Adam Gauntlett (aka Karloff), the author of Dulce et Decorum Est, Soldiers of Pen and Ink and a number of Trail of Cthulhu adventures, is creating fiction and RPG material over on his new Patreon page. As well as Pelgrane Press, Adam has written for the Escapist Magazine, Chaosium, Miskatonic River, Pagan Publishing and Atlas Games, among others. You […]
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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, […]
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 […]
Karloff reviewed the backer-PDF copy of the Dracula Dossier. You can find the full review here. Thanks, Karloff! Karloff says, “This improvisational Night’s Black Agents campaign setting, complete with the unredacted print copy of Stoker’s first edition Dracula and a massive Director’s Handbook, is beyond huge. It’s one thing to write up Stoker’s Dracula with little […]
“I think that Varna is not familiar to any of us …” — Van Helsing In my defense, not a lot of stuff happens in Varna. I mean, in the novel. Lots of stuff happens in Varna, including a disastrous Crusade in 1444 that killed the King of Poland and nearly killed Vlad Tepes’ brother […]
Before we plunge into the endless deluge of “Dracula Dossier bits we couldn’t fit in anywhere else”, let us pause on the brink and consider the utility of pyramids. For those unfamiliar with the concept, Night’s Black Agents offers two pyramid diagrams to help the Gamemaster. The Conspyramid is the organizational chart of bad guys […]