Adam
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About Adam
I am 38 years old have been playing role-playing games, mostly D&D, since I was 13. My uncle taught me how to play 2nd edition D&D (not that I really ever understood THACO), then played 3rd edition D&D with friends for many years before transitioning into Pathfinder 1st edition and eventually 5th edition D&D. Between campaigns, I have played a lot of Call of Cthulhu and Pathfinder 2nd edition, and experimented with Star Wars 5E, GURPS, Draw Steel, and World of Darkness, but eventually I will always come back to 5th edition. For 90% of my time playing TTRPG's, I have been the game master, mostly by default since I was often the only one who had ever played or read through whatever rulebook we were using. The vast majority of my campaigns have been homebrews. My favorite homebrew was a parody of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, True Blood, and other similar shows that I adapted from 5th edition. I have run a few modules, including Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, Tomb of Annihilation, and Out of the Abyss for 5th edition D&D, as well as The Haunting for Call of Cthulhu. I am LGBTQ+ friendly, Catholic (though not practicing), and half Filipino. I am an amateur fantasy writer, and I just love table-top roleplaying games. If the zombie apocalypse comes, I will be perfectly content eating beans and rice and playing D&D every night.
At a glance
Less than a year on StartPlaying
2 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, World Builder, Rule of Cool
Average response time: Under 1 hour
Response rate: 100%
Featured Prompts
My favorite books are
Lord of the Rings (I know it's a trilogy, chill out), Redwall, and Mr. Undesirable
My favorite shows/movies are
Shows: Firefly, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Andor, Attack on Titan Movies: Last of the Mohicans, Unbreakable, Lord of the Rings (one movie, 13 hours long), Star Wars (the original trilogy), and Big Trouble in Little China
The three words my players would use to describe me are...
funny, intelligent, and insane.
How Adam runs games
My game-mastering style is generally heavy on both roleplay and combat. I don't try to force my players to do a lot of roleplay, but I will do accents, talk in character, etc. Most of the time in my campaigns are somewhat lighthearted, with the occasional jump into hyper-serious situations. I have literally made my players, grown men, shed physical tears, so beware. I personally think combat should be varied in difficulty and often optional. I think some combat encounters should be trivially easy and some should be very difficult, but most should lie in the fairly challenging bed. I really enjoy comedic games, but those are usually better for one-shots. In long-form campaigns, I like to sprinkle in little bits of comedy, rather than making it a focus.
Featured Prompts
If my games were Movies they'd be directed by...
Tommy Wiseau.
I prep by
imagining the myriad choices that my players might make and trying to account for all possibilities, then realizing that I was completely wrong and utterly unprepared.
Rules are...
meant to be followed...usually.
Adam's ideal table
I like players that are proactive and ambitious. They need to be able to take a joke at their character's expense once in a while. I also think it's important for the players to have good intentions, to the story, to the GM, and to one another. Not every player is going to be comfortable role-playing and acting, and that's ok, but it's nice if at least one or two players can keep up with a bit of banter. To me, table-top roleplaying is about cooperative story-telling, and I enjoy GMing for players who want to contribute to the story that I am curating.
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