Em (she/her)
5.0
(11)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
89 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, World Builder, Inclusive
Average response time: 4 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
Hello, I‘m Em! I love crafting custom campaigns and worlds for my players, collaborative storytelling and roleplay, and most importantly creating a safe and comfortable environment for everyone at my table! I have been GMing for 6 years with more than 1000 hours on Roll20 alone (not including any offline or Discord play). I aim to create highly immersive experiences including portraits for all NPCs, voice acting, engaging background images, thematic music, and custom-made maps, tokens, and visual aids. I love collaborating with my players! I am always down to read and discuss backstory, I encourage players to help build and shape the world, and to have a lot of fun role playing together! In my non-rpg life, I’ve worked as a trainer, peer counselor, and tutor. I have experience working with people of many backgrounds, teaching and facilitating groups. I value inclusivity and do not allow any bigotry at my tables. I utilize safety tools and encourage open communication. I am also available for GM consulting sessions!
GM Style
My GM style: - I customize campaigns and sessions to each group including the balance between roleplay, exploration, puzzles, and combat. - I love collaborating with my players! I am always down to read and discuss backstory, I encourage players to help build and shape the world, and PCs actions in game will always have effects on the world. - I like to create a fully immersive experience with voice acting, music, scene graphics, portraits for all npcs, visual components to puzzles, and full battlemaps. - I have experience in any genre but my games tend towards heroic, high fantasy, epic adventures or cozier, sillier settings. But no matter the genre, it’s all about story and characters and fun. - I have a very good grasp of the rules but I do love to homebrew and utilize the rule of cool. - My GM heroes are Brennan Lee Mulligan, Matt Mercer, and Aabria Iyengar- I follow their focus on narrative, stories, and characters. - If you'd like an example of my style, you can click on the youtube link below and check out my actual play!
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Em's Games
Game Master Reviews (11)
Proficiencies
Players say this GM is great at:
Creativity
World Builder
Inclusive
Paddy
Played 15 sessions
Emily is a great dm who puts a lot of work into her world setting and craft.
Ryan
Played 11 sessions
Em is a fantastic GM, very knowledgeable and creates an immersive experience with great storytelling, lovely maps and interesting characters in a unique homebrew setting very highly recommended.
Brian
Played 11 sessions
Em does a great job of creating a world for players to inhabit! She's inclusive, experienced, and makes everyone feel welcomed at her table :)
Ash
Played 7 sessions
Em is a great gm! She made combat more interesting by blending in environmental elements and had engaging puzzles. She was also super cool about including/creating homebrew into her game. 10/10 would recommend!
Becca
Have you ever watched or listened to an actual play, and wished you could play in a world that richly and lovingly created? Then Em is the right DM for you! Not only does Em craft worlds that are fleshed out, adaptive, and diversely cast, but she takes the time and care to situate player characters within the setting in a way that serves their backstory and the plot of the game. A master of fun and creative combat encounters that go beyond the plug and chug “I hit it with my sword again”, a puzzle wizard, and a master role player, Em makes me look forward to every chance I have to log on and play. She has something to offer for every type of player, to the min-maxed, to the actor, to the person who really wants to find a way to use their herbalism kit. If you have something you want to do, Em will find a way to elevate it and make the payoff worth while. I could not recommend Em highly enough, and hope you get a chance to experience playing a session with her. (She also gives some killer magic items (raw and home-brew)
Dani
I've been in three campaigns with Em as a DM and several more with her as a player. Em is delightful to play with, on either side of the table, and is a very creative DM. All of her NPCs are super fleshed out, usually with highly colorful art, and she's wonderful at providing plot hooks and engaging with the entire party. Highly recommend her.
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