
DanDanBigelow (he/him)
5.0
(6)
2 years on StartPlaying
Highly rated for: Storytelling, Creativity, Sets the Mood
About me
Hi I am Dan. I have been a D&D player since 2nd Edition. Now I am stepping into the rolls of an online DM. I am a fast learner and fair DM and want everyone to have a good time. My games are always welcoming to new players at the table. My games are also LBGTQ+ feiendly. I am looking for players for late night games (start time between 11pm-12am EST) or weekend games. I look forward to incorporating your ideas into a grand adventure for all of us! I present tough but fair challenges for my players. I like to incorporate the challenge and tough scenarios that I grew up with in classic DnD but bring it to the modern day. I value all my players and am willing to work with most character concepts. I want you to be able to tell YOUR story!
GM Style
My strength as a GM lies in my ability to make great worlds and provide a balance to the three pillars of ttrpg's (combat, exploration, and social interactions). I strive to give my players an amazing story including the use of voice acting, music, and sound effects to make your characters unique backstory come to life in our campaign! I run fast paced combat with great descriptors (I always try to avoid saying things like "you hit" instead describing the sword slashing into the monster). I also provide great production value with custom AI art to suit all the needs of my world and my players.
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Game Master Reviews (6)
Proficiencies
Players say this GM is great at:
Storytelling
Creativity
Sets the Mood
Dan was my very first DM and he has made playing DnD very enjoyable and fun and I really look forward to the days in which we play. He is really good at setting the mood during the campaign whether it be during a fight scene and when me and the other players are just chilling around the campfire. All in all I really recommend Dan as your Dungeon Master.
Dan has built a truly fantastic world and setting for the game he runs for us. Welcomed everyone, has been extremely patient, inclusive, blends our niches for our characters wonderfully into the game. He has helped numerous players become comfortable and really gives them a vast array options to explore and learn at the same time. I am always excited and very much look forward to our game night with him. If you want a DM who will help create memories and epic and funny encounters please look no further and roll for initiative!
As a GM Dan is both a very courteous and professional DM but also extremely personable and unique. He does an excellent job of working all of our individual characters, backstories, desires, and fears into The game world and plot which makes us feel like we're very much part of the world and part of the story and not either numbers plugged into an equation or people just Thrown in somewhere that don't fit. The way that he uses home brew and both on Adm level and on a monster level and even for character things is great we've had a lot of fun coming up with new mechanics and creatures and weapons that are fair but still different and the worlds that he is letting us have been very detailed and unique and again felt lived in and felt real. He's also very good at dealing with Unruly players and just bad situations that we've and him have been put in before and has done an excellent job dealing with bad circumstance. His games feel inclusive, havevery well thought adventures (with many win conditions), deep lore from either core or homebrew content depending, and does a good jov.setting the mood. I've also always personally felt if I wanted to do something super cool that might kind of ride of RAW thats I'm allowed to try, though failure can hurt.
DanDanBigelow puts a lot of effort into the world, characters, and gameplay of his games and it shows. He does a great job bringing to life adventurous stories full of exciting and detailed lore, provides amazing acting, improv, visual aids, and sound effects, and really takes the time to make sure each of his players has an all around incredible experience. He is great at communicating in and out of gameplay, he is inclusive and fair with rules and homebrew, and creates an unforgettable and immersive world for beginners and experienced players alike.
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