Pyramid Review
Profane Miracles (for The Esoterroists)
Published by Pelgrane Press
Written by Leonard Balsera
Cover, Illustrations, & Cartography by Jérôme Huguenin
32-page b&w softcover; $9.95
With The Esoterroists, Pelgrane Press inaugurated the GUMSHOE System, the investigative rules that focus on clue interpretation rather than clue acquisition. It also presented a setting threatened by occultists who would bring magic into the world and so threaten to rend the veil between the physical world and the beyond. Operating against the Esoterrorists is the "Ordo Veritatis," reality's last defender. This secret organization is part-paranormal investigation agency, part-paranormal clean-up department, and is sanctioned by virtually every government world wide.
Profane Miracles is an action-orientated fast-play scenario for The Esoterrorists written for three to six players. Penned by Leonard Balsera, better known as one third of Evil Hat Productions and co-author of the superb Spirit of the Century, the scenario is designed to get the players involved and the game going quickly, and to also offer a couple of sessions of play.
[SPOILER ALERT!]
The set up is simple: Famous financier Jonathan Bentley has been resurrected from the dead at a charity ball in Los Angeles by his wife, Grace Summerville and her spiritual advisor, the self-styled "Psychic to the Stars," Cassandra Madrigal. Which raised several questions, not least of which is, was Bentley really dead and is he alive now? Further, what . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: May 30, 2008
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