Sir Squirrelbane
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About Sir Squirrelbane
I am a long-time role-player and GM in his mid-50s. I started playing role-playing games because I loved reading speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, and horror), and enjoyed it so much that I wanted to be involved in it. I wanted to be more than a spectator. This led me to being a player. But, I also had my own vision of the perfect game, and I hadn’t found it. The best way to find it would be to construct it myself. Thus, a GM was born. I played AD&D and GURPS 2nd Edition in the 80s and 90s, both as player and GM. I took some time off from gaming, though, as the real world intruded. I got married, a career, and a child and gaming took a backseat. I played RPG computer games, and I loved them, but they are limited to programming. Gaming with actual people has an ebb and flow, and the only restrictions are imagination and the real world. In 2020, when the world was falling apart and we were confined at home, I needed social contact, and decided to get back into RPGs with real people online. I researched VTTs, and started out with D&D 5th ed and Roll20. Five years later, I have expanded my horizons to GURPS 4th ed, and then to Foundry. I am a traditionally published author of speculative short fiction, and am a story-teller at heart. My favorite fantasy is A Song of Ice and Fire, and my favorite SciFi is The Expanse and the (2005) Battlestar Galactica. I like my fiction intense, gritty, deep, and morally complex. I have a developed sense of humor, and love wit and wordplay. I am a compulsive communicator, and when it comes to gaming, well-organized. I am also liberal, politically aware, and fully inclusive.
At a glance
1 year on StartPlaying
17 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, World Builder, Storytelling
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I became a GM because
Rather than wait for someone else to make the perfect game for me, I decided to make the game I wanted to play in.
My favorite books are
A Song of Ice and Fire -- George R.R. Martin The Expanse -- James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)
My favorite system of all Time is
GURPS. Generic Universal Roleplaying System. It is a classless system allowing you to make whatever you want as a player, and to design anything you want as a GM. It is less a system and more of a framework to make your own system.
How Sir Squirrelbane runs games
I love a good story. I'm a story-teller. Everything in fantasy gaming should have some connection to a story, be it the main story, or a side-story, or a backstory. Great roleplay is the pinnacle of fantasy gaming, but i love me some tactical combat. You need the action to keep the adrenaline pumping, but without the talky-talky the action is empty and unfulfilling. Characters being believable people with strengths and weaknesses create a narrative with which players can identify.
Sir Squirrelbane's ideal table
Immersive stories, a living world which changes, colorful characters with their own agendas, and heroic deeds to be done.
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I am for a vibe that's...
fun, friendly, and helpful.
If you're into ___, you're going to love my table
immersive stories
I think min/maxing...
...is kind of pointless. The only way to win a roleplaying game is to have fun. If you have fun, and help others have fun, and don't hinder anyone else's fun, then you've won. RPGs are not video games. They are, at their heart, a social gathering and group story-telling.