Alex

**Alex** , known as **Mr. Puddins,** is a voice actor and member of the main cast of *WovenRealm* and is the cofounder and a member of the Chromatic Chimera administrative team as the Chief Producer, Head of Community Management, and Chief Inspector. In WovenRealm, he is Game Master for Season 1 and plays Fenris Amarak.

Alex has also GM'd multiple, in-universe one-shots under the *WovenTale* spin-off series. He was the Game Master for the *SteamSpell* campaign and a leg of *Madam Curio's Bizarre Bazaar* after playing as Torg Oakenshield. They previously played as Kangjax 'Livbror' byrdfra Isefyr av stamm Yang in *Agora's Bells.* Other web series under Chromatic Chimera's banner Game Mastered by Alex include *Bloody Portrait* and *Perilous Sun.*

## Chromatic Chimera

### Pre-Stream

Alex met fellow admin Chris and fellow cast member Lucy through the online TTRPG community where they found themselves working together on a project. They quickly became friends and began playing home games with each other over video chat services. In late 2019, Alex and Chris launched the Chromatic Chimera platform bringing Lucy on. Interested in spending time in a shared hobby with his spouse, Alex brought AJ onto the project initially to be a cast member in *SteamSpell.* In one of the non-streamed home games, Alex played as Scourge, who became a reoccurring character in the setting.

### Predecessor Campaigns

Alex was the Game Master for *SteamSpell*, set in a homebrew world he had been building for years. Alex played as Kangjax the yeti cleric in *Agora's Bells*. As *Agora's Bells* neared its end and with *SteamSpell* on an indefinite hiatus for about a year, Alex and Chris decided they wanted to move the flagship campaign structure to a weekly format using the *13th Age* ruleset and came to the decision to combine their settings into one world, and both quickly got to work setting up *WovenRealm.* During the course of *Madam Curio's Bizarre Bazaar,* Alex took up the reigns of Game Master for the final 'Helm of Serenity' arc, turning *Madam Curio's* from an *Agora's Bells* spin-off into a spiritual prequel to *WovenRealm.*

During the period prior to the game, Alex set to work creating the core concepts of the *WovenRealm* campaign such as clairvoyance.

### Main Campaign - *WovenRealm*

Alex was the first Game Master for *WovenRealm* and ran the first season of the series for 23 episodes. The adventure set, during Season 1, Alex introduced a variety of homebrewed mechanics to add further depth in the gameplay of the *13th Age* RPG system. Some introduced mechanics include rules for social encounters and wilderness exploration; additional combat rules such as zones, stunts, and the extended range; and new conditions including drained, mana burn, and radiation. During his run GMing Season 1, Alex introduced his player character, Fenris Amarak in S1E18 'the Trial of Amaranth Willowbreeze.' After the epilogue episode of the first season (S1E23 'Arrested Development'), Alex switched to the role of a player character.

In Season 2, Alex took up the role of a player, acting as the tiefling druid, Fenris.

During Fenris' inception, Alex incorporated elements from a variety of characters he had played previously and wanted to play a character with more emotional weight than his previous character, and they decided they wanted to play a character with a curse that causes them to lose control, referencing characters such as *Marvel's* Incredible Hulk. Alex decided he wished to play as a lycanthrope and found the druid's shapeshifting abilities to work well for the concept of Fenris.

### Main Campaign - *WovenRealm*

* Game Master, Season 1
* Fenris Amarak, tiefling (Lycus heritage) druid (*WovenRealm)*

### Predecessor Campaigns

* Game Master, *SteamSpell*
* Kangjax 'Livbror' byrdfra Isefyr av stamm Yang, *Agora's Bells*
* Torg Oakenshield, *Madam Curio's Bizarre Bazaar*
* Game Master, *Madam Curio's Bizarre Bazaar (E5 - E9)*
* Game Master, *Curse of Booty Island* (oneshot)
* Scourge, off-stream campaign

### Other Works

* Gabriel Moonshadow, *Elseworld*
* Game Master, *Bloody Portrait*
* Game Master, *Perilous Sun*
* Various one-shots, most notably *Tenacious D&D*

## Other Works

In the past, Alex has made guest appearances on a variety of TTRPG actualplay productions including Dice Priori, the Crow's Codex, SoMattyGamez, and Critical Misses.

As a voice actor, Alex is set to appear in the *Totally Normal Diner* audio-drama production with fellow cast members Sam and AJ.

## Playstyle

As a GM, Alex is known for his deep worldbuilding inspired by history. He often pulls from influences outside of western European history and folklore for his lore and monsters and prefers to work in timeframes outside of the medieval period and Renaissance for his campaign settings. He tends to focus on character driven stories that place an emphasis on dynamic and difficult combat encounters. He prefers to work outside of the rulebook, often incorporating new homebrewed rules and mechanics into his sessions and admits to over-planning which includes creating all his own monster and NPC statblocks for combat encounters. Narratively, Alex tends to focus on themes of political intrigue, cosmic conflict, philosophical dilemmas of grey morality, and personal vengeance. Working with players, he enjoys letting them in on the worldbuilding process and incorporating characters into the setting in meaningful ways.

As a player, Alex has described himself in a tongue-in-cheek manner as a "degenerate min/maxer who doesn't power game." He often plays as characters who are protective and enjoys forming a surrogate sibling relationship with fellow players. He has stated to fellow cast members that playing as Fenris goes against type for him as a player, as he often plays more cheerful characters with a comedic streak. His preferred classes to play as in RPGs tend to be martial classes with him having described the Paladin and Ranger as his favorite classes. He gives great credit to his fellow castmates for helping him improve as an actor and roleplayer and for helping him step into the realm of in-game romances.

## Personal Life

Alex and AJ met in their college years while members in a club devoted to 'nerdy' hobbies and interests. After years of being close friends, the two dated for about three years and got married in 2021. They live with their two cats, Noodle and Peetie as well as a plethora of aquatic pets.

Outside of TTRPGs, Alex has a wide range of other hobbies including aquaria, playing the guitar, disc golf, historical research, fishing, drawing, and wargaming. A former hockey player, he is a talented ice-skater and has interests in science, especially biology and astronomy, which often come up in his worldbuilding.

Alex has stated in previous streams, primarily through jokes and out of context discussions, that he has worked as a private investigator in the past. He describes how his uncle and father introduced him to the RPG hobby at a young age with his first time GMing being primarily in college.

## Trivia

* Alex's screenname 'MrPuddins' is inspired by an old *Dungeons and Dragons* character of his that is described as a 'sapient cat mobster with a thick Jersey accent.'
* MrPuddins prides himself on his knowledge of multiple RPG rulesets including the *13th Age* ruleset.
* With his administrator role of Chief Content Producer, Puddins is often referred to as 'Stream Daddy.'
* His favorite animal is a tie between squirrels, raccoons, and badgers.