An Official Hellboy RPG Is Coming!

Red Scar is set to produce Hellboy: The Roleplaying Game, powered by D&D 5E, to be published by Mantic Games (who already make the board game).

"A brand-new Hellboy roleplaying experience, based on the visionary Hellboy graphic novels by Mike Mignola and powered by 5th Edition."

It will be coming to Kickstarter later this year, along with a Quickstart containing 6 regenerated characters. It's being head dup my marc Langworthy, who's also the line manager for EN Publishing's Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD.

More information coming soon, but you can sign up for Kickstarter notification now.

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Mantic Games is excited to announce that it is partnering with Dark Horse Comics and visionary creator Mike Mignola to bring Hellboy: The Roleplaying Game to Kickstarter this summer. Hellboy: The Roleplaying Game will be a whole new way to explore the Hellboy and B.P.R.D. universe while creating your own spectacular one-off stories or action-packed chronicles.

Powered by the world’s most popular RPG ruleset, Fifth Edition, Hellboy: The Roleplaying Game gives you the tools to step into the shoes of a B.P.R.D. agent, ready to face the forces of evil. You can become a field researcher skilled in the study of the occult, a hard-nosed B.P.R.D. security agent, a rookie with hidden supernatural powers, and more…. The choice is yours.

Developed by Red Scar Publishing, Hellboy: The Roleplaying Game is being led by ENnie Award-winning writer and game developer Marc Langworthy, who has worked on Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition Roleplaying Game, Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD Roleplaying Game,and the Conan: Adventures in An Age Undreamed Of Roleplaying Game.

Once the Kickstarter launches, you will be able to try the roleplaying game for yourself with a detailed quickstart that features six pre-generated characters, all the rules needed to play, and a unique adventure inspired by the Hellboy graphic novels, written by Red Scar.


“We can’t wait to bring Hellboy back to Kickstarter,” said Ronnie Renton, CEO of Mantic Games. “The roleplaying game is going to be a fantastic new way to experience Hellboy on the tabletop. The team at Red Scar has done an amazing job of capturing the feel of the Hellboy universe. Plus, your miniatures from Hellboy: The Board Game will be compatible with the RPG, which will bring a whole new lease of life to your awesome mini collection.”

Mantic Games launched Hellboy: The Board Game on Kickstarter in 2018 and raised almost two million dollars during the campaign. The board game is a co-operative experience in which players face off against some of the comic’s most famous foes. Up to four people take control of iconic B.R.P.D. members––Hellboy, Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, and Johann Kraus––before exploring gothic locations, uncovering ancient artefacts, and battling one of Hellboy’s most notorious foes, Rasputin! After launching at retail last year, the game is now available in multiple languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian) and is on its fourth reprint after selling out worldwide.

 

[Ancalagon]

The thing about 5e is it's zero to hero situation. For Hellboy's story, he's the chosen one, and is pretty much a badass from the start (right? I've only read a few early issues). The narrative told in teh comics isn't on the same framework as a normal 5e game. So I wouldn't expect to play Hellboy anyway.

That's true of many editions of D&D, not just 5e. It would make no sense that agents would be zeros (let alone Hellboy!). But that can be easily circumvented by starting at level 3, or even 5.

edit: from the blog "Agents start at 5th level, as you are a team that is being sent out on their own. "

 

[Horacio]

I have really liked the quickstart!

I love what they have done to adapt 5e to the Hellboy context. The Ingenuity and Doom mechanism is really nifty, I love the uses of Doom either on the moment to add a bad effet for the characters or to complicate things in the long term by slowly building up the adventure Grand Conspiracy sheet.
Agents begin at level 5, and it allows to have the power level I could expect for "normal" BPRD Agents. The included adventure is a classical haunting house, with some lovecraftian spin, and it showcase the game mechanisms explained in the quickstart. The layout and art are top too!

I am really really happy with it, if the final product is done in the same way it's going to be one of my favorite games...

 

[Weiley31]

If anybody on here is backing it, ask,in the comments section, for the Amazing Screw-On Head to appear/be added in. So far it's been mentioned a couple of times and Mantic(the guys doing the Hellboy RPG) seem to be open to adding in requests in the comments section.