Yearly Archives: 2015

Datavisualising the Dracula Dossier

If you hang around my social media presence (or Ken’s, whose twitterings are to mine as Dracula is to a small fruit bat), you may have seen this funky diagram floating around. It’s a map of every (or nearly every) node in the Dracula Dossier and the connections between them. I ostensibly built it as […]

31 Nights of Dractober: Horror of Dracula (1958)

Horror of Dracula (1958) Director: Terence Fisher Dracula: Christopher Lee Consider this film (just called Dracula in the UK) the anti-Coppola Dracula. Relentlessly modern (it was the first Technicolor vampire film) and breathlessly paced yet luridly Gothic to the core, carving to the heart of Stoker’s novel while discarding its plot almost entirely, it would […]

Driven By Our Loves – a new Sources of Stability option for Trail of Cthulhu

Driven By Our Loves A New Sources of Stability System for Trail of Cthulhu by Cat Ramen Trail of Cthulhu makes it clear that the Investigators are not simply pushed by their own need to investigative the Mythos; they also need the support of the people closest to them, their Sources of Stability. This system […]

Dracula landings

We couldn’t wait to see photos of the Dracula Dossier books, and so many kind backers indulged us by posting their photos on their own social media pages, on the  Dracula Dossier Facebook page and on the Dracula Dossier GMs-only Google+ group. They’re so artful and fun, we couldn’t resist sharing them with everyone! Thanks to everyone who agreed […]

31 Days of #Dractober – the collection

In October 2015, Kenneth Hite created the 30 Days of Dractober – taking you on a tour through the cinema de Dracula! Every day he looked at one film version of the legendary story, from the classic NOSFERATU to the, um, less than immortal DRACULA 3000. Hit the Hammer highlights, the Lugosi limelights, and more — with suggestions on […]

October playtesting

If you are interested any of these games, please email me with the game you wish to playtest in the subject line.   GUMSHOE One-2-One: The Fathomless Sleep System: GUMSHOE One-2-One Author: Robin D. Laws Deadline: 31st December Description: How exactly did fast-living society girl Helen Deakin come down with a case of catatonia? Her sultry […]

31 Nights of Dractober: Dracula Untold (2014)

Dracula Untold (2014) Director: Gary Shore Dracula: Luke Evans Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a shooting star! It’s a FIST OF BATS! This latest effort by Universal to revitalize their once-glorious monster universe franchise casts a cape-bedecked Vlad the Impaler as half combat-god Batman (“sometimes the world doesn’t need a hero […]

Designing the 13th Age GM’s Resource Book

Pre-Order the 13th Age Gamemaster Screen and Resource Book, and download the PDF now! “We have targeted the game toward experienced gamemasters and players at all levels of roleplaying experience.” – 13th Age core book 13th Age assumes you already know how to run an F20 roleplaying game—in fact, you’ve probably already done it more than a few times. You’re […]

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