The Law - Dispatch Guide

In some games the person who co-ordinates the narrative is called the gamemaster, the storyteller, or something similar. In The Law, this person is referred to as Dispatch.  The Dispatch Guide is designed as a booklet filled with tools that may to used to help devise the world of the Agents of the Law, a vast megacity colloquially known as The Sprawl.

The main part of this guide describes a game system referred to as the rule of thirds, where the first third of a session provides hooks to begin a story, the middle third creates complications and leads things up to a climax, while the final third resolves those issues and brings vereything to a degree of satisfying closure, regardless of where the story might have gone. 

In addition to this are a number of tables designed to create crimes to investigate, street scenes to encounter, and a range of more general hints that have been developed over dozens of playtest sessions and campaign experience.