Night’s Online Handouts

Since the valiant heroes in my Night’s Black Agents campaign ended up battered and bruised and in need of recuperation after narrowly escaping an Edom ambush, I decided to give them a bit of an information dump so that by the time they were fit to move again they had a few more leads. In […]

Rolling out the rules #NightsBlackAgents

I’ve been running a Night’s Black Agents campaign for a while now, the Pelgrane game of elite spies versus vampires and the rules, the ideas for structuring campaigns and the atmosphere have all combined into being one of the most involving and exciting games I’ve played in a gaming career that goes back far longer […]

"You don’t need two hands to hold a severed head." – #NightsBlackAgents

“You don’t need two hands to hold a severed head.” Not an actual depiction of eventsHans is more Swedish and better dressed You know that the session of Night’s Black Agents has taken a dark turn when one of the player characters muses aloud along those lines.Last night’s session ended up with Hans losing enough […]

Achy Breaky Stability Check #nightsblackagents

In last night’s session of Night’s Black Agents a vampire nearly houseruled the system spontaneously by so clearly failing a stability test it took the Director- me- aback. Okay so vampires don’t make stability tests, nor did I roll one. But it sure as hell felt like he failed one. Here’s a bit of […]

Be Prepared. #nightsblackagents

This very practical travel kit for the aspiring vampire hunter went on sale in North Yorkshire in 2012 and raised £7500 at auction. It was put together in the 19th century and contained all the stuff you’d expect:A crucifixStakes and a malletA PistolGlass bottle of Holy Water, another of consecrated earth, another of garlic pasteThe […]

A Night At The Theatre – #nightsblackagents

In the next session my players have suggested their characters are following up a lead they got from a crumpled programme in the pocket of a dead man, and they’re going to the theatre that the programme was advertising. What could possibly go wrong?

The Outcast Dead – #nightsblackagents

The agents in my Night’s Black Agents campaign are following a number of leads in London, and one of the cases involved the discovery of (and subsequent disappearance of) a victim’s body in a street in Southwark. I chose Southwark because it’s an area with a history of poverty and people on the fringes, such […]

Red Shift: London – #nightsblackagents – Clue Summary

Just a short update this week – our valiant agents made it to London and made a brief and paranoid contact with a Scotland Yard detective named Templeton. Templeton stumbled onto the shadowy world of vampires a few months ago with the (brief) discovery of the body of a young runaway… which body then […]

Red Shift – Episode Six – Calais and Paris – #nightsblackagents Play Report

After Sunday’s action packed episode, last night’s visit to the bloody world of Night’s Black Agents was one of evasion and consolidation. Having had to flee from a murder scene, Hans and Rowan dug in at their safe house and ran through what they’d learned. The word “vampire” was used for the first time with […]

Red Shift Episode 5 – Calais – #nightsblackagents Play Highlights

Last night started nice and easy with a quiet interview in Star Logistics with the secretary, a bored woman named Jeanne who was happy to chat with the potential client – Rowan with a fake identity – and let slip about the infrequent all-night shifts that the boss and his drivers pulled. Rowan also […]