About me

Howdy! My name is Mark and I'm a weird mix of late to the party and there a day early. I only started playing my first tabletop RPG around 2015/2016 but then my group left the state. After starting my current job, they asked if someone would DM a campaign during the lockdown of 2020 and I've been a DM ever since. I've only run D&D as well as Teens in Space but I have other systems that I'm curious to try out. I want to start hosting more games to get "my fix" but also I have a lot of debt I'm working through and any bit helps! After I started playing D&D, I wondered why I recognized some of the names in the Player's Handbook and it's because, even though I started playing the game a bit later in my life, I had read a book series by R.A. Salvatore that is within the Forgotten Realms setting and I had started reading that when I was entering college. I also noticed some mechanics in the system that seemed familiar, and discovered my favorite video game of all time, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, used a modified version of 3.5! I am excited to start running some homebrew campaigns on here as well as running some premade modules (whatever people prefer, I can do either!) but I do have several specific points to mention about me. 1. No RP of anything related to SA. That's some villain shit right there. If that's part of a player character's backstory, then it can be mentioned in passing or as a reason for hating someone, but SA between players or towards NPCs is completely off the table. 2. Romance will fade to black, no ERP here. Flirting and the like can occur but once the Player hits the sheet, the scene is complete! 3. "It's what my character would do" is a fine line to walk. If you play an evil character in a campaign I run (which are normally all good/not murderer character-focused), you definitely can do so but prepare for consequences for actions. Yes, it's a game for you to play that separates from reality BUT to me, the worlds I play in still have morality, and the group needs to enjoy it. So whenever I hear "It's what my character would do" used as a defense for being a shitty person, be prepared for "Well, this is what my NPCs/the other players would do". 4. LGBTQIA+ friendly! I am a part of this community as well! I'm welcoming of all types of people, so don't worry when reaching out! This doesn't mean that I ignore or punish those who don't identify as any of the above, but I ask for those who have viewpoints that aren't welcoming or are aggressive/violent towards certain groups please pass me by as I will not take kindly to it. 5. Have fun! While I love running sessions with fight scenes and cool attacks, part of what makes these games fun is the RP. I tend to stick to rules a good portion but the Rule of Cool is extremely important to me. That's about it for the base info for me and how I run my stuff, if you have any questions just let me know!

GM Style

What is my GM style? Let's go down the list of recommended prompts I'm given here. I love roleplay and intertwining a player's backstory with an item, a location, or a monster that y'all fight. I have a problem where early on in my GMing, I created a lot of NPCs for my players to interact with and a large chunk have back stories just in case they are asked. That leads to the next prompt about character voices. I love doing voices for characters but I don't know if I'd consider myself a professional. None of my irl players have ever had an issue though! I keep practicing different voices just in case, to make sure I can whip them out whenever I need them. And the last prompt concerning crunchy combat...in this respect, I fall short I'd say. I love seeing players approach fights in different methods and playing up what their characters would do but I tend to forget small items and abilities from time to time. I'm working on it though! Some of you may have cringed at a phrase I said, and to that, I point toward my profile where I address it. In short, IWMCWD should never be used as a defense when performing a shitty action that upsets the party, it should be used for roleplay and group decision-making.

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