Collin Thiel

he/him

5.0

(6)

Timezone

America/indiana/tell City

Language

English

About Collin Thiel

Hello, my name is Collin Thiel. I am a 24-yr old Man (He/Him) who has been playing tabletop roleplaying games since age 13. Gm with 7 years of experience beginning in the Fall of 2019 at Midwestern State University. I have run games for friends, fellow University students, and a tabletop gaming convention in Wichita Falls, Texas called FallsCon. Graduated with a BA in the Humanities from the Spring of 2024 and want to turn my deep passion in tabletop roleplaying games into a Career. I love meeting new gamers and creating fun memories with adventurers to create epic tales together! :3 I love Pathfinder, Dnd, and Pathways to Adventure! All of them are very fun games I have experience in running and love teaching new players how to play as well! On startplaying I am going to begin with Pathways to Adventure and utilize Legends of Avantris's Crooked Moon setting for PTA as well as Dnd! I would also love to run future Pathfinder and Dnd games on the site too. :3 I look forward to meeting new people and forming new friendships together!

At a glance

Less than a year on StartPlaying

3 games hosted

Highly rated for: Inclusive, Creativity, Rule of Cool

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I became a GM because

I wanted to create fun games and have adventures within my own creativity for friends to explore as well as create their own tales in during my first semester back at Midwestern State University in Fall 2019.

My favorite books are

The Mortality Doctrine Series, DiscWorld, The Great Tales of Middle Earth series, Greek mythology, Norse mythology, John Carter of Mars, and Mistborn

My favorite system of all Time is

Pathfinder and Pathways to Adventure! I began playing Tabletop Roleplaying when I was in middle school at age 13 and Pathfinder introduced me to this amazing world of Adventure. Pathways to Adventure is an awesome new game and my friend, PTA Creator Jon Horry is a GOAT Therapist in Training!

How Collin Thiel runs games

I love sharing lore and utilizing different worlds for my games. I integrate and immerse players in the World they are in as well as how they seek to improve or destroy the part of the world their campaign takes place in. I also love players utilizing their creative minds in game and how their creativity affects the story. My specialty is combat and exploration with giving players their own shining moments in roleplaying. Some worlds I have utilized through my Gming are Golarion (Pathfinder's home world), Midgar (Kobold Press), some homebrew settings, and now I will be using Legends of Avantris setting, The Crooked Moon!

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I deal with rules issues by...

Creating house rules for the rule that both the party and I agree on then checking on the official ruling after the session.

I prep by

Utilizing One note and being able to grow the adventures with how the party evolves their own tale. I also utilize google docs for converting player options and monsters from one system to another.

My games focus on...

Exploration, Combat, and Lore with roleplaying elements throughout the campaign.

Collin Thiel's ideal table

Players between the ages of 18-26 would fit best in my table, because I am used to running games for young adults. I love players who have a lot of unique ideas for their characters and want to grow their characters in the story. The only players that are not a good fit for my table are players who are chaotic and players who will correct other players or even the Gm. I had one player who did not care about party teamwork and was explosive in their player actions. The other players and I had to come to a decision to ban this player from the group, because they were not creating a friendly environment for everyone else.