Ashcan Edition
I'm releasing the free Ashcan Edition of my horror-mystery TTRPG, UNRAVEL: The Work is in Good Hands.
It's a simple d6-based system focused on character psychology, moral crisis and breakdown, inspired by psychological mystery dramas like True Detective and Mindhunter as well as Lovecraftian horror games like Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green. Choose Tether cards representing the relationships that keep you sane and Vulnerability cards to lurk underneath, waiting to cause havoc when your Tethers are eaten away by Stress.
This setting has you playing as the blackmailed pawns of an occult conspiracy in 1970s Britain, sent to investigate weird folkloric horrors and unearth haunted artifacts, but the system is also ideal for conventional mystery scenarios as long as you want to put character drama and emotional turmoil front and center.
I'll be running taster sessions of it over Discord for the foreseeable future, and I'm very keen to try any scenarios people come up with themselves, so there should be plenty of opportunities if you want to try it out as a player or a GM. There's a link to the server in the book.
Please have a look! I'd be really grateful for any feedback as I work towards a complete edition I can publish as a physical book.
