Allison - Ajax DM

she/her

5.0

(132)

Timezone

America/toronto

Language

English

Italian

Identity

Women/Femme Identifying

Multi-lingual

About Allison - Ajax DM

Ajax DM is a full-time professional DM with 52 completed multi-year campaigns, over 3,000 sessions (in-person and online) - including 1,600+ on StartPlaying - and 10,600+ hours on Roll20 (since March, 2020). Ajax DM offers paid weekly games you can count on. Weekly 3-hour D&D 5e game sessions on Roll20 or Alchemy RPG, using official D&D 5e campaign materials supplemented with additional maps, premium licensed music and sound effects on Syrinscape, 3D dice rolling, Dynamic Lighting (revealing maps as you explore), scripts to automate manual tasks, sourcebook/compendium sharing. We use Discord for audio and each group gets its own channels to talk between games. New or experienced players and those just coming back to D&D, learning 5th Edition rules are welcome. You’ll learn as you play. Ajax DM was honored to be selected to DM at Gen Con 2024 independently as Ajax DM, and with Limithron (Pirate Borg) in 2024, to DM for StartPlaying at Gen Con in 2023, for Kobold Press at Gen Con both 2022 and 2023, and as one of a handful of Dungeon Masters for Kobold Chronicles, Kobold Press’ monthly virtual play event.

At a glance

4 years on StartPlaying

1687 games hosted

Highly rated for: Inclusive, Teacher, Creativity

Average response time: 6 hours

Response rate: 100%

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The three words my players would use to describe me are...

Interactive, fair, and fun! Imaginative, engaging, consistent. Deliberative, intriguing, sublime. Decisive, creative, passionate. Prepared, fair, creative. ...from actual players.

When I'm not running games I'm...

probably prepping for the next one, or talking with players about their characters, getting new players prepared, scheduling games, reading new adventures, watching D&D, food, or travel YT videos, writing or creating visuals for new campaigns, all while balancing a laptop and a cat or two on my lap.

How Allison - Ajax DM runs games

As a DM I am more RAW (“Rules As Written”) and lean into RAI (“Rules As Intended”) where a feature or spell is unclear. I prefer story over mechanics, I love fleshed-out characters with a quirk, and hope to see some contributions from you to make the story more fun through role playing. I do voices for NPCs and have worked up backgrounds for key NPCs. Roll for Stats in Roll20 (roll six sets of 4d6 dice, drop the lowest die from each set) or use Standard Array (15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8). We use Milestone leveling, so you don't have to track XP. You are heroes, here to save the day. Please don't make UA or homebrew characters, evil characters, or races and classes from other worlds than the one we’re playing in (for instance, no Theros or Ravnica when we're in the Forgotten Realms). No player vs player violence or stealing from the party members. Games are conducted in English (though I know a bit of Italian and Spanish and could help sometimes).

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I deal with rules issues by...

reviewing the text, talking it through with you and making a ruling to keep game flow. I might check what the designers have to say after the game, and provide any updates for go-forward clarification.

My games focus on...

your intriguing group of heroes trying to make their way through many dangers, gaining skills, power and glory, in order to save the world/town/people from the terrible plans of the Big Bad.

Allison - Ajax DM's ideal table

Players who fit well at my table are kind, considerate people who are accepting of others. My players tend to stick around after the campaign is done and join another campaign, either with the same group or a new one.

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I am for a vibe that's...

friendly. I want players and characters, too, to get along.

I love it when a player

has a character with a quirk or goals that make the character more "real." And when they play their character with flaws that pop up at what might not be the most opportune time...

I think min/maxing...

is OK, though it can create boring, powerful characters. It's not so much fun for the rest of the group to watch an over-powerful character in combat. Likewise, it's not fun for the min/maxer to "wait" through roleplay moments for their next battle.