Learn to Play as Technocracy! Pre-made Characters Available!
A magical experience limited only by your imagination and character's beliefs. Let's remake the world in our own image, let's play with possibilities!
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Once / Saturday - 5:00 PM UTC
Nov 8
Session Duration / 2.5–3.5 hours
0 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
You are assigned to investigate a freshly missing person's case. It's someone important who is missing. With influence and power. Your new job where you have recently been employed as a full-blown government Agent! You have recently discovered your belief in the powers of technology and man. You come to the realization that you can influence reality's behavior through this newfound Enlightenment. "This may involve one or more Reality Deviants"; your supervisor tells you after he hands you a file. "It's not the Senator, it's their daughter! Let's keep this quiet and get on top of it ASAP." He finishes; "There is definitely something unusual in play here, find out what is going on! Let's move! Yesterday, people! Reality is not fixed. Rather it is an agreed upon set of assumptions that is enforced by the collective will of humanity, known as the Sleepers. Mages are those folks who recognize that reality is not static, and realize that through the application of their will, channeled through rituals or other "mystical" or "scientific" approaches, reality can be changed according to their specific set of beliefs! There may be consequences if your alterations don't match up well with the communal beliefs, or Consensus, of the Sleepers. The Technocracy (which we will be role-playing) is currently in control of the general Consensus. Enter the World of Darkness, which is a shadowy, viler version of our own world. Here, the fight for Ascension is real. It encompasses all of our realities including the Umbra, which is a distorted reflection of our own reality but in the Spirit World, separated from us only by the Gauntlet. As the Technocrats, we strive for Enlightenment. Many realize that everyone has a different perception of how it appears, what it does. Whose version will win? What will replace the Consensus? What will become the new perception, and thus reality? You as a Mage have the ability to reshape your reality to match your perceptions! How will you Ascend to your own version of "reality"? What will you do with these abilities? What price are you willing to pay? This is a Mage game for beginners to learn the system, explore their Traditions, and understand the Spheres. Experienced players are welcome but should be willing to guide and support new players along the way. Change reality to meet your perceptions!
Game style
Theater of the Mind
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Combat Heavy
Roleplay Lite
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
About me
Hail, fellow gamer and well met! Aho. I've enjoyed many years (and still learning!) as a Storyteller/GM/DM and sometimes player. Typically, with a wonderful variety of groups, systems, styles and people! If you try me out, I do my best to allow for a lot of roleplays. You will experience a fair amount of tactical combat as well as some time for exploration. You will most likely laugh and enjoy yourselves while forgetting some of your real-world troubles. You will experience my calm voice and demeanor over which many have said that I should be in voice acting or radio work. With a long background in theater and customer service I often feel as though I may have been meant to do this pro GM thing... It has been a fulfilling yet challenging experience so far! (Profile pic with Mark Twain at his old house) I believe that on a deeper level, the things we create become reflections of our selves. The fantasies that we create embrace a lot about who we are in real life. They can represent the things we want to accomplish and experience. The fights we want to win and the values we wish to cherish or reject. A roleplaying game gives us the opportunity to do so safely in a comfortable, relaxed space for such fantasies! My intention is to enable a sacred, safe place for your imagination to roam freely, where each of us can play off and with each other in harmony. One of my favorite games ever was with a large group in my college days. Everyone played their own Dark Elven Matron mother, totally evil. Complete with their own noble House. Deep down in the in the Underdark. Daughters, males, slaves, evil Lloth worshippers and all... it was a furious game of note passing, deceit, backstabbing, building power and survival. Insanely challenging but great fun, with permissions of course! This and several other campaigns have lasted for several years or more of play time and have always been highly enjoyable! I do tend to get a little hyper-focused on these games. I also tend to prep way more than is actually required. Part of that is because I am neurodivergent with ADHD and some definite overlap into the Autistic Spectrum. I often recognize and genuinely empathize for others with these and other societal differences and hope that you'll feel safe and included in the environment that I work to provide. I've learned through time how to manage much of it though there's always room for new challenges. In addition, when not gaming I do love to kayak, raft, e-bike or hike in the great outdoors whenever possible. I love to read, a lot. Mostly TTRPG books nowadays but I've read a decent library of sci-fi, fantasy, including many other types through the years. Many in a hammock outside in nature (wish I could be there more!). I join and host several drum circles each month. I have dabbled in drawing and painting quite a bit through my years. I spent a lot of time making jewelry as a silversmith too. Leathercraft, tool work and dyeing was probably my first hyperfocus on arts and crafts though. I've been known to watch a bit of video entertainment, as I cannot always give reading the focus it deserves. Sometimes, I just need to not think so much, which can be challenging as my kind of neurodivergent! My hyperactive self tends to be way more mental than physical. I find myself empathizing with the Indigenous communities throughout the world for the terrible things, including genocide, done to them and their ancestors. I believe that we should listen to many of their voices and begin to resume roles as caretakers of the land, even if only for the sake of our descendants on this world. Parts of this come from the fact that I love gardening and natural landscaping. I helped run an organic wildflower nursery for many years too. I've built many miles of rock walls as well as hiking trails. I have planted literally thousands of trees throughout the years. Even more than that in perennial herbs and flowers! Check out the profile point boxes on this page for a little more insight into me and my style if you'd like. Hope we get to meet and play some games with you sometime soon!
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Creating your character
There will be pre-generated characters available. If you already have one that you'd like to play, please let me approve them in advance! If you'd like to make one from scratch and need some help, we can schedule a session in advance to make them together.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Discord is https://discord.gg/xUyvGaqf or I am tlv_da_tsi if you need to find me... You'll need a free Roll20 account as well for our character sheets and dice rolling. All World of Darkness PDFs are 40% off through October!
What Craigles brings to the table
We do our best to provide a calm, relaxing space to relax and RP. I expect my players to help me keep this a Safe place, where all can join, just be themselves and have a chance to laugh a bit at some of life's unpleasantries together. I try my best to do some voices and accents here and there. They don't always last long but should be enough to set off some imagination. I'm mostly a rules as written kind of GM but will occasionally hand wave it if we are getting frustrated or for something super cool that contributes to the story! We are looking for friendly, reliable players who'd like to have some friends in the online gaming community to roleplay, laugh and have fun with while playing some games and forgetting about stuff. You will be expected to treat everybody in the group with respect while trying your best to be kind. We will expect you to join us, on time and prepared, unless you've given us some prior notification. I'll be there to chat if you need anything. If your expectations are not being met, please let me know!
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Craigles creates a safe table
I expect each of us to respect one another. Lines and Veils will be posted in Discord chat. Session 0 will set expectations and other safety tools as well as discuss tone, themes and character concepts..
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