You get prime early examples of urban horror from the 40s with smoke ghost and girl with the hungry eyes, and two of my alltime favorite lovecraftian tales, diary in the snow and a bit of the dark. Episode 21 nights black agents rpg with gareth ryder. Review of nights black agents rpgnet rpg game index. There are special combat and chase rules to reflect the actionadventure espionage. Conclusion wrap up the demo by having the pcs cinematically defeat limrovich and disarm the ticking nuclear device. For more than a century, the topsecret operation within mi6 codenamed edom has defended the united kingdom from the machinations of the undead. Take your players on the greatest vampire hunt in history more than a hundred years in the making. Red rock dreams part 1 of 2 april 11, 2014 by podcast 4 comments 3 agents head to russia to uncover the secrets of a new and terrifying gang of drug dealers. Cotton discovers lifealtering news while mary learns the power of her femininity. A group of talented criminals are brought together by a mysterious and wellfinanced patron. Gumshoe 101 for players general abilities are how you get stuff done. Well, its far less deadly than unhallowed metropolis, so it has that going for it.
Okay, this inside joke between aser and megan requires a bit of explanation. Bring your favorite highoctane spy thrillers to the table with nights black agents from legendary designer kenneth hite trail of cthulhu. The awardwinning spy thriller roleplaying game that puts you in the role of a skilled intelligence operative fighting a shadow war against. We kick off our nights black agents campaign with an ambush and a mysterious contract. You were a shadowy soldier in those fights, trained to move through the secret world. Nights black agents by kenneth hite is published by pelgrane press. If i had to choose just one singleauthor horror collection to keep forever not counting greatest hitstype retrospectives, nights black agents would definitely be in the top 3 or 4. In nights black agents, the players take on the roles of secret agents working to uncover an insidious worldwide conspiracy thats controlled by evil vampires. Nov 5, 2019 pelgranes brilliant conspiracy thriller from the twisted genius of gareth hanrahan, with story design from the alchemical crucible that is the mind of kenneth hite see more ideas about thriller, gertrude bell and russian prison tattoos. Its filled with innovative features that help create a unique gaming experience and make it relatively easy for the game master to create an elaborate global vampire conspiracy without spending endless hours on preparation. Nights black agents and zalozhniy quartet 3 minute read we recently finished a campaign of nights black agents, after playing it for 1.
All of the ideas can be easily used for any other roleplaying game system. Nights black agents and zalozhniy quartet jonne arjoranta. Nights black agents rpg actual play session 1 live. Nights black agents ken and robin talk about stuff. Alternate nights black agents character record sheet for the dunwich sanction using the laundry as the basis for the character organisation. Were loving the campaign, but have very mixed feelings about the system. Dangerous, highlycompetent professional spies learn that vampires are pulling the strings, and vow to take them down. The books title is taken from macbeth, act iii, scene ii. As a gumshoe game the play focuses on resource management, with players spending points to advance the story and. Ask the players to describe their car, which must be able to hold all of the pcs.
It gives you a lot of rules and ideas to run a spythriller game really well. Ken hite brings them together in his newest rpg, nights black agents. Double tap, is a massive expansion book for nights black agents that clocks in at 4 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page inside of front cover, 2 pages of editorial, 3 pages of toc, leaving us with 123 pages of content, so lets take a look. With janet montgomery, shane west, seth gabel, tamzin merchant. Abilities health 4, stability 4, cover 10, network 8, streetwise 1, tradecraft 1. As good as the toolkits that nights black agents provides are, the rules and advice deliver on the game and genre that they promise. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, while nights black agents to their prey do rouse. Nights black agents is the latest in pelgrane press gumshoe line of games. The first is an ancient and valuable artifact from the safe of an art gallery. Modus operandi is the unofficial source for espionage roleplaying games on the internet since 1999. The pcs may need to use their skills to delay or reroute polish law enforcement officers in order to give themselves some privacy as they take limrovich out. Our second consecutive allrequest episode kicks off in the gaming hut, as ray slakinksi asks for tips on running nights black agents at conventions in the history hut andy young wants to know about the mythos truth behind the death of legendary canadian painter tom thomson rick neal uses the kind offices of ask. In this vampire spy thriller, the characters are secret agents who discover and confront a vampiric conspiracy the rules are a different flavor than straight gumshoe to better fit the genres involved.
Its an actionthriller with a focus on conspiracies. While playing vampires in rpgs has been extremely popular over the past 20 years or so, this one is about putting stakes in hearts and walking away while the bloodsucker burns in the sun. Until now, the emphasis of these titles has been investigation, with simple mechanics that ensure the players will always get the information they need to drive a story forward. The chase questions to ask ask the players what time of day or night it is. After all possibly the most exciting and best thought out aspect of nights black agents, is how it gives numerous fantastic options for a director to create their own vampires. Investigation is crucial, but it never slows down the action, which explodes with expanded pelgn01 9781908983398. Nights black agents pdf version rpg item version link from publisher blurb. Nights black agents is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by american writer fritz leiber. Nights black agents is really good and it is on the short list of games i really want to run. It was published by arkham house in an edition of 3,084 copies. Nights black agents pelgrane press ltd 2011 character sheet v2012feb27. Nights black agents pairs two genres that might at first seem incongruous.
The zalozhniy quartet is a series of four linked adventures from acclaimed rpg writer gareth hanrahan, and designed by nights black agents creator kenneth hite. Whether it is blood pumping action or heart stopping shocks, nights black agents is probably best shaken, and definitely has the vampire spy thriller staked. Nights black agents the edom field manual digest pdf youre on the inside now. Nights black agents puts you in the role of a deadly secret agent, taking down the forces of darkness bring your favorite highoctane spy thrillers to the table with nights black agents from. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Nights black agents is a roleplaying game where to put it like the designer does jason bourne meets dracula. Nights black agents taking the vampire with you story for the vast majority of you who arent familiar with it, nights black agents is a game that can best be described as burn notice, if michael weston discovered in the pilot episode that he. Nights black agents archives fandible actual play podcast. Youll also get pdfs of both dracula dossier books, as well as immediate access to the nights black agents rpg and our inprogress production docs so. Most print products include the pdf for instant download. If you have a general ability rating of 8 or higher, youre incredibly talented at that activity and may get access to cool bonus. Nights black agents brings the gumshoe engine to the spy thriller genre, combining the propulsive paranoia of movies like ronin and the bourne identity with supernatural horror straight out of bram stoker. The patron wants them to steal certain objects from certain places.
It is guarded by alarms and other conventional security, but the team is not toldread more. October 19, 2016 october 20, 2016 mparker546 actual play, dracula dossier, nights black agents, rpg we played our first dracula dossier game this past weekend. Nights black agents won two silver ennie awards for best game and best writing, and was nominated for best rules, best interior art and product of the year. Nights black agents is one of the games to use the gumshoe system. Character generation general history pick a name, and a common handle. Ask the players if they have the faster or the more maneuverable car their choice. If youre not familiar with it, nights black agents is a gumshoe based game where you play burned spies on the run, who gradually realize that the powers theyre up against have a distinctly supernatural. The record sheet does not reference fringe science which can be appended under academic abilities as i opted to use ken hits backslash rule for fringe abilities, as per the ken writes about stuff. Initially it was a few forays into th age and esoterrorists, but eventually i started looking at one of their newer games. The original book was a collection of ten fantasy classics that was published by arkham house in 1947. Its the censored version of bram stokers afteraction report of the failed british intelligence attempt to recruit a vampire in 1894. What does it do that i cant do with my favourite existing roleplaying system. On the second day of christmas my gm gave to me, two draculas and a final girl fleeing to safety. What shouldnt require explaining though is how quickly the trf cast behind beyond the threshold came to love nights black agents for its unique blend of supernatural horror, techno.
Nights black agents pdf version wiki boardgamegeek. It was released in 1947 and was the authors first book. You were part of the clandestine world, backed up by the full strength of the shadow state. Buy nights black agents new edition by fritz leiber isbn. Four book limited edition set in a slipcase, with gm screen. Hooding a yuanti, wandering 1930s shanghai on tribes of tokyo. Sneaking, fighting, running all these are done with general abilities. Then you got out, or you got shut out, or you got burned out.
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