Operation: CRIMSON GIFT

Operation: CRIMSON GIFT

The Bourne trilogy meets Dracula in The Dracula Dossier, an expansive, fast-paced, modern horror campaign for the Night's Black Agents RPG. Cut loose by your agency, you must take down the vampiric conspiracy running the world—before they take you down!
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This project is part of ❄️ Holiday Market, running from November 18th – December 1st, 2025. Learn more

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Introduction

 


A Holiday Mission from Pelgrane Press

Spycraft meets supernatural horror, ready to ship for the holidays.

In 1894, British intelligence tried to recruit Count Dracula as a weapon. The mission failed, as did their attempts to silence him. A century later, the file has been reopened, and you are the agents sent to finish the job.

This Holiday Market operation features a special limited-time discount on the complete Night’s Black Agents: Dracula Dossier experience. It combines an improvisational campaign of vampire espionage with the core rules for Kenneth Hite’s award-winning TTRPG of burned spies and supernatural terror. 

🕵️‍♀️ No funding goals. No waiting. Just ready-to-ship bundles.

Your mission dossier includes in print and PDF:

The Crimson Gift: (£88 instead of £91.95)

  • Night’s Black Agents (Core Rulebook)
    Play burned spies turned vampire hunters in a modern world of secret wars and undead power. Fast-paced GUMSHOE mechanics let you track, hunt, and survive the conspiracy.
  • The Dracula Dossier: Director’s Handbook
    A 368-page guide packed with contacts, locations, and clues for a campaign that unfolds your way. The Director’s Handbook gives you every asset and enemy to build your own truth.
  • Dracula Unredacted
    Bram Stoker’s novel restored as an MI6 document. Every name uncensored, every omission explained, and every page a potential lead in your investigation.

**Please note that shipping fees for print books will be added in the Pledge Manager after the campaign ends**

Add-Ons for Field Agents

Night’s Black Agents PDF (£18 instead of £20.95)
Full digital core rulebook for agents who like to travel light.

Dracula Dossier core PDFs (£20 instead of £28.95)
Digital editions of the Director's Handbook and Dracula Unredacted for operatives on the move. 

Dracula Dossier Expansion Pack PDFs (£40 instead of £46.80)
Includes:
  • The Hawkins Papers – The original 1894 mission files and field notes.
  • Edom Field Manual – MI6 procedures, tactics, and crisis protocols.
  • The Edom Files – Eight modern operations against the undead.
  • The Thrill of Dracula – Kenneth Hite’s deep dive into every adaptation of Stoker’s myth and how to make them your own.

Dracula Dossier Core Books Print (Includes PDFs) (£55 instead of £59.95)
Includes:
  • Dracula Dossier: Director's Handbook Print
  • Dracula Unredacted Print Version
  • Dracula Dossier: Director's Handbook PDF
  • Dracula Unredacted PDF Version

Complete your archive and take the conspiracy global!
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Awards and Recognition

Here are some awards and reviews from previous years.

  • ENnie Awards 2016
    • Best Adventure — Silver Winner
    • Best Writing — Gold Winner
    • Product of the Year — Gold Winner
  • Golden Geek Awards 2015
    • Best Supplement — Winner
  • Origins Awards 2016
    • Best Roleplaying Supplement — Nominee
       
From RPG.net review of The Dracula Dossier: Director’s Handbook:
“This book cannot only be considered to be excellence in game-design, it is also educational and pretty much the pinnacle of careful, deliberate work.”

From GeekNative review of the Dossier:
“The Dracula Dossier from Pelgrane Press is an epic, improvisational horror-espionage campaign for Night’s Black Agents, Kenneth Hite’s GUMSHOE RPG where burned spies face off against vampires.”

From Andrew Logan Montgomery’s blog
“Agents could just as easily be ‘George Smiley meets Lestat’ … Essentially it comes down to the player characters being spies who discover, and take on, a massive vampire conspiracy … The appearance of The Dracula Dossier elevated it to amazing.”

From Escapist Magazine
"So it’s no surprise that almost every vampire series – from Vampire: The Masquerade to Buffy: The Vampire Slayer – eventually has to address Dracula’s place in their worlds.

The Dracula Dossier is Night’s Black Agents attempt to do just that, bringing one of the most powerful vampires of all time into Pelgrane Press’ world of undead espionage. But instead of simply making Dracula a James Bond villain, Dracula Dossier does something truly unique – placing Stoker’s novel at the heart of the experience as a riveting player handout."


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A Holiday Pact Between Two Dark Worlds


We are teaming up with our friends at Game Machinery, publishers of a polished urban fantasy game named Defiant RPG, where supernatural nobles rule modern cities, bargain for influence, and navigate dangerous court politics. Their setting mixes intrigue, power struggles, and personal drama in a world shaped by angels, demons, and otherworldly rulers.

To celebrate the BackerKit Holiday Market, we are joining forces to offer a special gift for backers who support both projects. If you back Defiant RPG and Operation: Crimson Gift at any pledge level, you will receive a complimentary copy of Dust and Mirrors, the official soundtrack for Night’s Black Agents. This score was created for high-tension espionage and supernatural investigation, and it fits seamlessly into both of our urban fantasy worlds. Our friends at Game Machinery will be gifting you Reimagined: Fanfic Role Playing Game.

You will receive your bonus materials after the Holiday Market concludes. If you have already backed one project, simply join the second to take part in this collaboration.

Step into the shadows, explore two different visions of modern fantasy, and enjoy an exclusive reward crafted for the Holiday Market.

Click to go to Defiant RPG

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Shipping and Fulfillment

  • Digital rewards will be delivered within 24 hours of the campaign's end.
  • Physical rewards will ship from our USA and UK warehouses as soon as the campaign ends.
  • We aim to deliver before December 25 but cannot guarantee international arrival before that date.

🌍 We ship worldwide except where noted.

🇪🇺 Our shipping from the UK is EU-friendly. 

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