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Eldritch Horrors Interbellum | Mini-Campaign |🏳️🌈
Agents wanted for hazardous assignment. Constant danger, sworn secrecy, maddening horrors. Safe return doubtful. Become an unsung hero today.
$20.00
/ Session
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Weekly / Saturday - 1:00 PM UTC
May 16 / Session 3
Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours
Campaign Length / 2–3 Sessions
3 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
You have entered a gilded world of terrifying magick. You are now an investigator of the unknown. A bulwark against the supernatural. A sacrifice for the cause. Candela Obscura has recruited you. 🔍 Collect and connect clues. 👾 Endure eldritch horrors. 🌘 Find hope in a doomed world. 💀 Maybe, just maybe – survive… In this mini-campaign, players will investigate a mysterious forest village. A fellow detective disappeared there, never to be heard of again. HIGHLIGHTS ✨Learn to play. New system? No problem! I am a patient and passionate teacher. ✨Friendly to all LGBTQ+. I strive for a welcoming and safe table. ✨Immersive atmosphere through background illustrations and music. ✨Human art by real people. No generative AI in sight. ❗ Fresh stories every month❗ In this time slot we will play a different roleplaying system every few weeks. Games on the horizon include: ▶️ The Electric State (A 1990s roadtrip through an unfolding apocalypse) ▶️ Tales From The Loop (1980s kids solve SciFi mysteries) ▶️ Goblin Quest (Squeak. Die. Repeat.)
Game style
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Roleplay Heavy
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
1 year on StartPlaying
41 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Inclusive
About me
Hi, I’m Peter. An instigator of mirth and mischief. I believe in games that offer players creative agency. I believe in kindness and generosity. Coziness and cooperation. You want a games with a dense atmosphere and a rich story? A story that is build from and shaped by your ideas? Look no further! Take a seat at my tables. Or contact me for a custom game. ________________________________________________________ Come on over and say "Hi!" on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/syrsapperlot.bsky.social Pretty things for Daggerheart: https://starlitarchivesgames.substack.com ________________________________________________________ 🎇Highlights Evocative theater of the mind, Immersive voice-acting, music and illustrations. Story-focused & player-driven. No railroads in sight. Kindness and inclusivity ________________________________________________________ 🎭Experience 25+ years of public performance, including: * Teaching at universities for 7 years; * Acting in 10 theatre performances (plus various smaller projects); * Directing 3 theatre performances (plus various acting workshops); * GMing 50+ TTRPG convention games across a dozen game systems. On occasion: DJing; Model United Nations; Literature and poetry performance. ________________________________________________________ 🖼️Trivia about me I’ve spend years living in Germany, the UK, Central Asia and Russia. Also, a few months in South Korea. Once, I bought a hat on top the Great Wall of China. Once, I made a campfire to stave of the bitter Siberian winter. Didn’t help. Once, I ripped my trousers on stage mid-performance. Once, I directed an Austrian stage play at a Kyrgyz night club. Once, I played Santa at a Christmas market hosted by a German embassy. I have yet to reach the shores of my imagination. ________________________________________________________ ❣️Things I love: All things pen and paper and polyhedrons; Traveling on the Trans-Siberian railway; My music collection (digital and physical); The Theatre, both as audience and performer. ________________________________________________________ Where does the name ‘Sapperlot’ come from? ‘Sapperlot’ is an old-timey German way of expressing surprise or amazement, like ‘Blimey!’ in British, or ‘Holy Smokes!’ in American English.
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Creating your character
Before the first session, players will select an archetype (e.g. The Explorer; or the Professor). Players can personalize and flavor these archetypes to their liking. At the beginning of the first session, the group will finish the character creation and party creation together.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You will need a free Alchemy account. Communication between sessions will take place in Discord.
What Peter Sapperlot brings to the table
🧪An Easy Online Play Experience Alchemy VTT offers easy access to all your character stats and resources. It gives you a good overview of all your abilities and features at all times. 🎲Immersive Atmosphere Enjoy human-made background illustrations and atmospheric visual effects accompanied by a musical score. 🎭Voice Acting I am bringing over a decade of theatre experience to the table. I can portray a diverse cast of characters and bringing them to live with a wide range of voices. 💡Learn-to-play I am a patient and experienced teacher. Hop on in!
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Headphones
Platforms used
Safety
How Peter Sapperlot creates a safe table
The internet is dark and full of terrors. I wish to carve out a tiny enclave of safety and inclusion for all of you at my table. At the beginning of the first session, we will address expectations and wishes for the campaign. We will also determine topics or tropes players do not want to encounter in their stories, so called Lines (hard boundaries) and Veils (topics that can be implied, but should not be spotlighted). During weekly sessions I will maintain an Open Door Policy. There won’t be any hard feelings or explanations needed, should you ever wish to leave the table – temporarily or permanently. Furthermore, Alchemy offers an X-card feature. Leaving is a measure of last resort. Preferably, players use the X-card to indicate when something in the narrative makes them feel uncomfortable or unsafe. In the middle of every session, there will be short break for everyone to recharge. Before and after every session there will be short check-in, an opportunity for anyone to share how they are holding up – with regards to the game as well as in real life. As a player, I never liked tables where everybody just dashes away after the curtain falls, like a flock of very nervous birds. Sharing, naturally, always remains optional. As part of that aftercare, I will use Stars&Wishes. At the end of each session, players can award a Star to highlight a moment, other player or NPC. I will then encourage everyone to express a Wish, something they would like to see change in future sessions, or an idea they would like to become part of the shared narrative. I strongly believe in trust as the fundamental pillar of any ttrpg game. Without trust creativity can’t flourish, let alone any collaborative storytelling. Therefore, I will always strive to be a patient teacher, an attentive listener and an inclusive, non-judgemental host.
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