Our HOMIE and The DUDE Team
BODHIThe son, and one of our Founders
Bodhi does everything. He’s the creative force behind the company while also knowing just about everything on the technical side of of HaTD. Even though Bodhi loves everything we do, his true passion is to become the world’s best Dungeon Master.
If you hang around our team long enough, you’ll probably hear Bodhi say any of the following:
“No stress.”
“Last push of the day, guys”
“I’m Bodhi, your unexceptional Dungeon Master.”
TOMThe dad, and our other Founder
Tom’s OCD is his gift and curse to the rest of the team. His relentless pursuit of excellence is mostly a good thing, but can be exhausting. He’ll stick his nose into all aspects of our work, whether he has an invitation or not. Mostly, though, Tom runs the marketing side of things and is Bodhi’s co-pilot in the content we’re posting out to the world.
Tom’s memorable quotes:
“What’s poppin’ party people?”
“Ortega’s got him wrapped! Ortega’s got him wrapped!”
“Hey Ben, I’ve got an interesting project for you.”
Among other projects she tackles, Tallulah is the editor for our most recent Kickstarter “hero videos”. If you’ve seen one, you’ll know what we’re talking about when we say that Tallulah is a wizard with Premiere Pro.
Tallulah’s memorable quotes:
“No problem, that’s changed and uploaded.”
“Cropped and changed the text. Uploading now.”
“Uploaded.”
EMILY
Lead Writer
Emily is Bodhi’s co-pilot with most anything HaTD publishes. You will find Emily taptaptappitytapping away at her computer, creating incredible worlds for the TTRPG community to lap up.
Emily’s memorable quotes:
“Here’s an idea.”
“El Dorado as the next setting? I won’t take no for an answer!”
“Hey Bodhi (Insert DM question). Go!”
(Scowls at Ben and Bodhi)
CHRISLayout Design and Lead Programmer
Chris is one half programmer, one half layout designer. Chris is one of the heavy lifters behind bringing our Sky Zephyrs and HaTDBuilder.com projects to life. When Chris is not behind a keyboard, he’s running an actual Texas ranch. With actual cows. He doesn’t understand how it happened either.
Chris’ memorable quotes:
“Been up all night with a little situation on the farm.”
“I can make that work.”
“I am an onion. I contain layers, am mildly acidic, and shouldn’t be left alone too long.”
TRACYThe mom, and Jill of All Trades
Every team needs an office mom. Tracy is ours (literally for Bodhi and figuratively for everyone else). Whether it’s pouring resin into dice moulds, jumping behind the camera, roleplaying her ass off in our actual play livestream, The Sky Realm, or baking some yummy treats for everyone, Tracy consistently spins all those plates and more for us.
Tracy’s memorable quotes:
“Hello, Sweetie!”
“I don’t want McDonalds again.”
“Cup of tea, anyone?”
BENOperations Manager “The Backbone”
Ben is our workhorse. He reaches incredibly high levels of grind, attention to detail, humour and risking HaTD getting cancelled. If you see anything on our social media platforms, it’s likely that Ben created the graphic and wrote the description.
Ben’s memorable quotes:
“Screw the meal deal, I’m getting 15 sausage rolls!”
“Me? The backbone of the team?”
“Guys, do you think I’ve crossed the line with this caption?”
Beth is our incredibly speedy and efficient editor of all our HaTD published works. We are incredibly lucky to have Beth’s fresh eyed perspective and kind heart added to our team. Her joy and happiness always elevates the mood. Ohh and Beth has a cat.
Beth’s memorable quotes:
“It’s amazing how much a difference knowing the tricks makes!”
“Thinking outside the box…I like it”
“And done! :)”
Alex was the first creative that joined our team. He is one of the best TTRPG artists in the world, with an instantly recognisable style. After commissioning more than 40 original NPC drawings from Alex, we are so fortunate that his style is now identified as our style. On top of that, if you’re into metal, Alek and his fellow Burning Leaf bandmates will shred your face off.
Alex’s memorable quotes:
“I love working with you guys. Your ideas are ridiculous!”
“Look at how much I’ve completed from my Athea list!”
“Next week, same time!”
Who are HOMIE and The DUDE?
Our Journey so far...
Hi, we’re HOMIEandTheDUDE, and our real names are Bodhi and Tom.
Like many others during the lockdowns of the COVID outbreak, we were looking for something to occupy our time. In May 2020, we decided to start a podcast together as a Father-Son Team!
But our lives were changed forever when we started watching DnD Actual plays from Node and Acquisitions Incorporated and decided to play DnD ourselves in October 2020!
…and we decided to build our own DnD world PANGAEA, with a Sky of floating islands…
Eventually, we started to release NPCs from our family DnD game with the help of our incredible artist, “Art of Caustic”, to bring our ideas to life – starting with Triple P, Pete the Pixie Pirate Captain, on May 7th, 2021
Since dipping our toes into the TTRPG world across social platforms, the online DnD crowd has been super welcoming. On June 4th 2021, we started interviewing people from the DnD community, starting with Mark Garkusha, the amazing DM from Cast Die Podcast, now a close friend and writing partner of HaTD.
We wanted to level up our NPC creation and start adding stat blocks to the artwork and bios we had been releasing, so we got in contact with Tony, a.k.a Gaumr of the NPC Encyclopedia, who we had been fans of for a while. From the very first phone call we knew there was something magic about our connection, even across the world. We instantly starting making content together, and now Tony is our full time writing partner. He is now filling out “The Land Realm” section of our World, Pangaea.
After interviewing Amber “The SpaceJamber” Logsdon and Sam Comerford from Roleplaying and Rollplaying, joining Blake Francis at a UO Publishing play test table, we decided that we not only loved them but along with Tracy (the mum) and Rian (Bodhi’s best friend from high school), we wanted them all to be in our cast.
So, In April 2022, we started creating what inspired us to play DnD in the first place.. our very own DnD Actual Play Livestream: From our world, Pangaea, THE SKY REALM was born!
Since then we’ve had the pleasure of being invited onto other people’s platforms as guests, either to shoot the shit, play DnD or take part in wacky DnD gameshow hijinks…
Recently, working together with Tracy (the mom/wife), we created our first full set of home-made dice! We decided to host a giveaway as a way to thank all of the wonderful people that supported us on this journey.
As we continued to dive deeper into creating our Sky Realm setting, it dawn on us that despite having a world full of airships we had no official way to play out our airship battle fantasies. So we took it upon ourselves to make that dream come true!
Our Airship Combat System Overlay & Supplements for DnD5e will include:
- A system of rules for dynamic combat between airships (or spaceships) of varying sizes
- Multiple NPC Crews (with their own backstories, printable miniatures and stat blocked ships)
- Bonus content we can’t wait to reveal further down the line
We launched Sky Zephyrs with the help of Kickstarter in August of 2023.
Following up on the success of Sky Zephyrs, we introduced The Wandering Tavern to our community, again through a Kickstarter, in April of 2024.
Somehow, it’s all merging together and attracting a super cool community of people with similar interests. Our dream is to keep exploring these passions while enjoying our time together as father & son.
If you’re here because you love listening to, watching or playing tabletop gaming… welcome! You’re now officially part of “La Familia”!
Make sure to stick around… we are looking forward to launching our next project in 2025: