Sara (she/they)
5.0
(23)
2 years on StartPlaying
327 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Storytelling
Average response time: 10 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
Hi, I'm Sara from Cape Town, South Africa and I'd love to play some RPGs with you. I began my TTRPG adventure by running the AGE system for some friends at the start of 2020, and then adding D&D 5e, Blades in The Dark and Numenera to my wheelhouse, with most of my games now being run in D&D 5e. Running games in a variety of systems has given me a larger number of tools to draw from when playing. I love learning new techniques and adding them to my DM-style if they make the game better for my players. Growing up in a country with 11 official languages and all of the many cultures those represent, living on a disabling side of the hypermobility spectrum, and having a background in education (10-13 year olds) has given me an appreciation for providing accessibility options and embracing diversity at my table.
GM Style
I love the collaborative nature of role-playing games, and so I embrace improvisation and saying yes to my players whenever possible. I encourage you to reflavour your character's abilities to suit your backstory and describe your actions in combat, or how a nat 1 or 20 for your character would resolve. I enjoy tying characters to the story we are playing out. My favourite sessions have a mix of stress sweating and laughing. I enjoy teaching new players, and have run games for second language English speakers. The roleplay arm of the game can be as important as you like it as I am happy to move between first and third person interactions. When it comes to combat I am happy to run it as tactically as suits the table, and have used the various optional rules to satisfy those that lean more towards war-gaming. There are tables that want to overcome deadly encounters, and there are those that want to feel like heroes, I am happy to provide you with either experience. I run a free session 0 before the start of any campaign where we all discuss our expectations, build characters and set up boundaries. I run my encounters through TaleSpire, and I have the Master Tier subscription on DnD Beyond, which will provide you with some of the Wizards of the Coast materials for character creation. My table is anti-racist, anti-sexist and LGBTQA+ friendly.
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Game Master Reviews (23)
Proficiencies
Players say this GM is great at:
Creativity
Teacher
Storytelling
Mike
New review
Played 31 sessions
Sara is an excellent DM, breathes life into her NPCs and has brought a lot of colour and flavour to the two campaigns I've been in so far (Dragon Heist & Dungeon of the Mad Mage). Supportive of our crazy shenanigans and runs challenging combat encounters.
Aedan
Played 17 sessions
Sara is a really wonderful GM! Outside of sessions, she is communicative, understanding, and very open to player feedback. Within sessions, she makes a real effort to connect with players, is great with rules on the fly, and includes everyone. When she would run NPCs they were always lots of fun to engage with and combat would be interesting and appropriately challenging. Hugely recommend
Tardy
What's to say? I've been in multiple campaigns with them so far despite only being on here for a short time (StartPlaying at least) but they're a consistently performing DND GM.
Ozark
Played 2 sessions
Great DM/GM. Very patient, has sets the game to be super smooth and easy for both Newbies and Veterans.
Dark
Played 78 sessions
Sara was the first GM I ever tried on this website and I can say with absolute certainty that if it weren't for her I would have given up on this platform. She is patient, knows the rules, encourages player roleplay and creativity, and knows how to tell an engaging story. Try Sara if you are uncertain about this website and don't know who to choose. I did and I don't regret it. I played an entire campaign with her, then joined two more she hosted and I have had nothing but good times since.
John
Played 68 sessions
I've had the pleasure of being part of sara's D&D campaign for several months now, and I can confidently say that they are one of the finest Dungeon Masters I've ever had the pleasure of playing with.
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