Another short-term bundle - Grim Noir

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A Gumshoe-based game of occult detection from a Finnish company in which the forces of Heaven and Hell gather souls using proxies, the player characters, to avoid a war:

Grim Noir

https://bundleofholding.com/quick/GrimNoir

This all-new Grim Noir Quick Deal presents Grim Noir RPG, the GUMSHOE film-noir RPG of occult mysteries, published by Finnish company Northern Realms.

Grim Noir may remind you of "Nordic Noir" stories like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Broadchurch, and The Killing. In a City of dark alleys and glamorous restaurants, a labyrinth of dreams and schemes, Heaven and Hell have struck a Pact, an armistice, that prohibits them from waging war on Earth. Instead, they gather souls using proxies, "Reapers." You're a Reaper, a detective investigating dangerous cases with a supernatural twist that makes them too dangerous for the City's police. The GUMSHOE system, designed by Robin D. Laws (Feng Shui, Over the Edge, Hillfolk) and seen in games like Trail of Cthulhu, The Esoterrorists, and The Yellow King, ensures the characters never miss a clue important to the story. The challenge isn't finding the clues but interpreting them.

Special rules let you gain Narrative Points through internal monologues where your Reaper reflects on the case so far. You can spend Narrative Points on flashbacks that influence the past to change your current situation. By Reaping souls and carrying them within you, you can gain insight into the mystery – but this taxes your Stability, and your friends may treat you like a stranger. You can sell these souls for money, favors, or Gifts like Heavenly Light, Hellfire, Heal, Induce Fear, Endless Conversation, or Guardian Angel.

Pursuing the trail deeper into the City, you and your fellow Reapers uncover corruption, coercion, and vice – powers of Heaven and Hell tempt you, mislead you, cheat you – you face impossible choices. The City's elite may wind up gruesomely destroying themselves, and possibly you as well.

This all-new Grim Noir Quick Deal brings you the entire line – everything you need for self-destructive relentless pursuit of truth and a frightening destiny. We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)

The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$40. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all three titles in our Noir Collection (retail value $40) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Grim Noir RPG corebook (retail price $20), the six-scenario collection Unsolved Cases (retail $10), and the introductory case file Dead-End Murder (retail $10).

I don't know this version of Gumshoe at all, but it could be interesting if the players can get into it, and the bundle is fairly cheap. Alternatively, it might be possible to adapt some of the material to games like In Nomine, which cover somewhat similar ground.