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Guildencrantz posted:I'm interested in using one of these systems to run a non-Cthulhu horror game that shares some themes with the mythos. The premise is that the PC's are an X-files-esque task force in 1970's Poland, tasked with combating and concealing the supernatural, while navigating the bumbling communist bureaucracy and dealing with the issue of working for a thoroughly reprehensible institution that's mostly a tool of oppression. Cue horrific world-shattering discoveries and so on. I think any of the GUMSHOE games would work well, but which you use is dependent on the PCs. Trail of Cthulu PCs are 1930s investigators. Esoterrorists PCs are a modern X-files-type task force (but note they are working on Esoterrorists 2.0 and wanted to have it done by the end of this year). Night's Black Agents PCs are working against conspiracies infiltrated by vampires Fear Itself PCs are more "normal people" who may not actually survive long. I don't own Esoterrorists, but to me either that or Trail of Cthulu (which I do own) sounds great. The former is too modern and would need to be scaled back to 1970s, the latter too long ago and would need updating. Trail of Cthulu has FAR more material available, though, and at least one adventure is set in the 1950s.
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Halloween Jack posted:
I believe they went back and suggested ones for Trail of Cthulu skills in a recent article.
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