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WHAT IS DARK
CONSPIRACY
In the all-too-near future, the world slides into the
Greater Depression, the United States affected most
dramatically. Nationalism surges, and the social
safety net is in tatters. Corporations control govern-
ments openly, corruption is commonplace, and the
citizenry is starkly divided between those who have
and those who go without. Urban sprawl runs amok,
and great metroplexes connect the great cities into
teeming, soulless metropolises, their lights shining Some of these strange and terrible creatures are
across the countryside. remembered through folklore and legend — mon-
sters such as vampires, demons, ghouls, and their
The heartland of America is largely abandoned, like — while others are utterly fantastic, extradimen-
the bread basket now empty. Law enforcement and sional and alien beings from beyond time and space.
the government have given up on these regions, Together, these minions of darkness are opposed to
and utilities are scarce and unreliable. Few can sur- all life, and they struggle to extinguish the last lights
vive within these outlaw areas. Few humans, that is. of human civilization.

For in these forgotten and empty places in the
rust belt, the tissue of reality tears wide, and ener-
gy from nightmare dimensions and planes of utter
terror seep into this world. These places, called
demongrounds, grow more substantial, expanding
each day, and creatures from these hell-places walk
freely there, and from the demongrounds they infil-
trate the metroplexes to feed their inhuman hungers
and bring ruin to all.
Some few stand against them, humans banded
together and armed against these dreadful forces
of darkness. These minion hunters stalk them in the
cities and even in the demongrounds, but the great-
est challenge they face is the realization that these
monsters do not work alone: they are aided by hu-
mans who have made terrible pacts with the forces
of darkness, selling out their own kind for power and
survival.

THIS IS THE WORLD OF DARK CONSPIRACY.

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HISTORY
In 1990, Game Designers Workshop first brought
Dark Conspiracy to life. It was a robust and acclaimed
roleplaying game series, far ahead of its time with
canny predictions about the shape of things to come.
In 2019, Clockwork Publishing brings it back. For
the first time in more than 20 years, Dark Conspira-
cy will be available in print in a deluxe new version
of the acclaimed roleplaying game, with an updated
system and setting, featuring all-new art and content.
WHO ARE WE?
Clockwork Publishing (or in German: Uhrwerk Ver-
lag) is a respected German-based RPG and fiction
publisher founded in 2009 by Patric Götz, utilizing
his extensive experience in the field of roleplaying,
first, as an employee in a games store, then working
at a wholesaler, and finally as publishing director
and CEO at Ulisses Spiele.
Uhrwerk’s first games published were German
versions of Hollow Earth Expedition and Deadlands
Classic in 2009 as well as the license for the western
continent Myranor for The Dark Eye. In the years that
followed, Uhrwerk published further games with
great success, among them more and more German
productions like Malmsturm, Contact, or Dungeon-
slayers, and extended their range with translations
of English games such as Numenera and Achtung!
Cthulhu.
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The relaunch will begin with the release of the
Dark Conspiracy quickstart adventure, the Dark
Conspiracy core rulebook, accompanied by the Dark
Conspiracy Gamemaster Screen and Resource, and
more. Future supplements will include sourcebooks
detailing gear, psychic powers, minions, and will
further explore the world of Dark Conspiracy.
Since 2013, Uhrwerk Verlag (under the label
Clockwork Publishing) also thrives within the Eng-
lish-speaking market. With a successful crowd-
funding for a translation of the German version of
Space:1889, the English version of the game was fi-
nanced. At the same time, Uhrwerk Verlag produces
German games such as Splittermond, its own Ger-
man fantasy roleplaying game, and publishing Ger-
man editions of games such as Mutant Year Zero,
Coriolis, Fate Core and many others.
Today, about dozen employees are permanently
employed at Uhrwerk Verlag, releasing an average
of four to five publications per month. The company
has carried out several crowdfundings successfully,
both in English and German.
THE TEAM
We have assembled a stellar team of contributors:
 Jason Durall, the line manager, is a veteran writ-
er, game designer, and line editor for pen-and-
paper and computer games. He has written and
developed material for A Game of Thrones, Am-
ber Diceless Roleplaying, Battlestar Galactica,
Conan the Roleplaying Game, Serenity, Achtung!
Cthulhu, World War Cthulhu, The Laundry, Basic
Roleplaying, Silver Age Sentinels, and more. He
has won Ennies for his work on Serenity, Rune-
Quest, and Conan, and serves as line editor for
Chaosium’s RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Gloran-
tha and for Modiphius’ Robert E. Howard’s Co-
nan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of.
 Marcus Bone is a longtime fan and contribu-
tor to Dark Conspiracy, having been involved
in Demonground (the Origins nominated Dark
Conspiracy fanzine), the game’s 2nd and 3rd
editions, and most recently via darkconspira-
cytherpg.com (a Dark Conspiracy fansite and
forum). Marcus is a New Zealand based IT ex-
ecutive and consultant, who is inspired by his
caring family, and the creative urge, to explore
strange, new worlds!
 Lena Falkenhagen is a veteran of the German
TRPG scene and was a design board member
of The Dark Eye (DSA) for 17 years. She is new
to Dark Conspiracy but has written four game
novels and contributed to countless adventure
and game books for TDE, translated Mage: The
Sorcerer’s Crusade and co-translated Mage: The
Awakening, edited D&D 3.5 books. Lena lives in
Hamburg, Germany and works as a professional
novelist, freelance narrative designer for video
games, and tabletop RPG game writer.
 Richard Hayden has been a Dark Conspiracy fan
since the original release of the game and has
in recent years contributed fiction and game
materials for the Protodimension fanzine. He
is passionate about the future of gaming and
cannot wait to see where Dark Conspiracy will
go in the future.
 Sascha Hoppenrath is a veteran player and
gamemaster of Dark Conspiracy. He has pub-
lished the German version of Deadlands and
did translation work for Pathfinder and The One
Ring. Sascha has been part of the design team,
that created the popular German Splittermond
RPG. When he is not writing or running his
boardgame shop in Cologne (Germany), he’s
probably somewhere gaming.
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 Andrew Peregrine came to Dark Conspiracy
as a player many years ago and has relished
the chance to finally look into the mysteries
his Gamemaster had kept secret. He has writ-
ten for several different games and companies
including Doctor Who and Victoriana (Cubicle
7), Vampire V20 (Onyx Path), Judge Dredd (EN
Publishing), Star Trek (Modiphius), and two
versions of Firefly (MWP). He also produces his
own games as Corone Design but for a ‘proper
job’ works as a lighting technician at the Thea-
tre Royal Haymarket in London’s West End.
 Paul Riegel-Green is a veteran to the world of
Dark Conspiracy and has written or contributed
to Dark Races, Gear Up!, Krampus is Coming to
Town, numerous articles for Shadis magazine,
Protodimension Ezine, and Dark Times Ezine. He
has written for TSR (new and old), New Comet
Games, Game Designers Workshop, West End
Games, as well as various independent game
producers. He originally started in role playing
in 1976 with the Original Edition Dungeons &
Dragons.
 John Snead has been a full time freelance game
designer for 20 years and has written more than
a dozen published magic systems. He also de-
veloped the idea for and wrote much of the ro-
mantic fantasy RPG Blue Rose, and created and
wrote the Mythras urban fantasy supplement
After the Vampire Wars. He has written exten-
sively for Ars Magica , Exalted, Mindjammer, the
recent Conan RPG, Star Trek Adventures, as well
as Changeling: The Lost, Mage: The Awakening,
and many other games. John Snead is also the
developer for Onyx Path Publishing’s upcoming
science fiction game Trinity Continuum: Æon.
 Samantha Chapman is a freelance editor and
proofreader based in Boston, MA. She is a new-
comer to Dark Conspiracy. Her publishing cred-
its include Aldis, City of the Blue Rose (for the
Blue Rose system), Ork! The Roleplaying Game
2nd Edition, The Mutants & Masterminds Basic
Hero’s Handbook, and The Expanse corebook.
 Alasdair Stuart is a newcomer as a writer to
the world of Dark Conspiracy and has written
or contributed to multiple Doctor Who: Ad-
ventures in Time and Space sourcebooks, Star
Trek, Victoriana, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Chill,
and After the War, co-created with Jason Pitre
of Genesis of Legend. When not writing RPG
material, Alasdair co-owns Escape Artists, the
podcast fiction company behind Hugo-nomi-
 nated Escape Pod as well as PseudoPod, Pod-
Castle, and Cast of Wonders. Each runs weekly
short fiction in science fiction, horror, fantasy
and YA respectively. Find him online at www.
alasdairstuart.com
 Richard August is a writer and game design-
er from Manchester, UK. He has written for
Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of,
RuneQuest and John Carter of Mars, amongst
others. He has been a fan of Dark Conspiracy
since encountering a tattered copy of the orig-
inal rule book and wondering ‘what were they
doing under those stairs?’
 Kieran Turley is a newcomer to the world of Dark
Conspiracy, having contributed to games such
as Space 1889, Ashen Stars, 7th Sea, Atlantis:
The Second Age, and Mythic D6 in the past. He’s
currently looking forward to seeing this new iter-
ation of Dark Conspiracy come to life.
 Jared Twing is a newcomer to the world of
Dark Conspiracy and has written for Ulisses,
Modiphius, and Chaosium in the past as well
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as for Shadowrun Missions and Living Forgot-
ten Realms. When not writing or spending time
with his family, he works in the video game in-
dustry as an engineering manager.
 Frank Übe is a veteran player and gamemas-
ter of Dark Conspiracy. He did translation work
for Pathfinder and D&D 3rd Edition. Frank was
part of the design team that created the pop-
ular German Splittermond RPG. Apart from
his job as a social worker he can be found run-
ning/playing a game, in the cinema, or with a
book in hand.
 Lee Williams is a Dark Conspiracy communi-
ty veteran who has edited and contributed to
the Demonground, Protodimension, and Dark
Times fanzines. He worked on previous ver-
sions of the game, as well as other RPG pro-
jects, and wants everyone to know that it’s all
Ferret’s fault!
Other contributors include Richard August, An-
thony Lee-Dudley, Kevin O’Neill, and more to be
announced.
The initial plan for the Dark Conspiracy line includes
five books, a gamemaster screen, a quickstart ad-
venture, and three card decks.
DARK CONSPIRACY
QUICKSTART ADVENTURE
Decades ago, the town of Lakeview, Wyoming
was depopulated and submerged when the near-
by Cedar Mountain Dam was built. Now in a single
night, the lake has unexpectedly drained, expos-
ing the town and its terrible secrets. A team has
been sent to investigate, and what they discover
may destroy them. This 48-page quickstart adven-
ture contains all the rules you need to play Dark
Conspiracy, including a group of pre-generated
hunter character.
DARK CONSPIRACY
CORE RULEBOOK
This full-color 256+ page hardcover core rulebook
contains everything you need to create characters,
play, and gamemaster the world of Dark Conspiracy.
DARK CONSPIRACY:
THE UNNATURAL
This full-color 128-page bestiary vastly expands the
roster of unnatural and extranormal entities that
plague the world of Dark Conspiracy, including sto-
ry notes and potential rumors about each.
DARK CONSPIRACY:
ARMORY
This full-color 128-page sourcebook contains a va-
riety of additional weapons, gear, technology, ve-
hicles, and rules for customizing them, as well as
more esoteric tools that hunters might bear against
the Dark Ones and the Minions, or used against the
hunters themselves!
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DARK CONSPIRACY:
THE PARANORMAL
This full-color 128-page sourcebook provides further
information about the paranormal in the world of Dark
Conspiracy, including additional empathic powers
and abilities, and more about the Demongrounds and
their effects upon reality.
DARK CONSPIRACY:
ACCESS DENIED
This full-color 128-page adventure anthology contains
a variety of short and mid-length adventures and loca-
tions for use in any Dark Conspiracy campaign.
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GAMEMASTER SCREEN RESOURCE
This three-panel sturdy cardboard screen protects
the referee’s secrets from prying eyes, and provides
a variety of useful tables for quick reference. This
package also contains a booklet containing a ready-
to-play adventure and other resources.

DARK CONSPIRACY:
MONSTER CARD DECK
This 55-card deck describes many of the creatures
of the world of Dark Conspiracy, including physical
descriptions, their statistics, their motives, and their
tactics. Indispensible for any referee’s use!

DARK CONSPIRACY:
ARMORY CARD DECK
This 55-card set includes a variety of guns, explo-
sives, hand-to-hand weapons, and other equip-
ment usable for any Dark Conspiracy characters or
non-player characters.

DARK CONSPIRACY:
RUMOR CARD DECK
This 55-card set includes rumors, conspiracy theo-
ries, and secret societies and can be used to flesh
out rumors the investigators stumble upon during
play or to quickly generate adventure plots.

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