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Rayne Bakcheious
Running Games for 8+ yearsDescribe yourself and your play style. “I'm a long-time DM with several years experience running public one shots online. I grew up reading Dragonlance, Tolkien, and a truly overwhelming amount of horse books that gave me a craving for sprawling adventure stories early on. D&D 5E is definitely my home field, but I also really enjoy rules-light games -- especially micro RPGs.
I really like creating an interesting sandbox of a world and then letting the players loose in it. While I've always got an overarching "plot" mapped out and try to keep an eye toward pacing -- I really love to lean into the choices of the players. I count it as a success when multiple playthroughs of a mod have different endings.
My games tend to lean toward exploration, investigation, and role play. I see the rules as something that are there to help us tell a story, and the mechanics often aren't the focus for me.”Tell us about your favorite NPC to run. “Fidget a brass (though he would say gold) Kobold artificer. He runs a shop called Fidget's House of Magical Items that Work Perfectly. It's shown up in a couple different incarnations in different campaigns, sometimes as a strange houseboat or a bigger-on-the-inside rickshaw cart. But it's always a wonder trove of magical items that he's scavenged from the wastebins of various powerful wizards. They definitely work perfectly and that dent is supposed to be there for magic reasons.”
Is there anything else you'd like to tell potential players to help them get to know you? I'm a transgender, pansexual man and one of the main reasons I'm open about it is to help other queer people feel safe at my table.
Find Rayne on our Discord Server @Rayne_Storms and on Instagram @torrentialrpgs.
Cameron Evesque Davis
Running Games for more than 3 years, but I'm a lifelong storytellerDescribe yourself and your play style. “Very much roleplay focused with a desire to have a balance between heavy roleplay and combat. I also try and move the combat along to keep it exciting. If you've watched Critical Role, I DM similarly to Matt Mercer.”Tell us about your favorite NPC to run. “There are a few. One recently was an Incubus named Alda, who was the very definition of not a great person, but also not a terrible person. He pretty much just cared about his own survival, and playing a dispassionate character is very fun. Another along similar lines is the Archfey Trust, who rules over one large portion of the feywild. Playing a character with vague morals and a love of chaos is super exciting.”
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Terri Williams
Been running games for a three years.
Describe yourself and your play style: “I'm all about "yes and", and I want to keep the story fun . I would love to see my players really get into a moment and live it! Don't be afraid to think outside of the box and explore the possibilities. I am still a little new to DMing as I am now running my first one shot game that I have written.”
Tell us about your favorite NPC to run: “I'm going to go with Narth, an old farmer in the beginning of "The Lost Mine of Phandelver" I just remember cracking up my group as I first started speaking for him.”
Ansel Burch
Running Games since 2005
Describe yourself and your play style. “I am a huge nerd and a fan of narrative. I love making stories together and building dynamic, character driven adventures. My games are generally deeply rooted in fleshed out worlds which leave space for players to define their character's experience.”
Tell us about your favorite NPC to run: “Alem was part of a pair of brothers from the birth of a home brew world. He was gifted with magic by the gods and gave some to his brother. His brother shared it, angering the gods and beginning a war which stretched across millennia to our PC's time. They eventually tracked him down and convinced him to fight the monster his brother had become in an epic battle. It was an introduction several actual years of game play in the making and the players loved it.”
Find Ansel on our Discord server- @TheCaptain