[WIP] The Roaring Age

Coming in September, 2024!

Looking for a game like Call of Cthluhu, but with lighter rules and faster action? Looking for a fresh 1920's roleplaying experience in a modern, NSR style? Looking for mobsters, monsters, flappers, theosophists, bootleggers, and ballyhoo? Well, here's lookin' at you, kid.

The Roaring Age is a game where you take on the role of an investigator solving horrific supernatural mysteries in the Roaring ‘20s. It is a hack of Liminal Horror, and playing The Roaring Age requires you to grab a free copy of the Investigators edition of that game, at least for the five pages of core rules.

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Liminal Horror: Investigators

has the core rules you need to play The Roaring Age
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The Roaring Age is meant as a supplement to the rules found in the Liminal Horror: Investigator edition. Besides guidance on themes, updated equipment, and a small bestiary, it includes a host of new tools for running 1920's investigative mysteries, including:

Backgrounds & Bonds — New backgrounds to situate your investigators in the 1920s, and a new “Bonds” rule that incentivizes your character to take part in Jazz Age society.

Stress & Fallout — Some adjustments to the Fallout system, including guidance for handing out Stress and clearing Fallout.

Archival Research — The procedure for investigators who want to delve into research and public records to find further clues and trailheads for their mystery.

Mythos Tomes — Rules for the tomes, books, and other readable relics that empower and imperil investigators.

Arcs & Threats — Tools for managing time, resources, random events, faction play, and the pace of your mystery using New School Revolution (NSR) principles.

Conversion Guides — Advice for converting classical horror scenarios to be playable using The Roaring Age as your game system of choice.

The game is written and copy-edited, and is currently in layout before it goes off to a final copy check. In the meantime, check out can learn more over at my blog, where I've been writing on the game's development.

So follow this space for the big release announcement. It's coming any day now!

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THE ROARING AGE

• Writing, Design:  Jack Edward
• Copy Editing: Yossi Krausz

The Roaring Age is an independent production by Jack Edward and is not affiliated with Goblin Archives LLC. It is published under the Liminal Horror Third Party License.