Cost Per Player
$25.00
TheSword (he/him)
5.0
(9)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
1 game hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Knows the Rules, Storytelling
About me
I'm a 45 year old Brit living in the medieval town of Warwick, England. Though I've lived all over England, picking up a few accents as I go. I've been a regular player and GM of TTRPG since I was 15, starting with Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and AD&D back in the 90's. My monthly face to face group started in Kent in 2002 with us gaming at least once a month for 23 years as a GM and a player. That group saw me through every edition of D&D, Pathfinder and the recent 4th edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay with circa 10,000 hours of gaming. I started online VTT gaming when Covid hit and haven't looked back. With three more online groups - two of which were new to TTRPGs. All three are still going now, playing either fortnightly or monthly. Roll20 was originally my VTT of choice due to the support for D&D but I now host Foundry because of its flexibility, and excellent support for WFRP. Online is great. I'm usually happy running games for veterans or complete beginners. Sharing a game you love is great! Some of the campaigns I've completed include... The Enemy Within Doomstones Ubersreik Adventures Paths of the Damned Night Below Cormy/Shadowdale/Anauroch Shackled City Age of Worms City of the Spider Queen Way of the Wicked Kingmaker Rise of the Runelords Shattered Star Skull & Shackles Curse of Strahd Tomb of Annihilation Baldur's Gate Descent Odyssey of the Dragonlords Dungeons of Drakenheim
GM Style
I love taking a quality module and tailoring it to your preferences and skill level. Weaving it into a convincing and detailed world. My improv skills go into bringing characters and scenarios to life and not into winging crucial details. I believe in player agency to affect the adventure and this will be your story. While I will adjust elements of a module it will be in advance and always with the intention of improving an encounter not in confounding the player's choices. I enjoy investigation and mystery and that takes planning. I'm roleplay heavy with at least half of a typical session being roleplaying the interactions with various interesting characters. I will use voice acting and have picked up many accents along my travels but I'm also more than happy speaking in third person or switching between them. Whatever a particular player is most comfortable with at the time. I like meaningful combat and it will be rare session that doesn't include at least a couple of combat encounters. I try to avoid laborious slogs with dozens of foes and I won't take the players limelight with DM PCs. Combat will generally be dangerous, tense and fast with a full range of tactical options. Most of my games will avoid logic puzzles and word games filling that space with mystery and intrigue. While I have successfully converted many adventures from different editions and systems I run the official published rules as standard and I try to avoid homebrew so that players know what to expect from the system. Optional, house-rules or 3pp content is campaign specific and pre-arranged.
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