Banana Chan

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]

Banana Chan
Banana Chan (2019)
Occupation	game designer
Genre	tabletop role-playing games, board games

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

Works

Roleplaying games and supplements

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]
• Writer, Co-Designer and Creator: Deimos Academy (2024)^[19]
• Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: The Revenant Society: The Endless Loop Beneath the City (2024)^[20]
• Writer, Designer and Creator: Forgery (2024)^[21]
• Writer: Daggerheart (2025)^[22]
• Writer, Designer and Creator: The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio (forthcoming)^[23][24]

Kids on Bikes

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

• Module Writer: Dads on Mowers (2018)^[25]
• Co-author: Grannies on Scooters (2020)^[26]
• Module Writer: Doggos on Skateboards (2020)^[27]
• Module Writer: Anacondas on Airliners (2020)^[28]

Board games

• Short Story Writer: Terror Below (2019)^[29]
• Lead Haunt Writer, Scooby-Doo: Betrayal at Mystery Mansion (2020)^[7]
• Writer: Warp’s Edge (2020)^[30]
• Writer: Atheneum; Mystic Library (2020)
• Character Writer: Critical Care (2021) ^[31][32]
• Haunt Writer: Betrayal at House on the Hill 3rd Edition (2022)^[7]
• Co-Designer: Mr. Lovenstein Presents: No Context (2023)^[33]
• Co-Designer: Chucky (2024), the officially licensed board game for Child's Play^[34]

Awards and nominations

Awards

In 2016, Chan won Best Pervasive Game in the Golden Cobra Challenge for her live action roleplaying game They're Onto Me.^[35] In 2022, Chan won the title of Designer of the Year from Dicebreaker's Tabletop Awards.^[36] 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").^[37]

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.^[38] 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."^[39]