Beast Hunters Corebook.pdf

Hunters

The Roleplaying Challenge Game

by Christian Griffen and Lisa Griffen

Berengad Games

Beast

Beast Hunters

For Derek, Michael and Aidan

Concept, Design and Setting:

Christian Griffen and Lisa Griffen

Illustrations:

Joanna Barnum ( www.joannabarnum.com )

Layout:

Fred Hicks

Playtesting and Feedback:

Joshua BishopRoby, Jamey Crook, Dave Cleaver,

Matthew Gagan, Jason Morningstar, Clinton R.

Nixon, Nick Richmond, Guy Shalev, Callan Sweet,

Charles Seaton, Gabe Sutherland, Daniel Wood

Inspiration:

Ron Edwards, Sorcerer; “Gamism: Step On Up”

Ben Lehman, Polaris

Fred Hicks and Rob Donoghue, FATE

Meguey Baker, “Ritual and Gaming/Game Design”

Greg Stafford and Robin D. Laws, HeroQuest

Matt Wilson, Primetime Adventures

Vincent Baker, Dogs in the Vineyard

Typefaces Used: Tribal Two for the titles, IM FELL DW

Pica for the body. The Fell Types are digitally

reproduced by Igino Marini. www.iginomarini.com

Beast Hunters is a product of Berengad Games

20490 SW Naples St.

Aloha, OR 97007

www.berengad.com

Beast Hunters

Contents

Introduction 1

Setting 2

The Berengad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Chel’qhuri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

The War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Beast Hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chel’qhur and Surroundings . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

How to Play 12

The Structure of Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Opening Salute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Free Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Closing Salute and Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Challenge Negotiation 22

The Three Phases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Giving During Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Conflict Resolution 28

Buying Adversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

The Adversity Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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Resource Denial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Playing Out the Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Activate Trait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Offensive Maneuver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Defensive Maneuver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Deny Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Recover Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Special Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Character Creation & Development 49

Character Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Creating a Beast Hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Step 1: Your Parents 54

Step 2: Your Tribe 55

Step 3: Your Enemies 56

Step 4: Beast Hunter Training 58

Step 5: Assign Numbers 59

Character Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Playing the Hunter 61

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Choosing Pools and Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Being Proactive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Creative Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Playing the Challenger 65

Trading Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

The Challenger’s Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Adversity Pool and Challenges . . . . . . . . . . 67

Creating Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Maneuver Offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Secondary Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Aggressive Scene Framing . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Adventures 77

Goals and Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Powerful Adventure Situations . . . . . . . . . . 78

Adventure Seeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Beast Hunts 83

Duty and Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

Special Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

The Beasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85

Hektratan (5/20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Pifnir (5/25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Aramantos (5/30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Vharkatas (8/35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Ispalar (8/35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Hazuma (10/45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Thistra (10/45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Subrak (10/50) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Khephast (12/60) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Myaqhit (12/60) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Bhakra (15/65) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Origar (15/75) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Azanit (15/75) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Reghwor (20/85) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Vebluss (20/85) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Hoch’qhar (15/100) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Charn (20/90) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Laithura (20/100) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Utheqha (25/125) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Qhurym (10/250) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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