Setting

It is the waning days of the 19th century. Her Majesty, Queen Victoria has been on the throne of the
British Empire for the past 6 decades. The Empire is at the highest point it has ever been in, and
continues to grow.
Tribute comes from nations around the world. The sun does not set on the British Empire.
But yet, these are troubling times. Inexplicable events occur that seems to defy the scientific advances
of this Great Age.

Character Notes

Background
Character Background defines the characteristics of the player's character. His fears, aspirations,
hopes and dreams. Even the way she treats the rest of the party. All these comes from the
background.

Gameplay

Statistics (aka STATS)

Character stats fall into 7 categories here.
• Strength (STR)
How strong your character is. The character can carry STRx10 lbs of equipment as
standard.
• Constitution (CON)
How much damage the char can take.
• Dexterity (DEX)
How flexible and dexterous you are. This also leads to two feats
• DEX 6: RAPIDFIRE, the ability to shoot more rounds than normal in one round. this is
balanced by the fact that all rounds can be target at only one enemy. Rapidfire requires
that both hands be free to use the weapon.
• DEX 8: SPEEDLOAD. This lets them - surprise surprise! - load faster. The
disadvantage...s are, speedload discards any unspent ammunition that you have in a
weapon. Speedload MUST have both hands free.
note: DISCARDS!!
this is not an unlimited ammo game so if the ammo falls on the ground, it is probably
dirty, probably damaged, and probably lost behind the sofa

• Size (SIZ)
How big your character is. This has an influence on what kind of places she can get into.
• Intelligence (INT)
How well the character can deduce things.
 • Power (POW) (can also be called Will (WIL))
Mental strength. This determines how strong your mind is. It also determines magic points
if any.
• Appearance (APP)
How good do you look? Or do you look menacing.
• Education (EDU)
How much do you know? Did you go to school, or was it the university of hard knocks?
In our system, you get a total of 56 points, with a minimum of 4 points and max of 10 in each
characteristic.

There are also secondary stats that are based on the above base stats.
• Magic (MAG) – is equal to POW
• Hit points – CON x 2 + SIZ
• Sanity – POW x 10 (it can go above POW x 10 but never above 99)
Combat and actions are judged the same way as the rest. The new thing here is sanity
When you Creeping Things, or Un-named Horrors From The Dawn Of Time, you take a sanity hit.
How well you cope with it and, by extension, how much sanity you lose is based on your POW score.
Roll above your POW and you lose sanity. Roll below and you may still lose a few points. Roll
sufficiently below, and you may just go “hmmm” and walk away. Some things are an instant and
unsaveable sanity hit. Lose more than 10% of your sanity in one go, and you lose 1 POW.

Character Background
One of the basic character settings is Background. And part of it is a social trait
• Recluse/hermit
• Townsman
• Urbanite
A recluse is a person more used to living by himself with minimal human interaction. As such, he will
not suffer from loneliness. He may have issues with being in crowds. (And if you figure you can ignore
this alignment because there is always a party around you, don't. Trust me on this one)
Examples: Hermit, explorer, scientist/researcher
A townsman is neutral. He comes from a town and is equally at home in either location. So he may not
feel loneliness less, and he may deal with being in a crowd better than the recluse.
Examples: Peer, landowner.
An urbanite feels at his best in a crowd, and is good at reading the crowd, as well as recognising and
facing the dangers of urban life.
Examples: Socialite/dilettante
Your Background also defines what kind of skillsets you have.
Weapon Capacity Weight (lb) Attacks per Damage per Reload time
round hit (Speedload)
(Rapidfire)
Knife 0.5 3 1D4
Bowie Knife 1 2 1D4 + 2
Rapier 3 3 1D6
Cavalry Sabre 3 2 1D6 + 2

Revolver 6 2 3 (6) 1D4 1R (3RF + SL)

Shotgun 2 6 2 (2) 1D6 1R (2RF + SL)
Sawed-off 2 4 2* 2D6 1R (2RF + SL)
Repeating Rifle 12 8 3 (6) 1D8 1R (3RF + SL)
Hunting Rifle 2 11 2(2) 1D8+2 1R (2RF + SL)
Baby** 1 20 1 20 2R

* Sawed off can ONLY fire both shots at once

** Epic weapon. Can only be used by a character with STR7 or above