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🪐🔭G07🪐🔭 | Dark Mattter 5e D&D Sci-fi | Level 5
Just outside the space diner that you're visiting with friends, chaos erupts as space bandits begin shooting and abduct a helpless bystander.
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2 players following this game
Weekly / Thursday - 1:30 AM UTC
Oct 29 / Session 14
Session Duration / 3 hours
Campaign Length / 3+ Sessions
4 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
A High Tech Diner floats at the edge of a bustling trade hub — a chrome‑and‑neon relic from a bygone era, famous for its synth‑coffee, asteroid‑fried hashbrowns, and the fact that it’s usually neutral ground. Tonight, though, the calm doesn’t last. As you and your friends step out into the glowing parking bay, the air shimmers with heat from passing starships. A few dockworkers argue over cargo manifests. A pair of tourists take holos of the diner’s retro sign. Everything feels normal… until it doesn’t. A sudden crack of plasma fire splits the air. Screams erupt as a trio of space bandits — masked, armored, and riding jury‑rigged grav‑bikes — burst from behind a row of parked shuttles. Their weapons spit neon bolts into the crowd, sending civilians scrambling for cover. One bandit leaps off their bike, grabs a lone bystander — a nervous-looking courier clutching a metal case — and shouts: “We’ve got the package! Move!” The courier struggles, yelling for help, but the bandits drag them toward their waiting transport: a rust‑red dropship with engines already whining to life. People scatter. Security alarms blare. The bandits fire wildly to keep the crowd back. And you’re standing right in the middle of it.
Game style
Combat Heavy
Combat Lite
Dungeon Crawl
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Roleplay Heavy
Roleplay Lite
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Rules as Written (RaW)
Tactical / Crunchy
Game themes
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3 years on StartPlaying
1303 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Beginner Friendly, Knows the Rules
Average response time: 8 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
Hi, I'm AP a Best-Selling Author, and experienced Roll20 GM! * 5 years experience as a full-time professional GM. * 20k+ Hours on Roll20 * Roll20 Profile: https://app.roll20.net/users/7656131 * 10x Best-Selling Badges on DM's Guild (Best known for Magewright Backgrounds & Magic Items) * Playing and DMing since the days of yore (AD&D). * Now playing and hosting 5e games since 2020. * Newish to Foundry * New to Fantasy Grounds Unity
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Creating your character
Create your character using a Roll20 character sheet and a PDF from Mage Hand Press. Level 3. Implementation of the 2014 Dark Matter compendium content is limited, so content rules for Dark Matter characters IS RELAXED in terms of using 2014 or 2024 content exclusively in your Dark Matter character builds. Esper Genesis will also be used for Monsters and character building options.
09202026 We just finished Conspiracy in the Stars and have started Death Yacht, a Death House Sci-fi adaptation. Level 6: P1: **55 53 53 52.** Blare, Specialist (Esper Genesis). Amnesiac. Lawful Neutral. *"Восток офлн! Сорван лимит! Первый человек летит! (The East is one! The limit has been broken! The first man is flying! Gravity is silent!)"* A quick witted former pirate gunhand, only a lightly feral. P2: **Jacqueue (Jac).** Male Aasimar. Warlock, Wayfarer. Chaotic Good. *“Mercy is the mark of a great man, but I plan to be a villain."* P3: **Jezzabel "Jezz" Jakobs.**, Female Near Human, Gunslinger, Scoundrel. Chaotic Neutral with Evil Tendencies *"There's always money to be made, if you're bold enough."*
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You'll need discord and Roll20, both free.
What Narrator AP brings to the table
I have a variety of sci-fi content on Roll20 as well as a variety of 3rd Party Publisher Content that can be copied/pasted into a Roll20 Character Sheet. I also have Premium Map Packs from a variety of vendors including Tessa Presents, among others.
Homebrew rules
This game will be largely rule of cool as it will be my first run of Dark Matter. Scrolls: Using a spell scroll is an Arcana check: use 10 + spell level − your max spell level if it’s on your list, otherwise use 10 + 2×spell level − your caster level. The action required to use a spell scroll is the action required to cast the spell or 1 action, whichever is less. Potions of Healing: • Bonus Action (in combat): Roll the potion’s healing dice. • Action or Out of Combat: Take the potion’s maximum healing value. Cleaving: If a melee attack drops a creature to 0 HP and you dealt excess damage, you may apply the leftover damage to another target in reach that the original attack roll would have hit. Flanking: You gain +2 to melee attack rolls if: • An ally is directly opposite you on the target, or • You have three or more allies adjacent to the same enemy.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Headphones
Platforms used
Safety
How Narrator AP creates a safe table
Every session can be a session 0. I use a session opener that encourages players to use/update their safety tool preferences on an ongoing basis. Also included is the ability of players to create private and/or public threads where they need only state their safety tool concerns and I will avoid it and do my best to steer the players away from said concern and handle any desired discussion of the topic to the best of my ability and seek feedback from the concerned where and when necessary before doing so.
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