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A long time Dark Conspiracy fan (and Founding Editor of DEMONGROUND fanzine), Marcus contributed to both the 2nd edition revival of DC and later lead a failed attempt to republish the game in the mid-2000s. He is the dedicated owner of this site - Dark Conspiracy the RPG.info (or DCtRPG.info as he likes to call it) - and will endeavour to continue to provide content for this fantastic setting as long as a fanbase remains.

[Adventure] The Lewton Bus by Lee Williams

By Marcus Bone

On June 9, 2019

In Scenarios

A 1st Edition Scenario by Lee Williams

I never was much of a flyer myself, preferring to drive despite the crappy state of the highways and the higher risk factor. At least if you’re on the ground, you can try to run away, right?

This time we had to get there soon-as, so it had to be a plane ride. When the pilot announced we had to make an unexpected night-time stopover due to “unforeseen issues”, I was glad to get my feet back on the sweet Earth for a little while.

Looking back, maybe I shouldn’t have been so damn happy about that…

[News] Dark Conspiracy 4th Edition – Crowdfunding Campaign Completed!

By Marcus Bone

On April 11, 2019

In News

Update September 2021 – No further news forthcoming on DC4

For more news I’d recommend both visiting the crowdfunding site and joining the Dark Conspiracy RPG Fan Facebook page to be kept appraised of the situation.

Last Update was in December 2020 in regards to Amargosa Press Acquiring the Dark Conspiracy License (see below for details).

[Milieu] The Tabellarium: An Empathic Underground Group

By Marcus Bone

On April 2, 2019

In Articles

Tabellarium, “Sedes, vel acervus tabularum, vel locus, ubi tabulæ servantur”

The war against the Dark Lords is anything but a holistic conflict, and instead it falls on numerous small, dedicated groups of Minion Hunters to stand against the evil that permeates into our world. This scattered, piecemeal approach can, and has, achieved some victories, but rarely are such isolated groups able to make major breakthroughs against the most powerful things that stand against humanity. Worse still, with such a scattered, piece-meal approach to the war against the Dark Lords, when a Darkling’s weakness is uncovered, or a Dark One’s plot is revealed, it is rare that this information can be capitalised upon, before the opportunity is lost for good.

And it is here that the Tabellarium ply their trade, as an anonymous dealers of information and secrets, connecting groups of Minion Hunters and their allies; bringing order to a war of chaos.

[Tabloid] The Hitchhikers

By Marcus Bone

On February 20, 2019

In Tabloids

A Tabloid Article by Linden Dunham

An isolated stretch of road passes close to an area of woodland. In the evenings, as dusk falls, two women can often be seen standing in the trees. They are both young and attractive if dressed rather eccentrically in long black cloaks and dresses that seem to hark back to the Victorian era. They seem to be waiting for something, or someone. Eventually one, or both of them steps out of the woods and flags down a passing car and asks the driver, usually a lone male, for a lift to their home nearby. The driver usually agrees and takes them to their destination – a mouldering Victorian mansion situated in its own grounds on the other side of the woods down a narrow lane leading off the main road. On arrival at the house the driver is invited inside, with the implied promise of being shown a good time. If they accept, and they generally do, they are never heard from again.

[Tabloid] The Tunnel

By Marcus Bone

On December 22, 2018

In Tabloids

A Tabloid Article by Linden Dunham

The Greater Depression saw a worldwide uprooting of provincial communities and mass migration towards the big cities. A significant minority though resisted the pull of the urban centres. Forced to abandon the ghost towns their homes had become, yet unwilling to be cooped up in the sprawling metroplexes they became nomads. In the United Kingdom there was something akin to a revival of the New Age Traveller movement of the 1980s: Families and like minded groups living in mobile homes or vans and buses converted for residential. Not all of the Britain’s nomads opted for life on the road though. Some took to the waterways in narrow boats and other craft capable of navigating the country’s canal and river network.

The breakdown in civil society experienced by the United Kingdom in the Dark Times means that the canal network, so lovingly restored in the 20th century, has started to fall into decay again. Administration of the network is fragmented and under-funded. Maintenance is haphazard and in rural areas often non-existent. Long sections of canal are half choked with weed and silt, their banks and tow-paths overgrown or slowly crumbling into the water.