John R Davis
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This thread has even got me a sales boost.
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[Gothic Horror] Jack the Ripper Adventures?
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RealAlHazred
Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
Yeah, that might have been me! I picked up all the books, since, why not?
John R Davis
Hero
Yeah and a few others I think!
Do they have enough sort of 'warning' associated with them, given the language and theme?
Do they have enough sort of 'warning' associated with them, given the language and theme?
RealAlHazred
Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
I mean, it's "The Jack (the Ripper) Hack." Is someone going to pick them up thinking they're about rainbows and unicorns? If so, well, they'll learn something about managing expectations.
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RealAlHazred
Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
Original post updated with new details I got from this and similar threads I posted elsewhere.
RealAlHazred
Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
I figured I'd also compile a Jack the Ripper movie list for inspiration, but I had no idea just how many movies have been based on the Whitechapel murders. Nevertheless, I found a few that I thought seemed interesting and maybe good for inspiration; I wonder if, after I finally get to watch them, I'll still consider them good fodder for gaming:
- A Study in Terror (1965): Sherlock Holmes (John Neville) and Dr. Watson (Donald Houston) investigate the Whitechapel murders.
- Jack the Ripper (1973 series): This was a series starring Detective Chief Superintendents Barlow and Watt (Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor) analyzing the case, with the incidents portrayed in flashback. It was a six-part series and was apparently hugely successful for them; the characters had been made popular by a couple of previous long-running police procedural series. I'll have to find this one, seems interesting.
- Murder By Decree (1979): Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Plummer) and Dr. Watson (James Mason) investigate the Whitechapel murders. Amusingly, a couple of actors from A Study in Terror were in this one, too; one of them in the same role!
- Jack the Ripper (1988 miniseries): I actually remember I watched this when it was on television -- I'm a sucker for a Michael Caine film. He plays Inspector Abberline in it, and I remember liking it quite a bit, but reading Wikipedia it looks like they took some liberties with the characters. Still, I remember it was entertaining.
RealAlHazred
Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
Finally got around to adding Whitechapel: Vigilance Committee. It covers a lot of ground, but shallowly: every location or event covers one page. There's a very nice list of random encounters that are easy to lift and use in your own variant of the scenario, that I really like.
GothmogIV
Adventurer
Waiting on this beauty: Return of the Ripper
RealAlHazred
Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
sigh ... Backed. But that has to be it for me for KSes for right now.
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