Assassin's Creed: Corvus | RP & Investigative Blades in the Dark

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“Roleplay Heavy” games place the focus on the story, the characters, and the world they live within, and tend to lean hard into the various roleplaying elements of the game. These games will frequently find the party talking with NPCs, exploring the personal elements of their backstories, or even having emotional moments around the camp fire. 

Roleplay Heavy

“Theater of the Mind” uses little to no visuals for scene settings and combat. Instead, the narrative imagery comes from the Game Master’s descriptions and character action and movement comes from Players’ descriptions. 

Theater of the Mind

“Rule of Cool” emphasizes creative story beats over sticking to a system’s rules as written. Players have the ability to push the limits of the rules or even break core rule mechanics at times if the Game Master thinks it is interesting, fun, or cool enough.

Rule of Cool (RoC)

Games that are ran “Rules as Written” emphasize realism and stick to the letter of the rules, allowing players to explore creative solutions while still operating under a consistent rule set. Players have the ability to utilize the rules in creative ways to create awesome characters and moments in the game.

Rules as Written (RaW)

Organized Play uses a standardized ruleset for character creation, leveling, and rewards. Every character plays by the same rules. Its strength is flexibility: bring your character to any table and jump right in. With tight rule adherence, every game feels consistent, fair, and ready for adventure.

Organized Play

Blades in the Dark

Mystery

Low Magic

Espionage

The Deck of Player Safety (DOPS) allows players to anonymously signal any topics they want to avoid during a session. DOPS uses a deck of cards with potential topics that may come up during play, as well as an "Anything Goes" card. Players pass the cards of topics they want to avoid, or the "Anything Goes" card, face-down to their Game Master. The Game Master then shuffles the cards, and reviews the topics with the Players.

Deck of Player Safety

Session 0s are used to start the game, opening up with communication, setting expectations, and discussing any safety tools that will be used at the table.

Session 0

X, N, and O Cards are check-in tools. X-Cards are used to indicate that a participant is uncomfortable with the current content, often resulting in a change, rewind, or skip of the aforementioned content. N-Cards can be used by participants if they feel content is heading towards an X card, often resulting in a change or a “fade to back”. O-Cards are used to check-in on the group and ensure that everyone is comfortable continuing with the content.

X, N, and O Cards

I was once described as an "angst ho". In that moment I truly understood being completely offended by something I 100% agreed with.

I get my inspiration to run games from the storytelling school of mid 2000s traditionally female demographic cartoons, Totally Spies, W.I.T.C.H. and Barbie Movies (Princess and the Pauper is the best one, that is the only correct answer) as well as stories that are absolute gaggles of smashed together mythos, fantasy and theism like the Chronicles of Narnia, His Dark Materials and The Mortal Instruments(not beating those angst ho allegations).

All this to say I focus and specialize in narrative games. Between my actual GM experience of about 5 years on top of another 3 as a player, the story is where these games live and breath for me, plus with a healthy dose of theater and improv experience I find delight in being in character and bringing worlds to life. I would go as far to sat that I live and breath ttrpgs, and at any given moment there is a coins toss chance I am thinking about a campaign I am currently running, or one that I would like to run. I love discovering new systems, one of my most treasured possessions is a flash drive full of digital rulebooks, and I love involving my players in my obsession. Whether getting them involved in worldbuilding together to have them feel more involved in the world, or conceiving personal plots for them, My goal is to be a yes first GM, that I will do what I can to make the absolute nonsense my players want to do into a reality. I'm not the best at combat encounters, but I strive to make combat more than just a back and forth, and offer stakes, or alternative goals during conflict. Plus I can, and love to hurt my players in other ways (:< (with consent of course).

In terms of on-boarding, I have a 0.5 interview process, consisting of 1on1 session 0 interview to see if a potential player will fit in with the game/group and go over table policies. If a potential player is invited to join, there will be a session 0.5 for character building and integration and any lore questions the player may have, followed by their first session with their character. All of these will be free of charge, to ensure the player also feels they are integrating well and intend to continue with the game.

Overall I seek to offer the a safe, comfortable and healthy environment for myself and players to immerse ourselves in the heights of what this form of storytelling has to offer

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