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Flashpoint Earth | LANCERs resist alien invasion
Gear up, LANCER--Earth is under attack and your squad is needed on the front lines!
$20.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Friday - 7:00 AM UTC
Session Duration / 2–3 hours
Campaign Length / 10+ Sessions
1 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
This Pacific Rim-inspired LANCER adventure will take you on 12-15 missions against an insidious and powerful alien threat. You and your fighting machines are Earth's last line of defence against the marauding invaders, so take the fight right to them! Whether you're a soldier fighting for your nation or a mercenary fighting for fortune and glory, "Earth Needs You!"
Game style
Combat Heavy
Tactical / Crunchy
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
Less than a year on StartPlaying
Highly rated for: Storytelling, Teacher, Knows the Rules
Average response time: 7 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
I have been a GM ever since receiving a D&D3.5E starter set when I was a young lad. I was the kid who tried to start a D&D club in primary school, and I've been playing tabletop games of all kinds, from board games to wargames, ever since. I'm a kind and funny guy by all reports, and I've always been warmly received by my players (once, a player frothed at the mouth from excitement during a tense combat encounter at the end of a campaign!) I am also a designer, and I have been tweaking rules and making homebrew ever since I started GMing. I have been told before that I should write my adventures down and try to publish them, and honestly one day I do hope to become a published author of adventures and rulebooks (rather than just an informal one), and I'm even working on my own skirmish wargame, Flintstrike. I can be shy when it comes to putting myself out there like that, though...but one day soon, I hope.
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Creating your character
Characters will be reviewed quickly during the opening of the first session and you'll be expected to introduce your character.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Players should be prepared to join my GMing discord server where I provide all the useful information I can think of, as well as have the actual voice communications for the game. Foundry is the virtual tabletop I use, and it does not require players to have anything other than an internet browser and the link I provide to each game session. Be prepared to use Edge in the event that your chosen internet browser experiences technical difficulties with Foundry.
What Roy brings to the table
First and foremost, I provide a living, breathing world that reacts and adapts to the players' decisions. There are no rails to follow; this is a sandbox where your actions matter and can change the fate of the universe. There are no throwaway or "silly" characters who exist just to serve a humorous bit; every character is brought up in the fiction of the game universe. Players that join my games can expect the rules as written to be followed, setting a clear baseline for how everyone's player characters can interact with their world. Over and above that baseline, they can expect me to try my best to fairly interpret the mechanics or consequences of any imaginative action they can think to attempt--just because there's no rules for swinging on a chandelier doesn't mean you can't try! I'll do my best to ensure my players have the best experience possible. I provide voices for all my characters and draw on my long gaming history to sample appropriate immersive background music for my games.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Headphones
Platforms used
Safety
How Roy creates a safe table
My players will receive links to safety tools, in particular a consent checklist. I will review these checklists before a session 0, and then discuss how the content in the game might relate to or be altered by the consent of the players. Furthermore, session 0 will begin with a general consent check for players to indicate anything they forgot to mention or wanted to ask other players. In the case of safety tools, I will encourage my players to message me privately (using a whisper in chat or a discord message) in order to indicate when they are uncomfortable. When this occurs, I will alert the group that I need to take a quick break to handle a consent check, then private message with the uncomfortable player (I will do this without asking anyone to leave the group call, so as not to single out anyone).
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Safety tools used