Marjon

Where to begin? I've been playing with Jaana for almost 2 years now and there are a lot of things I enjoy about participating in her campaigns. 1) really good at 'coaching', in the sense that she will adapt to the players and how much experience they have and what they can learn to enjoy DnD even more. Especially if you're new, she can help by warning you about certain choices/options so you can understand your own character and their options better (she's good at pointing out options that I never would have thought about when it comes to the personality or background of my characters for example), but she will also be the 'tough but fair' person that will let you make mistakes and suffer the consequences (especially if you keep making choices you've been warned for already, which I do often but for me that's sometimes the best way to learn). 2) She is able to keep up the pace in sessions, and mostly during fights. In some of our campaigns we have a tendency to overthink and over-discuss everything, and she'll make us focus on the 'reality' we're in and that it's not a logical choice to discuss our future plans while we're about to start a fight (for example). There's enough room for discussions and emotional moments and fun and character development, but she's great at moving us along if we need to as well. 3) I also really enjoy the way she's able to describe the world/setting you're in. Still have flashbacks of how intense and creepy some of our one-offs were, but she completely had me invested in those one-offs just by the way she described it. 4) kind of fits with 1, but she is not a DM that will railroad their players and force them into certain directions 'because she wants to' or because she hasn't prepared something. Even if we completely surprise her by our choices, you won't notice that she's improvised the part that follows. which brings me to 5), which is that she's almost always super well prepared. So we barely ever catch her by surprise, because she has most of the campaign setting already worked out before we can even think of going into certain directions. In short: would recommend Jaana every time. Think I'm very lucky to have her as a DM, and the way she's able to juggle between fun and tension during sessions and just having me as a player/character feel safe to make choices that might feel a bit out there (to me as a person) makes me look forward to playing with her every time.