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Sam - Jolly Squid Studios

Sam - Jolly Squid Studios (he/him)

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About me

Hey everybody! My name is Sam, I've been a DM since I was 9 and plan to do it forever. I've DMed for players new and old, and I love a good variety at the table. I'm going to college to be an indie game designer but I'm taking a year off to try and publish a video game! I've had a love-hate relationship with 5e over the years as the edition I grew up on but I have now settled into a comfortable spot atop a dragon's hoard worth of house rules. Featuring but not limited to: - A metric ton of feats and talents - 60 approved playable classes (courtesy of GMBinder darlings LaserLlama, KibblesTasty, and more) - A variant of death saves in which you accumulate wounds as you fight, but can keep fighting, leading to cinematic, dramatic, and action-packed combats. - Momentum, basically you get baby inspiration if you take a quick turn in combat, so we can cut through the slog and get to the action - An all-new monster book by conflux creatures that brings tactics and badassery back to D&D - Super awesome custom weapon creation that allows you to trip, disarm, charge, terrify, guard-break, and explode your enemies like never before My favorite things to do in D&D are: - Go to new worlds and weird genre mashups that nobody has ever been to before (and let player backstories be the first seeds of the worldbuilding) - Figure out how to make a crazy character concept work within the rules (It's easier with 60 classes) - Design a bonkers boss fight - Do big reveals in the last session - Do a different voice for every NPC you meet - Set up the dominoes in character creation, then sit back and watch the story unfold Thanks for stopping by! Hope we get to sit down and roll dice sometime!

GM Style

I do it for the personal, cinematic, and artful moments of drama and story. But I can also get behind some crunchy boss fights, crazy action sequences, or goofy NPC voices.

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