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GM mega

GM mega (he/him)

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Multi-lingual

3 years on StartPlaying

Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Voices

About me

Let's do this in question-answer format. ๐: ๐ˆโ€™๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ? A: I'm a thirty-something man from the Baltics. I've been a huge RPG nerd for, dang, almost two decades now. Iโ€™d like to run some games for cash. ๐: ๐€๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐†๐Œ? Iโ€™m decent. Iโ€™m not a professional actor, improv guru or a celebrity GM, but I run a pretty good home game. ๐: ๐–๐ก๐ฒ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ ๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž? A: I could really use the cash atm. Also, it would be nice to be able to justify spending this much time on tabletop RPGs by paying my bills with it. ๐: ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง? A: I really enjoy running prewritten campaigns. It gives me a foundation to work off and lets the players know what to expect from a GM they havenโ€™t played with before. So Iโ€™ll be running various published modules for Call of Cthulhu, OSR, Pathfinder 2e, etc. ๐: ๐–๐ก๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ฌ? It's one of those things where I've been 'mega' online for so long, it just feels weird when people call me anything else, y'know?

GM Style

It's a little weird and awkward trying to convince someone that yes, you are good at something and not bad at it, but rest assured, I RPG real good and I donโ€™t RPG bad. All things you think good RPG? I do. All thing bad RPG? Big no-no for me. Roleplay? Having 'fun'? Being cordial and professional? ๐—ฌ๐—˜๐—ฆ. Dropping a player into a churning piranha tank because they made eye contact with me? I'd ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง, big yikes! I run games without webcams. I just use Discord audio + VTT (Roll20 or Foundry, depending on the system). I usually save the music for climactic moments and silly gags - I am too busy GMing to also be the DJ and, just between you and me, when I'm a player I always mute the combat music anyway. I enjoy teaching games to players. I have a long-running group where we try out new systems every few weeks, so we all got pretty good at it. Doing funny voices and accents is fun. My games are Terrible Voices Safe Zone. Iโ€™m fairly lenient about re-building your character or changing to a new one if the current character is not working for you. I try to aim for 5 players in a group. More is crowded, less becomes a problem when someone skips a week.

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