Dark Streets
The Adventures of the Bow Street Runners in their Struggle against the Minions of the Cthulhu MythosLondon¸ 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 wrong-doing. 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. Dark Streets is stand-alone role-playing game in which players take on the roles of officers in London's first¸ desperately small¸ police force¸ investigating the dark secrets behind the sordid crimes of eighteenth century London. A mixture of authentic history and the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft¸ using the Renaissance D100 system¸ Dark Streets comes to you from the UK Games Expo Award-winning authors of Abney Park's Airship Pirates¸ Clockwork & Chivalry¸ Pirates & Dragons and the OneDice series. And look out for Gin & Hellfire¸ a book of adventures for the Dark Streets system. "It's a great premise¸ but it's in the execution that Dark Streets goes from being just a great idea to a truly magnificent product.” ‐ RPG Pundit
Recommended for mature readers