Nightwatch: The Puppet Master Guide (Digital Core Rule Book)
The Nightwatch: Puppet Master Guide is the core rulebook for the Nightwatch TTRPG—your complete toolkit for running games in the world of Atlas, where industry claws at the unknown and reality frays at the edges.
Set in an alternate 19th century defined by rifts, wyrd technology, and creeping anomalies, this guide equips you to become a Puppet Master—the unseen hand guiding your players through intrigue, horror, and impossible choices.
Inside, you’ll find:
Core rules & systems — Learn the mechanics that drive Nightwatch, including the Fortune Card system and dynamic encounter design
The World of Atlas — Factions, rift phenomena, and the fragile balance between progress and collapse
Tools for storytelling — Build investigations, manage tension, and craft narratives where knowledge is as dangerous as ignorance
Wyrd Tech & anomalies — Introduce technology that shouldn’t exist, and the consequences of using it
Enemies & encounters — From rogue constructs to Outsiders that wear human faces
Photocopy pages of Character Sheets and Fortune Cards.
Nightwatch is a game of pressure, procedure, and the unknown. Players act. You decide what it costs.
Whether you are running covert operations for the Association of Ishtar, unraveling conspiracies for the Recovery Authority, or watching the world slip—inch by inch—into something unrecognizable…
The curtain rises when you say it does.
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