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This is the page for 'The Naked City', a Film Noir inspired role-playing game that Chris Bennett is working on. You can contact him at: Caesar_X@yahoo.com

The Naked City is a role-playing game about desperate characters in a claustrophobic world. You will need 2-5 players and an additional person to act as Game Master (GM). Together the players and GM will create a world and then populate it with interesting characters, each with their own relationships. Each player will then create their own character to play in the game.

The object of the game is to pursue your own character’s personal Desires while weaving interesting stories. But Guilt accumulates through actions and will eventually lead to someone’s Downfall. Will you get out of the labyrinth intact?

<The current formatting of the rules when viewed on this wiki isn't perfect. If you email me I will be happy to send you a .doc or .pdf of the current version>

• Character Generation cheatsheet

• Current Draft of 'The Naked City' rules

• Second Draft of 'Touch of Noir' rules

• Playtesting--Plot and the Relationship Map

• Noir Early Rules Ideas

• What do you want your Noir game to be?

• Accumulating Guilt

• What is film noir, anyway?

• Narrative Mirroring

• Voice-Over Narration

• Flashbacks

• Into the Labyrinth

• Narrative Patterns in Film Noir

• Various Notes on Film Noir

• Noir Settings

• Noir Quotes

• Film Noir: The Dark Side of the Screen

• "Heroes" in Film Noir

• The Women of Film Noir

• Foster Hirsch on Noir

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