Dark Streets (RPG)
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''Dark Streets'' is an investigative,
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written by
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and published by
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Overview

Much of the game usually focuses on investigation and deduction but combat can and does play a big part in it. The game requires the use of the Renaissance Deluxe rulebook. From the back of the book : "The Adventures of the Bow Street Runners in their Struggle Against the Minions of the Cthulhu Mythos London, 1749: A city of vice, crime and misery. Gangs of ruffians rule the streets, unopposed. Brothels proliferate. Child-beggars starve in filthy gutters. Corrupt night-watchmen and thief-takers turn a blind eye to wrongdoing. And dark creatures lurk in back alleys, called from beyond by the desperate with nothing left to lose. But there is a new force on the streets of London; for the author and magistrate Henry Fielding has teamed up with his brother John to form the city’s first police force – the Bow Street Runners. The Fieldings have persuaded parliament to fund their crime-fighting endeavour, but they know that there is something behind the vice – for John Fielding’s blind eyes can see things that others cannot – things that man was not meant to know."


Game mechanics

The game uses the Renaissance Deluxe which is an Open Games Licence rules system, created by
Cakebread & Walton Cakebread & Walton is a British games company that creates and publishes tabletop games. Best known for its ''Clockwork & Chivalry'', ''Renaissance System'' and '' Abney Park's Airship Pirates'' games, they also offer titles covering a range of l ...
with task rolls based on a percentile or D100 roll


Releases

* ''Dark Streets'': Print and
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- Core rules * ''Hellfire'': Print and pdf - Adventure * ''The Case of the Missing Professor'': pdf - Adventure * ''Tomes of Blasphemous Knowledge'': pdf - Source material * ''Guardians of Blasphemous Knowledge'': pdf - Source material


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''Dark Streets''
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