A Study In Emerald (Second Edition)

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It is 1882 & the Old Ones are already here They arrived seven hundred years ago & have been ruling the planet ever since The majority of people just get on with their lives accepting their monstrous rulers However a growing band of revolutionaries wish to free mankind from their slavery These freedom fighters call themselves the Restorationists A secret war has already broken out between the Restorationists & the forces loyal to the Old Ones The invention of dynamite has changed the balance of power & a lone assassin now has the capacity to destroy an Old One In this shadow world of assassins informers police agents & anarchists nobody is quite sure who is who & which side they fight for The game A Study in Emerald draws its central plot from the award-winning short story penned by Neil Gaiman in which the worlds of Sherlock Holmes & HP Lovecraft are combined to telling effect However to create a world detailed enough for players much has been added from real history The nineteenth century was a time of unrest with many colorful characters fighting both for & against the authorities A Study in Emerald is the outcome of the merging of these three worlds This second edition of A Study in Emerald sports new artwork by Ian O& Toole & Tatiana Kuzilova along with a streamlined set of rules that will hopefully help those folks who found the first version a tad complicated Inconsistencies have been removed & the number of available actions has been reduced to the minimum whilst still retaining the mood of paranoia from the first edition