About Us
Dan Yarrington
I am Dan Yarrington, Tabletop Tycoon, Pinball Tycoon, father, brother, husband, gamer, adventurer, and explorer. As the founder, CEO, and resident of our organization, I have envisioned a specific kind of company and a way of working. Understanding who I am might help to understand why I have built the company the way I have.
Who Am I?
I am: passionate, fast-paced, diligent, brash, dedicated, generous, brilliant, clueless, confident, overconfident, oblivious, arrogant, right (sometimes), wrong (often), precise, driven, collaborative, helpful, demanding, dedicated, inspiring, difficult, innovative, entrepreneurial, relentless, exhausting, respectful, challenging, responsible, eager, quick, creative, strategic, tactical, voracious, loquacious, and frustrating. I am all of these born from a caring about people and purpose.
I choose to spend that time creating great products that help bring joyful experiences to people's lives. The song from Hamilton that best describes me is “Non-Stop”. My favorite Muppet is Fozzie Bear. Wokka wokka wokka!
I've dedicated my life to getting things done. For myself, for my family, for my friends, for my peers, for the world. As Gandalf says, “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
My favorite movie is The Princess Bride and it sums up my sensibilities in a marvelous way. Anyone else who thinks differently is absolutely, totally, and in all other ways, inconceivable!
My favorite TV show is Doctor Who and I'm always up for adventuring through time and space. This description is intended to give you an insight into who I am and what it's like to work with me. I am a very particular human being. Not everyone thrives working with me. I'm looking to find folks who are energized by my personality.
From this effervescent and enervating personality derive our core values. These are not pretty thoughts or ideas. These are non-negotiable to who I am. These are ways of thinking and being that every member of the organization needs to believe and strive toward, each and every day.
Our Team Our Team
Dan Yarrington
Founder - Time Lord
Dan began playing board and card games with his family and friends at a very early age. He is an enthusiastic husband, father, brother, son, and avid and perpetual game evangelist in all these roles. Dan enjoys questing with his adventuring party to craft, sell, and celebrate games and continue the impressive growth of the tabletop games industry, one game at a time.
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Becca
Assassin
Becca is one of our classic overachievers. When she isn't cooking for the office or friends, being an amazing dog mom, or teaching dance classes, she is using her “spare time” to complete her MBA. She is always quick to show her enthusiasm for the small things in life... and musical theatre.
When she is not assisting our fearless leader and the organization, she is often found playing board games and video games with her coworkers, and killing people with kindness.
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Anomaly
Exoworld Survival
Sean
Rocketeer
Curator and guardian of the Tabletop Tycoon warehouse, this high-flying hero coordinates a group of adventures to ensure our games get to your table.
A steadfast family man, he enjoys spending time with his wife and son. Whether they are hiking along the trails of New England or gathering around with a bowl of popcorn to watch movie classics.
While he might not be the best Super Smash Bros fighter, his kindness and enthusiasm make him one of the best people to play games with. It should be noted, it is unverified if he has never fought a bear.
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Tim
Wizard
Tim is a wise sage who spent many years formally mastering the music of the spheres and the hidden mathematics of the known universe.
He joined the Tabletop Tycoon Adventuring Party in 2010 and brings to bear his particular set of skills to each challenge, continually crafting and implementing optimal solutions. He is deliberate and considered, always thinking through the long-term implications of decisions.
Tim's hobbies include tabletop RPGs, WarmaHordes, board games, video games, spending time with his family, and optimizing rules for new games to the breaking point.
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Chris
Pirate
A seasoned buccaneer who is highly skilled in handling the logistics of the high seas, Captain Chris ensures that all the Tycoon's bounty safely and promptly reaches far away lands.
Chris has been working as a part of our team since 2016 including working in order fulfillment and as part of our convention staff. He enjoys gaming, swords & sorcery novels, reading and making zines, and amateur mycology.
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Dawson
Bounty Hunter
A lifelong resident of New Hampshire, Dawson values the communities he engages with and enjoys learning about the world from new perspectives. Having been a performing artist for most of his life, Dawson loves local live performances and consuming all forms of entertainment media. He studied under local monks to better appreciate arts on an academic level and learn the ways of nonverbal communication.
For Dawson, playing games is a fundamental part of life. He enjoys playing both tabletop and video games and appreciates game design, aesthetics, and how communities form around different games. Dawson is a tactical player but enjoys being challenged by clever strategies, careful deception, and straightforward unbiased luck.
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Tristan
Space Biologist
Tristan joined the Tycoon's crew after a lifetime of hopping space ports. Part scientist, part artist, melding function and aesthetic is his specialty. Better than any AI artist! He knows just how to take the crew's harebrained ideas and create something beautiful.
Tristan spends his free time making art, growing green things, cooking delicious foods, and teaching himself new hobbies. He can be found defending the galaxy with his faithful sidekick, the tenured Professor Burlap Bork of the Borkings Institute for Borkology and Pizza.
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Jenn
Activist
After spending years in front of the camera telling the world news of the day, Jenn decided to get “behind the camera” to join us and continue storytelling and helping others.
When she isn't traveling the world to remote villages in Colombia and Rwanda as a volunteer, or a mom to her daughters and doggo, she is here helping us make the world better one game at a time.
When she isn't assisting all of her teammates with different projects, she helps keep us all afloat with all things administrative.
Craig
Mage
Born and raised in the forests of NH, Craig strived for adventure and found himself on a life-long quest for knowledge. This led him to the valleys of Connecticut where he perfected his control over numbers. Now, Craig is our accounting wizard extraordinaire! Always equipped with a magical resolution to our bookkeeping needs, Craig is an excellent problem-finder and problem-solver, a rare combination using the most ancient of magics.
When AFK, you'll find Craig LARPing, playing board games and enjoying science fiction media in all forms. But most of all, Craig's favorite thing is being a dad, and telling dad jokes, of course.
Chris W.
Bard
Hailing from the lands of Massachusetts, Chris has taken up the mantle of leading Tycoon Arcade, our old-school arcade and retail store. Wielding sharp wit and a guitar, he is always ready to share his melodious music as the Glimmerhold Bard, producing an environment of warmth and joy for all.
Every great entertainer needs to rest, and in those times Chris enjoys adventures in nature, whether hiking mountainous terrain or by playing his favorite video games to explore vast new worlds. Also something of an alchemist, Chris is often found brewing his own mead and beer, or cooking interesting recipes.
Norah
Dealer
As the dealer, Norah ensures all guests to Tabletop Tycoon are provided with a professional gaming experience. She helps set the table for an unforgettable night by stacking the deck with a roster of fun games for all players to enjoy.
Joining the house in January 2024, Norah hails from the seaside taverns of the stormy New Hampshire coast. Risk and danger have followed her throughout life, and from her experience, if you play the cards, you'll pay the price. She's a lover and a fighter and one gambler you don't want to face from across the card table. And in her words, she's both a real queen of hearts and a joker.
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John
Pinball Squire
Returning from far away lands, John fell under the tutelage of the resident Tycoon Tinkerer. John's abilities range from smithing, seaming, calligraphy, tinkering, survival and arcanotech. He has survived encounters with spirits of the lake; he walks the planes as a hobby, and has acquired resistance to lighting damage.
During his downtime John will be in his workshop, enjoying games with good company, or satiating a creeping wanderlust.
Games have always been a spot for relation and fun for him, especially with friends and family. Boardgames have gained much favor with him even though ttrpgs remain the clear favorite. When running games, he has been known to feed his guests like halfings and dwarves.
Yvonne
Reaper
Hailing from Singapore (the greenest city in the world!), Yvonne joins our team and adds in an excellent creative eye. When she's not doing all things graphic design, drawing and illustration, you can often find Yvonne playing Final Fantasy 14, sculpting dolls or writing fictional tales.
Our resident reaper also loves spending time with her family and enjoying coffee shop delights!
Billy
Caveman
Billy comes to us from a land that isn't far away… He's the only Ducati driving caveman that we've ever seen! He also likes to play some pinball and take some serious naps (when he's not
working here at the Tycoon Arcade!) He also likes to use his club to play Golden Tee instead of the actual golf clubs.
Lindsay
Druid
Lindsay has led many lives when it comes to her trade, though all of them have involved storytelling and community-focused projects like television, games, and teaching. Each time the world became treacherous beneath her feet, Lindsay wild shaped into something a bit new to keep her aflutter or afloat. She has called many places home and traversed lands around the world, but has now found a place to settle with her partner, having moved from the swelter of Texas to the fall foliage of New Hampshire. She was lucky to stumble across the Tabletop Tycoon adventuring party at just the right time.
On nights and weekends, she casts for voiceover and leads production of video games, runs a steampunk D&D campaign, bakes and crafts, and listens to music on repeat while writing up fictional worlds at her local purveyor of coffee and crepes.
Deadly Dowagers
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Stephen
Quantum Explorer
Stephen's first business cards at age 12 listed him as a Renaissance Man because his curiosity is always leading him into dangerous new places. Whether financially risky (comic collecting), socially inadvisable (ukulele), or hazardous to his very well-being (theatre), he teaches himself whatever skills he needs to leap into each new pursuit. And so Stephen finds himself leaping from Acting to Arts Marketing, from Graphic Design to Games, striving to expand his eclectic expertise, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home, to his out-of-his league wife and two extraordinary kids.
Matt
Smuggler
Born in the port city of New York, Matt was ferreted away into the deep woods of western New Hampshire on his first birthday. Knowing very little of his birthright, he was raised in a humble cottage on the peak of Mount Marlow until he came of age. Without a clear path forward, he found himself taking odd jobs moving material, always making sure the precious cargo gets to its destination. Before long, he found himself in charge of transporting said precious cargo, and whether or not some finds its way into more lucrative places, who’s to say?
A musician in his free time, he joined several bands over the years, most recently in Promise Game as the bassist. He also dabbles in video games, tabletop wargames, and tennis. Naturally adventurous, he lived in Israel and New Zealand for a time but found the need to lay down roots in his middle years. Recently married, with a new purpose, his next chapter is the most exciting: smuggling games to eager fans!