Modern Horror/Action/Secret Fantasy in Boston

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Ciaran

This setting is GURPS Cabal: Ken Hite has already done all the heavy lifting for you. I'd simply use his work.

Unfortunately, I don't own GURPS Cabal.

Originally Posted by Ciaran

That said: if vampires exist and you want your setting to be plausible, they operate under draconian rules of secrecy. They are likely diverting from the massive unregulated US and Chinese blood markets rather than feeding directly. A little googling on this yields fascinating reading btw.

Sounds right.

Originally Posted by Ciaran

No combination of uneasily coexisting supernatural conspiracies could long remain undiscovered in today's world without some sort of overarching treaty, ruthlessly enforced. In my Cabal campaign, the PCs are those enforcers - supernatural beings charged by the Grand Masters with keeping the Secret and tracking down rogue agents. Stealing an idea from Nightwatch, their 'police' units are divided by the hours of light and darkness: Ordo Lux and Ordo Tenebris, two sides of the same coin charged with the same mission, but serving different Masters.

Hmmm... overarching treaty.

I understand what you're saying, but for dramatic purposes, I'd quite like it to be possible for one secret organisation to be unaware of other conspiracies and consequently believe that it is the only one.

After all, the fact that magic has worked erratically if at all for the past century will have made many of these conspiracies toothless and irrelevant, with only eccentrics continuing to observe 'mysteries' that don't work. When magic did start working again, it must have come as quite a surprise for some of those people.

I'm leaning toward monsters of all sorts having been all but eliminated from this world, but there being some dimensional pathways where they can enter it now that magic has come back.