Arilyn
Hero
Yes. Forgot that one because I'm sick of vampires but it's a really good game!
Suggest to me a rules lite(ish) modern fantasy/horror RPG
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Depending on what you want the game to feel like, @ko6ux, I would suggest Savage Worlds as an option. The current edition (Savage Worlds Adventure Edition, commonly referred to as “SWADE”) has you covered for modern horror and some fantasy, too, just from the core book.
There are also Companions which can help refine things a bit more to your tastes with optional rules to change the emphasis in your game, for example making combat grittier or more cinematic. The first couple of these are out in PDF, and another is currently available on pre-release through crowd funding. Hard copies have been held up a little by supply issues but are coming in the next few months.
Going back to my point about the ‘feel’ of Savage Worlds - it is a game with pulp sensibilities baked-in to the core. So the fantasy is pulp-fantasy by default (closer to Lankmar than Faerun etc.) and the horror is also a bit more cinematic than literary. You can tweak it up or down, and the Companions do a great job of helping with this, as does the core book with a whole stack of optional Setting Rules which can be added in to a specific game).
The great things about a good generic system is how easy it makes it to do one-shots with different foci without needing to find and learn a new system every time.
There are also Companions which can help refine things a bit more to your tastes with optional rules to change the emphasis in your game, for example making combat grittier or more cinematic. The first couple of these are out in PDF, and another is currently available on pre-release through crowd funding. Hard copies have been held up a little by supply issues but are coming in the next few months.
Going back to my point about the ‘feel’ of Savage Worlds - it is a game with pulp sensibilities baked-in to the core. So the fantasy is pulp-fantasy by default (closer to Lankmar than Faerun etc.) and the horror is also a bit more cinematic than literary. You can tweak it up or down, and the Companions do a great job of helping with this, as does the core book with a whole stack of optional Setting Rules which can be added in to a specific game).
The great things about a good generic system is how easy it makes it to do one-shots with different foci without needing to find and learn a new system every time.
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
Shadowdark. Just emphasize the horror.
jdrakeh
Front Range Warlock
Nightcrawlers by Tanner Yea from Exalted Funeral. It's a true urban fantasy/horror RPG based on The Black Hack.
I played a little bit of Monster of the Week and thought it was pretty decent. It’s fairly rules light, and the characters in our group covered a relatively broad range of types. I was a completely normal EMT assigned as a medic to a team that had one definitely supernatural being. When we got attacked, I relied on my best weapon: the portable defibrillator I was toting.
I would also suggest Cypher System/The Strange. Haven’t gotten to play it, though.
I would also suggest Cypher System/The Strange. Haven’t gotten to play it, though.
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
Esoteric Enterprises - OSR (I think built on the BX chassis) occult underworld
www.drivethrurpg.com
Esoteric Enterprises - Complete - Dying Stylishly Games | DriveThruRPG.com
Esoteric Enterprises - Complete - Picture the adventuring party of most old-school games. A band of thugs, occultists, criminals, weirdos and outcasts who
Thomas Shey
Legend
Possibly Liminal? Liminal - Modiphius | Liminal | DriveThruRPG.com
That looks nifty!
Thomas Shey
Legend
Its got a different feel to me than a lot of urban fantasy games, but part of that is probably the default assumption of being in Britain.
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