I. Who am I? II. What's my style? III. Services and Pricing IV. System V. Campaign Ideas Rather than a post for a specific campaign I'm running, this post is to attract possible clients and let folks know what I have to offer. I absolutely take special requests if folks are excited about it. You can find the required listing here! I. Who am I?
Hello! My name is AJ [Any/All], I'm a non-binary Canadian Gamemaster with 15 years' experience both personal and professional. I like running games because it creates pportunities to tell stories, not only at the table but beyond. It can be stories that are meaningful, inspiring, silly, or that just stick in your head, sometimes for years after you've packed your dice away and gone home. For this reason, I love welcoming folks with no experience in RPGs into the hobby! Of course all experience levels are welcome. What’s my Style? As far as genre goes, I have the most experience with different flavours of fantasy, and I usually like injecting some element of industrialization or "magic as technology." I also do sci fi from time to time! I can run games straight, gonzo, comedic, horrific, or tragic, but these days I like to run games with at least a little optimism: if there isn't at least the potential for hope, what's the point? I've tried running grimdark, but I just don't have the instinct for it. Services and Pricing I am offering my services to any groups or individuals interested, campaign length dependent on player interest. I find for online games 3-5 players are great, and 4 really is the sweet spot. You can expect active scheduling on my part, as well as custom buttons utilizing the Roll20 API. I’m also quite responsive to questions between sessions. I have two time slots open per week for weekly or bi-weekly games, on Fridays and Saturdays (any start time after 3pm EST). Sessions will run around 3 hours. Pricing: base price is $15CAD/player/session, +$5 for D&D 5e, -$5 for published campaigns as it is less work. Payments are made per session using Paypal. Please note that Roll20 is not responsible for any payment transactions and cannot enforce any private arrangements. System Regarding systems, I have a lot of flexibility. I know/own dozens of systems, especially OSR-style ones. I might even be able to learn a new one if you have a favourite! The thing is, I charge extra for D&D and I won't run Pathfinder. D&D just requires additional work behind the scenes for prep, and that's the reality (I ran a 5-year campaign of Pathfinder and swore an oath never to run it again when it was finished). If you like D&D 5e, Five Torches Deep is based on it, it's easy to create custom content for it, and I don't charge extra for it. Here's an abbreviated list of games that I can offer: D&D5e (+$5/player) Five Torches Deep What Lies Beneath Dungeon World Into the Odd (and Electric Bastionland) Fate Paranoia (2004) Unknown Armies 2nd Edition Open Legend Maze Rats Afterlife: Wandering Souls (this one currently does not have a character sheet on Roll20) Cats of Catthulhu I have interest in learning the following: Blades in the Dark Headspace Vagabonds of Dyfed Solar Blades and Cosmic Spells The Nightmares Underneath Mothership World Wide Wrestling Lancer And others! Campaign Ideas I have a list of campaign ideas that I keep and update with ideas. Here are a few that I've been thinking about lately to hopefully whet your appetite. Let me know below if any of them sound fun, or if there’s something you’d like to see! For Grit and Glory (medium to long) Being a gladiator is a tough gig, especially the touring. Out here in the provinces, you have to hustle to make a name for yourself and hopefully get called up to the big leagues. This game borrows from modern professional wrestling, and hp reflects how believable your performance is and popularity with the crowd. Pizzaquest (short to medium)
Legend tells of the Divine Zaa, a pie so exquisite that one slice is enough to propel whoever eats it to the celestial realm to attain godhood. Seek out and assemble the ingredients! Fire them in the Ovens of Hephaestus! Become a GOD! Gem Hunters of the Roiling Void (short to long)
Inspired by the cartoons Medabots and Stormhawks, this is a game of mechs and the hunt for elemental crystals. Travel to different worlds, see alien cultures, trade parts to improve your mechs and survive in the cold dark. Fate recommended for this game. Cycle of Reincarnation (multiple short campaigns)
The wheel turn, and what was old becomes new again. Begin with the death of who you were, and decide who you will be. This is a series of short adventures in different systems/settings, and each cycle you play a reincarnation of your last character, choosing a tarot card from the major arcana to inform the themes of how your character changes from one life to the next. Pre-published campaigns and adventures Ultraviolet Grasslands (pointcrawl) Legendary Planet Adventure Path (5e compatible) Barrowmaze (dungeoncrawl) Gunderholfen (dungeoncrawl) The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford (pointcrawl) Magical Industrial Revolution (citycrawl) Opera House (would love to run this in the underdark) Ravenloft (5e with alterations so it isn't racist) Yoon-Suin (pointcrawl) Hot Springs Island (hexcrawl) The Darkest House (dungeoncrawl) Woodfall (hexcrawl) 1