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Jack

Jack (he/him)

5.0

(18)

Black
Neurodivergent
Published Writer
Cosplayer
Teacher/Educator
Game Designer

3 years on StartPlaying

65 games hosted

Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Teacher

About me

I'm an Afro-Caribbean TTRPG lover that started playing with 5E and branched out in a hurry. I've played and loved FATE, Index Card RPG, and Dungeon Crawl Classics to name a few, and bring all the lessons I've leaned and things I love from these systems into my games and overall design philosophy. My start with game design began in the Warcraft 3 World Editor where I realized that crafting and curating experiences for others could be just as fulfilling as playing. Now, almost 20 years later, I've come full circle and leaned fully into the joy of encounter design and world-building for their own sake. My last 3 day jobs have included Urban Farming, City Planning and Capacity Building, and Hurricane Survivor Direct Aid and Advocacy. I was raised with and generally operate out of a sense of community that continually refuels my burning desire to bring about the end of capitalism. I strongly believe in the innate goodness of humans and like to think that TTRPGs are as much games as they are tools for self-reflection. The value of play is severely understated in the eyes of most adults and TTRPGs are a little sacred in the way they allow people to comfortably shed their "adulthood" to reclaim their sense of wonder and adventure for a couple hours at a time. I'm a martial artist, poet, and an artist that will draw when absolutely forced to. My background includes federal disaster management, nonprofit startups, senior advocacy, and youth mentorship. ForeverDM and fine with it. Post-OGL and Hadozee, No longer running DnD5e

GM Style

My bread and butter games are simple, low-power adventures where you'll solve a local problem and spiral upward from there. Sometimes it stays local, with maybe a dragon at the end of it all. Sometimes you end up visiting three dimensions in six sessions and recruiting an army to fight a dracolich and rogue angel who's marshalling the armies of hell. I run my games according to a few tenets: -Story First: I'm a fan of your characters. We're here to tell a cool story that's about your characters interacting with a world that has no invisible walls with a tone we agree on, first and foremost. Everything is secondary to that, even the rules sometimes. -Just Enough Chaos: At my tables, we consult the dice often and allow wild rolls to introduce elements nobody (not even me!) saw coming. This plus a bit of improv magic tends to have tables flirting with catastrophic failure and laughing the whole way whether everything explodes and goes to hell or the plan goes off without a hitch! -Safe Fun: I'm intentional about making my games a safe place for everyone. Players experiencing bullying and discrimination are non-starters at my tables. We'll have out of game conversations to make sure adventures won't contain content that doesn't work for you, and I'm always willing to pause and take a step back to discuss above-table issues that may arise. It's always more fun when we know everyone is having a good time.

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