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    LANCER: BATTLEGROUP - To Kill the Worthy King

    Inbound. Uptime. Within the 1st Dawnline Response Fleet, Battlegroups Eland and Splinter are grouped under the 2nd Crisis Response Group under the veteran Vice Admiral Reality Gentle. Gentle, counter to her name, is furious at the vicious nature of the attack. Her response comes within minutes...
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    Palladium news: Kevin Siembieda chooses an "heir"

    As per this video interview, Kevin Siembieda has been very pleased with his experience working with Sean Owen Roberson (Rifts for Savage Worlds Line Manager) and has brought him on as Palladium's new Creative Director, with an eye towards Roberson possibly taking over for Kevin someday. This is...
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    LANCER: BATTLEGROUP - To Kill the Worthy King

    Massacre Five days out from the neutral haven of Lighthouse Station, a Union Navy fleet (Battlegroups Eland and Splinter) investigates a fresh debris cloud. Automated distress beacons summoned the warships from their no-fly corridor duty, and they have emerged from nearlight to find a scene of...
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    Spire: The City Must Fall

    I've heard lots of good stuff about this game. Looking forward to reading more of your experiences in Spire!
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    LANCER: BATTLEGROUP - To Kill the Worthy King

    The Dawnline Shore Attention, GROUPCOM. You're being sent out to *Lighthouse* Station to enforce a no-fly corridor for all non-Union military ships. Baronic Unified Command is believed to have a number of fully automated Cogent Mind flagships operating beyond *Lighthouse* - boarding tactics...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    I'm glad for you! And here's hoping you have better mental health days ahead.
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    Commentary thread for that “Describe your game in five words” thread.

    Haiku for the recent developments in Lancer: Battlegroup. Enemy captains play blood-soaked musical chairs Flagships keep popping
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    LANCER: BATTLEGROUP - To Kill the Worthy King

    Character Creation: Captain Tabitha Saint-Germaine, Union Naval Corps In the Lancer universe, Cosmopolitans are those people who spend almost all of their lives on starships travelling at nearlight speeds through space. To non-Cosmopolitans, these people appear to never age over many centuries...
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    How do you keep your GM notes?

    In BitD, which I run over Discord voice sessions, I have a Google Doc with all of the NPCs and factions. I have a couple of other notes on my phone and computer but this one is the most important. I used to write everything on paper, but online cloud docs are so useful to me. And since I...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    (Blades in the Dark): Betray Scurlock or Governor? Both. 😙 (Lancer: Battlegroup): Enemy leaders play musical chairs.
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    LANCER: BATTLEGROUP - To Kill the Worthy King

    Character Creation: Captain Caspian Var, Union Naval Corps Like in Lancer, the player character is defined by stats that affect narrative play, as well as stats for combat. You don't roll for these, and the first set of stats is assigned completely independent of the second; as such, there's no...
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    LANCER: BATTLEGROUP - To Kill the Worthy King

    Prelude This is Lancer: Battlegroup! So I've been running some Lancer: Battlegroup games recently, for two players, via PbP. We used the playtest version 1.96 rules (the full game isn't out yet). Funded as part of the Role Kickstarter campaign last year, Lancer: Battlegroup is a...
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    Congratulations to the 2021 ENnie Award Winners

    Friends at the Table are playing it - with their own setting - for their current season! It's a great hop-on point since it's a brand-new campaign in a brand-new world (a homebrewed fantasy Western setting). Also, lots of kudos to Asians Represent!
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    Teach Your Cat To Role-play

    That's a promising idea for a KS. Jammi Nedjadi's Feline Dream-O-Naughts also has mechanics for gaining tokens when your cats willingly interact with you during your game - it's the first RPG where I saw that concept! https://temporalhiccup.itch.io/feline-dream-o-naughts
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    (For Blades in the Dark): Demon negotiations, favours for Scurlock. (For Lancer Battlegroup): Running gauntlet of nuclear explosions.
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    When and what game did you start with.

    Started playing AD&D, then my first GMing experience was the Fighting Fantasy RPG.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Enemy fleet incoming, train faster!
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