Dark Streets (RPG)
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{{Infobox game
|title=Dark Streets
|image= Cover of Dark Streets.jpg
|caption= Dark Streets - Front cover
|designer=Peter Cakebread and Ken Walton
|publisher=Cakebread & Walton
|date=2012
|system=Renaissance Deluxe D100
|genre= Historical role-playing game, Horror, Cthulhu Mythos
|footnotes=
}}
Dark Streets is an investigative, horror role-playing game written by Peter Cakebread and Ken Walton and published by Cakebread & Walton.
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."{{Cite web|url=http://clockworkandchivalry.co.uk/games/renaissance-2/dark-streets/|title = World of Warcraft news & tips - clockworkandchivalry.co.uk}}
Game mechanics
The game uses the Renaissance Deluxe which is an Open Games Licence rules system, created by Cakebread & Walton with task rolls based on a percentile or D100 roll
Releases
- Dark Streets: Print and pdf - 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
References
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External links
- [http://clockworkandchivalry.co.uk/games/renaissance-2/dark-streets/ Dark Streets] at Cakebread & Walton
- [http://therpgpundit.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/rpgpundit-reviews-dark-streets.html Dark Streets review]
Category:Role-playing games introduced in 2012