Monday 6 May 2019

Scenarios for MSPE - Part 01- Pulps & Spies

Whilst the Kickstarter was going on, someone asked if there were some adventures available for MSPE.
Well, there are a few (have a look at the link for Danger International and Justice Inc. here under).
But mostly, I have used scenarios written for other games.
MSPE being a quite simple system, you generally just have to make some stats to replace those of the NPCs in the adventures and you are ready.


Here is a first batch of publishers of scenarios I have used, and they have much more.
I have linked to pdf products if available, for ease of access.

FGU Daredevils

Danger International & Justice Inc. (3rd Edition, but look also at 1st and 2nd for more).
Twilight 2000 whilst the setting seemed outdated a few years ago, we played some very brutal games at the time with heavy casualties. We just changed the rational for the advent of the apocalypse.
Classified I have not played them yet, but the scenarios seem interesting...
Modus Operandi site about espionnage RPGs (including MSPE); You'll find informations about Spycraft, Top Secret and Top Secret SI which have produced lots of scenarios that can still be found at reasonable prices.

Friday 3 May 2019

Mercenaries, Spies, Private Eyes & Cthulhu


I have been using lots of scenarios with the MSPE rules.

And some of the most enjoyable have been scenarios written for the Call of Cthulhu game, in any of its settings (CoC, Achtung Cthulhu, By Gaslight, etc...).

Once you have made some stats for MSPE, you can play those scenarios directly, but there is a component from CoC that is missing: the sanity rules.

I have found a very interesting post, written by Sands on the Yog-Sothoth forum, with alternatives rules for sanity in Call of Cthulhu.

Those rules are what I wanted for my games, so, I translated them in MSPE terms. Every time I have used them, they have delivered what I wanted in my games, with the deteriorating Sanity of a character having effects on the severity of the symptoms. And the stress of the players following the same increase.

I asked Sands and he agreed on my posting of the MSPE version of his original CoC rules.

So, here they are....

Insanity rules, Cthulhian style

Insanity rules french version