Roll For Distraction returns to LANCER with new AP series "Fractured Republic"
It's big f***in' robot time.
Roll for Distraction has just started their new actual play season, Fractured Republic, which will be a campaign of acclaimed mecha combat TTRPG LANCER! The gang is playing as a Lancer squad that must contend with the evil forces of the Corporate Alliance, and put to rest humanity's last rogue faction so that we can be worthy of joining an interplanetary community known as The Assembly...
You can watch the first episode here: YouTube | Spotify
Roll for Distraction features six IRL friends who decided to start documenting their escapades during the pandemic when they were forced to play remotely. While their adventures began with Dungeons & Dragons, the show was completely reformatted after the OGL fiasco. Rather than continuing their D&D games, the group shifted its focus to be about discovering what else is out there, with short campaigns highlighting less well known systems.
They started with a Cyberpunk RED campaign titled The Family Jewels, which followed a family planning a heist against their greedy corpo grandfather. Then they played a Lancer campaign titled The Lost Colony, which was a runaway success that got their YouTube channel from under 300 subscribers to over 1000 in about a month. Next they played a game of Monster of the Week titled The Devil You Know, which followed college students in New Jersey hunting (and being hunted by) the Jersey Devil. After that, they a played of game Salvage Union called Starfall, where they played as post-apocalyptic mech pilots scouring a wasteland for a mythical city. Then they played a game of Honor + Intrigue called The Last Hope, which followed a crew of Caribbean pirates in the twilight of their golden age. Most recently, they played a Mothership campaign called Proxy Error, that totally wasn't a really obvious allegory about generative AI.
Seasons run for around 10 episodes, and each episode is edited to be about 1 hour in length, so the time investment is comparable to a season of a typical streaming show. Episodes come out every other Monday at 10:00 AM EST, on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Podbean. YouTube members can watch new episodes 24 hours early. The show’s guiding mantra is “unprofessional gameplay, presented professionally”, meaning that while we keep all the puns, jokes, and titular distractions in the edit, we still make sure to create a pleasant audio-visual experience and tell a good story.
