Choose which contract you want to pursue in this tale of extreme economics, zombies, & cutthroat capitalism with a knife at your neck.
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After surviving the initial infected hordes of the Crash, a survivor’s enclave of Telluride still has much work to be done to keep the wolf from the door. Lucky for them, the local crew of Takers is plenty in debt and desperate. Choose which contract you want to pursue in this tale of extreme economics, zombies, & cutthroat capitalism with a knife at your neck. Players can pursue a closure bounty and put down a loved one infected by the Blight, or they can investigate the mysterious killer stalking a group of local pharmacologists. Or they can steal a series of documents for a loan shark looking to invent a new currency scheme. No matter what job the group bids for, they can be certain the Loss will take its due in flesh and blood.
We'll continue our proud tradition of screwing up in real time. Lend your questions & comments to a live episode as the pair gives updates on Red Markets, Ruin, & other game projects.
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Ross and Caleb continue their proud tradition of screwing up in real time. Lend your questions and comments to a live episode as the pair gives updates on Red Markets, Ruin, and other game projects. More specifically, Caleb will be doing playtests of Red Markets at GenCon, and No Soul Left Behind will be for sale at the Arc Dream booth. Ross has news about Ruin. Both have news about current freelancing projects and plenty of advice for aspiring game designers in attendance.
A cosmic horror mystery adventure set in the desert wastes of the Dust Bowl - characters are confronted with an ancient horror preying on the downtrodden.
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Bryson Springs takes place in June of 1935. The Dust Bowl still plagued the American Southwest, a third of all people were out of work, and the government’s path to recovery was far from certain. Amidst this Great Depression, the Bryson Springs Ranch suffered a hardship altogether more extraordinary. People were dying in the migrant workers’ shantytown, dying in horrific, mind-boggling ways. Players take the roles of strangers, cast about by the hard times and drawn into the nightmare that is Bryson Springs. They must band together to confront the things which stalk the desert night, hunting the downtrodden for their dark and blasphemous god.
This is scenario is from the collection No Security: Horror Scenarios in the Great Depression and will be run by the author.
Set during a 1931 summit attempt of Mount Mckinely, alpinists confronted with a horror beyond imagining will come to miss the more mundane deaths offered by their sport.
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The Fall Without End takes place at Mount McKinley in 1931. As America comes to grips with the real cost of Black Tuesday, the government becomes desperate to find distractions for an increasingly rebellious population stirred by endless woes. As Lindbergh proved, the people love nothing more than heroes capable of great deeds, and the government is willing to buy itself some at any price. Players take the roles of the brave alpanists risking their lives for a photo op. But the mountain is far older than any human civilization and home to terrors far worse than any economic recession. As characters struggle up the infamous Wickersham Wall, will they be able to survive the combined onslaught of the elements, gravity, and vertiginous horrors from another reality?
This is scenario is from the collection No Security: Horror Scenarios in the Great Depression and will be run by the author.