I am Juce!
Juce is a Tabletop Gaming Hobby Enthusiast/Hobbyist. In late Summer 2014 Juce began a great gaming community on Facebook and within one month over 300 members began contributing, playing, or running in games with commensurate passion. He grew the group to almost 4,000 members before taking a break to focus on his personal life. As director and producer of the YouTube channel “Master the Game,” he has captured the interest of thousands of subscribers, with a steadily growing loyal base of viewership that has no end in sight.
Juce’s goal is to foster and motivate growth in both the tabletop gaming community by promoting various games, products, blogs, and YouTube channels that create and emphasize the sheer joy and shared love for the hobby he holds dear. Aside from his internet exploits, he has been known to loyally run local sessions of Dungeons & Dragons, and other games at the GrandLan Gaming Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan as well as play in Adventurer's League games at Fun 4 All in Ypsilanti, MI.
Are you interested in playing with Juce? Great! You can count on being able to play in games he DMs/GMs alongside fellow enthusiasts such as yourself in the Master the Game community on Discord. Some of the more prevalent games that come up in this group are Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition, Pathfinder 2e, Dragon Age, Fantasy Age, Heroes Unlimited, Rifts, Palladium Fantasy, Savage Rifts, and Savage Worlds Roleplaying Game.
If gaming in person is more your style you can reach out to Juce if you are located in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. You can find him at the GrandCon Gaming Convention every year where he has volunteered multiple years since 2014. It is the largest gaming convention in Michigan and is full of the most wonderful gamers you could ever meet.
So please, feel free to send him a message on any of his various social media outlets! He is sure to enjoy talking about Tabletop Gaming, this wonderful community, or any of his up and coming projects.
Most importantly Juce wants to play and run great games with great people!
Contributors
The Better Half
Paula “Awkwardly Nerdy”
Paula has been playing Tabletop RPGs since she was young. She began playing Dungeons and Dragons Second Edition with her brothers and sisters when one of her older siblings couldn’t make it for a session. They invited her as they needed someone to fill in and play his character for the night. Her love of Fantasy RPGs began that day.
In 2010 she introduced Juce to Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition. Since then she has been known to play and run games and is a great Dungeon Master. She never played using miniatures or flip mats until 2014 and since then it has become her preferred way to play. She is great at painting miniatures which you can see on stream HERE. If you see Juce showing off some pictures of cool painted miniatures they are ones she painted most likely.
To chat with her and see her miniatures as she paints them tune in to Master the Game on YouTube where we stream miniature painting and a variety of game systems. Come for the painting and stay for the shenanigans.
Follow her at:
Twitter
@AwkwardNerdGrl
Contact her:
The unflappable one
BN Drake
Retired Army National Guard Veteran and old school gamer BN Drake likes to volunteer at the local Doberman Dog Rescue. He began his Tabletop Gaming with Basic D&D in the 80’s and later returned to Dungeons and Dragons with 3.5 in 2003.
BN Drake plays and hosts games on the Master The Game YouTube & Twitch Channels. He also has a channel of his own where he posts short highlights and recaps of the games on Master The Game as well as his own original live plays. He loves all sorts of Tabletop RPG’s and has no problem trying new ones. He brings the “Triple Threat” to the table of Isiah, Jason, and Joshua to most games he runs.
The Wild Card
Bill at “RollStats”
Bill plays and hosts games on the Master The Game YouTube channel. He prefers OG D&D (remember that weird time when Dwarves, Elves, and Halflings were classes, not races?). Think B/X, the Basic D&D boxed set, the Expert D&D boxed set, BECMI (Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, and Immortal) the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and, 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons.
He also has a channel of his own where you’ll find plenty of BX Dungeons and Dragons module reviews and BECMI Dungeons and Dragons module reviews, along with his tips and tricks for running them after thirty plus years of experience.