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Shem

Shem (she/they)

5.0

(5)

DMs Guild Writer
LGBTQ+
Queer
Artist
Game Designer

2 years on StartPlaying

17 games hosted

Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Knows the Rules

About me

Freelance Illustrator + Big fantasy nerd. Media greatly effects my GMing, some of my favorite works are: Books: • The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir • The Black Company by Glen Cook • The Stormlight Archive / Cosmere books in general • Bone by Jeff Smith Games: • Soulsborne series • the Witcher • Zelda I predominantly run PF2E, and am currently working on conversions of popular 5e adventures to that system. I also do a fair bit of homebrew and gamedesign in my spare time!

GM Style

I really enjoy roleplay and storytelling over all else, but I am pretty decent at dice math and tactics. I generally don't love to run large painful combats which is why I moved to Pathfinder 2e, as the variable action economy can allow for a lot more roleplaying in combat than a system like D&D5e (at least in my experience). Generally, I like to explore my players' characters and see what they want to do, as I feel that everyone loves these games a lot more when they can share a story about what happened afterwards!

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