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Jim Earnshaw

Jim Earnshaw (he/him)

5.0

(3)

1 year on StartPlaying

Highly rated for: Storytelling, Inclusive, Creativity

About me

I loved playing D&D and role-playing games since the early 80s. I enjoy the community aspect of storytelling and building a world players appreciate and find entertaining. I hope I am able to provide some enjoyment for you.

GM Style

I enjoy when a player gets into his or her character, whatever that means to the individual. If it is heavy RP and voicing then I'm all for that. If it is technical character building then I want to facilitate that. I want to help people become invested in the game and look for individual hooks and storyline arcs that allow the character to feel like they are a special part of the world. I am personally not a great voice actor, so I don't do a lot of that, but I try to personalize NPCs with memorable traits or descriptions that help bring them to life. I mostly play by RAW, but I incorporate some custom rules as long as everyone agrees with them and finds them reasonable.

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Game Master Reviews (3)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

Storytelling

Inclusive

Creativity

Rice avatar

Rice

As a first-time user of Discord and roll20 (but a long-time D&D player), he provided a nice level of instruction and help to get things going quickly and make me comfortable with the technology. The story was well-thought out and whimsical, and perfectly matched what I was expecting from the description when I signed up.

Alex Edward white avatar

Alex Edward white

wow

Nathan Duda avatar

Nathan Duda

all inclusive, allowed players to be creative with different off script ideas.

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