About DM Mother Universe

I started off my life as a DM/GM back in the 80s. I started as an AD&D and original D&D player and moved quickly into the role of Dungeon Master. I ran a three-year campaign with my college friends. I also picked up RuneQuest during that time and GMed a few adventures for friends. Fast forward a few years (adulthood, parenthood, and other factors that get in the way of an active gaming life) and I started a regular RuneQuest game for a group of five players. 

After years as an amateur, I became a professional DM when I joined Orlando's Adventures on Tap. I started running 6-hour one shots for groups up to six players. I enjoyed it so much, I decided to branch out and offer my DM/GM services to others.

I offer on-site DM services for up to six players in the Orlando area and beyond. My adventures are home brewed, and with enough advance notice, I can customize an adventure for your group.

I craft narrative-driven, theater-of-the-mind adventures filled with puzzles, challenges, and deep lore. My homebrew worlds, inspired by Norse mythology and the Iron Age, invite players to engage their minds and imaginations. Every session is a living story, where choices shape fate and the unknown waits to be uncovered.

Weren't expecting a guy to be Mother Universe, huh?

The nickname came from a regular RuneQuest group I led for a little more than a year. We had a player who was completely new to TTRPGs and didn't know quite how it worked. I explained that it is a kind of cooperative storytelling — I set the scene and the players fill in the action. She controls her character; I am everyone and everything else — the people she meets in the game, the monsters, the weather ... the whole universe except for the players' characters.

One of my other players latched on to that and ran with it. Mother Nature, Mother Earth, Mother Universe ... and a nickname was born.

Many worlds and adventures later, the moniker still fits. I'm filling the roles of the universe for my players — creating worlds and the challenges that populate them, from puzzles to monsters to really nasty BBEGs.