A roleplaying game of angry decisions, ugly ethics, and black city streets. A game of film noir. "A Dirty World" rethinks the One-Roll Engine to focus relentlessly on character. Hard-boiled private eyes, dirty cops and femmes fatale make their hard choices and hide their grubby secrets. "A Dirty World" features... * A unified conflict mechanic, where gunfights, duels of deceit and emotional blackmail not only work the same way, but fuse seamlessly. * "Swift Justice" character development. Instead of tracking and spending points, your character's abilities improve in direct reaction to the game's events. * One-Roll Mysteries, a mechanic to spit out intricate plots with one throw of the dice. * Rules that don't merely support drama, they are drama. Only meaningful choices push your character forward. There is no easy way, by definition.

A Dirty World

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Stolze, Greg

Gaming

Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd.

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die." At the time of his death in 1937, American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was virtually unknown. The power of his stories was too vast to contain, however. As the decades slipped by, his dark visions laid down roots in the collected imagination of mankind, and they grew strong. Now Cthulhu is a name known to many and, deep under the seas, Lovecraft's greatest creation becomes restless...
 This volume brings together seventeen masterful tales of cosmic horror inspired by Lovecraft's work. In his fiction, humanity is a tiny, accidental drop of light and life in the vast darkness of an uncaring universe – a darkness populated by vast, utterly alien horrors. Our continued survival relies upon our utter obscurity, something that every fresh scientific wonder threatens to shatter.
 The dazzling stories in Cthulhu Lives! show the disastrous folly of our arrogance. We think ourselves the first masters of Earth, and the greatest, and we are very badly mistaken on both counts. Inside these covers, you'll find a lovingly-curated collection of terrors and nightmares, of catastrophic encounters to wither the body and blight the soul. We humans are inquisitive beings, and there are far worse rewards for curiosity than mere death.
 The truth is indeed out there – and it hungers.

Cthulhu Lives!: An Eldritch Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft

Literature & Fiction

Reppion, John

JOSHI, S.T.

Dédopulos, Tim

Genre Fiction

Ghostwoods Books

Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946

Released in 2002 to critical acclaim, GODLIKE is a superhero roleplaying game like no other. There is no bright spandex, no pulp machismo. In the face of the greatest conflict in history, ordinary men and women emerge with the Talents their times demand, but who are still as vulnerable -- and eventually as expendable -- as the ordinary troops in the foxholes. 
GODLIKE features an intensively researched alternate history of World War II, the depth of setting and character for which award-winning author Dennis Detwiller (Delta Green) is famous, an innovative rules set by Greg Stolze (Unknown Armies), and a complete "D20" rules conversion by Mike Mearls. GODLIKE: You are larger than life... but the War is larger than you.

Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire 1936-1946

History

Detwiller, Dennis

Military

Impressions Advertising & marketing

A roleplaying game of angry decisions, ugly ethics, and black city streets. A game of film noir."A Dirty World" rethinks the One Roll Engine to focus relentlessly on character. Hard-boiled private eyes, dirty cops and femmes fatale make their hard choices and hide their grubby secrets."A Dirty World" features...* A unified conflict mechanic, where gunfights, duels of deceit and emotional blackmail not only work the same way, but fuse seamlessly.* "Swift Justice" character development. Instead of tracking and spending points, your character's abilities improve in direct reaction to the game's events.* One-Roll Mysteries, a mechanic to spit out intricate plots with one throw of the dice.* Rules that don't merely support drama, they are drama. Only meaningful choices push your character forward. There is no easy way, by definition.

Arc Dream Publishing

"Grim War" is a "Wild Talents" roleplaying game sourcebook of superpowered mutants, nefarious sorcerers, and the ordinary men and women trying to control them all.  Written by "Wild Talents" co-authors Greg Stolze and Kenneth Hite, and illustrated by Todd Shearer, "Grim War" introduces a fascinating and weird new system of spirit-summoning magic. Sorcerous characters can wield fantastic power—if they are willing to pay the price. "Grim War" details dozens of bizarre and sometimes terrifying spirits and the harrowing spells required to treat with them.  "Grim War" brings the "company rules" of Greg Stolze's "Reign" to the superpowered action of "Wild Talents" (you need "Reign" to use the company rules), allowing players to join, influence or oppose a dozen fully-detailed sorcerous cabals and mutant factions. Such as . . .  The Xolotl Cartel, which has found smuggling far more lucrative than secret ceremonies in hidden temples, and magic far more profitable than any drug. . . . People for Religious Freedom, a well-meaning political action group in way over its head. . . . Direktiva Nul, once an agency for Soviet super spies, now the first line of defense against threats from the Otherworld. . . . Squadron A1, the U.S. Army's famous superteam, comprised only of the most upright superheroes America has to offer. (Honest. Would the American government lie to you?) Not to mention Ákrab-i-allah. Citizens Against Reductionist Genetic Obsessions (CARGO). Next Iteration. The Piccione Family. Projekt Ethnologisches Literaturarchiv-Sonderabteillung. The Rational Occult Study Crossdisciplinary Research Organization (ROSCRO). The School of the American Future. The Way.  Each faction has its own goals, its own secrets, and its own agenda for the player characters.  An extensive chapter on the background of this fascinating world offers guidelines for playing in any point in the 20th and 21st centuries, so the players themselves can define the shape and course of the Grim War.

Wild Talents: Grim War

Hite, Kenneth

YOU is a second person novel that puts you in the role of Leo Evans. Leo is disgruntled, middle-aged, unhappily divorced, and a cultist who has developed genuine extra senses and paranormal abilities by adhering to a set of beliefs he freely admits seem preposterous. Join him as he gets punched, kicked, and mystically enjoined to fell hatred for the person he loves most in the world. Thrill to middle-aged crankiness on a magical realism tour of a shoddy cosmos run by consensus and at risk from the power behind the Thrones and Dominions. People scheme to murder you, to duplicate you, to deceive you, and to make you live forever. It's fun. (If you want to check out the book trailer, that's up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZB0SoscU4 ) YOU is a book about identity, about love and duty, about parenting and industrial refrigeration. It's based on the cult sensation RPG UNKNOWN ARMIES and, so far at least seems to be universally beloved. Just think - you could be the first person to hate it!

YOU: A Fiction

Independently published

Cold Passions InflameMore than just a simple clan of artists, the Toreador helped found the Camarilla and have perhaps the most extensive dealings with the mortal world. More than any other Kindred, they feel the damnation of the Embrace as it extinguishes the flame of creativity for which they long. What other passions inspire the Toreador in the twilight before Gehenna?

Clanbook: Toreador, Revised Edition (Vampire: The Masquerade)

Grove, Heather

Fantasy

White Wolf Publishing

Hunter: The Reckoning - A Storytelling Game of Righteous Fury. Take Back the Night... For centuries, supernatural powers have reigned, warring among themselves, culling the human herds and lashing out from the shadows. The creatures of the night have held court since before the dawn of history. Nothing lasts forever. From the throng of humanity, individuals 1 emerge who know the truth. They know if monsters exist. Enough is enough. The forces of darkness must pay their due. You are the reckoning!

Hunter: The Reckoning

Baugh, Bruce

Grabowski, Geoff

McCoy, Angel

For your crimes against humanity, I find you guilty! May God have mercy on your soul!" Judges: the self-appointed law among hunters. Judges understand that evil is a choice, not an affliction. The abomination who stalks and kills people can be a monster. . . or one of the imbued. What makes these hunters decide who lives and dies? Arrogance? Prudence? Insight? The answer could tip the scales. Hunter Book: Judge is part of a Hunter: The Reckoning series dedicated to the creeds, the character types of the imbued. Learn Judges' philosophies, motives and ultimate goals in weighing the crimes of the supernatural. All these new Traits, edges and rules help ensure the punishment fits the crime. Court is always in session.

Hunter Book Judge *OP

Snead, John

The Hand of Salvation: "I am here to confess your sins. It's never too late to forego your monstrous ways... even after an eternity."
Redeemers: the self-appointed saviors among hunters. Redeemers believe that any soul, even a monster's, can atone for its sins. The price of penance is great, though - as great as the depth to which a creature has fallen. What makes these hunters seek salvation for the undeserving? Are you worthy of the answer?
The Hand of Damnation Hunter Book: Redeemer is part of Hunter: The Reckoning series dedicated to the creeds, the character types of the imbued. Learn Redeemers' philosophies, motives and ultimate goals in delievering monsters from evil. New Traits, edges and rules help ensure that amends are made, even if it's by last rites.

Hunter Book: Redeemer

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A Dirty World

Cthulhu Lives!: An Eldritch Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft

Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire 1936-1946

A Dirty World

Wild Talents: Grim War

YOU: A Fiction

Clanbook: Toreador, Revised Edition (Vampire: The Masquerade)

Hunter: The Reckoning

Hunter Book Judge *OP

Hunter Book: Redeemer