Madame Moiselle (Mads)
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About Madame Moiselle (Mads)
I am a geeky drama therapist (in training!) who is putting her acting degree and love of D&D to work. I've been playing off and on for 20 years, started DM-ing about 4 years ago, and found a passion! My focus is on your characters and their stories, how they're feeling, who they know, how they connect with the world. If you like going into deep lore stuff, I'm your gal. I've been running games professionally for a good two years at this point, though 70% was teaching/playing with people attending a young adult residential. The other 30% is online with some awesome people. Rules as written help make the game a bit more difficult and fun- and if the rules get a bit sticky and slow us down too much, I'll make a call that fits with the story. Come play with me! (I speak these geek dialects - TMNT, star wars, star trek, firefly, LOTR, Critical Role, BG3, Dr. Who, Disney, and a few others to a lesser degree. )
At a glance
1 year on StartPlaying
15 games hosted
Highly rated for: Inclusive, Rule of Cool, Storytelling
$13 per session
Average response time: 1 hour
Response rate: 100%
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I ran my first game...
...professionally over on a friend's server, since I could make a bit of extra scratch while going to school. I found that all of the new fangled toys for DMs made everything WAY easier, and started taking on more time slots. Now I'm trying my own profile, spreading my... wings! (IYKYK)
I started running games because...
...my fellow sober geeks wanted to play a game, and yours truly decided to pick up the mantle of DM. It was Dragon of Icespire Peak, and to this day it is the adventure I love to run above all others. I always make sure the original player's characters are somewhere in the game.
People are always surprised when I tell them
I didn't see the recent D&D movie until May of this year (2026). I was real worried, ok! I didn't want to see it if it was going to suck! Newsflash- it didn't suck. Now I cry out JARNATHAN and every barbarian gets a potato.
How Madame Moiselle (Mads) runs games
Rules as written guided by rule of cool. Immersion as much as possible with music, maps, and voices. (I have an acting degree, I have to do SOME voices...) My focus is on your characters and their stories, how they're feeling, who they know, how they connect with the world. If you like going into deep lore stuff, I'm your gal. I don't guarantee a battle each session, cause forcing one in a story can feel manufactured and disconnected, but battle is important to my storytelling. Battle in a ttrpg is about thinking ahead, anticipation vs chance, and rolling along with disappointments or things not going the way we hoped or planned, especially when involving other players.
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I deal with rules issues by...
listening and looking it up (or asking my co-DM to do it) and making a call. If there is still an issue, I'll put a pin in the question and address it after the session.
Rules are...
awesome! And aren't always set in stone.
Madame Moiselle (Mads)'s ideal table
My table is for people willing to laugh, to collaborate, and to talk things out. My table is for people who are ready to discover their character's story- not to know what it is ahead of them and push that narrative.
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If you're into ___, you're going to love my table
Critical Role! Or so I've been told. I focus a lot on the players interactions with each other, the relationships they're building, letting them do the hijinks they want to do. And then we BATTLE!
I love it when a player
...brings in their own SCEEEENES! You want to shoot the gos during a watch? HELL YES! You want to start some drama in the tavern? LETS DO IT! You want to ask a party member about that strange bobble they keep on their weapon? YES PLEASE!
I think min/maxing...
*sigh* is fiiiiiine. As long as there's an actual character and story to go along with it. Just expect me to make everything harder- so there's still a challenge.
Madame Moiselle (Mads)'s Preferences
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Roleplay Heavy
Dungeon Crawl
Theater of the Mind
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Rules as Written (RaW)