Fantasy
Ghost Lines
Railway ghost hunters protecting electric trains across haunted deadlands.
Directory entry · John Harper
- Entry type
- Roleplaying game
- Rules family
- Generic
- Edition
- 1.5 · 2013-01
- Rules licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
01
What is it about?
John Harper’s Ghost Lines is a quick-start kit inspired by Apocalypse World, assuming some familiarity with it. The author’s page says v1.2, but the actual complete four-page PDF identifies v1.5, January 2013.
02
At the table
Create a line bull with Force, Finesse, Insight and Steel, homeland gifts and an equipment role. Use Apocalypse World-style moves, manage harm and trauma, clear ghosts from trains and earn advancement through worked lines.
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Publishing route unconfirmed
The original PDF states CC BY-NC-SA; its exact Creative Commons version is not specified.
Conditions
The printed notice requires attribution, noncommercial use and ShareAlike. It provides neither a licence version nor a link identifying one, so that detail remains partial and is not silently filled in as 3.0 or 4.0. Clarify the exact terms before distributing an adaptation; commercial publication needs separate permission. Do not substitute Apocalypse World’s or later Blades in the Dark licensing or extend this notice to separately owned inspirations and assets.