Thursday, August 18, 2022

Coming soon to Itch: Hunter$

With PocketQuest underway, I've been working on a few projects. I'm currently writing 3 rpg's, all of which use the Breathless system by Fari RPG's, just like Beneath the Waters does. I find it a good, narrative system to build upon. Strangely enough, the third one I'm working on is probably the first one I'll be releasing. It's called Hunter$, and it's about Vampire Hunters in the modern day who sell their services to those in need. The main inspirations are John Steakley's novel Vampire$ and the Netflix original Day Shift, starring Jamie Foxx. 

Here's a peak at the cover:


I've got all the character creation and rules material done (which isn't hard, as I'm working with text from an SRD, and modding as needed). I added some new mechanical bits as well. Breathless has a type of class known as Kits, each of which comes with a unique skill. I decided to revise that a bit. My kits are called Professions, and instead of a unique skill, I have what I called Talents. Talents can be used as a skill, but also work as a narrative device. One profession, The Badge (representing law enforcement types) has a talent called "Force of Law". With this talent, the character could replace it for the skill Sway (which is persuasion or charm like skill) if they were interrogating or questioning someone if their rating is higher. They can also use it to say, call in a Swat team, request a search warrant, or even to get something for their Go Bag (every character has a Go Bag with a couple of items of varying dice ratings). 

Once I add in some info on Vampires (of which there are different Breeds), and some Adventure Snapshots, I'll finish it up and upload to itch. I've already designed the product page, and I think it came out pretty good.

So look for another post once this is out, and when the others are released. Speaking of which, here are the covers to Smoke Wagon and The Unbelievable Excerpts:


Now, to pimp PocketQuest some more: Many of the publishers got together, and created multiple bundles of the games you can pick up. There's a Mega Bundle of 33 games (mine included). There's a Flashlight Bundle of horror themed games (mine included), a Sunny Bundle of whimsical games, and a Dark Comedy bundle of games with a comedic element to them. Check out some of them, and help support the jam. It's going well so far, so I expect we'll be seeing more PocketQuest in the years to come.


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