Tyler

he/him

5.0

(5)

Timezone

America/los Angeles

Language

English

Identity

LGBTQ+

Queer

Disabled

Neurodivergent

Artist

About Tyler

What I love about DND is building a magical world full of wonder, dragons, and humor. I've always been a writer at heart. I love finding new and engaging ways to lead adventures through the maelstrom of my limitless imagination. It's legitimately one of my favorite activities. I've been running games since 2017(over 260 hours on Roll20!) after a life long obsession spurred from inheriting a set of 3.5e rulebooks from my dad. My game master specialties are coming up with cool magic items, monsters, and lore filled locations for my players to explore. My worlds are rich in flavor and brought to life by detailed sensory information. My games generally focus on exploration and combat. I run my games how I play, I am not focused on roleplay, but I also don't skip it. There's no pressure to put on a whole character voice at this table, not everyone enjoys that kind of thing. As far as rule of cool vs RAW(rules as written) I generally use a mix. If I don't like a rule I will likely find a homebrew workaround or create one that suits my needs. I love designing monsters and characters, and I worldbuild in my spare time. I've never run a module, I only just recently got the core rulebooks for Christmas 2021 because I'd been doing everything through the Internet. It was more of a formality. My original campaign setting(Dragod's Plane) is filled with dragons of every shape, size, and inspiration. I plan to PUBLISH a couple campaign setting/modules myself, I have no interest in running prewritten adventures. I am looking for players who love to explore unique locales and fight bizarre monsters!

At a glance

3 years on StartPlaying

Highly rated for: World Builder, Creativity, Knows the Rules

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I became a GM because

I wanted to tell stories with rich world-building and deep character motivations. Also I can feature every monster I've ever designed in my spare time woven into a complex ecology. I love huge battles with a sense of scale and roleplay encounters that challenge your character's morals.

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

Volunteering at my local food bank and the middle school garden that's connected to it. I have my General Associates and a cert in Organic Farming so I'm putting it to use. I'm also an artist and writer with many WIPs in the works including a homebrew campaign module!

How Tyler runs games

I enjoy making interesting encounters and locations to explore. I homebrew lots of magic items and monsters to try and shake things up from what players might be expecting. My original campaign is heavily dragon focused because I love creature design, it's my favorite thing to do.

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I prep by

As a player I curate a themed playlist for each one of my characters, they're very important and special to me because I rarely get to play! When I DM prep: brainstorm/daydream a cool idea, research how to implement that mechanically within the system, write statblocks and draw maps.

Tyler 's ideal table

My table is laid-back and more about the adventure of it all. Players who love fighting unique monsters and exploring the entire world from Session Zero to the big finale. I have run 5e for kids/teens(8-19) who never played and they come out of each session with more knowledge than they had and saying they loved it, even the very shy ones. I also don't mind veterans of the TTRPG scene because my home games for my friends for sure have min-maxers. Homebrew monster statblocks keep the game fresh for them as well as shifting combat maps that don't leave the noobs behind mechanically either.

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My table is not the place for...

Fantasy racism(or the IRL version). Like, let's hold hands and jump into the abyss. Only the abyss is ignoring WOTC and JRRT type lore that gives traits like "evil except for Drizzt" or "actually loves being enslaved-Hadozee" to fantasy races. They're all humanoids just like we're all humans.