Game archives

Rainbow 6

Team RAINBOW Missions Guide
Team RAINBOW FAQ

Originally located at Rainbow Six Retreat

IGN review of Rainbow Six Mission Pack: Eagle Watch (February 1999)

Black 9

Black9 Ops tabletop RPG by Steve Perrin, Erik Bethke, and Erin Hoffman

Sourcebook (December 15, 2003)

Originally uploaded to Mediafire
Black 9 RPG thread, RPG.net forums

Action Vault interview with Director Erik Bethke, Art Director Tim Cox, and writer/QA Erin Hoffman

Interview (August 29, 2003)

Originally on IGN Vault, saved to Internet Archive

IGN preview by Steve Butts (March 26, 2003)
Electronic Gaming Monthly preview by Darren Gladstone, #166 (May 2003)
Computer Gaming World preview by Darren Gladstone, #226 (May 2003)
Computer Games preview by Kelly Wand, #152 (July 2003)
Cyberpunked: the Fall of Black9 by Erin Hoffman, The Escapist (April 22, 2008)
Unreleased Xbox Game Alpha, Internet Archive (created January 1, 2004, added September 6, 2023)

Mercenaries by Pandemic Studios

Story material from Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction Source Code and Dev Kit hosted on Internet Archive

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction

Spec titles from GDD

Characters
Chinese
Civilians
Alliance
North Koreans
Press
Russian Mafia
South Koreans (CIA)

GDD (2002-2003) located at EssentialDevFiles/Documentation/Mercs1GDD/

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Article titles and descriptions from DELTA wiki

Mercs 2.0 Story

HomeWork - A list of books, movies, comics, and music for reference. To be updated frequently.
FactionList - A scratch pad for potential factions in Mercs 2.0. Just shooting the bull here, not designing the sequel yet. Please add your own.
FunLinks - Fun mercenary-related reading from the Internets!

ExecOpsFiction - Rob's initial thoughts and musings. Discussion in progress.
TheTaskAtHand - Matt summarizes our first meeting.
WhatAndrewWants - He wants Willing Heroes. He wants to avoid cliche. Rob has objections.
ThePurposeOfStory -- Matt asks about theory. Rob answers.

ConceptFiction - A thumbnail sketch of the world of our mercenaries, whoever they may be. We start broad and narrow our focus, slowly. -- Rob

StoryDeliveryMethods -- Rob attempts to systematize the storytelling process for the Mercs gameplay engine. Applicable for any and all games using our engine. Please help finish this list of Story Delivery Methods.
AndrewStoryConcerns -- Andrew asks hard questions about story in response to the SDM spec. Much pause is given.

SevenQuestionsThatMustBeAnswered -- before we can start plotting a story. We need the closest thing to definite answers you can provide. -- Rob

Mercs 2.0 Gameplay

Ideas for the next iteration of Mercs
MissionProgression
WorldReactivity

DELTA internal wiki (2004) located at EssentialDevFiles/Documentation/Mercs1Wiki/

Hat tip to The Complete History of Mercenaries by GamerGuy's Reviews for popularizing the dev kit and source code leak.

The Matrix

A Wushu Guide to... The Matrix by Daniel Bayn

Setting rulebook for Wushu by Daniel Bayn
The Matrix Prohibited
Virtual Voodoo
Die Hard, In The Matrix

Originally located at A Wushu Guide to The Matrix
The Matrix: A Systemless Sourcebook precessor to A Wushu Guide, also by Daniel Bayn
Wushu: The Ancient Art of Action Roleplaying current site

Review of a Wushu Guide to the Matrix by Clint Krause, RPG.net (November 5, 2003)
Review of Wushu: The Ancient Art of Action Role-Playing by Brand Robins, RPG.net (June 16, 2003)

The Matrix: Reloaded (Gregory Script)

Fake Script

Originally posted to The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb)

World of Darkness

Rise of the Beasts by varyar

What if the Antediluvian who woke up was not Ravnos, but Gangrel?

Rise of the Beasts: an alternate Week of Nightmares (Vampire the Masquerade)

Originally posted on Alternate History forums

Werewolf attack from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Mortals: the Living by Charles Phipps

Article

Originally published on Ex Libris Nocturnis

oWoD Population Project by Arius

oWoD Population Project, Reducing things to numbers in spite of WW's suggestions

Originally posted on Shadownessence forums

B.J. Zanzibar's World of Darkness

Link: Currently active mirror

Originally located at https://php.indiana.edu/~adashiel/wod/wod.html

Homegrown: the Proliferation by Nathan Shumate

Reviews of Fan-Created Supplements for The World of Darkness

Parts 2 and 3

Originally published in Masters of Role Playing issues #5, #6, and #7.

Chemist is Making Nitroglycerine #1, also Political Cartoon by Married To The Sea

Church Knights: The Cainite Crusade by James Seidel / Jaime Seidel

Knights against the night

The Church Knights
Hospitaller: The Knights of St. John - a supplement to The Church Knights
Deutschritter: Teutonic Knights - a supplement to The Church Knights

Originally hosted at Thayder's Roleplaying Sites
Collated into PDF documents by /u/Eldagustowned

Knights from “Spamalot”

Illuminati: the Conspiracy by Stephen Esdale

What if mortals ruled the night?

Fan Supplement

Originally hosted at Rule Changes, Additions and Expansions section of http://vampirerpg.free.fr

Review by John Frazer of It Came From The Bookshelf! (December 13, 2023)

Eye of Providence variant from Hardly Working: Earpiece by CollegeHumor

Call of Cthulhu

End Time: a Call of Cthulhu supplement by Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere

The End is nigh... get to Mars

Initially created for Pagan Publishing's cancelled 1993 End Time product
Supplement with rules
End Time maps
First Contact - adventure by Gottardo Zancani

Prequel adventures by Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere
Bitter Winds
12 Hours

Currently hosted on End Time website by zac965 (Gottardo Zancani) with additional content
Originally located at Worlds > Worlds of Horror > Call of Cthulhu > Cthulhu End Time on Opifex Phoenix

Homepage of Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere
The Eternal Library of Dr. LaBossiere

Adventuring trio from Red Planet