Running games for 25+ years.

Describe yourself and your play style:

Formal: A tabletop role-playing game enthusiast and lover of all things pretend. Pete Petrusha is an indie game designer, tabletop RPG promoter, and the Creative Director at Imagining Games. He is the designer, author, and award nominated art director behind the empowering story building game, Dreamchaser: A Game of Destiny and the ridiculous roommate roleplaying game Rest in Pieces. Pete promotes tabletop RPGs at a variety of conventions throughout the country and leads an Indie Games on Demand movement in his local area. He is the former IGDN Convention Coordinator, and Host of the Indie Groundbreaker Awards.

Casual: I love empowering players to be creative and descriptive. I share spotlight and like players to get invested in their characters. I want each game to give each player a chance to shine. I do often let players take the game in the direction that they're interested in vs. anything I may have prepared. I ask a lot of questions and try to give players a safe space to let their imagination run.

Tell us about your favorite NPC to have run: I do love a good instigator! So, I just ran a game where a character's mom became a reoccurring nuisance of an NPC that was really fun. Two of the PCs kept calling her up, so she kept calling them in return. In the end it opened the door for a really funny conspiracy twist.

Find Pete Online: Twitter: @vembranor FB: @imagininggames Insta: @imagining_games

Running games for a little over a year.

Describe yourself and your play style. “I tend to run stuff I like, Pathfinder second edition, dungeon world. I tend to like premade adventures.”

Tell us about your favorite NPC to run. “Gary of Gary's great gregarious goods”

Running games for about years.

Describe yourself and your play style. “I am flexible and opened-minded. My games are about the player characters pursuing their goals through the world they're in. Exploration and problem solving are important. The games are picturesque and picaresque. I try to be brutal but fair.”

Tell us about your favorite NPC to have run. “That is a difficult question. It would have to be Ranga, the shape-shifting and non-binary naga-crossbred, who is essentially a giant snake who can shape-shift into any human face. They were used for espionage by the PCs.”

You can find Liberty on Mastodon.

Running games for 15 years

Describe yourself and your play style. “I go for fun, the highest highest, and the lowest (and funniest) lows. Whatever kind of scene it is I think it's best if it's done big, otherwise it won't be a memorable scene.”

Tell us about your favorite NPC to run. “Ara'lan'tir - the saddest, least elf-y elf you've ever met. Near homeless, fat, balding, in debt, terrible wizard, divorced, and brutally honest about his own shortcoming.”

Find Stefan online @DMBadWrongFun

Running Games for 40 yearsDescribe yourself and your play style. “Normally, I balance the pillars of social, exploration and combat. However, this is more like a speed run of Super Mario Bros except it's a speed metal race to stop the end of the world. It's a heavy metal fueled rage fest with some super badass NPCs to face off against.”Tell us about your favorite NPC to run. “Yeesh... that's a long list. In this adventure? Victoricus Chainface, Concubinator of the Mega-Maiden. ”

Find Christophor on Twitter: @ChristophorRick & @2OGGames

Running Games for 40 years

Describe yourself and your play style. “Larger than life and cinematic play.I like giving players freedom to try anything.”

Tell us about your favorite NPC to run. “Evergaining, the Prince of Nightmares. He rules the plane of nightmares and his appearance shifts in subtle ways from time to time while you're looking at him. He is also, always, right behind you.”

Running games for 3 years.

Describe yourself and your play style. “My games tend to be on the less than serious side and I make it a priority to ensure the players have a good time.”

Tell us about your favorite NPC to run. ”I'm torn between the goblins whose contrary nature made them extremely easy to manipulate or the bad guy the players had charmed for 3 sessions without realising who he was.”

Find Steve on Discord: Steve B#5847

Running games for 15 years.

Describe yourself and your play style: Played from 1980 through the mid-90's, then took a hiatus. Got back into it in the mid-2000's. Currently run a range of old-school games and am enamored of the weird western genre, but still running and playing fantasy and post-apocalyptic games. I firmly believe that allowing player agency, adhering to the philosophy that rules are there to help you have fun, and using random tables can combine to make emergent play magic. I'm happy to let players run with ideas, because they can always make it more interesting for me and them...

Running games for 12 years.

Describe yourself and your play style: “Yes and... I try to keep my table engaged and animated. I’m a big believer that games should be fun and accessible for people of all experience levels.”

Tell us about your favorite NPC to have run: “Mr. Volpes. He was the team attorney for my 5e group, until he got turned into a mug. But he got better. Thank you.”