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Jeffrey (When Suddenly Games)

Jeffrey (When Suddenly Games) (he/him)

5.0

(15)

Podcaster
Published Writer
Artist
Voice Actor
Game Designer

4 years on StartPlaying

23 games hosted

Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Inclusive

About me

🎲 I have been playing TTRPGs since the early 90s, with a wide breadth of system knowledge. I bring my decades of experience to the table to make a fun, unique, and friendly night of gaming. 💼 I am a professional game designer, illustrator, and voice actor. 📺 Watch me on Twitch.tv/RockPunchATL https://youtu.be/wT-IZAXqxzU?si=uZqtjWkEtCLDU-0Z 🏰 Ptolus (pronounced like Tol-us) is my go to setting and I wish to bring my passion for it to your table and make you fall in love with it just as I did.

GM Style

🎉ON YOUR SIDE: I am your cheerleader! I want to see you do cool stuff and make great memories. 🧾NARRATIVE: I push for narrative stories more than being strict by the dice. Crunch is good, but story is better. 👀 SIGHTS👀 AND 📢SOUNDS📢: I use Foundry VTT for the best quality animated maps and sounds! 🎭ROLEPLAY: You're in the spotlight and NPCs are memorable. Your backstory matters and makes a difference. 🤺COMBAT: Combat is a blast, especially when relevant to the narrative. I often don't worry about balance so much as being fun and challenging! 🧩PUZZLES: Puzzles can be fun, but should never drag. There may be a few here and there but often never a main focus. SOFTWARE 🎶Music directly in Foundry for curated soundscapes 🎮 Foundry VTT 🪨 Notion for keeping track of out of game notes 👾 Discord for Chat and Video 🎲Table Rules🎲 Low to No PVP Teaching the Game: If you're not comfortable with the rules, that's OK, I'm here to teach and guide you to understanding how it all works together. Safety Tools: I run safe tables where we all agree to a set of Lines and Veils prior to play. This ensures we all are going to have a great time and provides proper guidance on scenes. LGBTQ Inclusive and Friendly: Inclusivity is of utmost importance to me, and I strive to create a welcoming and supportive environment for LGBTQ individuals. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Game Master Reviews (15)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

Creativity

Teacher

Inclusive

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Sal

Played 23 sessions

Jeff is a wonderful GM! His voice acting experience allows him to make the game world feel richer. His home brew campaign is so compelling and well thought out. I always look forward to our next game session. He also has a set of safety tools that he reviews with players in session 0.

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Jeremy

Played 5 sessions

Had a great time playing a Cypher System / Ptolus campaign with Jeffrey. He was a skilled GM, meeting the player's energy, accurate on the rules and creating dramatic and fun situations within the game. Every session was a great time, shenanigans occurred, and he kept us on target. Highly recommended.

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InsolentOwl (Sam)

Played 4 sessions

Jeff ran a short chapter of Ptolus that covered 4 sessions in Cypher system. It was great to play Cypher with this group and with a fantastic GM! Jeff was very good at explaining the system and the setting, and was very good at responding to our random riffing and it was clear that he was devoted to giving us a positive experience that matched what we wanted to do. We were given a lot of latitude to do what we wanted with our characters both in creation and in game play, and at the same time he didn't let us get away with cheesing the game. I highly recommend Jeff for players whether beginning or experienced, and especially if you want to play Cypher system (since it's a lesser known/played system).

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DJ

I first met Jeff at GenCon where he ran a session of Cypher System for me and others in the Monte Cook Games room! Hems a fantastic story teller, and great GM! Not only is he great at running cypher system, but he is a game designer and writer. He ran his game The Crypt Has Opened for me and a few friends, and it was fantastic! Highly recommend!

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DismissedEnd

Jeff is a very animated DM with a range of voices he puts on for each character. He's not afraid of making things challenging which allows us to take many different approaches to complete our objective. Many times our party came up with a weird scheme or winged it and Jeff was more than willing to go along with our plan and see it through to its fruition or failure and even our failures were made fun. Great combat,great story, great characters and I really enjoyed the world of Ptolus, even if everyone did hate my character!

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Migo

Awesome storytelling, the setting felt truly alive, and the NPCs in the game we're well portrayed and you could differentiate which NPC this GM was acting out from his others easily. GM personality is very warm and accommodating!

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