Black Books: Tomes of the Outer Dark (BBG Legacy Edition) is an investigative horror role-playing game where the player characters are ordinary people (historians, detectives, scholars, artists, etc.) drawn into a dark and horrific version of our world - the world of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. As the investigators learn more of the true horrors of the world and the irrevance of humanity, their sanity inevitably withers away. The rules are biased towards playing in the 1920's although there is no reason these rules can't be adapted to other time periods. The rules are familiar - they use a D20 for most actions - and the game is class based, with multiple investigator classes:
- Charmer
- Enforcer
- Sneak
- Scholar
- Spiritualist
Plus two (2) bonus classes!
- Dilettante
- Gadabout
If you like old school gaming and you like horror, this might well be the game you're looking for!