Lexi

Having had Joab as a fellow scoundrel in Blades in the Dark for some time, and knowing him to be a fellow fan of the OSR, I was truly excited to play a Mörk Borg one shot with him as GM – and did not leave disappointed! Joab is a knowledgeable and easygoing GM, who honors and encourages player decisions—including the hair-brained ones—in a perfect balance between Rules-as-Written enough to let new players get the lay of the land, and Rule-of-Cool enough to inspire them to make the game their own through playstyle. In my opinion, this constitutes the ideal type of OSR GMing, and by the time the game was done, I was already babbling about the possibility of getting a LotFP or Pirate Borg game going soon! As a side note, I’ll also say Joab made some of the best use of Roll20 I’ve seen, with a highly interactive VTT that really added to the dungeon crawl feel.

In the simplest terms, my Blades in the Dark campaign with Bluebird is one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. Bluebird manages to harmonize an appropriately dark setting with a truly warm and welcoming above table environment, while incorporating excellent prep work with character-specific quests, rewards, and opportunities for development that really hits the levels of the sorts of actual plays that got me invested in TTRPGs in the first place. In addition to the game sessions themselves, we get excellent recaps and regular, wonderfully cryptic updates via a "Rumors / Overheard in Doskvol" channel on the Discord server that drop esoteric clues about the next score, that serves the worldbuilding almost as well as it just makes me never stop thinking about the game! A million stars, zero notes. UPDATE: We just did a Stewpot one-shot, so I can accordingly attest, as expected, Bluebird also runs just as fantastic a cozy low-stakes setting as she does a dark high-octane one!

*Amazing* experience! As someone for whom at this stage D&D would frankly struggle to break into my top 5 TTRPGs, Diego honestly revitalized the feeling of playing for me, with an incredible prowess for storytelling, voices and bit-commitment, as such that the one-shot genuinely felt like a mini campaign, with a character I cared about, in a world I believed in. I would absolutely play with Diego again, and strongly recommend anyone in the Chicago area go see his RPG improv show Anything But Dragons!

SUCH a fun afternoon playing criminal geese in The H.O.N.K System with The Dreaded DM! Caitlin provided a very speedy set-up, a really fun premise, a great variety of voices and soundtracks that built up a truly entertaining two-parts-adorable one-part-thrilling comic caper. I'd recommend Caitlin as a GM to anyone at all.

Creative, welcoming, instructional, and fun! Aidan ran a fantastic learn-to-play Daggerhearts, with players across a broad range of experience levels, and crafted a balanced and exciting game for us all. I’d absolutely play with Aidan again :)