Banana Chan
game designer and writer
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). Chan has written for over twenty tabletop games, including the official Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021), Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, and the third edition of Betrayal at House on the Hill (2022).
Chan is the owner and co-founder of the tabletop publishing company Read/Write Memory, formerly known as Game and a Curry.
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)
Writer: The North Sea Epilogues (2018)
Narrative Designer: Sea of Legends (2020)
Writer: Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021)
Writer: Dune: Adventures in the Imperium (2021)
Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall (2021)
Writer and Co-Designer: Questlings: RPG (2021)
Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: Suburban Consumption of the Monstrous (2022)
Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: An Exquisite Crime (2022)
Writer: Pathfinder 2E Lost Omens: Knights of Lastwall (2022)
Writer: Pathfinder 2E Dark Archive (2022)
Co-Designer: Alice is Missing: Silent Falls, Kickstarter edition (2023)
Writer: Pathfinder 2E Lost Omens: Tian Xia World Guide (2024)
Writer, Co-Designer and Creator: Deimos Academy (2024)
Writer, Co-Designer and Co-Creator: The Revenant Society: The Endless Loop Beneath the City (2024)
Writer, Designer and Creator: Forgery (2024)
Writer: Daggerheart (2025)
Writer, Designer and Creator: The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio (2025)
Writer, Designer and Creator: Knockoff (2026)
Kids on Bikes
Chan worked on multiple products in the Kids on Bikes series.
Module Writer: Dads on Mowers (2018)
Co-author: Grannies on Scooters (2020)
Module Writer: Doggos on Skateboards (2020)
Module Writer: Anacondas on Airliners (2020)
Board games
Short Story Writer: Terror Below (2019)
Lead Haunt Writer, Scooby-Doo: Betrayal at Mystery Mansion (2020)
Writer: Warp’s Edge (2020)
Writer: Atheneum; Mystic Library (2020)
Character Writer: Critical Care (2021)
Haunt Writer: Betrayal at House on the Hill 3rd Edition (2022)
Co-Designer: Mr. Lovenstein Presents: No Context (2023)
Co-Designer: Chucky (2024), the officially licensed board game for Child's Play
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. In 2022, Chan won the title of Designer of the Year from Dicebreaker's Tabletop Awards. 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").
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