Games like Mission Marginalia, An ECB Supplement

AN ECB SUPPLEMENT Special Directives is my own personal collection of custom missions, scenarios, powers, etc for the External Containment Bureau roleplaying game, published by Mythic Gazetteer. Entries include Welcome to Hope: A cozy mission slash setting for you to employ in your own ECB campaign.Figure ∞: A mind-bending time-loop scenario featuring trippy time-based mechanics and modifications …

2 weeks ago, Dispatch lost contact with one our agents investigating reports of a spate of plant based anomalies in the Hagley Wood area of Birmingham, England. 4 local boys found her body a week after loss of contact. Post-mortem reports detail decomposition equivalent with a time of death almost 18 months ago. Identify the nature of the Hagley Wood trees, Contain them if necessary, Obfuscate the…

CONGRATULATIONS! You have been selected for deployment as part of OPERATION GDN on behalf of the External Containment Bureau. We look forward to seeing great things. Operation GDN is an unofficial supplement to the External Containment Bureau roleplaying game. It allows players to join the Global Development Network, an ECB front organization disguised as an international NGO.  Operation GDN inclu…

The people of Last Pine have been reporting petty crimes—items missing, businesses burst into, and refuse of food and medicine scattered in the wake of the burglaries. Local disorderly teen Ricky Burning, a part-time employee at the hardware store, is widely suspected for the break-ins, including a recent theft and vandalism at the lumberyard, but he has a different story: of objects floating, cre…

External Containment Bureau is a game of paranormal investigation and bureaucracy using a lightweight, hackable version of the Forged in the Dark design framework. You play as trained agents of the External Containment Bureau, an organization tasked with the study, identification, and containment of paranormal phenomena. The Bureau authorizes agents to make use of these phenomena to give yourself …

… and the people of Expath enjoy long life. Their priests document the secrets hidden in stars. Their scholars unleash the power of gunpowder and of coal. Great masters devote themselves to works of art and engineering with the power to capture the soul. Our story takes place at the edge of the Star-Blue Sea, an ocean of viridian waters whose beauty is described in countless legends. Beneath its b…

In  this world, magic and technology are one and the same. As fae magic stokes the flame of industry, another, much older fire smolders beneath the surface. Explore a world where ancient secrets clash and conspire with innovation. A world forever on the edge of change. The Fairy and The Flame is a Powered By Lesbians game supplement that will take you to the magitek world of Ylamir. This guide inc…

CW: darkness, tight spaces, marine wildlife, peril, bodily harm, extreme solitude Thought space was full of horror? Try being trapped 70 metres underwater. On your own. In the dark. THOUSAND EMPTY LIGHT is a psychedelic-xerox adventure zine that brings solo play to Mothership RPG (1E). Written throughout as an in-game corporate document, the zine takes the core game’s rules and builds a procedure …

Citizen Goon - Goon City: Troika! A Goon City: Troika! Player Citizen Generator I recently released Goon City: Troika! Trashcan Edition, a hack of Tunnel Goons by Highland Paranormal Society and Troika! by Melsonian Arts Council,  and this is a complete Player Citizen (Character) Generator that gets you ready to explore the infinitely odd City in one click. I will periodically update and expand th…

A ROLE-PLAYING GAME ABOUT DEATH AND OTHER UNFINISHED BUSINESS Restless Dead is a dark urban fantasy tabletop role-playing game about death and the unfinished business of the recently deceased. You are revenants, undead who can walk the mortal world in seemingly human forms. Using your wits and paranormal powers, you help spirits trapped on the edge of the afterlife move on by resolving their unfi…