Harli

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5.0

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Timezone

Australia/brisbane

Language

English

About Harli

It was 1992 and I lived on the Gold Coast in Australia. I was 12 years old and had just started getting into Pearl Jam, Metallica, and playing video games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat . A friend asked if I wanted to try playing D&D. I was always into fantasy stories, comics and had even read Choose Your Own Adventure books. He ran a couple of 1on1 sessions for me in AD&D. I was then invited to a real session ran by my friend's much older cousin that consisted of 10 players, in their 20s, but this was a different new game called Rifts. From that point I was hooked. I started buying Rifts books and dice with any money I got, even got the other neighbourhood kids playing and several of us played together for the rest of the 90s, mostly Palladium Books game settings. In the early 2000s most of us had either gone off to University or moved interstate. Playing RPGs became a lot harder. In the early 2000s I had moved south to Victoria and decided to try to get back into RPGs with some new people I found to play D&D 3rd Edition. Finding players in this state was much easier and we played many sessions. I then got D&D 3.5 edition then 4th Edition... which was a disaster. I kept trying to find players to play Rifts and Savage Worlds. Then D&D 5E came out. I ran my first online campaign with friends I had met playing WoW that lasted over 2 years and then started to run more campaigns online using Foundry VTT. I've recently started focusing on Shadowdark and Daggerheart.

At a glance

3 years on StartPlaying

Highly rated for: Creativity, Knows the Rules, Sets the Mood

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My favorite books are

The Hobbit, The Borribles, The Dark Elf Trilogy, Ready Player One, Watchmen (graphic novel)

My favorite shows/movies are

My favourite shows of the past few years: Severance, Foundation, Strange New Worlds, Dexter, The Penguin, Stranger Things. My favourite movies of all time include: Star Wars (original trilogy), The Matrix, Superman, Man of Steel, Lord of the Rings, Good Will Hunting, Star Trek: First Contact

How Harli runs games

You can expect in-character roleplay sessions where I am not telling you a story, I am reacting to your decisions and the dice rolls as you inhabit this world - the story emerges from that. I use Foundry VTT for character sheets, dice rolls and ambient music suitable for each scene. Theatre of the mind and battlemap scenes are also used extensively within Foundry. I aim to avoid out of character talk and meta discussions about stats or rules as much as possible - immersion is easily broken otherwise. I prefer to narrate what happens and to have proactive players that drive their own goals in these imaginary worlds. You are the stars, the lead actors, the protagonists in these roleplaying games.

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I prep by

Developing interesting NPCs with custom pictures. Setting up thematic scenes and detailed battlemaps on Foundry with accompanying ambience or music. Creating new monsters and magic items. Making world maps and battlemaps on Inkarnate.

My games focus on...

In-character Roleplaying. High stakes and tense combats. Cliff-hanger endings.

Harli's ideal table

I set it up and my players run with it. I narrate what happens and don't railroad my players into a preconceived conclusion. I prefer to be in-character as much as possible so as a GM i'm describing outcomes and voicing NPCs but I let the players move the action forward. If 1 or 2 players constantly take the spotlight I will prompt the quieter players for what they are doing so they don't get left out. I'm serious about RPGs but that doesnt mean that humour doesn't occur.