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Crusty

Crusty (he/him)

5.0

(6)

1 year on StartPlaying

38 games hosted

Highly rated for: Creativity, Rule of Cool, Voices

About me

I try to run new systems frequently, and like to keep things fast paced, interesting, and most importantly narratively moving forward. In longer campaigns I'm more likely to make shopping a montage than to go over every mundane interaction. My style of running a table tends to lean towards narrative focused gameplay, with dynamic combats, and lighthearted games. I hate when I play something and the only objectives are merely fetch this and kill that, that's what initially glued me to the TTRPG scene, the nearly endless possibilities and solutions to problems. With describing scenes of violence I tend to lean towards the gruesome and bloody, and love when players get into the savagery of their finishing moves, but while keeping the themes of the games lighthearted and fun

GM Style

Big on character driven narrative and roleplay, I believe that if the players don't have agency with the story they won't have reason to interact with it. I love tying in different backstory elements with the ongoing story and connecting players to each other in session through gameplay.

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Game Master Reviews (6)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

Creativity

Rule of Cool

Voices

Evan  avatar

Evan

New review

Played 9 sessions

I am currently in a campaign with Crusty, and I am loving it. This was my first introduction to D&D and I am very thankful for his patience, and knowledge. 100% would recommend having Crusty as a DM.

Kes avatar

Kes

New review

Played 7 sessions

Crusty is an amazing DM! Always prepared and ready for sessions. Great story teller and includes different voices for NPCs. Maps and background music make every session more immersive, and he knows the rules very well. Also super helpful in character creation and developing your PC throughout the campaign.

Joey Angus avatar

Joey Angus

Played 4 sessions

Always prepared and professional, player focused.

Ricky miner avatar

Ricky miner

Played 4 sessions

Great dm he guided us though all the steps and I learned a lot. The session was really fun he provided a wide range of voices and joke along with us

Lantern Keeper (Ran) avatar

Lantern Keeper (Ran)

Played 1 sessions

It was such an excellent, smooth introductory run of a system I had no previous knowledge of. Crusty made everything so accessible and clear and we ended up having a very fun session.

Josh avatar

Josh

Played 5 sessions

He's my buddy so I might be biased, but I think he's a pretty damn good DM. He's run over two dozen games at this point with several systems under his belt and has a strong tendency to roll with the punches and cook up some pretty out of pocket improv for some of the wilder player choices. Definitely likes to challenge his players, make sure to tell him to not go easy on you just because you're paying him cash money.

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