[Lvl 4] Steampunk Fantasy Detectives! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈5.5e+5e D&D

About the adventure

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈LGBT friendly, I'm a transfemme GM and Bigotry of any kind has no place at this table. ------- Enter a living campaign with over 20 weekly players across 5 detective agencies! ------- Solve mysteries, uncover conspiracies, and ally with factions in a gritty steampunk dystopia built atop the ruins of an ancient underground city of gold. Your party was recruited by a solo private detective who has decided it is time to mentor new blood. You will work cases, make enemies and allies, and uncover the city's many dark secrets. Meet characters with years of history and leave your own inexorable mark upon the city for other players to encounter. This is your unique story about your own characters exploring a city where everyone has something to hide. ------- Explore the mysteries of a city with deep history ------- Built atop the ruins of an underground city that collapsed beneath the weight of its own ambition, Engress found its new identity through salvage and scholars. Breakthroughs in the marriage of science and technology at Engress University revitalized the city. A new era of steam engines, factories, and harnessed lightning. But something went sour with the promise of progress. Industry, science, and magic went unchecked for far too long; A runaway train of exploitation, experimentation, and contamination. Morality and ethics are sidelined for progress and profit, and factories churn out weapons of war. The Great War ended eight years ago. Its scars are still visible on the countryside, and still evident in the distant eyes of beggars and mercenaries. Now is a time of reflection in the wake of atrocity, where many have come to loathe the city they call home, but few, if any, can do anything about it. Nowadays, crime and corruption line the smog-choked streets of Engress. A sprawling city of factories and slums where gangs rule the streets and corporate elites exploit the masses from atop gleaming glass towers. The city hums with activity day and night, a sound which reverberates even through the ancient caverns of the ruined city deep underground. Endless crime, however, creates endless opportunities for a small and growing private detective agency. This is where your story starts. ------- What my players tell me you'll love: ------- 🎭Gripping roleplay and personalized narratives ⚙️Deep and mysterious lore with a decade of history that I could talk about for days 🦑Fanatic cults, secret societies, aberrant monstrosities, and eldritch horrors 🎩Webs of competing factions, where earning one group's favour earns the ire of thrice more 🔎That "aha!" moment where you finally put the clues together 🏭Escaped experiments, corporate espionage, and industrial sabotage I've written this setting over years of play, and I'll whisk you away into a city of wonder where evil lurks within the very foundations. Thinking of playing with us? Join my D&D Discord and start asking questions! discord.gg/C3F3ratQ87