EQUIPMENT

Items and equipment, especially in a modern horror game, is such a seemingly simple yet important aspect of play. Functionally, most equipment lack stats, and if they do they typically only have a few different tags (d6, bulky, non-lethal, blast, etc). What equipment does do is give a sense of the world, and provide creative problem solving opportunities for Investigators.

Being thoughtful about what items you provide players access to, and being open to allowing for reasonable inclusion of every day items, introduces an interesting variability to play. Many times we’ll include in our scenarios a few examples of equipment sold or located somewhere, but leave open-ness as to not have to be comprehensive.

Below are some equipment examples you can use in your scenario, or to start as a launching point.

Protection

Armored Vest (+1 Armor) $500
Ancient Amulet (+1 Stability) $3000
Gas Mask $150
Facemask $20

Weapons

Improvised or Crude (d6, bulky) $20
Hand Weapons: Dagger, Baton, Axe (d6) $50
Taser/Mace Combo (d6, non-lethal) $250
Pistol (d6) $500
Sawed off Shotgun (d4 blast, bulky) $300
Rifle (d6, bulky) $600
Shotgun (d6, bulky) $300
Assault rifle (d8, bulky) $1500
Combat Shotgun (d8, bulky) $750
Sniper (d8 damage or d12 damage when hidden, bulky) $2500

Explosives

Molotov Cocktail (sets area alight, causing d6 damage continually until put out) $20
Flashbang (blast, temporarily blinds those who fail a DEX save) $75
Grenade (d8, blast) $75
Propane Tank (d10, blast) $50

Pharmaceuticals (HARD TO ACQUIRE)

Tranquilizers (STR save or pass out) $250
Poison (lose d20 STR if passes through a blood-tissue barrier) $100
Antitoxin (stops toxins - unpleasant) $250
Acid (d4 damage until removed, caustic liquid that burns through materials $100
Stims (+1d4 temporary STR, +1d4 temporary DEX) $100

Investigator Gear

Alarm Bypass $500
Bear Trap $100
Binoculars $100
Blow Torch (Welding) $250
Body Bag $25
Bolt Cutters $40
Car Opening Kit $150
Chain and Lock $50
Chainsaw $150
Climbing Gear $150
Comms: Earpieces $200
Comms: Walkie Talkies $200
Directional Microphone $200
Drone / Advanced Drone $1500
Good Camera $400
Duffle Bag $50
Duffle Bag full of Outfits $150
Electrical Tool Kit $150
Emergency Medical Kit $150
Emergency Surgery Kit $300
Fake ID $200
Flare $20
Forgery Kit $200
Glass Cutting Tools $150
Grease $30
Handcuffs $50
Head Lamp $25
Laptop $1000
Lighter $5
Locksmith Tools $150
Marbles $20
Mechanical Tool Kit $150
Metal Ball Bearings $30
Night Vision Goggles $250
Pharmacist Kit $250
Portable Ram $75
Portable Winch $250
Pulley and Rope $40
Road Spikes (Caltrops) $50
Sledgehammer $45
Spike Strip $150
Spray paint $15
Tarp $30
Zip Ties $15

Supply Caches

Supply Caches are decentralized, unmarked storage locations kept in civilian population centers and locations. While these assets have primarily been deployed by the Bureau, they have been emulated by rival Factions with mixed success. Caches are used by agents to store items and stock up while in the field. Long past their hayday, where every Agent had a Supply Cache establishment stipend, they have mostly fallen out of practice due to lacking Bureau oversight. This is largely due to turnover, decentralized institutional memory, and sloppy paperwork keeps these locations hidden from even the Bureau itself.

Often filled with boxes, trunks, rarely organized well. Supply Caches are usually accessed in a hurry, sometimes doubling as a safe house but more often kept off the beaten path in order to remain hidden. The multiple redundancies means that there is no concrete list of their locations. This creates an issue as their locations are known to only a few, so it is easily lost to time. Standard Bureau practice is to use nested credit cards and accounts to pay up for locations at a minimum of 10 years.

Agents typically use Supply Caches to store and retrieve weapons, law enforcement equipment, spy tools, and Resonant Artifacts they do not want confiscated by Bureau management (often under the guise of claiming they are of moderate power, more like relics or oddities than full blown anomalies).

When creating your own Supply Caches for Investigators to find, use them as an excuse to introduce interesting items for play. Stock the Supply Cache’s with a mix of useful items, clues to the current or future scenarios, specimens, odd notes, photographs, Resonant Artifacts, weird limited use items, weapons, and equipment.

Below is a set of types of locations, a table of kinds of items to include, and an example Storage Cache.

Example Locations of a Storage Cache:

Storm Shelter
Storage Unit
Trunk of an abandoned car
Semi truck trailer
Foot locker
Locker in a gym
Bowling alley
Storm shelter
Basement in an old lady’s house
Elevator Shaft in abandoned building

Types of items in a Supply Cache (with Deluxe Edition annotation):

Protective equipment
Melee weapons
Non-lethal weapons
Explosives
Chemicals
Projectile weapons
Tech
Tools
Investigator Kits
Ammo
Fuel
Notes
Evidence
Money
Specimens
Seemingly mundane items
Research
Documentation on Omens (p.251) or scenario seeds (p.400)
Resonant Artifacts (p.226)

###Example Storage Cache (Storage Room 216 in Kyle’s Pack & Store)

Cot.
Four empty biohazard containers.
…
Three pistols with serial numbers filed off.
Digital camera.
C4 Explosive with cellphone detonator.
Simple coffin, stained with dirt, empty.
VHS showing a ritual used to bring someone back from the dead.
13 cans of spaghetti-os
Magic Bullet. Can fit into any gun. If used on oneself, your body is transported to a safe location 23.6 miles away. While the bullet doesn’t cause physical harm, the toll of using it on oneself is immense, 1d8 Stress.
A massive map of unmarked graves.
Reinforced handcuffs and key.

Note: Item 3 is an antimeme, self deleting from one’s memory after it is observed in any way.

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