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Darra

Darra (he/him)

5.0

(6)

2 years on StartPlaying

5 games hosted

Highly rated for: Visual Aid, Storytelling, Creativity

About me

I play using Discord Video Chat, D&D Beyond for Character Sheets and Roll20 for Battlemaps and other visual elements such as World Maps and story props like letters, puzzles and artefacts. I have a degree in Graphic Design which I like to use to create visuals through Maps, props, custom encounter battlemaps etc. to try and increase player immersion and fun. I will post a link to some examples below.

GM Style

I have created a homebrew world and campaign over the past 18 Months, we would start a campaign from the beginning in this setting. My playstyle is around a 70/30 balance of Roleplay & Story to Combat. I like to focus on story, world interaction, mystery and puzzles in my campaigns, but I also love designing challenging and interesting combat scenarios. The setting is classic Fantasy, with a story that includes serious themes of mystery and intrigue, but I also tend to lean towards light-hearted fun. A good mix I suppose. If a group prefers a different mix of RP/Combat or a more serious tone, I can easily adjust the sessions accordingly.

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Game Master Reviews (6)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

Visual Aid

Storytelling

Creativity

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Scythe

Played 5 sessions

Very entertaining and does good voices as well very friendly and strikes a good balance between accommodating players and sticking to the rules and his pleasant tone puts one at ease. Would definitely recommend.

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Mairéad Alfiend

My favourite story from our games: During one session, we were having so much fun just goofing around in a new town that we decided to just ignore our current story thread and go on a pub crawl. Not only did Darra adapt and make this sudden diversion from the plan fun, but he managed to work it into the ongoing story by the end in a hilarious way. You won't regret choosing him as a DM.

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Lorcan Festane

Great story, great maps and puzzles, great fun every time. My favourite part of Darra's game was how he worked with our whole party to create great backstories that made our characters fit in the world, and brought elements and characters from those stories into the game later to give us our personal side stories, or add a personal element to a campaign story element.

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Beans Bardis

I spent a long time looking for a good online game of D&D over the pandemic, and finally decided it was worth trying out a paid game. I joined one of Darra's campaigns with a few friends and it was worth every penny. He puts so much work into tailoring the game to fit the group, and making sure we felt like we were part of the World he created. We never felt boxed in or railroaded, and he has made every step of the campaign fun and rewarding."

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Ruben Odds

The most immersive and enjoyable experience I’ve ever had playing D&D was with Darra as our DM. His dedication to story structure and immaculate consciousness of detail provided a campaign that could well be a best selling fantasy novel. The personality and emotion that Darra puts into the characters he creates will have you on crying laughing one minute and biting your nails on the edge of your seat the next. He created avatars of all our characters and their weapons and equipment and even the items and notes we picked up during the quest were all designed with beautiful detail and we could review and inspect almost everything at any time which really added to the sense of reward from “looting”. The difficulty of the fights was perfection as well as we had to exhaust all of our powers as a party to be victorious. The variety of races, creatures, abilities and defences, had us having to really delve deep into our spell books and special items which we picked up along the way to win the epic battles. I can’t rate Darra high enough, not only a dungeon master but a writer, actor, strategist and artist. 10/10 would bang.

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Fabius Alvorus

Great maps and visuals. Brilliant story and characters. Balanced fights.

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