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Cass

Cass (she/her)

5.0

(9)

LGBTQ+
Queer
Veteran
Disabled
Neurodivergent
Women/Femme Identifying

2 years on StartPlaying

147 games hosted

Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Inclusive

Average response time: 24+ hours

Response rate: 100%

About me

Bottom Line Up Front: passionate and knowledgeable long-time dungeon master looking to become your dungeon master. You don't need to finish this bio; read it until you're hooked and then book me or sign up for one of my games! I'm not the best voice actor (yet!) but I am very good at narrative, encounters, characters, and rules. I am very LGBTQ+- and neurodivergent-friendly partly because I am both. I am an anarcho-humanist determined to appreciate people heedless of national, religious, ethnic, geographic, class, and other boundaries (but maximally respectful of personal boundaries). Session 0 is important to set expectations; ongoing communication is absolutely crucial to manage and maintain them. Look no further if you're looking for: an expert on tabletop RPGs and their systems and settings; a nerd that has read most of Wookieepedia (among many other fiction Wikis) and tons of Wikipedia; someone that can spend anywhere from one brief sentence to ten dense pages to describe a given person or place, at your request and preference; someone borderline obsessed with the concepts of player agency and choice leading the story of a game involving character statistics informing semi-random results; or someone that should've gotten their degree in philosophy instead of computer science. I am the DM for you! I've been engaging in cooperative imagination involving increasingly-elaborate characters and stories for 28+ years, running structured role-playing groups in a narrative/game-master capacity for 19+ years, and running crunchy games featuring a lot of challenging situations (including but not only combat) for 7+ years. Some of my reviews are from an extremely high-mortality Warhammer 40k game about Imperial Guardsmen drafted into the Inquisition, while others are from a cuddle-fest Dungeons & Dragons campaign about a half-naked halfling barbarian and a shivering kobold chemist liberating the people of Ten Towns from Auril's everlasting rime. I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about tabletop rules, encounters, stories, and worlds. I actively seek to pillage and repurpose ideas and tropes from books, games, shows, and movies. One of my first and most frequent questions for players is what they want for their character's story going forward. Unless I'm running a module for you (and even then to a lesser extent), my goal is to create a believable world to explore, with reasonable obstacles that challenge your characters' attempts to achieve their goals. We'll discuss how challenging those obstacles should be in session 0, and feedback will help me fine-tune to hit the sweet spot. This bio in progress; do you know me? Message me to contribute!

GM Style

I'm great at characters and settings and not as good at (but working on) voices. I'm very comfortable with D&D's features like rules-light roleplaying, rules-heavy/crunchy tactical combat, resource management linked to that combat and exploration, and relatively few and/or simple puzzles. The ratio between pillars of the game (social, combat, and exploration for D&D) will depend heavily on player preference.

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Game Master Reviews (9)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

Creativity

Storytelling

Inclusive

Bobby Bowin avatar

Bobby Bowin

Played 28 sessions

Super knowledgeable about game mechanics. Seems to love to tell the story.

Grace avatar

Grace

Played 28 sessions

Cass is a great GM. Her storytelling is a lot of fun and she has created several interesting NPCs connected to the jobs we are doing and part of the story we are exploring. She allows for creativity and always shows appreciation for things she feels her players are doing very well at. Cass is thorough and patient when answering questions/explaining. If you need clarification on a rule or just want to pitch an idea to her, she always seems willing to engage. Cass is also fantastic about making sure her players are comfortable. If there is something you have an issue with, you can absolutely feel safe discussing it with Cass.

Elise  avatar

Elise

Played 6 sessions

Great Dm

Jerry Kozlowski avatar

Jerry Kozlowski

Played 4 sessions

Cass was GM on my very first online D&D game ever! From the moment I joined Cass was helping me with character creation, giving me tips and explaining things in a down to earth manner. THEN session 1 began, the group was so friendly, funny, and helpful, and made me feel comfy right away. Cass does a great job telling the story and creating a world that is fun, intriguing, challenging and fair!! But the key word there is FUN! Cass and the other players have a great sense of humor!!! I now look forward to Tuesday nights just to play in the campaign!!

Austin Pearson avatar

Austin Pearson

I've been in two of her campaigns and honestly I would like to do another. She knows the rules well enough to be able to bend them a little to better flush out and build a character, without creating constant balance strains for the rest of the campaign. I personally like to do something fun/silly with my build and often want to explore different weapon options than are typically available, and she and I sat down across one or two meetings and hashed out a character that I was 1000% more excited for than the initial concept. She did a great job of creating situations in the narrative that allowed each player to explore their character and their individual motivations. There was also plenty of good opportunities for group role play and teamwork in solving puzzles/combat.

Ssenyn avatar

Ssenyn

It was my first interaction with anything 40k, but I was still able to understand the lore of the setting with a lot of help from the GM.

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