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Teeth: Blood Cotillion is an RPG one shot about hunting occult horrors at a high-society ball

Belle of the battle.

Cut down eldritch creatures whilst exchanging pleasantries in Teeth: Blood Cotillion, a horror roleplaying game one shot set at an 18th century ball.

A tabletop roleplaying game adventure for three to six players, Teeth: Blood Cotillion sees players becoming hidden assassins tasked with divesting a grand manor house of the terrible evils that plague it. Designed to be played in a single session run by a games master, Teeth: Blood Cotillion challenges the players to create characters who are as capable with small talk as they are with a blade. Throughout the RPG, the player characters must be able to pass off as partner-hunting socialites, until they can sneak away to destroy the house’s hidden horrors.

Teeth: Blood Cotillion is based on a version of a system called Forged in the Dark - which is the foundation of the steampunk RPG Blades in the Dark - with the game taking roughly around three to five hours to complete an entire session of. The RPG book is 45 pages long, containing a selection of illustrations alongside two maps for the GM to use, as well as reference guides and playbooks for the players.

Teeth: Blood Cotillion character sheet

Teeth: Blood Cotillion is part of a larger roleplaying game setting called Teeth, which is set to be released in full sometime this year. Another one shot, entitled Teeth: Night of the Hogmen, was released for the RPG last month and saw players attempting to survive as villagers of an English town infested with vicious pig people.

Update:This article previously stated that Rossignol was primarily responsible for the design of Teeth: Blood Cotillion and Night of the Hogmen, with Davies contributing and illustrating. Dicebreaker has since been informed that Davies fully co-created the two scenarios, this has been corrected.

Blood Cotillion and Night of the Hogmen were both co-created by Jim Rossignol - a video game designer behind titles such as Sir, You are being Hunted and The Signal From Tölva - and Marsh Davies, who has previously worked for the Minecraft development studio Mojang. As well as co-designing, Davies also created the illustrations for the RPG scenarios.

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Besides Teeth, Forged in the Dark - which was created by John Harper - has also been used as a basis for other titles such as the fantasy roleplaying game Band of Blades, the Star Wars inspired title Scum & Villainy and Girl by Moonlight, an RPG about becoming magical girls fighting against oppression.

The digital version of Teeth: Blood Cotillion is available to download on Itch.io for $7 (£5).

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Alex Meehan: After writing for Kotaku UK, Waypoint and Official Xbox Magazine, Alex became a member of the Dicebreaker editorial family. Having been producing news, features, previews and opinion pieces for Dicebreaker for the past three years, Alex has had plenty of opportunity to indulge in her love of meaty strategy board games and gothic RPGS. Besides writing, Alex appears in Dicebreaker’s D&D actual play series Storybreakers and haunts the occasional stream on the Dicebreaker YouTube channel.
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