Evan the Bard

he/him

5.0

(19)

Timezone

America/sao Paulo

Language

English

Portuguese

Spanish

About Evan the Bard

Greetings Adventurers! I am Evan the Bard and I'm glad to tell you a story tonight - your story. As you know, behind every great hero there is a humble bard ready to tell their tales! I have been a DM for over ten years, currently dedicated to D&D 5e with experience both with veteran players and beginner ones. I am a 29 years old living in São Paulo city in Brazil. Previous professional experience with Psychology, Eletronic Sports, Communication and Teaching. My most recent project was developing classes with board games and TTRPG for kids on schools from six to sixteen years old, giving me a lot of experience running games for children. If you want to schedule a game feel free to send me a message here or on my Discord - evanthebard -. On my Discord Channel you can check for available Adventures, Campains and One-Shots, ready to be played.

At a glance

3 years on StartPlaying

603 games hosted

Highly rated for: Storytelling, Creativity, Sets the Mood

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I got started GMing...

Almost all of us started with someone else DMing for us. At a point my Dungeon Master was too busy that I just told my party members "Hey lets play tonight,show up and I'll write something". Half a notebook page of prep and 12 hours session of impro. I fell in love with Dming... and never stopped.

My favorite books are

My favorite book of all time is the Hobbit, the classic Hero's Journey just feels to wholesome for me. I enjoy fantasy in general, but I've been reading Gothic Horror, which is inspiring most of my original stories, like The Castle of Ortranto, Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula.

My favorite shows/movies are

My two favorie movies of all time are Lion King and Nightmare Before Christmas since I was a kid, and nowadays I'm enjoy gothic and suspense/horror above all genders, with my current favorite show been The Haunting of Hill House. And for animation series, I go with Arcane above everything else.

How Evan the Bard runs games

I enjoy original adventures, where I can give more emphasis on characters backstories and worldbuilding, incorporating everything my players create in an alive and interesting world. Epic high fantasy adventures, sinister gothic horrors, heavy political dramas or deep dungeon delves, you will see them all here, but what I personally enjoy most are intriguing mysterys. It all depends what adventure you will face. For roleplay enjoyers, I bring a lot of investigation, voicemaking and monster sounds, or at least a try, and creative characters for you to interact, friends and foes, its up to you to figure that out. For those fearless bruisers and deadly warriors I can give you a fluid combat, which rewards you for your actions descriptions and fight creativity, making and attack roll be really more fun and interesting without leaving the essencial rules behind. If you really enjoy a bit of meta game or resource managements, like to make your own armor, weapons or potions, interact with different shop keepers and blacksmiths or harvest monster. Don't need to worry, as you explore the worlds you can use improved crafting systems to make your creations. You don't have much experience or just don't know what you like most? Not a problem at all, let me grab my lute and tell you your story. You wil need to overcome a bit of everything to prevail and triumph. Dungeon Master feedback is always welcome as to give it for Players.

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I prep by

I write my own version of the pre written books I run. Keeping their original idea but getting my personal touch on. Understanding the story let me prep a bunch of things and options ahead. We will not see a "empty notebook behind the DM screen" here! But impro is another one of my good weapons.

My games focus on...

Collaborative storytelling. The Dungeon Master isn't the only one telling the story. My work is to make the ideas of my players work, doesn't matter how crazy they are. The story we wanna tell if what I'll always care for above all. Systems and rules are to help us, not to slow us down.

When it comes to voices

Unfortunatly I'm not a voice actor, but I'm hardworking at this topic! I try, but also bring other nuances for my characters, like manerism and "common spoken words" for all of them. I love my monster voices and sounds, they are not good, but sure entertaining!

Evan the Bard's ideal table

The Story comes at first for me. I understand and love the rules and tactical combat, but the storytelling aspect is where I think RPG shines. Players that interact with other characters at the table, that can bring their characters atmosphere with them, but more than anything, that love this game as well. I always look for players that want to evolve their characters with the story.

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If you're into ___, you're going to love my table

Psychological and social terror.

I love it when a player

"Do it for the plot". Whenever you take decisions in game or out game, like picking features, traits, multiclass, spells, that fits the character's moment in the story. This make the world and story to be way more alive, and I appreciate a lot when a player can find these sort of thing interesting.

I think min/maxing...

This is still a game, and I understand a lot of people find their fun at the numbers and having strong characters. Nothing needs to be extreme! I always try to work with my players in their aspect of fun. If you can do your combos without disrupting other players or the story, go for it!