Free Clive Evil vs FiveEvil

Jon Hodgson

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Everyone's favourite skeleton, Clive Evil isn't convinced about Handiwork Games' latest project, FiveEvil, and he has some tough questions to ask. Well, you know what skeletons can be like. They're absolute sticklers for genre emulation and matching rulesets to settings.


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FiveEvil Splinter Two is out now! And it’s free!

In Splinter Two:


• More behind-the-scenes design notes from FiveEvil author Morgan Davie
• New Rules: Personality aspects and advanced ability checks
• Further inspirational material
• Guidance on linking the episodes of playable material
• The next instalment of Five Evil adventure
• More detailed pre-generated characters

Splinter Two was added to the general Splinters title, so one download gets you the lot, as well as automatic updates when a new Splinter is added!

You an also find out more and sign up at the FiveEvil campaign page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonhodgsonmaptiles2/fiveevil?ref=7wytx701Splinter one and two copy.jpg
 

Splinter Four is out now! And it looks like I never mentioned Splinter Three here, which means it's double horror fun times!
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In the free Splinter Four you’ll discover:

Behind the scenes insights

New rules:

• The Doom Check
• Investigations
• Improvising Investigations

Inspirations:
• Twin Peaks
• Butcherbird
• And more!

Mini Scenario Part Four: The Quiet Lodger
Things are getting serious now, as the characters head towards Plisken’s house. Seems like a smart plan…

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Get all the Splinters for free here in a single title, exclusively at DrivethruRPG:
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The Splinters title is now over 40 pages of free material!

And don't forget to sign up at the campaign page.
 

With FiveEvil Splinter Five released last week, we've combined all the five sections into one 56 page PDF, which remains absolutely free. You can now enjoy this introductory scenario in one convenient slice of free horror adventure.

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You can find out more and sign up to be notified when the campaign goes live right here.

About FiveEvil
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A game of unnerving terror, subverting the expectations of "the world's greatest RPG": FiveEvil takes everything about 5e and twists it around for a unique modern-day horror RPG experience.

FiveEvil
is a set of new roleplaying rules from Handiwork Games, the minds behind BEOWULF Age of Heroes, a|state second edition and Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland. We're hoping to raise sufficient funds to print it as a beautiful, full-colour hardback book.

FiveEvil is designed to evoke the horror genre via a set of clever twists on the underlying fifth edition ruleset.

The primary focus is modern day horror, inspired by the work of Stephen King, and moody, character-driven horror films like The Ritual, The Descent and Jacob’s Ladder, alongside mini-series like Midnight Mass by Mike Flanagan, and the scariest of Twin Peaks episodes.

FiveEvil goes further than creating horror with locations and monsters. It's a series of key innovations within the 5e ruleset which drive the horror. If you've seen what we did with the ENnie-nominated BEOWULF: Age of Heroes, you'll be aware that we know our way around the 5e engine and how to make it sing.

These are the key innovations within FiveEvil. You can explore these in more detail in the free Splinters.

Intensity
Intensity replaces DC and is a radical innovation for FiveEvil. Every check is based on the intensity of a scene. And you can bet your bottom dollar it’s going to escalate as the horror unfolds…

Desperation
Desperation replaces Inspiration. Rather than a vague cookie that you forget, Desperation is a debt you take on to gain the benefits of Inspiration, one which will need to be repaid. Of course like any debt, you can keep adding to it, but will you ever recover?

Desperation goes beyond just a replacement for Inspiration. You can spend it to do more.

Personality Aspects
Your character’s personality aspects are what will help them shake off the debt of Desperation. So rather than the fuzzy and optional reward of inspiration for role-play found in standard 5e, playing your character is baked into FiveEvil.

Descriptions
Descriptions are a shorthand for NPCs that can replace entire stat blocks in order to streamline play and keep the horror moving. For Player Characters they work like skills providing bonuses to a dice roll.

Advanced Ability Checks
FiveEvil gives you a clear structure for different kinds of skill check - where success is impossible, or where there’s a complex interplay of desired outcomes and unattractive possibilities bound up in one check.

Terror Encounters
Terror Encounters are where things really kick off in FiveEvil. Rather than combat encounters where you might expect to trade blows and whittle away hit points, thing are remarkably different in a Terror Encounter. There are no standard combats in FiveEvil.

Getting Hurt
Player Characters in FiveEvil do not enjoy the luxury of copious hit points, and they are more fragile than their standard fantasy counterparts.

Suffering
Suffering is a new way to track descriptive damage and structures it into play.

Conditions
FiveEvil leans hard into conditions and has its own horror-appropriate list of conditions.

Doom Checks
GMing Horror, and making it relentlessly punishing for the Player Characters can be hard. When you don’t know which way to go, Doom Checks are here to do the hard work for you.

Investigations
FiveEvil offers a solid structure for investigating a creature or a situation using existing 5e tools in new ways.

The Verge
The verge is the structured place where the monsters are hiding, moving, changing and outflanking you while you’re not looking.

Hunt Encounters
Being hunted is a big part of the horror experience. FiveEvil provides a framework for running tense, exciting hunts and chases.
 



And FiveEvil is funded! And we have unlocked spot UV varnish for the covers!


Next up we unlock a free pdf scenario by Gareth Hanrahan, which is super exciting!

Gareth Hanrahan’s a writer and game designer from Ireland. He’s written deep breath half of the award-winning Dracula Dossier campaign, Eyes of the Stone Thief, Cthulhu City, Moria: Through The Doors of Durin, The Darkening of Mirkwood, and a bunch of novels including the Gutter Prayer and the Sword Defiant. Also, long ago he wrote OGL Horror, so FiveEvil is like coming full circle…
 

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