True Detective

I had finished binge watching all 8 episodes of the first season of True Detective a few days ago. What a tour de force. By episode 6 it was up there with my favorite series, Twin Peaks, Wild Palms, Millennium, X Files, and the mini series The Lost Room. This was simply a superb series and one I will actually get on DVD for future viewing and dissection. I would love a transcript of the monologues from Matthew M, especially the ones in the police interview scenes. Those are pure gold. This series is to me the way a great modern Call of Cthulhu, or perhaps something like Unknown Armies, could actually play out as. This is my model for what I want my gaming to be like, in general, in modern or surreal horror. 

So Other Occupations for a Character

So Other Occupations for a Character

Often times in gaming we keep reusing the same occupations over and over. I know as a Player and a GM that the same sorts of people keep showing up, time after time after time. So this list is one way for myself, and potentially you my reader, to include a few different vibes in your game. 

Some games have a limited subset of occupations. Call of Cthulhu is one such game, with a very specific main set of where characters come from occupation wise. This is intended to maintain the look and feel of the core setting. 

Other places I have used to pull in real world occupations are the major job boards and the Occupational Handbook. The easiest way is to log into your account at one of the major job boards (if you have your own login already made) or just put in a larger city in the location search field. So run it and pull in a search of the last 30 days worth of jobs. Copy it all and paste into a text friendly location such as Notebook or the website www.darkcopy.com (my personal favorite).

Copy again into your word processing program of choice to do some cleanup work and if you want to, as I did with a large list one time, put the cleaned up list of only job titles into a spreadsheet program to sort alphabetically and remove duplications. 

Yes it takes a little work, but the efforts can yield a long list of potential different, more modern oriented of course, occupations. These are suitable for modern, near future, and with minor tweaks, far future SF games. The genre does not really matter in the timeframe. These jobs work equally well for espionage, conspiracy, surreal, horror, cyperpunk, superhero, or even urban fantasy.

The following list was pulled from a poem that was published in a magazine. They are all dealing with new ways to move, aggregate, adjust, and deal with customers and people in the online setting. Some are older, such as Copywriter and Brand Agent. Others are brand new and really are less than 10 years old such as the Sponsored Blogger or Notable User.

Some research would be necessary to find out more about the more esoteric ones. Since many of them are new, creations of companies attempting to tame the wild Internet (Used in the broadest term here), others are outgrowths of existing occupations, taken in new directions.

Have fun using them, or finding inspiration for character backgrounds or even entire types of characters in this list.

In Alphabetical Order

Aesthetic King

Bit Tracker

Bottom-Line Analyzer

Brand Agent

Brand Ambassador

Brander

Change Agent

Copywriter

Designer

Illustrator

Interface Wizard

Marketer

Meme Generator

Multi-Platform Guru

Notable User

Online Retailer

Profit-Maximizer

Re-Poster

Social-Media Consultant

Sponsored Blogger

Starred Commentator

Viral Relayer

Dark Conspiracy lives again

Dark Conspiracy, the flagship game of horror, aliens, evil otherdimensional baddies, and DarkTek is live once again

The 3rd edition has just gone live on Drivethru RPG for immediate gaming gratification.

http://www.rpgnow.com/product/108666/Conspiracy-Rules

Takes you right there.
Go get it now.

The Darklings need more resources for BioComps

Characteristics or More on Monsters Point 2: Gothic Novels

Characteristics or More on Monsters Point 2: Gothic Novels

Mr. Wigglestick here, coming to you today from the Hallowed Halls, where fine suggestions lurk behind every nook and deep within the crannies of the mind. The Hallowed Halls is a fine establishment, with room to accommodate most any sort of appetite, no caveats attached. So take your time, browse the collection and admire the artwork, feel free to visit the front desk for entertainment, refreshments, or lodging requests.

Welcome, one and all.

Ahh the Gothic Novel and all of it’s successors. Truly the Horror genre holds the most esteem for this source of fear and monsters. None of the other genres have held our fascination as long as this has.

1. The Frankenstein’s Monster
2. Le Loop Garou
3. The Vampire
4. The Golem (Predecessor to The Frankenstein’s Monster)
5. The Gargoyle
6. The Stalker (Jack the Ripper in essence, also under Grotesqueries)
7. The Mad Scientist (Personified in Captain Nemo in this case)
8. The Mad Man or Woman (also in the Grotesqueries)
9. Wild Beasts and altered versions of such (wolves, bats, rats, etc.)
10. Lost Worlds, savages, dinosaurs, etc.
11. Christian Demons and Angels

Protodimension Issue 7 is Available

The Premier Horror Gaming Free EMagazine Protodimension Issue # 7 is uploaded and available for free at the Download Page on Protodimension.Com

The Winter Issue has the following content for your reading pleasure

• From The Shadows By Norm Fenlason
• When a Cold Heart Comes to Call a Mini-Adventure by Dave Schuey for Dark Conspiracy®
• dark story Fiction by Andrew Gardner-Blatch
• Where Have They Gone? Poetry by Eleanor Williams
• Wheels of Terror an Adventure by Linden Dunham for Cold City®
• Flash Backs a Classic RPG Review by Marcus Bone for Dark Conspiracy®
• Grim Wisdom a “Grim” Interview by Lee Williams
• The Container Witchcraft Fiction by Kevin Dawson
• Canadian Content Northern Dark Races by Tim Bisaillon for Dark Conspiracy®
• Friendly Fire a Mekong Delta Adventure by Peter Bowkett for Call of Cthulhu®
• The Coney a New Dark Race by Tad Kelson for Dark Conspiracy®
• Not Much Larger Than a Cat Minion Hunter Fiction by Joel Steverson
• Rasputin a Dark Lord by Norm Fenlason for Dark Conspiracy®
• Decrepit Blade Dark Weapons by Tad Kelson for a Pair of Systems
• Floorboards RPG Bits by Lee Williams 

Over 70 pages of content, quarterly release schedule, covering Dark Conspiracy, Call of Cthulhu, Cold City, Little Fears, and other horror and surreal oriented RPGS.