Café de Nuit

Back when I first started dating LomboDot, I was delighted to find that she was open to trying board games and card games. I set about introducing her to my favorite games. A year later, LomboDot has now established unbeatable dominance in several of our favorite games, including but not limited to ...

Okay, then that must have been it. Non delineated text, and print-unfriendly rtf were probably what we had to work with in the days before pdf. In the days of Web 1.0...

I may get around to converting them to pdf at some point.

Many years ago, Wizards hosted the Grand Conjunction adventures on their website for free download. I downloaded them once and then more or less forgot about them because I have all the print versions in my library anyway. Now, I have an e-reader and I like the idea of reading the old adventures on ...

Wow, just finished it. I found it very worthwhile, although more for reasons of color and fluff than necessarily the hard tacks. I'm looking to tweak and run a heavily adapted version of NotWD, so rural whodunit adventures like this are definitely my cup of tea right now. Disclaimer: I am completely...

I aten't ded, I promise. I did buy the PDF and I'm reading through it now, almost done. It's looking good so far - very redolent of Night of the Walking Dead for atmosphere and "rural gothic whodunit".

I will post more when I'm done but so far I consider this a good buy.

Ooh, PDF-available. Nice!

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I make purchase, I download, I find out more. Then I post review findings for make benefit glorious website fraternity here. I hope you like. Otherwise, I will be shortchange. Jak sie masz!

I wonder if there's a village nearby with an illusory mansion, and a disdainful lich insisting that he's not "working" there so much as "summering" there.

Clive Barker's Undying
Blood
Planescape Torment

With a lich, vampire, etc. they are simply humans that became whatever version of the undead. They would still maintain the human instincts That could totally work. However, just for my games, I personally like to distinguish between liches and vampires in that respect. Vampires are still creatures...

I never did get to properly "interview" that game system. In the end, I wanted something universal, so it boiled down to Basic RPS, TriStat dX, and GURPS - which won the day.

A highwayman is running a classic Robin Hood operation - enriching himself at the expense of tradesmen and travellers, while passing on enough wealth to the impoverished peasants and local churches to keep the rural folks on his side. Now the distant lord has sent out bounty hunters to capture or ki...

The Eternal Order has made a tidy profit in an ongoing feud between two land owning families in the Darkonian countryside. Each side has met secretly with the Order to pay handsomely for curses, blessings, and social favors. Recently, some do-gooder cretin has started making peace among the younger ...

Disoriented newcomers along the Darkonian borders commonly fall victim to unscrupulous employers, who take advantage of their memory loss and confusion to use them as cheap labor or worse. The Darkonian leadership is supremely unconcerned with the wellbeing of huddled masses of ignorant foreigners. ...

A Falkovnian leader is systematically infiltrating and dismantling Darkonian Kargat cells in neighboring domains. He has even inserted an operative in Darkon itself, feeding information back into Falkovnia. These operations have resulted in the capture or deaths of hundreds of Kargat supporting pers...

Second the Midnight proposal: it's a good setting that inverts the automatic assumption that the players are on the winning side. It's much more of a "fight the doomed fight" feeling - which is incidentally how I lean towards running the Ravenloft setting anyway. I go with low hit points, ...