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Shiira

Shiira (she/her)

5.0

(5)

LGBTQ+
Queer
Neurodivergent
Women/Femme Identifying

2 years on StartPlaying

Highly rated for: World Builder, Storytelling, Inclusive

About me

Hello everyone, I am a transgender MtF Dungeon Master, and I've been playing D&D for a collective fourteen years. I primarily play 5e games, and my style tends more towards a blend of roleplay-focus and combat-focus. I like my games to be inclusive and comfortable for people, and the PCs take center stage! Your character will impact the world around them with their choices, and I do my best to make each and every character feel unique and special; my goal is to make it feel like you're playing in a living, breathing world!

GM Style

As a DM I primarily focus on the plot of the story itself, as well as intriguing and unique combat encounters. I am no stranger to improvisation, and often times that is where my character voices end up coming from! The storyline of the plot and the characters themselves is where I shine the most, and you'll find your characters wrapped up in choices that they need to make, and the consequences of those choices whether they be good or bad, whether they effect a handful of people, or even potentially the entire world! I generally use a mixture of official WotC monsters as well as several 3rd party monsters and some of my own homebrew creatures, and I offer over 65 pages of homebrew classes, archetypes, ancestries and more. I want you to play the character you want to play, and have fun doing it!

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Game Master Reviews (5)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

World Builder

Storytelling

Inclusive

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Phoenyx

Maaleshiira is a wonderful GM! She is an amazing story teller, and all her players are always captivated with what she is saying. She is good at giving the players lots of options as far as story pathways go, and is able to make every character backstory matter to the world.

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Ashe

Over the course of my tabletop career spanning almost two decades, I've gamed with many, many people, both GM's and Players alike. This GM ran a game that I rate in my top 3 games I've been involved in of all time. The story is memorable. The world and world-state are extremely in-depth and worthy of praise. Best of all, they allow players to just be players, essentially doing what they want (within reason) and there is a decided lack of railroading while still pushing the story. I'm having a lot of fun playing with his GM and hope to continue to play in more of their games in the future.

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Raiden

A welcoming GM with an evolving world to share, you'll have a great atmosphere at her table. Knows her stuff, works with players to mesh in their character goals into the campaign, and overall a great experience.

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Sophie

Maaleshiira is quite easily the best DM i have ever played with. Iv been playing with her as my dm for a fairly long time now in both premade modules that she's testing out, and her own homebrew worlds/stories. She runs modules well and makes everyone feel relevent and imortant, but her own stories is where she really shines! Every week im just waiting for the next session. She's an incredible world builder and tells you the story of her worlds just amazingly! Everyone gets time in the spotlight and everyone always gets a personal touch to really be included. Leaves lots of room for, and assists in character roleplay super well and every session is so much fun. Knows the game so well and balances everything incredibly, from encounters to homebrew items and spells. Encounters always have danger and could very well mean doom, but its never impossible to win. Communicates well and can easily help with mechanics or characters. Absolutely reccomend to anyone, new or experienced.

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Angel

She makes a massive effort to really fill her world with lore and titbits that might even take years to be revealed, and is happy to let the players work with her so that their character can feel like they really mesh and exist. Her homebrew is creative and attempts to fill a lot of holes that 5e had otherwise, due to her experience of other game types. Games are very well-balanced between fighting and roleplay, and encourages but doesn't force the roleplay. If you like hearing lots of fun and cool lore to get more invested into the world, then big recommend

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