Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is a two-player grim/noir game concerning a serial killer and detective, by Matthew Gwinn, published by his company Errant Knight games in 2015.
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Nothing is bleaker than a sunny day
Nate and I met for our second and final session for The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, each of us pretty motivated for the respective “side,” in the curious fashion associated with the better examples of this genre. We began by discussing three important things. 1. New finishing conditions review. I went through the rules […]
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Nordic Noir, role-playing style
Here’s a game I consider under-served. I would say “criminally” so except for the poor joke it entails, which is too bad, because yes, it’s criminal. Matt Gwinn’s The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is an excellent detective vs. serial killer role-playing game, and here I speak as someone who was heartily sick of the […]
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Cities as player characters
If a city or state were a character how would you express it? What would the attributes be? Do they have character classes? Would it have Advantages and Disadvantages? How would you damage or kill it? How would it attack or influence city/states around it? How would it grow, and what would it get XPs […]