Location and time of year for these adventures can be adjusted as the keeper desires. The keeper might choose an area familiar to the players, and describe those settings as he or she knows them .Massachusetts can always be the region, if only by default . The era is similarly transportable. Though set in the 1990s, with very few changes these adventures can be presented as occurring in the 1920s or the 1890s, except in "Cult of One", the plot of which is fixed to today or tomorrow.These scenarios are intended for novices or relatively inexperienced investigators and players. We expect that each adventure can be played within a single session. With a bit more time, two might be completed in one night. Most of these pieces also could be inserted into ongoing adventures or campaigns . Handouts are limited. They are gathered as a unit at the end of this book, for ease of photocopying, each identified by the title of the pertinent adventure and a number-Closed Casket Papers #1, for instance . The narrative text refers to handouts in the sameway, including the italics. The sexes of investigators are not significant to the plot, and can be as the players desire. Sexes of non-player characters may be changed by the keeper as seems appropriate.