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Cora

Cora (she/her)

4.7

(10)

LGBTQ+
Queer
Neurodivergent
Women/Femme Identifying

Less than a year on StartPlaying

2 games hosted

Highly rated for: Inclusive, Knows the Rules, Creativity

About me

I am a queer woman and my table is explicitly LGBTQ+, Neurodivergent, and POC affirming. Your safety and inclusivity is my number one priority. I'm a musician, and have had just about every hyperfixation under the sun, but I have been hooked on tabletops since my first fumbling attempts at the DnD4e Beginners Box as a kid in 2012. Since then I have both ran and played DnD5e, Fate Core, and Pathfinder 2e, and read more systems than I can count including Blades in the Dark, OSR games, and more. I've transitioned almost exclusively to running Pathfinder 2e (since 2021), but am always looking for an excuse to try new things and expand my repertoire.

GM Style

Dynamic Player Engagement is the core philosophy that drives every aspect of my games. Your decisions matter. Whether that's in tense conversation, exploration, or combat - though these three are seldom exclusive to each other - I reward players who ask questions and seek an active role in engaging the world we create together. I am a by the book GM by default, but I am my player’s biggest fan. The rules are there to facilitate play, but should not come at the expense of fun. Improvised actions are some of my favorite things to adjudicate using the rules as written as a baseline. Don’t have Sudden Leap but want to jump off a cliff and hit someone on the way down? It might come with a cost, but be my guest! One of my favorite ways to keep games fresh is to take tools and concepts from other systems and use them to enhance my existing techniques. My games are the product of trial and error with different approaches to running games. Staleness and boredom are my antithesis as my games are always evolving. I hope you'll come experience them with me!

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