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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kesh" data-source="post: 1119225" data-attributes="member: 1308">Okay, so it's nearly a week late. Sue me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The Killing Jar is an adventure for the Alternity game setting Dark*Matter. This setting is (to the best of my knowledge) similar to a blend of Call of Cthulu and The X-Files. Investigators work for The Hoffmann Institute and persue reports of supernatural activity, alien visitation and government conspiracies.This particular adventure is inspired by the legend of the <a href="http://www.prairieghosts.com/moth.html" target="_blank">Mothman</a>, a strange creature that terrorized a rural West Virginia town during the 1960's.The characters are drawn to investigate a car impounded by police in West Virginia. This leads them to a strangely decomposed body found alongside the highway, lab specimens, government agents and a strange virus... all tied to the legend of the Mothman.This adventure will take characters all across Appalachia, mostly through several locations in West Virginia and Kentucky. I was personally impressed with how well the author (Bruce Cordell) integrated local events, such as the Sternwheel Regatta. As someone who grew up in the Ohio River Valley, I was giddy with glee while I read about towns I grew up near, visited and events I was personally familiar with.The characters will encounter evidence of extra-terrestrial life (or perhaps super-terrestrial life), government and corporate conspiracies to exploit it, and an ancient curse that gives them the chance to do what is right.The Killing Jar would work well for a Shadow Chasers campaign, or even a Call of Cthulu d20 campaign / one-shot.  Genetech campaigns can treat the monsters as genetically engineered lifeforms or previously unknown natural organisms. Whereas an Agents of PSI campaign may want to play up the possible extraterrestrial angle, making the Mothmen (yes, plural!) an alien race.However, the adventure is both too supernatural for a typical non-FX campaign, and not supernatural enough for an Urban Arcana one.As a bonus, the new d20 Menace Manual has stats for creatures called 'Mothfolk' (which I am hoping are the Mothmen), and the organizations chapter includes the Hoffmann Institute. Dark*Matter fans should be ecstatic.Of course, many of the skills and characters mentioned will not apply to a Modern campaign. However, the adventure is really rather rules-light, focusing more on the story than anything else. Those rules that are called for seem easy to replace with d20 equivalents.The adventure is out-of-print, but available as a PDF download through <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1251&" target="_blank">RPGnow</a>. I found a print copy through eBay, which is how this Crib was written. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />Also, some enterprising ENWorlders are working on conversions <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=58693" target="_blank">here</a>.</blockquote>

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