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Dungeon Mastering

I am somewhere between a simulationist and a narrative Dungeon Master on The Moonshae Isles. Fellow DM Zelknolf shares my philosophy, and phrased it well.

"This means that I will avoid scaling content (except in the context that if NPCs are looking for you, and not the other way around, they're likely to be about the same level-- as your notoriety and their desire to not get in over their heads plays, too), and I will allow character actions to get them in over their heads or allow them to bore themselves to tears. Your level 12s can smoosh goblins all day, and I'll give you your 5 xp for it; your level 2s can challenge fire giants, and I'll be excited about your next characters. I'll find it fascinating in either case, and if players are also having fun with it, mission accomplished I say. Of course, your investments in knowledge, social, and information gathering skills will help you know what you're getting into, if the goal is a reasonable challenge. I typically give the advice that if you do not diversify skills and abilities, make friends who do-- or make friends who focus on the areas where you're weak."

I believe that a consistent and believable narrative (in as far as we can make one in a story about magical traps and dragons) is important to the player experience, and like to support one. As such, while I drive plots, I am more interested in what your character wants to do to interact with the world. A character with motivation, goals, and immediate activities they want to get done is most likely to take up my time, while characters who passively sit by and do nothing are likely to be ignored.

As such communicate with me if your character wants to do something. Get in contact with me in the IRC channel if you would like to arrange some DMing, and I will be happy to log in if I am available.

Crafting

See also: Building Items

I am willing to handle all crafting requests. Users must toolset their own items and send an ERF or UTI to me. Under certain circumstances I may be willing to tool an item for a player. Under all circumstances, I am willing to show players how to use the toolset.

Other Notes

Please keep these details in mind:

• I get distracted. Use the #dm command if I missed something.
• Drama saps my will to DM. If you have a conflict with me, I ask that you bring it up after the session has concluded. See being distracted above. One person spamming tells at me can quickly grind a session to a halt, as I will want to talk with them and resolve the issue.
• I favor Pen and Paper rules in DM sessions. Your character can make use of abilities they should legitimately have that we do not support in our engine. For example, I will support the Craft Construct RP feat, Monks using their abundant step class ability, and all forms of legitimately obtained and consistently used RP spells. Beware that my monsters and NPCs also have their canonical abilities.