Flashpoint Earth | LANCERs resist alien invasion

Gear up, LANCER--Earth is under attack and your squad is needed on the front lines!

TYPE

Campaign

SYSTEM

LEVELS

1–12

LANGUAGE

English

EXPERIENCE

Open to all

AGE

18+
2 NEEDED TO START
$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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This game will begin once 3 players have joined

Meet your party members

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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

Meet the Game Master

5.0

(10)

Published Writer
Voice Actor
Game Designer

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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Character creation

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

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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