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Raynor Frejrûn
Running games for 27 years
Describe yourself and your play style. “I am a writer, a historian, a linguist, and a storyteller. I love using my knowledge of languages and cultures to enrich my games and game worlds. I am a narrative storyteller, and I am not a rule lawyer. 8/10 times I will rule on the side of "cool" and "Fun" over RAW.”
Tell us about your favorite NPC to have run. “Cupcake. A feral, Halfling Barbarian that was an experiment by Greer a gnomish mad scientist. The PC's took a liking to him and hated Greer for treating him like a dog and slave. The party paid Greer for Cupcake’s freedom and took care of him, and he became the "child" of the party. They raised him and exposed him to reading, writing, art, travel, and love.
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.
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