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External Containment Bureau
External Containment Bureau is an adventure RPG that allows players take on roles of trained agents working at a paranormal containment bureau where they use supernatural abilities granted by the organization's research facilities in order to solve mysteries, fight evil forces and save their world from otherworldly threats. It uses Google Sheets for automation with Quickssttarct sheets (PDF) that allow players' characters stats and skills will be automatically generated based on certain conditions like a number of levels achieved or successful tasks completed during missions etc.. The game is designed by Eric Brunson, Michael Elliott while edited by Lexi Antoku. Art direction was done by Justin Ford who produced it with Julianne Griep as art director for the project. Eli Kurtz created ePub formatting and FillaBale formats PDFs that can be read on various devices like Apple iPads or iPhones making External Containment Bureau compatible in many different scenarios, from a single player game to virtual tabletop games where groups of players get together online via apps such as TableTopLive. As the title suggests this is an adventure RPG with supernatural elements that involves external containment agencies and paranormal phenomena, utilizing powers granted by these facilities but also possessing unique abilities given only when working for ECB
Price:
$20.00
Rating:
5.00 (from 55 reviews)
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