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Banana Chan
Banana Chan (2019)
Occupationgame designer
Writing career
Genrestabletop role-playing games, board games

Banana Chan is a game designer and writer for tabletop role-playing games and board games. Chan and Sen-Foong Lim created Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall (2021).[1][2][3][4] Chan has written for over twenty tabletop games, including the official Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021),[5] Dune: Adventures in the Imperium,[6] and the third edition of Betrayal at House on the Hill (2022).[7]

Chan is the owner and co-founder of the tabletop publishing company Read/Write Memory, formerly known as Game and a Curry.[8]

Works

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Roleplaying games and supplements

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Banana Chan has written for many titles in tabletop games, both as a lead designer and as a hired freelancer.

  • Writer and Designer: The Imposters (2018)[9]
  • Writer: The North Sea Epilogues (2018)[10]
  • Narrative Designer: Sea of Legends (2020)[11]
  • Writer: Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021)[5]
  • Writer: Dune: Adventures in the Imperium (2021)[12]
  • Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall (2021)[2]
  • Writer and Co-Designer: Questlings: RPG (2021)[13]
  • Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: Suburban Consumption of the Monstrous (2022)[14]
  • Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: An Exquisite Crime (2022)[15]
  • Writer: Pathfinder 2E Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall (2022)[16][17]
  • Writer: Pathfinder 2E Dark Archive (2022)[18]
  • Co-Designer: Alice is Missing: Silent Falls, Kickstarter edition (2023)[19]
  • Writer: Pathfinder 2E Lost Omens: Tian Xia World Guide (2024)[20]
  • Writer, Co-Designer and Creator: Deimos Academy (2024)[21]
  • Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: The Revenant Society: The Endless Loop Beneath the City (2024)[22]
  • Writer, Designer and Creator: Forgery (2024)[23]
  • Writer: Daggerheart (2025)[24]
  • Writer, Designer and Creator: The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio (2025)[25][26]
  • Writer, Designer and Creator: Knockoff (2026)[27]

Kids on Bikes

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Chan worked on multiple products in the Kids on Bikes series.

  • Module Writer: Dads on Mowers (2018)[28]
  • Co-author: Grannies on Scooters (2020)[29]
  • Module Writer: Doggos on Skateboards (2020)[30]
  • Module Writer: Anacondas on Airliners (2020)[31]

Board games

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  • Short Story Writer: Terror Below (2019)[32]
  • Lead Haunt Writer, Scooby-Doo: Betrayal at Mystery Mansion (2020)[7]
  • Writer: Warp’s Edge (2020)[33]
  • Writer: Atheneum; Mystic Library (2020)
  • Character Writer: Critical Care (2021) [34][35]
  • Haunt Writer: Betrayal at House on the Hill 3rd Edition (2022)[7]
  • Co-Designer: Mr. Lovenstein Presents: No Context (2023)[36]
  • Co-Designer: Chucky (2024), the officially licensed board game for Child's Play[37]

Awards and nominations

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Awards

In 2016, Chan won Best Pervasive Game in the Golden Cobra Challenge for her live action roleplaying game They're Onto Me.[38] In 2022, Chan won the title of Designer of the Year from Dicebreaker's Tabletop Awards.[39] The same year, she won three ENnies Awards: Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall (Silver Ennie for "Best Setting"), Questlings: RPG (Silver Ennie for "Best Family Game / Product"), and Dune – Adventures in the Imperium: Core Rulebook (Gold Ennie for "Best Writing").[40]

Nominations and Honorable Mentions

In 2015, Chan was given an Honorable Mention in the Golden Cobra Challenge for her live action roleplaying game The Other Place.[41] In 2022, Chan and Sen-Foong Lim, along with the Game and a Curry and Wet Ink Games teams, were nominated for ENnies in three categories for Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall: Best Setting (which they won), Best Production Value and Product of the Year.[13] The same year, Chan and Game and a Curry were also nominated for Best Family Game/Product for their game Questlings: RPG in collaboration with Letiman Games and Tim Devine.[13] In addition to the ENnies, Jiangshi was nominated for the 2022 Indie Game Developer Network's Indie Groundbreaker Awards for "Most Innovative."[42]

References

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  1. ↑ "This Board Game Uses Vampires To Fight Anti-Asian Racism". HuffPost. 2021-05-05. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  2. 1 2 Wieland, Rob. "Save The World And Your Family Restaurant With This New RPG". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  3. ↑ "Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall is an RPG about cooking and vampires". Dicebreaker. 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  4. ↑ "Indie RPGs show roleplaying can - and should - be far more than Dungeons & Dragons". Dicebreaker. 2021-02-17. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  5. 1 2 "Dungeons & Dragons returns to an iconic setting with Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft". Dicebreaker. 2021-02-23. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  6. ↑ Wieland, Rob. "Now Is A Great Time To Get Into Dune: Adventures In The Imperium". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
  7. 1 2 3 "Betrayal at House on the Hill: 3rd Edition". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  8. ↑ "Home - Game and a Curry, LLC". 2016-10-20. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  9. ↑ "The Imposters - Ginger Goat | DriveThruRPG.com". www.drivethrurpg.com. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  10. ↑ "The North Sea Epilogues RPG + GM Screen". Garphill Games. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  11. ↑ "Sea of Legends". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  12. ↑ "Dune Roleplaying Game". Modiphius Entertainment. Archived from the original on 2021-04-16. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  13. 1 2 3 "2022 Nominations – ENNIE Awards". Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  14. ↑ "Jiangshi co-creator's next game is a LARPG anthology inspired by Get Out and Hannibal". Dicebreaker. 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  15. ↑ "Exquisite Crime equal parts paranormal whodunnit RPG and goofy group doodling". Dicebreaker. 2021-10-27. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  16. ↑ "Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall". RPGGeek. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  17. ↑ "paizo.com - Pathfinder Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall". paizo.com. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  18. ↑ "paizo.com - Pathfinder Dark Archive". paizo.com. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  19. ↑ "Alice is Missing: Silent Falls". Kickstarter. February 14, 2023. Retrieved July 23, 2025.
  20. ↑ "2024 Winners & Nominees – ENNIE Awards". Retrieved 2026-08-16.
  21. ↑ "Deimos Academy is a Stephen King inspired horror RPG played in a colouring-in book". Dicebreaker. 2021-06-23. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  22. ↑ "Jiangshi designers' next roleplaying game is like a horror version of Russian Doll". Dicebreaker. 2022-01-23. Retrieved 2022-07-28.
  23. ↑ "Drawing a picture of the tabletop space with Forgery". Rascal News. 2024-02-27. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
  24. ↑ "Daggerheart Tabletop RPG FAQs". Daggerheart. Retrieved 2025-05-28. Who is in the Daggerheart Core Set credits? [...] ADDITIONAL WRITING: Layla Adelman, Meguey Baker, Banana Chan, Chris Davidson, Rue Dickey, Felix Isaacs, Erin Roberts, Deven Rue, Rogan Shannon, Mark Thompson, Eugenio Vargas, Chris Willett
  25. ↑ Meehan, Alex (2024-05-13). "Five Nights at Freddy's inspired this horror RPG about an eldritch radio show that comes with its own soundtrack". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  26. ↑ "You are The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio". Rascal News. 2024-05-21. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
  27. ↑ Arndt, Dan (2025-05-02). "It's All Body Horror: Banana Chan Talks Forgery, Knockoff, And The Freedom Of Solo Game Design - The Fandomentals". Retrieved 2026-07-31.
  28. ↑ "Kids on Bikes: Deluxe Edition". RPGGeek. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  29. ↑ "Kids on Bikes Free Content Friday July, 2020 - Grannies on Scooters". RPGGeek. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  30. ↑ "Kids on Bikes Free Content Friday August, 2020 - Doggos on Skateboards". RPGGeek. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  31. ↑ "Kids on Bikes Free Content Friday August, 2020 - Anacondas on Airliners". RPGGeek. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  32. ↑ "Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid and Clank! publisher holding its first online convention, Renegade Con Virtual, next month". Dicebreaker. 2020-05-15. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  33. ↑ "Warp's Edge". Renegade Game Studios. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  34. ↑ "Critical Care simulates the hospital ICU in a new board game". 23 September 2021.
  35. ↑ "Team".
  36. ↑ "Review of Mr Lovenstein Presents: No Context, a new party game about making connections". Tabletop Bellhop. 2023-05-30. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  37. ↑ Hamman, Cody (2023-10-02). "Chucky board game coming from Trick or Treat Studios". JoBlo. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
  38. ↑ "Golden Cobra Challenge". www.goldencobra.org. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  39. ↑ "Tabletop Awards 2022". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  40. ↑ "2022 Results – ENNIE Awards". 2022-08-14. Archived from the original on 2022-08-14. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  41. ↑ "Golden Cobra Challenge". www.goldencobra.org. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  42. ↑ "Indie Groundbreakers Awards". Indie Game Developer Network. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
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