The whole Hebanon Games crew is working hard to get No Security ready for publication. Until then, we wanted to tide over those generous enough to support us with something to show our appreciation. Greg Stolze’s A Dirty World is probably my all-time favorite system, and when I found out there was only one published scenario for such a unique game, I sought to remedy the situation. I ran “The Dangers of Fraternization” at GenCon 2011 to great success, and I now present the full scenario for free download. Immerse your players in a quagmire of post-WWII Berlin noir! Having run the game multiple time, I have to say my favorite part are the pre-gen characters. Cooperation is absolutely essential for the party to achieve any kind of success, but no more than two PC’s can ever “win” the scenario. Betrayal is assured. Your players are going to backstab each other anyway: why not plan for it?
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A Dirty World is a fantastic game, and The Dangers of Fraternization is a fantastic scenario for it. I’ve been dying to see behind the scenes on this one since it was included in the last RPPR kickstarter.
Very nice! I’ll give this a read ASAP!
I was quite happy to see this in print after listening to the game. Very nice to see non super natural noir material beng created.
Small point – the version of the PDF contains references to Frau Meinholf but not full details. I know in the actual play podcast there was talk about trimming that plot point but some minor elements still seem to be in the PDF.
Excellent work, Caleb. You run great games, and it’s nice to see you make a little bank off of an obvious labor of love (I kicked into the kickstarter, fwiw.
There were a couple of small spelling errors, nothing too major. I loved the Actual Play of this, and was actually working on adapting it for a local con. This saves me a lot of work.
As Tim said, there are references to Frau Meinholf in a couple of location write ups. Won’t make any difference to me, as I know that part has been cut out since the AP, presumably to trim it to a 4 hour time slot, but it might cause some confusion for anybody who picks this one up and isn’t aware of the AP.
Thanks for the proofreading and support guys!
I’ve corrected these mistakes before, but apparently this isn’t the most current draft. I’ll hunt around on my external for it and re-upload the file.
Caleb, you are a truly talented scenario author, I’m happy that you have started to distribute them.
Yes, this was a great scenario and you were lucky enough to have several of RPPR’s best minds playing the game.
I tried running this for my friends recently. I’m a pretty new GM so I messed up a lot, but everyone still really loved the scenario and things came together really well. I had a little bit of trouble figuring out how to describe Leggett when everyone was picking out characters without giving away his secret.
Isolde’s player had to leave right as she and Hugo were confronting Mueller, Zuckerman and Adolf, so she got thrown down the stairs and broke her neck. This made Hugo go into a murder fugue where he miraculously stabbed all three of them to death with some crazy rolls. Nazis are really stabable I guess!
Ran it for a Con Game about a month ago.
I took special care to actually write short generic descriptions for each of the 6 possible NPCs and PCs, mostly to avoid the problem you describe.
I’ve run the game at least five times now, and I think in every iteration at least one Nazi got shanked. Either I subconsciously designed the scenario to make Nazi-stabbing inescapable, or there is just something about a Nazi that makes players go stab-happy.
Thank you for uploading it. I enjoyed listening to it before. There however are some names that are spelled strangely and some minor translation errors I notice as a german native speaker. For example “The skinny Fool.” would translate to “Der dünne Narr”. If you think it is worth the trouble i could go over it and check it all for correct german.