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Ghastly Affair Presenter's Manual

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The companion book to the Ghastly Affair Player's Manual, the Ghastly Affair Presenter's Manual gives you the tools you need to run The Gothic Game of Romantic Horror!

Inside you will find:

  • An in-depth discussion of techniques for presenting the game, including how to create Gothic scenarios and manage game sessions effectively.
  • Over 100 creatures and adversaries, including wild Animals, mischievous Fairies, abominable Monsters, foul Revenants, mysterious Spirits, and a full range of Human Antagonists.
  • A year-by-year chronology of the incidents and scandals of the Ghastly Age in Europe, covering the years from 1765 to 1820.
  • Lists of Gothic genre conventions to inspire plots and characters.
  • Rules for bringing the physical incarnations of Death, the Devil, and more into your games.
  • Expanded rules for drugs and diseases.
  • 27 Weird Objects drawn from from real-world lore, including the Brazen Head, Hand of Glory, and Zombi Bottle.
  • A list of Human capacities and limits, to help adjudicate extreme situations.
  • Alternate rules for Ability Contests, and instructions on how to run the game with Tarot cards instead of dice.

Intended for mature Readers

The 172-page Black & White Hardcover Version has a text-based, two-column layout which takes full advantage of the 8.5 x 11 inch format.

The 306-page PDF Version has been designed for on-screen viewing and usability, with a large font and single-column layout. It is fully bookmarked, indexed, and extensively hyperlinked throughout.


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Diego S June 01, 2020 3:55 am UTC
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I purchased the pdf version optimised for screen view. Any chance of getting in my library the two-column layout version? As much as I like your work, there's no way I can afford the ridiculously high shipping cost for a hardcover version to Chile, so I'd like that format for home printing. Thanks in advance.
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Tara F May 20, 2020 11:56 am UTC
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Please let me know if you ever do the Groovy sourcebook. I defo wanna check it out.

Or maybe you could do a sourcebook with setting stuff, like Vampyric influence over the Bourbon royal family, or does Lord Byron have Faerie blood? (Just for example.)
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Tara F May 19, 2020 3:50 pm UTC
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I love Gothic and Romantic stuff. Will there be setting and creature sourcebooks for Ghastly Affair like there are for the World of Darkness games?
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Daniel H May 19, 2020 9:39 pm UTC
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Right now there is “Highdark Hall”, a customizable Stately Home setting for Gothic hijinks in early Regency-era Britain. “A Ghastly Companion to Castles, Mansions & Estates” contains a wealth of information (and many random tables) for creating imaginary Grand Houses for Gothic role-playing – complete with their inhabitants, daily activities, scandals, artworks, and ghosts. That PDF also contains information on role-playing across Europe during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As for more adversaries, they can be found in “A Ghastly Potpourri” – including “The Queen of the Night” herself! All those titles are available here on DriveThruRPG. In addition, I am constantly posting new material for “Ghastly Affair” (and other RPGs) on my blog, The Engine of Oracles ( https://engineoforacles.wordpress.com ). There you’ll find write-ups for fictional characters like Heathcliff (from “Wuthering Heights”), and also real-life figures like Mary Shelley. Among the things...See more
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This title was added to our catalog on March 29, 2017.