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Melissakainen

5.0

(12)

Timezone

America/new York

Identity

LGBTQ+
Published Writer
Artist
Women/Femme Identifying
Game Designer

About Melissakainen

You travel 60' down a 10' wide corridor. At a 4-way intersection you encounter me. The encounter reaction is friendly! From me you learn the following rumors: 1. I have been playing D&D since the B/X edition and DMing most of that time (T). 2. I once dressed as a minotaur for Halloween (F - but I wish!). 3. I was published in Dragon magazine once, in the TSR days (T). 4. I have written published modules and accessories for several small gaming companies (T). 5. I own the world's largest d20 (F - where would I store it??). 6. I am a self-published game designer, my game is the best supported game you've never heard of (almost surely T). 7. I am here to run Old School games that are fun, challenging, and rewarding, using theater of the mind and low-tech props over Zoom (T). 8. This was all a trick! Roll for initiative!

At a glance

2 years on StartPlaying

23 games hosted

Highly rated for: Knows the Rules, Inclusive, Creativity

Average response time: 1 hour

Response rate: 100%

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My favorite books are

The Hobbit, Gods of Mars, With a Single Spell.

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

Making videos about early comic book history.

How Melissakainen runs games

I love Old School...I love 10' wide corridors and wandering monsters and dungeons with no ecological sense to them. But I also love a sense of story and character development and deep, immersive world-building. They are not incompatible campaign philosophies. I like to run a game that is fun, that doesn't take itself too seriously. The game can also be deadly; don't write too long a backstory because you may be rolling up a new character soon if you don't play smart or are just unlucky.

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Rules are...

Rules are fascinating to me. I love to study how the early game systems developed, where their mechanics came from, and marvel at how many of them got it right so quickly.

Melissakainen's Preferences

Systems

Gamma World
Dungeons & Dragons 0e
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1e
Metamorphosis Alpha
Bunnies & Burrows

Game style

Roleplay Heavy

Combat Heavy

Dungeon Crawl

Theater of the Mind

Rules as Written (RaW)

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