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I started Solstice Rain with a boom to jumpstart my players into the Lancer system. Now that the dust is settled, the next step for the players is taking the reins and starting exploration of Nov Elysia. Three clear options present themselves: Meeting with Omari Garcia in Downtown, knocking out the anti-air forces at the […]
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With clues and point crawl in hand, I am ready to introduce my players to my remixed Operation: Solstice Rain. To accomplish this, I use a Setup, a Buildup, and a Boom: First, I lay out a low-stakes Session Zero to introduce players to their characters and NPCs on the Rio Grande. Next, I build
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In my previous post, I identified the major nodes of Solstice Rain and ways to drive players to discover them. With these clues prepared, it’s time for the fun part of this remix series: Reorganizing Solstice Rain’s scenario structure into a point crawl of Nov Elysia, the adventure’s setting. In doing so, I will add
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I now have a better understanding of the main villain of Solstice Rain and the resources at his disposal. Next, I want to provide my players with clues to understand, locate, and thwart VSAF deployments in Nov Elysia. To this end, I will break down Solstice Rain into nodes and revelations, and match them with
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Before I delve too deeply into the next section of the remix, I want to provide a bird’s eye view of how I plan to transform Solstice Rain into a nonlinear, player-driven scenario. As I stated in the introduction to this series, I feel that such a scenario will facilitate player agency, and let them
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Now that I have made personal adjustments to Solstice Rain’s combat encounters, it seems like an excellent time for addressing the primary villains of Operation Solstice Rain: The Vestan Sovereignty Armed Forces (VSAF). Specifically, I plan to zero in on Colonel Sorvan Kiros using Nicholas Johnson‘s RATS method (Relatable, Antagonistic, Threatening, and Special) for writing
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UPDATE: Since publishing this post, I revisited Solstice Rain’s fights to explore a smaller, narrative-focused NPC roster that lets players and GMs gain greater familiarity with their foes. I highly recommend considering the revised lineup as an alternative to the below. As an introductory module, Operation Solstice Rain is the ideal time to present players
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This is the beginning of a series detailing my personal remix of Operation Solstice Rain. Operation Solstice Rain, by Kai Tave, is the official introductory module for the Lancer RPG. Aspiring GMs have long awaited Lancer’s equivalent of “Lost Mine of Phandelver” since the system’s release in Fall 2019. At the time of Solstice Rain’s
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