Mikel L. Matthews Jr.

@improvgm.bsky.social

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Improvisor, actor, director, GM, stand up https://linktr.ee/mikelmatthewsjr Start Playing GM: https://startplaying.games/gm/improvgm

The Boardgame Spooktacular. A movie theatre with monsters and maple guests on it.

A board game of a city with heroes, henchmen, and villains on it.

It's the cover showing Dungeon Crawler Carl book 1, by Matt Dinniman. It shows Carl, a man in red heart adorned boxers, running from a spikey zamboni with goblins on it while a cat, Princess Donut, runs beside him.

An ad for both an Alien and The One Ring game offered on StartPlaying.com. The One Ring game is the Darkening of Mirkwood campaign, played Wednesdays at 7pm Central. The Alien campaign will go through the Cinematic Campaigns and is Sundays at 1pm. 2 slots open for each.

Schedule for improv GM’s improv workshops at Gencon

Improvgm’s workshops they are available at Gencon to help players and GMs learn improv techniques to aid their gameplay

A list of the improv workshops at Gencon that Mikel (Improv GM) will be running, there are 5 different slots available. They can be found on the GenCon site by searching for Improvgm or Mikel.

A Xenmorph, from the film Alien, descends out of smoke to 3 Colonial Marines who preparing it fight it.

An ad for The One Ring (Wednesday, 7pm Central) and Alien TTRPG (Sundays, 1pm Central) games offered on Start Playing. The One Ring The Darkening of Mirkwood info: After finishing the Starter Sets, we’ll be entering one of the Great Campaigns where the players try to stop the Shadow from gaining its foothold in Mirkwood. The Alien Game: The Draconis Cycle. We’ll play through all of the Cinematic Campaigns. Colonists to Space Truckers to Colonial Marines to the edge of a black hole, we’ll explore horror and tension in a series of campaigns. 2 seats for The One Ring. 4 seats for Alien. $20/session

Middle Earth: the wizards CCG Challenege Decks and a Neoprene map of middle earth for it

An ad for Alien and The One ring on Start Playing. The One Ring is Wed at 7pm Central (2 seats available). Alien is Sundays at 1pm Central. (5 seats available) $20/session.

An ad for RPG being run by improvgm on Start Playing. $20 session and 2 seats for each game.

Unknown Armies. Wednesday at 7pm Central.
(Picture of the Unknown Armies main rulebook. Blue cover that suggests urban horror)
Deep under Chicago, something is growing. A magical billionaire is trying to control the city, two dead Urbanomancers battle it out
and you’re the only ones looking to stop them.

Angel RPG Sundays at 1pm
(Picture of the Angel RPG book. It's based on the Angel TV series that spun off from Buffy)
You’re keeping Upstate New York safe from Demons and other supernatual things.

You’ve also just unleashed a goddess and ripped open a barriet that kept hell away.

Oops

Trogdor drawn in chalk on the sidewalk

The Nobilis, 2nd edition RPG. A white coffee table book with the head of a stone figure wearing armor.

Catwoman and Batman from Batman Returns in a dress and tux, dancing. Catwoman: Does this mean we have to start fighting?

Gencon listings for 3 improv workshops designed for players and GMs. Antagonists, Character Depth, Raising Stakes

Dorain's post was really really wrong
"That stupid "Gen X watched the shuttle explode in school" thing is going around again, and no, that's not a thing that happened. Schools did not stop the day to force students to watch a live broadcast channel that was only available via satellite. You're faking victimhood to mock people's trauma"

Doing stand up at a large, nicely decorated farm hall.

Advertisement for the Pechakucha night

Bill Paxton as a vampire in Near Dark. Bloody, leaning against a bar with a shotgun over his shoulder.

Candles and scrolls in the picture and an advertisment for Reign of Spring: An Ars Magica Saga, Sundays at 7pm Central

Ad for Reign of Spring, an Ars Magica Saga. Scrolls and candles.

3 cyberpunk protagonists in a flying car being attacked by corp security. It's the playtest packet for Neon City Outlaws

3 cyberpunk protagonists in a flying car that's being attacked by two corporate security guards.

An ad for an Unknown Armies (modern horror) and Spectaculars (Superhero) game on Startplaying. Unknown Armies Wednesdays at 7CST and Spectaculars Sundays at 1pm CST

Start Playing ad with Spectaculars (superhero game) Sundays at 1pm and Unknown Armies (urban horror) Wednesdays at 7pm)

Ad for Spectaculars game and Unknown Armies.

Cover to the Spectaculars superhero RPG by Scratchpad Publishing. A hero rises above a city.

Improv Game Show tonight at 7pm EST for a Doctors Without Borders Fundraiser at twitch/tv/soyouwannabeadm

Grand Tribunal: The Ars Magica board game.

The rock spires of Meteora rise from the forests of the valley in Greece.

Outgunned GM screen with action heroes falling out of a plane and fighting for parachutes.

Scrolls and Candles in an ad for an Ars Magica Actual Play called Reign of Spring