I have played with Erik as my DM for a couple of years now. He has a very creative mind when it comes to his world building & item creation. He does a great job at designing maps & puzzles. Erik is also up for the group to decide the type of game they want to play, whether it is more battle-focused or storyline oriented. All in all, I can’t recommend Erik enough.

Erik has DMed for our group since fall 2020, and he's been the best DM I've had so far! We started at level 1 with Ghosts of Saltmarsh and carried our characters into Spelljammer to close out on level 20. No other DM I've known has tried to run level 20 campaigns because the encounters can become so tricky to run that can balance challenge with creativity. He's inclusive to players of all identities and play-styles. I play an artillerist artificer, but up until level 15, I ran my character, Lochlan, as an exceedingly low-damage build that has to solve problems through other means. Erik has accommodated this in-battle, such as letting me crawl through boss-fight arenas disabling battle mechanics while my party members fight on the frontlines. He's also worked with me to flesh out NPC personalities and their connections with my character for an immersive storytelling experience. Though I apologize since Erik did have about 40 NPCs to constantly track who were involved with us personally. Erik's been a joy to plan and play with for the last five years, and I can't recommend him enough. P.S. I've sometimes faced a few difficulties finding cohesive parties, and I'm typically the only girl in a party. Maybe we got lucky with our group, maybe it's the manner in which Erik runs his campaigns, regardless, I've always had a lovely time in our shared story.

Erik is an excellent GM. He has run both published campaigns and games set in his own worlds with me, and both were engaging and fun. He's great at communicating the rules to new players and strikes a good balance between adherence to the rules and ability to improvise to meet the needs of the current situation. He always puts a lot of work into preparation, bringing great maps and visual aids, dressing up and performing his characters' voices, which he keeps lighthearted and never takes himself too seriously. I've played in one-shots and long campaigns with him and he has always balanced the pacing of his sessions perfectly. He's also good at permitting player creativity without allowing one player to take time or fun away from the others. Overall, he's a great GM who knows D&D very well and has a lot of experience.

This guy has been my DM for years, and he’s one of the best I’ve ever played with! You can always count on him to have an entertaining story, and he’s a great map-maker too. I’m not sure exactly how long he’s been playing D&D, but I know it’s been a long time, definitely well before I started. He’s the kind of DM who, if something sounds cool and fits reasonably within the rules, might just let you pull it off. At the same time, he’s not afraid to say no if it’s clearly impossible by the rules or real-world physics. But I’d say he’s more than fair. Where other DMs might shut you down before you even finish explaining your idea, he’ll at least hear you out, and if it’s doable, he might even help you make it work. 9.5/10

Erik is very high effort, and really cares about fostering a good experience for his players. He is very engaging and fun. He helps players be creative by offering suggestions/options that build off of the players ideas without railroading them.

While i may be one of the newest in one of the campaigns he's been running (an addition from nearly a year ago in a four-year-old campaign), it's genuinely been one of my favorite campaigns i've been in so far. From what i've gathered, it's a combination Ghosts of Saltmarsh and one of the SpellJammer books with a healthy dose of complete and total chaos (affectionate). Currently, we are doing a series of battles structured akin to the map of Slay the Spire, or similar roguelike games to build towards a final boss. During this all, we have had multiple boss encounters, all of which are types of antagonists i've never dealt with before, getting interesting with how the bosses handle themselves both in character and playstyle. Take the Barbarian for example, a boss structured off of Storm Herald Barbarian who had both an Install aura (Increased lightning damage both incoming and outgoing) and a lot of lightning related crowd control that encouraged us to fan out a lot, to the point where it made healing quite a challenge. It's a godsend that our party is all spellcasters and ranged combatants (mostly, one of us uses a functional Dancing Blade which is an entirely custom magic item with that as it's only link). In between all of that, we have quite a few chunks for RP, scouting out the future maps and planning, dragging allies from the starcraft fight above to lend a hand (favorite was a Warforged who we double-enlarged and used to Titanfall a building), and, apparently, make a Magic E.M.P. Now, to be clear, my character is totally a person who is normal and can be trusted with explosives (Arti/Sorc with no regard for his own safety), so this is a fantastic development and surely won't be used to entirely skip an encounter with many casualties (probably). Heck, even before that, there was the Anti-Avengers (i don't remember the proper name, it's been a minute), a group meant to parallel our team, including a custom Time Wizard, an Artificer (related to a Party NPC) in a Mini-Gundam (which i got to dissect and apply to my little MechaDeer companion), the Protagonist (literally, he has a legendary sword and everything, no plot armor though), and the sassy Lancer Rogue Tiefling, who had a lot of really cool weaponry that unfortunately was pacted to her (debating trying to summon a devil to get some of that, magma whips are so cool). It was one hell of a fight, definitely built with purpose to screw with us (e.g. my gimmick is Teleports, and the Arti had the ability to rig minefields, stuff like that), and i l o v e that. TLDR: Quick-Thinking fella with a penchant for causing problems (in the best possible way), who knows that the ultimate purpose of TTRPGs is to have as much fun as possible, to be whatever you truly want to be in whatever way you want to do it.