Vampire stat values in night s black agents im finally getting around to reading night s black agents and i love it. The black company campaign setting a mythic vistas campaign setting for the d20 system written by robert j schwalb, owen kc stephens, and scott gearin cover by wayne reynolds 320 page hardback in 1984, glen cook introduced the world to the black company. Jun 14, 2016 hes hinting at a lot of geopolitics in the campaign already and actively working our backstories into the narrative. The chase questions to ask ask the players what time of day or night it is. Its the censored version of bram stokers afteraction report of the failed british intelligence attempt to recruit a vampire in 1894.
The d suffix indicates that the product is the watermarked digital download version available from download sites. This is the set up for nights black agents, the latest rpg to be written by ken. 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 pdf version wiki boardgamegeek.
Tribes of tokyo is the newest rppr campaign, which uses nights black agents for the system. Episode 21 nights black agents rpg with gareth ryder. Play a dangerous human weapon, a sly charmer, an unstoppable transporter, a precise demolitions expert, or whatever fictional spy youve always dreamed of being and start putting those bloodsuckers in the ground where they belong. Nights black agents is a roleplaying game where to put it like the designer does jason bourne meets dracula. Investigation is crucial, but it never slows down the action, which explodes with. Nights black agents ken and robin talk about stuff. Rules options let you set the level of betrayal, grit, and action in your game. Take your players on the greatest vampire hunt in history more than a hundred years in the making. Newest nightsblackagents questions roleplaying games. But in the section on building the vampires nba features modular, customizable vampires, im stuck on the base values for.
Nights black agents is really good and it is on the short list of games i really want to run. The patron wants them to steal certain objects from certain places. This edition has a roughly formatted and illustrationless pdf and recently epub and android app version of the book. For more than a century, the topsecret operation within mi6 codenamed edom has defended the united kingdom from the machinations of the undead. Its an actionthriller with a focus on conspiracies.
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. You were a shadowy soldier in those fights, trained to move through the secret world. As night falls on belgrade, you and your team of special agents go on. Readers followed the company s service to the lady, watched as they battled the.
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. We recently finished a campaign of nights black agents, after playing it for 1. Hite is one of my favorite rpg authors, and trail of cthulhu is one of my. All of the ideas can be easily used for any other roleplaying game system. Gms can build their own vampires, mashup their own minions, kitbash their own conspiracies to suit their personal sense of style and story.
You can acquire nights black agents in either print or pdf format from publisher pelgrane press. A game of thrilling espionage action and dark vampiric horror in the bustling metropolis of modern day tokyo, starts as a normal investigative scenario. 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. Investigation is crucial, but it never slows down the action, which explodes with expanded pelgn01 9781908983398. Additionally, the black knights attacks count as vulnerability if it is attacking a demonic creature.
Jun 23, 2015 hangman since i got into the excellent trail of cthulhu by pelgrane press, i started to branch out and take an interest in some of their other products. Nights black agents and zalozhniy quartet jonne arjoranta. Drawing from the paranoid world of spy fiction and the classic vampire tale, it reveals the terrible truth about. Sneaking, fighting, running all these are done with general abilities. Apr 11, 2014 well, its far less deadly than unhallowed metropolis, so it has that going for it. Well, its far less deadly than unhallowed metropolis, so it has that going for it. The black knight cannot remove his armor, but he take no penalty. Nights black agents pairs two genres that might at first seem incongruous. Our second consecutive allrequest episode kicks off in the gaming hut, as ray slakinksi asks for tips on running nights black agents at conventions. As a gumshoe game the play focuses on resource management, with players spending points to advance the story and gather clues. Night s black agents is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by american writer fritz leiber. Bring your favorite highoctane spy thrillers to the table with nights black agents from legendary designer kenneth hite trail of cthulhu.
An enterprising redditor how many articles begin with these words. Conclusion wrap up the demo by having the pcs cinematically defeat limrovich and disarm the ticking nuclear device. Demonslayer when the black knight lands an attack, and the creature is medium, it is thrown back 5 ft. While there are likely some spoiler elements to this writeup you are likely safe from major spoilers for a dracula dossier game. Bring your favorite highoctane spy thrillers to the table with night s black agents from legendary designer kenneth hite trail of cthulhu.
Note, sly flourishs vampires has been updated to include the vampire adventurers, three challenge 7 vampires transformed from their original state as adventurers who traveled into the masters lands. Whiles night s black agents to their preys do rouse. Nights black agents was written by ken hite, and published by pelgrane press in 2012. As a historical note, this game was recorded in early 2016. Night witches is a tabletop rpg about soviet airwomen during world war two, flying daring night time bombing missions in biplanes. 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 had been working for literal vampires all along. Alternate night s black agents character record sheet for the dunwich sanction using the laundry as the basis for the character organisation. Start the players in northwick, in the principality of ulek. 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. 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. Nights black agents rpg actual play session 1 live from. 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.
Candlekeep forum path of the blood knight 5e fighter. Vampires beware, for tonight, night s black agents to their prey do r. This is the world of tabletop rpg nights black agents. As good as the toolkits that nights black agents provides are, the rules and advice deliver on the game and genre that they promise. Nov 16, 2016 november 16, 2016 mparker546 actual play, dracula dossier, nights black agents, rpg this session starts digging into the dossier in earnest. Four reasons the greatest rpg campaign of all time is the. Nights black agents brings the gumshoe engine to the spy thriller genre. The narrative dice system was first created by fantasy flight games for warhammer fantasy roleplay 3rd edition. Apr 19, 2010 nights black agents by kenneth hite puts you in the role of a skilled intelligence operative fighting a shadow war against vampires in postcold war europe. A free rpg day 2015 giveaway adventure for nba that can be played as a oneshot or as the. Nights black agents by kenneth hite is published by pelgrane press. Ask the players to describe their car, which must be able to hold all of the pcs. It was later employed for their star wars rpgs and genesys.
Night s black agents is the latest in pelgrane press gumshoe line of games. Nights black agents is a roleplaying game created by kenneth hite and published by. Review of nights black agents rpgnet rpg game index. Game content and materials are trademarks and s of their respective publisher and its licensors.
Dangerous, highlycompetent professional spies learn that vampires are pulling the strings, and vow. Nights black agents puts you in the role of a deadly secret agent, taking down the forces of darkness. As good as the toolkits that nights black agents provides are, the rules and advice deliver on the. The first is an ancient and valuable artifact from the safe of an art gallery. A black knight alway start the game with a black armor, the black armor is a masterwork fullplate. 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. Character generation general history pick a name, and a common handle. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Ask the players if they have the faster or the more maneuverable car their choice.
The idea of playing a dhampir or halfvampire style character is always a strong one for me and the fighter chassis helps promote this feel. 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. Stocking over 80,000 different board, card and war games, miniatures, hobby supplies, toys, collectibles, books and puzzles. 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 book s title is taken from macbeth, act iii, scene ii. These 200 women and girls, flying outdated biplanes from open fields near the front lines, attacked the invading german forces every night for 1,100. Four book limited edition set in a slipcase, with gm screen.
Were loving the campaign, but have very mixed feelings about the system. Theres some threads over on df about putting it in gh. Nights black agents the edom field manual digest pdf youre on the inside now. Gumshoe 101 for players general abilities are how you get stuff done. He would have to be gigantic because he is facing a party of enemies. A group of security consultants in tokyo are hiredread more. It is guarded by alarms and other conventional security, but the team is not toldread more. The characters attributes and skill add positive dice to the pool, whereas the. There was a night bomber regiment in world war two composed entirely of women. Hooding a yuanti, wandering 1930s shanghai on tribes of tokyo. The record sheet does not reference fringe science which can be appended under academic abilities as i opted to use ken hit s backslash rule for fringe abilities, as per the ken writes about stuff. The original book was a collection of ten fantasy classics that was published by arkham house in 1947.
The black company campaign setting out of print green. Preferably he would be guarding a path or a gate of some kind. It was released in 1947 and was the author s first book. In the history hut andy young wants to know about the mythos truth behind the death of legendary canadian painter tom thomson. The black knight from monty pythons holy grail would be an awesome enemy in dnd. Sep 20, 2017 we kick off our night s black agents campaign with an ambush and a mysterious contract. What does it do that i cant do with my favourite existing roleplaying system. This is shaping up to be an interesting, playerdriven short run of nights black agents. 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. As night falls on belgrade, you and your team of special agents go on high alert. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, while nights black agents to their prey do rouse. 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. Then you got out, or you got shut out, or you got burned out. Nights black agents pdf version rpg item version link from publisher blurb.
Final fantasy dark knight 5e conversion peach if this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Nov 05, 2012 ken hite brings them together in his newest rpg, nights black agents. Nights black agents pelgrane press ltd 2011 character sheet v2012feb27. One feature, at 18th level takes the feature of the champions 18th level one because i feel theyre both extremely similar in both nature and power. Shadow world books everything i have shadowrun paranoid animals of north america. Multiattack the black knight makes 3 attacks, 2 slashes and 1. Updating classic gothic terrors for the postmodern age, nights black agents presents thoroughly modular monstrosity.
Nights black agents by kenneth hite puts you in the role of a skilled intelligence operative fighting a shadow war against vampires in postcold war europe. 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. The core mechanic of the system is a skill check that is made with several dice. Well, i finally got a chance to play nights black agents thanks to one of my. With that out of the way, what is nights black agents nba. This product is out of print and will not be reprinted. Most print products include the pdf for instant download. Initially it was a few forays into th age and esoterrorists, but eventually i started looking at one of their newer games. The black armor can only be worn by the black knight and enhancing it only cost half as much.
He would then have 4 limbs that would have to be cut off, each having some amount of health and would change the black knights. Aug 01, 2012 night s black agents puts you in the role of a deadly secret agent, taking down the forces of darkness. I d previously only played in his th age campaign but i think nba and gumshoe in general suits his style and demeanor a bit more. Apr 09, 2015 advice, horror, nights black agents, spy thriller, vampires the hangman conspiracy some time ago i got to run my first session of nights black agents, which is a vampire conspiracy rpg featuring bourne identity and other spy thriller types engaging the supernatural. If you have a general ability rating of 8 or higher, youre incredibly talented at that activity and may get access to cool bonus.
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