Thomas "biestibelzer" Thudt

Polymath, Philomath,
bad at math.
Samurai in training.
Gourmet and Gourmand.
All kinds of games!
Regensburg based.

I read books, have watched and rated 1299 movies and shows on IMDb and letterboxd. I talk to people about everything from daily life to life goals.
Everything I've ever seen or heard of is ammunition for creating ideas, writing stories, building worlds.
I love to pair Fantasy with a framework of Realism to create immersion.

For that, I love to switch between research & tinker time, a mix of 1on1 and round table discussions.
My stories are for people and for those stories I like to work with people.

Communicate,
learn,
understand,
create,
help.
Create a space, a community, a game where people can come together, where no one has to be alone.

Let's chat!
I love to talk with people about food and cooking, movies and shows, books, events, their jobs, specialties and hobbies. Anything and everything.

Gaming is forever. It brings people together.
For an evening, a campaign, for life.

Hello there! I'm Thomas and I like to understand things and ask questions. Lots of questions.
Narrative Design, Project and Community Management are things I like to do and like to do for money.

I'm currently writing my own little project, creating a universe bottom up and while I'm looking for projects, and maybe a forever home, I put a lot of my energy and skills to use in clubs and associations around topics like board/games and martial arts.
My Narrative Design found it's roots in PnP/TTRPGs, and RPGs in general. My favourite genre.

In my free time I read, from fantasy to technical, watch and analyze movies and tv shows (about 1299 ratings on IMDb and letterboxd). I like to cook, especially japanese, italian and french cuisine, and eat out. I dance salsa, bachata, kizomba and merengue and I've been practicing Shinkendō for about ~9 years. I love to organize and host board game nights and always enjoy supporting community and fellowship.

Books, movies and shows got me hooked on fantasy and world building but what really pulled me in and got me designing was Pen&Paper/TTRPGs. I've been playing, character and world building in different systems for about 17 years, trying to weave personal characteristics and issues, cultural and social characteristics and issues into my game characters, worlds and stories.
Always aiming for an amalgamation of realism and fantasy for a deeper immersion.

Creating things and watching people join both playing and developing, watching them think and act differently to problems in and out of game, watch them feel differently is a wonderful thing.

I love to experience different ways of thinking, eating, dressing, communicating. I like to observe, question, analyze and in the end, hopefully, understand.
Understanding one another is not just an important but a beautiful and caring thing. I have been a part of communities and I have been alone. My stories, games and everything I do are to make room and create opportunities to come together, have fun and understand each other a little better.
I like to think that games are the best way of doing that.