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Somnus Grey

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4.9

(78)

Timezone

Australia/sydney

Language

English

Identity

Streamer
LGBTQ+
Artist
Voice Actor
Game Designer

About Somnus Grey

Hello there, Somnus (they/sun) here! Writer, Game Designer, Voice Actor, and Gendervoid Entity 🍵🧣. Let me be your guide into countless lands of fantasy, fear, and fun. I love creating evocative worlds for you to experience, which will constantly develop as you interact with it and make meaningful decisions. Uncover the setting through play, face untold dangers, and forge memories you'll hold forever. My tables are friendly to complete beginners—I love teaching people new games and getting you more accommodated to the fun world of TTRPGs.

At a glance

5 years on StartPlaying

596 games hosted

Highly rated for: Inclusive, Creativity, Teacher

Featured Prompts

My 3 systems I'd bring to a desert island would be

Mausritter, Ironsworn, and Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition.

When I'm not running games I'm...

designing games, streaming, or sleeping.

How Somnus Grey runs games

✍️ All my games use human-made artwork. AI-Generated content is not allowed at my game tables, including player character tokens. 🎨 I love to bring the world to life with aesthetically interesting visuals and mood appropriate playlists. I prepare combat tracks for enemy types, ambience for environments, and voice changers for more monstrous individuals. ⏳ I love allowing scenes to breathe. I take time to describe difficult travel scenes and let you understand the setting more. I let campfire scenes play out longer for player characters to quietly talk about the harrowing day they had and to let the 'smaller' actions be emphasised. These slower 'slice of life' scenes allow a stronger contrast to the visceral speed of dangerous combats or tense chases. ⚔️ I love combat! I emphasise its tactical nature with dynamic terrain, shifting goals, hard to make choices, and varied enemy types. Let's get equally excited and afraid when initiative begins! 🎭 I love roleplaying out social interactions with NPCs—be it during town shopping and exploration, or even during combat when they are swearing at you to surrender. I give characters motivations, secrets, and histories that direct their personalities. You are meant to hate some and love others—maybe even fall in love. 🗺️ I prefer Situations not Plots. If I'm not running a pre-made adventure—there is no script—you freely make the choices. The story you find and create together comes from how you interact with a situation. How does it get resolved? What did it cost? What situations develop from your decision? 🎲 I believe using our improvisational skills to interpret the chaos of the dice fuels creativity. When a dice is used to foretell and speak truths, it is breathed into the world and massaged to comfortably fit.

Somnus Grey's Preferences

Systems

Pathfinder 2e
Dungeons & Dragons 4e
Lancer
Ironsworn
Blades in the Dark
Mothership
LUMEN
Fabula Ultima
Mausritter
Into the Odd
Trophy Dark
World Wide Wrestling 2e
Mark of the Odd
Cairn
Shadowdark RPG
The Mecha Hack
Girl By Moonlight
CBR+PNK
BREAK!!
Breathless
Daggerheart
Mythic Bastionland
Draw Steel

Game style

Roleplay Heavy

Combat Heavy

Play By Post

Sandbox / Open World

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