Lauren

Great at encouraging roleplay, creates a world full of life and fun interactive npcs, with not just tons of personality, but reasons to talk to and engage with the npcs. Sessions are timely- both beginning and end time- and fast-paced without rushing. Players get all the interactions they want but when we finish a 3 hour session I feel like we've made a lot of progress. I've played up to level 6 with DM Blake so far, and combat has felt kind of easy. So probably a good match for other players like me who don't want to worry about remaking characters all the time (this was a trait I was looking for when I joined the group). (As a note, players are referred to by as character name + pronoun in our group, which was weird to get used to, but is fine. Might be something to keep in mind if that kind of thing could be unpleasant for you.)