Kata

Been playing for 6 months now, Jonathan is a great DM. Kind, inclusive and helpful. He has interesting worlds and fun characters, and works with the players to tell a neat story. I've had a good time in his games, and plan to stay in this one for a while longer, and might try out his Strixhaven game later. Would recommend!

Fantastic GM. Allows for and encourages player creativity and roleplaying, writes interesting characters and situations to engage with, follows rules as intended with enough wiggle room for fun things. Have enjoyed every session, with even the weaker sessions still being fun and would recommend, and several great sessions. GM's personality is welcoming and inclusive, too, including some players on the newer end of the spectrum, and others more experienced.

GM has a talent for interesting NPCs and situations, and I had fun when doing RP-heavy interactions with other players and friendly NPCs. however, the playstyle is fairly frustrating. Stunting is rarely rewarded as intended, difficulty on common tasks is unusually high, rules are applied strictly and often more restrictively than rules as written or intended, and player creativity is usually penalized rather than rewarded - generating extra work and wasting entire sessions on side-tasks upon side-tasks. In addition, in this Exalted game, players will spend several months of real-time as unexalted mortals who cannot succeed at most rolls being asked of them, before they become an exalted who is likely being run at lower essence than intended for a starting character. GM also does not ask for feedback, nor respond to in-session feedback. All in all, I never once felt impactful or cool in this Exalted game.

Had good fun on the start of the adventure, looking forward to session 2.