Finding Your Co-Captain: A Learn-to-Play TSL One-Shot
$5.00
/ Session
Details
Once / Saturday – 7:00 PM UTC
Aug 3
4–4.5 Hour Duration
5 / 5 Seats Filled
Schedule
About the adventure
The Bonny Read glides over dunes, cuts through a sand storm, and finally rests at the edge of an ancient amphitheater. The Dead Oasis, usually a place for ‘sanctified’ duels, will now host a pirates’ moot, a retirement party, an auction of stolen sand ships, and... yeah, ok, probably a hundred duels, judging by the amount of drama between all these lesbians. Come to think of it, you do still need to get back at your ex for cheating on you with your other ex. But will your challenge end in fighting, or in kissing? Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a PbtA game focused on queer stories and epic adventures. Our one-shot will be played on Discord with fillable pdf playbooks and a dicebot. You'll be choosing from seven pre-made characters: the Gorgon Numidia (BEAST), Ifri Bonny-Read (CHOSEN), Harriet Strongheart (DEVOTED), Bloody Blanche (INFAMOUS), Mary Skullery (NATURE WITCH), Cosette the Icon (SCOUNDREL), and Dark Dalya (SPOOKY WITCH). Session zero and character selection will be done in text form roughly a day ahead of the game. The setting is a highly fictionalized early-18th-century African desert called the Seven Sand Seas. Its sands allow travel by ships – but only to female and femme merchants, sailors, and pirates. You are the fearsome pirates of The Bonny Read. Your captains, the famous Anne Bonny and Mary Read, have decided to retire and to offer their stolen sand ships to all their senior crew members, past and present. This includes your friends and exes from a rivaling pirate ship, and your crushes from a ship of bounty hunters. But here's the catch: you have to partner up as co-captains.
Game style
Theater of the Mind
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
3 years on StartPlaying
33 games hosted
Highly rated for: Inclusive, Voices, Storytelling
About me
I'm light on rules, low on tech, heavy on roleplay, and high on story. I found TTRPGs in 2014. Within a couple months, I turned into a forever GM. And I love it! I have a Ph.D. in English literature, so this is my way of using it for the greater good. My love for storytelling spans multiple genres. I will make you feel cool in adventure games, make you laugh in light-hearted games, spook you in horror games, make you blush in romance games, and warm your heart in wholesome games. I offer original one-shots and mini-campaigns using various systems, including my own homebrew systems. I GM in English or in Czech.
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Creating your character
You'll be choosing from seven pre-made characters: the Gorgon Numidia (BEAST), Ifri Bonny-Read (CHOSEN), Harriet Strongheart (DEVOTED), Bloody Blanche (INFAMOUS), Mary Skullery (NATURE WITCH), Cosette the Icon (SCOUNDREL), and Dark Dalya (SPOOKY WITCH). The characters' background makes them involved with the low-fantasy setting and gives them some history with NPCs, but it's up to you to infuse them with personality traits.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You need a Discord profile, a functioning internal or external mic and a webcamera. (You may be exempted from using your camera on account of bad internet connection, dysphoria, etc.) The character sheets will be in pdf form. You should sign up to my Discord server as soon as you join the game, and then go through the textual prep a day before game time.
What RPG Angie brings to the table
a private Discord server, pirate-core music, inspiring visuals, NPCs with colorful voices and oodles of sass, lots of improvization and roleplay
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Safety
How RPG Angie creates a safe table
The Seven Sand Seas may be a desert, but it's also an oasis free of slavery that's actively fighting against colonialism. These topics will therefore remain on the fringes of our story as Toxic Powers that your characters can define themselves against. We can redefine some details of this during the Content Warnings and Lines-and-Veils portion of our session zero.
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