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“Roleplay Heavy” games place the focus on the story, the characters, and the world they live within, and tend to lean hard into the various roleplaying elements of the game. These games will frequently find the party talking with NPCs, exploring the personal elements of their backstories, or even having emotional moments around the camp fire. 

Roleplay Heavy

“Theater of the Mind” uses little to no visuals for scene settings and combat. Instead, the narrative imagery comes from the Game Master’s descriptions and character action and movement comes from Players’ descriptions. 

Theater of the Mind

MonsterHearts 2

Fantasy

Modern

Supernatural

For long games or stressful content, having built-in breaks allows the group to stay focused and process content. This time can be used for bio breaks, conversation, or any other necessities.

Breaks

Debriefing is a way to reflect on the game. Identify possible issues, highlight the good parts, and work through potential emotional bleed.

Debriefing

Lines and Veils set the boundaries of the games. Lines are hard limits for content the group doesn't want to participate in, this means that content will not be in game, referenced in game, or alluded to. Veils are soft limits, meaning that when the content arises it might be mentioned, but not described, or it could mean that when the content shows up, it results in a “fade-to-black”.

Lines and Veils

This checklist is used to set expectations and content boundaries before the game starts, and allows players to select from multiple existing triggers, or add their own.

Monte Cook RPG Consent Checklist

Session 0s are used to start the game, opening up with communication, setting expectations, and discussing any safety tools that will be used at the table.

Session 0

Stars and Wishes are used to reflect and discuss feedback in a positive way. Stars are used for things that participants enjoyed in the game. Wishes are things that participants would like to see in the future. Both players and the GM can express their stars and wishes to make the game better.

Stars and Wishes

Monsterhearts 2

Hello all, I'm Alebrelle!

I am a queer trans autistic leftist who has been doing tabletop of various flavors and intensities for just around 30 years now.  My *FIRST* first game was (very badly) running the AD&D Box Set for my sister in 7th grade.  My first campaign as a player was Shadowrun 2e in 10th grade.  TTRPGs has been one of my longest standing special interests, and so I have a very deep and broad experience, LARPs, horror, fantasy, wire-fu, comedy, romance, cyberpunk, I've seen a bit of it, or a lot.

I love making, crafting, and if I were a trust fund baby I'd probably play tabletop games nearly continuously.  There's enough out there to feed the habit.  I have some small voice over experience, I have run games for long time friends, and at conventions tables up to 8 folks at once.

I am a content creator on various platforms, and if you want to record our sessions and post them somewhere ask me about it.  If you want *me* to produce, record, and edit them; we can do that too.  Just ask, I'm sure we can work something out!

My games list below is *far* from extensive, I kept it limited to meeting at least one of these criteria:
1) Played more than one session of,
2) GM'd a campaign, or
3) Read the sourcebook cover-to-cover in prep for GMing a game that never came together.

While I have my favorite stuff to run (most anything Powered by the Apocalypse, thank you Vincent & Meguey Baker), I think I have a grasp on most any genre enough to run a game.  If you have something niche or particular please reach out directly and we can talk about it and see if I can give you the game noone else has.  Which, to be honest, tends to be my goal even with games you've played for years: Give you the best game possible.

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