In October 2024 we revived (for a second time) the December 2017 Dracula Dossier Bundle to conclude that year’s October Horrors in sanguinary style. The Dracula Dossier is an epic improvised horror-espionage campaign for Night’s Black Agents, star designer Kenneth Hite‘s GUMSHOE system RPG of burned spies vs. vampires from Pelgrane Press.
In 1893 a visionary spymaster in the British Naval Intelligence Department tried to recruit the perfect asset: a vampire. Operation Edom contacted Count Dracula in Transylvania, set up a safe house and headquarters in England, and arranged transit. Then it all went wrong. Dracula betrayed his minder and double-crossed NID. British intelligence hunted him down on his home ground and terminated him with two knives and extreme prejudice – or so they thought. Dracula lives. Now it’s up to you to finish the job.
Funded by a November 2014 Kickstarter campaign, the Dracula Dossier series follows in the fully improvisational path of the award-winning The Armitage Files campaign for Trail of Cthulhu. Players follow leads in the margins of Dracula Unredacted, a rare edition of Bram Stoker’s masterpiece that reveals the terrifying truth behind the fiction. Players choose which leads to track, which scarlet trail to follow. The Director, using the clear step-by-step techniques in these ebooks, improvises a suitably blood-soaked thriller in response to their choices. Together you create your own unique story for one of the greatest RPG campaigns ever published.
(Pelgrane Press has a great eyes-only page of Dracula Dossier and Night’s Black Agents resources. And check these automated Dracula Dossier character sheets on Google Sheets by redditor FearlessOrder5526.)
This comprehensive Dracula Dossier Bundle revival once again presented the entire Dracula Dossier line. There were three titles in this revived offer’s Agent Collection (retail value $54) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the Night’s Black Agents core rulebook, Dracula Unredacted, and The Edom Field Manual.
Those who paid more than the threshold (average) price also got this revival’s entire Director Collection with five more titles worth an additional $83, including the indispensable Dracula Dossier Director’s Handbook (plus the Dracula Dossier Deck of nonplayer character cards); The Edom Files scenario collection; The Hawkins Papers, with more than 30 beautiful player handouts; The Thrill of Dracula, Kenneth Hite’s analysis of Dracula portrayals in novels and films; and, as a convenience to our customers, we also added The Van Helsing Letter, a quickstart adventure Pelgrane Press distributed for Free RPG Day 2016.
Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) went to this Dracula Dossier revival’s designated charity, the Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program. Each year, the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, amplifies the voices of up-and-coming game designers by featuring them during an expenses-paid visit to Gen Con. The global Emerging Designer Program focuses on creators from marginalized communities.
