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A Trial of Bronze and Blood - The Onyx Nexus
The old order has fallen and a thousand years of brutal peace have ended; now is your time to ascend!
$25.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Sunday - 9:00 PM UTC
Dec 14 / Session 96
Session Duration / 3 hours
Campaign Length / Up to 160 Sessions
4 / 6 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
Inspired by Tyranny and The Black Company. A falling empire convulses and explodes into war. You are part of the old system, and that world is collapsing. Your enemies are centuries old deadly immortals. What will you do, and what will you stand for? ⚔ Survive intrigue and competing interests as across an entire planet people reach out to try to fill the power vacuum. ⛏ Explore the past and find out how immortal rulers, powerful generals, and sorcerous casters came into their power... and claim some for yourself! 💣Handle the remnants of ancient wars - Massive constructs, undead hordes, and magical guardians protect secrets and hidden powers! 🤘 Delve into dungeons that have been forbidden for a thousand years, explore remote parts of the world where empire never stretched, and change the world. 🏰Create fortresses, build armies, form nations... or rip all of those down with infiltration, subterfuge, or all out war! A thousand years of expansion and conquest, overseen by the immortal Endless and their five generals, pushed the Empire's borders to almost the entire globe. Now, somehow, those five generals have destroyed The Endless and divided the empire amongst them. The peace of belonging to a single empire, as brutal as it was, is gone and the world explodes into war! The Cypher system is a very easy to learn, fast playing, highly customizable system that puts role-playing front and centre, while still having crunch in the character system. This is a game for folks who want to tell a character driven story, getting into the role of a character who will have defeats and triumphs and story arcs, growing and changing as the campaign goes on and we tell a story together. Come try a new system that has depth, but gets out of its own way during game play!
Game style
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Roleplay Heavy
Theater of the Mind
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(31)
3 years on StartPlaying
849 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, World Builder
Average response time: 1 hour
Response rate: 100%
About me
Hey folks! I'm Pete, known online as StenBjorn! I run Stone Bear Crafting and Games, a business dedicated to painting miniatures, 3d printing, building terrain, writing adventures, and helping customers have an awesome gaming experience! I've been playing D&D since family introduced me to the game in the late 80s. I have played and Game Mastered through a multitude of editions, learned other game systems, and never stopped loving storytelling through games - and hanging out with cool people! It's very important to me that everyone is welcome at my table. I'm happy to teach and believe learning is constant, and that when we're sitting at the table, we're all working together as a team. In that spirit, I don't tolerate bigotry of any sort. I want my games to be a safe space for group fun and growth and amazing storytelling! No generative AI is used in any of my games or productions.
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Creating your character
All Cypher character options are on the table, we may just have to re-skin some stuff if necessary. Backstory creation is done cooperatively with a custom backstory system made to integrate your character into the world and story!
An ongoing, extremely player driven, character focused, RP heavy Cypher campaign! Including deep character integration into the world through a custom character background system. We're picking up steam and some major story beats are in progress! 1 explorer, 1 warriors, 1 adept, and 1 speaker so far, with some good variety going on! Mid-campaign sign ups still get full on-boarding and session 0, as well as caught up on what's happened so far, so if you sign up same day, we will likely get you in to the campaign in time for next week's session!
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You will need: 👍 A good internet connection 👍 An account on playrole.com 👍 Mic/Audio, and a headset is often useful 👍 Webcam highly encouraged but not required 👍 Discord(Free, app or in browser, for communication between games)
What Pete - StenBjorn brings to the table
⚔️ Almost 30 years of GMing experience and RPG passion ⚔️ Voice acting and role play to bring NPCs to life ⚔️ All official Cypher books and the ability to create mechanics to suit the game we want to play ⚔️ Curated audio playlists that run in a separate browser window(with a separate volume slider) ⚔️ Three dimensional, exciting worlds to explore and play in! ⚔️ Custom content to make every story unique and personal
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Headphones
Internet
Microphone
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Safety
How Pete - StenBjorn creates a safe table
My games put story first, and I encourage role playing and creative thinking! Big swings are fun! I will provide combat, exploration, puzzles, and plenty of role playing opportunities! These games don’t work if we don’t think like a team, and work best when we’re all working together. I expect players at my table to respect each other, the story, and me. We will be working together to explore characters and tell a story. Optimization of your character is fine, but if math is the main attraction of the game for you, my table may not be what you’re looking for. I treat RPGs not as games to be won, but experiences to be built. I enjoy challenging combats and will throw them your way, but they have to serve the story. I ask all my players to be good to each other! Be cool, and we shall have a great time together. I don’t strictly follow Rules As Written, but I don’t deviate from RAW for no reason. That being said, I definitely believe in the rule of cool, as long as it doesn’t bend reality, and I use a few house rules for fun, flavour, and ease of use. My games are for a mature audience, and I swear like a pirate when it’s appropriate(in character). I welcome anyone to chat about expectations, but I do aim for an adult game, and as these games are fantasy/sci-fi, there will be conflict and violence and raised voices. I use the X(red), N(yellow), and O(green) card system during game play. This functions through a module in Foundry as well as private messaging on Discord. No explanation is needed when these are used. Before we start I will also be asking everyone to fill out the Digital RPG Consent Checklist by Kienna Shaw and Lauren Bryant-Monk(Adapted from Monte Cook Games), and this will be the basis for a living lines and veils document. I have a zero tolerance policy for harassment or discrimination of any sort, including race, creed, colour, gender, sexual orientation, etc. I(the GM) reserve the right to remove a player immediately if they are in violation of this rule.
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