in the video game industry and still played/made games for a living). About 10 years ago he picked up a 4th edition D&D players hand book and fell in love all over again. This was around the time of the board game revolution as well. One thing lead to another and he now has over 250 board games and even more roll playing books and supplements. He’s addicted and loves to talk about it.
You can reach Chris on twitter at @GameMasterChris and he’s also the primary checker of the email account TabletopGameTalk@gmail.com.
Kitty Langley is a long time listener of podcasts and is the person that got Chris into them. After Chris started this podcast with Josh, she was appalled she wasn’t a part of it from the start, so Chris quickly corrected that mistake and the podcast is ever better for it. Kitty grew up playing family games, her favorite being Risk, but now explores all kinds of games.
And you can reach her on twitter at @LawfulGoodMom
Fletcher Rhoads recently joined the podcast to allow Josh some time to pursue other interests and hobbies. Fletcher is a gamer at heart but doesn’t play as much or as many games as he’d like. Chris and Fletcher used to work with each other and have known each other for several years now.
You can reach him on twitter at @NetFletch
Josh Phillips grew up in London and moved to the US a few years ago with Gloria, a long time friend of Chris’s. They ended up staying with Chris for the first three months and during that time they started this podcast. Josh is more of a casual gamer, although he does enjoy very strategic games as well.
You can find Josh on twitter at @Joshisblonde (and he really is).
The S.O.s…
Sydnie Steele met Chris at a friends board gaming party over a New Years Eve weekend. Three years later they were married and just over a year after that they had their first child, Zachary. Sydnie and Chris still game together regularly and strongly believe that a family that games together, stays together.
Spencer Langley met Kitty in high school but it would be several years later before they started dating. Now married with one son, player 3 (not his real name), Spencer enjoys role playing games more than most board games, but is always happy to play anything. His favorite game… Spades.
Gloria Janek met Josh while they were teaching English in Thailand and has known Chris since she was 12 years old. She’s not a big gamer outside of Scrabble or Words with Friends, but she has been known to play a Star Trek game from time to time.