William

any/all

5.0

(5)

Timezone

America/chicago

Language

English

About William

My name is William and I love running games. Honestly, I just want to play. I love running a game and seeing where the story takes us. I have been working on my own campaign setting and am looking forward to sharing it with others. I found D&D in the 8th grade and it did not take long for me to fall in love with the game. I have played pretty much ever since with different DMs and have learned from all of them. If you are interested in my campaign you are free to read it. Limited spoilers for anyone from the city and only a few locations for outsiders. Nothing to be concerned about. If you come across something that says stop reading I have warned you. On occasion, I have work in progress that I need to move to a private page. (This is a bit outdated as I switched to onenote, but the basics are all still there). https://www.worldanvil.com/w/land-of-the-fallen-7Blandfall7D-masterwitch

At a glance

4 years on StartPlaying

1 games hosted

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My favorite shows/movies are

probably The Princess Bride, The Never Ending Story, Legend (1985), and Labyrinth (1986).

When I'm not running games I'm...

Either studying Tarot or building a system for solo play. My current obsession in Shadowdark. I spend a little bit every day playing and fine tuning my solo game.

How William runs games

I like to run theater of the mind-style games with a balance of RPG and combat. I like to focus on the specifics of the character's background and history to allow the story to flow from who the characters are and where they have come from. If you're a bunch of scoundrels your adventure may start under the watchful eye of the thieves guild. If you are a group of academics you might start your day in the mage tower. Or you might be a group of goblins living on the edge of the city trying to survive another night. As long as the game is fun and a good time is had by all what more could I hope for. I was asked by a player why I don't use a VTT? Honestly, I find them limiting. Players can move throughout my world without being locked into a map. Sure I might throw a map up online or an image on discord but I find our imaginations are so much more powerful when given the freedom to move about a living world that can change with the roll of a dice and the whims of the players.

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I deal with rules issues by...

placing fun and story first but as a long time rules lawyer I do enjoy learning the rules and following them. Yet I feel the first rule is that games are about having fun and no rule should get in the way of that fun.

I prep by

world building. I find a DM\ Story teller has a charecter as much as players do. It is the world we run. As much love as a player gives to a charecter the DM needs to put into the setting the game will be played in. After that you just tell the story the players charecter would have in that world.

My games focus on...

the story that the players bring to the table. A pluck band of bards is going to have a different story them a group of holy rollers. I can place these two groups in the same place and have very different stories as the lead characters have a different focus. This is why character backstory matters.

William's ideal table

I tend to be story first and like a good in game joke, but try to respect those more serious moments as well. I have an open door related to communication and want to hear what I can do better as my goal is always too run a game that everyone at the table can enjoy.