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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mosvanni" data-source="post: 2075716" data-attributes="member: 29430">I'd like to nominate Rystil Arden. To my knowledge, he has been DMing for 8 years, for multiple groups of players, each of which has multiple campaigns running at the same time. And he's never been unprepared to run any of them. This has made him an excellent ad-libber, which is good because many of his PCs are drawn to random magical effects like moths to the flame.  He also brings a stunning degree of detail to his NPCs. There are no villains that sit in their Evil Fortress, waiting for some hero to come challenge them -- NPCs have their own agendas and are doing their own thing, whether the PCs are involved or not. This, combined with his considerable acting expericence (lead roles in several plays, most recently at MIT), gives the impression that you are playing against (or with) real people in a real world, a feeling that cannot be matched by the most enthralling book or the most realistic video game.  Above all this, however, he is a master at putting his PCs in situations that are just plain fun. I could go on for hours about our ship-to-ship or ship-to-Space-Kraken Spelljamming battles, the time my barbarian slid down a 500-foot long immovable rod to smash through 3 floors of a castle and get into a vault that (previously) had no entrances, or the time our fighter, monk, and thief went toe-to-toe with an army of 300... and won. But people around here seem to like haiku more.When you get the chanceAlways eat the magic cheeseWhat's the worst it could do?Thanks for 8 years of fun, Mark!</blockquote>

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