Pelgrane Press The Dracula Dossier - Director's Handbook

The Dracula Dossier is an epic improvised campaign for the Night's Black AgentsRoleplaying Game. Do your Agents have what it takes to face the Lord of the Undead himself?

In 1893, a visionary spymaster in the British Naval Intelligence Department launched a plan to recruit the perfect asset: a vampire.

Operation Edom began promisingly. The NID made contact with Count Dracula, deep in Transylvania. A meet was set and made. A safe house and a headquarters in England were prepared. Then it all went wrong.

Dracula betrayed his minder and double-crossed NID. Outsiders possibly with their own ties to foreign espionage became involved. British intelligence ordered a sanction: They barred Dracula from England, and hunted him down on his home earth, where during the great eruption and earthquake of 31 August 1894 they terminated him, with extreme prejudice and two knives.

Or so they thought.

Dracula lives. Now it s up to you to finish the job.

The Dracula Dossier follows in the fully improvisational path of the award-winning The Armitage Files campaign. 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 Directors Handbook, including:
* Conspiracy nodes, eerie locations and vampiric beasts
* More than 60 supporting characters in vampiric, heroic, or in-between versions
* Different interpretations 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 will read and write your own unique version of the Dracula Dossier.

Follow the clues to end the story once and for all, and close Project EDOM forever. You will find, hunt, and kill Dracula, the king of the vampires.

If you survive.