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GM Mr Patrick

GM Mr Patrick (he/him)

5.0

(46)

4 years on StartPlaying

94 games hosted

Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Teacher

About me

Hi! In addition to being a professional game master (both here on Start Playing Games and live-and-in-person), I'm a published short story horror author, and host of the horror-and-humor actual-play audio drama, The Gothic Podcast. I started gaming in the Way Back, beginning with the D&D Basic box set that I asked for for Christmas because I liked the dragon on the cover. And though I still love playing and running D&D (and its cousins, Pathfinder 1e & 2e), I have gleefully embraced many other systems, especially Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) games such as Monster of the Week. I also loves me some Ten Candles, City of Mist, Alien RPG, and many others. Oh, and Catthulhu! Meow...aaaarrrrrhhhhhhll! To keep up with what I'm offering and other gaming commentary check out my blog at https://www.c-patrick.com

GM Style

I lean toward Rule of Cool, and I'll always go that route over spending valuable game time looking up rules in the book. And though I do like a healthy dose of combat and conflict in my scenarios, I also like a good session of Role Playing and exploration. In other words: a mix! Characters in my games will experience horror, humor, adventure, hope, despair, moments of overcoming great adversity, and near-death experiences (or possibly death experiences, if we're playing Ten Candles, but hey!). That said, the players in my games should feel safe at my tables and so we implement a variety of safety tools to make sure everyone is having fun. I also encourage the embracing of diversity, inclusion, and good feels all around. Players at my tables should come ready to be each other's fans and to help everyone share the spotlight.

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Game Master Reviews (46)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

Creativity

Storytelling

Teacher

Kvothe avatar

Kvothe

Played 1 sessions

What a load of fun that was. I really enjoyed this little monster of the week one shot. Especially knowing it was crafted by himself I am very happy with the way the story turned out. He was able to smoothly incorporate a late joines. A patient man who was very good at explaining this new system to me. This was exactly what I wanted. And I also liked that even though it was a one shot he interacted a nice bit with the little background story I wrote for my oc. Yeah. Thanks for the game my dude. I will come back.

Pookie avatar

Pookie

Played 1 sessions

Was kind enough to let me in to the campaign even though I was late. I'm a beginner and understood the game very well and had a lot of fun! The music and visuals also made it immersive, which was nice.

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Rashad

Played 1 sessions

Great storytelling, very friendly, and very knowledgeable of the game rules! Overall, It was great fun with this GM!! AAAAAAAAAAAA++++++++++++++++!!!!!!!!!!!!

Buzzo avatar

Buzzo

Played 1 sessions

Tried monster of the week for the first time with C. Patrick and it was pretty amazing! He made an unfamiliar system very easy to understand, allowing us to easily get into the gameplay. Very good pacing and plenty of very scary action combined with the visual aids made the story feel real and frightening. Definitely recommend checking out this amazing dude of a gm!!!

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Chris

Played 1 sessions

The GM was great at setting the scene and explaining the entry of the story. The introduction of the characters and detailing a rumor about one another helped get the group aligned and playing together. The intro into the story line was well developed and easy to follow along. The GM was quick to answer any questions and knew the rules. It was understood that the one-shot was developed around learn to paly, but the combat was still fun and challenging. I recommend the GM and look forward to joining a future one-shot. Keep up the great work!

Brendon avatar

Brendon

Played 13 sessions

Very reasonable GM awesome to be creative with.

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