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Dhis

Dhis (he/him)

5.0

(20)

4 years on StartPlaying

79 games hosted

About me

Hello, I'm Dhis, - the "h" is silent and the "t" is invisible. I'm an Educational Technologist and former speech teacher. By day, I help our teachers use technology to create engaging lessons. And by night, I use my expertise to take my players through immersive worlds filled with rich characters and just a dash of absurdity. Don't know how to play? Then this is a great opportunity to dive in with no judgement. Everyone starts somewhere, let's make your start a fantastic one. LGBT+ affirmed and welcomed. All backgrounds and cultures are welcome as well. Role play is about breathing life into a character in an engaging and interesting world. The way your life is different from mine is what enriches your character and their story. I take all of the player's enjoyment as my highest priority. This means safety tools will be respected. I've had to remove my fair share of toxic players. When it happens, I do so with respect but also confidence. It's important to me that you know that your comfort will be a priority for me. My DM style is not for everyone, so please give it a read and decide for yourself.

GM Style

I like providing a complex world with rich characters for your players to bounce around in. Combat serves to boost narrative, so expect secondary objectives and competing interests over crunchier meat-grinder fights. I prefer puzzling NPC's over puzzling rooms. I abhor puzzles that require the player to guess what I, the DM, was thinking. Instead expect puzzles to involve a clear goal with many opportunities to succeed. Are you a low-INT Barbarian that just wants to break the door down? With your party using their skills to assist (and a little luck from the dice) that foe will too fall before you. My plots may involve many complicated and interlocking pieces, but thats to enrich the world, not provide extra homework for my players. Fine tune the machine to your will, or bring it all crashing down. The choice is yours. While I may lightly dabble with voices, I care more about interesting characterization and motivation. If you want to only role-play in third person, that is fine as long as your character makes interesting, even sub-optimal, decisions based on who they are. I like to let the dice tell the story. I roll in the open and may even call for rolls for fairly mundane tasks. These are not opportunities to punish the players, but they help enrich the world. Want to go to the tavern? Roll a D20 to see what the mood is there. Oh, you rolled a 1? Looks like this tavern is being robbed. Saving the barkeep would sure help your group convince him to give you that info you need. Plus, the criminal might have a nice item from another heist. Its not about failure, its about the world being interesting and alive.

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Game Master Reviews (20)
Valykar avatar

Valykar

Played 40 sessions

Dhis knocked this session out of the park! I was most impressed with how he handled my particular situation. With very little time before our game started, I found out that I had to leave the table in order to pick up my son from his work, which is an hour round trip, after the first 15 minutes of our start time. With the short notice, Dhis was able to rearrange his session to make sure that I had my interactions quickly before I had to leave. In addition, he made sure that I felt included when I returned to the table after getting home. Dhis is a true professional! If you are looking for a GM, please take my advice and stop looking! Dhis is a fantastic choice!

Thane avatar

Thane

Played 27 sessions

Had a great session 0 with Dhis, worked with all of us to craft a session that worked well both for the players and our characters to feel included and engaged in the story, and setting. Already looking forward to the next and many more sessions in the future. Cannot recommend Dhis enough!

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Alfonso Mora

Played 16 sessions

Omg our last session was so much fun, we had an all out war with giants, trolls, bugbears and goblins and we were outnumber and had to survive the army coming at us. Having some NPC helping us out defending this town. Great theater of the mind action and able to role play our battle scenes before we take our real action was alot of fun.

Davey avatar

Davey

Played 16 sessions

Loved the session 0 looking forward to playing the next session.. I really like how clear your voice is and how well you run the game..

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Robespierre

Played 12 sessions

Dhis is a very good storyteller. I think it's due to his natural voice and background experience and training. He does get all characters involved and does try to connect some elements of a character's background story into the campaign. Very creative in NPC roleplay and combat situations makes the actual event very entertaining.....suspenseful and at times, comical. In addition, he is very patient in on-boarding new and veteran players in both character creation and Foundry tech usage. Fairly easy to reach and communicate with him. I do indeed recommend Dhis as your GM/DM :-).

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B-Rad

Played 12 sessions

We booked Dhis to run a high level Homebrew game for the Summer. He did NOT disappoint! He took each of our specific requests and has woven an excellent story arc packed with role-play opportunities and blended with challenging combat encounters. Every session has a twist that keeps PCs engaged and focused through each session. I highly recommend Dhis to build your next adventure.

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