American Grit

American Grit is a Timeline realm covering the Great Depression years in the USA. It was a time when secret organizations, hidden magic, strange technology, and hard-as-nails G-men collided and mixed across the canvas of a shattered nation.

Overview

     President Roosevelt talked about a “new deal”, and massively extended the schedule of public works. Organizations that Hoover put in place got to grow and take on new importance. Behind all the headlines, the bridge building, the new road-laying, there was a government group called the SPA? that quietly expanded its operations.

     SPA stands for ‘Special Projects Administration?’ and its duty was, among other things, to investigate unnatural occurrences on American soil. Strange goings-on among the hobos running the rails. Mysterious happenings at circuses. Death cults in the Florida swamps. Crazy scientists carrying out extreme weather control experiments. All this and more fell under the remit of the SPA.

     The Great Depression was a time of extreme spiritualism, the rise of numerous sects, and a tough-to-shake sense that there was more than scuttlebutt to the ghost stories and tales of the paranormal which the old folks told. The common man felt it, and he was right to believe the stories. As any SPA operative would tell you, behind the soup kitchens and boarded up farmsteads there were plenty of secrets hiding, secrets that normal Americans weren’t ready to face.

     Luckily, that’s what they had the government for... and the SPA answered the call.

Roleplaying

American Grit is being written up as a trio of Adventure Toolkit books for the Mojo Rules! RPG rules system. The individual books will be Northern Steel, Southern Gothic and Capitol Thrill.

American Grit is also being written up as a realm book for the Savage Worlds (external link)

version of the Suzerain RPG game. The book will be called Noir Knights (external link)

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Created by: MMK. Last Modification: Sunday 13 of December, 2009 03:40:07 UTC by MMK.

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