About me

Hello! I'm Jay - and just to get it out of the way, I'm from Chicago (it comes up... a lot... 😅). I'm queer and nuerodivergent and love creating my own stories in 5e or my own system - the JAY Games system (see what I did there 😉). When I'm not writing music or earning a check responding to Teams messages while my cats, Batrick and Artemis, try to get my attention. I enjoy Urban Shadows and 5e as a player but really like to bring people into my own homebrew universes to experience something different. My own game system - Just As Yourself - is a system where anyone, regardless of skill or familiarity, can be themselves and enjoy a story in a safe and affirming environment. It has *everything* 🙅‍♂️ NO MATH! Beyond health points, and I can do this for you 😇 📖 Storytelling and roleplay! You can't have a TTRPG without that 🧐 📄 Playbooks! 4 to choose from, and you just answer 3 questions and choose your weapon/tool 🙌 🎲 ONLY 1 d20 (for probability!!) and 1 d6 (everything else!!) 🥳 🕊️ Agency! We move at *your* pace and explore the plot together 💪 My newest game - Under the desert sun - is a rich story of secrecy, deviousness, and desert monsters set in my not-so-trademarked universe, the Realm of Kâshmar. It will be available to purchase on itch.io in Spring 2025, but why not enjoy it here first 😁 Looking forward to playing with you - and sharing my universe!

GM Style

What's a TTRPG without roleplay?? Crafting a rich story arc and incorporating PCs into that is the best part of running a game. So are skirmishes... tactical or otherwise... that's where the chaos happens 😈 I don't railroad people... agency as Players is central to any TTRPG I run. I do my best with NPC voices and usually manage to pull at least one off well... I'm certainly not a professional voice actor... But I can usually manage British, Kiwi (never on demand though...), Hollywood Russian, and Midwestern (it's an accent I swear!!). But no, I can't do a Chicago accent well ☹️ I have a zero-tolerance policy for bullying and demeaning language between players - Every Play experience is a safe, affirming, and accepting space for everyone to have fun and enjoy a story. Everything that I craft is original content without the use of AI - and any graphics are either commissioned, part of a subscription package, or royalty-free. Always.

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