Your Friendly Neighborhood Pseudo-Sphinx
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The world sings, and our echos are the ink we choose to leave behind. Perhaps, on rare occasions, that ink takes a shape and begins to think for itself-- and in the doing of it, creativity thrives.
If you don’t find that idea too pretentious we’re going to have a great time. Even if you do, I’m sure we can still have fun wrestling over mechanics and tactics.
My name is Sphinxie, I’m coming behind the screen for the first time on CoA and second time in my NWN ‘career’. I’ve got a lot to learn, but I also have a lot of ideas on how I can help you pursue your own enjoyment of our shared hobby.
While I’m getting back into client/toolset work, you can expect I’ll be running a lot of smaller scale encounters- quest spice, supporting other DM’s as they run their events, helping players start up their own activities. I’ll likely be leaving some DMless encounters around the server periodically as well for those in off time zones, and just because it’s fun to find little surprises.
So!
What can you expect from me?
I’m in the EST timezone (UTC -5:00). I usually have Monday through Wednesday off, and work Thursday to Sunday. I’ll be harder to schedule something with on those days, but I will make an effort.
I tend to enjoy briskly paced encounters usually (but not always) with their own self-contained narratives. Lighthearted roleplay and banter, but I can definitely do serious and dramatic. If you’re in the midst of a long quest roleplaying with a buddy, I’m very likely to drop you some extra goodies to help you on your way.
Use them, because I also enjoy tactical challenges and combat puzzles and I will always reward clever solutions. The fighter who takes his armor off and strides out in front of a bunch of bandits with just a loin cloth on and his chest oiled up, arms flung out with supreme confidence will definitely get a response-- for the sheer novelty of it and absolutely no other reason.
I want to try and help players who’re maybe unsure about what to do with their characters, or aren’t really comfortable with narrative construction, goal setting, or even NWN’s finicky mechanics. I’m not a master of any field, but if I can help you have more fun, then I’m doing my job and we’re both made richer for it.
My near-future effort is going to be spent studying the server, module, plot tickets, and figuring out where best to apply myself. I’m super easy to get hold of on Discord, or on these forums. If you think that reaching out to a DM is a big deal, I promise you its not.
If you’re uncomfortable with that and want to keep all interactions in character for whatever reason, that’s totally fair, we can do that, too. Send a letter to a group or faction you want to interact with and be clear and concise with what you want and I’ll make an effort to respond and help you get rolling.
Like any relationship, it’s give and take, though. Don’t expect me to pull for you if you’re just going to say ‘I want this thing’. D&D’s a collaborative storytelling game and we all want to have fun. We can figure out what that looks like together; it’s going to be a partnership.
Oh, one last thing.
As you might have guessed from the name and theming: I like books and creative works. If you want to do a character (or take up a hobby in character) focusing on creating stuff or doing unusual things not usually supported by mechanics, let me know. We will figure out how to make it cool. I’m going to be getting the library submissions sorted out and see what I can do about normalizing rewards for these kinds of in-game efforts. If you have ideas for that, I’d love to hear them.
Questions, concerns, and so forth can always be directed to my inbox on the forums.
