Calling all agents: This burst transmission contains the classified outline for Double Tap: The Night’s Black Agents Expansion Book. Use this intel at your discretion. Which is to say, read it, share it with your Night’s Black Agents game group — or the people who would be your Night’s Black Agents game group if they […]
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The GUMSHOE system by Robin D. Laws revolutionized the investigative roleplaying game, and is the basis for RPGs that will appeal to fans of many genres: space opera, spy thriller, Lovecraftian horror and two-fisted pulp adventure — with more to come. Its central premise, though, can be challenging for newcomers to wrap their heads around. What […]
In the course of a roundup of his Dragonmeet 2012 experiences, Sidney Roundwood offers a brief response to Night’s Black Agents: Vampires and spies – once you’re past the initial surprise, you’ll see that they work tremendously well in tandem. Well, I think they do, and I think the book’s an absolute knockout. After that […]
Matthew Breen has created some beautiful Agent Dossier character sheets for Night’s Black Agents and six well fleshed-out pre-gens to go with it by Kevin Kulp. The blank dossier is available to download here and the pre-gens here as PDFs. NBA Pregens CC (Revised)
Halloween is drawing near, and you might be looking for appropriately spooky games to run for your players. Here’s a quick roundup of seven Pelgrane Press games and adventures that might fit the bill: Night’s Black Agents by Kenneth Hite – The designer of this mashup of the spy thriller and horror genres describes it as “The Bourne […]
Fantastic review of Kenneth Hite’s newest GUMSHOE masterpiece, Night’s Black Agents, over at Age of Ravens. Lowell Francis has written a detailed and balanced review which goes over everything from layout design to a chapter by chapter overview. Well worth a read for any considering NBA for their collection. I liked last year’s preliminary version […]
After a very successful GenCon, copies of Night’s Black Agents are being delivered from the printer to our shipping points. We had a lot of people collect their pre-orders at GenCon so when I have that list, which should be this week, Night’s Black Agents will be sent to all agents. The estimated ship date […]
by John Adamus This happened to me: 6:30pm EST Okay, I’m sitting at the table, my 4 players are all around me. It’s Thursday night, and I’ve spent the last 3 nights going over every detail of this outline and getting every nuance of the villain in my head. I know the accent I’ll use. […]
Available to download as a PDF are 3 double-page spreads from Night’s Black Agents. Template and layout by Chris Huth, artwork from Chris Huth, Phil Reeves and Alessandro Alaia. We think it looks fantastic and can’t wait to see the full colour book at GenCon. Download the PDF. Nights Black Agents Layout Preview
Lisa Padol was the worthy winner of the $1000 Night’s Black Agents Tournament at DEXCON. Here is her run-through of the event, published first here. First Round: The Italians GM: Kenneth Hite Agent Mario: Keith Stetson Agent Luigi: Rebecca Baudrino Agent Vespucci: Me Agent Carvaggio: Timothy Sullivan Agent Da Vinci: Mike So, there we were, […]