Knuckles of Steel

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A role-playing game module set in the fictional city of Hammettville during the 1970s. The scenario is inspired by blaxploitation movies and revolves around Lois St. John, a Black model and aspiring actress whose sister Jacqueline has been kidnapped by Heung Wei, a Chinese triad boss and Lois’s former boyfriend. Wei is using the kidnapping to force Lois into marriage. Knuckles of Steel includes many adventure seeds and an adventure generator that can expand the basic rescue mission into a larger plot. It provides statistics to both Wretched and Red (56 pages).

Description

A triad crime boss kidnapped his former girlfriend’s sister and uses the hostage to persuade Lois, model and aspiring actress, to marry him against her will. However, Lois still has a card up her sleeve: a group of brave, determined and wretched friends willing to help her no matter the odds. A situation like this could be solved in a one-shot, but Knuckles of Steel provides plenty of plot hooks and non-player characters and places in Hammettville.

Key features of the scenario/ mini-setting include:

  • The gritty, crime-ridden urban environment of Hammettville (later developed in Wretched Vigilantes and Wretched Darkness) with multiple distinct neighbourhoods such as Chinatown, Park Lane, Ridgeline, etc.
  • The corrupt police force and city government as the main villains.
  • Blaxploitation’s usual themes of racial tension, urban violence, rampant crime and social inequality.
  • Optional supernatural elements (such as vampires and cults).

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