Rivas
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About Rivas
🤠 Howdy Adventurer! 🤠 My personality: Open- 🤗 Industrious- 💪 Extrovert- 🥳 Agreeable- 👍 Unworried- 🙂 I've been running D&D since 2014. I initially enjoyed the game as a player, but very quickly thought that I could do better than my DM at the time 😅. I started watching Critical Role and Matt Colville as they were begining and developed my unique style 😎. Using collaboration and improv to tell memorable stories keeps me coming back to the table 🔁. My favorite D&D moments come from players creating unique and clever solutions to their character's problems 👀. I knew D&D would be a lifelong hobby when I found my wife through it. My profile pic is from our wedding! We met through a Navy buddy of mine who played D&D with her. I feel incredibly grateful to the hobby as a whole, and I would love the opportunity to run a session for you!
At a glance
1 year on StartPlaying
54 games hosted
Highly rated for: Knows the Rules, World Builder, Creativity
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My favorite books are
Dune Messiah, Deltora Quest, Pendragon, Artemis Fowl, Hardy Boys, Job, and The Rainbow Fish.
The three words my players would use to describe me are...
Engaging Creative Fair
How Rivas runs games
Role Playing? ✅ Exploration? ✅ Combat? ✅ Fun?💯 My games tend to have an even spread between combat 🤺, role playing 🎭, and exploration 🧭, but I a more than happy to personalize those to your desires. I enjoy complex themes like, political intrigue 🧐, moral dilemmas ⚖️, and high stakes💀. I mostly stick to the rules 📒, but smart ideas or a willingness to roll the dice can convince me to bend them 🤫. New/shy players can feel free to sit back and enjoy the ride 🚇. Alternatively, if you feel confident or experienced we can try a more sandbox approach👌. I enjoy running games in all kinds of settings, but my homebrew setting draws from some of my favorite inspirations: Dune ⛱️➡️💧 Zelda 🔺 Deltora Quest 💎💎💎 Pendragon 🚪➡️ ⁉️ Once Upon a Time in the West 🎶🚂
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My games focus on...
Players making meaningful choices. I enjoy the process of discovering how players cause their characters to impact the campaign.
Rules are...
interpreted. I strive to find a healthy balance between adhering to expectations and exciting exceptions.
Rivas's ideal table
While I do not force players to create characters of certain alignment, I do strongly encourage players to consider the narraitve difficulty of working towards a common party goal. I regard the responsibility for creatively engaging in team play as falling on the player, but I certainly enjoy helping in any way I can. Occasionally, I encounter a scenario where a character's motivation and backstory lead to a moment that causes division in the party. In these cases, I prompt the player to consider letting the divisive character become an antagonist Non-Player Character (NPC) and building a new character as a replacement. Meme characters will feel off tone in my games.
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I think it's a red flag when players...
expect uncommunicated expectations. I encourage players to feel comfortable enough to tell each other about behaviors they dislike. Each member of the party has a responsibility to contribute to both the health of the group and their enjoyment of the group.
I think metagaming...
correlates with, but does not cause or imply, unsportsmanlike behavior. Metagaming for the sake of building a character that fits into party composition demonstrates good metagaming. Looking up an enemies stat block represents unsportsmanlike behavior.
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