The Dracula Dossier series follows in the fully improvisational path of the award-winning The Armitage Files campaign for Trail of Cthulhu. Players follow up leads in the margins of Dracula Unredacted, a rare edition of Bram Stoker's masterpiece that reveals the terrifying truth behind the fiction. They'll chase down the real characters from Stoker's novel, their descendants in the present, and the British agents caught in the backblast.
Directors combine these leads and notes with pre-prepared elements in the Director's Handbook. This full-color book is packed with everything you need to run an improvisational Dracula Dossier campaign: conspiracy nodes, eerie locations and vampiric beasts; more than 60 supporting characters in vampiric, heroic, or in-between versions; and different versions of the real Mina Harker, Abraham van Helsing, and the other stars of Stoker's novel – and their modern-day successors, descendants, and survivors – who can drive the story in any direction the players look.
Players choose which leads to track, which scarlet trail to follow. The Director, using the clear step-by-step techniques in this book, improvises a suitably blood-soaked thriller in response to their choices. Clear advice to players and Directors on improvisation, with extensive examples and guidelines, helps you set the scene. Together you read and write your own unique version of The Dracula Dossier. Follow the clues to close this coffin once and for all. You will find, hunt, and kill Dracula, the king of the vampires – if you survive.
Includes The Dracula Dossier Deck (retail price $15): Deal yourself into danger with the Dracula Dossier Deck! NPCs, Nodes, Locations, Objects, and Opponents get lushly illustrated cards. Pass them out as handouts, pin them to the Adversary Map, spread them like tarots, shuffle up random encounters, deal out a full Conspyramid, or draw for wandering Dukes. The Dracula Dossier Deck adds still more improvisation to your game.
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