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Juniper

Juniper (she/her)

5.0

(6)

LGBTQ+
Queer
Neurodivergent
Teacher/Educator
Women/Femme Identifying

2 years on StartPlaying

7 games hosted

Highly rated for: Inclusive, Teacher, Storytelling

About me

Hello adventurer! Could I offer you an ale? Maybe a quest too while you're here? Well if you've decided to pursue this quest further, allow me to introduce myself: I'm Juniper (She/Her) and would love to DM you through the most perilous of dungeons and the most tense negotiations of diplomacy all to uncover legendary loot, lost to the ages. If you can agree to these terms, allow me to extend a few details as to this mission: -This quest will be run using Discord for voice call, Roll20 for a VTT, and D&DBeyond for character sheets (Don't worry, I have the master tier. -This quest is completely LGBTQ+ friendly and I can accommodate to the needs of any neurodivergence -This quest will be a great adventure of collaborative story telling between me, the DM, and most importantly, you, the players. If you want to take me up on this mighty quest, here's a few details so you can get to know me a little better: My name is Juniper and I am currently a college student and fencer who has been working her way through as a substitute teacher. My love for D&D started in my living room when my dad DM'd a few prewritten modules for my family. Immediately I fell in love with 5th edition and read through the entire player's handbook, monster manual, and DM's guide and wrote characters every day. I had never been great at most kinds of art, but I really did find expressing myself through the storytelling of D&D allowed me to show all of my built up creativity. Upon going to college, I met a few people interested in D&D. I decided that even though I had no DM'ing experience I'd give it a shot and through these adventures, we became great friends that persisted even after we split up. We still continue to play D&D and now even Starfinder, but as I've gotten more competent and confident as a DM, I decided that I might try to share my joy and enthusiasm with anyone else who may want to dip their toes in the water for the first time or even a seasoned adventurer who just wants someone to guide them through a thrilling journey where they can make new friends along the way!

GM Style

My style is your style. Want combat? You got it. Want Roleplay? Done. I really like to keep communication between myself and the players as open as possible. I've run campaigns where the players loved to get into fights all the time and would even seek them out. Currently, I'm running a game where the players look for roleplay and we only have combat once every several sessions. I'm very flexible with how I run because I have the most fun when everyone is having fun and is completely engaged.

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Game Master Reviews (6)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

Inclusive

Teacher

Storytelling

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Samantha

Played 6 sessions

Juniper is an amazing GM she keeps us on track when we need to be and lets us run wild when we can. She is extremely responsive and just an all-around great person and I would recommend her to anyone looking to start your first or 999th game, you'll have an awesome time with her running the game.

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Rich

Played 5 sessions

As a beginner player on their first campaign I'm already engaged and counting the days between sessions. This first session exceeded my expectations.

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Vi

I've played multiple games with Juniper as the gm(mostly DND 5e, but also some starfinder) and she is extremely good at setting up a fun environment to become invested in! She's very good at listening to you about your characters, and trying to help tell a good story. Since she's also really knowledgeable in the ruleset for dnd, and good at picking up rules in other settings, she's great at helping her players to grasp the rules, too.

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Sunny

She's very good at pacing, great at explaining if you need help, and awesome at creating stories! Her characters, despite just seeming like any other NPCs, have a lot of work put into them and she really puts in the effort to make the D&D world more than just a quest- it's a developing story! She has a good sense of humor and playing with her is always a fun time.

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Pidge

Juniper (colloquially known as the tree woman) is a fun and inclusive QUEER wizardess with all the TISM She is well-studied in utilizing both the STAR FINDER and DND 5E systems. this space mommy is amazing with WORLD BUILDING for fantasy settings while her extracurricular special interests in topics such as astronomy and planetary sciences help her to create believable sci fi settings. She is currently running a science fantasy using the star finder system with both fun magic and believable explanations for interplanetary travel based on mass drivers, orbital mechanics, and magical high g force mitigating serums. the npcs and factions are well fleshed out and interactions are both fun and memorable.

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Ainsley

I wish that I could select all of the "What was great about your game master?" tags for Juniper. She creates fantastic NPCs, is amazing at performing in character (changing the sound and tone of voices to match different characters and differentiate them), and developing/describing worlds that are super fun and exciting. It is super easy for the players to understand the setting that they are playing in thanks to Juniper's amazing narration and environment description. She also puts a lot time time and heart into writing backstories and potential story events, and it is incredibly obvious that she cares a lot about her story, characters, and party. Juniper always makes an effort to give all of her players' characters great expositions and chances to shine. No one character will be overshadowed or overdone. She takes care to understand the backstories and personalities of the players' characters in order to form the campaign's story. Not only does she work to understand the characters - Juniper also is very willing to help the players further develop their characters, whether it be ability/mechanics-wise or personality and character-wise. Juniper was one of the first DMs that I played with, and she was always willing to help all of the players understand the rules and mechanics of the game. She is great at researching anything that may be unclear to the party, and amazing at quickly learning for the purpose of teaching. D&D is pretty overwhelming and intimidating at first because of all of the different rules and abilities - but Juniper is incredible at making it easier to understand, and making the learning process fun. She always encourages questions and works very hard to make sure that everyone is on the same page and having a good time. Very importantly, Juniper is 100% inclusive and welcoming to all. She does not tolerate any kind of discrimination. Overall, I cannot really think of any way that Juniper fails to make the game entertaining or functional. She has effectively perfected every aspect of DMing in my opinion. Sincerely - the person who made her profile picture XD

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