Steampunk Fantasy Detectives! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈5.5e+5e D&D
Solve mysteries, unearth conspiracies, and make alliances in a gritty steampunk fantasy dystopia built atop the ruins of an ancient underground city!
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Weekly / Thursday - 5:00 PM UTC
Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours
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About the adventure
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈LGBT friendly, I'm a transfemme GM and Bigotry of any kind has no place at this table. ------- Enter a living campaign with over 20 weekly players across 5 detective agencies! ------- Solve mysteries, uncover conspiracies, and ally with factions in a gritty steampunk dystopia built atop the ruins of an ancient underground city of gold. Your party was recruited by a solo private detective who has decided it is time to mentor new blood. You will work cases, make enemies and allies, and uncover the city's many dark secrets. Meet characters with years of history and leave your own inexorable mark upon the city for other players to encounter. This is your unique story about your own characters exploring a city where everyone has something to hide. ------- Explore the mysteries of a city with deep history ------- Built atop the ruins of an underground city that collapsed beneath the weight of its own ambition, Engress found its new identity through salvage and scholars. Breakthroughs in the marriage of science and technology at Engress University revitalized the city. A new era of steam engines, factories, and harnessed lightning. But something went sour with the promise of progress. Industry, science, and magic went unchecked for far too long; A runaway train of exploitation, experimentation, and contamination. Morality and ethics are sidelined for progress and profit, and factories churn out weapons of war. The Great War ended eight years ago. Its scars are still visible on the countryside, and still evident in the distant eyes of beggars and mercenaries. Now is a time of reflection in the wake of atrocity, where many have come to loathe the city they call home, but few, if any, can do anything about it. Nowadays, crime and corruption line the smog-choked streets of Engress. A sprawling city of factories and slums where gangs rule the streets and corporate elites exploit the masses from atop gleaming glass towers. The city hums with activity day and night, a sound which reverberates even through the ancient caverns of the ruined city deep underground. Endless crime, however, creates endless opportunities for a small and growing private detective agency. This is where your story starts. ------- What my players tell me you'll love: ------- 🎭Gripping roleplay and personalized narratives ⚙️Deep and mysterious lore with a decade of history that I could talk about for days 🦑Fanatic cults, secret societies, aberrant monstrosities, and eldritch horrors 🎩Webs of competing factions, where earning one group's favour earns the ire of thrice more 🔎That "aha!" moment where you finally put the clues together 🏭Escaped experiments, corporate espionage, and industrial sabotage I've written this setting over years of play, and I'll whisk you away into a city of wonder where evil lurks within the very foundations. Thinking of playing with us? Join my D&D Discord and start asking questions! discord.gg/C3F3ratQ87
Game style
Combat Lite
Roleplay Heavy
Theater of the Mind
Sandbox / Open World
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
4 years on StartPlaying
95 games hosted
Highly rated for: Inclusive, Storytelling, World Builder
Average response time: 18 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
Check out my dedicated RP discord if you want to chat with me or some of the players who I GM for: https://discord.gg/VMMGdgSg3M I'm a trans GM with a decade of GMing experience, including professionally for corporate clients and as the in-house GM of Strawberry Fields Interactive. Fantasy roleplay is my life: From high school theatre to university-level demonology courses, I'm always looking to pick up new skills that will level up my RP game.
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Creating your character
Characters should be made collaboratively starting during session 0. I'll be helping every player through character creation every step of the way. Please do not plan to make joke characters or characters whose purpose is to cause mischief or mayhem. Creation rules: • Official content from ALL OF the core 2024 5.5e and 2014 5e D&D rulebooks is automatically allowed; content from other sources is subject to GM approval. • 27 point-buy, default starting equipment • 5e variant human is banned (replaced with 5.5e human) and characters using 5e rules get an origin feat at level 1 • TCE expanded origin customization rules for species and backgrounds are allowed Additional third-party rules: Arcane Artillery: The Gun Nuts Guide for 5th edition • ONLY the primitive firearms list, none of the classes/feats/etc
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Get started by joining the discord 👉 https://discord.gg/C3F3ratQ87 To access the Foundry Virtual Tabletop and join us on Discord, you'll need: 💻A computer that can run Foundry (requirements here: https://foundryvtt.com/article/requirements/) 🌐A high-speed internet connection (preferred wired) 🛠️An account on the hosting service, Forge-VTT.com 🔊A Discord account 🎧Headphones with a microphone 🤫A quiet space where you can keep loud pets/people out while playing 🧿A webcam is NOT required, I don't use one, and neither do any of the players so far
What Zoey brings to the table
I've been a Game Master for a decade, including years working for RP companies as an in-house GM and game designer. With every player, I do a one-on-one character-building meeting where we will tie your character's backstory, adversaries, and allies into the setting. That way, you'll get a personalized narrative, just for you, that unfolds throughout the campaign. I also bring to the table: 🗺️ Custom-made maps and battle maps (Check out my bluesky for examples https://bsky.app/profile/zoeyodyssia.bsky.social) ✒️A detailed setting written over years of sessions, complete with a player guide 📚All the D&D 5e core rulebooks and supplements 🎶Curated music playlists to set the mood 🖼️Visual aids to help spark your imagination (and NO AI!)
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Headphones
Internet
Microphone
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Safety
How Zoey creates a safe table
We'll organize on Discord and run sessions using Foundry Virtual Tabletop Sessions will be: 🎭 Roleplay-focused, with occasional combat 🍿Filled with mystery and drama 🕒3 to 3.5 hours with breaks as needed 🚪Open door, you can step out at any time if you need to Session 0 will help you decide if this is the right campaign for you and includes: ☑ Group review of anonymized boundaries from the RPG checklist 🧐An overview of the setting and what to expect 🤝Collaborative character creation 🗫 Discussion of what you want to see the most in the campaign
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