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The Soul Trap | A Curse of Strahd inspired Lancer Mech Campaign
Stranded on a hostile planet, fight to escape both the world's evil tyrant and the hellish fate of eternal torment.
$16.66
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Weekly / Sunday - 12:00 AM UTC
Session Duration / 2–3 hours
2 / 6 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
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About the adventure
After numerous scout ships, as well as assorted civilian ships have went missing in this sector of space, your lance is sent out to investigate. Before you even realize, the ship carrying you in is trapped in a gravity pull, and crash lands on the lone planet in the system. There, you quickly find a land where the nearby sun's light barely makes it through the clouds, a land where the populace keeps their head down for fear of being noticed by the horrors that stalk the land. Trapped on this world, you and your fellow Lancers fight to survive and to escape this horrific land ruled by Count Vlad. ⚔ Fight mechs and other enemies inspired by horror tropes and classic monsters. 🌌 Journey across a land of city and wasteland and uncover the mystery that shrouds this land and its ruler. 🧛♂️ Unravel the mystery of the Soul Trap, some force that binds the souls of the dead to forever be trapped in this land. ----- One part gothic horror, one part mecha action movie. This is a custom Lancer campaign drawing heavy inspiration from the Dungeons and Dragons module Curse of Strahd. It leans into the horror of that adventure, as well as a strong cyberpunk aesthetic. It takes place in the default Lancer setting, though almost entirely on one world, largely separate from the setting at large.
Game style
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Sandbox / Open World
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(7)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
22 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Rule of Cool, Teacher
About me
Hi there! I have been a game master for over thirteen years now. In that time, I have run games in a variety of different systems and genres, both online and in person. Getting to explore the ins and outs of a new system is a particular joy, one that is overtaken by being able to collaborate with players and work together to tell a story we'll all remember. I generally consider myself a bit of a mega nerd. A lot of my childhood was spent reading things like “Star Wars: the Essential Guide to Characters” and other such books, and when I began to delve into the internet, reading various fan run wikis. Lately, Doctor Who and Gundam have been by major nerd spheres of interest.
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Creating your character
We will go over most relevant parts of character creation during session zero, however players can do as much work on their characters as they want beforehand if they want. Material from all official sources is allowed, and third party material may be allowed if you ask. Player characters will start at LL0.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Players will be expected to have the following: -A discord account -Decent Internet -A decent microphone -To be decently audible and not have a ton of background noise -Foundry will be used for all virtual table top purposes, so a computer that can access foundry will be needed. Knowledge of the system is not required, just let me know, and I can take some time to go over the system with you.
What Char brings to the table
I have a fair amount of genre knowledge, and have years of experience as a GM. I tend to do some voices for characters, nothing professional by any means, but enough to distinguish between various characters encountered. I also have a decently sized and accessible library of various token art for players to peruse to use for their mechs, and can provide resources to find art for player characters.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Char creates a safe table
We will go over all safety policies in session 0, and discuss if anything else needs to come into play, especially specific triggers that might come up. In being based on Curse of Strahd, this game will lean into some horror elements, though I would not consider it to be primarily horror in nature.
Content warnings
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