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[Review] DC III: Acute Care

On July 21, 2019

Written by Dave Schuey (2011, 3Hombres)

Acute Care was the third and final adventure released during 3Hombres Games’ tenure as the publisher of the Dark Conspiracy 3rd Edition roleplaying game. Primarily focused on a series of suspicious events occurring at a large fictional hospital – Pangate Memorial – it was, as the author notes, written to be either an introductory mission for potential new Minion Hunters, or utilised as a reoccurring location available to an experienced party of Investigators (and what group of Minion Hunters isn’t in constant need for good medical facility?).

So does Acute Care live up to its stated goals? Is it an ‘operation’ needing urgent undertaking, or simply a product that survives simply on ‘life support’? Grab your surgical kit, load up on (legally prescribed) drugs and let’s find out!

[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…

[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.

[Tabloid] Return of the Beast

By Marcus Bone

On December 3, 2018

In Tabloids

A Tabloid Article by Linden Dunham

“In the forest… is a monster.”
Who Will Love Me Now? PJ Harvey (Written by Nick Bicat and Philip Ridley)

Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom: British tabloid papers have run a series of stories claiming a monstrous creature is at large in north western Gloucestershire. Eyewitness accounts claim that the beast is a pig or wild boar grown to enormous size and possessed of a highly aggressive temperament. There are reports of the animal smashing through heavy duty agricultural fencing to ravage crops and livestock, ramming vehicles intent on killing the occupants, plus stalking and ambushing the hunting parties assembled to stop the its depredations. The monster has been christened “Moose Pig”, a name once used to refer to The Beast of Dean, a massive boar like creature that terrorised the region in the 18th and 19th centuries.

With its security section having failed to deal with the threat International Cereal Corp (ICC), the UK’s biggest agri-business and a major regional employer, have offered a sizeable reward to anyone who can bring them the carcass of “Moose Pig”. Professional hunters, outdoor sportsmen plus various chancers and no-hopers are converging on the Forest of Dean intent on claiming the reward. Perhaps the player characters feel like joining them?

[Review] Nightsider – A Folio Adventure in Three Parts

By Marcus Bone

On December 11, 2017

In Reviews

Written by Michael C. LaBossiere (1992, GDW)

Nightsider was the second and final folio-style adventure released by Games Designer Workshop (GDW) in the Dark Conspiracy line. Well, when I say adventure, I actually mean a collection of three loosely connected scenarios based in Maine, New England (but easily transferable) that all involve an otherworldly invasion by the titular Nightsiders. These creatures, beings able to inhabit the bodies of the dead, are slowly but surely infiltrating our dimension, and, as always, it falls on the Minion Hunters to stop this invasion before it is too late.

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[Review] DC III: Acute Care

[Adventure] The Lewton Bus by Lee Williams

[Tabloid] The Tunnel

[Tabloid] Return of the Beast

[Review] Nightsider – A Folio Adventure in Three Parts