Rodrigo

I was very impressed at the vocal range and acting abilities from Jacob. He was throwing a mix of both planned and improvised NPCs at us. Each one with their own accents, mannerisms and personalities. Making it easy to get immersed in the story He was also awesome at taking the player actions and extrapolating them on how the consequences affected the world around us. Our decisions, no matter how small, affected the story in some fun way

When Von was doing super villain voices it was just like being transported to the Saturday morning Marvel shows. Incredibly immersive! Not only that, but he crafts scenarios that perfectly match the lore of the world, while adding his own plots filled with twists and surprises. In his games I witnessed other players pulling a 180 on the direction everyone thought we were going, and instead went to explore different things. Instead of Von trying to guide everyone back to the planned path he went along with it and made the player’s decision start a cool whole new plot and scenario. He doesn’t roll with the punches, he counters them and roundhouse kicks back.

What an absolute masterpiece of an elegant game mechanics design that fosters a specific atmosphere and tension escalation! As a game design enthusiast, I was astonished by the designers of this game. The dice system of Alien RPG manages to lead you on a path of ever-escalating tension, which gives a perfect experience of being in an Alien movie. It helps reach the emotions that the narrative is trying to evoke. And it is all passive. Neither the players nor the narrator needs to do anything for it to happen. As you roll dice, you accumulate stress dice. They help you but also bring a chance for bad stuff to start to happen or to show up. And that's it, that alone helps the characters to keep succeeding, but to accumulate so many bad things happening that everyone is doomed to fail spectacularly in the end

Kenan was awesome when running a Learn to Play Star Trek game. He had the right balance between teaching how the game works and giving us time to experience interact with a fun story. He was able to help thing moving and remind us of what the characters had to do, without feeling pushy. All while being very open to each player´s ideas on how to tackle the challenges with our characters, not just open, but cheering for us. I would definitely play with him again

The good enough of the VTTs. Roll20 supports a vast number of systems, but some not that well. It has more features than most other VTTs, but it is not the most flexible one. It can be learned relatively fast, but it is not super intuitive and still requires some learning. It mostly runs without issues, but some computers might struggle with it when large maps, dynamic lights and animated gifs are being used in conjunction Overall, it does what I need from a VTT with the rare hiccups. Where it really shines is in its marketplace. Since it the largest platform around, it attracts all types of publishers for all types of rpgs. And this shows in the marketplace offers. You can find a lot of products that really enhance your experience and that you can drag n drop to your games. Maps, tokens, animations, adventures, rules, music, cards and more. And a new advantage to it is its somewhat recent merge with Demiplane. Demiplane has probably teh best character sheets around and it is much better than Roll20 as a digital reader for rpg books. The Roll20 team has been making great use of the merge and things are only getting better. Maybe soon I will change my review from 4 to 5 stars