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What happens when the capes fall… and get back up hungry?
Rotted Capes: Second Bite is a superhero-horror TTRPG about B-listers keeping the lights on after Z-Day—protecting the living, outsmarting Super-Zs, and paying the bill for every “rule of cool” moment with grit, risk, and consequences.
What makes it different
- Cinematic Skill Sets: Players justify wild, creative solutions through flexible Skill Sets that reward clever play (no “roll the one skill or fail” funnels).
- Plot Points that actually move scenes: Bend the fiction, set up big stunts, or “break the rules” when it truly matters (and yes, the Editor can toss twists right back).
- Burnout: Push powers hard and manage the fallout; tap into “untapped potential” at a cost when the story begs for it.
- The Living Enclave: Your base and community are characters too—Cohesion, Resources, and Security evolve in response to your choices between Issues.
- Super-Zs as apex predators: Territorial, terrifying, and never just “bigger zombies.” They’re boss fights with history.
Grab the Press Pass (Free)
- Fastplay Rules (streamlined core so you can evaluate mechanics fast)
- Starter Adventure: One Bad Day (a punchy, table-ready issue to demo tone, Skill Sets, Plot Points, and a taste of enclave play)
- From the desk of the Stat Monkey: What changed from 1st edition and why.
Rotted Capes: Second Bite Press Kit
Where we are right now
Launch on BackerKit is live with the “Second Bite” campaign and ongoing updates.BackerKit/Launch Link: Rotted Capes: Second Bite
Coverage angles & why your readers may care
- System tech: how Plot Points + Burnout create high-octane “comic book beats” without endless subsystems.
- GM tools that scale: Challenges, Dramatic Sequences, and Enclave Interludes for tables that mix story-first and tactics-curious players.
- Tone control out of the box: Run it campy, gritty, or full-on horrific without rewriting the engine.
- Quick to table: 15-minute character builds for demos; One Bad Day runs clean in a single session.
Assets & contact
- Press Pass (above) includes everything you need to preview and run the intro issue.
- I'm happy to provide quotes, interviews, screenshots, and additional artwork on request. DM me here or reply in-thread and I’ll follow up.
Content note: Superhero action + zombie horror (survival stakes, gore themes). We keep it comic-book cinematic rather than splatter-for-splatter’s sake.
Thanks for taking a look, hope you’ll give the Fastplay a spin and tell us how your table survived their first bad day. If they want a second? Well… it always gets worse.
Pete “StatMonkey” Barrenechea
Paradigm Concepts
Rules Designer
