''Dark Streets'' is an investigative,

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written by

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and

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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

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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