Rules-Lite, Narrative-Focused, Action Packed Horror Investigations!

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In this TTRPG you will: find clues, interpret evidence, confront bad-guys, flee from monsters, and solve mysteries. Think Lovecraft, The X-Files, noir stories, detective stories, that sort of thing.

Simple rules for fast paced action. The mechanics are light to help keep action moving, and the moment-to-moment gameplay is heavily driven by GUMSHOE principles.

The game is narrative-focused and “sandboxy”. Story, characters, fun, action and mystery are all more important than hard rules and mechanics. The mystery will twist and bend depending on what the investigators do, and how they do it. 

The game is designed to be dangerous! Investigators can succumb to injury, death-defying stunts, or the forces of evil! This is normal.

A default setting of the early 1900s noir-ish detectives, but loose enough to make the world your own.

(WIP) A wide array of GM procedures and random tables, to help you run a game with minimal prep and maximum flexibility. Advice on making a mystery for the players to solve, plus all the random tables needed to populate that mystery.

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Game Status

Currently extremely alpha and being actively worked on. Documents will appear sporadically over time. Currently working on (in no particular order)

• cleaning up the existing player-facing materials
• initial drafts of the GM documents
• character sheets

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The Unworld Mysteries is a weekend and evening side project from me, @tmcgry

All writing by me. Huge thanks and acknowledges to the works and writings of Kevin Crawford, GUMSHOE by Robin Laws, John Harper and the Forged in the Dark system, and, of course, the Call of Cthulhu RPG.

Art made my me using using stock photography from Unsplash