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Monster of the Week - Play in the Strangers in the Pines World
$25.00
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Custom / Tuesday - 12:30 AM UTC
Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours
0 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
A game about finding and stopping monsters. This game works with many cool settings, some of my favorite to run are strong sci-fi setting like Fringe, or a modern magic world like buffy, supernatural or Dresden Files. You can even play a Harry Potter out in the Magical world type game pretty easy. You will be hunting monsters and phenomenons that are causing damage to the world while getting swept up in amazing character centered stories.
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Meet the Game Master
5 years on StartPlaying
6 games hosted
About me
Hi I'm Paul Parnell the Creative Director of the RPG Empire. I'm a Creator, Writer, DM, and Player making roleplaying content for your inspiration and entertainment. I love RPGs and have a background in screenwriting, acting, game creation and I've been playing RPGs for more than 20 years. I even had Dave Arneson one of the creators of DnD, as my collage professor and had the opportunity to play a Dungeons and Dragons game DMed by him. :O Some shows I've created: Dust World RPG Podcast: An anime-inspired post-apocalyptic sci-fi western actual play RPG podcast about a group of flawed individuals, the Boys, that are trying to stop Red Earth a mad dictatorship from taking over what's left of this rock. Found anywhere you can listen to podcasts. https://dust-world-rpg-podcast.captivate.fm/ Strangers in the Pines: Strangers in the Pines is an actual play roleplaying podcast using the monster of the week rules, inspired by things like Gravity Falls, Stranger Things, and Twin Peaks. There is a town called Pine Forge nestled in the Blackwood national park in Northeast Oregon, USA. It seems small and quaint at first but if you spend enough time there and keep your eyes open you’ll realize something strange is brewing under the surface and in the pines that surround the town. Follow the exploits of 4 unusual high school students, Lucas Santiago a mutated meat monster, Dotty Luzhkov an earthy crunch girl blessed by the forest, Danny Fields a spooky kid with psychic powers and Chad Woodmore the 7th the heir to Woodmore Industries and a real jerk, as they try to unravel the mysteries of Pine Forge and the Strangers in the Pines. Found anywhere you can listen to podcasts. https://strangers-in-the-pines.captivate.fm/
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Creating your character
You'll pick your playbook before and work out who you will be playing with the keepers(DM) help. All playbooks are open.
No Experience needed, 18+ game
What to expect
Preparing for the session
This will be voice and mic. We can try webcam to if people are interested. Create your character and enter them into roll 20. Read the basic moves, a printed basic moves reference sheet and playbook help too.
What Paul Parnell, DM of the Dust World Podcast from The RPG Empire brings to the table
I will set everything up in Roll20, provide you characters and tokens to use. I will provide access to the Monster of the week book and tome of mysteries, including all the playbooks and alternative weird moves.
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Safety
How Paul Parnell, DM of the Dust World Podcast from The RPG Empire creates a safe table
This is a Monster of the Week game. It is a narrative focused game that uses 2d6 to resolve random elements. It is very easy to play and really creates interesting dramatic moments and awesome interactions. The players will pick a playbook working with the Keeper(DM) A session looks like 5-8 mins of getting into it and saying hellos. Then it's off solving the mysteries that will revolve around artifacts, creatures and phenomenons. Following clues and having cool interactions with suspects, victims and bystanders. Learning the weaknesses of the target before trying to confront them hopefully without getting killed. Every monster in this game is very dangerous to the hunters and should be treated as such. The hunters may die if they do to many stupid things, but that makes it exciting. Think about it and make good choices, or don't that's fun too.
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