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The Devil to Play Download From Tickets-of-Leave are self- CREDITS contained additions to Ticket-of-Leave #16 is written by the Convicts & Cthulhu Geoff Gillan and Dean Engelhardt; setting for Lovecraftian maps by Robert Irving. roleplaying in the early Copyright © 2020. Published by Cthulhu Reborn Publishing . penal colonies of Australia. (WWW . CTHULHUREBORN . COM ) Each includes a selection The Convicts & Cthulhu setting of game elements which is published by Cthulhu Reborn can either be used Publishing and is available via collectively as a thumbnail RPGNow and DrivethruRPG as a sketch of a scenario, or “Pay-What-You-Want” title. can be used in isolation This PDF uses general-purpose game statistics to provide pieces that designed to convert easily to any tabletop RPG enhance a scenario of your of horror investigation. As a baseline the game 16 mechanics referenced in this PDF parallel those own invention. found in the Open Cthulhu SRD, although the PDF contains NO content derived from that SRD. Cthulhu Reborn has no relationship with the creators of the Open Cthulhu SRD (available for The Devil to Play download from www.opencthulhu.org). and Emu Plains west of Sydney. During the era of Introduction Convicts & Cthulhu, the most famous example of such a convict-run theatre was the one operated This Ticket of Leave focusses on the subject of by Robert Sidaway. In addition to being a convict, theatre in the early penal settlements. This may seem Sidaway was also a merchant and publican, but it an unlikely element of convict-era society, yet the is for his theatre that he is remembered by history. presence of theatrical performance was an enduring part of colonial life from its very earliest times. Sidaway’s convict theatre ran on and off starting in 1796 and perhaps lasting as late as 1807. When A particularly remarkable phenomenon in this Bligh assumed the role of Governor in 1807, he remarkable historical era was the convict theatre. formulated plans to reopen it although these were Managed, staged and performed by convicts, such interrupted by the Rum Rebellion before they could theatres appeared intermittently throughout the reach fruition. Ultimately Robert Sidaway died in convict era in places such as Sydney, Norfolk Island 1809 after a long illness. Sample file 1.
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