PaleoDM (Carlos)
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About PaleoDM (Carlos)
Hello friends! My name is Carlos. I'm a forever DM, IRL paleontologist, anatomy professor, and martial artist instructor of 20+ years. I enjoy teaching and sharing my hobbies with folks that are eager to learn. I love bringing cool biology and badass fight mechanics to my games to make my players feel like real heroes. Let's tell a story together! Looking for someone to run a campaign for you? I love running 5e modules. If you have a group in mind, feel free to reach out and I'm there to run it. My absolute favorites are Curse of Strahd, Tomb of Annihilation, Waterdeep Dragonheist, and Wild Beyond the Witchlight. What about custom campaigns? I absolutely love to world build, and I'm especially passionate about creating realistic and dynamic political systems and settlements. If you're looking for high stakes campaigns that'll keep you on the edge of your seat, I'm your guy!
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3 years on StartPlaying
How PaleoDM (Carlos) runs games
My favorite games are typically 40% roleplay, 40% combat, and 20% exploration. Typically, this manifests in about 1-2 combats per 3-4 hour session interspersed with problem solving and plot advancement. I'm a big believer in never RPing just for it's own sake; scenes should be informing the world or the players or advancing the plot. I'm a system light DM that prefers to let the story guide the game, rather than mechanics. That said, I stick pretty close to RAW in combat as it's important to me that players have reliable, consistent rulings to play by.
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