A Creative Institute

about me.

My name is Julian, I've been role-playing tabletop games for 14 years, and socialising in hobbyist spaces my whole life. My company is based in Gympie, Southeast Queensland. I judge Magic: the Gathering events up and down the Sunshine Coast, and am also an event coordinator at a local gaming store, Playback Gympie. 

I developed a company profile by the name of A Creative Institute several years ago with no real direction or focus, just ideas on getting like-minded people together to play games that were a little out of the mainstream. Now it works as a collective group to organise these DND games, as well as a creative outlet for me.  A forever GM it seemed, for a long time. Now despite the workload of games I run, I still have time to participate in a few myself.

I am a member of the committee for TableTop Utopia; an event run monthly that facilitates a place to play DND and other roleplaying games. We’ve had some banger years and I'm excited every time to connect more people and get more of you involved who are interested in the game.

what i do.

I run DND games for people on request, basically. I have an array of minis and some board game paraphernalia that gets used to produce either One-Shots (usually for the busiest of people) or long-term campaigns that stretch on for months or even years. 

I interact with all these people in my own time, talking to them about my world, their characters' backstories, as well as organising groups within groups to hangout and play DND.

Typically I'll produce the story, make up a dozen characters for a session, and then find a group, usually in that order. These groups can run simultaneously in the world’s timeline or at varying points in history. Events can unfold and transpire between sessions that change how the world works and feels, this makes the game sessions feel dynamic and lived in.

In addition to this, I still work as an entertainer, as a conduit to make some noise and jokes. We’re all looking to blow off a bit of steam and kill some monsters in our spare time, and I can provide that service.