Chase McAllister (he/him)
5.0
(9)
2 years on StartPlaying
Highly rated for: Storytelling, World Builder, Inclusive
About me
Greetings, My name is Chase McAllister. I'm a full-time professional game master based out of Minnesota. I've been a professional for 2 years full-time with nearly a decade of tabletop gaming experience. Selecting myself also levies the strength of my professional studio that includes 4K cameras, high quality microphones, exclusive audio tracks, and an unlimited access to miniatures and terrain created at the Badwolf Studios. I have ran Campaigns, Adventures, and Learn-to-Play Sessions for hundreds of players who have come from all walks of life and various skill levels. If you're seeking a truly professional experience where I levy the resources of my tabletop gaming focused Studio to provide you with the absolute best possible game, then I am your Game Master of choice. I will create detailed and immersive plot points that are designed to place your character into the world. Your backgrounds, choices, and playstyle will be drawn upon to create a fantastic and collaborative journey for us all. Games I run will always have the correct miniature, the perfect maps, terrain, and polish that justifies your hard-earned money being spent. Additionally, I'm a digital artist, painter, and owner of www.badwolfadventurestudios.com
GM Style
My Game Master style is to put you into a shared narrative that focuses on the players as they explore a rich, detailed, and grey world. I value the structure of the rule-book but firmly believe that the book is a tool for us all, and that we are its masters. Together we will establish a ruleset that all agree upon, relying on my near decade worth of professional experience. Your backstory will be weaved into plotlines both small and large that playout across the time we spend together. I enjoy crafting the world and your journey to truly blend your individual characters into beings who apart of the world we all share. If you're familiar with popular fantasy works like: Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, Dark Souls, A Wheel of Time, and other classics, you'll find my writing and game-style hits these notes with a similar passion. I take great pride in creating believable NPCs that will have you experiencing ranges of emotions. You'll love, hate, laugh, pity and all in between as you engage in NPCs who have motives, goals, and dreams of their own. The world keeps moving, and your characters will grow in their power and fame and with that will come increased responsibility, choices, and ability to greatly shape your narratives. I enjoy a good challenge, and pushing players to think critically and as a team when required. Combat is drama, and is used to progress the story, and rarely for the sake of it. Not all conflict requires the drawing of a sword, and those with a silver tongue or a strong argument will find a different battlefield waiting for them that lets diplomacy and roleplay serve as much a point in combat as anything else. Most battles are meaningful and the enemies you face are deadly and designed to act as authentically to themselves as possible. With my concept of "Assumed Competency", I'm more focused on the intent of your character and the classic "Rule of Cool" than worrying about gridded combat and being a few rule definitions short of a great moment. I live and breathe for moments where character and player become one. You'll find a world that encourages and rewards players who engage in roleplay. I will respond in kind as fully acted and established characters.
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Game Master Reviews (9)
Proficiencies
Players say this GM is great at:
Storytelling
World Builder
Inclusive
Tyler
Awesome at making the stakes real. Your choices have benefits and consequences and Chase will use them to great effect.
Roberta
As someone brand new to D&D, I couldn't have imagined a better Game Master to introduce me to the game. Chase is an incredibly powerful storyteller that completely immerses players into their own narrative. He creates vibrant worlds that feel tangible, and develops characters to populate it that truly feel alive. I joined one of his campaigns that had already been in progress for quite some time, and immediately felt like an important and welcome member of the party. Not only do you find yourself on a believable, high-stakes journey, but you also experience your own character growth and find personal fulfillment. Chase knows how to let each player character truly shine. He then effortlessly weaves those characters together to tell a powerful tale that asks deep questions and invites players to make their own fate.
Félix-Antoine
I've been blessed to have started playing in one of Chase's ongoing campaigns for over a year now and it has been mind blowing. As a storytelling nerd and fan of Critical Role, some part of me kind of always wanted to have the chance to play in that kind of campaign at least once in my life. And has boy has he delivered. Chase does it all : roleplaying, setting the mood, building an amazing world for us to play in, integrating our character's story into his world and guiding us through personal character arks, you name it. As a player I feel truly special and like I have a true impact in his worlds. As a person, Chase is such a great guy : funny, compassionate, understanding, extremely smart and open-minded. One of our players in our campaign had never touched D&D before and he made her feel right at home and accompanied her all along the process of learning the game, so if you're a new player, you're in great hands with him also. He makes you feel right at home as soon as you sit in the player's chair at one of his games. He truly simply wants one thing : to make you have the greatest role-playing game experience you ever had. I cannot recommend him enough as a GM, and to be quite honest, I've played with other DM's since then and I always end up being disappointed because Chase sets the bar so high. Trust me, if you play a single game with him as your GM, you'll never want to play with anyone else, period.
Tia
Chase is an amazing storyteller and world builder, able to truly bring his ideas to life at the table. He's helped me learn and grow as a player from my very first game, and always provided a great experience. I have been brought to tears by his stories time and time again (in the best possible way), and am always eager to come back for more. He provides a safe, inclusive environment that encompasses people of all kinds both in and out of character. If you are looking for a game with depth, emotion, and most of all fun you will find it at his table.
Dylan
I can't say enough about how amazing of a DM Chase is. He creates stunning scenes and amazing encounters. He knows the rules, but he knows when the rules can take a back seat.
Linden
He always does such a wonderful job, he brings the world to life better than anyone else. I have, on multiple occasions, ended up crying because of something that happened in our campaign. But that’s what I want when I’m playing the game, to be fully immersed in the world and story! He has always done a truly amazing job at that.
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