Liminal Horror
A downloadable game
In print at Space Penguin Ink.
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Official Modules also available on itch:
- The Mall (What if John Carpenter's The Thing was set in a trapped 1990s mall?))
- The Bureau (“The office as modern dungeon in this love letter to Control and Gradient Descent.”)
- The Bloom (What if Twin Peaks had a The Last of Us arc?)
- One Night at the Shelterwood Inn (Scooby Doo vs BPRD)
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Liminal Horror is a rules-lite, adaptable modern horror roleplaying game about normal characters and their struggles against the things that go bump in the night.
The game focuses on investigation, blending simple, old-school inspired rules with modern, narrative first principles, where survival is not guaranteed and those that do survive are often forever changed. It is a rules-lite, fail forward system that leverages creative problem solving in order to create memorable experiences at the table. Players act as 'investigators' navigating a modern world full of terrible and unknowable horrors.
For fans of Junji Ito, John Carpenter, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Call of Cthulhu, Monster of the Week, or Silent Legions but wanting rules-lite adaptable system. It is a modern horror hack of Yochai Gal's Cairn (Into the Odd + Knave).
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Gameplay: Fast and simple rules (the summary fits onto a single page). There are 3 stats (Strength, Dexterity, Control) and players makes saves when there is a risk of failure. Rolling equal to or under is a success. There are not rolls to hit (damage is dealt automatically).
Stress & Fallout: Play deals with horror themes. This is represented mechanically by Stress and Fallout. Fallout is how characters are changed encountering horrors. The design avoids using mental illness and trauma as game-play mechanics.
Wounds: A new system for detailing the lasting physical effects of injuries, including locations and severity.
This updated Investigators edition contains:
- Cleaner layout
- Clarified text
- A new Wounds system
- New Archetypes for quicker character creation
- Tools to align the focus more on “modern horror” than “cosmic horror”
The Legacy Edition maintains the classic LIMINAL HORROR legacy zine (including magic, Plague of Frogs adventure) and is full compatible with the new edition.
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LIMINAL HORROR: INVESTIGATORS
- Writing, Layout & Design: Goblin Archives © 2023
- Editing: Jarrett Crader
- LIMINAL HORROR Development Partner: Joshua Domanski
- Title Font Design: Ira Rat of Filthy Loot Publishing
- Legacy Core Rules: Some text ported from Legacy Edition (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
- Cover: Zach Hazard Vaupen © 2021
- Lineage: Yochai Gal, Chris McDowall, Ben Milton
There is a Third Party License for creating adventures compatible with Liminal Horror.
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Updated | 10 days ago |
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (298 total ratings) |
Author | Goblin Archives |
Genre | Role Playing |
Tags | Horror, Monsters, Mystery, OSR, Tabletop role-playing game |
Links | Homepage, Community, Blog, Twitter |
Mentions | The itch.io Winter Sale and Tabletop itc... |
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Development log
- Hungry Hollow Cover Reveal and BackerKit10 days ago
- Liminal Horror Roadmap24 days ago
- New LIMINAL HORROR Discord ServerJan 06, 2024
- Web-Based Rules UpdatedDec 10, 2023
- Investigators Edition Available Now (digitally and in print)Nov 22, 2023
- Preview of The Deluxe EditionJun 10, 2023
- LIMINAL HORROR back in printMay 10, 2023
- LIMINAL HORROR Physical ContentMar 19, 2023