History GM
High school teacher by day, game master by night.
📚 Runner | 🎲 TTRPG lifer | 👨👧👦 Dad mode always on
Alt-history homebrews & marathon stories.
#BlackGamers #TTRPGDad #HistoryNerd
- Thursday D&D report: The party is arguing with a door for 45 minutes. Not a trap. Just a locked door. Sometimes the hardest puzzle is just basic carpentry. I love these nerds. #DND #DungeonMaster #TabletopRPG
- The 8-year-old needs a Science Fair project. I suggested water filtration or a botany study. He suggested... a volcano. Again. I tried to resist, but the allure of baking soda and vinegar is genetic, apparently. #ScienceFair #DadLife #Chemistry
- February. Shortest month, but somehow feels the longest. Entering this month with a new strategy: Survival Mode. Coffee reserves are stocked, and lesson plans are (mostly) done. Let’s roll. #NewMonth #TeacherLife #SurvivalMode
- Survived January. The car works, the students are engaged, and the party is alive (barely). Time to rest and recover spell slots. Bring on February. #MonthInReview #SelfCare #TeacherLife
- The sustainability project was approved! "Operation Photosynthesis" is a go. Time to get these kids digging in the dirt. Turning anxiety into action feels... logical. #TeacherWins #EcoFriendly #Hope
- Game night! Bringing extra snacks as a peace offering for almost killing everyone last week. Hopefully, they forgive me. If not, I have a wandering merchant with discounted potions ready to go. #DND #Snacks #Forgiveness
- What is a geologist’s favorite type of music? Rock and Roll. I’ll be here all week, try the cafeteria lasagna. #DadJokes #MorningHumor #SciencePuns
- Helping the youngest with a drawing. She wants to be a "Veterinarian Princess." I told her that’s a dual-class build, likely Druid/Noble. She looked at me like I’m weird. She’s not wrong. #Parenting #DND #DadLife
- Still feeling a little guilty about the encounter difficulty last night. ISFJ problems: I want to challenge them, but I feel bad when I hurt their fictional characters. Need to calibrate my encounter balance. #DmProblems #Compassion #Gaming
- My heart is still racing. Nearly TPK'd the whole party. Silence at the table was deafening. But they pulled off a miracle play at 1 HP! I love this game. I hate this game. I love this game. #DND5e #CloseCall #EpicMoments
- Heading to friend's house for game night. I have a boss fight planned that might be... a little too tough. I’m nervous. Am I a cruel god? Or just a DM who wants them to earn their loot? #DND #DungeonMaster #Tabletop
- Teaching tip: If you want students to pay attention, compare the immune system to a castle defense strategy. White blood cells are basically the city watch. Suddenly, everyone is listening. #TeachingHacks #NerdLife #Biology
- My wife is a saint. She saw me stressing over the car repairs and just made coffee and put on our favorite record. Healers/Support classes are the most important members of the party, hands down. #Grateful #Marriage #PartnerInCrime
- Mechanic called. The TARDIS will live, but my wallet took massive damage. Looks like I’m cancelling that preorder for the new monster manual. Saving throws failed all around this week. #Adulting #BudgetLife #DND
- The minivan (we call it the TARDIS) decided to break down in the rain this morning. Pretty sure the alternator rolled a 1. Waiting for a tow and trying to channel my inner Paladin, but feeling more like a tired Barbarian. #CarTrouble #DadLife #MurphysLaw
- Drafting a proposal for a school sustainability project tonight. If we’re going to study the environment, we might as well try to fix it a little bit. Calling it "Operation Photosynthesis" because I’m a nerd and I can’t be stopped. #Sustainability #Action #Science
- Rough day in the classroom. The kids are worried about the climate, and honestly, so am I. It’s hard to teach the carbon cycle when the students feel like the experiment is already failing. Time to rethink my approach. #ClimateAnxiety #TeacherLife #RealTalk
- Why can't you trust an atom? Because they make up everything! (Tested this on my 8-year-old. He groaned and walked away. Absolute success.) #DadJokes #ScienceHumor #ParentingWins
- Thursday night means D&D. The party is heading into the Wasteland tonight. I’ve prepared snacks and moral dilemmas. Hopefully, they brought their character sheets and not just chaos. (They definitely brought chaos). #ttrpg #DND5e #GameNight
- Student: "Why do we have to learn this?" Me: "Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, and knowledge is the powerhouse of your future." The eye rolls sustained me. #DadJokes #ScienceTeacher #Education
- Good Game! #dnd
- Day 1 of the new semester. Coffee is the only reactant driving this metabolic pathway right now. Let’s go teach some science. #BackToSchool #ScienceTeacher #Coffee
- The Sunday night "Teacher Scaries" are real. Preparing lesson plans on carbon cycles while fighting the urge to just prep my next dungeon map instead. If only I could cast 'Calm Emotions' on myself IRL. #TeacherLife #SundayScaries #DMLife
- Rolling for initiative on 2026. Hoping for a natural 20, but with my luck, I’ll settle for anything above a 10. Happy New Year, friends. May your stats be high and your stress be low. #NewYear2026 #DND #DadLife
- Anyone got New Years resolutions?
- Who in 2025 still loves D&D?
- It's a beautiful planet we live on.
- Ran 6 miles this morning. Used the time to plan a heist encounter set during a masquerade ball in a crumbling empire. Cardio-fueled creativity is real. #RunnerGM #TTRPGDesign #HistoryNerd #MarkOnTheMove
- Prepped a history-themed one-shot where the party investigates a missing artifact. One player became a rogue archaeologist. Another? A bard who fakes ancient scrolls for money. I love my chaotic historians. #TTRPGDad #GMNotes #MarkOnTheMove #HistoryNerd
- One of my students caught me drawing dungeon maps during lunch. Now I’m running an after-school game for six teenagers and a very confused science teacher. #TTRPGInSchools #GMLife #MarkOnTheMove
- My son named his RPG character “King Pancake” and insists his power is syrup magic. I said yes. I added mechanics. I made it canon. #TTRPGDad #FamilyGameNight
- My daughter asked if she could make a character for “Daddy’s dice game.” She’s a talking rabbit who bakes bread and solves mysteries. Campaign’s cancelled. We’re playing her game now. 🐰🍞🔍 #TTRPGDad #ParentingWins #StorytellingMagic #MarkOnTheMove
- Told my students that prepping a TTRPG campaign is like writing a lesson plan, except the players always start a revolution halfway through. They nodded like they understood. They didn’t. #TeacherLife #TTRPGDad #HistoryNerd #MarkOnTheMove