A professional headshot of Lauren, smiling in front of a shelves of TTRPG materials, with a DM screen in front of her.

Lauren Urban

Professional bard/cleric

Lauren "Oboe" Urban is the Content Manager for Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms by Codename Entertainment, as well as a professional classical musician on oboe and English Horn. When she's not playing a Bard in real life, Lauren is a prolific Dungeon Master and player on a variety of livestreams and podcasts. She lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband Luke where they spend their free time playing video games and drinking tea.

Here are three things I’m currently very excited about, that I hope you enjoy!

Headshots of all six players below art of the five characters. Children of Éarte presented by Demiplane

Lauren plays Neb in this actual play D&D 5e campaign from the mind of DM Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood, Daredevil, Relics and Reliquaries) and fellow players Hope LaVelle, Alicia Marie, Adam Bradford, and Jennifer Kretchmer.

The cover of "Little Game Masters" featuring colorful art of a variety of TTRPG characters.

Little Game Masters is a brand new tabletop role playing system designed for kids ages 4-9 to play. The Frozen Tower is a campaign designed for this game system, and Lauren wrote one of the adventure modules!

The logo for Distinguished Adventurers, a purple stylized geometric shape in front of blue text.

Lauren is the Dungeon Master of a group of friends who’ve been playing D&D for years! We’ve just started out second campaign, a Spelljammer adventure starting on the Radiant Citadel!

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