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Ryan

Ryan (he/him)

5.0

(8)

1 year on StartPlaying

61 games hosted

Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Rule of Cool

About me

I've got a kind of "Catatouille" situation going on. That is, a cat controls me from under a hat and another types out nonsense on my keyboard while they plot to take over the world. They only keep me around because I can speak Common. Cat control notwithstanding, my first experience with D&D was when I was in college at the ripe old age of 18. We were playing 4E, so I'm sure you can understand how I didn't play another tabletop game for a while... More recently, however, discovering the joys of being able to play RPGs online, with people from all over, got me back into it. Eventually I decided that I wanted to run my own games, learned about all the cool things that Foundry lets me do, and that's kind of where we're at now! I started running games with D&D 5E, but have found myself getting a little bored with the system, and am branching out to as many other systems as I can handle!

GM Style

Once upon a time my favorite thing was combat, but you know? The passage of time encourages us to evolve our opinions. Grid-based combat can certainly be a good time, but when you find a group that wants to roleplay, that's what I like to see more of. Whether it's during a conversation in town, crawling through a dungeon, or hacking and slashing at some monsters, I want to GM for players who actively play characters! I don't expect anyone to be a professional voice actor (because I certainly am not!), but I love to play in a game where we have flawed characters making flawed decisions using potentially flawed information! Powergaming our way to the finish line IS a way to play, but isn't very interesting at the end of the day.

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