DM of 25 years LF1M for biweekly inclusive group.
Hey locals, Chapter here. I had a lot of great responses last time but alas, only a couple players have had their schedule be able to commit to a steady biweekly game.
TL;DR Experienced DM wants to run rotating non-D&D systems for clever, mindful folx of any TTRPG experience biweekly at his home in East PDX. The current system is Phoenix: Dawn Command.
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BACKGROUND
- I turn 41 this month, and have been a GM for 25 years-ish.
- I'm married to an enby partner who will be playing as well. We've been together 11 years.
- I'm a former trivia writer for shows like Jeopardy!, 1 vs 100, Geeks Who Drink, etc.
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EXPERIENCE
Some systems I've ran campaigns for:
- Every edition of D&D (one campaign was a five year weekly game)
- RIFTs and other Palladium titles (Nightbane, Ninjas and Superspies, Heroes Unlimited)
- Mechwarrior, Battletech
- Call of Cthulhu
- Pathfinder
- Degenesis
- Star Wars d6, d20, and EoE
- Kult
- His Majesty The Worm
- Nova
- Slayers
I have ran lots of smaller sessions in everything from TOON to Mutants and Masterminds.
GM STYLE
- I am not an antagonist Gygaxian DM, but my style rewards resource management, cleverness, and decisiveness in the face of challenging scenarios.
- I focus on strong world building and am open to collaborative storytelling in certain systems.
- As a married queer man, I'm not going to tolerate genuine hate in my home, but I am comfortable running games that feature bigotry, classism, prejudice, and other forms of injustice because those things can exist within the world as problems to be challenged, confronted, and overcome. What I won't do is rely on vulgar shock value as shorthand for "this person or group is bad," e.g. using SA, cartoonish slurs, or cruelty for cruelty's sake as substitutes for actually writing thoughtful evil or oppression. Regardless, all potentially sensitive content that require veils will be discussed.
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SCHEDULE & CURRENT GROUP
Our group meets biweekly on Tuesdays at my home in the Parkrose/Hazelwood neighborhood, with game going from 6pm - 9pm (feel free to show up earlier to chat).
Our group is LGBTQ friendly, as I'm a queer man in his 40s and my wife is queer enby early 40's as well. Our current players are wonderful people without a mean bone in their body and have a constant desire to find ways to be cooperative and supportive
PROPOSED SYSTEMS
I've ran D&D in my extensive homebrew world for the last decade and a half, having recently finished a 5E campaign that lasted 3.5 years.
I do not want to play D&D for a long time.
Instead, we plan to swap between various systems depending on the story or if we decide as a whole that we'd prefer to try something else.
Currently, our system of choice is Phoenix: Dawn Command, which is being ran in my homebrew world. I have written a player primer for my homebrew and a cheatsheet for P:DC. It is easy to play but requires a non-spectator type player to utilize your skills and traits to the fullest.
The next system we are giving hard thought to is Japan's Shin Megami Tensei or Salvage Union.
PLAYERS SOUGHT
I have been glad to help teach many players TTRPGs over the years, so experience with these systems are not required.
However, given the crunch and focus of some of the systems we are playing, a mind for tactics, politics, and problem solving is a plus- but not a "GM vs PCs" mindset.
I prefer for players to remain in character and present at the table, but I do not require nor seek performance based roleplay as popularized by streaming. You don't need to do voices, you just need to not be doomscrolling until it is your turn and make immersion breaking quips your go-to social contribution in character.
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Sorry for this downpour of text! Thank you for reading it or at least portions of it :)
If you're interested, please respond here and DM me your Discord name so we can set up a quick voice chat interview. Our next game is this Tuesday. Till then!