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  • The RPG Review Room: Night’s Black Agents - Double Tap

    This review was initially writen by Endzeitgeist. You can find lots more like this at endzeitgeist.com and gmsmagazine.com


    This review was initially writen by Endzeitgeist. You can find lots more like this at endzeitgeist.com and gmsmagazine.com


    With all the Conspiracies, the intrigue, the danger, it’s hard to know what exactly is and isn’t on your side. When every shadow from the back alleys of Bucharest to the back benches of the parliament could hide an inhuman enemy, it’s hard to tell what solid ground you can stand on. What can you depend on? Can you make a difference? Trust no one and nothing except the silver bullets in your Glock. To make a difference, aim true.


    Even then, sometimes that first shot isn’t a killer. Sometimes you need a double tap.


    Double Tap: The Night’s Black Agents Expansion Book includes:
    • Sample clues, special spend benefits, and a model Tactical Fact-Finding Benefit for each Investigative ability, along with information, tips, and best practices from cloning a cell phone to hosting a seance to the slang of spycraft!

  • For the General abilities, lists of sample clues if they can be used investigatively and more key information and best practices. A new optional Mastery rule keeps your dice hot on every roll — plus over 25 new Cherries!

  • 20 new maneuvers, from Alibi to Thrown Clear by the Blast, plus 60 Achievements to add flavor, focus, and flexibility to your play.

  • Adaptive Tradecraft and the Cartagena Rules let you low-tech your way out of trouble — and high-action your way back into it!

  • More spytech for any mode, from custom face masks to RFID sniffers to jetpacks to EMP weapons — and the “Q Rule” for that laser watch you’ve always wanted!

  • Because you demanded it — a big list of guns, customized for 22 clandestine, military, and police groups from SEAL Team Six to the Swiss Guard. Plus eight Gun Cherries — never waste another 6! — and lots more gun gadgets from the CornerShot to UV-emitting bullets to net grenades!

  • New rules for adapting the acclaimed night’s black agents Thriller Chase rules to contests of hacking, sneaking, and tracking — plus Manhunt rules for agents hunting monstrous masterminds.

  • For Directors, 26 Cameos give you living, breathing NPCs complete with their own clues, and 26 Establishing Shots give you exciting settings to put them — and your agents — into.

  • Discover the horrific secrets of the chupa, the ekimmu, the homunculus, and the penanggalan — and recoil from the nosferatu, a complete vampire build straddling the line between biotech and blasphemy. A complete list of vampiric powers lets you build your own bloodsuckers faster than ever.

  • Finally, the Suspyramid models war within a Conspiracy, tips for solo-agent play let you lay on the Burn, and variant builds send your campaign to the Victorian Era, WWII, or the depths of the Cold War!

    • So consider this the next level, a higher pay grade and higher-than-double-0 clearance. It’s time to take the fight to the Conspiracy.


    This time, it’s not just a headshot. Better go for the double tap.


    Please support Endzeitgeist’s work by visiting his website or sponsoring his Patreon.


    Dragon Companion Handbook is available from DriveThruRPG

    18 min
  • Dear Some Straight Gamers - Pilot Episode
    Although tabletop gaming is a pretty inclusive and welcoming environment, there are still pockets of straight people who insist on erasing anyone who does not identify as heterosexual from games and even the hobby.
    This podcast is for you, Dear Some Straight Gamer. Like pretty much the rest of the world, this one is made specifically for you. 
    Hopefully you will learn something.
    10 min
  • Dear Some Straight Gamers - Pilot Episode
    Although tabletop gaming is a pretty inclusive and welcoming environment, there are still pockets of straight people who insist on erasing anyone who does not identify as heterosexual from games and even the hobby.
    This podcast is for you, Dear Some Straight Gamer. Like pretty much the rest of the world, this one is made specifically for you. 
    Hopefully you will learn something.
    10 min
  • The RPG Room Season 5, Episode 1. What is coming next?
    This podcast has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com
    Help us by becoming a Patreon: https://goo.gl/EpSluL
     
    After a long break and a change in co-host, the RPG Room Podcast is back to talk all things related to RPGs, from design to controversies.
    In this episode, we talk about the future of the podcast, a bit about online issues and ask you, our listener, what you would like to see and hear from us.
    Hope you enjoy it and looking forward to hearing from you!
     
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    32 min
  • The RPG Room Season 5, Episode 1. What is coming next?
    This podcast has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com
    Help us by becoming a Patreon: https://goo.gl/EpSluL
     
    After a long break and a change in co-host, the RPG Room Podcast is back to talk all things related to RPGs, from design to controversies.
    In this episode, we talk about the future of the podcast, a bit about online issues and ask you, our listener, what you would like to see and hear from us.
    Hope you enjoy it and looking forward to hearing from you!
     
    Subscribe to our YouTube Channel here: https://goo.gl/rl8MsU
    For our YouTube Channel in Spanish: https://goo.gl/CXPc1H
    Follow us on Twitter: https://goo.gl/moZgvK
    OUr Facebook page: https://goo.gl/YkbQIj
    32 min
  • The RPG Review Room - Dragon Companion Handbook
    This is a podcast review narrated by Paco García Jaén and originally writen by Endzeitgeist.
    Rally draconic might to your cause with the Dragon Companion Handbook! From the designer who brought you the Pact Magic Unbound series and Guidance, the Dragon companion Handbook gives even low-level characters the resources they need to use dragons as effective cohorts and companions. Within the Dragon Companion Handbook, you will find:
    25 separate 0 Hit Die subraces of dragons that are suitable to recruit as cohorts for leadership-inclined characters.
    The dragon paragon, a new 20-level base class that allows dragon characters to gain the special powers of their kind scaled at an appropriate rate for a player character.
    25 new dragon companions that druids, cavaliers, and virtually any other character with an animal companion or special mount can bond with and enhance using the new Draconic Companion and Draconic Companion Mastery feats.
    5 pages of feats to support and enhance dragon companions and characters of any sept.
    And much, much more!
    With Everyman Gaming, innovation is never more than one purchase away!
    Please support Endzeitgeist’s work by visiting his website or sponsoring his Patreon.
    Dragon Companion Handbook is available from DriveThruRPG
    Remember you can follow us on Twitter and Google+!
    To
    17 min
  • The RPG Review Room - Dragon Companion Handbook
    This is a podcast review narrated by Paco García Jaén and originally writen by Endzeitgeist.
    Rally draconic might to your cause with the Dragon Companion Handbook! From the designer who brought you the Pact Magic Unbound series and Guidance, the Dragon companion Handbook gives even low-level characters the resources they need to use dragons as effective cohorts and companions. Within the Dragon Companion Handbook, you will find:
    25 separate 0 Hit Die subraces of dragons that are suitable to recruit as cohorts for leadership-inclined characters.
    The dragon paragon, a new 20-level base class that allows dragon characters to gain the special powers of their kind scaled at an appropriate rate for a player character.
    25 new dragon companions that druids, cavaliers, and virtually any other character with an animal companion or special mount can bond with and enhance using the new Draconic Companion and Draconic Companion Mastery feats.
    5 pages of feats to support and enhance dragon companions and characters of any sept.
    And much, much more!
    With Everyman Gaming, innovation is never more than one purchase away!
    Please support Endzeitgeist’s work by visiting his website or sponsoring his Patreon.
    Dragon Companion Handbook is available from DriveThruRPG
    Remember you can follow us on Twitter and Google+!
    To
    17 min
  • The RPG Review Room: 5E Mini-Dungeon - The Aura of Profit
    This is a podcast review narrated by Paco García Jaén. The original review was written by Endzeitgeist.
    You can find the written review in endzeitgeist.com and in gmsmagazine.com
    Please suppor Endzeiteist's Patreon campaign.
    You can buy this product at Drivethrurpg.
    A 5E Mini-Dungeon for 4-6 Characters of Level 1
    The Aura of Profit takes place in an underground lair that serves as an alchemical laboratory. Fritz is an alchemist who has an underground laboratory in the poor section of the city. His experiments produce wastes that run into the sewer and enhance the effects of alcohol. Several local innkeepers have seen sales plummet, as their patrons can’t hold their liquor anymore. They think that there is something happening underground, where a strange odor has been detected under one of the taverns. They have asked the PCs to investigate.
    5E Mini-Dungeons are single page, double sided adventures for D&D 5th Edition which are setting agnostic and are easily inserted anywhere in your campaign.
    8 min
  • The RPG Review Room: 5E Mini-Dungeon - The Aura of Profit
    This is a podcast review narrated by Paco García Jaén. The original review was written by Endzeitgeist.
    You can find the written review in endzeitgeist.com and in gmsmagazine.com
    Please suppor Endzeiteist's Patreon campaign.
    You can buy this product at Drivethrurpg.
    A 5E Mini-Dungeon for 4-6 Characters of Level 1
    The Aura of Profit takes place in an underground lair that serves as an alchemical laboratory. Fritz is an alchemist who has an underground laboratory in the poor section of the city. His experiments produce wastes that run into the sewer and enhance the effects of alcohol. Several local innkeepers have seen sales plummet, as their patrons can’t hold their liquor anymore. They think that there is something happening underground, where a strange odor has been detected under one of the taverns. They have asked the PCs to investigate.
    5E Mini-Dungeons are single page, double sided adventures for D&D 5th Edition which are setting agnostic and are easily inserted anywhere in your campaign.
    8 min
  • The RPG Review Room - Mini-Dungeon - Shadows of Madness (5E)
    This is a podcast review narrated by Paco García Jaén. The original review was written by Endzeitgeist.
    You can find the written review in endzeitgeist.com and in gmsmagazine.com
    Please suppor Endzeiteist's Patreon campaign.
    You can buy this product at Drivethrurpg.
    A 5E Mini-Dungeon for 4-6 Characters of Levels 6-7
    Many years ago Tibor, a wizard with an overwhelming desire for knowledge of the plane of shadow, locked himself away in a tower to pursue his studies.Shortly thereafter, his tower was consumed in a dark explosion, and the mage was assumeddead. However, assumption can never be taken as fact, and now the PCs have stumbled upon a hidden stairway where the tower once stood, leading down into the shadowy earth below...
    5E Mini-Dungeons are single page, double sided adventures for 5th Edition which are setting agnostic and are easily inserted anywhere in your campaign.
    10 min

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