Benjamin / Xiaofang / 曉方

he/him

5.0

(112)

Timezone

Europe/london

Language

English

Identity

Asian

Artist

Teacher/Educator

About Benjamin / Xiaofang / 曉方

(Games will be played using Roll20 for VTT, D&DBeyond for character sheets and content sharing and Discord for voice chat and logs) Add me: xiaofang64 Hello! My name is Benjamin. A longtime player, GM, and game designer, fluent in a diverse range of systems! My top priority as a GM is crafting compelling experiences, collaboratively, driven by character choices over predetermined narratives. My experience as a teacher means I know how to create materials designed to engage and stimulate. The journey of our adventures will be recorded in logs written by me, with input from the players. No Gen-AI content, ever! As well as running the game, I'm also a writer for several 3rd party modules: D&D, Mothership 1e, and System Agnostic adventures. Search me up on itch, Drivethrurpg or DMSGuild to play my adventures! I hope to roll with you soon!

At a glance

3 years on StartPlaying

570 games hosted

Highly rated for: Storytelling, Creativity, Teacher

Featured Prompts

I got started GMing...

Because nobody else would!

My favorite books are

Scar (China Mieville) History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Julian Barnes) and On Certainty (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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

Reading games!

How Benjamin / Xiaofang / 曉方 runs games

As a GM, I strive to balance roleplaying and crunch. It is important that each character has the space to explore their own motivations and goals within a shared story. I use Roll20, and D&DBeyond for character sheets. I like to use a lot of tools to help create an immersive sensory experience, including tactical battlemaps, ambient music, dynamic lighting and a whole smorgasbord of funny voices. It is important to me to immortalise the stories we create together at the table. For that reason, I always write detailed logs of our sessions, using input from my players to help craft the narrative!