The New “Ghastly Affair Presenter's Manual” Free PDF

[clavis123]

The FREE, Revised PDF version of the “Ghastly Affair Presenter's Manual” is now available. Bookmarked, hyperlinked, and screen-optimized.
Download it here: https://engineoforacles.wordpress.com/downloads/

The “Ghastly Affair Presenter's Manual” gives you everything you need to run the Gothic Game of Romantic Horror. Bring the Ghastly Age of Marie-Antoinette, the Marquis de Sade, and Napoleon to terrifying life!

The “Ghastly Affair Presenter's Manual” includes:

• An in-depth discussion of preparing and running game sessions, with guidance on creating properly Gothic plots, and practical advice on how to maintain the proper atmosphere.

• A full list of Creatures and Adversaries, from wolf packs to fearsome Possessor Demons! Also includes guidelines for a range of human Antagonists, from decadent Aristocrats to Raging Lunatics!

• A complete chronology of the wild Incidents and Scandals of the Ghastly Age, covering the years from 1765 to 1820. Use it as a source of plots, to determine character backgrounds, or as inspiration for your own fictional Gothic world.

• Full lists of Gothic genre conventions, expanded treatments of drugs and diseases, alternate rules for Ability Contests, and more. Plus, guidelines for bringing the physical Incarnations of Death, The Devil, and more to your game!

The “Ghastly Affair Presenter's Manual” is meant to be used in conjunction with the “Ghastly Affair Player's Manual”. Both are now available as FREE PDFs.

Coming by June 2016: You'll be able to feast on illustrated hardcopy editions of both the “Ghastly Affair Player's Manual” and the “Ghastly Affair Presenter's Manual”!

“Ghastly Affair Presenter's Manual” Free PDF – Intended for Mature Audiences
https://engineoforacles.wordpress.com/downloads/

[Tadhg]

Just downloaded a copy. Hope to read tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks again for sharing!

Rhu.

[clavis123]

Just downloaded a copy. Hope to read tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks again for sharing!

Rhu.

You're welcome!

[Tadhg]

Happy 8 . . .

Been reading your excellent material again.

Thanks for sharing.

I will be running a "Victorian" game, using your stuff (btw, I'm going to be re-reading loads of fiction which is such a great bonus, if you will - to prep for the game), Mike's Victorious and Masque of the Red Death (AD&D).

From my post with our group here:

"I now have plenty of material and am in the process of creating a starting scenario that will lead into a module.

Gaslight London - train to Folkestone (near Dover) - ferry to Calais - then a little south to Castle Franqueforte, when Count Rhuvein is hosting a masked ball and has invited his friend from Paris. Monsieur Henri Toulouse Lautrec will show some of his works of art. Other notable personages from the Victorian age may very well be present. Oh, and Madame Goldini will conduct a tarokka deck reading.

[Henri, of course will outrage many guests at the ball when he shows up with "friends" from Ambassadeurs, Olympia and the Moulin Rouge]

More to come."

[clavis123]

Happy 8 . . .

Been reading your excellent material again.

Thanks for sharing.

I will be running a "Victorian" game, using your stuff (btw, I'm going to be re-reading loads of fiction which is such a great bonus, if you will - to prep for the game), Mike's Victorious and Masque of the Red Death (AD&D).

From my post with our group here:

"I now have plenty of material and am in the process of creating a starting scenario that will lead into a module.

Gaslight London - train to Folkestone (near Dover) - ferry to Calais - then a little south to Castle Franqueforte, when Count Rhuvein is hosting a masked ball and has invited his friend from Paris. Monsieur Henri Toulouse Lautrec will show some of his works of art. Other notable personages from the Victorian age may very well be present. Oh, and Madame Goldini will conduct a tarokka deck reading.

[Henri, of course will outrage many guests at the ball when he shows up with "friends" from Ambassadeurs, Olympia and the Moulin Rouge]

More to come."

Thanks! I'd love to hear more about the game. Belle Epoque France was filled with interesting characters like "Teapot" Lautrec. Surely there will be absinthe-fueled scandal!

[Tadhg]

Thanks! I'd love to hear more about the game. Belle Epoque France was filled with interesting characters like "Teapot" Lautrec. Surely there will be absinthe-fueled scandal!

Indeed. I has forgotten that Henri will be accompanied by his good friend:



I have this print hanging on my family room wall.

Camille Saint-Saëns will also be there as well as Oscar Wilde.

Was reading today about Jack the Ripper. Nasty business. Must have had all of London in a tizzy.

[Lurker]

Yet again, nice work

[clavis123]

Was reading today about Jack the Ripper. Nasty business. Must have had all of London in a tizzy.

An interesting thing about the Jack the Ripper murders is that they began in 1888, almost exactly 100 years after the serial slasher called "The London Monster" started attacking women (in 1788). The "Monster" didn't mange to kill anyone, but had many more victims than "Jack".

Was there a connection?

[Tadhg]

Indeed.

And here is another oddity that Penny mentioned to me the other night . .

The servant girl annihilator in 1884/5 in Austin Texas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_Girl_Annihilator

[clavis123]

Yet again, nice work

Thank you! I've tried to give the game a distinct tone and aesthetic focus, while still being a "toolkit" for the full range of possible stories in the Gothic genre.