Night s black agents is the latest in pelgrane press gumshoe line of games. Purchase nights black agents in print and pdf at the pelgrane shop. The black book digital character sheet handles the rules for creating and playing your gumshoe heroes, while you focus on their story. Updating classic gothic terrors for the postmodern age, nights black agents presents thoroughly modular monstrosity. Kenneth hite born september 15, 1965 is a writer and roleplaying game designer. Use the search forms to help find items in the index, and if youd like to add items, you can. Last december i received the advance pdf of the new gumshoe rpg, nights black agents. Hite is the author of trail of cthulhu and nights black agents roleplaying. Games lore ltd for professional service and good prices on board games, card games, family games, military games,miniature games, rpgs, tcgs and ccgs, garden games, wargames, warhammer and warhammer 40k and activity centres. The trove is the biggest open directory of rpg pdfs on the internet. I love the idea of an rpg that puts investigation to the forefront and is built around mysteries, and placing those kinds of mysteries in a variety of genres.
This was a preliminary draft version texts without layout and no real art. Thoughts on nights black agents soloops stargazers world. Its the censored version of bram stokers afteraction report of the failed british intelligence attempt to recruit a vampire in 1894. As good as the toolkits that nights black agents provides are, the rules and advice deliver on the. This is the set up for night s black agents, the latest rpg to be written by ken hite using the gumshoe system, an rpg that the author pitches as the bourne identity meets dracula or a vampire spy thriller. Nights black agents pdf version wiki boardgamegeek.
I wrote up some of my thoughts about that version in a post tinker,tailor, vampire, spy. Adding another 50ft with each level gained after level 120. Ive burned out in the past and having other gms to spell me will help with that immensely. These collections include various image, ebook and software archives. 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 world. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The most users we have had online at one time was 586 on jan 10 2019, 11. It wouldnt take much work to tweak night s black agents to suit your needs. Well, i finally got a chance to play nights black agents thanks to one of my.
This corebook combines the awardwinning night s black agents setting with the innovative gumshoe one2one rules, designed for the thrilling intensity of headtohead play. Ken hite brings them together in his newest rpg, night s black agents. My previous post discussed the protod6 system as found in the ghostbusters rpg. The hardcopy booklet also comes with the th age d20 system role playing. Take your players on the greatest vampire hunt in history more than a hundred years in the making. At the core of nights black agents is pelgrane press gumshoe system, an rpg that puts investigation at the center of the action. A dark and stormy knight rpgnet d20 rpg game index. It was published by fantasy flight games from 2003 to 2009. Investigation is crucial, but it never slows down the action, which explodes with expanded pelgn01 9781908983398. Youll also get immediate access to the night s black agents rpg and our inprogress production docs so you can start playing straight away, and can read backeronly updates.
Both types of characters share a startling amount of similarities. Most print products include the pdf for instant download. Conclusion wrap up the demo by having the pcs cinematically defeat limrovich and disarm the ticking nuclear device. Pelgrane press gumshoe roleplaying games usually dont disappoint and kenneth hites nights black agents is no exception. I received the advance pdf of the new gumshoe rpg, nights black agents. Bring your favorite highoctane spy thrillers to the table with nights black agents from legendary designer kenneth hite trail of cthulhu. The black book currently supports fall of delta green, trail of cthulhu and night s black agents with more games coming soon. Night s black agents has been nominated for five ennie awards for best rules, best interior art, best rules, best writing and product of the year. Nights black agents is a gumshoe engine game published by pelgrane press with a default setting of secret agents hunting vampires and vampire minions in the modern world. You were a shadowy soldier in those fights, trained to move through the secret world. You can acquire nights black agents in either print or pdf format from publisher pelgrane press. We currently host various large scale collections amounting to hundreds of thousands of files. The trove is a nonprofit website dedicated towards content archival and longterm preservation of rpgs.
Night s 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 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. The rpgnet game index currently contains 61819 entries including. I really liked what i saw in that rough version and had high hopes for the final edition. 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 the latest in pelgrane press gumshoe line of games. This edition has a roughly formatted and illustrationless pdf and recently epub and android app version of the book. More importantly, nights black agents classifies vampires into four types. Night s black agents pdf version rpg item version link from publisher blurb.
The adventure involves the exploration of an old tomb, recently unsealed by a lightning strike. Rules options let you set the level of betrayal, grit, and action in your game. 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. The ageold problem with doing mysterysolving scenarios in rpgs is that one bad roll of the dice can put up a massive roadblock that stalls the entire adventure. Were loving the campaign, but have very mixed feelings about the system. If youre not familiar with it, night s 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 flavor the illuminati is vampires. Four book limited edition set in a slipcase, with gm screen. Hite is one of my favorite rpg authors, and trail of cthulhu is one of my. If i had to choose just one singleauthor horror collection to keep forever not counting greatest hitstype retrospectives, night s black agents would definitely be in the top 3 or 4. In this vampire spy thriller, the characters are secret agents who discover and.
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. Review of nights black agents rpgnet rpg game index. I love the idea of an rpg that puts investigation to the forefront and is built. Defending yourself with just 1d in sense is not easy, as luke discovers when training with a remote. But it took the chill roleplaying game to actually codify the creepy doll concept, give it stats, and clearly delineate how it was. As good as the toolkits that night s black agents provides are, the rules and advice deliver on the game and genre that they promise. Nights black agents is the latest game from pelgrane using the. With that out of the way, what is nights black agents nba. A group of intelligence experts are retired from their former careers and now work with activists to teach them basic tradecraft and help journalists reveal the truth.
Weve organised it in a few different ways firstly by lists for areas of skills, then by languages, and after that, youll find a complete. The characters are expected to be competent on par with james bond and jason bourne, but are operating independently of any agency they used to be a member of. But it can also be fine to have broad swaths of competence defined. This dungeons and dragons story comes from my when the team was asked to do some crime for a criminal group. The social pressure of being in charge tends to wear me down. A comprehensive list of powers and weaknesses allows a gm to design the opposition from the ground up, into any combination imaginable. Nights black agents is a roleplaying game created by kenneth hite and published by. 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.
Master of the battle field the black knights armor is practically the best in the land. Gms can build their own vampires, mashup their own minions, kitbash their own conspiracies to suit their personal sense of style and story. Night s black agents is a roleplaying game created by kenneth hite and published by pelgrane press in 2012. The most disturbing monsters from our favorite horror rpgs.
The core rulebook nights black agents and the zalozhniy quartet under the. The rpg directory has a total of 636,277 posts and 54,280 registered members. All youve got are a couple of d6es from a monopoly set. Create your own agent, or take on the role of leyla khan an exmi6 officer who must confront her own halfremembered past as. However, its easier to strip or repurpose a night s black agents scenario for another character than it is a cthulhu confidential character, as regardless of your precise circumstances, youre always playing a badass exspy vampire hunter of some description. As good as the toolkits that nights black agents provides are, the rules and advice deliver on the game and genre that they promise. You roll a bunch of six sided dice against a target number, typically ranging from 5ish easy to. This is the world of tabletop rpg nights black agents. In nights black agents soloops you as a player take on the role. The scenarios are designed for the premade character. One of the great joys about starting this new monday night rpg crew is not being the sole gm of the group. Until now, the emphasis of these titles has been investigation. You were a shadowy soldier in those fights, trained to. Hite produced a series of lovecraftian gaming pdfs released by ronin arts.
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