Brian

he/him

5.0

(22)

Timezone

America/chicago

Identity

Neurodivergent

Artist

Game Designer

About Brian

Friendly & neurodivergent GM who has been playing tabletop for over 10 years; known as Brian or Lava(online). For my games I act, employ voices, and love to engage players in anything they need. I love DND 5E, DMing has become a passion and it is something I take seriously at trying to be the best DM that I can. I am LGBTQ+ and BIPOC friendly! Now using local currency prices! *-----------------------------------------------------------* GOALS ON THE SITE: I am looking to create a full time experience to my players at high quality value. Eventually I am looking to have a small number of tables in order to give more attention and time to the players/tables. I love to focus on quality and engagement with my players. I am happy to say that I am very close to being able to do this full time. Thank you to all who join and are at my table! Join today, lets start an adventure! *-----------------------------------------------------------*

At a glance

2 years on StartPlaying

204 games hosted

Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, World Builder

Average response time: 24+ hours

Response rate: 100%

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I got started GMing...

In a West march server doing missions the players requested. I did that maybe 2 or three times a week for about a year till the original DM needed to step away due to life. From there I continued because I really liked the way I wanted to DM and engage with the story. Eventually finding my way here.

My favorite books are

The Cosmere collection by Brandon Sanderson, Samurai Shortstop, The outsider by Stephen King, Armada, Leviathan, and many more but that's just to name a few. I like variety and the perspective that books can bring.

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

Working as a programmer or in IT, finding time to cook and go bouldering and do a session of street photography.

How Brian runs games

As a DM I am huge into role-play, I will stand up and act out a scene with a player. You can find me attempting to adlib voice’s and sounds. I also am a big fan of choices mattering. Run through a campaign in my homebrew world and go through another adventure in the same setting? See ripples of actions and choices bend and twist the world you walk through. To that effect I encourage players to find any way that they would like to handle a situation. I enjoy combat and cheer with the players when they have impactful moments, to that effect every great moment should feel like it has a good achievement behind it. Also I hold the rules of general table manners, so I make sure everyone can play. MY GAME STYLE: Combat: 4/5 Exploration: 5/5 Humor: 4/5 Puzzles: 3/5 Social: 5/5 I run by Milestone and typically point-buy. With preference in wide world exploration and roleplay. I typically run 5e and allow all content official. I use Discord for music, sounds, and Voices. I use Roll-20 for Maps/Tokens/Combat. My time zone is CDT (GMT-5)

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I deal with rules issues by...

using the logic that I explain in short. Like if magic comes from a particular source it might not effect another source.

My games focus on...

role play most of all. I mainly run DND so there will always be combat but doesn't mean we cannot have some fun with it.

When it comes to voices

I try my best to give a voice that seems to match the person talking. Though that voice might be amongst like a few in the catalog that I use often.

Brian's ideal table

Vibrant and full of energy, there is nothing that the players cannot ask me that I am not happy to answer. I always want the players to ask and engage and if I want that then I feel I should give that. Lots of Roleplay, lots of descriptions, joking atmosphere with serious touching moments.

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I love it when a player

gets creative and descriptive with what they do. Mechanics are the same but we are sprinkling in that signature for the character you are playing.

I think it's a red flag when players...

try to argue with a DM over something that happened or insist that the DM is wrong about something. Mistakes happen but it should never pull everyone out of a moment just because that player disagrees with what happens to the point of stopping a session.

I think metagaming...

Is not okay, its a failed opportunity to have your character look into a creature or a situation and discover that naturally or maybe suffer the consequences for not doing that.