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Another offer, this one all new, for a Sherlock Holmes RPG.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/BakerStreet

This new Baker Street Bundle presents the Victorian investigative RPG Baker Street: Roleplaying in the World of Sherlock Holmes from Fearlight Games. Sherlock Holmes is missing and presumed dead. The stoic Dr. Watson asks intrepid investigators to take cases in the Great Detective's absence.

Designed by Bryce Whitacre and funded through three Kickstarter campaigns (January 2014, March 2016, September 2017), Baker Street features a robust investigation mechanic, easy character generation, and rules for making your own mystery. Investigating a scene is the driving engine of Baker Street. Using the special Sherlock Die, investigators make Observation, Reason, and Deduction Skill Rolls to uncover clues, weed out false clues, and uncover leads. Be careful, though! Investigators who take too long making multiple Investigation Rounds may raise the adventure's Threat Meter. In social interactions investigators can use their Status to gain advantage. The Mastermind awards or subtracts Status points based on the investigator's behavior and adherence to Victorian ideals. If investigators behave improperly, their Status may fall.

In Baker Street the players attempt to solve some of the most baffling crimes in history. The wide-ranging investigations in these casebooks will send your players to rescue the Queen, face the Hound of the Baskervilles, solve the Jack the Ripper murders, and foil many other nefarious plans of crafty villains. Victorian streets, foggy nights, and crime most foul await.

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.)

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this Baker Street offer's pandemic-related charity,Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.

The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$80. Customers who pay just US$19.95 get all five titles in our Detection Collection (retail value $80) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Baker Street: Roleplaying in the World of Sherlock Holmes core rulebook (retail price $15); the campaign book Sherlock by Gaslight (retail $15), about the Whitechapel murders; and three casebooks (retail $15 apiece) with 19 complete investigations: Baker Street Casebook #1, Casebook #2: Missions from Mycroft, and Casebook #3: Strange Cases & Distant Places.

This looks like it could be fun, though I think it really needed a Brit-picking read through by someone who could have explained that Brits talk about "pounds, shillings, and pence" rather than "...and pennies" and used fraction signs rather than decimal points for ¼d and ½d in the Victorian era, and spotted some other minor issues - it's fairly evident that the authors are American. Not that one should hold it against the poor chaps, of course...

More seriously, about the worst problem I can see with this is that one of the supplements covers the Ripper murders, which may raise some hackles - there is currently some opposition to commercial exploitation of the case, spurred on by an attempt to open a sensationalist Ripper museum in Whitechapel a couple of years ago. That seems to have been killed off by covid, so far as I'm aware, but I suspect that the sentiment hasn't gone away completely.