Drácula (1931) Director: George Melford Dracula: Carlos Vallarías Once silent films went the way of the stereopticon, Hollywood studios had to make foreign-language films for foreign markets. In 1930, while filming the Tod Browning/Bela Lugosi Dracula we’ll get to later, Universal hired (non-Spanish-speaker) George Melford to shoot a Spanish-language Drácula simultaneously on the same sets as […]
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Count Dracula (1970) Director: Jesús Franco Dracula: Christopher Lee In between refusals to ever wear the cape again for Hammer and wearing the cape again for Hammer, Christopher Lee occasionally tried to get other studios’ adaptations of Dracula off the ground. Often, like Lucy (Van Pelt not Westenra) pulling away the scarlet, dripping football he […]
It all started in 2011, even before Night’s Black Agents was published. Or perhaps it all started in 1890, when Bram Stoker began outlining the tale of “Count Wampyr” of Styria after a nightmare caused by eating “a surfeit of dressed crab,” according to his son. But I’m going to start it in […]
This Halloween, a legendary horror walks again – do your customers have what it takes to face the Lord of the Undead himself? DRACULA DOSSIER PRE-RELEASE RETAIL BUNDLE: Act now to get the full Dracula Dossier kit at a 20% discount with a limited edition print — details below! What Is The Dracula Dossier? Dracula is […]
Downloads Download the Night’s Black Agents Dracula Dossier character sheet here Download a Blank Conspyramid Download Perveniet Calix, a Dracula Dossier Series Pitch by Ryan Macklin Download the Dracula Dossier theme tune by James Semple Download a cross-referenced PDF of nodes, characters, and places in the Director’s Handbook, by Rickard Gudbrand Download a Director’s Screen, by […]
A Secret History Unearthed. A Legendary Horror Walks Again. Presenting an epic improvised campaign for Night’s Black Agents Roleplaying Game. Do your Agents have what it takes to face the Lord of the Undead himself? The Dracula Dossier follows in the fully improvisational path of the award-winning Armitage Files campaign. Players follow up leads in […]
The macro level of a Dracula Dossier campaign emerges from the Conspyramid and Vampyramid charts, as well as the instructions in the opening section, How To Use This Book. Those charts are the framework for your story – as in any Night’s Black Agents game, the aim is to shoot your way up that Conspyramid, […]
Many great nations and peoples have measured the passage of time through myriad methods, too numerous for me to list or spend the time trawling Wikipedia for information. I imagine few – if any – have ever ticked off the passage of time by gaming conventions. However, when you’re the wingman to a woman who […]
by James Palmer Dracula the Warlord – In life, Vlad Tepes was a man who would go to any end to win. In death, he’s worse. Being a vampire is only one part of his toolkit, and while he uses it, he’ll never become dependent on it. You pull a cross? He pulls a gun. You don’t invite […]
The original 1894 Operation Edom brief, key memos, secret military maps of Transylvania, précis of reports from Balkan battlefronts and German academies alike, and plans for the next century’s battle for control of the Un-Dead — these are the Hawkins Papers. The handouts that make up the Hawkins Papers are as improvisational as the […]