About me

I am a mid-40s family guy who works in the insurance industry for a living, but has had a supreme love for gaming my entire life. From the mid-eighties, starting with the days I spent listening from the top of the basement steps while my brother and his friends adventured throughout Greyhawk, Faerun, and Krynn, I was enamored with TTRPGs. I would sneak his copies of the Forgotten Realms novels after he'd finished reading them and pour over them at night, thinking I was doing something so dangerous. Now, I love shepherding groups through a story that we tell together, weaving in intrigue and looping back to long-forgotten NPC interactions that shaped the story. I have been a GM for sessions at local, regional, and national conventions including Origins Game Fair and Gen-Con. I also am one of the leaders, or Guild Keepers, of a GM guild for a well-respected publisher's Discord server. I may work in the business world now, but my background is in music and performing. I have a degree in music performance, theatre experience, and ran a DJ business for many years. Reading a group and leaning in to the energy of the room is my forte (pun intended). I love to play around the world of Faerun, sure...but I also love exploring anywhere and everywhere with a table (virtual or not) of enthusiastic players, or nervous beginners. Everyone has a place at my games as long as they have a pencil, paper, and an imagination.

GM Style

I plan sessions using a flexible structure which allows for player/party agency and collective storytelling. I actively roleplay with parties who drive that dynamic while making sure all players are equally involved in the action. I create encounters which range from fun comedy banter to high-stakes, party-endangering combat, and everything in between. I prepare in a way which allows for the encounters to happen organically in response to plot hooks and the various responses to the prompts. More than anything, my style is to make sure the players at my tables are having fun. That fun may be haggling with a kobold traveling salesman who only accepts trinkets as payment, or it may be hunting a monster who has the ability to wipe out a party if the right precautions are taken in combination with the correct tactics.

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