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Vhaidara

Vhaidara (she/her)

5.0

(38)

2 years on StartPlaying

297 games hosted

Highly rated for: Creativity, Inclusive, Knows the Rules

Average response time: 10 hours

Response rate: 75%

About me

I have been playing TTRPGs since high school, and introduced many friends to the hobby through college. For the last 7 years, most of my DMing practice came from a Living campaign, running over a hundred sessions online for dozens of individuals. I am a creative individual, with experience improvising in response to player nonsense (possibly the best part of any game) who enjoys seeing more off-the-wall character concepts. While I make an effort to keep things balanced, I prefer to err in the side of player enjoyment. I am a trans woman, and the only people not welcome at my table are those who take issue with the existence of others. I am open to running any time, any day but Saturdays (which are my day to act as a player). If you have a particular adventure you want to play, drop me a message and I can put it on my schedule. Fastest response will be given over Discord, StartPlaying doesn't notify me when i get a message through the site. Vhaidara#2489. If you see a game on my schedule with no players in it, I am perfectly willing to modify the game or the time to match with a new group, think of those more as proposals

GM Style

I greatly enjoy both roleplaying and tactical combat. I also generally aim to stick to rules unless something is discussed beforehand. The systems I enjoy are generally well balanced, but I am comfortable enough with them to be willing to make some changes to enable some stranger character concepts. The point of a game is to have fun, so as long as the group is enjoying themselves, I consider it a win. My general tone preference is to the heroic, though conflicted characters and even evil characters are welcome, as long as they are cooperative and not antagonistic. In game antagonism is only okay if the players involved have both agreed to it out of game (and those are some of the best stories I've seen)

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Game Master Reviews (38)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

Creativity

Inclusive

Knows the Rules

aecht avatar

aecht

Played 40 sessions

Expert understanding of the rules and game system. Puts in the time before session to review the monster abilities to make sure fights are challenging but also not bogged down by having to look up effects. Very good at "reading the room" in terms of deciding when to let players roleplay and when to push them towards the next objective

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PastorPlague

Played 51 sessions

Vhaidara is an amazing and terrific GM. She welcomed my wife and I to the game (actually found players for the game when we signed up which was amazing!) and helped teach the rules and system to my wife and I. She is amazingly patient as well as we have 4 kids and randomly are needed by them which she understands, as well as being understanding and giving us time when my service dog suddenly passed away, always checking in on me and seeing how I was holding up through the grieving process. I cant express how fortunate we feel to have found such an amazing, friendly, and fun GM to play with. We love playing in her games and we are hoping to join more in the future.

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Jason

Played 40 sessions

Top 3 favorite DM remote and in person. You can tell she really enjoys DMing. She has a lot of fun and well received home brews for certain situations that makes a lot of sense. A good balance with raw and player freedom.

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Robin Brandon

Had a few games with them GMing and playing (not at the same time!) in a couple of Living World / Westmarch style on-line VTTRPG servers. Great at both, always very happy to share a table with her! :-) She's also been a great help with me getting to grips with the rules of a couple of unfamiliar systems. She has outstanding knowledge & understanding of her chosen systems. She's also good at not letting games get bogged down by rule debates in game, and happy to chat about the rulings after the game is over. I will note I've only been in more crunchy / combat focused games with her (think Pathfinder 2nd ed & similar), so can't comment on how they are with other styles of game (like, say Cthulu or Fate). That's not to say I think she'd be bad - on the contrary, I think they'd be great, and I'd be 100% interested for being in those games ran by her! Just I've no relevant experience outside the battle-mapping particular tabletop niche with which to recommend them. But I definitely would suggest them for GMing a crunchy / combat focused game without hesitation. :-)

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Bahamut

A fun GM who does great work and helps players out when they're mistaken about some of their features will remind them about how it works

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AngeloJaque

They are kind and helpful

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