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[A little more religious than Mythos, but it could involve Nyarlathotep] Army history says the 1st Special Service Force (“the Devil’s Brigade”) was disbanded at the tail end of World War 2, its members shunted off to individual American and Canadian units. Howard Becker, the second-in-command...

If I may be so bold, rpg.net has a promotion forum too. It's worth a post there, here, and possibly rpggeek. Not to mention the relevant groups at reddit, facebook, and discord. That's why creators should be done with writing by the time a Kickstarter campaign is ongoing - they should be...

I would expect the ability to send a headshot, desired role (ie, fighter, wizard), possibly gear subject to author approval. Then for the art to appear in the class writeup. No larger than a third of a page, based on the PHB. It just seems like campaigns for game books have the unique...

Question: would you offer a Kickstarter tier at which you could submit a headshot for a character portrait? As in, you could open the book and point to a picture of yourself in a piece of art?

Secret History: what looks like Earth but is affected by hidden powers beneath the surface.

Ideally a Kickstarter campaign funds the things that need to be paid for after the game is written. Even without a line item for the author, there is definitely a cost involved in terms of time and expertise in that respect. I'd be curious to know how much time was spent promoting it in terms...

Or Don't Pass if you want to bring the table down. 🎲

That would make an interesting timer mechanic.

I like the things that Delta Green does with the percentile system: the blackjack nature of the roll that allows for easy comparison, and the fact that doubles are a critical that can go either way.

Night's Black Agents. It's very player-proactive.

Mark Sumner wrote two Weird West books, Devil's Tower & Devil's Engine. They are magical rather than steampunk, however. If you want to go back a bit further, there is Card's Alvin Maker series.

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Harlem Unbound addresses this issue better than I would have thought it could be answered. Horror games may actually use quotidian evils to their advantage. If you play regularly with the kinds of people who have pedantic issues with the shortcuts taken to emulate history, make them write a...

This guy went to his first GenCon at the age of 53. Along with my daughter, who was the driving force to attend. It was overwhelming in a good way.

Just a few around the edges: Police Officer and Spy; maybe a Revolutionary, Explorer (still some of those in the 1920s), Salesman, or Charlatan (ie a conductor of fake occultism).

How did you arrive at the balance you are looking for? I am not disputing it, just curious. I don't think the authors of CoC ever wanted professions to be of relatively equal worth; as I understand it, part of the design was to make a 1920s historical game, balance be damned.

There's a big difference between making a new character and making a character to start playing. A lot of players put deep thought into the process - regardless of what the GM wants or expects - and I can understand feeling that the effort was wasted if the PC dies after a handful of sessions. I...

This is one of mine, along with the original Delta Green sourcebook (for Call of Cthulhu) and Bookhounds of London (for Trail of Cthulhu).

No more than 30. It depends on the core activity of the game.

No stats just skills.