About me

Welcoming GM of 7.5 years. Veteran Critical Role and Dimension 20 Fan. Lifetime Nerd and Safety Tool Advocate 💪

GM Style

Bidet y'all! Sam here! (He/Him). I’ve been GMing RPGs for 7.5 years now and have run games for many different groups in my time, including a pair of long-term campaigns. I am currently running three professional games a week (2 DnD, 1 Candela) as well as a 3+ year long home game set in Exandria. Outside of GMing professionally, I work as a martial arts instructor, am training to become a mindfulness teacher and am a semi-professional musician ⚔ My two biggest inspirations as a GM are Critical Role’s Matt Mercer and Dimension 20’s Brennan Lee Mulligan, and my games tend to follow a similar play style to both of their shows: incorporating all 3 Pillars of Play (Exploration, Combat and Social Interaction), focusing on fostering an empathetic relationship between all members of the group, ensuring everyone gets a chance to shine and leaving plenty of room for both dramatic moments…and also giggling cus the Wild Magic Sorcerer managed to turn into a sheep twice in 5 sessions (good times) 🐑 I’ve had years to hone my craft and provide an experience for players that is engaging, personalised and entertaining. While I do like to keep my games structured so things feel meaningful, I do tend to operate under the rule that generally Story > Rules (within reason) and weave each character’s backstory into the tale to create a rich experience. I have been on the receiving end of bad GM experiences as a player, so I know how bad DnD feels and some of the pitfalls that can cause it, which I have become proficient in navigating over the years. In my job as an instructor, I always introducing new students to kickboxing and watching them find their own love for it in the process. This is very much mirrored in myself as a GM: I want my players to have a good time, forget about their troubles for a while and hopefully learn something new in the process, particularly if this is one of their first experiences of DnD 🖤 As a musician myself, incorporating music and atmospheric sounds in my games has been something I've done from the very beginning. I have collected a library of music and atmospheric tracks that I incorporate into my games to help players get into the groove and immerse themselves more in the world. I also use my acting and vocal skills from my performance background to embody the different characters within the game to aid in immersion and make the experience more fun, with my voice changer app and soundboard adding further fire to the chaos… 🎙 “Sam is something special. He has all the green flags: good in depth session 0, respectful play and regular check-ins, organised, attentive, and hard working. The combat is always challenging and interesting. Role play is immersive as he uses voice changers, thematic music, and sound effects. The effort he puts in to back story, and the story as a whole, makes you look forward to every session.” -Munch (Current player since 2023) Hope to see you in one of my games! Cheers gang! 👍

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