Dorca (she/her)
5.0
(3)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Inclusive
About me
The first TTRPG I ever played was the Wheel of Time RPG at my 13th birthday party, and I never stopped loving tabletop or Wheel of Time. The first game I ever ran was the Serenity RPG (Cortex System). Since then I've explored a wide variety of genres, systems, and styles, and I can find something good to say about almost all of them... even D&D 5e. During the pandemic I co-hosted an award winning tabletop podcast and started writing my own games, but what I really love are stories. I love writing them, I love telling them... and I can't wait to tell yours.
GM Style
My favorite part about GMing is building a world for my players to explore... to seed that world with plot threads to tug on and characters to interact with, so that players have real agency in how they choose to play. I'm here to build the skeleton-- it's the players that flesh everything out. I prefer more narrative and collaborative games, and I like to encourage strong character moments and arcs. Combat has its place in things, but it's not my bread and butter. I am not tied to any one system, and am adept at running several very different games with several very different moods. I cut my teeth on D&D 5e and d20 systems, did a stint GMing in persistent world online roleplaying games, and now spend my days storycrafting unique campaigns for dynamic groups. I'm experienced with a wide variety of stakes and tones. I've run light-hearted slice of life games, and I've run high-stakes epic adventures. I’ve run games for upwards of 8 players and games for small groups of 2-3. Where I really excel, though, is in the weird and uncanny. Interested in one of my favorites? I'll teach it. Curious about something new? I'll learn it. Unless it's Shadowrun, then you're out of luck.
Games played
Game Master Reviews (3)
Proficiencies
Players say this GM is great at:
Creativity
Storytelling
Inclusive
I have played in more games run by Dorca than I can count at this point, and she's the best of the best! Dorca is an incredible narrator, a wonderful improviser, a bonafide storyteller, and an all around great person to play with! She is especially great at giving every player a spotlight and a chance to shine. Perfectly suited for narrative and roleplay heavy games!
Dorca lets me eat weird things off the ground, among other strange and/or fantastic requests. She's a narrative first storyteller who is always down to clown, and still, somehow, manages to keep all of her players on track and on task. 10/10, have played many more systems under her masterful tutelage than I ever would have done otherwise because I'm too ADHD to read rulesbooks (she's very good at explaining things).
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