Welcome to the Tavern.
Where a bunch of passionate people are working on the most immersive TTRPG online experience ever!

Ferdinand Werthwein, 38

Founder | Head of Product and Operations
Senior UX/UI Designer from Karlsruhe, Germany

🧙‍♂️🧝‍♀️ Currently DMing "Rime of the Frostmaiden" for our party and playing as Bebran Nightshield in a friends campaign set in Eberron

I'm a D&D enthusiast and have ended my freelancing work in the summer of 2023 to work full time on the Tavern. Since then, I've taught myself the basics of the Unreal Engine 5, how to create and customize MetaHuman characters, created tons of designs, clickdummies and this website. But most important of all: With Clemens I've found a great like-minded technical Co-Founder and we've managed to get Daniel as an UE 5 Dev on board. With this core team and our contributors & advisors, we'll bring the Tavern alife and create something truly epic for the Pen & Paper Community out there!

During my 10+ years of freelancing and working with agencies, I worked with teams ranging from small startups to global players, ran Google Design Sprint Workshops and coached startup approaches for a faster product-market fit.

Clemens Himmer, 28

Co-Founder | Head of Technology, Development & Infrastructure
Senior Full Stack Developer from Feldkirch, Austria

🧙‍♂️🧝‍♀️ Currently playing a homebrew campaign, preparing to DM Heliana's & painting a giant Tiamat minature

After developing applications for clients in numerous industries working in agencies, I've started my dream of freelancing in 2022 in the pursuit of creating amazing applications directly at the helm of projects. With D&D being another great passion of mine, the idea of becoming Co-Founder of The Tavern quickly grew on me, and soon I teamed up with Ferdinand and started planning on how to bring a scalable and affordable roleplaying experience to users out there. I'm excited to combine my professional experience with my personal interests together with an amazing team to bring an unique experience to virtual Tabletop players all around the world.

Daniel Nedele, 25

Freelancer | Unreal Engine 5 Development
Software Developer (C++ / C# / Unreal) from Stuttgart, Germany

🧙‍♂️🧝‍♀️ Currently playing a dwarven paladin in a homebrew setting (mostly casting smite at every opportunity)

Having worked with Unreal 4 since its first public release version (on hobby projects then), and as a professional software developer later, it felt only natural to take the plunge and start freelancing as an Unreal Developer in 2022. As an avid video game enthusiast and roleplaying geek, I'm excited to help bring The Tavern to Unreal Engine 5 and make your roleplaying experiences even more immersive. Check out Daniels projects on his website danielnedele.com

Our awesome Contributors & Advisors

• Victor Yuen, Technical Animator 🇳🇿
• Dr. Rudolf Witt (aka @realtimegraphx), MetaHuman Specialist 🇩🇪
• Johannes Linowski, Full Stack Developer @stack 🇩🇪
• Tomas Gonzalez, Full Stack Developer @stack 🇩🇪

We also want to thank:

• The creators of several awesome Open Source Projects that we were able to dig into!
• Our mighty D&D Group for their valuable feedback:
  Tobi (Urku Taskor), Peter (Idris Iceclaw), Niki (Rognar Lothbrok), Radi (Elias Gemheart), Jacek (Halrond Blackwood)