Today, I have another Halloween gift for you: my most recent Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic character sheet. This game has probably gotten more play in our game group in the last 25+ years than any other. It's not that it's a particularly brilliant game but it seemed to sit well with all the players and GMs. I don't imagine there are more than a handful of people who play this once award winning game. It's long-since been surpassed in terms of system design and graphic design, with rules layout and clearness and illustrations that can invoke TSR's original Dungeons and Dragons and Holmes Basic. And a lot of people could never get past the tongue-in-cheek vibe the cover, interior illos, and fluff, or the toolkit-style presentation of the rules.

• Bureau 13 Stalking The Night Fantastic Pdf

Today, I have another Halloween gift for you: my most recent Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic character sheet. This game has probably gotten more play in our game group in the last 25+ years than any other. B13: StNF Character Sheet Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic (1st Edition) Register. B13 Char Sheet.pdf (820 KB). Your mission is to serve and protect the citizens of the USA from all forms of malevolent supernatual beings, spirits, deities, aliens and Things Man Should Never Know. You will be familiar wth all of.

Technically, Bureau 13 falls under the auspices of the Department of Justice. Realistically, only a few top government officials – and no, the President isn’t one of them - even know of its existence.

If they had dug a little deeper, though, they'd have found a nifty little game that allows for a lot of character creation flexibility and that can be played completely 'straight' - as in: not in a humorous vein - to great effect. My group found that it offered a nice balance between the nihilism and hopelessness of Call of Cthulhu and the 'super heroes fight monsters' feel of Beyond the Supernatural. It also gave us The X-Files and Delta Green over a decade before these were even conceived.

Bureau 13 Stalking The Night Fantastic Pdf

B13 players will notice that some of the stats are missing - that's a result of a house rule that removed combat abilities from character attributes and turned them into skills, where our group generally agreed they belong. Enough chatter - here's the sheet. This isn't part of our current, but I thought I'd share it anyway. A couple of years ago, I had every intention of running this module for my fiancee and my boys.

I never got around to it (Whoa! There's a big suprise!) but I made this map as a player handout. I wanted something that was a little more vague and full of character, and a little less late-1970's-production-quality than the maps in the module. Hp 1400 printer software.

This is what I came up with. So, for your gaming pleasure, here's my players' map: I also created a DM's version of the map, complete with encounter areas and a hex grid. You can, if you like...