Joshua Hitz (BasilStrikes)
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About Joshua Hitz (BasilStrikes)
I love ttrpgs and i love how you can bring strangers together to enjoy a second life. Make them writers, gamers and thespians all at once through this awsome hobby. As ive gotten comfy with Cypher and Nimble, ill have my official phds in some smaller but more intimate systems to take people on adventures with. Nimble is a very good game to help weene people off of the more rules heavy fantasy games and allow something more straight forward and fast. Cypher is a full paradigm shift and one that takes time getting used to BUT allows for a game you can build with your players. Buildable in the vein of Gurps but far more accessible like fate or PBTA
At a glance
3 years on StartPlaying
66 games hosted
Highly rated for: Inclusive, Creativity, Storytelling
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I got started GMing...
Mostly because i loved the idea of playing a game and telling a story with live theater play antics. Ive learned alot about what it takes to be a good GM and a good person, so I feel im at a point where i can really shine for you all and still grow in so many ways.
The three words my players would use to describe me are...
Creative, Silly, Loud
When I'm not running games I'm...
Relaxing with some ff14/playing an indie game i bought 3 years ago...and never got around to finishing. Beyond that i play with my dogs and make stupid jokes with my wife.
How Joshua Hitz (BasilStrikes) runs games
RP takes the center stage with combat being a vehicle for progression. My goal is to give you interesting adventures for a few sessions then allow you to reap the rewards and build a second life for your character. The bigger and longer the dungeon/adventure, the more you'll have to come back to for your characters daily life. I also am big on rewarding my players after adventures. You wont need to worry about getting nothing for going on big adventures, I have lots of quick references and tools to help me gauge how much you guys should be rewarded per level and you'll always be able to expand your characters wants and needs in fair but satisfying degrees
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I prep by
Reading lots of my setting books and genres books both third party and direct Cypher Products. Love using alot of Pathfinder story books for ideas and worlds.
Rules are...
Guidelines Especially in games like Cypher or Savage Worlds. RPG like these don't need to be balanced in a sense of everyone being the same, but instead, that everyone has just as much chance to shine the way they want WITHOUT pulling the rug out from under the challenge without teamwork
When it comes to voices
I rely more on tone, cadence and inflection over accent. With all do respect im a midwestern white guy, and im not about to do bad African or Asian accents with non white npcs. Ill give funny voices sure, but the funny is how deep or high i speak or in what these wonderful characters say
Joshua Hitz (BasilStrikes)'s ideal table
My ideal table is players who came together, maybe not to be the grandest of heroes, but to do good and have good be done back to them. I don't mind the more grey kind of approach to stories, but if your coming to a table to play a coop game and live within a fantasy world, then lets be cooperative and live. Don't deny connections by pcs or npcs, don't try to manipulate your fellow man at every turn, and don't let killing be your go to strategy.
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I love it when a player
Throws curve balls at me or asks questions about the setting/context of their adventure. Im always happy when a player inputs something into a scene i didnt consider, and we roll on it to see if its in play.
I think metagaming...
In cypher is fine. Its a paradigm shift AND a game that encourages players to actively work together. Even outside of my preferred game, meta gaming is fine and i think allows for a better blend of the story and mechanics than people think. JUST don't be a judgey person
My table is not the place for...
Bigotry and closed mindedness. "But an elf/dwarf/halfling would do this/wouldn't do that/would or wouldn't look like that" HAVE AN IMAGINATION