The Pawn

Ever since you were brought into this cruel world, you've been moving from place to place, squat to squat, and payday to payday. Your family taught you everything you needed to know to eke out a meager existence for yourself, and always put you and your needs above theirs. That is, until you got to El Paso six years ago. The Wounded Night is what the folk 'round here call it, and they say everyone in town's lost someone to it. The Wounded Night and its strange tricks took your family from you, but luckily enough someone's still looking out for you; they set you up here in town with a shop and home, and only asked your favor in return. Now you're here, and with the Wounded Night rearing its ugly hide again, it's time you got back at it for all it's taken. It's time to join up with the Vigilance Committee.

The Pawn is a playbook for Daniel Qualls & Jason Cordova's The Between: Ghosts of El Paso. This playbook focuses heavily on themes of desperation and classism, and players should keep this in mind when selecting the playbook at character creation. You are a business owner, though not a successful one, in the frontier town of El Paso, during a phenomenon the locals call The Wounded Night. You do what you must to survive, but with the aid of a dangerous project you keep hidden away you plan to not only survive, but thrive. Select this playbook if you want to be a shady pawn dealer with a dark secret, if you want to haggle with people and paranormal entities alike, or explore life as a struggling business owner in a tumultuous time.

The Pawn - A Playbook for The Between: Ghosts of El Paso by Stephanie Williams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/413131/The-Between-Ghosts-of-El-Paso?term=the+between.