This account is the Dungeon Master profile for the married couple Christof & Linda D.
Each winter Linda would have to social distance due to underlying health conditions but in 2020 with everyone having to be in the same boat, we started a gaming group to help support our local game stores - New Mexico Gamers Society. You can join us on discord, follow us on facebook, twitter, and instagram. @nmgs.club (@nmgs_club on twitter)
To join us or register for events visit www.nmgs.club
We would love to expand our group and bring in more players. This group plays all kinds of games (even video) and will have movie watch parties and everything else.
Linda has been running 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons since February of 2018 & has been very active at our Friendly Local Game Store since that time, DMing sessions for Adventures League two to four times a week with as many as sixteen players at a time, many of which are new to Role-Playing or at least new to this edition of D&D.
Christof has played and run nearly every version of Dungeons & Dragons since the black box 1st edition back in the mid 80's. He's also played and run several other RPG systems including White Wolf's World of Darkness, West End Games Star Wars, Pathfinder, & Firefly/Serenity to name a few. Christof began playing 5th edition in December of 2017 at our Friendly Local Game Store & within a month began DMing sessions for Adventures League as well & becoming just as active with our local gaming community.
Shortly after starting to run 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons we began to run a game for our autistic son and his friends. While raising a child with special needs requires a fair amount of patience, we quickly learned that running Role Playing Games for a group of children takes a great deal more. As time progressed more kids became interested in what we were doing, and we ended up having to run multiple tables. Gradually we formed our own organized play system for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons that is custom tailored for young players called Briar Guard Heroes where we both coordinated a team of DMs as well as ran tables for the youth ourselves.
At these events we organized 5-8 tables with up to 8 players at each. The players’ ages ranged from as young as 6 to as old as 21. In this past year we have had over 80 participants and had been constantly acquiring new members. Briar Guard Heroes itself had grown in such popularity that we have had to move from hosting events once a month to having 2 paired events once every three months with a registration required to ensure that there is enough space for all participants. Having a wealth of patience is vital in educating new players (both young and old alike) and this experience has proven to us both that this is a trait that we have in abundance. (Briar Guard Heroes in person events are currently on Hiatus at this time)
Due to the high demand we also created a system for introducing D&D to preschoolers (as young as 3) called “The Littlest Heroes” which is available on the DM's Guild. We also collaborated on a number of published adventure modules including a 2 part tier 2 holiday module called "The Orb of Frostrealm" as well as constructed various player handouts and pre-generated characters that we make use of at our local events, training classes, and private games. During Adventurers League nights at our FLGS over the past years we ended up helping to organize the other DMs and players as well as ensured current AL documentation, character sheets, log sheets, etc were readily available for all participants and provided direction on AL rulings & guidelines to our community at large. A few times now our amazing FLGS also had us run a 6 week-long DM class to get people ready to run, both for organized play as well as for private games.
Outside of Dungeons & Dragons both Christof & Linda have years of experience working in technical support and are reasonably savvy when it comes to working with the technology like the hardware and software that is used for games using Roll20. We prefer to have character sheets and dice rolls directly in roll 20 (rather than using external sites like D&D Beyond) & discord on our server for out of game communications while using Zoom for voice (&video when possible).
If you have any questions about any of our games or New Mexico Gamers Society, please send us a message.