Mike

About Mike

My first time playing a table top RPG was the old West End Games Star Wars one with all the D6s at lunch in high school. My character, a Falleen; as Shadows of the Empire was fresh in my mind at the time, was found in a closet by the rest of the party and we adventured on from there. From that day forward I always had my foot in the doors of the friendly local game store, getting hooked on many other systems, from V:TM to GURPS to D&D 3.5. From there I discovered Drow and they now live there rent-free to this day. Before the dark times, before the corona virus, I GM'd 5e modules with friends and locals, and found it enjoyable. I like 1-20 mega campaigns and have run 2 since covid. This began the advent of using Foundry VTT, which opened up a lot of options for me, as I love setting up cool stuff that you just can't do on a physical table. I find it much faster and easier to come up with and test high level content on a VTT compared to rolling dice on a table. Sometimes I run story heavy worlds, sometimes I run sandbox meat grinders. I've run homebrew, established settings, and sometimes a mix of both. I like to take your character backgrounds and work them into the world if possible, so for that reason I dislike meat grinders a bit, as they can make all that background work fruitless. That does not mean no PC will ever die, but I will favor the story we are both trying to tell rather than just trying to murder the PCs left, right, and center. At least until I kill everyone for plot reasons, of course. I am very much a child of the 90's and love to make homages to video games and tropes of that era in my campaigns. Also I'm used to large party sizes, though I will admit they take much longer to do anything, in both playtime and prep-time.