Nathan

he/him

5.0

(5)

Timezone

America/toronto

Language

English

Identity

Educator

About Nathan

I love telling stories! Offering my ideas within a shared-story setting is an absolute joy, followed closely by recklessly rock climbing and using alliteration.

At a glance

Less than a year on StartPlaying

Highly rated for: Storytelling, Inclusive, Visual Aid

$12 per session

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I became a GM because

I love creating worlds and telling stories my players feel strongly about. Whether that feeling is rage or protection I enjoy designing scenarios that my players can feel. Role-playing is practice at being a hero.

My favorite books are

The Expanse series, and the Legend of Drizzt series

My favorite system of all Time is

PF2e

How Nathan runs games

I love running impactful story arcs, I try to make the worlds I create dynamic and cohesive. My preference is running long-form campaigns where the characters can affect the world environment and politics over the course of their growth. World building and story arcs are very important but every character is their own entity, they are not just the party, so including character specific narratives that can run parallel or tangential to the party narrative is something I find a passion in. Player to player role-play is my favourite aspect of exploration or downtime within the PF2e system. I like tactical combat as well and use gridded maps through a VTT. The proportion of combat to RP is regulated by the desires of the party! My goal is to provide a living world to my players, a world that can feel their effects as they learn and grow but also one that can humble them into understanding that they are just a few of many that live in the worlds I create.

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I once ran a session...

where only 2/5 players could make it. When the other 3 players returned, they were not excited to find that the guards were looking for the other party members in regards to a kidnapped child (it was an adult halfling, and they were innocent).

When it comes to voices

I prefer to describe the physicality of characters and adjust their diction and talking speed, rather than subject my players to my attempts at accents.

Nathan's ideal table

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I love it when a player

engages with another player instead of me or an NPC

I think metagaming...

is entirely dependant on character and that character's environment. A level 1 adventurer that grew up with the threat of trolls should not need to roll a check to know that fire stops their regeneration.

My perfect party mix is

composed of players that enjoy their roles and feel their roles are being fulfilled with their agency.