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Chill Master's Screen
1984 role-playing game supplement From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chill Master's Screen is a supplement published by Pacesetter in 1984 for the modern horror role-playing game Chill. The package includes an adventure based on Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula.
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Contents
Chill Master's Screen is a three-panel gamemaster's screen printed on cardstock. The screen is divided into three panels, decorated on the player side with three illustrations from the core book.[1] On the gamemaster's side of the screen, the left part summarizes several rules points, the central part summarizes the monster disciplines, and the right part summarizes the resolution system and describes the effect of the different levels of success depending on the situation.[1]
The adventure book contains an 8-page scenario titled Castle Dracula, which adapts the four beginning chapters Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.[2][3][4]
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Publication history
Several ex-TSR employees founded game company Pacesetter Ltd. in 1984, partly due to their unhappiness at the direction TSR seemed to be headed.[5] One of their first products was the modern horror role-playing game Chill, and this was followed the same year by several accessories such as the Castle Dracula / Chill Master's Screen, a product designed by Gail Sanchez, with a cover by Susan Collins.[3]
Pacesetter published Vengeance of Dracula as a sequel to Castle Dracula.[3]
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Reception
In Issue 71 of Space Gamer, William A. Barton commented "the GM Screen should prove useful to most Chill CMs who like more than an ordinary binder to hide their notes, and the Castle Dracula adventure can be a fun – if potentially deadly – bonus for those times you can't get together an entire play group."[2]
Other recognition
A copy of Chill Master's Screen is held in the collection of the Strong National Museum of Play (object 117.672).[5]
References
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