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GUMSHOE has a bunch of settings published for it. Many of them include additional rules to expand your options. | GUMSHOE has a bunch of settings published for it. Many of them include additional rules to expand your options. | ||
* Ashen Stars: the sci-fi setting. Has rules for space combat, aliens, etc. | * Ashen Stars: the sci-fi setting. Has rules for space combat, aliens, etc. | ||
* Cthulhu Confidential: eldritch horror+noir. Includes rules for solo play. | * Cthulhu Confidential: eldritch horror+noir. Includes rules for solo play. | ||
* Esoterrorists: the first setting published for GUMSHOE. Has an enhanced edition out for | * Esoterrorists: the first setting published for GUMSHOE. Has an enhanced edition out for | ||
* The Fall of Delta Green: A horrific black ops campaign in the 1960s. | * The Fall of Delta Green: A horrific black ops campaign in the 1960s. | ||
* Fear Itself: personal horror game. Adds psychic powers to the rules. Has a 2nd Edition out. | |||
* The Gaean Reach: Vancian science fiction setting. | |||
* Lorefinder: adds GUMSHOE's investigation rules to Pathfinder. | * Lorefinder: adds GUMSHOE's investigation rules to Pathfinder. | ||
* Mutant City Blues: Cop Drama+Supers. Adds rules for super powers and the investigation thereof. | * Mutant City Blues: Cop Drama+Supers. Adds rules for super powers and the investigation thereof. | ||
* Night's Black Agents: Super spies vs Vampires! Features expanded rules for combat and action sequences, as well as plenty of bloodsucker types. | * Night's Black Agents: Super spies vs Vampires! Features expanded rules for combat and action sequences, as well as plenty of bloodsucker types. | ||
* | * Swords of the Serpentine: the swords-and-sorcery setting. Bunch of new rules for the fantasy genre, particularly for magic & combat. | ||
* TimeWatch: Time travel! | * TimeWatch: Time travel! | ||
* | * Trail of Cthulhu: Pretty self-explanatory. | ||
* The Yellow King: A multi-setting campaign of horror in which PCs in subsequent settings are mysteriously connected. New rules for player-facing combat and injury (mental as well as physical). | * The Yellow King: A multi-setting campaign of horror in which PCs in subsequent settings are mysteriously connected. New rules for player-facing combat and injury (mental as well as physical). | ||
* Bubblegumshoe: published under the GUMSHOE OGL, emulates the teen detective genre with rules for social ties. | * Bubblegumshoe: published under the GUMSHOE OGL, emulates the teen detective genre with rules for social ties. | ||
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GUMSHOE is a RPG system by Robin D. Laws. Its first appearance was in the Esoterrorists game.
GUMSHOE is a simple, skill-based system which uses d6 dice. It was devised specifically for investigative games, because it sports an extended list of investigative abilities from laboratory forensics to questioning people. To gain a vital clue from a scene, players just need to activate one of their investigative abilities to get it. This does away with a traditional problem of investigative games - when players got stuck because of some bad rolls and didn't pick up on an important clue.
Since it has a System Reference Document, anybody can publish their own material for the game (with some minor restrictions).
Settings
GUMSHOE has a bunch of settings published for it. Many of them include additional rules to expand your options.
- Ashen Stars: the sci-fi setting. Has rules for space combat, aliens, etc.
- Cthulhu Confidential: eldritch horror+noir. Includes rules for solo play.
- Esoterrorists: the first setting published for GUMSHOE. Has an enhanced edition out for
- The Fall of Delta Green: A horrific black ops campaign in the 1960s.
- Fear Itself: personal horror game. Adds psychic powers to the rules. Has a 2nd Edition out.
- The Gaean Reach: Vancian science fiction setting.
- Lorefinder: adds GUMSHOE's investigation rules to Pathfinder.
- Mutant City Blues: Cop Drama+Supers. Adds rules for super powers and the investigation thereof.
- Night's Black Agents: Super spies vs Vampires! Features expanded rules for combat and action sequences, as well as plenty of bloodsucker types.
- Swords of the Serpentine: the swords-and-sorcery setting. Bunch of new rules for the fantasy genre, particularly for magic & combat.
- TimeWatch: Time travel!
- Trail of Cthulhu: Pretty self-explanatory.
- The Yellow King: A multi-setting campaign of horror in which PCs in subsequent settings are mysteriously connected. New rules for player-facing combat and injury (mental as well as physical).
- Bubblegumshoe: published under the GUMSHOE OGL, emulates the teen detective genre with rules for social ties.