About me

Mr. Steve starting playing Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering in Middle School, while the Magic habit did not stick, the TTRPG habit most definitely did. He's been playing and running games with home groups, at Friendly Local Game Stores, gaming conventions, and, since the advent of Coronapocalypse, online. Steve's love of gaming, fantasy, and sci-fi lead to a degree in History and a teaching career. (He even met his wife at his university's Medieval History Club.) At one point he even managed to convince his school's administrator to let him teach a "Guided Improv" theater elective (the improv was guided by the roll of d20's). He continues to teach high school history and occasionally helps out with the school's gaming clubs.

GM Style

I will spend hours creating the characters for the games I play, so I appreciate a well-honed character. That being said, a 10-minute, "let's get this thing together so I can play" character can be just as fun. I enjoy collective story-telling and creative problem-solving, so when a player in my games comes up with a unique solution to a challenge, I roll with it. I am familiar with the current ruleset, but I try to avoid rules lawyering at my tables. I am a firm believer in "DM rule zero" and "The Rule of Cool". At the same time, I don't want any single player to hijack the game and have the rest of the table feeling left out.

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