Rime of the Frostmaiden

Austin is an excellent game master who creates an immersive world mixing published content with his own twists. In addition to the many NPC voices he narrates, his improvisation is so natural that it is indiscernible from whatever has been planned. He provides a high-quality VTT environment with robust functionality and rich images. Extremely knowledgeable of game system rules, his own house rules are fair and balanced, as are his in-game decisions. Every game is always a quality experience.

Austin is an excellent narrator who runs games in several different systems and worlds. He is quite accommodating for his various player types and is a GM you can count on to deliver a quality experience. I appreciate his attention to detail and knowledge of the game rules. The Red Hand of Doom game I play with him on Sundays is run in his own world of Advaen and uses A5e (advanced fifth edition) which is a more veteran-forward ruleset. As a long time player I appreciate his administering the rules in a fair and non whimsical style. The man is the real deal without the fluff. I've had a group TPK under his running of the game and he did not hold back or break the fourth wall to twist fate in any way. You can imagine the last thing a DM for hire wants is a TPK. It takes money right out of their pocket. This demonstrates a large amount of integrity in the GM. He puts the game first; period. Austin has hundreds of maps, hooks, characters and pieces of art in some secret arcane vault stored in both his mind and on foundry. He has a knack for being able to pull pieces from this great ether and put them into play cohesively at a moments notice. We recently discovered a wizards tower found within a swamp of greenspawn we were exploring. The tower consisted of three floors and a basement all intricately designed with three colour switches and automaton/golem based security systems to prevent unwanted intrusion. The tower itself had crumbled after four hundred years of time. The spirits of the mages and apprentices that worked in the tower still lingered. We spent two entire sessions in this tower that we randomly stumbled upon due to a players poor use of the clairvoyance spell. One of the players told another player that he bet Austin completely made the whole thing up. Seemingly impossible as the intricacy of the design of the tower and the timey' wimey bit of the spirits from the past/present interacting with the players would certainly require planning and forethought. Austin was asked and begrudgingly lowered the fourth wall for a mere second... to tell us that indeed he had not planned the tower and put it together on the spot due to a random action from one of our party members. Truly incredible stuff... he wants you to always feel like the world has life and breath and brings you in. He lets you RP to that but also is careful not to have the game bog down with hours spent shopping or other nonsensical tasks. This is a DM who is both modern but classic in all the right ways. The game is called dungeons and dragons and with Austin you're guaranteed both.

I have been playing in Austin's games for well over 8 years now. Every session, every game, every world, is so fresh and creative it's like nothing I've ever played before. We have started many games together and I have loved every single one. Have been there for many beginners who have now been playing with him for a long time as well, he is amazing with new players and let's their creativity grow too.

Makes new people comfy right away. Enjoys creating a world with the players and likes to create challenging encounters that are fast paced and fun even when youre getting your butt kicked!

The very first game was a fun way to create a character. It was very fast paced and chaotic but was a lot of fun. While the subsequent "character builder" arc slowed down a bit, I think that's because some of his regular players showed up and he wanted to allow them an opportunity to role play more. This is definitely a GM people build long standing connections with and it shows. May or may not be my style long term but we shall see! Having fun so far.

I was quite fortunate to stumble upon Austin, I was looking for a GM to run a CoS campaign and I found Austin's TikTok doing voices for Strahd and others and I was blown away. I contacted him and we worked something and now every Sunday I'm chasing the fumes of my childhood and having a blast. Austin is delightful, patient, and revels in the fun too.