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Ryan "Rybonator" Brainard

Ryan "Rybonator" Brainard (he/him)

5.0

(17)

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Less than a year on StartPlaying

8 games hosted

Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, World Builder

Average response time: Under 1 hour

Response rate: 100%

About me

Howdy fellow adventurers! I've been a Dungeon Master for 14 years now and to say it is one of my passions is a massive understatement. I turned my love for tabletop gaming into a career on YouTube creating tutorials and making things for TTRPGs. While I do love making things, my heart lies in building a world- no, a STORY with others! I've streamed DnD games to hundreds of viewers, and played many multi-year long campaigns with friends and made many new friends along the way. I've written dozens of Homebrew subclasses, modules, campaigns, and an entire world that I hope I can share with you!

GM Style

As a Dungeon Master the most important thing, and my main job, is to make sure everyone has fun! That includes making sure everyone feels safe and able to fully immerse themselves in my games! One of my favorite tools to keep everyone engaged in my games is giving out Points of Inspiration. I feel that the core rules limit them to simply acts of great heroism, when they can be so much more! I award points to players for great roleplaying, doing things in character even if their player may know is a bad idea (anti-metagaming), and especially paying attention! At the start of all my games, we roll to see who recaps the last session. If you are chosen to recap and you do a great job recapping the session, YOU get a Point of Inspiration to use whoever you choose! This keeps players paying attention at all times and rewards those who do so! YES is my favorite word. I like to let my players loose so that they can truly tell the story that they want to tell! Sure, you can punch that dragon in the face as a level 1 bard! Let's figure out what happens together. I'm beginner friendly, but always happy to test the capabilities of anyone looking for a challenge. We're gonna get silly, we're gonna have heartfelt moments, heck we may even cry together. I'm invested as long as you are! So let's get to gaming because I want to play!

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