Satine Phoenix

Satine Phoenix (born ) is an American comic book illustrator, cosplayer, and model. She is the co-creator, with writer R.K. Syrus, of the graphic novel New Praetorians and the founder of CelebrityChariD20 (formerly CelebrityCharityDnD).

Career

Adult entertainment Phoenix was a stripper in San Francisco before entering the pornographic film industry in 2006.

In a 2006 report for the news website AlterNet, journalist Annalee Newitz referred to her as "the sort of person who has the education and resources to choose from many careers and has chosen this one because she likes it".

Mainstream media

Phoenix has accepted projects in gaming and fetish fashion, cosplaying characters from various D&D games, and modeling in latex and leather. Notable projects include Pen, Paper & Laser Guns and her role in co-developing the gaming web series I Hit It With My Axe, which was distributed through online magazine The Escapist. In 2008, Phoenix appeared in an episode of the WE tv series Secret Lives of Women and was a guest on the Fox talk show The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet. Phoenix has been portrayed by many artists, including Swedish punk painter Karl Backman and American photographer Chad Michael Ward. In 2013, she appeared in the Javier Grillo-Marxuach's short film Minotaur.

In 2010, she revived her art and gaming career at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood, California by starting DrawMelt (a life drawing class with cosplay models) and DnDMelt (a gaming community focused around Dungeons & Dragons). She has also done live performance art with the San Francisco group "Zen Bullies," body painting, a bondage burlesque show, and had a weekly radio show on KSEXradio.

Phoenix has both appeared in and hosted a number of episodes on Geek & Sundry as well as episodes on HyperRPG: Phoenix appeared in seasons three and four of the TableTop web series with Wil Wheaton; and in 2017 she hosted the second season of Game Master Tips, a YouTube video series for Dungeon Masters in Dungeons & Dragons and gamemasters in other tabletop role-playing games. Season two of GM Tips expanded on the original format through Phoenix interviewing notable players in the tabletop role-playing community. The second season ended with Phoenix interviewing the host of the first season, Matthew Mercer, in December 2017. She was the community manager of Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons and Dragons arm from 2018 to 2019.

Phoenix and Ruty Rutenberg co-founded the streaming network Maze Arcana Maze Arcana: Fury's Fate (2017–18), Sirens of the Realms (2017–19), and Maze Arcana: Inkwell Society (2018–19). Phoenix was also a Dungeon Master or player in these shows. The 2018 Diana Jones Award was awarded to the "actual play" movement and included Maze Arcana among the examples of the genre. Phoenix, Ruttenberg and Ivan Van Norman accepted the award at Gen Con. However, the network then went dark in 2018; in 2022, ComicBook.com reported that Rutenberg and Phoenix are suing each other over the handling of Maze Arcana's funds and fiduciary duty. In 2021, Apotheosis Studios – founded by Jamison Stone – launched a Kickstarter campaign for Phoenix's campaign setting book, which reached its funding goal, the book titled Sirens: Battle of the Bards.

In June 2022, over a dozen former collaborators alleged bullying and mistreatment by Phoenix and her husband Stone. Satine issued an apology

Awards and nominations

Personal life Phoenix stated that she began playing Dungeons & Dragons in 1988 at eight years-old.

Publications