WHAT IS LIMINAL HORROR?

Liminal Horror is a rules-lite survival horror roleplaying game about normal characters and their struggles against the things that go bump in the night. The Deluxe Edition expands upon the Investigators Edition, giving you everything you need to run modern horror in an easy to approach format. With simple rules and procedures for play, you can explore the strange and dangerous things that will forever change your characters.

Once you crack open its pages, you'll find:

• Investigator's Guide: Including the process for creating an Investigator, rules for running horror, and Fallout to change characters in strange and terrifying ways.
• Facilitator's Guide:  A collection of essays, advice, tips, and procedures for weaving horror into your tabletop games.
• Catalog of the Strange: A collection of weird and horrid entities, objects, organization, and characters for your Investigators to encounter. 
• The Haunted Pacific Northwest: A setting guide and sandbox with locations, campaign frameworks, and three original scenarios for your table.
• Appendices: A series of optional mechanics, tables, conversion guides for other systems, and resources to expand and change your game, including 30 generic maps of locations you can use quickly at the table.
• Reference Aides: A collection of tools for quick support during play, including a comprehensive index of the entire book.

[Coming soon in print to Space Penguin Ink.]

DIGITAL PACKAGE

The digital download package includes: 

• Singles and Spreads exports of the main book, fully hyperlinked, anchored, and annotated for ease of use and reference.
• Alternative formats, including a slightly more printer friendly version of the main book with the background texture removed, alongside the plaintext manuscripts.
• The full character sheet package, including several alternate formats, form fillable copies, and a set of pre-generated Investigators.
• Exports of every map in the book, including both labeled and clean versions, for easy insert into your VTT or digital platform of choice.
• Individual reference aids.
• Each individual scenario exported separately.
• Each section of the book exported separately.

WANT TO PLAY RIGHT NOW?

Check out the free-to-download demo package below, which includes everything you need to get started. It features: 

• The Investigator's Guide from the Deluxe Edition in its entirety, which includes the full set of core rules and character creation.
• The ready-to-play starter scenario Stopover at the Shelterwood Inn, where your Investigators will be forced to contend with a clash between a clandestine organization and a sinister horror hiding beneath the surface. Good for 1-2 sessions of play.
• Pre-generated Investigators to let you launch into play as quickly as possible.
• Additional character sheets.

WANT MORE?

Learn more about Liminal Horror at liminalhorrorrpg.com.

Dive into Liminal Horror, the world's premier modern horror ttrpg with over 500 third party resources and adventures.  

You can try Liminal Horror for free using the Investigator core rules, with everything you need to run and play the game (itch or web-based).

If you're looking for something else to run, the perfect place to start is the introductory scenario Einfühlung, which puts your players in the role of the cast and crew of This Mysterious Life, a paranormal investigation television show, as they dive into the depths of the Campbell House attempting to discover the fate of its missing owner.

TOUCHSTONES

If you’re looking for a particular type of horror experience or would like a quick comparison of Liminal Horror to other media, these books, shows, movies, and video games are among the heaviest inspiration for the system:

• Uzumaki (2013)
• The Magnus Archives (2016-2021)
• The X-Files (1993-2002, 2016-2018)
• The Evil Dead Series (1981, 1987, 1992, 2013, 2015-2018, 2023, 2026)
• It Follows (2014)
• Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
• The Silent Hill Series (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2024, 2025)
• The Alan Wake Series (2010, 2023)
• The Thing (1982)