ITT: celebrity GMs

Which celebrity GM would you want to play with most? Least?

I would play this man's campaign, even if it was fucking Pathfinder, based purely on his ability to corral the complete incompetents who play with him.

Least: Griffin McElroy. I trust there's no need to explain why.

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Who are any of the people you're talking about and why should I give the slightest shit about any of them?

They're on TV. Kind of. Internet TV.

Spencer Crittendun runs a Pathfinder campaign on Harmonquest, which has celebrity roleplayers like Aubrey Plaza, Patton Oswalt, etc etc. The regular players are Dan Harmon, his ex-wife and his annoying friend. The D&D bits are animated. It can be pretty funny.

Griffin McElroy runs The Adventure Zone, which I've seen talked about on Veeky Forums once or twice. He runs some kind of D&D on roll20. I watched about 15 minutes of it once before calling it quits, but apparently it has a big following.

I've also seen people on Veeky Forums complain about this show but I've never wanted to follow it. Seems especially cringy.

>trying to pretend this hard that your too cool for this crap

That's a shill son.

>his annoying friend
>implying Jeff isn't best boy

I enjoy Chris perkins way of Dming

>I trust I don't need to explain why

Apparently you do, as I don't know what you're talking about

oh look, it's this thread again

I'm not going to let this bullshit stand. Jeff Davis is literally the stereotypical That Guy. Every time one of the guests shits on him I want to cheer. He only shines because Harmon makes everyone look better by comparison.

If pretending that you're better at D&D than the people getting paid to play them on TV is wrong, then I don't want to be right. Half the fun of Harmonquest is how completely the players fuck up the most commonplace D&D challenges. Give them 3 doors that all lead to the same room and they'll argue until they're blue in the face every time.

Vin Diesel, because we all know the man is a neckbeard and I frankly enjoyed The Last Witch Hunter

Satine Phoenix

Griffin is a good storyteller but obviously not a DM I would want to play with, consdiering he has a very clear endgoal in mind that he railroads the party towards regardless of any choices they make.

It was fine for TAZ since the family sort of agreed that was the style they wanted to play but wouldn't work for anyone else I think.

Meanwhile, their dad's side game, TAZ Commitment, has gone two episodes (granted, half hour ones) before they got to the superhero stuff.

Jeff might be bad at roleplaying but he's the funniest one there. The game doesn't really matter, it's just a frame for improv.

Objectively the best answer.

The McElroy's following comes partly from their other shows, funneling into TAZ.

It's more like a radio drama than live play. But I'm glad I listened to it, it made me more wary of getting too caught up in my own story. Even for their style, the show suffered from having less back-and-forth toward the end.

Does she really count as a celebrity? Her videos get views in the hundreds

She was a fucking porn star brainlet. Yes she is a celebrity from a certain point of view

O-oh, I didn't know that.
sorry

You can replace Nate and save us all

This. He seems like a fun dude and a solid storyteller but he would drive me batshit in DMing style.

It's a super obvious answer but Mercer actually seems like a pretty fun GM, barring Combat seeming to take for-fucking-ever. Player shit gets integrated pretty well, NPCs are cool, and while he's super lenient that's not really a deal killer for me.

Chip is best boy

>Googled "Satine Phoenix"
>"Satine Phoenix is a Philipino..."

Fucking dropped there, Philipinos are genetically and culturally insane. She's probably stab me in the dick randomly.

Most - Seth Skorkowsky

Least - Anything critical roll but, I have no doubts there is much worse. I just have not found em.

How do you stack up to one of the greatest DMs to ever live?

>tfw you will never be his wife

why even live

You ever just look at someone and immediately not like them? I'm getting that hard from this guy.

On the topic of RPG Podcasts, me and some friends are thinking of starting up a show.
What suggestions would you guys have to make it entertaining?

Find a way to shorten combat. A lot of podcasts make the mistake of having fights last an hour or more which is a slog to sit through for the audience.

he & Koebel are probably the best. I really enjoy they're interactions, you can tell they both know the hobby's history well and have a solid hold on game design, and although they have very different opinions they can actually articulate them in meaningful discussion instead of just yelling at each other like so many people in the hobby.

Majority seem to be d&d peasants or have other issues, like koebel running 4 player game with 2 hours before someone gets a scene, fun to watch but i'd rather not play that. I'm content GMing myself desu.

Guy Sclanders from BaconRPG

His encounters are always entertaining, and he integrates the system well.

Would love to play with John Wick one day if I can. I heard he DMs at conventions.

Varg would be a good GM.

I think Owen would be fun to play with.

sometimes this makes sense to say when the same thread is spammed daily, but otherwise this is probably the most retarded thing you can say on 4chins

She still needs to learn to not pronounce every single sound through her teeth before I'll consider listening to her. Way too annoying otherwise.

Robin Williams.

I think I win.

>close thread
>confirm porn career on google
>search for her freaky shit
>find nothing
>get sad
>return to bread

Colville could be good but I feel like his SJWness would leak into the game and sour it for me.

How the hell did you manage to find nothing?

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Most: pic

Least: Adam Koebel

I watched a bit of his live game he did one time and he can talk good points around making the game, but running it, kinda meh on a session by session basis, yeah the overall stuff is good, but its hard to appreciate a well woven story/world when its delivered in such an average way.

Colville is the offspring of a badger and a rat and it really shows. Don't worry, it has plenty to do with his and attitude. The guy is a prick.

And I say this knowing full well what Mercer thinks, but Mercer seems like a stand-up guy with some iffy friends. I'd choose him as the superior Matthew.

most: Steven Lumpkin

Least: Probably OP Pic Spenser, or neil

'Member when Steve DM'd awesomely?
I member...
I have based some DM style choices off his style.

Personally, a based DM would have to be Hankerin

Holy fuck that was hilarious

Man I miss that boy.

Chris Perkins just seems like such a fucking bro. He's clever, a quick thinker and his passion for the game really bleeds through. I agree with others about Mercer; I think he seems like an awesome DM, but his group doesn't do him justice and he's definitely too kind.

Mark Hulmes from the High Rollers stream is a pretty based DM imo. He does a nice job of populating the world with really memorable NPCs.

While he's certainly not perfect, I don't think Koebel's that bad, especially in a field where Critical Role is held up as the pinnacle of the craft.

Koebel's a pretty good dm, really shitty person though.

What kind of a question is that? I'd pick Gary motherfucking Gygax and I'd play the edition of his choosing.

Speaking of deadfags, he was a TTRPGer

I'd kill to see what he did as a player much less a GM

Fuck man...

>Mercer

I kind of agree with this. Don't care much for Critical Role but it's obvious how much effort Mercer puts into his campaigns and it'd be a ton of fun to experience that.

Neal is literally "THAT GUY" dm

I get what you said, but could you quantify what you mean? I don't mean to offend, but I'm trying to work out a definition for a good DM and I think Chris is one of them. I think what Chris does well is he's serious, his NPCs are memorable, and knows how to control the flow of a game very well by not speaking unless the party declares they want to do something or to make a clarifying point if the party is stuck for too long.

I'd want based Vin Diesel as my DM. he seems like a pretty chill guy.

This chick couldn't look more like a trashy porn star if she tried.

Holy shit man, he was a fa/tg/uy (well, not on Veeky Forums, but...) I didn't know that...

MOST: Robin Williams just because, Vin Diesel because I hear he's actually really good to play with, and kevin siembieda (maker of RIFTS). I hear that KS is actually a really fucking good GM, even if RIFTS has incurable autism at the editing level. Add on Gary Gygax too, I'd love to hear his thoughts on 5e, or really pick his brain about a lot of things.

Worst: Critical Role and Will Wheaton. I can't stand Wheaton for a variety of reasons, but Critical Role basically has collective orgasms the second they get a nat 20, and it gets really annoying to me personally.

user, I have something to tell you

Just because you are a trashy porn star doesn't mean you have to go so far out of your way to look like one.

And even then, there's a good kind of trashy and a bad kind of trashy.

Ava Devine (especially back in the day), Danielle Derek, Amy Anderssen, good trashy.

Satine Phoenix is on the extreme end of the bad kind of trashy.

>based Vin Diesel
From all I've seen of him, he looks like an exceptionally pleasant fellow.

Didn't he have a public game with Mercer somewhere?

Yeah it's definitely like a radio drama.
And I agree, the ending suffered hard because it all became very scripted. It was way more fun when they were just playing the game. Also pushing so much political shit.

Yeah. It's... Not good.

No, Adam's great. He's not my #1, but I certainly would never turn him down to run or play in my games.

Most: myself
Least: dawnforgecast

I think I've seen some of it. Mercer keeps describing PCs actions, Diesel is camera-shy is my takeaway. Is that representative of Matt's DMing style?

I hate that guy so much and I don't even know why.

Mercer describes PC actions more often than other DMs, but it's usually only with regards to explaining the nature of kills or something, it's not too intrusive.

It's not a good representation of his DMing at all, Mercer's a good DM locked into the limitations of who he runs for. (No dungeon runs.) It is absolutely at its most limited during the Vin Diesel thing.

Jelloapoclypse. (Probably not as famous as most of the GM's here.)
Anime campaign is a work of comedicgenius. He has a flair for comedy and drama I have seen few GM's compare and just the sheer amount of effort he puts into his games is amazing, even going as far to test run the games with his friends before streaming them.

That's my fetish bro

Did you know Vin Diesel only makes Fast and Furious movies so he can pay for Riddick Movies so he can then pay for Last Witch Hunter movies?

Would it interest you to know that the Last Witch Hunter takes place in the Fast and the Furious cinematic Universe.

...what?

Almost, user. What you really want is exactly what happened on the set of Chronicles of Riddick. Dame Judi Dench is the DM, and Vin is another player.

Do you mean to tell me that Riddick is not his old D&D character?

Most: Matt Mercer, I'm gay for his voice acting talent.

Least: John Wick, because his shitty "Play Dirty" book influenced a DM I knew to the point of breaking an entire circle of friends apart. To this day, I have no idea what's the appeal. His smug fucking attitude in the writing is also unbearable.

Riddick is... very loosely based on his Drow Rogue. Kaulder is literally the same character from a more recent D&D campaign.

I think colville knows a great deal about DM theory. I disagree with him about many things he thinks are important for DMing a game though. I'm not sure I would enjoy a game he was DMing.

Honestly, I think I'd like to see Mercer DM a game that Colville and Perkins wrote.

Mercer isn't a great writer, but he's the best performer by far.

>Would it interest you to know that the Last Witch Hunter takes place in the Fast and the Furious cinematic Universe.
Proof?

Colville has some otherwise good content, but one thing he said stood out to me as so profoundly stupid I can't help but dislike him. He said something to the effect of "you could just play D&D forever, you can play any type of game using the system." I simply can't believe anyone could think that.

Politics aside I don't even think Koebel is that bad a guy, just his physical appearance legitimately makes me ill. Maybe my ancestors escaped the plague by avoiding people who looked like him and I inherited that instinct or something.

I used to loathe Colville from what little I saw of him, but that interview actually made me go back and watch more of his stuff once I realized it needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

That quote in particular, he's referring to any type of story within a pseudo-medieval fantasy context, in the sense that the Greeks already told every story possible and you can retell them all through the lens of D&D. He didn't literally mean you can recreate the trappings of Shadowrun or Star Wars or whatever in the D&D ruleset.

>Is that representative of Matt's DMing style?
Mercer was told to prepare a 4-hr one shot and because of exec bullshit and timing, only had 30 minutes to run an entire thing for a guy who hasn't really sat down to play in years.

>who hasn't really sat down to play in years.
But I thought Vin was literally the biggest D&D fan on the planet who plays all the time.

I don't know why, but I liked Steve's style and enthusiasm a lot more than Adam, despite how clearly influenced by Adam he was. It always felt like he enjoyed the gameplay part of the games as well as the story part, and he wasn't so obsessed with framing everything like it was a TV show and he was a director.

He just seemed a lot more chill somehow. Not afraid of killing you or getting weird, though, which helps.

They're not rpg players but my celebrity dream group would be :
DM : Morgan Freeman
PCs : Nicholas Cage, Samuel L Jackson, Ryan Reynolds, Michael Caine (and I :^] )

As of last week, does pic related count as a celebrity DM?

>bunions and flagons
comfy game with in a game DM only, but yeah. I don't think it would work the same without the shared character backstories and group playtime together

user, let's be real. No game of tabletop is the same if you're not doing it with friends, such as they are.

Doesn't seem as great at the whole "Creating an overarching narrative", but I love the effort he puts into encounters and his enthusiasm.

Isn't it only meant to be six episodes long?

Abolutely no doubt in my mind Reid from Sneak Attack.
The levels of world building combined with the delivery are just so damn good.

Spencer Crittenden, Matt Mercer, ad Matt Colville are regrettably all turbo cucks and I don't trust them to keep it out of the game.
Mercer in particular describes in detail how his setting is based on America and basically humans are the evil white people taking land from poor minority races who dindu nuffin

I'd like to see him run a game other than dnd, and to run some stuff that wasn't out of modules. He seems really good but I feel like that limits him.

Most, Rob Moran. He strikes the right balance for me between story and action, anf between playing loose and using the rules. He's great at running npcs and he's legitimately one of the funniest guys on the internet.

Least, Jerry Holkins. My god is he annoying to me. He never shuts the fuck up to actually let his players play, he's that type of ubernerd intellectual who is whiny and shrill and constantly is trying to show off how smart he is but comes off as desperate. And at least from what I've sat through, he is railroady as fuck.

Thats how a proper GM shoudl look like
>overweight
>ugly
>mess of a hair and beard even after you try to fix it for a photo

>not playing heroquest with this motherfucker