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A Vampire Spy Thriller Game by
Kenneth
Hite
Based on the
GUMSHOE
System by
Robin D.
Laws
night’'s black agents
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
While night'’s black agents to their prey do rouse.
’
-Macbeth, Act III, Scene ii
publisher:
Simon Rogers
Author:
Kenneth Hite
GUMSHOE System:
Robin D Laws
Artists:
Alessandro Alaia, Chris Huth, Phil Reeves
Art Direction, Cover Layout & Index:
Beth Lewis
Cover Art:
George Cotronis
Interior Layout:
Chris Huth
Playtesters:
Shari Felty,Trey Felty, Zachary Johnson, Gregory Kettler, Joshua Knorr, Craig Neumeier, Ian Kirby, Peter Coutts, Robert Brumbelow, "Doctor
Morbius", Stephanie Tyll, Brian Paul, Danielle Rosvally, Gavin Fishman, Sean Colleran, Daniel Bayn, Jeremy Keller, Mark Dipasquale, Colleen Riley, Ken Trench,
Umeå Role-Playing Association, Edward Alexander, Tim Pounds-Cornish, Mike Drew, Patrick Lewinson, Gunnar Ekmark, Anders Thelin, Jeb Boyt, Thomas
M. Reid, Bob Roeh, Michael Fina, Samantha Fina, Allen Gibson, Michael Goodman, Christine Rambo, Matt Rambo, Stuart N. Bonham, Robin Bonham, Mike
Cubbins, Alun Roberts, Francis Li, Carolina McGrenery, Tom McGrenery
Includes material from:
Ashen Stars, Esoterrorists, Esoterror Fact Book,
and
Mutant City Blues
by Robin Laws,
Trail of Cthulhu
and
Bookhounds of London
by Kenneth Hite, and
The Zalozhniy Quartet
by Gareth Hanrahan
Special Commendation to our
AGENT
level clearance spymasters:
John Adamus, John Anderson, Detective John Clayton, Kevin Kulp
Special thanks to our
BLACK
level agents:
Michael Bowman, Kairam Hamdan ,Ville Halonen, Luis Velasco Gil, Michael Ostrokol , Mark DiPasquale, Karl
Fordham, Jim McCarthy, Darren Miguez, Andrew Stimpson, Isaac Betty, Michael Dauman, Andrew Brehaut, Ville Halonen, Lance Schroeder, Michael
Haggett, Lars Patrik Olsson, Sean Demory, Sid Wood, Rob Davies, Guy Sodin, Jan Salomonsson, Michael Ostrokol, Jeremiah Genest,
Thanks to our
NIGHT
level agents:
Scott Acker, Stephane Adamiak, John Adamus, Philip Adler, Gustavo Aleman Perez, Ulf Andersson, John Arendt, Malcolm Arnold, Lari Assmuth,
Mike Athey,Thomas Azar, Alex Baldwin, Gary Ball,Timothy Ballew, Pseudonomymous, David Bartram, Liz Bauman, Marco Behrmann, Michael Bentley, Isaac Betty, Ingo Beyer, Robert
Biskin, Martin Blake, Ronald Blessing, Brett Bloczynski, Stuart Bonham, Colin Booth, Olivier Bos, Michael Bowman, Chad Bowser, Jeb Boyt, David Bozarth, Frank Branham, Andrew
Brehaut, Bill Brickman, Kurt Briesemeister, Benjamin Brighoff, Simon Brunning,William Brzozowski, Brian Buckwald, Eoin Burke, Shaun Burton, Zachary Bush, Jay Button, John Byers,
Daniel Byrne, Philip Cahiwat, Robert Calder, Robert Calfee, James Cambias, Jeff Campbell, Richard Canino, Michael Cassimaty, Steve Chadwick, Bryan Chavez, Brian Christiansen,
John Clark, John Clayton, Andrew Clowery, Andrew Collins, Orion Cooper, Steve Cranford, Powell Crider, Walter F Croft, Brian Curley, Ross Cutler, Michael Czaplinski, Chris
Dalgety, Neal Dalton, Timothy Daly, Matthew Darling, Michael Daumen, Rob Davies, Pierre-Philippe De San Mateo, Stuart Dean, William Defreese, Sean Demory, Christopher
Desmond, James Dezomits, James Dillane, Matthew Dimmic, Mark Dipasquale, Reinier Dobbelmann, Bastian Dornauf, David Dorward, Paul Douglas, Zebediah Doyle, Antoine
Drouart, Daniel Dunlap, Charles Dunwoody, Bryant Durrell, Herman Duyker, Paul Edwards, Philip Eisner, Morgan Ellis, Baard Enoksen, Baard Enoksen, Don Ensz, Christian Enzlin,
David Erickson, Aleksandr Ermakov, Justin Farquhar, Chris Farrell, Boris Fedyukin, Michael Feldhusen, Pablo Fernandez Otero, Antonio Miguel Martorell Ferriol, Daniel Fidelman,
Stuart Fieldhouse, Ken Finlayson, Franck Florentin, Claes Florvik, Didier Fontana, Kirk Foote, Neil Ford, Lowell Francis, Stephanie Franklin, Sebastian Garcia, Esteban Garcia,
Rodrigo Garcia Carmona, Paco Garcia Jaen, Francisco Jose Garcia Jaen, James A Gardner, John Geany, Jeremiah Genest, Marc Gibson, Mark Giles,Tove Gillbring, Kerry Gisler, Chad
Glamann, Phillip Goodman, Darren Graham, Ronnie Grahn, Michael Grasso, Aidan Green, Dylan Green, Peter Griffith, Rickard Gudbrand, Christopher Gunning, Jonas Gutebrand,
John Hacker, Michael Haggett, Laurel Halbany, Ville Halonen, Kairam Hamdan, Fredrik Hansson, Michael Harnish, Robert Harrison, David Harrison, Seth Hartley, Greg Hartman,
Christopher Hatty, Sam Hawken, Sara D L Hayes, William Hayhurst, Damian Hector, Tristan Hendrix, Giles Hill, Michael Hill, David Hines, Lauri Hirvonen, James Holden, Søren
Holm, Jurie Horneman, Kim Houtmeyers, Justin Hukle-Vankirk, Luke Humenuk, Mark Hunter, Paul Ingebrigt Huse, Nick Ingham, Christopher Irvine,Tim Isakson, Gilbert Isla, Glen
Ivey, Shane Ivey, Robert J Lawrence, Alan Jackson, Benoit Jauvin-Girard, Alex Jeffries, Scott Jenks, David Jenks, Kent J. Johansen, Christian Johnson, Alex Johnston, Frederic Joly, James
Kalmbach, Daniel Kassiday, Steven Kaye, Steven Kaye, Alexander Kell, Belinda Ruth Kelly, Anthony Kemp, David Keys, Khaldoun Khelil, Reto Marc Kiefer, James Kiley, Ian Kirby, J.
Andrew Kitkowski, Jon Kline, Christopher Klofft, Steve Knott, Wasilio Koslow, Justin Kowalski, Julie Kreuzinger, Matthew Krykew, Wendy Kuehr-Mclaren, Arseny Kuznetsov, Kjetil
Kverndokken, Thomas Ladegard, David Lai, Maurice Lane, Jerome Larre, Peter Larsen, Phil Lawler, William Lee, Malcolm Legay, Jason Leigh, Ron Levy, Patrick Lewinson, Daniel Ley,
Sharon Lonkani, Rob Macdougall, Edward Macgregor, John Majer, Rakesh Malik, Kym Malycha, Roberto Mandrioli, Daniel Markwig, Gregory Maroda, Stephen Marsh, Michael Marshall,
Scott Mathis, Niclas Matikainen, Whitney Mattson, Pablo Mayoral Izcue, Mirko Mazzi, James Mccarthy, John Mcclure, Robert Mccuaig, Brian Mcdonald, Robert Mcgregor, Thomas
Mcgrenery, Shane Mclean, Kurt Mcmahon, Andreas Melhorn, Patrice Mermoud, Brandon Metcalf, Patrick Metzler, Clemens Meyer, Darren Miguez, Christopher Miles, Andrew
Millar, Mark Miller, Sean Molley, James Montgomery, Dominic Mooney, David Moore, Gary Moore, Dennis Moore, John Moore, David Morris, Robert Morris, Flavio Mortarino,
Jason Morton, Douglas Mount, Kevin Mowery, William Mullins, Rhona Munday, Rick Neal, John Neilson, Mikkel Basse Nielsen, Sune Nodskou, Christian Nord, Niklas Nordberg,
Gregory Oakes, Stefan Ohrmann, Carl Ollivier, Lars P Olsson, Ols Jonas Petter Olsson, Michael Ostrokol, Joseph O'toole, Raphael Päbst, James Pacheco, Roy Paeth, Cameron
Paine, Maurizio Paoluzi, Robert Parker, David Parlin, David Paul, Hamid Peigahi,Ariel Pereira, Stuntlau Perez, Matt Perez,Victor Perez Cazorla,Alf Joakim Persson, Nicholas Peterson,
Keane Peterson, Shane Phillips, Bastien Pilon, William Plant, José Porfírio, Michael Pose, Keith Potter, Brendan Power, Adam Rajski, Dane Ralston-Bryce, Matthew Rambo, Joshua
Ramsey, Andrew Raphael, Sacha Ratcliffe, Jeremy Redman, Michael Rees, David Rehbinder, Joshua Rensch, Stephen Reuille, Max Rible, Gordon Richards, , Carl Rigney, Mark Rinna,
Stewart Robertson, Daniel Robichaud Ii,Wade Rockett, Kurtis Rodgers,Timothy Rodriguez, John Rogers, Derek Rompot,Aaron Roudabush, Jan Salomonsson,Allan Samuelson, Raúl
Sánchez Ruiz, Aaron Sapp, Seneca Savoie, Jakob Schilling, Lance Schroeder, Andrew Schubert,Tobias Schulte-Krumpen, Ben Sennitt, Jonathan Sewell, Allan Shampine, Mark Sherman,
Bezultek, Kim Shier, Elizabeth Shoemaker, Stephen Sigety, Luke Silburn, Filipe Silva, Matthew Silver, Richard Slater, Stephen Slater-Brown, Samuel Slocum, Christopher Smith,Tristan
Smith, Paul Snow, Guy Sodin, Mark Solino, Juha Sopanen, Andrew South, Matt Spurgeon, Daniel Stack, Daniel Stanke, Greg Stanyer, Richard Starr, Lisa Steele, Paul Stefko, Andrew
Stimpson,William Stowers, Matthew Strachan, Simon Stroud, Maurice Strubel, Eric Swiersz, John Taber, Kalev Tait, Matthew Tarplee, Chris Taylor, John Taylor, David Terhune, Mischa
Thomas, Owen Thompson, Christopher Todd, Nicolas Townsend, Peter Tracy, Sean Trader, Dustin Tranberg, Gilles Tremblay, Kenneth Trench, Gary Trost, Chris Tutt, Mark Tygart,
Robin Valentine, Donny Van Zandt, Stephen Vandevander, Luis Velasco Gil, Filthy Monkey, Sean Waite, David Walker, Dirk Walls, Carl Walter, Steven Douglas Warble, Simon Ward,
Chip Warden, Darren Watts, Morgan Weeks, Paul Weimer, Daniel Westheide, Thomas Weston, Greg White, Mel White, Mel White, Rachel Whitty, Christopher Wiegand, Robert
Wieland, Charles Wilkins, Robert Williams, Doug Winter, Sid Wood, Steaven Woyan, Philip Wright, Christopher Young, Kristian Zirnsak, Thomas Zunder
©2012 Pelgrane Press Ltd. All rights reserved.
Night’s Black Agents
is a
trademark of Pelgrane Press Ltd.
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subsections
INTRODUCTION
Tells
From Structure to Story
Chapters
Modes
Burn
Dust
Mirror
Stakes
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7
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8
CHARACTERS
Choose a Background
Choose Your investigative
Abilities
Trading Points
Choose Your General
Abilities
Pick Your MOS
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Revenge
Slayer
Thrill-seeker
Transparency
Trust and Betrayal
Starting Trust
Spending Trust
Changing Trust
Betraying Trust
Maps and Legends
Coming In
Getting Out
Meeting Up
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RULES
clues, spends and tests
Gathering Clues
Spends and Benefits
Inconspicuous Clues
General Spends
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backgrounds: the old life
Get Personal
Sample Backgrounds
Analyst
Asset Handler
Bagman
Bang-and-Burner
Black Bagger
Cleaner
Cobbler
Cuckoo
Hacker
Investigator
Medic
Mule
Muscle
Watcher
Wet Worker
Wheel Artist
Wire Rat
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tests
Simple Tests
Piggybacking
Cooperation
General Tests
without Ability Ratings
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Civilian
Gendarme
Guard Dog
Mafioso
Militia
Police
Soldier
Special Operations Soldier
Special Police
Terrorist
Thug
Thriller Combat Rules
Autofire
Called Shots
Critical Hits
Evasive Maneuvers
Extra Attacks
Feints
Jumping In
Martial Arts
Mook Shield
Reckless Attacks
Smashes and Throws
Sniping
Special Weapons Training
Support Moves
Suppressive Fire
Technothriller Monologue
Hazards
Acid
Crashes
Drowning and Suffocation
Electricity and Other Shocks
Falling
Fire
Temperature Extremes
Toxins
Shock and Awe
Stability Testsframe
Losing It
Mental Illness
Stability loss
Other Conditions
Heat
Gaining Heat
The Effects of Heat
Losing Heat
Extended Chases
Changing Hot Lead
Testing Hot Lead
Spending Hot Lead
Running Out of Hot Lead
Winning the Chase
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contests
Player-Facing Contests
Alertness Modifier
Stealth Modifier
Full Contests
Contest Advantage
Thriller Chases
Simultaneous Reveal
The Lead
Thrills Are Everybody’s Business
Raises
Special Thriller Chase Rules
Surprise
Initiative
Hit Thresholds
Running Away
Dealing Damage
First Aid
Exhaustion, Injury, and Death
Free-For-All Combat
Standard Combat Considerations
Armor
Cover
Ammo Capacity
Range
Explosives and Explosions
Explosion Damage
Opposing Forces
Bodyguard
51 other dangers
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abilities
Investigative Abilities
General Abilities
Sources of Stability
Symbol
Solace
Safety
Replacing Sources of Stability
Drives
Altruism
Atonement
Comradeship
Mystery
Nowhere Else to Go
Patriotism
Programming
Restoration
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personality and dossier
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recovery and improvement 92
Regaining Pool Points
92
Refreshing Investigative Ability Pools 92
Refreshing General Ability Pools
92
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