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Message: <blockquote data-quote="manifold" data-source="post: 2073199" data-attributes="member: 19623">varianorI'm nominating two.  Pick one if that's illegal.1. Bill Collins is my DM.  He is currently running three campaigns on his message board, at least one f2f, moderates Monte Cook's boards, playtests for who-knows-who, writes gaming material, supports [Diamondthrone and a daught and caughm] as one of the Council of Magisters who oversee that site, and who knows what else.  In the midst of all of this, he manages to be organized, timely, compelling, humorous, he does great voices (no mean feat on a pbp), his descriptions are beautiful, his villens are hateful, his NPCs are memorable, and his game is glorious.I have played with some miserable DM's in my time, and  I remember reading about these fabulous campaigns in Dragon years ago, and wishing that I could play in one.  I wanted a DM that could run a tight ship and still be cool enough to let his players imagnations run wild occasionally.  I longed for an immersive world, a game that was more than killing monsters and taking thier stuff.  To be perfectly honest, I wanted perfection.Bill's not perfect, but I have a good feeling that he's as close as I'll ever get.  It's a privilidge to play in one of his games, and I proudly nominate him for this honor.2. Isida Kep Turaki (izzat how you spell it?) was my DM for the Stone Bones AU campaign here.  Isida runs maybe sixty or seventy games simultaneously, so their high quality is even more amazing.  Isida knows how to welcome new players, is outgoing and generous, and is flexible enough to GM as fluid and neurotic a group as ours.  (Seriously.   Some of our better role-playing was group therapy for the giant.) The main reason I want to nominate Isida, however, is that she provided the impetus for me to play the most fun character I've ever run: the sibbecai Greenbond,  Indakalis the Rock.  Dak was a second-hand character, and  I wasn't sure I could do a good job, but in one of Isida's posts she gave him a sort of Mississippi drawl, and I ran with it.  That one little post inspired me to make a character that I was proud of  and stretched me a great deal as a role-player.  Also, she never complained that I had plunked a hillbilly into the middle of her remote fantasy realm, and believe me, some DM's would have howled foul.  That character was great fun, and he would never have existed if it weren't for Isida.  So I nominate her as well, because she's flexible and confident and fun.</blockquote>

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