The Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery (A.N.I.M.)

1 Penetrative Damage might not sound like much, but in Eureka, Penetrative Damage is very difficult to heal from, and can cause permanent crippling injuries, so even the minimum Penetrative Damage weapon is not to be taken lightly.

A drawing a of a stilletto switchblade with the blade extended.

Switchblade

This is a switchblade drawn by team artist @qsy.bsky.social for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, serving as an example of a weapon that deals 1 Penetrative Damage.

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This is all off the top of my head, and I'm not REALLY a firearms expert, so somebody else may be able to give you a better and more specific explanation than i can.

"single" and "double" action in the context of revolvers means the number of things a trigger pull does.

In a single action, a trigger pull does a single thing, drops the hammer into the firing pin to shoot a bullet.

In a double action, a trigger pull can set the hammer AND drop the hammer

Weird fact, this model is qualified as an “assault weapon” under many state laws.

Double-Action Revolver

A Modèle 1892 drawn by @qsy.bsky.social for the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook, providing a visual example of a Double Action Revolver. #revolver #gun #ttrpg #indiettrpgs #tabletop #indiegame #rpgs #art

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The cover of Noctopolis: An Apocalypse Keys Mystery from Calenmir's RPGs, which is formatted as a comic book newspaper cover. The central image is a group shot of seven superheroes. They include a dark-cloaked figure with a red mask, a Nightcrawler lookalike boosting up a fellow hero using water, a Black woman in powered armor giving the cloaked hero bunny ears, a tan woman with glowing spear & shield wearing hoplite armor, a St. Bernard waving at the camera, a heavyset white guy in street clothes and dazzle paint, and a pink-skinned person in a blue jay onesie. The caption names them as Chiropter, Water Weaver, Hex Wrench, Light Skirmisher, Anymorph, Captain Facepuncher, and Blue Jay, respectively. The snippet of the "article" begins: Noctopolis, NERZ - After robots swarmed the business district, six Project Paragon heroes and one vigilante arrived on scene

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The few times she leaves her house for more than groceries, she always manages to get caught up in something terrible."

She's the kind of girl to cram her tall self into the corner without anyone having to ask so she never takes up space just in case somebody else wanted to. She works a minimum-wage 9-5 and spends what little free time she has on the internet, reading books, watching anime, or programming.

I picture of a woman in a very loose-fitting lavender sweater. She has purple dyed hair with brown roots showing, brown eyes, light skin, and is wearing a black face mask with a stylized cat mouth and whiskers on it.

Gwen Wilson, Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy PC posted with the permission of her creator, swakyflea. #ttrpg #indiettrpg anim-ttrpg.itch.io

"Gwen Wilson is a normal girl who is very tired and has severe anxiety, particularly social anxiety, particularly about lying to or upsetting anyone ever.

This gun doesn’t have its own category in the firearm categories section, but if I were to stat it it would have RoF 1, standard pistol range, and no Stopping Power, but still of course do a very dangerous amount of damage like any firearm in Eureka.

a drawing of a small derringer style pistil with two short barrels

Derringer

A derringer drawn by @qsy.bsky.social for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. #ttrpg #indiettrpgs #firearm #historicalfirearm #gun #indiegame #rpg

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arguing with fucking Thomas Aquinas about Hell because of research for Death Bed

A “Shotgun Pistol” isn’t really any sort of real-world firearm terminology, we just needed something to call a gun like this to fit it into the way Eureka categorizes guns mechanically.

This is, like, the iconic “crime” gun.

A drawing of a double-barreled shotgun with a shortened stock and sawn-down barrels. Its breach is open and there is at least one shell visibly loaded.

Shotgun Pistol

A Browning BSS with the barrel sawn off drawn by @qsy.bsky.social for the firearm section of the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook, providing a visual example of a Shotgun Pistol. #ttrpg #shotgun #pistol #indiettrpg #indiegame #tabletop #rpg #indierpgs

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(correction, I meant USAS-12, not AA-12)

I don’t think an automatic shotgun has come into play in any Eureka game I’m aware of, even though they’d probably be the most effective option against monsters like vampires and wolfmen, not that vampires and wolfmen are realistically much more likely to be encountered than an automatic shotgun.

Automatic shotguns are uncommon and prone to jams in real life because the typical mechanisms that make automatic weapons function dont work as well with shotgun shells as they do regular bullets, but that doesnt mean youd want to have one pointed anywhere near you in either real life or Eureka

A drawing of an AA-12, a shotgun kinda resembling an M-16 rifle. It has a large drum magazine.

AA-12

Another weapon done by @qsy.bsky.social for the firearm section of the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook, an AA-12 acting as a visual example for an Automatic Shotgun. #ttrpg #indiettrpg #indiegame #rpg #firearm #noir #neonoir #tabletop

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Before i continue this conversation, i just want to make sure. Am I talking to a real person here behind this account?

That’s a simplified summary of it, isn’t the ONLY theme explored by the playable paranormal monsters, but y’know, bluesky character limit.

Anyway the PCs in this game solve mysteries in a modern setting and sometimes the villain OR protagonist might be something spooky.

Eureka asserts even someone whose continued life relies on taking indefinitely from others still has as much right to live as somebody who “contributes,” and people should not be valued based on how much blood sweat and tears are required to keep them alive, even if they never repay that sacrifice

This is important because thematically, Eureka uses these paranormal elements to explore certain topics, such as disability. A vampire, for instance, is a person who has to subsist off the painful extraction of human blood from others, which is something a lot of disabled people identify with.

All playable paranormal creatures, such as vampires, are “normal people” who exist within society, not outside it. They have jobs, friends, apartments/houses, etc., and being a vampire is only one part of who they are as a person.

The ways these paranormal people go unnoticed or at least undocumented by wider society is thematically resonant with what the game has to say about “facts” and “truth,” very important things for a game about solving mysteries to grapple with.

Vampires and other paranormal people are not a SECRET being kept by a “masquerade,” it’s more so these things are just so exceedingly rare that, combined with the obvious incentives for a vampire not to reveal their vampirism, means they have largely slipped through the cracks of public awareness.

Despite taking place in the “real world,” the game does feature paranormal elements such as vampires, which most people in-setting don’t know exist.

The default setting of Eureka is just the present-day USA, in the “real world,” with a leaning towards focusing on the South, though the mystery module being played in this video actually takes place in Canada.