The Scrying Dutchman is in the midst of a successful crowdfunding run to bring the modern horror roleplaying game Blacklight to the masses. Powered by the Shadowdark system, the game drops players into the Blacklight Institute where they take on supernatural threats. The Kickstarter project for Blacklight is already over 300% funded and you can reserve a copy of the hardcover POD (with PDF) for a pledge of approximately $32.00 or score just the PDF for a pledge of approximately $10.00 through March 31st. Expected delivery is March of next year.
About the project:
Blacklight is an expansion for Kelsey Dione’s acclaimed Shadowdark tabletop RPG, introducing new rules and mechanics to propel your games into a modern era. Step into the shadows as part of a covert organization of skilled professionals, the last line of defense against relentless extradimensional forces of darkness.
Alongside detailed setting information, Blacklight introduces rules for incorporating firearms, a wide array of modern equipment, vehicles, and much more into your game.
Note: Blacklight requires either the full Shadowdark rules, or its quickstart rules to play.
What’s included?
- Setting: Setting information focused on the Blacklight Institute, a secretive organization led by a cabal of scientists, occultists, and other brilliant minds, united in their mission to stop the spread of invasive extradimensional forces.
- System: Rules to bring Shadowdark to a modern era, including mechanics for gunfire and explosions attracting unwanted attention, expanded weapon ranges to accommodate modern firearms, and a variant of the torch mechanic that simulates the draining of batteries, such as when using flashlights and night vision technology.
- Classes: 8 new classes that work together as the Institute’s investigation, exploration and combat teams: The Assault agent, the Support agent, the Recon agent, the Specialist, the Investigator, the Esper, the Cleaner, and the Liaison.
- Psionics: A diverse array of psionic powers for the Esper class to master and wield.
- Training: Downtime training rules to further customize and enhance characters with various useful skills.
- Weapons: An arsenal of modern-day weaponry, ranging from combat knives to assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, rocket launchers, and even experimental energy weapons. This also includes a variety of ammunition types and attachments to customize your weapons to fit the mission at hand.
- Equipment: A wide range of modern-day equipment, including night vision goggles, kevlar vests, drones, advanced scanners, and other specialized gear designed to support Blacklight’s mission teams in the field.
- Vehicles: A selection of vehicles, ranging from ATVs to armored trucks, enabling mission teams to traverse and operate in a variety of hostile environments.
- NPCs: An added bestiary of monstrous and hostile entities, providing mission teams with a variety of formidable foes to face.
- Adventure: A brief introductory mission for a rookie Blacklight team, tasking them with confronting a dangerous group of shadow-worshiping cultists.
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