Szopen (he/him)
5.0
(4)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
1 game hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Inclusive
About me
Hi, I'm Szopen! Over 25+ years I have witnessed and gladly embraced the evolution of our hobby. At my table you will have the opportuninty to take active part in telling the story, adding elements to our world and shaping the events that happen during the games. I like to give as much agency as players and PCs want, so that even prewritten adventures can change and evolve. We collaboratively create the fiction. My favourite popular GM is Brennan Lee Mulligan and I agree with everything I've heard or read from The Alexandrian My 6 recent systems: - D&D 5e - Year Zero Engine (specifically indie ttrpg about being a dragon rider that's about to be translated to english somwhere 2026) - FATE accelerated - Mage the Ascension (old World of Darkness) - City of Mist (and its successor Otherscape) - Daggerheart I've played and ran tons of other systems so if you're interested in something specific - text me!
GM Style
My sessions have cinematic descriptions and action. I think of them like of an action adventure TV series or movie. The main focus is creating an interesting story, to achieve this I often have meta conversations to engineer some interesting coincidences for our characters. PCs are the stars. The story is about them and any quests are merely a background. That being said I don't ignore the rules. I embrace the rule of cool by changing the game in a transparent way. To keep it fair across the table and honour the social contract I add cost and reward. There's almost nothing that you can't do at my table. The question is what are you willing to sacrifice? Safety tools: session 0, lines and veils, X card
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Game Master Reviews (4)
Proficiencies
Players say this GM is great at:
Creativity
Teacher
Inclusive
Miyaa
Played 1 sessions
Playing with Szopen is a lot of fun! He is very mindful for the player's playstyle and encourages creativity while building the story and world around. He creates immersive atmospheric adventures with the use of maps and music/sounds and you can really tell that he puts in a lot of effort in builind the scenarios!
Ksayichi
Played 1 sessions
I had a lot of fun with basically my first dice rpg with Szopen, he took a lot of my suggestions and improvised some situations and has a good way of making atmospheric adventure!
deardani
Szopen has brilliant creative-eye for immersion. This could be through sound, images, description or even elements of directed-character exposition. The way he runs combat allows you the player to take failures in a different direction. He opens up the floor for PCs to flashback to moments in a character's backstory, allowing PCs to change the tone of a scene or give further depth to their characters. He is a joy to play with and fosters collaboration seemingly effortlessly.
Adham M
Definitely the best GM I've had. He's very welcoming, patient and encouraging with new players. You can tell he puts in a lot of effort and care into encounters and building an overarching plot for the campaign. He's also very open to player ideas about the story and building a world together.
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