Project Nemesis is a fan driven website for games that use the One-Roll Engine (like Nemesis, Wild Talents, Reign and Monsters) or Chaosium's Basic Roleplay System (BRP) (like Call of Cthulhu) and the Delta Green setting.
Typically consisting of a 13” x 17” x 19” triangular
playing board with one set of 11 pieces and an opposing set of 37
pieces. Material for the pieces and the board vary depending on the age
of the game and the culture, which produced it. Wood, bone, stone,
ivory, precious metals are all possibilities. Rumours of playing pieces
created from mummified human flesh, bones and organs are more likely
(but not necessarily) to be a reflection of the game’s scandalous
reputation than actual fact.
The playing area is formed of a chaotic and haphazard pattern of
geometric and non- geometric shapes. The shapes are delineated in a mad
conglomeration of colours and materials with no regard for logic or
symmetry.
Ciudades en Sombras was penned in Mérida, Mexico in 1685 by a Guatemalan clergyman of mixed Mayan and Spanish ancestry named Encero Hurtado. Early in his career, Hurtado claimed to have been captured during an uprising of Maya against the Spanish. After the rebellion was crushed, he claimed to have dwelt among a break-away faction of Itzá Indians. There in a hidden city built upon an ancient temple complex in the jungles of Guatemala, he served for some 30 years as a scribe among the Itzá priests.
These drawings, plans and documents by Hitler's architect do not
readily yield their darker secrets. At first glance, and to the
uninitiated they appear to be only a set of megalomanic plans for the
restructuring of Berlin.
Inspired by a journey to to the east in 1925, the British artist Henry
Baines began experimenting with the art of sand painting upon his
return to London. His mandalas were greatly admired in art circles and
he got around the problem of their impermanency by preserving them with
photography. Many of these photographs he gave to friends or traded,
and it was around this time that he came to possess a copy of The King
in Yellow. The book inspired his sand art in a new direction, away from
blatant Eastern influences towards a more surreal style. Many
in-the-know note the increasing presence of the Yellow Sign, albeit
stylised, in his later works.
A bank of blinking lights indicate the mysterious processes going on
within: That classic symbol of a computer has lasted long after
computers evolved into friendly desktop tools. This was not a dream of
science fiction, but a representation of NECRA ( Numerical Electronic
Computer Research Analyzer), the gigantic machine credited with
starting the modern computer age.
These rubbings were among a small collection of Chinese language
materials donated to the University Library at Berkeley, California in
1918 via the estate of a wealthy collector named Horace G. Chartier.
They were stolen from the library within a year, and thier current
whereabouts are unknown. They were made by applying a paste of wet
paper over some sort of inscription in stone.
This rather thick quarto is of unknown origin. The earliest precursors of the tome, also known as the "Book of Earthly Numbers", "Name of the Myriad Unnameable Things", "Secret Book of Numbers", "Index of Numerological Computation", "Numerical Cyclopædia of the Cosmos", or, most recently, the "Compact Universal Algorhithmic Index". In the most recent, "false" English edition, it explains the history of the text, but only vaguely.