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Broden Ray

Broden Ray (he/him)

5.0

(12)

DMs Guild Writer
Game Designer

3 years on StartPlaying

189 games hosted

Highly rated for: Storytelling, Creativity, World Builder

About me

Hello there! I'm Broden, I am a DM who as a kid always dreamed of stumbling my way through a magic wardrobe or fighting off a band of orcs. I grew up loving fantasy and all the wonder and possibility it could bring. When I was introduced to D&D, I immediately fell in love with the game and the freedom and options it brought. D&D for me is that magic wardrobe. What I want to bring is that chance for you to step into a magical world. I as a DM put together a homebrew world that I run all my games in. If you are looking for something a little different but still familiar and easy for your characters fit in I think you might just like what I've got for you.

GM Style

I am a homebrew DM, I have spent 6 years putting together a world where the intent is to allow me to run any theme or style of game in the world. As a DM I want you to feel like you can play in your own style with your own flair of character. I like to reward creative and clever players, but I reward players for free. A well earned reward is better than a easy one. Most of the time I tend to favor roleplay but will bring in combat mostly when it best fits the tone or narrative of the experience I want to bring. As well I try to avoid setting up a railroad experience, I lean more towards letting the players explore the world and feel free to do as their characters wish (within reason). I tend to lean more towards a more real feeling game. What I mean by that is when Interacting with a NPC they will react to the players words and actions as a real person would, and characters will be less superheroes or anime protagonists, and more skilled and talented people who hopefully have what it takes to make it in the career of adventuring. Without sacrificing fun, my goal is to make the games seem believable (once you get past the dragons, undead, magic, samurai high elves and gods in cigar boxes).

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Game Master Reviews (12)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

Storytelling

Creativity

World Builder

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Jon

Played 113 sessions

After every session Broden always asks of everyone had fun and also asks for input to improve the game.

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Mara

Played 111 sessions

If you like cool combat and also great rp this is the guy for you, he does it all and I'm never bored with his world building and story telling. He describes things in a way so if you have to use theater of the mind, you'll understand it. And the maps he does are always really detailed. Also has the right music playing at the right times it seem. He's done things from survival based to eldritch horror. He is an awesome GM and I always enjoy getting to be a player in his games.

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Sicarius

Played 62 sessions

DM is super laid back and chill, really easy to get along with. They tell the story & portray characters really well which got me super invested in their homebrew world quickly. He allowed rule of cool that ended up for some really badass moments and runs most things with realism, so a lot of our actions had some consequences that we didn't see coming and that led the party to think a lot more critically about what we did. he made it super easy to play and get into D&D, truly an excellent DM.

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Allex Hayes

Played 57 sessions

Everything about it was so awesome!! This was my first DnD campaign ever and it was amazing!!! 1,000,000/10 would recommend.

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Denae

Played 24 sessions

Broden makes our session’ so much fun. He’s great at storytelling. I absolutely love his campaigns.

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Malfias

Played 10 sessions

What has been wonderful about this game and GM has been a fantastic blend of original concepts in his homebrew world while working with the DnD format rules as written to have as a vehicle of exploration for the interesting cosmology and curious characters in his sandbox format.

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