Eve

Very inclusive and LGBTQ+ friendly! I feel very comfortable in her group as a player and have so far been having a great time with our story-so-far ^ ^ I came into the campaign with literally zero experience with Cyberpunk RED (didn't even read/own any of the rulebooks yet), and she helped me out a lot. I took maybe nearly a whole week trying to finish my character sheet, as I didn't immediately know what I wanted, yet she was extremely patient and understanding! Character creation was the most daunting part as a newbie, but once I got past that, things were much smoother from then on! If you're looking for a queer-friendly and newbie-friendly DM, Sugar is a very good choice!

Great story teller to work with. Very open and flexible in regards to character creation/backstory. Very knowledgeable as well. [[UPDATE:]] My initial review was based on early impressions as this was my first GM I'd ever played with and didn't entirely know my likes and dislikes yet. Spoon asked my group for reviews at the end of every single session, so at the time I wanted to help him out by adding my own. 26 weeks in, I had some concerns and feedback to finally give him since there were specific problems that started small but added up over time. He seems to get annoyed pretty easily and lacks empathy when it comes to players asking for him to repeat information. Keep in mind that it's not always because the player doesn't care to remember, but sometimes they just want to make sure they're doing things correctly. I'm still new to playing TTRPGs as a whole, so naturally, I will ask questions often. To paraphrase some things down I wrote to someone else: "I also don't like how when I try to re-iterate some things to be clear I'm doing it right, it feels like he gets annoyed by that and then decides to overly explain it rather than just saying "yes", or "no" to the question. Then there's also just him misremembering stuff that he previously discussed with me or told me was ok to do only to later act like I'm the one making it up on the spot. Since I'm not comfortable with debating or confrontation, I can see this type of thing happening more often down the road, and I don't think I feel comfortable dealing with that." Now to give a couple very specific examples of this: At character creation, chose to give my Lasombra character the ability "Shadow Cast", as I did not meet the requirements to pick up Arms of Ahriman. Because the description for the ability seemed rather vague on its capabilities, I messaged Spoon directly for clarification, asking, "based on the description for shadow cast, can I physically touch/manipulate things with the shadow limbs? and can I also extend it to become part of another existing shadow? like say, if I wanted to use it to subtly engulf another person's shadow while I'm standing in front of them?" His response to that was simply, "I think that would work." And so I took the ability with this in mind. Fast forward to many sessions later and in my first imminent combat situation, I tried to use it as a cool trick to unlock a door from the other side by moving my shadow underneath the door and reaching behind it. He immediately shut down this cool moment by saying that wasn't how it worked. I then responded by showing him our private message history of me getting clarification from him on the ability and he just brushed it off and didn't budge on it, saying that if it could interact with things physically, then there'd be no reason to get Arms of Ahriman. I was rather upset by this since it felt like I was basically tricked into picking up a mostly useless ability and didn't find out until now due to this, however I carried on and didn't complain about it at the time. In that same session, we had to establish our armor and weapon stats. My gun was a very specific brand of shotgun pistol that I had chosen precisely because it was supposed to be stronger than a typical low caliber handgun. He was okay with this and assigned a homebrewed stat for it that was one point higher than a typical rifle's weapon stat. Things went on smoothly, albeit he had apparently gotten the completely wrong cheatsheet for combat and find out much later on towards the later sessions that the combat system had changed pretty significantly from the one he originally had us use in our first combat scenario. The second example, which is the breaking point for me was when we were very late into our chronicle's story arc and came into our second combat scenario. At some point, I think the range of my gun was brought up and when asked about it before I could attack with it, I checked and found that he didn't assign a specific range to it in our first combat scenario. He then asked what weapon it was, then when I told him the exact name, he asked if it was one from the rulebook. And when I said that it wasn't from the book and told him what the damage value of the gun was, he told me it could only be the value for a regular pistol. Then when I tried to tell him that he was the one who assigned the stat to my weapon he basically got agitated and gaslit me saying that he didn't. Not wanting to escalate things, I dropped it and lowered the value. I was annoyed because if I'd been told this before, I wouldn't have put so much thought into my specific gun choice if all I had to do was pick a generic pistol. At this point I felt pretty dejected so I sat through the rest of the session not really saying much. I even remember messaging one of the other players mid-session immediately after being gaslit about my gun, with out conversation reading like this - ---------- Me: "just for clarification, I NEVER claimed the gun was in the book, but I didn't wanna argue also he was the one who came up with that number for me I only thought of the gun and the ammo count" Other player: "I know, he's wrong, I remember it too. He came up with the stats for the gun because it wasn't real. But he lacks empathy so just yeah don't argue with him." ---------- After, I messaged that same player about how I was thinking of leaving the game soon since we had concluded our major story arc, and that I was thinking of trying a new system. Not wanting me to leave, they offered to talk to him and bring my concerns up to him since I mentioned my anxiety around confrontation. A week later, I received an email saying that I was removed from the campaign, with the message: "_______ messaged me your concerns and I don't think I'll be able to give you the kind of session you're looking for especially if after 26 weeks together you think it necessary to talk through an intermediary." So basically, instead of addressing literally any of the problems I had and the literal gaslighting, he decided to just boot me from the game with barely a response. This is pretty ironic since he repeatedly claims to want feedback. It also upset me because as a player, I was very well behaved unlike other, problematic players he told stories to us about in our sessions. Oh yeah, another small thing, but uh, he barely brought clan banes into play, which I was pretty disappointed by. And somehow vampire hunters managed to capture and see my Lasombra character's face on video despite my clan bane making that literally impossible. With the issues I had adding up over time, this would typically bring me to give a rating of 3/5, but the fact that he regularly claimed to want feedback, yet immediately kicked me out of the campaign 26 sessions in after the first and only time I decided to criticize him, I'm knocking this score down to a 2/5. Thanks for reading.