Shadows in the Fog, Table of Contents

Epigraph

Introduction

• What You Need^?

Campaign

• Genre^?
• Style and Setting^?
• Alternate History^?
• Mode^?
• Magic^?

Design Parameters

• Scale^?
• Scope^?
• Austerity^?
• Boundaries^?
• A Note on Secrets^?
• A Word to the Players^?

Character Creation

• Preparation^?
• Concept^?
• Knowledge^?
• The Mask^?
• The Abyss^?
  • Drives^?
  • Passing^?
  • Education^?
  • Military Service^?
  • Class^?
  • Money^?
  • Vices^?
• Group Creation Session^?
  • Strike it from the Record!^?
• The Compleat Mask^?
• Skills^?
  • Hobby^?
  • Combat Skills^?
  • Interpersonal Skills^?
  • Occult Skill^?
  • Other Skills^?
• Motivations^?
  • The Kicker^?
  • The Abyss^?
  • Personal Bonds^?
  • The Ripper^?
  • The Party^?
  • The Totality^?
  • A Last Word^?
• The Host Perspective^?
• Last Thoughts^?

Character Writeup

Play

• Glossary of Terms^?
• Cards^?
  • The Suits^?
  • Trumps^?
  • Player Hands^?
  • Keeping Your Hand^?
  • The Host's Hand^?
  • The NPC Hand^?
• Action Resolution^?
  • Difficult Action^?
  • Opposed Action^?
  • Concessions^?
  • After the Action^?
  • NPC Actions^?
  • Example of Combat^?

Magic

• Trumps^?
  • General Principles^?
  • Things to Avoid^?
• Starting a Magical Incident^?
  • Deciding On a Resolution^?
  • If There Is No Resolution^?
• Magical Resolution^?
  • The Game of Tarot^?
  • Winning the Round^?
  • Narrating the Win^?
  • Replenishing Hands^?
  • Host-Initiated Magic^?
• Marking^?
• Meta-Play: Trumps for Non-Actors^?
  • Bidding on an Action^?
  • Bidding on an NPC^?
  • Bidding on a Scene^?
  • Naming A Scene^?

Scene-Framing and Dramatic Technique

• Plots^?
• Scenes^?
• Mechanics^?
  • Your Scene^?
  • When Your Scene Ends^?
• Overall Plot Structure^?
  • Opening Gambits^?

The Occult World

• Some Kinds of Magic^?
  • Ritual Magic Societies
  • Spiritualism
  • Theosophy
  • Kabbalah
  • Demonology and Theurgy
  • Astrology
  • Scrying
  • Dowsing
  • Other Forms of Divination
  • Tarot Divination
  • Alchemy
  • Art of Memory
  • Occult Talent/Psychic
• Dangerous Kinds of Magic^?
• Things to Avoid in Magic^?

The Narrative World

• Asserting Reality^?
• Commenting^?
  • The Difference Between Asserting and Commenting^?
• Concessions in Scenes^?
  • NPCs Arising from Concessions^?
• Bidding on Scenes and NPCs^?
• Host Overruling^?

Character Advancement

• End of Session
• Improving Skills
• Significant Development
  • Personal Development
  • Historical Change

Running the Shadows

• Overall Feel^?
• Running a Session^?
  • Demarcating Space and Time
  • Madame Sosotris Speaks
  • Setting the Scene
• Common Problems^?
  • InterpretingCards
  • TheMechanismSlide
  • RunningOutOfSteam
  • Stereotypes
  • ExistentialAngst
• Why This Way?^?

Alternate Rules

• TheAssumption
• DarkShadows

Glossary of Terms

-- ChrisLehrich^? - 23 Dec 2004